Ronnie W. Rogers

Think about IT: A Gospel Standard for Movies and Music

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 17, 2010 / Comments Off on Think about IT: A Gospel Standard for Movies and Music

Recently I was asked a series of questions regarding the application of Christian principles in the area of entertainment. Although these are neither exhaustive nor thorough, I hope you find them helpful. Q: More and more we see the church looks like the world. One area is entertainment – the music we listen to, the…

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Think About IT: Darwin, the Unbiased, Benign Observationist

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 7, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Darwin, the Unbiased, Benign Observationist

Darwin is often presented as a simple scientist, with no axe to grind, to wit no preconceived ideas tainting his conclusions, and simply following the facts to wherever they lead. The following are a few quotes that may call that noble description into question. Darwin said, concerning man’s origin and descent, “The main conclusion…is that…

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Think About IT: Marriage According to Darwin

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 1, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Marriage According to Darwin

Darwin expresses his dismay and discouragement because, in comparison to how very scrupulous a man is about the pedigree of his livestock, when it comes to his own marriage, “…he rarely, or never, takes any such care. He is impelled by nearly the same motives as the lower animals, when they are left to their…

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Think About IT: Darwin’s Influence on the Sanctity of Human Life

By Ronnie W. Rogers / March 25, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Darwin’s Influence on the Sanctity of Human Life

Darwin asseverated that, “…Species are produced and terminated by slowly acting and still existing causes, and not by miraculous acts of creation and by catastrophes.” ((Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, (Originally published by John Murray, London, in 1859: reprint with introduction by Michael T. Ghiselin, Mineola, NY: Dover…

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Think About IT: What Constitutes Worldliness in the Church?

By Ronnie W. Rogers / March 16, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: What Constitutes Worldliness in the Church?

Dr. David Wells is Distinguished Senior Research Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. He can be depended upon to offer valuable insight into biblical questions as he does so succinctly here: Where Christian faith is offered as a means of finding personal wholeness rather than holiness, the church has become worldly. There are many…

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Think About IT: Religious Freedom, What Are We to Do?

By Ronnie W. Rogers / March 9, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Religious Freedom, What Are We to Do?

Many Baptists who had been persecuted (my sermons entitled “Those Darn Baptists” demonstrate this) in colonial New England for preaching the gospel were deeply concerned that the proposed Constitution did not go far enough in guaranteeing liberty of conscience in religious freedom. The approval of nine states was required to ratify the Constitution, and Rhode…

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Think About IT: Global Warming? Here We Go Again!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / March 1, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Global Warming? Here We Go Again!

We are still reeling from ‘Climategate’ and now ‘Himalayangate’. What is now being dubbed as “climate gate”, where a hacker has breached the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain’s largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, discovering e-mails that reveal evidence of serious and widespread fraud. The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research…

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Think About IT: The Difference between Evolution and Darwinism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / February 24, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: The Difference between Evolution and Darwinism

Biologist Jonathan Wells elucidates the critical distinction between evolution and Darwinism. He notes, “Evolution means change over time” ((“change over time” “cumulative change through time” “a change in gene frequencies over generations.”…Darwin’s phrase “descent with modification” is okay in a limited sense. Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, (Washington,…

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Think About IT: Work Ethic and the New Technology

By Ronnie W. Rogers / February 17, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Work Ethic and the New Technology

Cameron Pettigrew thought of himself as an exemplary employee. ((This article is quoted in its entirety from www.kairosjournal.org)) In two and a half years at Fidelity Investments, he earned multiple company honors and was even offered a job at the corporation’s prestigious Wall Street branch. But then Fidelity got wind of his receiving an instant…

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Think About IT: Darwinian Evolution, Is It Mathematically Possible?

By Ronnie W. Rogers / February 12, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Darwinian Evolution, Is It Mathematically Possible?

The following is Antony Flew’s recitation of the point by point refutation of “the monkey theorem” by Gerry Schroeder, ((Dr. Gerry Schroeder has a B.Sc. Chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) M.Sc. Earth and planetary sciences, M.I.T., PhD Earth Sciences and Physics M.I.T.; He addresses a similar question “Can random mutations produce the evolution…

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