Category Archives: Theology

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.

Posted in Adam, Creation, Genealogical Adam, History, Science, Theology | 2 Comments

Religion ghosts in refrigerated truck

Posted on 09/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I’m not sure how internationally this news was reported, but last month’s “illegal immigration tragedy” in Britain was the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated truck recently arrived in Essex from Zeebrugge. It quickly emerged that, apart from the scale of the incident, it was unusual in that the victims, first identified as coming from China, were all actually from Vietnam.

Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Theology | Leave a comment

How the seal got his genes

Posted on 01/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The atlantic grey seal is the commoner of Britain’s two seal species: we have 40% of the world population. Not only is it a wonderful animal, but something of a conservation success story, the population having escalated after protective legislation in 1914 from just 500 to 120,000.

Posted in Creation, Science, Theology of nature | Leave a comment

Daytrippers, demons or dolphins?

Posted on 25/10/2019 by Jon Garvey

Back in 2015 I confessed to an unhealthy obsession with UFOs in my early years. I regaled my friends with the exploits of George Adamski, and even persuaded my Latin teacher to have the class translate an allegedly mediaeval UFO report. Even now I still remember the Dewey Decimal code for the relevant section of our public library (629.1388).

Posted in Creation, Science, Theology of nature, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Stop changing the question

Posted on 19/10/2019 by Jon Garvey

A Daily Telegraph YouTube clip is entitled “Boris Johnson: Brexit is the biggest thing I’ve done professionally.” In fact, it is the interviewer who asks if it is the biggest thing he’s done professionally, and Boris hesitates a little bashfully before replying: “I wouldn’t deny that – I think it’s a very big thing for our country.”

Posted in Creation, History, Theology | Leave a comment

The population prediction bombs out

Posted on 07/10/2019 by Jon Garvey

One of the earliest of the continuous stream of apocalyptic “scientific” prophecies that has culminated in 2030 and All That was Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb of 1968.

Posted in Creation, Politics and sociology, Science, Theology of nature | Leave a comment

On eternal souls

Posted on 24/09/2019 by Jon Garvey

The question of the eternal soul came up at Peaceful Science in the context of what it means to be human (and specifically, to be a human living outside the Garden of Eden under the Genealogical Adam and Eve paradigm.

Posted in Creation, Genealogical Adam, Theology | 15 Comments

Australopithecus saltationis

Posted on 16/09/2019 by Jon Garvey

I found ID palaeontologist Günter Bechly’s article on the newly announced fossil hominid Australopithecus anamensis extremely thought provoking.

Posted in Creation, Science, Theology of nature | Leave a comment

I know where I live

Posted on 06/09/2019 by Jon Garvey

Sorry that posts are a bit thin on the ground just now: a lot of work on the land, on book projects and church work are crowding things a bit. But the rather misanthropic cast of my piece on apes has been, if anything, reinforced by a series of blackmail e-mails, threatening to out me as a notorious paedophile – oh, sorry, pedophile: the guy is an American, it seems, and his e-mail host is in New York.

Posted in Politics and sociology, Theology | Leave a comment

The primates of all England

Posted on 31/08/2019 by Jon Garvey

So this week we took our twelve-year old granddaughter to Monkey World, east of our particular Eden here, in Dorset. It’s just down the road from the Bovington Tank Museum, so we had to be careful not to end up with the Shermans rather than the Simians (or the Chieftains instead of the Capuchins). I’ve seen the brown tourist signs for it for years, and assumed it was a small sad zoo in which fat children could gawp at small sad monkeys in cages.

Posted in Adam, Creation, Politics and sociology, Science, Theology | 4 Comments