We come now to the second to last post in which I am analyzing the YECist movie, Is Genesis History? In the last four segments of the movie, Del Tackett interviews Todd Wood in the segment, “The Potential of Created Kinds,” Danny Faulkner in the segment, “The Purpose of the Stars,” Douglas Petrovich in the…
In my first two installments of my analysis of the YEC movie, Is Genesis History?, I focused first on what I felt was intentional dishonesty on the part of those who made the movie, and then on what should have been the main focus of the movie—looking specifically at Genesis 1-11 and asking what its…
In my previous post, I began to critique the recent YECist movie, Is Genesis History? As I stated in that post, I felt the movie was fundamentally dishonest in how it even addressed the issue. First, its real focus was whether or not Genesis 1-11 was historical. Second, the as soon as the movie got…
This past February, the movie Is Genesis History? was shown in countless movie theaters across the country for one night only. It starred Del Tackett of The Truth Project by Focus on the Family, and it involved him interviewing a number of scientists regarding issues like geology, astronomy, biology, etc. in order to address the…
In this final post regarding the doctrine of original sin, I want to offer a few brief thoughts on Romans 5:12-21 and I Corinthians 15, two texts often used to argue for “original sin.” As I noted in “Part 1,” Simon Turpin of Answers in Genesis wrote two of his own posts on these two…
This is not a normal post for my blog. To the point, what I’m sharing in not my post. A friend of mine has his own blog, and today he shared a very interesting post regarding the “evolution” of Charles Darwin’s beliefs about God. In light of the fact that YECist groups continually push the…
Although the particulars of the doctrine of original sin have varied throughout the centuries, the core of this doctrine has stayed intact: The sin of the first man, Adam, contaminated the rest of human history; Each person, therefore, is born into sin, and his very nature is polluted; But even though each person is born…
As you might have noticed in the previous post, when it comes to the doctrine of original sin, YECist groups like Answers in Genesis tie it directly in with the creation/evolution debate in general, and the question of the historicity of Adam in particular. In many ways, though, their basic view regarding the doctrine of…
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been mulling over writing a post specifically about Adam and the doctrine of Original Sin. As things would have it, just over the course of the past week, I happened to come across posts on this very subject from both Answers in Genesis and Peter Enns. As you…
Earlier today I was thumbing through my Twitter-feed and came across a link to a January 12th article by Avery Foley at Answers in Genesis (AiG) entitled, “Should Christian Schools Teach Evolution?” Needless to say, it caught my attention, for I had taught Worldview at a small Christian school for eight years, and this was…