The Bible & The Shape of the Earth — A Blog Exchange

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of September 2015 Originally published at http://evolvingthoughts.net/2014/02/degrees-of-religion/ Alan Cooper     February 8, 2014 at 6:27 pm It’s ok Richard. Those of us who deny that evolution is incompatible with ALL religion are quite happy to let it be incompatible with

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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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

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A Simple But Powerful Argument Against Evolution — The Bible Doesn’t Teach It!

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of December 2012 by Richard Peachey 1. Evolution, if true, is of central importance to our whole worldview. 2. So if the Bible is really a book from God, it should have clearly and positively taught us about this key

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