In honor of the ten-year anniversary of the publication of my book, “Dinosaurs —An Adventist View,“ I am posting an old publicity interview done when the book was first published.
Read moreEric Walsh: Marking the Mind
In a recent sermon entitled, “Marking the Mind,” Dr. Eric Walsh points out that the frontal lobe of the human brain is the seat of reason, character, and higher decision-making. It must be guarded carefully in order that we retain the capacity to make a decision for righteousness that will have eternal consequences.
Read moreWhen Were the Gospels Written? Part 2
Mark was written only about 13 years after the death of Christ. Hundreds of witnesses to the life, teaching, death, and Resurrection of Jesus would still have been alive in 43 AD.
Read moreWhen Were the Gospels Written, Part 1
Matthew and Mark were both written less than 20 years after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ in 30 AD.
Read moreIslamic Anti-Semitism: Rooted in the Texts
The Quran paints a clear picture of the Jews: they are scheming, treacherous liars, the most dangerous enemies of the Muslims.
Read moreThe Babylonian Flood Legends
The Genesis Flood really happened, and there are many different accounts of it, told by the various ethnic and linguistic groups around the world.
Read moreRaqia: Expanse of the heavens or solid structure?
There is no real reason to accept the notion that the inspired writer of Genesis was trying to communicate a solid dome or vault by his use of the term “raqia.”
Read moreMore Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Bones
CSUN scientist Mark Armitage found soft tissue in a Triceratops horn, and published his results in a peer-reviewed journal. So CSUN fired him. But he won his case with help from Alan Reinach.
Read moreNeanderthal Man --A Study in Darwinian Bias
The popular conception of Neanderthal Man as ape-like and brutish was created by a gross and comprehensive, but “scientific,” misinterpretation driven by Darwinian expectations.
Read moreBaptizing the Devil, Part 1
Baptizing the Devil hopes to free people from the knee-jerk reaction that the only logical, rational reaction to the phrase, It’s science! is to surrender one’s beliefs, even religious ones.
Read moreGod’s Health Laws Vindicated, Part III
America’s indulgence of its sweet tooth has been facilitated by government subsidies of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Read moreGod's Health Laws Vindicated, Part II
God created us and knows what food works best to fuel our biological machinery: fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains.
Read moreGod's Health Laws Vindicated, Part 1
The laws regarding clean and unclean animals evidence a greater than human wisdom, and constitute a compelling evidence that Scripture is what it purports to be: divinely inspired.
Read moreThe Acrylamide Connection
We now know that there is an additional reason for Ellen White’s counsel to avoid fried potatoes and fried sweet potatoes: acrylamide.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 9
Scripture has not changed, but the culture has changed radically. Those who would conform to the culture find themselves needing to radically re-interpret the word of God.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 8
Ellen White did not, by the example of her life, disrupt the biblical pattern of male spiritual headship in the church.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 7
Consistent with her oft-repeated statement that she was “a lesser light to lead men and women to the greater light” of Scripture, Ellen White taught nothing contradictory to the scriptural principles we have discussed so far in this series.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 6
We come now to the central issue in the ordination debate: whether candidates for the Christian Church’s headship offices of elder and bishop/overseer must be male
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 5
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God (1 Cor. 11:3).
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 4
The principles revealed by the incarnation and death of God the Son—including the submission of the Son to the Father notwithstanding that both are God and both co-eternal—have always been “the foundation of God's throne” (GC 22).
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