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 …
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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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October poll — creation and evolution
P.S. A reader pointed out that someone like Michael Behe (Darwin's Black Box) would probably fall somewhere between 2 and 3. If that is where you are at, you will have to make a difficult choice. My apologies.
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 …
Religious belief among scientists
Here are some results of a PEW Research Center study on the religious and political beliefs of scientists: Statistic #1 42% -- Scientists ages 18-34 who say they believe in God. 28% -- Scientists 65 and older who say this. What does this mean? Does it mean that an increasing number of scientists believe in …
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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Earth Observatory — recent images
Some of my favorite recent images from NASA's Earth Observatory Image of the Day: Swirling sea ice near Baffin Island (credit: NASA/Terra/MODIS) Apollo 11 landing site (credit: NASA/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter). Images of other Apollo landing sites are at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter site. The orbiter isn't in its final orbit, and future images will have …
GM bailout money used to send jobs overseas
The Stillwater Complex in south-central Montana is the only significant US source of platinum and palladium, which are used in automobile catalytic converters. The newly restructured General Motors, with the US government as a primary shareholder, has decided to cancel its platinum-group metals contract with Stillwater Mining Company, opting for cheaper ores from Russia and …
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Anak Krakatau
From today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Erupting Volcano Anak Krakatau. You will have to go to APOD to see it in all its glory. Grace and Peace
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 …
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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K-T iridium layer, Raton NM
The first concrete evidence that an asteroid impact ended the Cretaceous Period was the discovery of an iridium-rich layer marking the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary by a team led by Luis Alvarez in the early 1980s. Iridium is very rare in Earth's crust, but is considerably more abundant in asteroids, leading geologists to conclude that the …
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 …
Six bad arguments from Answers in Genesis (Part 4)
This is part four 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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John Piper and the age of the Earth
To repeat a common theme of The GeoChristian blog: One can be a committed Christian with a very high view of the Bible, and yet hold to a 4.5 billion year-old Earth and evolution. John Piper is pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, and is a leading author and speaker within the Evangelical and …
Camping — Great Sand Dunes National Park
The family had the opportunity to camp at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado this week. The Great Sand Dunes are the tallest dunes in North America. Here are a few pictures: We think the alternate name for the park is "Great Mosquito Swarms National Park," but we couldn't find that in the literature the …
Sarychev Peak eruption
From NASA's Earth Observatory: Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands, Russia. From the Earth Observatory description: A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. [...] Ash from the multi-day eruption has been …
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