Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” From an early age, Charles Darwin’s mother, Sukey, took him to church. Tha...
Continue ReadingExodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” One recent biography described Charles Darwin during his childhood as “a compulsive liar”. He continued thus: “The solipsism and the dishonesty would scarcely be worth menti...
Continue ReadingPsalm 62:6 “He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.” Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky, in Alice through the Looking Glass, begins thus: Twas bryllyg, and the slythy toves Did gyre and gymble in the wab...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” I am always fascinated by the ingenuity of early science experimenters who made amazing discoveries. For instance, in 1850, the French scientist Léon Foucault created an experiment ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:5b “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Less than an hour’s drive from where I live is the large city of Portland, Oregon. At the Oregon Convention Center in that city is the world’s largest Foucault’s Pendulum. Many m...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 10:18 “By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.” In Ecclesiastes 10:18, Qohelet, the book’s author, says: “Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the hou...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 45:18 “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.” Have you heard of t...
Continue ReadingPsalm 33:7 “He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.” Every so often, one comes across an evolutionary article that makes your jaw drop as you consider how the author could really believe what he i...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Climate scientists in Britain have been in the forefront of so-called expert opinion on global warming. At eve...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:30 “And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.” In his famous poem about the tiger, William Bl...
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