Radioactive carbon: an indicator of the maximum age of the Earth

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of December 2016 by David Kadylak Let’s explore is how radiocarbon (carbon-14) is found nearly everywhere. You’ve probably heard of radioactive carbon-14 used as a common dating method. Due to its short half-life, 5,730 years, it can never demonstrate that

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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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