Science and Religion

Biblical depictions of eschatological events presuppose a manner of divine intervention potentially in conflict with the principles of uniformitarianism adopted in the practice of science. 2 Peter 3 contrasts a uniformitarianist argument with an interventionist view of God’s action in history, referring to three specific events: the creation, the flood, and the day of judgment. This view of history affirms God’s commitment to love and rescue His creation, while at the same time attesting the superiority of the Creator over His creation. Eschatology does not need to represent a threat to science, provided that our understanding of the relation of the present to the past and future acknowledges: 1) the reality of God the Creator as preexisting and distinct from His creation; 2) there have been divinely caused processes in the past, when God intervened in nature; and 3) these past divine interventions warrant the possibility of a future one.

Introduction In some quarters of contemporary culture, evolution has been taken as fact , and this has the effect of making the interdisciplinary conversation between Christian theology and science an increasingly important theological topic. It may come as a surprise that this resurgence is hap...

The following article was originally posted by the Geoscience Research Institute in in two parts ( https://grisda.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/scientific-revolutions-part-1/ , published March 6, 2015 and https://grisda.word-press.com/2015/03/16/scientific-revolutions-part-2/ , published March 16, 20...

“What is Creation theory?” “Can I believe in a worldwide flood?” What about the dinosaurs?” “Can a Christian be a good scientist?” These are some of the twenty chapter headings of this book, written by nineteen Adventist creation scientists and one educator. All the contributors believe, on the b...

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The Seventh-day Adventist understanding of origins is rooted in a particular view of Scripture as an accurate record of the past and, consequently, as a guide to the future and salvation. But, since the Bible does not elaborate in scientific detail about our earth and the life that exists on it, ...

The study of living matter is at the center of all current scientific efforts. Recent triumphs include the cloning of Dolly the sheep and acquisition of the complete sequence of three billion nucleotides of the human chromosomes. But, strangely, life itself is not the object of much study. Scien...

We see and hear much today about an old earth, that it takes millions of years to build mountains or erode canyons. However, all the evidence does not point to great ages. Cliffs and Lakes The Echo Cliffs in Arizona have very little debris at the base. If hundreds of thousands or millions of year...

The discovery that genomes contain far fewer genes than expected has aggravated a problem recognized a generation of scientists ago: if there are so few genes, why do humans and many other organisms have so much DNA in their genomes? Only 3% of the 3 billion nucleotide letters in the human genome...

In their recent article “Gorilla-like anatomy on Australopithecus afarensis mandibles suggests Au. afarensis link to robust australopiths” ( Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 104 (2007):6568-6572) the authors Y. Rak, A. Ginzburg, and E. Geffen point out that a fossil skull ...

During the 1974 commencement address at Cal Tech, Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman provided some sage advice on science and ethics: “I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking a...