Good video from Kathryn Applegate, a Ph.D. in computational cell biology who is Program Director at Biologos.
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A good video from Bruce Waltke.
An excellent video from NT Wright on the way in which a first century Jewish reader likely would have “heard” the Genesis 1-3 stories.
This is a great video from Os Guiness about the missional and praxiological importance of finding peace between Christian faith and the natural sciences.
Os Guiness on how the North American culture wars have fueled the unnecessary rift between Christian faith and science. Excellent.
This is an excellent video from N.T. Wright. I think he’s right that faithful readings of the text must try to disentangle the text from our prior cultural and political assumptions and battles.
My guest post on ID and Religion is up on Science and the Sacred. I conclude there that ID is an inherently “religious” theory that ultimately undermines Christian theology about “creation”:
In my view, we must do this kind of “chastened” natural theology from a self-consciously and irreducibly theological standpoint that ultimately cannot be fully appreciated without the gracious prior work of the Spirit. This is an act of proclamation that simply cannot be undertaken in the pluralistic setting of a public school classroom. Indeed, why would we want to compromise our holistic and comprehensive understanding of God as “creator” in order to accommodate the Byzantine peculiarities of 21st century American constitutional jurisprudence?
Ours is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the I Am who spoke all creation into existence, the Triune Godhead who extended His perichoretic love to create and fellowship with that which is other than Himself, who in the person of the eternal Logos was present before the foundation of the world, in whom all things hold together and by whom all things will be made new. Should we diminish this God by suggesting that what He has done might just as well have been accomplished by some human-like alien “intelligence?” Isn’t this a strategy of denying Christ to appease Caesar?
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Tim Keller’s White Paper from the Biologos conference is now available. Keller’s position is very close to my own. I share his theological concerns, and though I might quibble here and there with a few things, this is an approach I can heartily endorse. Most significantly, here is a leading evangelical pastor approaching this question with a pastor’s heart. Great stuff!
My second post on ID and Law is up at Science and the Sacred.
Here is my first guest post on Science and the Sacred on the Dover ID decision.