Evolution Archive

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works John Brockman (Editor) Harper Perennial, 2013 432 pages (Kindle edition) Available Amazon

This last week, Bill Nye’s creationism comments for Big Think (see video above) drew some attention and criticism. Nye says that adults who want to live as creationists can do so, but it is “untenable” and “self-inconsistent” with everything we know about universe. The insistence upon creationism holds everybody back, he notes, and so he

The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Church by Warren S. Brown and Brad D. Strawn Cambridge University Press, 2012 200 Pages (Kindle) Available Amazon Powells In September of 2011, I wrote an article for The Huffington Post in which I questioned whether evangelical theology can evolve with science (“Can Evangelical Theology Evolve with

TED-Ed, along with some very talented educators and animators, have some great lessons worth sharing for anyone looking for brief introductions to fascinating subjects. You can even take a short quiz after each video to test your retention. TED’s well-known talks make their way around the internet daily, but not everyone is aware of

Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line by Jason Rosenhouse Oxford University Press, 2012 272 pages (Kindle) Available Amazon Powell’s Jason Rosenhouse’s Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line is not your usual book on creationism. When he’s not playing chess, Rosenhouse (Associate Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University)

Dr. Peter Enns is known for many things; he’s a Yankees fan, a biblical studies scholar, and, in the years I’ve known him, a frequently-targeted controversial figure. A former tenured-professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, Dr. Enns originally found significant attention over his 2005 book, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old

Let me just say right up front, I find bonobo behavior fascinating. With the arrival of the sequenced human genome, scientists began looking at the genetic makeup of just about everything they could get their hands on, but especially those creatures that evolutionary biologists have long seen as our closest relatives—chimps and bonobos. We

Forty-six percent of Americans are creationists. Just thought I should rip that Band-Aid off right now, particularly since I know that for many, this is a big disappointment. For thirty years we’ve seen the end of tape and the rise of digital. We’ve watched the end of the Space Shuttle fleet and the rise