Introduction: Last fall, one of my No Quarter November pieces critiqued the use of the Novare curriculum for science that is being used in a number of classical Christian schools. That post ...
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The Novare Cul de Sac
The Coming Classical Christian Downgrade
Introduction: A few years ago at the national ACCS convention, my son Nate was giving one of the plenary addresses, in the course of which he made a crack about creation and evolution. The ...
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Now That’s A Lot of Water, Right There
I really enjoyed the first installment of The Riot and the Dance. It was fantastic, and this second contribution, dealing with the world of water this time, is even better. Three years in the making, and releasing on March 6, The Riot and the Dance: Water is going to be making waves near you. If …
And Then Some
“The only problem with the phrase intelligent design is that it is one of history’s most grotesque understatements” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26).
The Real Issue
“But if [God]—approximately six thousand years ago, give or take a couple of weeks—made the aardvarks and anteaters, and little yellow canaries, and giraffes, and koala bears, pretty much as we see them today, then we have to come to grips [with the fact] that we are living in a place designed for us, and …
Because Boots Are Intelligently Designed
“But it is He that has made us and not we ourselves. We did not, and could not have, fetched ourselves out of the primordial slime by lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps. Amoebae don’t have boots, for starters. Moreover, they never did” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26).
Those BioLogos Unbelievers
Introduction: Eugene Genovese once wrote that, during his atheist days, whenever he was in the company of a liberal Christian, he always felt that comfortable sense that he was in the presence of a fellow unbeliever. Unbelief is a thing. And that matter of faith is always the basic issue. One of the New Testament …
Evolution as an Uncommonly Silly Idea
Prolegomena to the Skylarking: One of the things a writer must do, if he is planning on running with the big boys, is demonstrate his erudition and learning as he starts off the proceedings, and to do so by means of judicious citations. What better way to set the tone than by quoting the trenchant …
Who Wants to be Post Darwinian?
“Darwin gave modernity the mechanism it needed to throw off the authority of God’s Word and the sovereignty of the Lord Christ. Darwin is foundational to the secularist modernity project, but there is more. He is also foundational to the postmodern goo cauldron that is our culture today and every form of what I have …
The World Is Never Mundane
So what am I going to be going on about in this post? There are two things, in sum. The first is a reminder for you to make sure you check out which location for the showing of The Riot and the Dance on March 19 is going to be nearest you. All you have …