fruitful faith

On the 5th day, God filled the skies and seas with all kinds of sky-life (‘every sort of winged bird’) and sea-life (’swarms of living creatures’).  Everything that flies through the sky.  Everything that lives in the sea.  A few points:

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: biology, creation, evolution, genesis, interpretation, spontaneous creation, the fall, youth earth | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (15)

Cheers to Bryson for directing me to an essay, which I discovered was one over several over at The John Templeton Foundation.
The essays are comprised answers to ‘big questions’ from a variety of perspectives – theist, atheist and agnostic.  They make for interesting reading whatever your beliefs are.
Two of the ‘big questions‘ essays were of [...]

September 14th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, debate, evolution, faith, god, life, philosophy, science, theism, web | Category: atheism, christianity, philosophy, science | Comments (2)

Thanks, Ian Luxmoore…
…for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest.

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, debate, evolution, faith, god, life, order, philosophy, religion, science, theism, truth | Category: general | Comments (4)

The Christian response to the ‘Faithful Science’ day-conference have been mixed.
Most of the appreciative and complementary feedback has been email or verbal.  As for the less-appreciative feedback, unfortunately it’s been more public.
First, the Christian newspaper “Challenge Weekly” published a (to say it kindly) selective and less-than-inaccurate piece entitled “Conference fuels Controversy” (which can be viewed [...]

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evolution, faith, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (9)

Announcing “Faithful Science“…
A one-day Science & Faith conference – coming August 1.
Speakers and topics:

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evil, evolution, faith, interpretation, science, theism, theodicy, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (12)

Jonathan Robinson discusses science and biblical interpretation here.
Ryan Browning responds to young-earth views here.

June 7th, 2009 | Tags: christianity, evolution, interpretation, science | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology, www | Comments (3)

Ryan Browning joins the NZ blogosphere – and it’s not long ’till he has a post about evolution

May 22nd, 2009 | Tags: belief, evolution, science | Category: christianity, www | Comments (3)

Mark your calendars and register!
TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences Aotearoa) presents:
The Theological Meaning of Evolution
Conference to celebrate and interact with Darwin.
Thursday June 25th at 7pm to Saturday June 27th at 6pm
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Christopher Southgate, author of The  Groaning of Creation University of Exeter
Local Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Ruth Barton (Auckland), Assoc. Prof. John [...]

May 1st, 2009 | Tags: christianity, creation, ethics, evil, evolution, faith, god, natural theology, order, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (7)

Over at xenos theology, Jonathan Robinson draws out attention to:

5 ebooks on evolution and Christian belief – summing up 2 years of blogging/commenting at this blog (see links to ebooks on right side-bar).
and…
this book review of this book: The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth by Davis A. Young [...]

April 25th, 2009 | Tags: belief, christianity, evolution, religion, science | Category: bible, science, www | Leave a comment