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creation

Scientific evidence for God: cosmology versus biology?

February 19, 2010

Eddie Arthur has drawn my attention to a new site – God: new evidence –which (so far) is exploring the ways in which modern cosmology can be seen to offer support for theism. It has a number of videos, which feature some respectable scientists like John Polkinghorne. Here’s one which circles around the strong anthropic [...]

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Nutritious religion? Creation and C4’s Bible: a History

January 24, 2010

I’ve just finished watching the first of the new Channel 4 series The Bible: a History. Tonight’s episode was presented by the novelist Howard Jacobsen – a non-religious Jew – on Creation. It will be interesting to see how different each episode is; if tonight’s is any guide, they will be quite individual, for rather [...]

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No Adam, no Fall? Wrestling with sin and science.

October 18, 2009

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles)
Last week I posted a first look at the Church of England’s ninth article on original sin. In passing, I noted that there are other ways of reading the story told in Genesis 3. The Pauline retelling of Adam’s fall is [...]

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This is probably not the post they wanted to me to write

October 15, 2009
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Today is Blog Action Day. It’s all about climate change. And that’s where my problems begin. Nonetheless, in what follows, I suggest five practical changes that need to be made.
I remain profoundly sceptical about anthropogenic climate change. There is quite a lot of reasonable evidence that the climate is currently changing. But there is [...]

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The end of “creation” as we know it? I think not.

October 8, 2009

Claude Mariottini passes on the news that:

Professor Ellen Van Wolde, an Old Testament scholar and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, said that Genesis 1:1 has been translated incorrectly and that a correct translation of the first verse of Genesis negates the view that God is the creator of heavens and earth.

The report he [...]

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A Michaelmas question: what about angels?

September 28, 2009

I must confess to feeling a little non-plussed whenever I have to think about angels, as opposed to worshipping with them.
I regularly join them in singing the Sanctus … “Holy, holy, holy”. But I’m never entirely sure whether I think they’re a mythic or poetic way of speaking of the way in which creation is [...]

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Science and religion: is it all just “how?” and “why?”

September 28, 2009

John Anderson has a good set of quotations in a post setting out his “modest proposal” on science and religion:

I think it is feasible to speak of each as having a specific role and addressing very specific questions that the other does not. This is an approach that, near as I am aware, is ‘unique’ [...]

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