Creationism

Wes Widner on July 20th, 2011

Here is a textbook example of how to discuss what it means to “teach the controversy”. Casey Luskin does a great job of diffusing the “anything other than accepted Darwinist dogma is religious in nature!” argument that is rather common among the high priests of Darwinism.

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Wes Widner on September 3rd, 2010

Some Christians maintain the notion that: “The term ID is an attempt to remove God from the discussion.” Well, that might be true… …if God were in the discussion to begin with. Intelligent design is a strategic move to break the strangle hold philosophical naturalism has on most science classrooms. In that respect the only [...]

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Wes Widner on April 19th, 2010

[HT Apologetics315, Wintry Knight, Thoughtful Christianity] One of my favorite recurring debates in Christiandom is the one of young earth creationism vs. old earth creationism. There are many nuances such as the appearance of age, whether death existed before the fall, etc. Here are two excellent debates on the subject between Hugh Ross’s ministry reasons.org and Ken [...]

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Wes Widner on January 19th, 2010

A recent article on the excellent Intelligent design website, Uncommon Decent, made the case that intelligent design is not simply warmed over creationism and that some ID proponents even hold to common decent. Many, many people seem to misunderstand the relationship between Intelligent Design and Common Descent. Some view ID as being equivalent to Progressive [...]

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