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The Problem of Pain

“After the Lord your God has done this for you, don’t say in your hearts, ‘The Lord has given us this land because we are such good people!’ No, it is because of the wickedness of the other nations that he is pushing them out of your way. It is not because you are so good or have such integrity…

Christ and the Cosmos

This past week I spent three days with 300 other people discussing Science and Faith, Evolutionary Creation, Theology, and how we understand our Creator God in the light of recent scientific discoveries. I was in Houston at the BioLogos 2017 Conference. This conference draws speakers and attenders from a variety of fields. We had keynote…

Broken and Sinful from the Start

Yesterday, I quoted Scot McKnight saying, “sinfulness has spread throughout the human race from its first beginnings and … each individual has contributed their own share to it.” Adam and the Genome (Venema and McKnight, 2017, BrazosPress). It made me think of this song by Jonathon Foreman: Broken from the Start (words and music by Jon…

Scot McKnight on Romans 5

Scot McKnight on Romans 5:12-21 “… he is not saying that all have sinned in Adam and therefore die but instead that each person, like Adam, sins and therefore dies because of that sinning. Humans somehow inherit something from Adam, but they do not die because of the inheritance but because they sin. Perhaps all…

Evolutionary Creation

I just read a marvellous explanation of evolutionary creation in Adam and the Genome by Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight (BrazosPress, 2017). McKnight says, “. . . God constructed the DNA of the smallest organic matter to unfold in our direction.” (p. 132) God started with DNA processes in small single-celled organisms and set it…

Adam and the Genome

Dennis Venema, Ph.D., gave an exceptional lecture at Ambrose University on Friday, February 3, 2017. The event was sponsored by the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation of Calgary, Ambrose University, and the Templeton Foundation. What follows is a collection of thoughts inspired by the cold, snowy evening, and the warm engaging crowd. Venema, a geneticist…

Physics, Philosophy, and Theology

Higgs-Bosons, Up, Down, Charmed, and Strange Quarks, Anti-matter, Dark-Matter, and Light as both wave and particle – at one and the same time. These are the present realities of physics which even the public has come to accept as incomprehensible, but real. How can one begin to understand a universe that contains this many uncertainties,…

Dark Quest for Dark Matter

Almost two years ago, I wrote a blog about the effects of gravity and wondered when we would have a better understanding of this powerful force. Earlier this year, we came several steps closer to understanding gravity when researchers at LIGO detected gravitational waves. In my article about gravity, I also commented that “there may…

Mysteries of the Human Genome

Many who read this blog regularly will know of my interest in human genetics and the evolutionary process by which God guided the creation of humans and imprinted the imago dei upon us. I have frequently written about various creation and evolutionary theories and I recognize that this is a controversial topic in some Christian…

Animal Intelligence

I am fascinated by the intelligence of animals. On the farm where I grew up, we often had Border Collie dogs who were intelligent working dogs. They were exceptional herders and one dog was capable of finding the milk cows in the field and herding them into the barnyard on his own. Our daughter and…