From Parade Magazine -- an interview with Dan Brown, the author of the anti-Christian The Da Vinci Code. Q: Are you religious? A: I was raised Episcopalian, and I was very religious as a kid. Then, in eighth or ninth grade, I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. I remember saying to …
Category: Apologetics
Six bad arguments from Answers in Genesis (Part 6)
This is part six of a six-part series examining supposed evidences for a global flood that have recently appeared on the Answers in Genesis web site. The people at AiG are my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I share their love for the Lord Jesus Christ, their respect for the Bible as the Word …
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The tragedy of “creation evangelism”
Creation evangelism: using young-Earth creationism (Earth < 10,000 years old, most of geology is the product of Noah's flood) to win people to faith in Christ. There are many people who have come to faith in Christ through young-Earth creation ministries such as Answers in Genesis, the Institute for Creation Research, and a multitude of …
Top apologetics books
Throughout the centuries, there have been a number of very able defenders of the truthfulness of the Bible and Christianity. C. Michael Patton at Parchment and Pen lists Top Fifteen Must Have Books on Apologetics. His top five are: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Habermas and Licona …
Earth’s Catastrophic Past?
I'm almost done with part six of my "Six bad answers from Answers in Genesis" series, in which I analyze Andrew Snelling's Six main geologic evidences for the Genesis Flood. "Flood geology" as taught by organizations such as Answers in Genesis and the Intitute for Creation Research doesn't work geologically, isn't necessary Biblically, and serves …
A young-Earth biologist’s perspective on evolution
I believe young-Earth creationism is wrong, but there are a couple of young-Earth creationists who (whom?) I have a lot of respect for. Two of them are Todd Wood at Todd's Blog, and Paul Garner at The New Creationism. I think they are completely wrong about Earth history---I believe this for both scientific and Biblical …
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Christianity — protection against superstition and the paranormal
The following item was originally posted in September 2008. I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. Atheists, and other opponents of the truthfulness of Christianity, often equate Christianity with superstition. Here's a …
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William Jennings Bryan and the age of the Earth
This is part of my series on theologically conservative Christians who advocate some form of old-Earth creationism, which is the idea that there is no Biblical reason to question that the Earth is billions of years old. Most of those I am highlighting in this series would hold to some sort of Biblical inerrancy. In …
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Internet Monk: a comment from an evangelical vertebrate paleontologist
My previous post was about pastors responding to a question about evolution. One of the readers' comments was from a Christian paleontologist. Here's the comment (emphasis added by me): You guys rule — it was a joy to read through these answers from such different Christian traditions and find such humility and realism regarding a …
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Internet Monk: “That Evolution Question”
The Internet Monk by Michael Spencer is one of the few blogs I read almost every day. Today he had a post in his "Liturgical Gangstas" series on "That Evolution Question." He posed the following question to his panel of pastors: A pre-med college student in your congregation comes to you and says “I’ve been …
Is accepting an old Earth heresy?
There has been some controversy regarding this post. I'll do my best to clear up any misunderstandings here at the beginning: The author of the blog (DefendingGenesis) I reference accused me of "enabling apostasy" by teaching an old Earth. He did not accuse me of apostasy. It was one of the commenters on that blog …
Dealing with an apparent Bible contradiction
"You cannot believe the Bible because it is full of contradictions." I've heard this stated many times; you have probably heard it as well. You may be one who uses "Bible contradictions" as one of the reasons for rejecting Christianity, or you may be a Christian who struggles because there are things in the Bible …
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The Reason for God — $8.99
I saw The Reason for God by Timothy Keller at Costco for only $8.99. Or you can get it for $10.88 on Amazon. You decide. As I have said before, I recommend this book for Skeptics -- If you reject Christianity because what you have read from the New Atheists, you owe it to yourself …
Six bad arguments from Answers in Genesis (Part 5)
This is part five of a six-part series examining supposed evidences for a global flood that have recently appeared on the Answers in Genesis web site. The people at AiG are my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I share their love for the Lord Jesus Christ, their respect for the Bible as the Word …
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Reading — July 2009
I didn't get as much reading done in July as I would have liked, but here's the one book I did finish: The Reason for God, by Timothy Keller. The chapters address: The idea that there cannot be only one true religion The problem of evil -- how can a good God allow suffering? The …
More atheist quotes on Dawkins and the new atheists
Perhaps Richard Dawkins and the "new atheists" are to atheism as young-Earth creationists are to Christianity. Some atheists find the new atheists to be rather embarrassing. Here are some quotes from a Marxist---and from what I can tell, atheist---literary critic by the name of Terry Eagleton: "Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge …
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J. Gresham Machen on the age of the Earth
John Gresham Machen was a professor at Princeton Seminary in the early 1900s, and was founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is best known as a defender of Christian orthodoxy in the face of rising theological liberalism in the churches of his day. Perhaps his most famous book was Christianity and Liberalism, in …
Atheist summer camp
From Albert Mohler: Richard Dawkins Jumps The Shark. News out of Great Britain indicates that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism. As The Times [London] reports: "Give Richard Dawkins a child for a week's summer camp and he will …
Paleontologists visit the Answers in Genesis museum
The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum in Kentucky apparently has a nest of dinosaur eggs on display (here and here). If you are a regular reader of The GeoChristian, you know that I believe that the Bible is the Word of God. I don't believe much of what Answers in Genesis has to say about …
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Another fundamentalist for an old Earth
A commenter on this blog recently implied that I am just a "so called Christian" because I accept an old Earth and evolution. On a young-Earth blog that I have been commenting on, those who accept an old age for the Earth (including myself) have been accused of "listening to the serpent." I try to …
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