In this panel discussion from Ligonier’s 2012 National Conference, R.C. Sproul and friends discuss the Christian’s approach to Scripture and the natural world, offering wise words regarding the importance of embracing both as infallible revelation from God. In my opinion, R.C. Sproul (in the clip below) and Michael Horton (in the full recording, timestamp 69:30) offer the most helpful insights into [...]
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Scripture & the Age of the Earth
Posted: May 10, 2012 in bible, controversy, creation, nature, science, theology, video0
Under the Whirling Sword, Under the Cross
Posted: April 20, 2012 in books, creation, gospel, grace, history, Jesus, quotesThe end of Cain’s history, and so the end of all history, is Christ on the cross, the murdered Son of God. That is the last desperate assault on the gate of paradise. And under the whirling sword, under the cross, the human race dies. But Christ lives. The trunk of the cross becomes the [...]
Why the Hell Do We Have the Special Olympics?
Posted: December 24, 2011 in apologetics, atheism, books, creationIf the world is fundamentally an accident, if in the beginning, there was no eternal personality, no eternal living being, merely super-hot, hyper-dense I AM matter (with no space and no universe outside of itself), and if, wandering those hyper-dense, super tiny corridors of the Forever Matter, attending to its normal routine, there happened to [...]
One of the truly incredible things about gazing up at the stars is that we are actually looking back in time on account of the inestimable distances between us and the heavenly bodies. For example, the Sun is 149.6 million kilometers away from the earth and its light takes a little over 8 minutes to [...]
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the [...]
Do you marvel at the amazing God we worship, Creator of heaven and earth? May the manifold wonders of creation drive you to worship the One who created it all by the power of His voice, the One in whom it all holds together, the One of whom it all testifies, “Glory!” Yes, our God, [...]
Mark Noll: My appeal is not for a simple Baconian empiricism that treats observation and experience as the only pathways to valid knowledge. Instead, the appeal is that following Christ means having an open mind that can be fruitfully informed by what we experience in the world. Scientists do this through the experimental method. When [...]
Reuters: Scientists have yet to discover, or classify, about 90 percent of the plant and animal species on Earth, which is estimated to be home to just under 9 million species, a study says. The study, published in the open-access journal PLoS Biology on Wednesday, vastly increases the estimated richness of life on the planet. [...]
