Pulitzer Prize (Gilead, 2004) winning author Marilynne Robinson was on The Daily Show recently plugging her new book Absence of Mind. The five-minute segment was about the proper relationship between Science and Religion. Robinson’s view, which she states very gently, is that the two “should not be at odds.” So why are they? Here is [...]
Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has argued recently in a public lecture that it is theologically necessary to say that the earth only appears to be old rather than actually being old. Otherwise, a literal interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis is in jeopardy. He mentioned in his presentation the BioLogos [...]
I had an article posted today in the Huffington Post in their Religion and Science section. I make the point that conservative Christians and New Atheists share fundamentalist assumptions about the Bible that block their participation in the science/faith discussion. I will now sit back and wait for book and movie deals to come pouring [...]
I am interviewing NT Wright in NYC tomorrow on camera for BioLogos. Apparently, you can submit questions through Twitter or the BioLogos Facebook page, and we will see what we can get to.
You can access the WNT piece on YouTube. As you can see, I am on camera for about as much time as it takes you to sneeze. Still, I am sitting by the phone patiently waiting for movie offers to come rolling in. All kidding aside (was I kidding?), you can see that the story [...]
I was interviewed yesterday in my home by ABC’s World News Tonight to discuss Bruce Waltke’s resignation from RTS last week. I had a chance to focus on some of the larger issues involved regarding Evangelicals, science, and faith. About two hours with the ABC crew will likely result in about 7 seconds of air [...]
My latest post about Adam is up at BioLogos. My point here is that any way of looking at Adam that does not accept Paul’s view of human descent from a first pair in recent history is “creating” an Adam beyond biblical parameters, and that such creative work is inevitable. My post today fits nicely [...]
John Walton has written a response to Vern Poythress’s review of The Lost World of Genesis One. There are some important hermeneutical and theological issues involved that should be of interest to many. Check it out.
There is a very interesting and important essay posted today at BioLogos by Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow in the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution at The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology, Gainesville FL. He is the author of Life, the Universe, and the Scientific Method. He is interacting with the recently published Signature of the [...]
My friends (and now colleagues) at the BioLogos Foundation recently asked me to write a series of blog posts for them concerning how an incarnational approach to Scripture might contribute toward clearing away some misunderstandings that have exacerbated the perceived conflict between the Bible and science. The first three posts in that series are linked [...]
