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You can’t judge a book by its cover: A Review of “Death Before the Fall”

May 21, 2014 by Randal

Ronald E. Osborn. Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. This book suffers from a serious identity crisis. On the face (that is, the cover) of it, the book purports to provide an in-depth theological analysis of the problem of natural evil generally and animal […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: animal suffering, creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, natural evil, review, Ronald Osborn, theodicy, theology

An Evolving Evangelical Debate: A review of “Four Views on The Historical Adam”

May 15, 2014 by Randal

Barrett, Matthew and Ardel B. Caneday, eds. Four Views on the Historical Adam (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013), 288 pp. Fifteen years ago Zondervan published Three Views on Creation and Evolution, a lively exchange between two young earth creationists (Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds), an old earth creationist (Robert C. Newman), and a theistic evolutionist (Howard Van Til). Since that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, book review, Darwin, evolution, Four views on The Historical Adam, hermeneutics, interpretation, review, theology

God? Science? Evolution? Historical Adam? Explore the issues with Denis Lamoureux

April 8, 2014 by Randal

Great news for those of you interested in the discussion of Christianity and science generally, and evolution and Christianity in particular. My friend, Professor Denis Lamoureux (whom I interviewed on my podcast here), is going to be hosting a two hour online free webinar for those interested in the discussion on April 14th. Professor Lamoureux […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, creation, creationism, Denis Lamoureux, evolution, historical Adam, science, theology, webinar

A defense of Ken Ham’s fake Noah’s Ark

March 1, 2014 by Randal

Ken Ham, that Australian-accented l’enfant terrible of North American fundamentalist Protestant 6-day young earth creationist Christianity, has achieved his goal of raising the first $14 million to begin construction on an ambitious life-size replica of Noah’s Ark for the people of Kentucky and indeed the citizens of the world. (Whew! That’s quite the opening sentence!) […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Noah's ark, satire

Liar, Liar, soul on fire!

December 8, 2013 by Randal

My podcast interview with Peter Enns elicited some interesting responses. One of the more memorable came from one very disgruntled bloke who commented at Pete’s blog: “In he [sic] interview you claim to believe God and the Bible but your following words contradict your claims. YOU ARE A LIAR. You do NOT believe God or the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, blog, dishonesty, evolution, fundamentalism, Peter Enns

Snapshots from Baltimore (Part 3): The evolution of theology

November 23, 2013 by Randal

There are not many places you can go in the Academy to find an ongoing debate on whether the earth might be merely thousands of years old. But the Evangelical Theological Society is one of the last bastions. (Of course, depending on who you ask, the debate may only exist in the minds of young […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evolution, science, theology

The Darwinian Fundamentalists

August 5, 2013 by Randal

A couple weeks ago I picked up Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s What Darwin Got Wrong (New York: Picador, 2010, 2011). Both Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini (henceforth F&P) are atheists. They deny that any intelligence was involved in the formation of life on earth. And they accept the common origin of all life forms. What they […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Darwinism, evolution, naturalism, science, theism

Evolution debunked in sixteen minutes!

July 11, 2013 by Randal

A friend of mine just emailed this to me. (Thanks Bruce!) Apparently Ray Comfort “completely debunks” evolution in 16 minutes. Rumor has it that the sequel debunks global warming in four minutes and the germ theory of disease in 39 seconds flat! (However, I’m not sure about the reviewer who said Dawkins would have a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evolution, Ray Comfort

Thoughts on Evolution: A response to Stephen J. Bedard

February 27, 2013 by Randal

Yesterday blogger Stephen J. Bedard at the “Hope’s Reason” blog posted a review of my book You’re not as Crazy as I Think. Bedard enjoyed the book and gave it a very positive review. (And he notes in the review that The Atheist Missionary, a regular reader at my blog, had recommended the book. As a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evolution, intelligent design, Stephen J. Bedard, You're not as crazy as I think

Is Christian-atheist dialogue worthwhile? A commentary on the Dawkins-Kenny-Williams debate (Part 1)

January 29, 2013 by Randal

Last year Oxford University sponsored what was billed as a “debate” (though it really was a collegial dialogue) between Richard Dawkins and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. The discussion spanned a range of topics concerning the uniqueness of human beings, the existence of God, and the meaning of life. In addition it was moderated by […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Anthony Kenny, atheism, dialogue, evolution, God, Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams, theism, universe

William Lane Craig, God and Evolution

January 26, 2013 by Randal

Earlier this week T’sinadree asked me to respond to William Lane Craig’s response to a question about evolution at “Reasonable Faith.” You can read the question and Craig’s response here. The question comes in the form of a challenge from Michel of Germany who argues that God would not have created through evolutionary processes. Michel’s […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: creation, Darwin, evil, evolution, Neo-Darwinism, providence, suffering, William Lane Craig

Would it be wrong to resurrect the Neanderthals?

December 30, 2012 by Randal

Over the holidays many people indulge in drink or sweets. Like a true nerd, I indulge in reading all the books I couldn’t get to during the semester. Among those books was anthropologist Chris Stringer’s Lone Survivors (Henry Holt, 2012). The book presents Stringer’s Recent Out of Africa (ROA) theory according to which homo sapiens […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Chris Stringer, Darwinism, ethics, evolution, Lone Survivors, neanderthal

Darwin was wrong (and why intelligent design theorists are not necessarily happy about the fact)

October 20, 2012 by Randal

Yes, Darwin was wrong. In a quote much beloved of intelligent design theorists Darwin famously declared: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would break down.” This quote appears in Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box (Touchstone, 1998), 39. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe

Bill Nye the Science Guy gives very strange commentary and bad advice to creationists

August 28, 2012 by Randal

Over the last few days Bill Nye the Science Guy’s two minute video of advice to creationists has gone viral. I must say I have a soft spot for Bill Nye since I watched his science guy schtick on Seattle’s “Almost Live” (which was broadcast in Southern British Columbia) back in the eighties when I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bill Nye, creationism, evolution

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