Monthly Archives: September 2009

Science and Christian Virtue 1

Posted on September 29, 2009 by rjs5

Last week I posted on an article from Discover Magazine on the science of sin (Part One and Part Two). This article described a number of studies where the human brain was imaged as a function of external stimulus. These … Continue reading →

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Science and Sin 2

Posted on September 24, 2009 by rjs5

“Why does being bad feel so good?” Studies of brain response to various situations may provide important insights to this question. In the last post in this series we considered some of the science pertaining to lust, gluttony, and  sloth … Continue reading →

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Science and Sin 1

Posted on September 22, 2009 by rjs5

While much of the furor over the conflict between science and faith centers on the question of origins and evolution – it is not limited to these questions alone. The sciences also impact our understanding of human behavior and human … Continue reading →

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Evolution’s Place? 6

Posted on September 17, 2009 by rjs5

Chapter 11 of Simon Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe is titled Toward a Theology of Evolution, and to this we now turn. Conway Morris suggests that the view – common among many educated westerners … Continue reading →

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Evolution’s Place? 5

Posted on September 15, 2009 by rjs5

Several weeks ago we began a series looking at Simon Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. After a brief hiatus I  will come back to this book with two final posts; today a discussion of … Continue reading →

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God, Science, and Evolution

Posted on September 11, 2009 by rjs5

Yesterday we finished off a discussion of John H. Walton’s fascinating look at The Lost World of Genesis One. In the discussion of scientific explanations of origins in proposition 16, p. 136 Walton draws an analogy (He uses a few … Continue reading →

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Genesis One

Posted on September 8, 2009 by rjs5

Scot has handled most of the discussion on John Walton’s (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, but I am going to jump in with a post on his next … Continue reading →

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Evolution’s Place? 4

Posted on September 3, 2009 by rjs5

I will return to consider the next chapters of Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe next week. Today I would like to take a brief detour and consider another question. Many authors – Dawkins and … Continue reading →

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Missional Campus Ministry 4

Posted on September 1, 2009 by rjs5

Last week I took my eldest to Bethel University in St. Paul (well Arden Hills) where moving in was truly an experience. The President of the University and his wife, Jay and Barb Barnes, greeted each and every new student … Continue reading →

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