The poll below is my first attempt within WordPress. I think you can only answer once, you will not be able to change your answers. If you want to look at the reading choices, use the links below the poll to go there, before voting.
These are articles from the Journal of Creation (see the Go There links in the right hand sidebar for the journal homepage).
Astronomical troubles for the astronomical hypothesis of ice ages (4 pages + references). Planetary wobble, kilo-year cyles, and north-south pole out-of-phase cooling cycles. How much change is there in how solar radiation affects the earth? How many ice ages have taken place? Can deep-sea cores be trusted, and what do their sediments show of ice age history?
Migrating planets and migrating theories (3 pages) If planets coalesce from proto-solar discs, then why are planets in our system significantly different than those around other stars? Did planets in our system form with different methods from each other? Do planets migrate in to collapse in the sun, or migrate outward to stable orbits? Or both?
Days 1–4 : Viewpoint on Genesis (7 pages + references) This article is the longest, but much less technical than the first two. Provides a stripped down outline of the first four days of creation Biblically, with some scientific perspective on the implications of the separate projects on each day. The viewpoint takes some radically different definitions than the ‘classical’ literal model, but still attempts a literal application.
We watched about the first half of a video by Kent Hovind on this topic in Dec 2008. Due to Christmas, we have not yet watched the 2nd half.
As we would like to read a couple journal articles in January, this video is on the roll for “when life gets busy,” probably in February 2009. Date to be announced….
Part one of video two, “The Garden of Eden”, by Kent Hovind.
We’ll be meeting at our place to watch this lecture on the initial conditions after Creation. This is my week to bake Christmas cookies, so guess what we’ll have to munch on!
I suggest bringing paper and pens so that you can jot down your thoughts during the lecture, for discussing afterwards.
In addition to having a lot of great content and thought-provoking ideas, Loen & I were interested in the diverse approaches of the three presenters. Simply listening to the three should inspire us all about how to present our thoughts and beliefs.
Note that this is about an hour and a half long, so we’ll want to start right away.
A popular creationist lecturer, Kent Hovind, has a video series, downloadable from his website. At this meeting we will take a look at the first one in the series, on the Age of the earth.
We will meet at Troy & Jody Wielgosz’ home, which is still in Rutland, just up the hill from our place. If you are not sure where we are, give someone a call or email us and I can give you directions. We will meet around 7 pm, video to start PROMPTLY at 7:30, as some in the group may need to leave on time, too.
Depending on the group discussion following the movie, we will decide whether to watch all or most of this series for the rest of the fall / winter. So, if you have ideas on that, please attend tonight.
In complete contrast to the previous meeting, on Oct 8/08 we’ll listen to the audio file of Hugh Ross’ personal testimony.
Titled, A Scientist Who Looked and Was Found, I downloaded the file from http://www.veritas.org/media/talks/330. No need to listen to it beforehand, we will play it the night of our get together. The contrast comes in this: Ken Ham emphasizes the rule of Biblical facts over human science, whereas Hugh Ross came to believe in Biblical truth through the witness of science. One is emphatically “young earth”, the other as certainly “old earth.”
There are two versions of the talk, both from 1995. The short, clearer one is 35 min, and the longer, buzzier one is still less than an hour. I’ll check both and decide which to use.
I’ll be researching something to read on the evidence related to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Apr 9 : Resurrection. See the comment and link associated with that page, read through the “debate” blog there, and make a few notes on your thoughts about both sides.
With a little overlap, we will finish watching this YouTube published video of W.L.Craig versus Zindler on the topic of Christianity versus Athiesm. We may also have some open discussion of questions, as the group has a couple of new members joining us, and we’d like to take time to find out their interests.
Okay, I did find a debate on YouTube but we’d like to be able to watch it as a group. What we’re after is a substantial debate, on video, between an athiest and a Christian. We can watch it and then discuss. Once I’ve got something that will play on our system for us to watch together as a group, I’ll post all the details in this space….
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Kudos to Darcy W. for downloading & reformatting the entire Craig – Zindler debate so that the group could watch it! We covered the first 20 min. speeches plus 12 minute second sections this week. At the next meeting (Feb 27) we’ll watch the remainder and continue discussing it.
I know that R. Dawkins’ name comes up over and over in our discussions. He’s made himself a bit of a target.
Jeff pointed me towards this talk by Dr. John Lennox entitled ‘God and Richard Dawkins,’ available as a downloadable or streaming audio file. The lecture is about an hour and a half.
Please listen to this talk and note down any observations you might have before our meeting on Wed Jan 30. Arrival anytime after 7:00, meeting to begin by 7:30pm.
