Sadly, the way things were meant to be is not the way things are. Something has gone badly wrong, and it went wrong almost from the beginning. As fundamental as creation is to the Christian worldview, the Bible spends surprisingly little time reporting how it happened—mainly a couple of pages in Genesis. Presumably, this isContinue reading “Paradise Lost”
Category Archives: Creation
The Creation Mandate
How else can we glorify God? The doctrine of creation affirms the environment, where we have a responsibility of benevolent stewardship. God said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thingContinue reading “The Creation Mandate”
God Shows Himself
If the God is the creator, then creation shows us who God is. As we saw in the previous chapter, nature is one of the books that God has written to reveal his character. “What can be known about God is plain,” wrote the apostle Paul, “because God has shown it. . . . HisContinue reading “God Shows Himself”
More Than Blind, Pitiless Indifference
It all begins with creation. Once again, we are simply following the logic of Scripture as it tells God’s story: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). This is how the cosmos came into being. By his powerful word, God created the entire universe out of nothing (ex nihilo), “soContinue reading “More Than Blind, Pitiless Indifference”
Is AI Today’s Tower of Babel
In May, Microsoft unveiled a new supercomputer at a developer conference, claiming it’s the fifth most powerful machine in the world. Built in collaboration with OpenAI, the computer is designed to train single massive AI models in self-supervised learning, forgoing the need for human-labeled data sets. These AI models operate in distributed optimization, resulting inContinue reading “Is AI Today’s Tower of Babel”
What Billions Say in Silence
“When I look at the stars, I see someone else.” (Switchfoot) When David looked up in the Near Eastern night sky 3,000 years ago, what he saw almost took his breath away. And in an attempt to express the wonder that flooded him as he contemplated his minuteness in view of such vastness, and God’sContinue reading “What Billions Say in Silence”
A Religion for Atheists
(My apologies. This is a long article and has a bit of weight to it. Read it if you will and ponder its implications) In the award-winning movie A Theory of Everything Stephen Hawking introduces himself to his wife-to-be Jane by describing himself as a cosmologist. When Jane asks what that is, he replies “it’sContinue reading “A Religion for Atheists”
No Excuses
A truth that is suppressed is a truth that has addressed itself to someone, but they do not want to be confronted by it. They do not want it to force them to change, so they keep it down and refuse to look at or deal with it. What kind of a truth is itContinue reading “No Excuses”
Clear and Cool
Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. In the woods of Maine, not too far from the eastern coast, there is a river that flows clear and cool. It winds through some of the most gorgeous sceneryContinue reading “Clear and Cool”
Irreducible complexity – What is it?
Irreducible complexity is an argument against evolution. Evolution teaches the concept of the survival of the fittest. The more a creature’s physical and mental attributes enhance its chances of survival, the more likely it is able to live long enough to mate and pass on those helpful genetic traits to the next generation. Macroevolution refersContinue reading “Irreducible complexity – What is it?”
