CARBONATE ≠ CARBONATITE! -- Back in March, I wrote a critique of a young-Earth creationist proposal that evaporite deposits, such as thick layers of halite (rock salt), were actually formed during Noah's flood by crystallization from gigantic eruptions of salt lavas. I would have ignored this proposal completely if it had come from the fringe of …
Rush is wrong — Analyzing Limbaugh’s statement on God and global warming
On August 12, 2013, Rush Limbaugh made the following statement on his radio program: "If you believe in God, then intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming." This, of course, is utter nonsense. Unfortunately, millions of American political conservatives and Evangelicals believe Rush is right on just about everything, but Limbaugh is clearly wrong …
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Around the web 10/16/2013 — the latest Jesus conspiracy theory and YEC attacks on old-Earth Christians
AN INVENTED JESUS? -- The media has started giving publicity to the latest Jesus conspiracy theory: Story of Jesus Christ was 'fabricated to pacify the poor', claims controversial Biblical scholar: Christianity was a sophisticated government propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of a the Roman Empire, claims scholar. So, the Romans invented a story in …
Days, nights, Jonah, and Jesus
I recently had a GeoChristian reader raise the issue of "Bible inconsistencies and errors" in a comment. Specifically, they brought up the reference in the Gospel of Matthew to "Jesus being in the tomb for 'three' nights." If Jesus was crucified on Friday and resurrected on Sunday, isn't it an error to say that he …
Who created God? An answer from John Lennox
One argument for the existence of God involves the impossibility of an actual infinite past. We cannot trace a pattern of cause and effect back into an eternal past. One difficulty is that we could never have arrived at the present point of time. What created the universe? The big bang. What caused the big …
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Analyzing an atheist ad campaign
The following item was originally posted in November 2010, and 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. Yesterday, I wrote about a new advertising campaign from Answers in Genesis. In this present …
Thankful to God that the atheists are wrong
Answers in Genesis has some new billboards that I actually like, highlighted on today's Around the World With Ken Ham blog. Here's one of them: As I recently reminded one reader here on The GeoChristian, I am on the same side as the young-Earth creationists. We may differ on a secondary issue---the age of the …
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Around the web 10/4/2013 — Super-duper fast volcanoes, dashing dinos, pornography, powerful forgiveness, and more
KEN HAM, PROFESSING CHRISTIAN? -- To Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham, any Christian who disagrees with young-Earth creationism is a compromiser who undermines the authority of the Bible. In a recent blog post---Never-ending List of Christians Who Compromise---Ham wrote about a Christian biology professor who is an advocate for theistic evolution, referring to him as …
Many top advocates of Biblical authority accept an old Earth as completely compatible with Scripture
Can one believe in the authority of the Bible and also believe that Earth is on the order of a few billion years old? Are Christians who accept an old Earth "compromisers" who deny obvious truths of Scripture? Many young-Earth creationist (YEC) leaders insist that acceptance of an old age for the Earth---billions of years …
Around the web 9/14/2013
LETS MAKE A DEAL? -- A lot of atheists like of Richard Dawkins; many others find him to be an embarrassment (here and here). A lot of Christians like ____________; many others find him to be an embarrassment. Rachel Held Evans suggests that both Christians and atheists stop using silly statements from the other side as …
GeoScriptures — Genesis 2:2-3 — God’s rest and the age of the Earth
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. -- Genesis …
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Around the web 8/31/2013 — Fire-breathing dragons, Dawkins causes skeptics to consider Christianity, and more
READING DAWKINS LEADS THINKERS TO CHRIST -- Jay Wile tells of two people who came to faith in Christ through reading the The God Delusion and other works by the New Atheists: Richard Dawkins Produces Another Theist. The woman Wile highlights in his article is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. FIRE BREATHING DRAGONS PROVE THE BIBLE IS …
It is more reasonable to believe that God exists than to believe that he does not
Skeptics and atheists like to present their side as that of reason, and the religious side as that of faith. But it just isn't so. It is, in fact, quite reasonable to believe that there is a God who is is spaceless, timeless, immaterial, uncaused, and incredibly powerful. One of the most convincing arguments for …
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Around the web 8/27/2013 — A crazy, mixed-up world
This week, my "Around the Web" wrap-up doesn't have anything about creationism, the environment, or geology. I've put in a few 100-hour work weeks lately, and it is nice to finally have a little bit of time for The GeoChristian blog. THE EXTINCTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST? -- In the second century, the …
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Around the web — 8/18/2013 — A threat to the faith of youth, threats to the lives of Christians, atheist variations, and more
WHO'S SHAKING THE FOUNDATIONS? -- What will shake the foundations of a young person's faith more: 1. Believing that biological evolution is largely true and not contradictory to the Bible 2. or being told that biological evolution is unbiblical and a lie of the devil and then discovering that much of biological evolution is indeed true? …
Dead Reckoning TV on the renewal of creation
One cannot have a complete biblical doctrine of creation without incorporating what one believes about the future of creation. Some Christians believe in the utter annihilation of the present world when Christ returns; that God will completely destroy Earth before establishing the eternal order. This doctrine can, unfortunately, lead to what some have called "disposable …
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Around the web 8/11/2013 — YEC problems with poop, having the flying spaghetti monster for lunch, and more
YEC ARGUMENTS BURIED IN DEEP DOO-DOO -- The Natural Historian has written a post I wish I had written: Dino Doo-Doo (Coprolites) and the Genesis Flood. Coprolites are pieces of fossilized excrement (and back when I was in graduate school, also the name of my geology department's intramural softball team). The fossil record has an abundance …
Around the web 8/5/2013
ANOTHER REASON WHY GOING TO COLLEGE INCREASES YOUR CHANCES OF RETAINING YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH -- A couple weeks ago I reported on a study that showed that going to college, even a secular state university, actually increases one's chances of keeping one's Christian faith (see Staying Christian at the university). The Gospel Coalition suggested three …
Staying Christian at the University
Does going to a secular college drive students away from Christian faith? According to one study, the answer is a solid "No." See FactChecker: Does College Cause Young Adults to Lose Their Faith? on The Gospel Coalition blog. Among recently surveyed college students, 2.7 times more report that their religious beliefs have strengthened during their college experience …
Around the web 7/13/2013 — No response on salt magma hypothesis, nature deficit disorder, thou shalt not criticize Ken Ham, and more
It has been a while time since my last "Around the web" post, and I have bookmarked more articles than I can reasonably make brief comments on. Here are a few... THE DEATH OF GOOGLE READER -- Since the untimely demise of Google Reader a couple weeks ago, I haven't been keeping up on the …
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