The Language of God – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

15Nov 2021 by Post

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

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The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source

18Oct 2021 by Post

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration

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The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Source

08Oct 2021 by Post

Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

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President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Source

03Feb 2021 by Post

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

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Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Source

30Nov 2019 by Post

Q&A with Michael Behe: What’s Wrong with Theistic Evolution?

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We now reluctantly conclude the past week’s series of Q&A sessions with biochemist Michael Behe, highlighting his 41-part video course for DiscoveryU, “Michael Behe Investigates Evolution and Intelligent Design.” Here’s another challenge he often gets: Why doesn’t Professor Behe go along with famed Evangelical Christian scientist Francis Collins, and others, in opting for theistic evolution? Dr. Behe observes that in reading Dr. Collins’s book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, he found it notable that Collins “does not even try to address the problems for evolution that I and other intelligent design proponents have brought up.” So that is one reason. Behe, like Collins, is a scientist not a theologian. The science of ID, and the scientific problems with Darwinian evolution, are the focus of his video…