The Rise of the Big-Bang Hypothesis (Age of the Earth Part 6)

Book Excerpt By March 31, 2015 Tags: , , No Comments

The 20th century will see the rise of two completely different paradigms for understanding the age of the earth: the big bang hypothesis and young-earth creationism. Actually, the time can be pinpointed even more closely. Both paradigms will ascend during the 1960’s. In 1916 Albert Einstein presented a paper in which he applied his general theory of relativity to the…

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Eternalism and Darwinism (The Age of the Earth Part 5)

Book Excerpt By March 24, 2015 Tags: , , No Comments

During the 19th-century, while Christians were dealing with the notion of an ancient earth, non-Christians explored the ramifications of an eternal universe. Eternalism played a crucial role in the arguments made for Darwinism by its early advocates. Darwinists conceded that the odds of something as complex as living beings coming about by random chance were extremely low, even minuscule. However,…

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Acceptance Of An Ancient Earth Among Christians Of The Victorian Era (The Age of the Earth Part 4)

Book Excerpt By March 17, 2015 Tags: , , , No Comments

Even before Darwin published the Origin of Species, most Christian scholars and scientists had come to accept that the cosmos was ancient. Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) for example, the influential 19th century British physicist and devout Christian, calculated the cooling rate of the earth’s core to arrive at the conclusion that the planet was 20-60 million years old. In America, Princeton…

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The Enlightenment And The Rise Of Naturalistic Theories (The Age of the Earth Part 3)

Book Excerpt By March 10, 2015 Tags: , No Comments

The Impact of Newtonian Physics: With the rise of Newtonian physics came the reappearance of eternalism. In the 17th century, Isaac Newton (1642-1727) formulated the laws of gravity, physics, and mathematics that successfully described the planetary orbits of the solar system. It would be difficult to overstate the impact his achievements had on the scientific revolution and how western culture…

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Creation Vs Eternalism (The Age of the Earth Part 1)

Book Excerpt By February 17, 2015 Tags: , No Comments

Historically, the debate has not been between creation and evolution, but creation and eternalism. During the apostolic and patristic eras, the pagans did not argue simply for an ancient earth, they contended that the universe was eternal. Even though Aristotle believed that the world was caused by God, he did not believe that God created the world, in time, in…

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The Difference between Evangelizing Pagans and Neo-Pagans

Book Review, Commentary By February 10, 2015 Tags: , , No Comments

In a recent edition of First Things, J. Budziszewski argues that a sea change is about to happen in western culture. The first time the Gospel arrived the in the west, pagans were converted to Christ. Now, as the culture is dominated by a neo-paganism, Budziszewski believes a re-evangelization is about to take place. However, as the title of the…

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Who Needs Adam? Denis Lamoureux Jettisons a Historical Fall

Book Excerpt, Book Review By February 3, 2015 Tags: , , No Comments

For about a month we have been looking at the answers given by evangelicals to two questions: 1) did animal death exist before the fall of Adam and Eve?, and 2) what was the impact of Adam’s fall on the rest of Creation? We have summarized the answers provided by young-earth creationists (YEC), by old-earth creationists (OEC), and a hybrid…

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Adam’s Fall as a Transcendent Federal Event

Book Excerpt By January 27, 2015 Tags: , , , No Comments

Over the last several posts we surveyed the answers given by evangelicals to two questions: 1) did animal death exist before the fall of Adam and Eve?, and 2) what was the impact of Adam’s fall on the rest of Creation? My last post summarized the answers provided by young-earth creationists (YEC) and by old-earth creationists (OEC) for the second…

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What Effect Did the Fall Have on Creation?

Book Excerpt By January 13, 2015 Tags: , , No Comments

In my previous post I examined the question of whether or not animals died before the fall of Adam. Young-earth creationism proponents consistently answer “no,” while old-earth creationism and evolutionary creationism advocates answer “yes” in a variety of ways. The respective answers given lead naturally to the question of this post: What, then, were the effects of Adam’s fall? As…

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