Science & Religion

Silicate Erosion Sustains Life (and Vice-Versa) Despite Sun’s Best Efforts

Posted by on December 31, 2023 at 6:52 pm

Let’s end the year with some cool science, OK? Would you be surprised if I told you that the following citation comes from the book Improbable Planet (2016) by Hugh Ross? (I didn’t think so.) In Chapter 12 Ross talks about the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system for the amazing edifice we call “Earth”. […]

The Professor vs. the Student: A Troublesome Dialogue About Science and Faith

Posted by on October 8, 2023 at 7:11 pm

As my regular readers know, I am a conservative Christian with an interest in Christian apologetics. It is both interesting and frustrating to see some of the stuff that well-meaning people have put on the internet in order to answer a challenge to their “faith” and/or to put an atheist or other non-Christian in his/her […]

Dawkins and the Eternal God

Posted by on September 17, 2023 at 7:09 pm

I cited from John Lennox’s book God’s Undertaker not long ago. The mathematician discusses various factual and logical challenges to Richard Dawkins’ analogy for natural processes which posits an infinite number of monkeys “randomly” typing works of Shakespeare — or even just a single target word. In my opinion, the refutation of the typing monkeys […]

Dawkins and the Monkeys

Posted by on September 10, 2023 at 8:27 pm

“Ford! There’s and infinite amount of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.” — Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Earlier this year, I produced two posts citing mathematician John C. Lennox’s book, God’s Undertaker. The first was about Galileo’s legendary […]

Huxley vs. Wilberforce: What You Don’t Know

Posted by on June 11, 2023 at 7:04 pm

“Reports from the time suggest that everybody enjoyed themselves immensely, and all went cheerfully off to dinner together afterwards.” — Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, commenting on the Huxley vs. Wilberforce debate As regular readers will remember, roughly a month ago I did a post about the infamous “conflict thesis” of science vs. religion. The […]

Galileo vs. the Roman Catholic Church: What You Don’t Know

Posted by on May 14, 2023 at 7:18 pm

“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” — Johannes Kepler, 16th/17th-century mathematician and astronomer, known for his Laws of Planetary Motion If you are at all […]

The RUFO Phenomenon, Part 3 of 3

Posted by on February 19, 2023 at 8:41 pm

“[M]any of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which have long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.” — Lynn Catoe, a senior bibliographer for the Library of Congress, after reviewing 1600 books & articles on UFO phenomena As […]

The RUFO Phenomenon, Part 2 of 3

Posted by on February 5, 2023 at 7:39 pm

“I want to believe.” — FBI Agent Fox Mulder, “The X-Files” In Part 1, we began to delve into the phenomenon of “residual UFOs” (aka RUFOs). We noted several questions/issues that need to be addressed by proponents of both the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) and the extradimensional or interdimensional hypothesis (IDH). This time, I want to […]

The RUFO Phenomenon, Part 1 of 3

Posted by on January 29, 2023 at 6:13 pm

“You misunderstand me. I can only demonstrate that UFOs defy the laws of physics. That is not to say they cannot be real.” — Dr. Hugh Ross, in response to a challenge from a member of an audience of Russian scientists As mentioned at the end of “When Is a UFO Not a UFO?, Part […]

Did the Mount St. Helens Eruption Prove Flood Geology?

Posted by on December 18, 2022 at 10:01 pm

“The eruption demonstrated that geologic catastrophe can produce in hours and days geologic features previously believed to have taken millions of years. When we see what the volcano did in such a short time, we can better appreciate how the catastrophe of Noah’s Flood formed the much larger geological features on planet Earth.” — Dr. […]