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My Faith Shouldn’t Be Alive (But It Is, and Here’s Why)

My Faith Shouldn’t Be Alive (But It Is, and Here’s Why)

By all accounts, my faith should have perished the moment I started asking questions about faith and science. All my life I’d been taught that I had to choose—between believing the Bible and believing my science book, between honoring God and embracing evolution.
Jun 23, 2010 
Rachel Held Evans 
Lives of Faith, Young Earth Creationism
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Adventist Origins of Young Earth Creationism

Adventist Origins of Young Earth Creationism

Many evangelicals believe that Young Earth Creationism is the only authentic, biblical way for Christians to understand origins, and that until the advent of Darwin's theory of evolution, it was the only view held by Christians. However, in this excerpt from Saving Darwin, Karl Giberson explains that Young Earth Creationism's origins are surprisingly recent.
Apr 25, 2011 
Karl Giberson 
Christianity & Science - Then and Now, Young Earth Creationism, The Flood
Faithful Poetics and Christian Knowledge of the World

Faithful Poetics and Christian Knowledge of the World

Artist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Mark Sprinkle describes the importance of acknowledging the creative and subjective aspects of human knowledge in the midst of the debates about the relationship between science and faith.
May 02, 2011 
Mark Sprinkle 
Worship & Arts
Evangelicals, Creation, and Scripture: An Overview

Evangelicals, Creation, and Scripture: An Overview

Mark Noll, historian and author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, enumerates 15 attitudes, assumptions, and convictions he considers to be most influential in inciting anti-intellectual sentiment among evangelical Christians.
May 02, 2011 
Mark Noll 
Biblical Interpretation, Young Earth Creationism
Science and the Question of God

Science and the Question of God

Can science provide substantive insight into the question of God’s existence? Isaac's paper examines three schools of thought regarding the possibility of detecting God’s existence through science: Evolutionism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design.
Apr 25, 2011 
Randy Isaac 
Biblical Interpretation, Young Earth Creationism, ID Movement
Recovering the Doctrine of Creation: A Theological View of Science

Recovering the Doctrine of Creation: A Theological View of Science

Philosopher Robert Bishop explores the Biblical doctrine of creation, which he describes as "perhaps one of the most helpful pieces of theology for thinking about science", and describes why the doctrine needs to be recovered from narrower, contemporary interpretations of creation.
Apr 25, 2011 
Robert C. Bishop 
Creation & Origins, Young Earth Creationism, Genesis, Old Earth Creationism
An Afternoon with John Polkinghorne

An Afternoon with John Polkinghorne

How can a scientist really believe in miracles? How, or why, does a scientist pray? And how could a physicist possibly believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?
Feb 09, 2011 
Dean Nelson 
Lives of Faith
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Quantum Leap, Part 1: Which Side Are You On?

Quantum Leap, Part 1: Which Side Are You On?

How does a leading scientist think about the more mysterious aspects of faith -- prayer, miracles, life after death, resurrection? How should people of faith approach science, especially when new scientific discoveries appear to contradict their religious beliefs?
Sep 02, 2011 
Dean Nelson, Giberson, Karl 
Lives of Faith
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Evolving Beyond Apologetics: A Review of Rachel Held Evans'

Evolving Beyond Apologetics: A Review of Rachel Held Evans' "Evolving in Monkey Town"

What sets Evolving in Monkey Town apart is that it takes the abstract ideas discussed in more scholarly works and incarnates them in a person. Where other books strive to reach an answer, we join with Rachel as she struggles to find a way to live in the questions.
Jun 25, 2010 
Dennis Venema 
Lives of Faith
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