Having grown up within Evangelicalism, even though my family went regularly to church and even though I went to a Christian high school, I really knew nothing about Church History. Sure, I knew the names of Martin Luther, John Calvin, maybe Saint Augustine—but I didn’t really know anything about them. And, quite obviously, beyond those…
Here in my last post about Calvin Smith’s (of Answers in Genesis) two-part series on the “heretical” BioLogos, I want to focus on the last part of his second article, where he takes specific aim at Peter Enns, Denis Lamoureux, Karl Giberson, Kenton Sparks, and Joseph Bankard. I’ve read quite a bit of Enns and…
Last week, Calvin Smith at Answers in Genesis wrote an online article entitled, “BioLogos: House of Heresy and False Teaching, Part 1,” in which he lambasted the BioLogos organization for spreading heresy and false teaching. Earlier this week, I wrote my own post on Smith’s invective. Well, he has now come out with “Part 2”…
Last week, Calvin Smith at Answers in Genesis started a blog series about BioLogos, the organization started by Francis Collins that, in a nutshell, tries to ease the fears of many Evangelicals regarding evolution by trying to show that the scientific theory of evolution does not conflict with the Bible and the Christian faith. Smith’s…
It has been a week, and I now am getting around to writing my commentary and thoughts to Robert McKenzie’s book, We the Fallen People (which I summarized in Part 1). At the beginning of his book, McKenzie spoke of the need to think critically about core issues involving American democracy if we want to…
This week, I thought I’d do another short book analysis series on Robert Tracy McKenzie’s new book, We the Fallen People. McKenzie is a Wheaton College professor, and one of my dad’s old friends from his own Wheaton College days helped McKenzie as he wrote the book. Long story short, my dad gave me a…
Two years ago, I wrote a book review of Gregg Davidson’s Friend of Science, Friend of Faith. Well, technically, it wasn’t quite 730 days ago—that review was posted January 10th 2020, so that would be 723 days ago, or (if you really like to go by weeks) 103 weeks ago. And since whenever we are…
We now come to Part 4 of my book analysis series on William Lane Craig’s book, In Quest for the Historical Adam. We will finish off 2021 by looking at the second half of Craig’s book (chapters 8-13), in which he attempts to give a scientific answer to the question of the historical Adam. William…
We now come to Part 3 of my book analysis series on William Lane Craig’s book, In Quest for the Historical Adam. In this post, I will cover Chapters 5-7. Let’s do this… Chapter 5: Is Genesis 1-11 Mytho-History?Here in Chapter 5 is where WLC introduces the concept of Genesis 1-11 being “mytho-history.” Up to…
In this second post on WLC’s recent book, In Quest for the Historical Adam, I’m going to walk us through chapters 3-5. So, without any opening witty banter, let’s just jump right into these chapters! Chapter 3: Are the Primaeval Narratives of Genesis 1-11 Myth? (Part 1)Chapters 3-4 both focus on addressing the question, “Are…