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

by Richard Peachey Trinity Western University, a Christian liberal arts university in Langley, BC (Canada) has produced a document titled “Statement on Creation, the Bible, Science, and Our Response,” which was approved by the TWU Board of Governors on February 9, 2002. This statement has been distributed with other “community

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Dawkins and Design

by Richard Peachey [Featured as an advertorial in Cascade News, University of the Fraser Valley student newspaper, Sept. 10, 2009] During last year’s [2008] “Anti-Darwinism Display” at UFV, I hung several quotations on the wall, including this one: “Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that

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Tina Hesman Saey, “12 reasons research goes wrong”

[from Science News 187(2):24f., Jan. 24, 2015; published as a sidebar to Saey’s article “Repeat Performance: Too many studies, when replicated, fail to pass muster“] 12 reasons research goes wrong Barriers to research replication are based largely in a scientific culture that pits researchers against each other in competition for

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The TWU Statement on Creation

Introduction: Letter from Trinity Western University attesting that the Statement below does in fact represent their official view January 11, 2010. Dear Mr. Peachey, Alumni Relations forwarded your inquiry to me regarding the current status of TWU’s “Statement on Creation.” This document has appeared in various campus publications and continues

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