Creation/Evolution/ID

Think About IT: Can a Fish Become an Attorney?

By Ronnie W. Rogers / December 20, 2011 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Can a Fish Become an Attorney?

It is often said that all mutations are bad, but this is not actually true. There are cases of beneficial mutations, but what is needed for evolution to make a fish into an attorney is not merely a beneficial mutation, but rather the creation of new information, and therein is the problem. Even advantageous mutations…

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Genetic Engineering

By Guest Contributor / June 24, 2010 / Comments Off on Genetic Engineering

Recently Doug Gray presented a concise, detailed explanation of Genetic Engineering to the Roundtable in Ethics. He begins with the scientific research that forms the basis for the current biotechnology, with an explanation of terms and events along the way. He ends by considering the moral and ethical impact of this genetic altering technology. This…

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Think About IT: The Cruelty of Darwinian Compassion

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 26, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: The Cruelty of Darwinian Compassion

Darwin says, “The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts…” ((Charles Darwin, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, (originally published 1871: reprint with introduction published New York: Barnes &…

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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: 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: 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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Think About IT: Biblical Principles for Loving the Dying

By Ronnie W. Rogers / February 8, 2010 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Biblical Principles for Loving the Dying

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…

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Think About IT: What If a Christian Said…

By Ronnie W. Rogers / September 16, 2009 / Comments Off on Think About IT: What If a Christian Said…

The Bible speaks of an existence prior to the creation of time and matter in which God alone existed. Then, Genesis records God creating time and matter, in the words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). That singularity was the beginning of time and matter. As Christians, we believe…

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