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Evolution and Immunity: Same Story?

Evolution and Immunity: Same Story?

The evidence suggests that God has chosen to work through a random process, one which involves the routine creation and destruction of millions of cells that never get used. This is the ordinary means by which God maintains our health. The miracles of healing recorded in the Bible are miraculous precisely because they don’t occur by this normal, natural process.
Mar 23, 2013 
Kathryn Applegate 
Divine Action & Purpose, Evolution - How It Works, Randomness
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<strong>Series:</strong> “And God Saw That It Was Good”: Death and Pain in the Created Order

Series: “And God Saw That It Was Good”: Death and Pain in the Created Order

The tension generated by our understanding of God’s character, as revealed in the Bible, and by the reality of the natural world around us has been the focus of much debate within the Christian church since the first century. This series examines critically several of the proposed solutions to this problem, viewing them from the perspective of a geologist, paleontologist, and orthodox evangelical Christian.
Nov 24, 2012 
Keith Miller 
Problem of Evil, Evolution - How It Works, Young Earth Creationism
<strong>Series:</strong> Southern Baptist Voices: Evolution and Death

Series: Southern Baptist Voices: Evolution and Death

This exchange brings together related essays on death in light of evolution and Scripture from Southern Baptist theologian Dr. John Laing. Laing argues that evolutionary theory requires death to play a central role in the creation of new life, but sees Scripture depicting death only "as an invader, disturber of peace, and a force of evil." A BioLogos response is given by Dr. Jeff Schloss.
Aug 12, 2012 
Jeffrey Schloss 
Problem of Evil, Evolution - How It Works, Young Earth Creationism, BioLogos
Understanding Evolution: Theory, Prediction and Converging Lines of Evidence, Part 1

Understanding Evolution: Theory, Prediction and Converging Lines of Evidence, Part 1

In science, we don’t really know the true way things actually work. What we have are theories—broad explanatory frameworks supported by experimentation, which we can use to make testable predictions about the natural world.
Mar 08, 2012 
Dennis Venema 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works
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Speciation and Macroevolution

Speciation and Macroevolution

A common challenge to evolutionary theory is that while life does indeed change over time (what is known as microevolution), no one has ever seen one species evolve into another species (macroevolution).
Feb 23, 2012 
Kelsey Luoma 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works
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Possibilities and Second Chances

Possibilities and Second Chances

In today’s video, Dr. Rick Colling states that evolution is not merely the imposition of death and destruction and survival of the fittest. Rather, it is about second chances.
Feb 22, 2012 
Richard Colling 
Genetics, Evolution - How It Works
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Is There “Junk” in Your Genome? Part 2

Is There “Junk” in Your Genome? Part 2

Despite their somewhat mysterious nature, transposon sequences make up a staggering 45% or more of our genome. They are the perfect parasites: using their host to provide resources, they maintain a “lifestyle” so simple that replication is essentially their only feature.
Feb 03, 2012 
Dennis Venema 
Genetics, Evolution - How It Works
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Art, Worship, Creation, and Imaginative Engagement

Art, Worship, Creation, and Imaginative Engagement

We should not be ashamed of the fact that our faith integrates spirit and body; our faith calls us to regard the stuff of creation in all of its materiality as good, and thus offers the best starting point for the practice and pleasure of art.
Oct 15, 2011 
Ken Myers 
Worship & Arts, Sermons
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<strong>Series:</strong> Understanding Evolution

Series: Understanding Evolution

This blog series by Dennis Venema undertakes the task of clarifying numerous aspects of evolution that often become misconstrued by Christians. He first discusses the idea of speciation in a population over time, later applying it to the speciation process that occurred among hominids (human ancestors) which led to modern humans. He continues to support this idea by exploring so called “Mitochondrial Eve,”“Y Chromosome Adam” and other compositional clues of the human genome.
Oct 14, 2011 
Dennis Venema 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works, ID Movement
Evolution: Is God Just Playing Dice?

Evolution: Is God Just Playing Dice?

With his standard panache, the late Harvard paleontologist Stephen J. Gould argued strenuously that evolution had no inherent directionality. We are mere accidents; a "tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree".
Oct 11, 2011 
Matt J. Rossano 
Divine Action & Purpose, Evolution - How It Works, Randomness, Atheism & Scientism
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<strong>Series:</strong> Reviewing

Series: Reviewing "Why Evolution is True"

In this three part series, Robert C. Bishop provides a helpful review for Evangelicals of the book Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne. He first debunks many outdated ideas and myths about the theory of evolution and its implications. He then goes on to critique Coyne’s conclusions about God as a “bad designer.” He further addresses how Christianity and science overlap as well as how to have a meaningful discussion between two individuals with radically different views.
May 04, 2011 
Robert C. Bishop 
Science & Worldviews, Evolution - How It Works, Randomness, Atheism & Scientism
<strong>Series:</strong> The Cambrian

Series: The Cambrian "Explosion", Transitional Forms, and the Tree of Life

Many evolutionary critics have identified the Cambrian Explosion as a stumbling block to the theory of evolution, arguing that the “expected transitions between major invertebrate phyla are absent, and that the suddenness of their appearance in the fossil record demonstrates that evolutionary explanations are not viable.” Keith Miller argues that the Cambrian Explosion is not so problematic as these opponents claim after all.
Mar 11, 2011 
Keith Miller 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works, ID Movement, Fossils
A Pastor's Perspective on Death and Evolution

A Pastor's Perspective on Death and Evolution

If death did not exist before Adam and Eve, how could God have used evolution to create man? And what about predators and natural catastrophes such as the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?
Mar 09, 2011 
Daniel Harrell 
Problem of Evil, Evolution - How It Works
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<strong>Series:</strong> The Human Fossil Record

Series: The Human Fossil Record

In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
Jan 01, 2011 
James Kidder 
Human Origins, Evolution - How It Works, ID Movement, Young Earth Creationism, Fossils
Does Genetics Point to a Single Primal Couple?

Does Genetics Point to a Single Primal Couple?

Is the human race descended from one ancestral pair in the recent past? Are we, as C.S. Lewis puts it in his Chronicles of Narnia, the “sons of Adam and daughters of Eve”?
Apr 05, 2010 
Dennis Venema, Falk, Darrel 
Human Origins, Evolution - How It Works
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Evolution: What We Know and What We Don't

Evolution: What We Know and What We Don't

In this video conversation, Jeff Schloss makes the observation that when we use the term “evolution”, it is not always exactly clear what we are actually discussing unless we denote the intended usage.
Feb 17, 2010 
Jeffrey Schloss 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works
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Word Games

Word Games

"Why would the omnipotent Creator of the universe use such a wasteful (and cruel) process of survival of the fittest to bring about the higher forms of life? This view of 'theistic evolution' goes against God's very nature -- and logic itself."
Jul 06, 2009 
Karl Giberson 
Problem of Evil, Evolution - How It Works, Young Earth Creationism
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Beginning with the End in Mind

Beginning with the End in Mind

In today's video, Oxford physicist Ard Louis discusses the famous debate between renowned evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris over the idea of evolutionary convergence.
Dec 15, 2011 
Ard Louis 
Design, Evolution - How It Works, Randomness, Fossils
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Misconceptions About Evolution, Part 2

Misconceptions About Evolution, Part 2

Evolutionary theory is not in crisis; scientists accept evolution as the best explanation for life's diversity because of the multiple lines of evidence supporting it, its broad power to explain biological phenomena, and its ability to make accurate predictions in a wide variety of situations.
Nov 22, 2011 
 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works, Evolution - Evidence
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Misconceptions About Evolution, Part 1

Misconceptions About Evolution, Part 1

The website Understanding Evolution, hosted by The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, offers its readers numerous helpful resources regarding the science and history of evolutionary biology.
Nov 21, 2011 
 
History of Life, Evolution - How It Works, Evolution - Evidence
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