“[The goal of the book] was to give a snapshot of the state of the conversation about origins among evangelical Christians in America…. I think readers will see fair and accurate representations of the four positions.” — J.B. Stump, general editor of Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design and Senior Editor at BioLogos […]
“The future is going to be amazing, and we should be optimistic that as a free people we can lead the world into that future – just as we led the world with new developments in cars, airplanes, computers and the Internet.” — Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and unabashed […]
“But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.” — Job 12:7 (HCSB) The other day I was eating lunch out in our sunroom, when I suddenly heard some loud tapping noises on or near the roof. The sounds didn’t last long, fortunately, but […]
“China’s cyber-spies have been hacking countries left and right. They were blamed for the enormous data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management that compromised the data of more than 21 million people.” — Samuel Bocetta, CFIF We’ve all heard of “cyberwarfare”. It gets mentioned in the news along with “cybersecurity” and various attempts […]
“Christians want to be under rather than over Scripture, yet we do not want to be anti-science. So what do we do with this apparent antinomy* between the book of Scripture and the book of nature?” — Jud Davis Believe it or not, I don’t always have a science/faith book in progress. But, prior to […]
“America’s central position in the global energy system as a leading producer, consumer, and innovator ensures that markets are free and U.S. infrastructure is resilient and secure.” — NSS Report, Dec. 2017 The idea of U.S. energy independence — or even dominance — and its role in our national security strategy is not new — […]
In what has become something of a year-end tradition here at “A View from the Right”, my final post for 2017 is a “Top 10” of links (with associated excerpts) to posts from preceding years. (The first two even go back to 2010 and 2011, respectively.) The idea is to give readers — especially newer […]
“[Y]ou should not fool the laymen when you’re talking as a scientist…. I’m talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is [more than] not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you’re maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly […]
“If scientists are able to detect gases like oxygen in the atmosphere of Ross 128 b, that could be a good indicator of biological processes on the planet.” — Molly Rubin (Quartz Media) It seems like a new exoplanet (aka “extrasolar planet”, i.e., a planet in a solar system other than ours) is found every […]
Previous installments of the “Snippets” series covered four chapters each. This one covers the six chapters that make up the (sort of) middle of the True Reason book. Simply put, they “offer arguments for the rational strength of the Christian worldview.” See any familiar names among the authors? Nine: “Reason in a Christian Context” (Peter […]
