Monthly Archives: April 2026

What I think I know about life in the deep past

Posted on 26/04/2026 by Jon Garvey

Colin Patterson, FRS, was a palaeontologist and proponent of “transformed cladistics” based at London’s Natural History Museum, who raised a controversy in 1981 by rhetorically asking his colleagues at a conference, “Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that is true?”

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How Darwinian evolution became plausible (for a time)

Posted on 24/04/2026 by Jon Garvey

Here are some thoughts on what factors provided the fertile ground for Darwinian evolutionary theory to appear plausible when it was published in 1859. This is followed by some of the problems raised at the time the theory was published, showing that they have all become more acute, rather than being resolved, since 1859. The net result is that “variation and natural selection” as the origin of species is now thoroughly implausible, and remains a consensus only by academic inertia.

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To Ur is human, to dig divine.

Posted on 18/04/2026 by Jon Garvey

When I wrote The Generations of Heaven and Earth I was concerned with the setting of the biblical Adam and Eve in history, which overlapped with their role in the ancestry of the present human race. This involved discussion of possible geographical settings for Eden, and for the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. This in turn raised the question of possible sites for a regional flood involving Noah.

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Prayers for peace

Posted on 13/04/2026 by Jon Garvey

Christianity has always had an ambivalent attitude towards war, unlike Islam which is unambiguously a religion of peace… once all that is non-Islamic has been obliterated or subjugated by brute force, including the wrong kind of Muslims like the peace-loving Ahmadiyya and any daring to apostasize.

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Temporal resonances

Posted on 11/04/2026 by Jon Garvey

I’ve just given my Stratocaster guitar to my granddaughter, having decided I’m unlikely ever to join another rock band. And in any case, I still have a Telecaster. It’s not a Fender Stratocaster, you understand, but a Japanese Tokai, though when it was made, in 1984, their quality was arguably better than the the CBS Fenders of the time, and certainly superior to Fender’s Japanese Squiers, one of which I bought in 1983, but was never entirely happy with.

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Gospel obedience and the Spirit

Posted on 06/04/2026 by Jon Garvey

We have just celebrated the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and here I am writing yet another post on Pentecostal doctrine. Why? Because Charismatic teaching is still prevalent in Evangelical churches and denominations, and because in these crucial times it actually weakens the resistance of the Church to the increasing concerted attacks of the enemy, and blunts its offensive power. False teaching must inevitably debilitate the Church Militant.

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