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,
“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
What Would Jesus Do . . . about the Creation/Evolution Controversy?
by Richard Peachey [Featured as an advertorial in Cascade News, University of the Fraser Valley student newspaper, Oct. 1, 2009] Perhaps you were raised as a Christian and now you’re having to wrestle with seemingly anti-biblical concepts being taught in a biology course (or physics, or sociology, or anthropology, or
Debate: “Evolution versus Creation: War of the Worldviews!”
(Richard Peachey’s opening remarks) On May 5, 2006, a debate was held at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, under the title “Evolution versus Creation: War of the Worldviews!” Scott Goodman argued the case for evolution on behalf of the BC Skeptics, and Richard Peachey, vice-president of the Creation Science Association