Restoring the sight of the watchmaker

Seven reason why we should accept millions of years - Part 7 - radiometric dating is not unreliable

A refreshing case of intellectual honesty from an agnostic, border-line atheist

Seven reason why we should accept millions of years - Part 6 - the wrinkles tell it all

Seven reasons why we should accept millions of years - Part 5 - no more death and dying

Seven reasons why we should accept millions of years - part 4: Jesus was not a new earth thinker

Seven reasons why we should accept millions of years - part 3: the flood did not destroy the evidence

Seven reasons why we should accept millions of years - part 2: it fits Genesis 1

Seven reasons why we should accept millions of years - part 1

Is morality and religion an evolved vestige of our past?

Wisdom vs Power

Does Jesus have omnipotent and unlimited power?

Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent.

The biggest explosion ever recorded destroys as many of our ideas of God

Fingerprints of God video - great watch - all about stars and blackholes

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CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/user/CSLewisDoodle

Blowing in the wind

A young soldier survived a wayward shot from a German sniper, at Arnhem. His mother was quick to claim it as God’s hand. Noted theological philosopher, CS Lewis was not impressed. He argued that the bullet was influenced by the moral choice of the marksman and the forces of nature.

No Lewis is not a cynic, he was just trying to arrive at a first cause for everything. He opposed the idea that nature begat itself, and I agree. I see the hand of a creator.

Now, of course I think his argument is a tad simplistic, but like Paul, Lewis is a virtual final authority.

As old as ....

I read an article by a leading associate of Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham, and whilst I do sincerely respect AIG, I feel the article (Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Literal Days?, Ken Ham, 2007) is worthy of some rebuttal.

He opens his arguments from Mark 10:6, “But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.” That is used to argue that Adam and Eve were with God from the outset, so the creation had to be young. That is just simply not biblical. Adam and Eve were created on day 6, not on day 1. Thus Jesus had something else in mind.

The breath of life

The discovery of pristine Oxygen on a comet, has puzzled scientists. The problem that the ESA probe, Rosetta, has now posed, is how oxygen can exist in a virgin state when it is so renowned for combining or oxidizing just about every possible element in the periodic table.

Originally the earth acquired its oxygen via photosynthesis, hence plants had to precede animal life, just as Genesis 1 confirms. Plants could feed on the carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere and reproduce oxygen, but it evidently took a long time for the earth to acquire enough oxygen to support life.

Let's just make it fit

It amazes me what lengths new earth thinkers will go to squeeze the creator into seven calendar days, when the bible does not presuppose that a day equals a day. Even our vernacular accepts that a day can mean an era, an epoch, a season, or a 24-hour moment of time.

The bible uses the word interchangeably – as in the moment Jesus stood in the synagogue to echo Isaiah’s words, “… to proclaim the year of God’s favor”, which ended up being 2,000 years. The 70 weeks of Daniel alluded to 490 years, the 3.5 days in the two semesters of tribulation implied 3½ years, and Peter confirmed that a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.