Category Archives: Faith and Science

Dawkins & Superstition II

By Malgwyn | July 31, 2009

In my previous post, re-Dawkins understanding of a ‘personal experience with God’ (TGD, p.87-92), I express the thought that far from superstition there is something more powerful and good going on in human experience when Christians talk about having an experience with God. (Atheist Matthew Parris recognized something inexplicable when real Christianity is observed [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition

By Malgwyn | July 24, 2009

I’ve been too long away from my atheist friend, Professor Richard Dawkins. In TGD Richard Dawkins ridicules the idea that an individual can have a personal experience with God. Picked up by Wikipedia, Dawkins uses the illustration of the Manx Shearwater to show how religious belief arises from superstition. In his younger days one of his [...]

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Genesis and Theories of Evolution

By Malgwyn | July 16, 2009

“The big takeaway from Genesis is that the magnificent works of creation are not the products of some step-wise, glacial process of nature and necessity, but of an abrupt outpouring of divine intent and power. It is a repeated pattern. Throughout the sweep of scripture, God’s creative, curative, and miraculous works come suddenly and completely, [...]

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150 Years & Still Introducing Evolution!

By Malgwyn | July 7, 2009

The BBC reported yesterday, “An exam board has scrapped a GCSE biology question about creationism after admitting it could be misleading. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance paper asked pupils how the Bible’s theory of creation seeks to explain the origins of life.”
Says Graeme Paton, Education Editor for the Telegraph, “James Williams, lecturer in education at [...]

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Ida Hype: A Publicity Stunt!

By Malgwyn | May 27, 2009

I watched David Attenborough on BBC1 last night - “Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link.” As one who has enjoyed Attenborough’s nature programmes I wonder does it do any good for his ‘street cred’ to get involved in the Origin’s debate this way? True, he is a convinced evolutionist and has no time for the [...]

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A Scientist’s View on “Suffering and Death

By Malgwyn | May 26, 2009

A kind friend sent me a link - he thought I would appreciate the blog - and so I do. I can see I will be more than dipping into this blog. It leaves me a bit like when I read Darwin’s Black Box - I couldn’t put it down. While Behe did a good [...]

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Dawkins & “End of the Spear”

By Malgwyn | May 13, 2009

The following is an excerpt from End of The Spear by Steve Saint, Tyndale House Publishers (2005). You can get a gist of the book from reviews on Amazon. When I read things like this I instinctively think of our friend Richard Dawkins and his book, The God Delusion, a book which I confess has left [...]

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Dawkins & Christianity in China

By Malgwyn | May 12, 2009

In his review of The God Delusion, Roy Adams reminds us of what Dawkins thinks of God: “The God of the Old Testament,” he says, “is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction [the words are loaded]: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, [...]

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Darwin’s Bicentenary in Weston-super-Mare

By Malgwyn | April 21, 2009

Darwin’s Bicentenary is drawing responses from opposing views on origins - up and down the country I suppose. I can only speak for Weston-super-Mare’s vibrant Christian Community . But a recent survey showed that belief in Creationism is widespread in the UK.
“Was Darwin Right?” is the topic for an origin’s presentation at Holy Trinity Church  [...]

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Christian Essays From America - On Darwin 2009

By Malgwyn | March 3, 2009

Charles Darwin and the Modern Mind
Albert Mohler is Author, Speaker, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Said Mohler on Darwin’s day, “Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Both men shaped history, but it is Charles Darwin who presents us with the most significant intellectual challenge. [...]

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