Featured Weekly Articles from 2000
 What's LIB? Features  -  NewsBits  -  Materials  -  Events  - Workshop  - Teachers  - Links

 
 
Week Featured Articles
Dec 13 '00 Sorry for the hiatus -- back to it with a new find from Greg Kreis
The Miracle of the Ant, Harun Yahya (Isalamic Apologist and Author)
Nov 13 '00 Darwinism: Science or Philosophy, SMU conferece, 1992
Includes Point-Response from both creationists and non-creationists of renown.
This is an essential read for all concerned. HR
Nov 6 '00 The Human Retina: Good design or evolutionary accident?
James Cook, (reads molecular biology & mathematics at Edinburgh & Cambridge)
Oct 30 '00 Biology's Big Bang, Dr. Ray Bohlin
(Read the Time article "When Life Exploded"  reviewed by Bohlin)
Bonus
Online Debate: Naturalism v. SuperNaturalism
Team Evolution
   Frank Lowell, Todd Greene, Dave Matson, Janice Martin, WesleyElsberry
Team Creation
  Tom Couchman (moderator), Doy Moyer, Allan Turner, Hill Roberts
Oct 23 '00 Rick Milne reviews Hearn's book "On Being a Christian in Science"
Hearn's book reflects my experiences as a Christian in science. Recommend it.
Oct 16 '00 Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design, Dr. Ray Bohlin
Oct 9 '00 BEWARE OF PHILOSOPHY: A WARNING TO BIBLICAL SCHOLARS, Norman L. Geisler, Ph.D.
This article's original URL is no longer active. Here is a copy.
Oct 2 '00 What every theologian should know about creation, evolution and design, 
Dr. Wm. Dembski
Agreed - should be required reading in all creation-evolution classes, HR
Then try some of his books (e.g., Mere Creation, see Oct 16 above) as a follow-up.
Sept 18 '00 Ribosomes Revealed, ScientificAmerican , Kristin Leutwyler 
     This one also featured on our NewsBits page. 
     Check out the complex design apparent in ribosomes.
Sept 11 '00 Theism, Atheism, and Rationality, Dr. Alvin Plantinga
This Notre Dame philosopher champions the view that some things we "just know" (pardon my oversimplification)
Sept 5 '00 Bible Comment --- Subscribe to this great little weekly e-lesson. Here is lesson 69 on lying. This is a series of weekly  lessons by Joe Fitch. He would not consider himself an academic, but I could sit at his feet for hours learning from his insights into godly living.
Aug 21 '00 Miracles and Modern Scientific Thought, Dr. Norm Geisler
Aug 14 '00 Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inferrence, Dr. M. Behe
Aug 7 '00 The Accelerating Expansion, Hubble Constant & Cosmological Constant, Hill Roberts
 "Does God Exist?" Aug 2000 (see many other good articles in this issue)
July 17 '00 The Age of the Universe, Dr. Jeffery Satinover
July 9 '00 Cell Communication: the Inside Story, John Scott and Tony Pawson, PhD (SciAm)
Not only is the cell a complex factory and information repository, this article shows that the cell is also ATT, the Internet, and FedEx. Awesome!
July 3 '00 Are the Biblical Documents Reliable?  Jimmy Williams, Th. M.
June 25 '00 On the Origin of Stasis, Dr. Art Battson
June 11 '00 The Anthropic Principle, Prof. Nathan Aviezer
May 29 '00 We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Dr. Nancy Pearcey (Christianity Today)
Text Version -- download the zipped doc file and email to a friend, educators, others
    Bonus Cool Visual Illusions -- Just for Fun!
May 22 '00 Evolution, Randomness, and Hashkafa, Dr. Lee Spetner
May 15 '00 DNA and Other Designs, Dr. Stephen Meyer
Apr 24 '00 A Critique of Sagan's TV Series and Book "Cosmos"
Dr. Robert Newman (BTS/IBRI)
Apr 10 '00 Stephen Hawking, The Big Bang, and God,  Dr. Henry "Fritz" Schaefer III
Dr. "Fritz" Schaefer is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize and was recently cited as the third most quoted chemist in the world.  Part 1, Part 2
Apr 3 '00 Neo-Darwinism: What is at Stake? Tom Bethell
An examination of the cultural implications of neo-Darwinism and creationism 
Tom Bethell, Correspondent, the American Spectator (Oxford, 1962)
Mar 27 '00 DNA: The Message in the Message, Dr. Nancy R. Pearcey
Mar 20 '00 The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism, Dr. Phillip E. Johnson
Mar 13 '00 Randomness By Design, Dr. William A. Dembski
Mar 10 '00 Intelligent Design, from ARN Discussion board. Articles by Mike Gene.
Teleology, Natural selection, Environmentalism, Evolvoids
A Response to Claire Stevens' "Rebutal of Behe"  (<-- the best I've seen!)
      These excellent articles fall in the class of "Boy, I wish I had said that."
      I have no clue who Mike Gene is. (click here for PDFs of these articles)
Mar 5 '00 Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information, Dr. William A. Dembski
 Blaise Pascal Fellow in Probability, Center for Renewal of Science and Culture, Discovery Inst.
Feb 27 '00 Theistic Evolution and Genesis, Dr. J. D. Bales   (republished by F. Jenkins)
Feb 21 '00 Second Thoughts About Peppered Moths, Dr. Jonathon Wells
Feb 14 '00 Why I Disbelieve Evolution, Darel Rex Finley
Concise, and deals with the core problems facing evolution. 
(Don't know Mr. Finley's background, but the material stands on its own merit.)
Feb 7 '00 Design in Nature and the Nature of Design, Dr. Dennis Feucht
Jan 31 '00 The Inverted Retinal Structure of Vertebrate Eyes, Dr. Michael Denton
Jan 24 '00 The Power of God as Creator, Dr. Arthur Custance
The first chapter from his online book  Science and Faith
Doorway Papers presents a huge online library of commentary by Custance.
Bonus!
Unbelievable Unbelief, Greg Keoukl (he's not an academic, but Pascal was)
Bonus!
Multiple Universes and Creation, John Clayton (MS/MS)
John has multiple graduate degrees in geology and physics, 
but chose to teach in public secondary schools rather than academia or industry. 
His life is a true model of  Christian service. Check out his DGE periodical -- free!
Jan 17 '00 Professor Mackie and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Dr. William Lane Craig
Jan 10 '00
Philosophia Christi      Panel Discussion 
on Hugh Ross’ Contribution in Philosophy and Theology of Science
(J. of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, Vol 21:1-Summer 1998)
Jan 3 '00 Show Me God!   Introduction from the book by science writer Fred Hereen 
(The only entertaining apologetics book I've ever read. HR)
Dec 27 '99 Is There a Role for Natural Theology Today? 
(Dr. Owen Gingerich, Joint Harvard-Smithsonian Astronomer)
Dec 20 '99 God and The Academy  -- Special Feature Series at LeadershipU
A collection of articles by believing philosophers at mainline academic institutes
Dec 13 '99 The Natural Limits to Biological Change (Dr. Ray Bohlin)
Bonus!
The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, (Nicolas Copernicus, 1543)
Dec 6 '99 Multiculturalism: Multiple Deceptions (Dr. M. Thaxter Dickey)
Bonus!
Must a Free Thinker be a NonTheist? (J.J. Lowder) - Not a Believer
Nov 29 '99 Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God (Dr. Walter Bradley)
Nov 22 '99 Darwin Under the Microscope (Dr. Michael Behe)
   Bonus! Concerning Critiques of Darwin's Black Box (Dr. DeSilvestro)
Nov 15 '99 DNA, Design and the Origin of Life (Dr. Charles Thaxton)
Nov 08 '99 Science and the Bible (Dr. Doug Northcutt), (& Dr. Caldwell's Foreword)
Nov 01 '99 Astronomical Evidences for the God of the Bible (Dr. Hugh Ross)
Oct 26 '99 Science: Friend or Foe? (Dr. Denis R. Alexander)
Oct 18 '99 (The) Explosion of Life (Dr. Paul Chen)
Oct 10 '99 Male Chromosome Studies (Reviewed Dr. Hugh Ross)

* Note: There will be occasional exceptions to this policy concerning belief and academics (exceptions will  be noted)

What's LIB? Features  -  NewsBits  -  Materials  -  Events  - Workshop  - Teachers  - Links
Hit Counter
since 3-17-00