Archive for June, 2007

Part III of Lecture is Complete

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

I know it has taken a while, but somewhere between going on vacation, reviewing the typeset manuscript for BTF, and starting a new job, I found time to finish the 3-part lecture series entitled, “Does Science Contradict the Bible?”
Keep in mind that these lectures are designed to raise more questions than they answer, so if […]

Great Quote

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

My wife’s grandfather, who is a pastor of an evangelical church down in Texas, shared this quotation by the German theologian Dr. Wolfhart Pannenberg.  It was taken from an article in First Things called “God of the Philosophers” (June/July 2007, Number 174, pp. 33).
 ”We do well to remember that the biblical account of creation employed […]

Release Date Set

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Beyond the Firmament is finally appearing on Amazon.com (click here).  It looks like they are now taking pre-orders for a release date toward the end of July.  The links on my site have been added, and I’ll update this post when more information becomes available.
I still plan on posting the entire text of the Preface on my site and […]

The Edge of Evolution

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

My thoughts on Behe’s new book
While on vacation, I decided to read Michael Behe’s new book on Intelligent Design, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism.  In this book, Behe articulates several high-powered arguments that appear to demonstrate the inability of evolutionary mechanisms (specifically natural selection acting on variation caused by random mutation) […]