Saturday was the beginning of Cedarville’s Reclaiming Wisdom conference. The conference was a success; I would like to see a similar conference at Bryan sometime. A personal highlight of the third day was catching up with an old friend, Mike Bowling of Cincinnati. Sometime after I left Cincinnati Mike began a several year ordeal with... Continue Reading →
Origins 2019-Second Day
The CBS/CGS conference began Friday. The first speaker was Doug Smith. Doug spoke on the vowels, accents, and paragraph construction of the Hebrew for Genesis 1:1. His lecture was a lesson in the subtlety of Hebrew phrases. The following phrases are potentially similar, depending on subtle differences: In the beginning God created… In a beginning... Continue Reading →
Origins 2019-First Day, Field Trip and Ark
Yes, Origins 2019 was good. What else would I say? I will highlight each day, beginning with the first. One highlight of the conferences is the new relationships and old connections that are reestablished. Take for example the first day at the conference. For this conference I met Zachary Klein and spent time with Zak,... Continue Reading →
The Great Cambrian Debate: Information, Evolution, and Creation
Why did so many complex creatures appear so suddenly in the Cambrian Period? And what does this mean for how we think about life’s origins? The Cambrian Period remains one of the most puzzling episodes in Earth’s history. In a geological instant, multicellular life forms appeared in astonishing diversity. Charles Darwin admitted in 1859 that... Continue Reading →