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March 27th, 2015

Anyone who has interest in the battle against evolution or has science questions in general, I recommend the Discovery Institute as the place to go. They are a true powerhouse of science knowledge with people like Dr. William Dembski and Dr. Michael Behe serving as Senior Fellows. They are a breath of fresh air compared to the embarrassing ‘hillbilly science’ that so many websites promote.
http://www.discovery.org/

  • Fred Becker Personally I like answersin genesis.org

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  • Kristen Rasor Another good one is Institute For Creation Research.www.icr.org

    Home | The Institute for Creation Research
    Wouldn’t two billion years of mutations and changing…
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  • Evan Plante I also recommend the Discovery Institute. I use their resources regularly (and shun bad science).
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  • Billy Hardison Love that institution! This is one of my speciality areas – I’m in a doctoral program to learn all of this from a couple of giants in this area- William Lane Craig, JP Moreland, Garry DeWeese and Scott Rae. The reason learning this is important is to enable us to engage the culture and specifically the academia with intelligent, logically coherent, philosophically sound arguments for the existence of God when presuppositional biblical foundations won’t work with a hard nose scientific naturalist! It’s exciting stuff!
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  • Robert Lowry I don’t know. According to FAQ No. 7 under the general questions list, this organization does not support the Biblical account of creation. So why should a Christian utilize the site? It’s not up to us to convince people with powerful scholarly debate about the truth of God’s Word. It’s only up to us to put it forth and let the power of God’s Word, through the Holy Spirit, do the convincing.
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  • Sarah Van Baale Yes – Here is the link Robert is referencing:http://www.discovery.org/id/faqs/ But for the sake of peace, let’s not go down this road. We know there are old earth and young earth disagreements on here. They get heated and are unproductive. It gets quite old – pardon the pun. No one is smarter for believing in old earth and no one is dumber for believing in a young earth. We all feel personal convictions and many of us have advanced science degrees. Arguing for the sake of arguing gets very old and annoying on my facebook home page.

    Frequently Asked Questions | Center for Science and Culture
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  • Billy Hardison Agreed, I don’t like those arguments either! I know I have brought more people to Christ in my line of work and the people I interface with since understanding these issues more fully and organizations like Discovery Institute and others alike have made that possible.
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  • Stuart Mattfield Debating this issue is not arguing for the sake of arguing. It is a critical theological issue. The Biblical account of creation is foundational to the Gospel. The Gospel says Jesus died for the sin of man, sin which impacts all of creation, impacts creation through death, death which is the result of the sin from one man. If you discount Biblical creation…it impacts your hamartiology (your view of sin), which impacts your soteriology (your view of salvation). These concepts of theology are intrinsically linked.
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  • Sarah Van Baale Yes, Stuart, I agree. But how many times is it brought up on here, and do we ever make any progress? There are clearly two opposing view points and at some point we have to agree to disagree because when we start belittling each other’s intelligence (or “hillbilly science”) it becomes personal and unproductive. I think most of us know the young earth argument and we are also very familiar with the old earth argument – but we all agree that God is the Creator. And as passionate as Steve is about his work, I am passionate about mine…or what used to be mine – now I’m just home with children as my brain slowly dies… I simply don’t like the arguing, and one uping, and there are other words to describe what these discussions morph into as well. Call me crazy, but these “discussions” seem to do much more harm than good.
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  • Stuart Mattfield Sarah, I could not agree more. We should be better…and there has been some less than edifying discussions on this issue in this page. We should be able to discuss this on a higher level, and discuss the areas in which this impacts theology…but we have not done the best job in accomplishing that task. I seek to raise the importance of this issue to the degree that we need to, as a church, face how it impacts theology. Iron sharpens iron, as the verse goes…but we should not be dulling it on each other’s heads. On that…I concede…
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  • Billy Hardison I never gave my position by the way, I just think it’s interesting conversation and enjoy diving into issue surrounding intelligent design and how many scientific advancements are beginning to debunk Darwinism. In my daily life I deal with the best of the best in the world-Naval Tactical Aviators- and they often dismiss God purely on scientific reasons or what to them is irrational. I have found many resources to help in my efforts to evangelize. Sometimes those resources may be from a denomination or institutions or book that doesn’t fully line up with all of my fine points of theology, but I don’t think they are any less Christian. Reformers believe in infant baptism while baptist do not, is one group going to hell over that? I use resources from writers and theologians from both camps, don’t most of us? Young earth or old earth, many debates and many reasons. The resources those groups put out to help counter bad science and bad philosophy- it’s good stuff and I have found it very helpful even though I don’t always agree with every dot and tittle! Major on the majors and grace in the minors- God bless you all!!!

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