Category Archives: Creation

A retrospective on my last decade’s work

Posted on 17/02/2020 by Jon Garvey

I thought it would be worth spending a few posts looking back on what has turned out to be a fruitful “research programme” on scientific and biblical origins over the last ten years for me, to see what problems have been resolved, and which, if any, remain unanswered.

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Continuity and discontinuity

Posted on 02/02/2020 by Jon Garvey

Here’s an interesting podcast by Intelligent Design proponent Paul Nelson, a philosopher of science, whom I’ve got to know a little both through Peaceful Science and via a mutual friend.

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Death before the Fall

Posted on 16/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

Three times in the last week, I’ve encountered YEC objections to old-earth thinking in general, and Genealogical Adam and Eve in particular, that stress the theological importance of the direct relationship between sin and death. One of these was in one of the few negative comments on Josh Swamidass’s YouTube interview (a good watch), one was from a scholar into whose correspondence I was copied, and one was from another Christian academic in a video on another topic.

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Playing the racist card

Posted on 10/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

Joshua Swamidass’s book on the Genealogical Adam and Eve Hypothesis is doing pretty well on the Amazon bestseller list. I guess that might bode well for my own book on the hypothesis once it comes out, if folks are interested in the possible applications as well as the science of the idea.

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Tall tales in science

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

I found this short, but useful “entry level” video on the replication crisis in science on YouTube.

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Heidi, hi!

Posted on 31/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I chanced upon an example of my kind of science documentary on TV over the weekend, by courtesy of those nice people at Nature.

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Progress on Heaven and Earth

Posted on 23/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Well, the indexes of The Generations of Heaven and Earth have now gone off to the publishers, which is my last literary input before the book comes out.

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The dangers of making assumptions about data

Posted on 17/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I commend to you this YouTube presentation by Frank Lansner, from October, which explains and updates his 2018 paper, which is unfortunately behind a paywall:

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You can’t exclude human influence from science

Posted on 27/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The title of this blog could refer to a number of things I’ve discussed here over the years. It could mean the fact that science is entirely a human activity, which could be summarised as asking the near-infinite realm of nature particular questions of human interest, to which it will return equally particular and incomplete answers. Or it could refer to the mysterious effects of mind on quantum events. But in fact in this post it’s about something else: providence.

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Heads up on “The Generations of Heaven and Earth”

Posted on 18/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I’ve just checked the proofs on my forthcoming (second) book, The Generations of Heaven and Earth: Adam, the Ancient World, and Biblical Theology, so when it is published by Cascade early next year you can blame all the residual mistakes on me.

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