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 …
Continue reading William Jennings Bryan and the age of the Earth
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 …
Continue reading Internet Monk: a comment from an evangelical vertebrate paleontologist
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 …
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 …
The topic of death before Adam's fall into sin is a common area of debate between Christians who accept an old Earth and those who insist that the Bible requires a young Earth. Old-Earth creationists (whether or not they are theistic evolutionists) have to accept animal death before the fall. After all, the fossil record …
Continue reading Death before the fall — an old-Earth Biblical perspective
A week or two there was a post on InternetMonk.com asking for comments from Christian scientists and science-educated Christians about how they had resolved the tension between science and faith. Here's my comment from that post, with a little editing: I am “The GeoChristian” that someone else referred to earlier. I have an M.S. and …
Michael Spencer (a.k.a. The Internet Monk) has a post asking for comments from Christians who are scientists or trained in science. They are to answer the following question: How have you resolved the tensions in your own life and thinking between science and your faith? What has been your journey? What was particularly significant in …
Continue reading Internet Monk: Stories of science/faith resolution
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