Genesis 1:21-27 – The Biblical account does not allow for evolution, guided or otherwise. If God really created the universe, why does the persuasive evidence of science compel so many to conclude that the unguided process of evolution accounts for life? This is something of a loaded question.  It assumes both that people do, in Read More…

Recently, I’ve been considering the question of the justice of God. As a case in point, I’ve heard the question posed, “How can it be just for God to have killed most of the world’s population in the great Flood?” In other words, the question is, how can Christians consider the flood to be the Read More…

And [the] LORD God commanded the man saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17) We’ve all heard the story. Read More…

“Faith is an irrational belief in something that is logically impossible.” –Emily Deschanel as Temperance Brennan, Fox Television series Bones I rarely actually hear statements so direct as the one above, but it seems I often hear faith dismissed as something only the ignorant or foolish would possess. The word itself conjures up images of Read More…