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Scientists Aren't Hostile Alien Priests: A Review Of Redeeming Expertise, Jeff Ploegstra
Scientists Aren't Hostile Alien Priests: A Review Of Redeeming Expertise, Jeff Ploegstra
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"We all rely on others to draw valid conclusions about the world, both scientifically and theologically."
Posting about the book Redeeming Expertise from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/scientists-arent-hostile-alien-priests-a-review-of-redeeming-expertise/
Walking The Talk In A Vaccine Study, Carl P. Fictorie
Walking The Talk In A Vaccine Study, Carl P. Fictorie
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"Scientists and engineers of all religious stripes and colors have helped bring about the amazing advances in science and technology that have improved our lives and well-being over the past few hundred years.."
Posting about science as a reliable tool for understanding from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/walking-the-talk-in-a-vaccine-study/
Little Wasps On The Fringes, Jeremy Hummel
Little Wasps On The Fringes, Jeremy Hummel
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"As image-bearers of God, mandated to tend and care for his creation, we can welcome his creation into our human landscapes in a mutually flourishing way."
Posting about the wonders of creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/little-wasps-on-the-fringes/
Kinds Of Science And Exploring The Past, Channon Visscher
Kinds Of Science And Exploring The Past, Channon Visscher
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"Working alongside experimental and observational work, historical science helps us continue to learn the unfolding story of how a beautiful universe, created by a loving God, came to be as we see it today."
Posting about scientific methods from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/kinds-of-science-and-exploring-the-past/
Big Oil And Climate Change Denial, David Schelhaas
Big Oil And Climate Change Denial, David Schelhaas
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"One of the Alliance’s most basic commitments is to free market economic development fueled by coal and oil that will, as they see it, lift the poor out of poverty."
Posting about the philosophy of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/big-oil-and-climate-change-denial/
Not Masters But Stewards Of The Earth, David Schelhaas
Not Masters But Stewards Of The Earth, David Schelhaas
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"We are not servants of the earth but of the creator and Master of the earth, God."
Posting about the beliefs of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/not-masters-but-stewards-of-the-earth/
Seared And Bleared, Smudged And Smelly, David Schelhaas
Seared And Bleared, Smudged And Smelly, David Schelhaas
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"Most evangelicals oppose the very idea of climate change and are trying to inoculate their children so that they do not catch the 'climate concern' disease."
Posting about why some Christians are climate change deniers from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/seared-and-bleared-smudged-and-smelly/
Science For All Christians, Jeff Ploegstra
Science For All Christians, Jeff Ploegstra
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"What questions should we endeavor to answer as we work out the relationship between our faith commitments and our scientific insight?"
Posting about a Reformed worldview on the complexities of creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/science-for-all-christians/
Providential Creation And A Gracious Science, Carl P. Fictorie
Providential Creation And A Gracious Science, Carl P. Fictorie
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"Christians who work in the sciences wrestle daily with the work of investigating the universe through the lens of faith."
Posting about God's providence and nature from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/providential-creation-and-a-gracious-science/
Against Common Sense, Channon Visscher
Against Common Sense, Channon Visscher
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"Scientific inquiry... allows for the exploration of phenomena that would otherwise remain beyond human intuition."
Posting about beauty and truth in creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/against-common-sense/
Lies, Statistics, Mathematics And The Truth, Nathan L. Tintle
Lies, Statistics, Mathematics And The Truth, Nathan L. Tintle
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"Recognizing a key distinction between mathematics and statistics is helpful in understanding how we know if a statement is true."
Posting about deductive and inductive reasoning from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/lies-statistics-mathematics-and-the-truth/
Physics 101: Observing Physical Creation, Kayt E. Frisch
Physics 101: Observing Physical Creation, Kayt E. Frisch
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"Physics is fundamentally about repeatedly observing the Creation, building models that describe our observations, and then making predictions about what we will observe in the future."
Posting about the study of physics from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/physics-101-observing-physical-creation/
Science 101: Speaking In Tongues And Sights Unseen, Jeff Ploegstra
Science 101: Speaking In Tongues And Sights Unseen, Jeff Ploegstra
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"For me, science isn’t only about hearing and seeing, it’s also about responding; about being in dialogue."
Posting about looking for meaning in the physical world from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/science-101-speaking-in-tongues-and-sights-unseen/
Lunar Stories: The Violence Of Creation, Channon Visscher
Lunar Stories: The Violence Of Creation, Channon Visscher
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"Tales of the moon’s creation abound in myth, legend, history and science. Given its conspicuous brightness and nearness, we should not be surprised that the moon has captured the imagination since the dawn of human consciousness."
Posting about how the moon was made from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/lunar-stories-the-violence-of-creation/
Groaning Creation, Carl P. Fictorie
Groaning Creation, Carl P. Fictorie
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"What does the Bible mean when Paul writes about the frustrated and decaying creation? What should scientists expect to see in their investigations of creation given that the creation is frustrated and decaying? How does sin adversely affect the most basic laws by which the creation operates?"
Posting about creation from the perspective of a Christian scientist from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/the-groaning-creation/
Answering Your Question: The Bible And Traditional Beliefs, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Answering Your Question: The Bible And Traditional Beliefs, Benjamin J. Lappenga
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"Christians must acknowledge that our readings of Scripture are subject to criteria for determining their validity."
Posting about Biblical interpretation from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/answering-your-question-the-bible-and-traditional-beliefs/
Answering Your Question: Tension Between Science And Genesis, Neal Deroo
Answering Your Question: Tension Between Science And Genesis, Neal Deroo
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"Before we can meaningfully engage with interpretations of Genesis, it may be helpful to think more about the nature of Biblical authority: how is the Bible authoritative, and what does it mean to be obedient to that authority?"
Posting about the issue of origins and the age of the earth from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/answering-your-question-tension-between-science-and-genesis/
Miracles, Science, Or Both?, Deborah Tyokighir
Miracles, Science, Or Both?, Deborah Tyokighir
Student Work
What is a miracle? What is science? Do miracles cease to be exciting when a scientific explanation is found? Does an event, explainable by science, undermine the power of the Divine? This work investigates the tension that we have created between divine action and natural law, using the medieval Eucharist experience and related scientific findings as an example of this tension.
Handiwork Of Our Creator, Carl P. Fictorie
Handiwork Of Our Creator, Carl P. Fictorie
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"Chemistry certainly is a science that seeks to understand how creation works, working at the microscopic level of atoms, molecules, and ions; the basic building blocks of matter."
Posting about understanding the nature of creation from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/handiwork-of-our-creator/
To Engage Creation, Joel K. Sikkema, Justin Vander Werff
To Engage Creation, Joel K. Sikkema, Justin Vander Werff
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"An engineer's role in this service is to use science and technology to care for the entirety of creation - humans, other creatures, and the natural environment - in a way that both develops its potential and ensures that our activities do not impair its ability to flourish in the future."
Posting about a Christian perspective on engineering from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/to-engage-creation/
Children In God's House: Teaching Cosmology At A Nazarene University, Stephen Case
Children In God's House: Teaching Cosmology At A Nazarene University, Stephen Case
Faculty Scholarship – Geology
This is one of a collection of essays that attempts to articulate the common “center pole” around which Nazarene higher educators stand and the theological and pedagogical commitments that draw them together. It is one of a series of values documents for Nazarene educational institutions and was produced and reviewed by 51 faculty at 16 institutions from six countries. The title of the collection, Telos, comes from the Greek term used in the New Testament to address the perfect end, or destination, for which Christians are designed. This essay sets out how understanding and engaging with contemporary theories regarding the …