Written by Steven Barto, B.S., Psych. Dan Egeler writes in the Forward to J.P. Moreland's book Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology, “As the ideas that constitute scientism have become more pervasive in our culture, the Western world has turned increasingly secular and the centers of culture (the universities, the media …
The Basis for True Science
WHAT IS SCIENCE? How do we determine if it leads to truth? Whose truth does it represent? Stripped down, science essentially means "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment." Is true science an elitist or Gnostic pursuit? In …
Signature in the Cell: The Definition of Life
"What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon" (Psalm 104:24-25, MSG). Written by Steven Barto, B.S., Psych. CHRISTIANS TODAY ARE FREQUENTLY looked upon with suspicion as …
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Did God Use the Big Bang to Create the Universe?
Most science textbooks on cosmology credit Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson with the discovery that the universe began with a hot big bang creation event. While Penzias and Wilson were the first (1965) to detect the radiation left over from the creation event, they were not the first scientists to recognize that the universe is …
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Evolution: Augmenting God?
Evolution must now be understood and explained at the molecular level. Evolution is a rather malleable term. It can be used by me, for example, to mean something as simple as change over time. You might use it to mean the descent of all life forms from a common ancestor. In its full-on, biological sense, …
God, Science or Both?
WHEN YOU PONDER THE vastness of the universe, the wonder of the natural world, or the mysteries of the human mind, what do you think? Some of us see nothing but a material world, machinations of which we believe are best explained by the logical reasoning of science. One of the world's most famous and …
The Lie: Evolution versus Creation
Raised in a Christian Home I WAS RAISED IN A Christian home where the Bible was believed to be the infallible, inerrant Word of God. When I entered high school I came face-to-face with the idea of evolution. If Genesis was not literally true, then what part of the Bible could I trust? Genesis clearly …
Creation vs. Evolution: Inside the Nye/Ham Debate
On February 4th, 2014, on a stage in Petersburg, Kentucky, Bill Nye and Ken Ham were involved in one of the most important debates in the last few decades. Even though one of the debaters (Bill Nye the "Science Guy") would strongly disagree on this point, it really was a debate between atheism/agnosticism/secular humanism and …
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Lucy: Our Relative?
From 1:1 Answers In Genesis, volume 23, issue 1 (January 2016) DID YOU KNOW that according to evolutionary thinking, a fossil creature named "Lucy" is claimed to be a close relative between apes and humans? It's thought to be among our first relatives to walk on two legs. Last year, President Obama hailed it as …