Where Cain Got His Wife: Is This a Moral Problem for the Bible? And does Darwinism Provide a Better Answer? (an Email Exchange)
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of June 2015 by Richard Peachey Earlier this month [June 2015], my atheist friend Greg and I had an email conversation on the classic question of where Cain got his wife . . . which generated a discussion of whether
Did We Quote Dawkins Properly? — A Blog Interaction
by Richard Peachey In our article titled The Coffee News Ads my wife, Gerda, and I quoted several evolutionists, including leading atheist and evolutionary zoologist Richard Dawkins. This article was originally posted on Gerda’s website, which allows for reader comments. Below is a sampling of comments received, and my responses, around
What the New Testament teaches about Creation, Fall, and the Flood
(arranged in Genesis order) Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2015 by Richard Peachey Professing Christians who reject the historicity of the early chapters of Genesis face a serious problem: the New Testament confirms dozens of the details found in those chapters. The Lord
Criticizing The Creator — And Calling It “Science”!
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of December 2014 by Richard Peachey “An intelligent, omnipotent God wouldn’t have done it that way — so evolution must be the explanation.“ When evolutionists make statements like that, they fall into a trap (actually, several traps). Such arguments are
Does “Creation Science” Equal “Belief in the Bible as the Word of God”?
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of June 2014 by Richard Peachey A Vancouver area theologian wrote to my wife after she had commented (in her blog) on something he wrote. He began his response with this statement: I hope that you will not make the
Do You Believe in Magic? — A Blog Interaction
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2014 by Richard Peachey Michael Fugate, a blog commenter, casually remarked to me that I (as a Biblical creationist) must believe in “magic.” <http://evolvingthoughts.net/2013/10/the-theological-and-philosophical-origins-of-the-concept-of-species/> My response was as follows: You live in a glass house, Michael, and therefore
Right-Handed Amino Acids: Can They Smack Down the Evolutionist’s Chirality Problem?
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2015 by Richard Peachey It was my second year in college, about twenty years ago. I was taking a science degree, and I had helped to arrange a creation/evolution debate on campus. Late in the evening one of
The Coffee News Ads
by Richard Peachey In late 2011 and early 2012 my wife, Gerda, placed a series of business-card-size ads in the Coffee News. This is a cheery single-sheet weekly newspaper delivered to restaurants and coffee shops around our city of Abbotsford, British Columbia. Each of her ads (which I prepared with
How to Argue Against the Obvious Meaning of “Day” in Genesis 1
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of June 2013 by Richard Peachey “I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Genesis 2:4 and the Meaning of “Day” in Genesis 1
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2008 by Richard Peachey In Genesis 1 the word “day” (Hebrew yôm) quite clearly refers to either a normal-length day (24 hours) or the light portion thereof. But in Genesis 2:4 the expression “in the day that” refers