Daily Prayers:
- A. Book of Common Prayer
- A. Book of Common Prayer 2
- A. Divine Hours
- A. Evening Prayer (Anglican)
- A. Morning Prayer (Anglican)
- Celtic Prayer
- Creeds of Christendom
- Eastern Orthodox Prayers
- Lectionary
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Missio Dei
Emerging Movement:
- Andrew Jones
- Andrew Perriman
- Anthony Stiff
- Art Boulet
- Bob Robinson
- Br. Maynard
- Dan Kimball
- David Fitch
- Dogwood Abbey
- Ecclesia Network
- Emerging Women
- Eugene Cho
- Henrik Holmgaard
- Jamie Arpin-Ricci
- Jazz Theologian
- John Frye
- John Lagrou
- Jonny Baker
- JR Briggs
- Leonard Hjamarlson
- LeRon Shults
- Lukas McKnight
- Peggy Brown
- Sivin Kit
- Stephen Shields
- Steve McCoy
- Steve Taylor
- Tamara Buchan
- The Practicing Church
- Tim Miekley
- Todd Hiestand
- Tom Smith (RSA)
- Tony Jones
Other sites I frequent:
- Allan Bevere
- Andy Rowell
- Attie Nel
- Barna
- Brad Boydston
- Chris Ridgeway
- CC Blogs
- Don Johnson
- Ed Gilbreath
- Erika Haub (Carney)
- Faith Blogging
- Falsani
- Fr. Rob
- Hummers
- iMonk
- James McGrath
- Jim Martin
- John Stackhouse
- JR Woodward
- Karen Spears Zacharias
- Laura Barringer
- LaVonne Neff
- LeaderFOCUS
- LL Barkat
- Luke/Annika
- Mark Galli
- Mark Roberts
- Michael Kruse
- Nexus
- Owen Youngman
- Ted Gossard
- Tom Wright
Recommended Online Readings:
Scholarly Books I’ve written:
- Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
- Hist Jesus Anthology
- Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels
- Introducing NT Interpretation
- Jesus and His Death
- Jesus in Memory (ed.)
- New Vision for Israel
- Synoptics: Biblio
- The Face of New Testament Studies
- Who Do They Say I Am?
Scholarship Online:
- Apollos
- Books & Culture
- ChristianityToday
- CS Lewis
- EAC
- Early Xian Writings
- Euaggelion
- Gospels
- Jesus and His Death Blog
- Karl Barth Online
- Mark Goodacre’s Weblog
- Online Journals Access
- Online Pseudepigraph
- Pete Enns
- Prime Time Jesus
- Theopedia
- ThinkTank
Stuff online:
- 5 Streams
- Big Muddy
- Catalyst Scripture
- Catching the Wave
- DaVinci Code
- Forgiveness
- Future or Fad?
- Gospel of Judas
- High Calling
- Interview on Emerging
- Interview with LL Barkat
- IVCF Eikons
- IVCF Gospel
- John Bunyan
- Keys of the Kingdom
- Lake Emerging
- Mary in CT
- Missional in Seattle
- Missional Matrix
- Nativity Story
- Never Alone
- New Perspective
- Pepperdine Interview
- Professor as Scholar
- Recl Mind Mary 1
- Robust Gospel
- Social Justice
- Trojan Horse 2
- WiredParish Mary Interview
- Word/World NPP














posted June 30, 2009 at 10:45 am
Darrel Falk’s book “Coming to Peace with Science” (IV Press, 2004) is an excellent account of his own journey in reconciling his faith with the evidence he sees in nature as a PhD biologist, and also an excellent (and readable for the non-scientist) explanation of the main lines of evidence for common descent. Highly recommended.
posted June 30, 2009 at 10:52 am
I like the detail that Falk adds in his post about the mechanism for bone formation. It is a fascinating and complex system.
posted June 30, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Well, I read the linked post, but to me it does nothing more than re-enforce my belief in common design. The mechanism he describes for bone formation seems so amazingly complex that it makes more sense to me that God designed this to be common across different species rather than inherited through common descent.
It’s not clear whether the sentence “the beauty in all of this draws us to our knees in worship” refers to the mechanisms like bone growth that he talks about, “evolution as being God’s way of creating life’s diversity”, or the making of and confirming of predictions that the scientists do, or all of the above.
I can certainly relate to the first option and it doesn’t surprise me that creation speaks of the glory of God all the way down to the level of micro-biology (in fact it seems to speak louder the finer grained we go). I can also relate to the third option since Scientific method only really makes sense because God is not capricious and “changeth not”. But I confess I do not understand the second option.
When I hear people say things like (to paraphrase) “understanding evolution makes me even more amazed at how God works” I don’t get it. I can see how one might be just as amazed, but not more amazed than if the work of creating life happened abruptly rather than evolved. But perhaps that’s not the kind of thing he meant anyway.
posted June 30, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Wow, I wish I could be as succinct as this:
“Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.”
Short and to the point. I copied it for future quoting. (I promise to reference and link it.)
Oh, one thought. Jesus said that you’ll know a prophet by his fruit. In other words, you’ll know who’s teaching the truth by the results they get.
That quote can be rephrased as, “Biologists have good fruit.”
I think, anyway.