Trinity Western University’s Statement on Creation: A Critique (short version)

by Richard Peachey In 2002, Trinity Western University in Langley, BC (Canada) crafted a document titled, “Statement on Creation, the Bible, Science, and Our Response,” which is currently distributed with other “community documents” to people who ask for information about TWU. We offer the following brief assessment of the strengths and

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Arguing from Augustine: Evolutionists Should Give It Up!

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of June 2007 by Richard Peachey Augustine was a noted Christian leader of the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Thoughtful, scholarly, and sincere in his desire for truth, he was a prolific writer who is probably best known for

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The Eight E’s of Evolution!

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of September 2007 by Richard Peachey Many creationists are familiar with Ken Ham’s “Seven C’s of History” — including Creation, Corruption (the Fall into sin), Catastrophe (the global Flood), Confusion (the tower of Babel), Christ (the Incarnation), Cross (the Crucifixion),

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Creation, Evolution, and Speed-of-Light Problems

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2006 by Richard Peachey Creationists have for several decades been confronted by a difficulty connected with two realities in nature: (1) a speed of light which is constant at about 300,000,000 meters per second; and (2) a universe

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Personalities in the Evolution/Creation Conflict

by Richard Peachey 1. An Early “Evolutionist”: Lucretius (c. 99 – c. 55 B.C.) Lucretius was an ancient writer with a naturalistic theory of origins. The quotations below are from his De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), translated by W. H. D. Rowse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press,

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“Men of Science — Men of God”

Bible-Believing Men who Founded (or Made Major Contributions to) Scientific Disciplines (after Henry Morris) Scientist Contribution Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Scientific method Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) Physical astronomy, Laws of planetary motion Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, Differential calculus, Probability Robert Boyle (1627-1691) Modern chemistry, Gas dynamics John Ray (1627-1705) Natural history (Biology) Nicolas Steno (1631-1686) Stratigraphy Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Dynamics, Calculus, Gravitation Karl von Linné

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Science: Child of the Biblical Worldview

by Richard Peachey (based largely on Nancy R. Pearcey and Charles B. Thaxton. 1994. The Soul of Science. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books) Various ancient cultures, such as China, were able to produce a high technology — but only Christianized western Europe generated true science based on the scientific method (experimental

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Chemical Evolution: The Problem Of Improbable Proteins

by Richard Peachey Living cells employ proteins to perform a variety of important functions, including catalysis, structure, storage, communication, movement, transport, gatekeeping, and defense. To construct proteins from amino acid “building blocks,” cells use very complex procedures. But evolutionists suggest that these key molecules originally came into being through naturalistic,

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Are “Vestigial Organs” Valid Evidence of Evolution?

by Richard Peachey What are “vestigial organs”? “Vestigial” or “rudimentary” organs are biological structures that have no function. In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin listed such human structures as wisdom teeth, the appendix, and the coccyx (“tailbone”) as “rudimentary organs” (Scadding 173f.). In his earlier book, The Origin of

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Medieval “Flat Earth” Belief: Another Evolutionist Fallacy!

by Richard Peachey [Featured as an advertorial in Cascade News, University of the Fraser Valley student newspaper, Dec. 4, 2009] The medieval church retarded the progress of science by insisting on teaching that the Earth is flat! Isn’t that crazy! And the creationists, who are so foolishly opposed to science,

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