Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Power of Love

Courtesy of Christianity Today, with a warning to break out the hankies as you see the power of love: Matthew 25:36 (Apologies to Firefox users, if the video begins to play without your telling it to. I’ve tried everything my web designer son and I can think of but it keeps doing that anyway in …

February 6, 2009 – 5:02 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service | Comments (1)

Deep Social Change–on Breakpoint

Breakpoint Online has published my article on Deep Social Change, a reprint of what I previously posted here.

February 5, 2009 – 6:41 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Comments Off

Creationism and ID: Definition or Rhetoric?

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

Yesterday I tried to set aside a question about the relation between creationism and intelligent design, but bobxxx commented, I have a few things to say about creationism and intelligent design. I think people who pretend these are different ideas are being dishonest. Invoking creationism is the same as invoking supernatural magic. Invoking intelligent design …

February 3, 2009 – 9:53 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (17)

Jerry Coyne’s Line In the Sand

Yesterday in a very quick post I pointed to an inconsistency in Jerry Coyne’s New Republic article, “Seeing and Believing,” which is a critical review of two new books by the theistic evolutionists Kenneth Miller and Karl Giberson. Today I must mention several things I really appreciate about what he wrote, and offer some suggestions …

February 2, 2009 – 4:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (5)

A Man of Great Faith

In his critical review in The New Republic of two theistic evolutionists, anti-theistic biologist Jerry Coyne speaks about various views of our fine-tuned universe. Contrasting materialist science with theism, he writes, Also, scientists have other explanations, ones based on reason rather than on faith. Perhaps some day, when we have a “theory of everything” that …

February 1, 2009 – 2:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (2)