Cosmic Creation Model Passes Another Test

Last May I debated with Peter Atkins, Oxford University chemist and well-known atheist, on the Unbelievable? radio show and video podcast. Toward the end of……

Milky Way Galaxy

How Cyclical Volcanic Activity Benefits Humanity

When we think about volcanoes, the images that typically come to mind are violent eruptions that devastate the surrounding landscapes and bring death or serious……

Ocean life

How the Sun’s Mass Affected Earth’s History of Life

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere, December is a good time to remind everyone about the Sun. It is the month……

Mars

Living on the Edge

During our mountaineering trips I am always the cautious one, carefully charting the safest routes to our destinations. Not so much my wife. Whenever we……

Galaxy Design

Addressing Skeptical Challenges, Part 1

Social media and the internet allow ample opportunities to discuss the truth claims of historic Christianity. A while ago I interacted with a skeptic who……

Problem of Evil

Addressing Skeptical Challenges, Part 2

I'm not sure if the internet and social media as a whole are either an intrinsic good or an intrinsic bad, but as technologies they……

Incarnation

God’s Existence Best Explains Life’s Most Profound Realities

Can we justify concepts like logic, moral values, and universals from a naturalistic, atheistic perspective? Or do we need a transcendent grounding like historic Christianity's……

Worldviews

Scientific Discovery and God: The Universe, Part 1

How did the universe come into being? The last century has revealed a stark contrast between what secular scientists expected to find regarding the big……

Science & Faith

Mars’s Discoveries Showcase Earth’s Design

Earth's neighbor Mars has created a lot of discovery-driven headlines lately. In one, scientists found seasonal variation of methane in the atmosphere. In another, 3-billion-year-old……

Earth Design

Mastering Eddington’s Confirmation of General Relativity

Many people who witnessed the great eclipse of 2017 will remember it as a wondrous spectacle. But one amateur astronomer saw the event as an……

Laws of Physics

Maybe We Are Alone in the Universe

Back in the summer of 1950, famed physicist Enrico Fermi visited Los Alamos National Laboratory and discussed the possibility of interstellar travel with his colleagues……

UFOs & Extraterrestrials

Preparing Earth for Multicellular Life

My family vacationed in the California redwoods and the giant sequoias this past summer. Seeing these majestic trees towering above the surrounding landscape invokes a……

Earth Design

How Great Is Our God?

In C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, where Jesus is represented by the huge lion Aslan, a sobbing Lucy comes upon Aslan-whom she hasn't seen for……

Newly Mapped Area of the Human Brain: Evidence for Exceptionalism?

The biblical account of Adam and Eve makes clear that humanity did not evolve from other primates. God establishes human exceptionalism by creating us in……

The Origin of Human Chromosome 2: Another Look

In a September 2018 article, Fazale Rana discredited what is purported to be evidence for an evolutionary theory that humans descended from an "ancestral ape."……

The Reformers and the Age of the Earth

October 31, 2017 marked the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation. Along with global recognition of its significance, the event also sparked……