Posts from ‘January, 2006’

So said a poll conducted by Mori on behalf of the BBC recently.
According to this article on the BBC website:
Over 2,000 participants took part in the survey, and were asked what best described their view of the origin and development of life:
22% chose creationism
17% opted for intelligent design
48% selected evolution theory
and the rest did not [...]

A quote from the inimitable Spurgeon which relates to a conversation I had with a friend yesterday about how we begin to go about balancing a concern for “Doctrinal Purity” with a humble and loving respect for those of different traditions:
“We are not to go about the world searching out heresies, like terrier dogs sniffing [...]

I didn’t manage to catch Richard Dawkins’ programme last Monday, but publish the following press release from the Evangelical Alliance with approval, since seems to reflect all that I have heard from Dawkins in the past.
“Dawkins’ programme viciously biased against faith communities,” says Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance today condemned Richard Dawkins’ Channel 4 programme ‘The [...]

A very concise rebuttal of the atheist’s use of ‘the problem of pain’ from the wise Mr Motyer, re-discovered as studying his helpful commentary on Amos.
“A convinced and consistent atheist may well be ready to say that chance rules all, but if he does so he must give up using ‘the problem of pain’ as [...]

theVirtualBinaryWord
I don’t know if anyone else has had this problem, but I was recently trying to get a nice new MIMO PCI card installed on a brand new and clean Windows XP machine. I have some experience with these things, and had done all the usual installation things, but the card was refusing to [...]

2006 already. It’s hard to believe. We had an encouraging New Year’s Day at Send Evangelical Church, and we looked at the wonderful and under-studied book of Habakkuk.
As Habakkuk looks at a violent and unjust world, he wonders whether God cares, and why He doesn’t seem to act. But God does care, [...]