Philosophy – Creation Moments

Your Father Knows

Matthew 6:8 “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Qohelet, the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, reminds us to “Remember your Creator”. Why do we need to remember Hi...

George Stanley Faber

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” 19th Century books had such memorable titles! Anglican vicar G...

Appealing to Evidence

Psalms 119:46-47 “I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.” Evidence speaks for itself, we are told. But, that is not the case. The one thing that ev...

Molecules on the Back of Crystals

Genesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” One instinctively wants to be as fair as possible to the science philosopher D...

Darwin’s Preservation of Favored Races

Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;” There seems little doubt in my mind that Charles Darwin was a r...

Darwin’s Childhood Influences

Romans 8:5 “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” There is an abiding myth that Charles Darwin began life as a Bible-believing Christian and only left the faith...

Darwin’s Deep Time

Genesis 18:14 “Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” There are a number of myths surrounding Darwin and his theory of evolution. One abiding m...

Darwin and Malthus

Ecclesiastes 3:20-21 “All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” Social Darwinism, taken to the extreme, can m...

A Race for Evolution

Romans 1:25 “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” Alfred Russel Wallace very nearly pipped Darwin at the post as the pioneer of evolution by natural sele...

The New Creation

Revelation 22:3 “And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:” There are some pastors and teachers who tell me that it does not matter what we believe about Genesis. It do...