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We're Moving
Science & the Sacred is moving to our new home on The BioLogos Foundation's Web site. Be sure to visit and bookmark our new location to stay up to date with the latest blogs from Karl Giberson, Darrel Falk, Pete Enns, and our various guests in the science-religion dialogue. We're inaugurating ou
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Shiny Scales, Silvery Skins, and Evolution
Source: Physorg.comIridescence -- a key component of certain makeup, paints, coatings of mirrors and lenses -- is also an important feature in the natural world. Both fish and spiders make use of periodic photonic systems, which scatter or reflect the light that passes against their scales or
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A Stellar Advent Calendar
Looking for a unique way to mark the days of the Advent season? The Web site Boston.com offers an Advent calendar composed of images from the Hubble Telescope, both old and new. Each day, from now until the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, the calendar will offer a beautiful image from the hea
posted 8:00:00am Dec. 09, 2009 |
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Belief, Guidance, and Evolution
Recently BioLogos' Karl Giberson was interviewed by Marcio Campos for the Brazilian newspaper Gazeta do Povo's Tubo De Ensaio (i.e. "Test tube") section. What follows is a translated transcript of that interview, which we will be posting in three installments. Here is the first.
Campos: Starting o
posted 8:00:00am Dec. 08, 2009 |
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Let's Come at this From a Different Angle
Every Friday, "Science and the Sacred" features an essay
from a guest voice in the science and religion dialogue. This week's
guest entry was written by Peter Enns. Enns is an evangelical Christian
scholar and author of several books and commentaries, including the
popular Inspiration and Incarnatio
posted 8:00:00am Dec. 04, 2009 |
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posted July 7, 2009 at 9:34 am
IT’s true all one has to do is stand in desert on a clear warm night and stare up at the brilliance of the heavens, or travel through the mountains as the masters hand paints the forest with the wonderful colors of autumn as only he can.
posted July 9, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Amen.
The illustration using “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” comes from Mark Noll’s excellent book “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind”, which is very relevant to the issues of this blog.
posted July 10, 2009 at 11:28 am
It certainly does, and Yancey mentions the book in his editorial. Thanks for pointing out this great resource!
posted July 11, 2009 at 8:17 am
“The things of earth” referred to in the song are the mundane and petty matters of everyday life, which are especially revealed as such when viewed in light of the grandeur of the Almighty. Interpreting this as any sort of comment on nature, especially a negative one, is unwarranted and silly.
Describing the church as “an important community of believers” (illustrating the error of Evangelical ecclesiology) pretends to pummel the tired straw man of church v. nature while merely stuffing it anew. Who has ever suggested that we cannot “seek inspiration outside the church’s walls”?