The Earth. Christianity. They go together. Welcome to The GeoChristian, a blog primarily about the relationship between the Earth sciences and Christianity. My name is Kevin Nelstead, and I have been writing at geochristian.com since 2006. The most important thing about me is that I am a Christian. The passage of Scripture that opened up my …
Bozeman Creation Conference — Radiometric Dating
AN OLD-EARTH CHRISTIAN AT A YOUNG-EARTH CONFERENCE This is the third in a series of articles about a young-Earth creationism (YEC) conference held in Bozeman, Montana in April, 2016. 1. Bozeman creation conference preview and expectations 2. Does Genesis Really Matter? - Yes Genesis does matter, whether a Christian believes in a young Earth or an …
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Earth Day 2016 — Links to past GeoChristian articles on caring for the creation
"And God saw that it was good." — Genesis 1:25. Genesis 1 records the unfolding of God's creative activity, and one thing that is clear from the text is that God was pleased with what he had made. Genesis states that the world was good even before the creation of humans, which is recorded starting in verse …
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The story of “Earth Science: God’s World, Our Home” – a Christian middle school textbook
My first experience teaching Earth Science was at a small Classical Christian school in Missouri for the 2001-2002 school year. The headmaster was a young-Earth creationist. She knew that I was an old-Earth Christian, but perhaps being desperate for a science teacher she went ahead and hired me as a part-time teacher for a year, …
Bozeman creation conference – Does Genesis Really Matter?
AN OLD-EARTH CHRISTIAN AT A YOUNG-EARTH CONFERENCE This is the second in a series of articles about a young-Earth creationism (YEC) conference held in Bozeman, Montana in April, 2016. 1. Bozeman creation conference preview and expectations 2. This article – Does Genesis Really Matter? - Yes Genesis does matter, whether a Christian believes in a young …
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Bozeman creation conference preview and expectations
AN OLD-EARTH CHRISTIAN AT A YOUNG-EARTH CONFERENCE This is the first in a series of articles about a young-Earth creationism (YEC) conference held in Bozeman, Montana in April, 2016. 1. This article – Bozeman creation conference preview and expectations 2. Does Genesis Really Matter? - Yes Genesis does matter, whether a Christian believes in a young Earth …
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Lessons from the friendship between a Christian and an atheist
In the early 2000s, a new movement of vocal atheists arose, committed with religious fervor to the propagation of their faith that there is no God, and imagining that the world would be a much better place if religion would just go away. One event that vitalized this crusade of “New Atheists” was the September …
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Beginnings
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." -- Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." -- John 1:1 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish …
Life Priorities
It is time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year. My basic life priorities have not changed for over ten years: Life Priorities: To live as a disciple of Jesus Christ. To love my wife as Christ loves the church. To raise my children as followers of Christ. To …
Bible Reading, 2016
I haven't been blogging much in 2015. That may change in early 2016 once I am done writing Earth Science: God's World, Our Home, a Christian middle school Earth Science textbook from Novare Science and Math. I do, however, still make time for daily reading in the Bible. In fact, there was not a single day …
Cover art for Earth Science textbook
Earth Science: God's World, Our Home from Novare Science and Math has a cover!
Does Genesis 1 Demand Belief in a Young Earth?
I highly recommend Novare Science and Math's most recent newsletter, which highlights the question "Does Genesis 1 Demand Belief in a Young Earth?" My upcoming middle school textbook, "Earth Science: God's World, Our Home" is being published by Novare, and will be available for the 2015-2016 school year.
If there were no other options than Ken Ham’s way or Bill Nye’s way, I would choose…
Today, February 4, 2015, marks the one-year anniversary of the Ken Ham vs. Bill Nye "Is creation a viable model of origins?" debate. After the debate, I wrote a post-debate analysis, in which I pointed out that both speakers made some valid points, and both speakers made some blunders. Ken Ham believes that the Bible …
A reminder — The GeoChristian is now on FaceBook
Just a reminder: The GeoChristian is now on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-GeoChristian/224603031042432
Video — Can you be good without God?
"Can you be good without believing in God?" is a different question than "Can you be good without God?" Clearly, an atheist can do good things and abhor certain evil things. But can an atheist make a case that some things are inherently good, and other things are inherently evil? Or is Richard Dawkins correct, when …
Another Christian leader who believes the Bible does not require a young Earth — Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor is senior vice president of Crossway Books, a theologically conservative Christian publishing company. Crossway is best known as the publisher of the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible, along with the ESV Study Bible, perhaps the most comprehensive theologically conservative study Bible ever produced for a general Christian audience. Justin Taylor believes the Bible. …
Doubting your doubts
I wish to expand a bit on the concept of "doubting your doubts." I first came across this phrase in The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. Here is a quote from the introduction (I hope you will purchase the book and read it for yourself): A faith without some doubts is like a human …
Advice for Christians who have doubts
Many Christians go through a time when they are troubled in their faith when confronted with challenges from skeptics and unbelievers. Christianity today has posted the testimony of Gregory Alan Thornbury, who almost gave up his faith when challenged by the teachings of people beyond the liberal fringe of Christianity such as Marcus Borg, a member of the Jesus …
Why the latest Newsweek blast against Christianity is nonsense
Think of some idea that you think is loony that other people believe in and adamantly support. My list would include alien abductions, the face on Mars, conspiracy theories about the Apollo moon landings, and thinking that Che Guevara or Hugh Hefner are cool. Your list would probably differ from mine. That's OK; I hope we can still have …
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The GeoChristian Stats for 2014
I only wrote 23 posts in 2014, so my readership was down a bit. That's OK; I just have a lot of other things going on. Because of this, nine of the ten most-read posts on The GeoChristian were actually ones written in previous years. The top ten most-read posts on the GeoChristian in 2014: …
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