by Richard W. Coffen | 29 August 2024 | The first creation story has marks of a poetic structure. The literary genre of the second Hebrew creation story is narrative prose. Like the first, it is an etiology—that is, an explanation of origins. But this isn’t the spare and structured account of Genesis one. This […]
“Please wash your hands” is a present truth. But why do germs exist, and why do we have so many? Aren’t bacteria bad? by Jack Hoehn | 21 August 2024 | There is a world you cannot see without a microscope. But a drop of pond water on a microscope can show us an autonomous […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 17 July 2024 | “God created the world, but the Dutch made Holland.” Find a map of the Netherlands in the Middle Ages and compare it with a map that reflects the current situation, and you will understand why these words became a popular maxim. Many areas which used to be […]
30 June 2021 | Reviewed by Jack Hoehn Stephen C. Meyer is very easy to listen to and very understandable when he participates in the many debates he has had presenting the scientific basis of Intelligent Design. His two previous major books, Darwin’s Doubt (2013) and Signature in the Cell (2009), can both be read […]
by Robert T. Johnston | 22 June 2021 | (This is a continuation of a report on the “Age of Life on Earth” conference organized by the Sydney Adventist Forum at Morisset, New South Wales, June 11-12, 2021. Read part 1 here.) YECs have long dismissed radiometric dating as inaccurate, self-contradictory, or based on flawed […]
by Robert T. Johnston | 21 June 2021 | Over the weekend of June 11-12, 2021, I attended (via YouTube livestream and recordings) the Sydney Adventist Forum’s conference on the “Age of Life on Earth.” It featured excellent presentations by well-qualified presenters, most with PhDs in relevant disciplines. Lynden Rogers and the other organizers arranged […]
By Paul Priest | 23 June 2020 | Much of Adventist origins theology is based on a young earth view of creation, which can be summarized with the following points: The earth was created about 6,000 years ago. It was created in 6 days. It was created perfect. Adam and Eve were the first humans. […]
by Jack Hoehn | 15 July 2018 | There is a confluence of ideas coming from within and without the Seventh-day Adventist church, that suggests places this church can go with its theology and mission. Jack wants to talk with you about some of them. This article #7a is on an expanded creationism, and parts […]
By Jack Hoehn Günter Bechly, PhD, is a German scientist. He was raised agnostic or atheist by his family, his schools, his culture. Given no religious training or exposure, this was a scientific, rational, non-superstitious world to him and his family. He was an excellent student and graduated summa cum laude (that means very smart!) […]
March 31, 2017: A survey of Adventists in the United States indicates that 86 percent support women serving as pastors and agree that these women should be ordained in the same way that men are. Less than 9 percent oppose the idea. Asked if they would support “having a female pastor in my own church,” […]
UNDENIABLE– How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed Douglas Axe, 299 pages by HarperOne, 2016. (Hardcover $25.99, less on Amazon.com) A new book reviewed by Jack Hoehn. The slipcover to the book is a close-up photograph of the fantastically colored, intricately designed, mosaic-like art of a chameleon’s tail. Every little scale in turquoise, green, […]
by Ervin Taylor, June 6, 2016: In Part I, we noted that in 2015, the corporate Seventh-day Adventist Church, in General Conference assembled, adopted a “fundamental” position that declared that the creation of life on this planet occurred “recently,” that it was accomplished in six, literal, 24-hour days, and that a recent, literal, world-wide flood […]