Here are some of my favorite resources:
- Biologos
- website- articles, blog posts, videos
- podcast (Language of God)
- Denis Lamoureux- professor of science & religion at University of Alberta (with PhDs in theology *and* evolutionary biology)
- TedX talk "Beyond the 'creation vs. evolution' debate"
- He teaches the course CHRTC350 Science & Religion in a flipped classroom model (watch videos on your own, then discuss during class). All videos are available to watch by selecting "Class Audio - Slides"
- April Maskiewicz- professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene University
- TedX talk "The E Word"
- Dennis Venema- professor of biology at Trinity Western University
- Evolution Basics- a 22-post blog series (long, but worth the read)
- lecture on "Why I Accept Evolution (And Why You Probably Should As Well)"
- Francis Collins- former director of NIH, led Human Genome project, founded Biologos
- John Walton- OT scholar and professor at Wheaton College
- The Lost World book series
- Deb & Loren Haarsma- professors in physics & astronomy at Calvin University
- book Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
- accompanying videos and discussion guides
- I used their resources in a 3-session seminar I led in our homeschool group for middle/high schoolers and parents: Perspectives on Creation
- Events
- Biologos conference- coming to Raleigh, NC in 2024
- Center for Faith & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Wake Forest) hosts various speakers, sometimes science related and for bigger events, they will post videos online. Two that I attended:
- The Holy Post
- podcast featuring Phil Vischer, Skye Jethani, and Kaitlyn Schiess; primarily about faith topics, sometimes intersects with science
- Resources for kids: Faraday Kids
Quotes
Augustine of Hippo, from The Literal Meaning of Genesis (c. 390 AD)
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience.
Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show a vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.
The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but the people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books and matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learned from experience in the light of reason?
Charles Darwin, from On the Origin of Species (1859)
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Billy Graham, interview with David Frost published in Billy Graham: Personal Thoughts of a Public Man (1997)
I don’t think that there’s any conflict at all between science today and the Scriptures. I think that we have misinterpreted the Scriptures many times and we’ve tried to make the Scriptures say things they weren’t meant to say, I think that we have made a mistake by thinking the Bible is a scientific book. The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of Redemption, and of course I accept the Creation story. I believe that God did create the universe. I believe that God created man, and whether it came by an evolutionary process and at a certain point He took this person or being and made him a living soul or not, does not change the fact that God did create man. … whichever way God did it makes no difference as to what man is and man’s relationship to God.
