How did the Early Church Read Genesis 1?
Christians often debate what the Bible teaches about the age of the universe. Inevitably, the way the church has read Genesis through the ages is invoked. Here the early church…
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In Defense of the Genesis Flood
Conversations about science and religion inevitably get around to the Genesis flood. Behind the topic of evolution, the flood depicted in Genesis is probably the most common topic in the…
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Was the Genesis of Humanity through Evolution?
What is humanity? Has modern evolutionary biology destroyed Christian views of humankind as made in God’s image? What about Adam and Eve? Can those informed in biology take the Bible’s…
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What Can Biology Teach Us About Genesis?
Over the last two essays, I’ve explored what Genesis teaches and how that’s relevant to science, and whether it is possible that evolution could have been guided by God. If…
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Can Biological Evolution Be a Guided Process?
In this series we’re considering the relationship between Genesis and evolution, from the perspective of a Christian working on evolutionary genomics. In the first piece in this series I explored…
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What Genesis Actually Teaches
How are the first three chapters of Genesis relevant to how we see the world today? Over four short essays I’ll introduce how and why I read them – not…
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Does Genesis Teach the Earth is Young?
Does Genesis teach the Earth is young? During my recent trip to Israel I read a really great book; it’s a discussion between 5 Old-Testament scholars on the opening chapters of Genesis.…
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