Darwin’s studies of birds came up during our discussion on the last podcast. I had mentioned snorkeling and exploring the island close to the Galapagos (Isla de la Plata) years ago. Here’s a picture I took with my camera of the Blue Footed Booby while on the island , a very rare and beautiful animal [...]

Theistic evolution is a serious threat to the Christian worldview. It is a harmful doctrine that compromises Christian theology (especially anthropology and man as image of God) for the sake of upholding Darwin’s theory of common decent. While Scripture teaches that God directly made the first human persons, theistic evolution says man came from non-God [...]

As I promised, the straw man re-appears: Paul was an ancient man, not a modern one. Should we expect him, therefore, to share views of the world, of humanity, the cosmos, etc., common to his time? Or, does Paul’s inspired status mean that his view of physical reality transcends his time and place? Has anyone [...]

A straw-man argument takes place when someone sets up a false or non-existent argument to knock-down, creating the allusion of victory, when in reality the person didn’t  knock down the real thing, but only a straw-man. In the end, all straw men arguments are failed arguments. They prove nothing. Straw-men arguments are the bread and [...]

In Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15, Paul draws a parallel between Jesus and Adam: Adam disobeyed (eating of the fruit) and brought death to “all”; Jesus obeyed (in his crucifixion) and (in rising) brought life to “all.” Jesus came to undo what Adam did. He came to reverse the curse of Adam. There is [...]

Herman Bavinck is one of the most thoroughly abused figures in Christian scholarship. Why? Because his work is so incredibly balanced. This makes it easy to quote him out of context. He is often mistaken for making assertions when he is simply playing the devil’s advocate for several pages. And, like the early church fathers, [...]

We continue our series on Pete Enns’ blog article “Adam is Israel” and ultimately, “Paul’s Adam”: If we see Adam as a story of Israelite origins, it will help us make sense of at least one nagging question that begins in Genesis 4:13—one that readers of Genesis, past and present, have picked up on. After [...]