by Brian | Jul 18, 2012 | Book Recommendations, Culture, Evangelism, Science
As we continue to study the Christian’s justification for claiming to know things about God and the world, it might be helpful to think for a moment about how the Scientific Method relates to what we know as Christians. What do we say if someone says they...
by Brian | Jul 13, 2012 | Science
On Tuesday I posted a response from William Lane Craig to the idea that the discovery of the Higgs Boson disproves the existence of God. Here’s one more helpful post from him, which he had written shortly before the discovery was announced. In it he sites what...
by Brian | Jul 10, 2012 | Science
I still have yet to learn, really, what this thing even is…but we should probably all get up to speed since it seems like everyone will be talking about it for a few weeks. (The decay time of news is very short in our culture these days.) Here’s a post by...
by Brian | May 23, 2012 | Science
Kirsten Birkett helps us apply Galileo’s story to our day. First, she makes a great obsdervation–that the Protestant reaction to Galileo’s ideas shows how much this whole thing was about the politics of the Roman Catholic church linked up with...
by Brian | May 22, 2012 | Science
In the last two couple in this series we’ll wrap up Galileo’s story and see what lessons there are in it for us today. Last time, we left Galileo before the Inquisition, in 1616. Kirsten Birkett explains how the trial went: All that the theologians saw,...
by Brian | May 18, 2012 | Science
This is part 7 in a series, using an article by Kirsten Birkett tracing the historical flow of Galileo’s run in with the church. So far we’ve seen how complicated the whole story is, and today we’re ready to answer the question: Why did the Catholic Church...
