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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

Question: Do you think there were significant scientific changes that occurred with the fall of man? Is it possible it was not until this point that the spiritual and physical realms became separate, or was it just that Adam and Eve didn?t realize it until then? Also, I remember from chemistry talking about the theory […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

Question/Comment: I just finished reading an article you wrote regarding the ‘evidence’ for an intelligent designer and I found it so intellectually dishonest that it inspired me to write you. I hope that someday you come to see the ‘folly’ that comes with accepting ideas such as the ‘anthropic principle.’ Someday I think you will […]

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wrote in General, Science and the Bible .

Question: I am a Christian who is really struggling with doubt. I don’t really understand macroevolution. If is not true that macroevolution happens, then why are there so many scientists that defend it and write books about it? I feel like I am in a never-ending circle. I want my faith to be rock solid […]

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wrote in Creation, General, General Apologetics, Science and the Bible .

Comment: You state in your book Is There a God “Comparison of Genesis one with scientific knowledge implies a transcendent source for the creation story.” Why only limit it it to Genesis one? What about Genesis two? Not so brave there – you have to fall back on faith. There is no strict logical implication […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

Question: Answer: I do try to keep up as much as possible with the new discoveries in evolutionary/molecular biology. I am not sure exactly which aspect of self-replicating molecules you refer to. For example, there are prions, which are the cause of Kreutzfeld-Jacob (mad cow) disease. These molecules are self-replicating, but only within a cell […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible, Theology and Doctrinal Questions .

Question: If you feel like a heart attack, go to the University of Idaho website, type N.F.Gier in the search box and then select GRE.It’s a reference to his book ” God Reason and the Evangelicals”. Then select Chapter 13. The point is that Genesis one describes the earth as surrounded by a solid “firmament.” […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible, Supposed Inconsistencies in the Bible .

Question: How can you explain the seeming contradiction in the Genesis story which has the sun and the moon being created on the fourth day, if there was already day and night on the first day of creation? Isn?t this an example of the Bible being contradicted by science and by common sense? Answer: I […]

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wrote in Anthropology, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

Question:Please comment on three quotes I found in your book, “Is There a God?” Page 23. ” If in asking questions about the Bible one is unwilling to reach the conclusion that the Bible is wrong, then it is easy to predict what conclusion will be reached. Page 25.” Belief in Adam and Eve can […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

Question: Does the denial of macro-evolutionary theory fly in the face of decades of evidence & research? Isn’t the idea of ‘theory’, in regards to macro-evolution, really a fact on balance of probabilities (considering paleontological discoveries)? Is it incredibly simplistic & naive to say that people like Richard Dawkins (who wrote ‘The Selfish Gene’ & […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Philosophy, Science and the Bible .

Question: I was rereading your article on the ID debate after reading through an interesting article found at the link below http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002583/ It made me reconsider your statement: “There is no experiment one can even conceive of which can test the design hypothesis. What could one do in a laboratory to test whether a system […]

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wrote in Science and the Bible .

Question: How do you reconcile the Biblical date (Ussher) for Adam, with the age of Homo Sapiens of approx. 150,000 years? Answer: First of all, a bit of history. Bishop Ussher’s date is not authoritative. He claimed that the universe was created on October 23, 4004 BC. He used lengths of reigns of kings of […]

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wrote in General, Science and the Bible .

Question: How do you know evolution isn’t real? Answer: The answer is that I do not know it isn?t real. Evolution happens. It is real. We know this from experiment. Scientists have studied very simple life forms such as bacteria and viruses and observed them “evolving” in the laboratory. By doing genetic studies, they can […]

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wrote in Anthropology, Archaeology and the Bible, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

I just read the article by Professor Geisler about early monotheism and had a few questions. I’m guessing that the author is assuming that Adam and Eve were the first ‘homo sapiens’ , and that the levant civilizations, particularly that of the ancient ‘habiru’ was the very first. I have read that the Chinese and […]

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wrote in Science and the Bible .

Note: Below is a rather long statement which is not exactly a question. After this paragraph is the response. I first thought to examine the history of Charles Darwin’s religious developement a few years ago when I walked over his grave in Westminster Abbey. I thought “how’d this happen?” I assumed like most Americans that […]

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wrote in General, Science and the Bible .

Como puedo contestar biblicamente sobre los extra-terrestres? Un companero de mi trabajo dijo que Dios es extraterrestre porque no pertenece a la tierra, aunque el la creo. Tu que piensas sobre este tema? Gracias. Puede contestarme en Espanol. Gracias!!!!!! si no puedes esta bien. Yo me esfuerzo por leer ingles. Dios no es extraterrestre. Un […]

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wrote in Science and the Bible .

Agradesco muchisimo su atencion y tambien que dediquen tiempo para responder las inquietudes que se nos presentan.;yo me llamo Geovana y pertenesco a ala iglesia de cristo en Mexico y siento algunas inquietudes con respecto a el papel de algunas iglesias especificamente en Estados Unidos. Existen algunas iglesias de otras denominaciones que han prihibido la […]

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wrote in Bible Interpretation, General, Science and the Bible, Supposed Inconsistencies in the Bible .

I was wondering how one could prove that both chapters one and two of Genesis were correct. Not knowing how to correlate these two chapters is a serious impediment to sharing my faith with skeptical educated people. I have already answered this question. To save you some work, I will copy and past the previous […]

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wrote in Anthropology, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

1. Cro-Magnon lived up to 100,000 and Neanderthal up to 300,000 years ago. What was the most recent dates for those species and when were they extinct? What year was Homo-Sapien on the scene – 45,000 years ago? Cain was the first agricultural farmer as far as evidence in the Bible, were the Homo-Sapiens the […]

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wrote in Bible Interpretation, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

As I was reading Genesis, I came across a scripture that I don’t quite understand. In Genesis 1:3, “God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light… there was evening and morning the first day” However, the sun was not created until the fourth day, right? In Genesis 1: 14 “Let there be lights […]

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wrote in Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

Had a thought while reading, “Is there a God?” – you list ‘Elementsessential for life’ as carbon and H20. I’m interesting in your thoughtsabout adding oxygen to the list. First its ability as an aerial solvent(to help create/sustain an atmosphere – and seems as strong an argument as H20 in the solvent arena?) & essential […]

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wrote in Anthropology, Bible Interpretation, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

In Genesis 2:7b What does it mean when it says “and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life”? is the “breath of life” referring to oxygen or the spirit/soul? I would say that, when in doubt, we should let the obvious meaning stand. Genesis seems to be saying that God made the inanimate Adam […]

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wrote in General, Science and the Bible .

I’m confused about Carbon-14 dating. What is it based on? (besides the amount of radioactive carbon in an organism and its atmosphere at a given time) I know that it is extremely inaccurate, but what is it that makes scientists somewhat believe that it works? Carbon-14 dating works on the basis of the fact that […]

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wrote in Bible Interpretation, General, Science and the Bible .

When God destroyed the earth with great flood all the creatures of ground and air were destroyed (Gen 7:22-23), but what about the creatures of water ? Were they also destroyed? There is no evidence in Genesis that the creatures in water were destroyed wholesale by the flood–be they fresh or salt-water life. It would […]

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wrote in General, Science and the Bible .

Would intelligent, reasonable and scientific questions about the Bible’s comparative words cause Christians to struggle? I would say absolutely not!! My experience, having asked many hard questions of the Bible for twenty-five years, is that the Bible will stand up to any kind of question. Those who have the courage to ask the hard questions […]

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wrote in Anthropology, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

We do not know when the flood happened, but presumably it was at least several thousand years ago. I can only assume that human beings evolved the different “racial” characteristics over the past several thousand years. In a gene pool with a fairly broad genetic diversity, the physical characteristics which lead to the greatest survival […]

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wrote in Bible Manuscripts and Textual Questions, Creation, General, Science and the Bible .

1) The natural amino acids are L and D, and in proteins are only L. So in any hypothetical primordial soup, surely there would have been an equal proportion of both. The problem for the materialist is to answer how did the first proteins become just L amino acids (since racemic proteins can’t exist). If […]

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