Last week, my mom invited my uncle over for dinner so that he and I could continue our four-part debate on God, Christ, and the Bible. One of the more frustrating aspects of our debate was that he would conflate many issues. We would start out discussing free will and foreknowledge, and suddenly my...
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Uniformitarianism versus Catastrophism: a centuries-old controversy from Jacintha Tagal on Vimeo. This video doesn’t actually explicitly endorse any particular side, but it was too cool not to share. Also, my friend Jacintha made it! Also note that my biologist friend says that modern theories tend to account for both gradual sedimentation and occasional catastrophes...
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Questions by the staff of The Ichthus You are well known for advocating a view called theistic evolution. Could you tell us briefly what theistic evolution is and what guiding principles led you to this view? What is the relationship between God and evolution? Did God somehow “guide” it? What would you say to...
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I recently read a popular science book called Life on a Young Planet by Harvard’s own Andy Knoll. The majority of the book was a decently interesting synopsis of current thought on paleobiology. But because every popular science book must have sappy epilogue (or a sappy prologue, or both), Knoll took a few pages...
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Last week, John Joseph Porter opined on why combining conversion to Christianity with criticism of evolution is bad. I’d like to address on his fourth point. One of the things that I’ve noted after the distribution of The Origin of Species on campus is that most people at Harvard think anyone who questions evolution...
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Yesterday, free copies of a new edition of Darwin’s groundbreaking On the Origin of Species were distributed at the entrances to Harvard Yard on Massachusetts Avenue. I was pleasantly surprised to receive the book (even though the text is available online), because it may be one of the most influential works of all time....
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Last week, I pointed out a recurring inconsistency in contemporary Evangelical thought. The inconsistency was this: many Evangelicals accept as valid or even base historical arguments on the results of scientific inquiry, while at the same time denying the relevance of scientific findings in certain fields (e.g. biology, geology, astrophysics). Today I want to...
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