you choose Q: what scientists say about evolution contradicts the Bible—what's the answer?
Q: What scientists say about the theory of evolution is clearly contrary to what the Bible says about creation, and no evidence points our way. What is your advice concerning this subject? —Jonathan
A: Let’s assume, purely for the sake of argument, that scientists discover the “missing links” in the fossil record that would support the evolutionary model. We would still…
March 12, 2012
This week a court in the US will hear the case of a former “team lead” NASA scientist who—according to the evangelical plaintiff—was fired due to his belief and promotion of intelligent design. Why do you feel that belief in intelligent design and a Creator is apparently not tolerated in many academic and scientific research arenas?
divine design
Intelligent design. It’s hard to go a day without encountering that phrase, and here’s why. The more scientists study matter like molecular DNA—the building block of life—the more it points to a Creator. As Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell, writes, “The best, most causally adequate explanation for the origin of the specified, digitally encoded information in DNA is…
micro, not macro
Dr. Fazale Rana, a Christian biochemist, believes in evolution. He notes that there are undeniably at least three types of evolution taking place today: Microevolution within a species; speciation, species giving rise to closely related sister species; microbial evolution, changes in viruses and bacteria.
What Dr. Rana doesn’t see over time, however, is macroevolution—the change of one kind of animal into an…