Ronnie W. Rogers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The vast majority of Christians will face difficult decisions regarding impending death of a loved one. I am refining this list, as well as still thinking through other principles, but these have proven to be quite helpful in guiding me to think biblically about such eventualities. Strong families are essential since family members are the…