Category Archives: Science

Donald Campbell and Darwinian theory

Posted on 28/05/2026 by Jon Garvey

A YouTube video by a member of the engineering team that salvaged and restored Donald Campbell’s jet boat Bluebird from Lake Coniston explores why the boat’s recent return to that lake proved a bit of a damp squib.

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Paul in Athens

Posted on 15/05/2026 by Jon Garvey

When our Pastor reached the last part of Acts 17 in our serial exposition of Acts last week, I realised that Paul’s address to the Areopagus Society was even cleverer than I’ve always assumed.

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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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The generations of pre-adamic man

Posted on 25/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

I came across a short clip of a discussion between the late Michael Heiser and Joshua Swamidass. It is on the Genealogical Adam theory Josh and I developed, he in the mainly scientific Genealogical Adam and Eve, and I in the almost simultaneously published, and primarily theological, Generations of Heaven and Earth.

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Fearfully and wonderfully bodged?

Posted on 18/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

Back in October 2020, I participated in a Webinar organised by the Christian Scientific Society, which also included Stuart Burgess from the UK, and Fuz Rana, Scott Minnich and David Snoke from the US.

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C’est chaque fois la même chose

Posted on 26/12/2025 by Jon Garvey

It was a writer on COVID, which one I’ve forgotten, who recently pointed us to this 1898 book by the great Alfred Russel Wallace (co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, if you’ve forgotten, of the theory of evolution by natural selection, though he was far better than Darwin in realising its limitations). So I’m reinforcing that modern writer’s application to the present here, rather than discovering anything new myself.

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Was Einstein wrong?

Posted on 30/11/2025 by Jon Garvey

Every once in a while, some sciencey YouTuber posts a video about a new scientific discovery that casts doubt on Einstein’s theory of relativity. I’ve no idea whether any of these have validity, but instead I want to ask whether scientific progress has refuted his view of God – that is to say his theology rather than his relativity.

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My books on the cheap!

Posted on 05/11/2025 by Jon Garvey

My publisher, Wipf and Stock, is offering all their books, including my God’s Good Earth and The Generations of Heaven and Earth, at half price until the end of this month. This Link should take you to my page, and if you enter the code CONFSHIP at checkout you’ll get your 50% discount on all formats, in any quantity. Not only that, but if you enter “economy” (or maybe “Media Mail” in some areas) shipping is free. Now is your chance to give all your friends and relatives a Christmas present that will raise their eyebrows!

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Doctor warns paracetamol causes Trump Derangement Syndrome

Posted on 24/09/2025 by Jon Garvey

The day before yesterday, President Trump introduced a 1½ hour briefing by the heads of all his health agencies, in which they summarised their efforts to get to the bottom of the appalling increase in autism across America (and indeed the West), from a one-time incidence of 1:200,000 to around 1:50. According to Trump, in California that rises to 1:12 male children. It can no longer be explained by increased detection or overdiagnosis.

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