Evolution Doesn’t Work the Way They Think

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“A recent article titled ‘Evolution Doesn’t Work the Way You Think It Does’ attempted to explain the concepts of evolution, natural selection, and fitness to help readers better understand what evolution is all about. But was the author really describing evolution?” - Ken Ham

Discovering a World of Surplus Beauty

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“I took with me the experience of having stood together with God, of having joined with him to admire the kind of beauty meant to delight the heart of a boy and to delight the heart of God himself.” - Challies

Crushing Rahab: Does the Old Testament Borrow from Myth?

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“If Ancient Near Eastern mythology controls our interpretation, we’ll conclude that biblical authors conceived of Yahweh defeating a mythological monster known as Rahab to overcome chaos and create the world.” - TGC

In Memoriam: My Remembrance of Dr. John C. Whitcomb

By Paul J. Scharf on

The first time I met Dr. John C. Whitcomb,1 he made me feel like I was greeting an old friend.

You see, Dr. Whitcomb loved people. He had a heart for—a genuine interest in—everyone that he met, including every student in his classroom.

The classroom where we connected on that warm September day was commonly used for seminary classes and chapel at Faith Baptist Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa. The course was called “Biblical Fundamentalism.”

From the Archives: The Dignity of Being Human

By Ed Vasicek on

The other day I was driving in downtown Kokomo and saw a comical sight—comical for me, at least. A man in pickup truck was backing into a parking space, tapped the streetlight pole with his truck’s bumper, and—boom! Down she went. Although he did not hit the pole hard, one weighty tap was all it took.

We, too, are fragile. In Psalm 103:13-14, the psalmist reminds us that, “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust” (ESV).

"Evolutionists are having a hard time explaining beauty among God’s creatures"

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“A January headline from The New York Times Magazine: ‘How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution.’ Not reject, mind; it would take a literal act of God to do that. But a number of biologists are suggesting that natural selection alone doesn’t explain certain aesthetic properties of selected species.” - World