Science and Religion

I. Christianity and the Nature of Science There is reason to believe that Christianity provided the ideal culture for the origin of modern science (Polkinghorne 1994, Ratzsch 2000). The creation of the universe by a rational, intelligent God explains why the universe is so intelligible and open t...

Leonard Brand and David C. Jarnes, Nampa, ID.: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 2006, 175 pages, US$15.99. Reviewed by Kwabena Donkor, an associate director of the Biblical Research Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland.

It was Charles Darwin who noted that “Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain [of intermediate varieties between different groups of organisms]; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” Most likely the t...

This book is not only written by two authors, but also consists of two parts. The first six chapters deal with Genesis 1 through 11:26, while the remaining seven chapters cover Genesis from 11:27 onward. Ben Clausen works as a scientist at the Geoscience Research Institute in Loma Linda, while Ge...

James Gibson has reviewed the article “Rapid Wood Silification in Hot Spring Water: An Explanation of Silification of Wood during the Earth’s History,” Sedimentary Geology 169 (2004): 219-228 by J. Akahane et al. It has implications for those who believe in a recent creation and a worldwide flood.

George Javor has taught biochemistry to medical students for many years. These years of teaching have prepared him to explain with clarity and authority the themes of biochemistry as they relate to the question of life’s origin. Not surprisingly his new book does an excel- lent job of explaining ...

Explaining the origin of life is one of the enduring problems for a naturalistic view of nature. Several conjectures have been offered to explain how life might have originated without an intelligent designer. One of the most prominent conjectures of the origin of life has been the familiar “prim...

The second International Faith and Science Conference met in Denver, Colorado, USA, during August 2004. Concerns related to the interaction of faith and science led the General Conference Executive Committee (Annual Council 2001) to authorize a series of conferences on faith and science during th...

During 2003 and the first part of 2004 several Divisions have held Faith and Science Conferences in their territories. The participants have been church administrators, religion teachers, and scientists. A number of these Conferences produced consensus statements describing the understanding of t...

Harold Willard Clark was an Adventist pioneer in the study of the fossil record who was decades ahead of his time within the creationist community and as we shall see, with respect to the geologic community as well. Clark lived from 1891-1986. He was a professor of biology and geology at Pacific ...