Category Archives: Theology of nature

RIP Günter Bechly

Posted on 09/01/2025 by Jon Garvey

I’ve been saddened to hear of the untimely death (in a road accident) of my favourite palaeontologist, Günter Bechly, over in Austria. You can see a report and an appreciation over at Evolution News and Views.

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Revisiting Genesis cosmology

Posted on 17/12/2024 by Jon Garvey

More seasoned readers of The Hump will remember its emphasis on “origins” before it started to document how the world has finally gone completely mad. One recurring theme was to refute the claim that the Bible, and Genesis 1 in particular, teaches an erroneous “Middle East obsolete science cosmology.” The matter broadly boils down to the proper consideration of genre.

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Me on my book

Posted on 19/09/2024 by Jon Garvey

As promised a few weeks ago, the American Gregg Davidson, geologist and writer, has posted the podcast I recorded with him on God’s Good Earth. It may be found here. Check out his own excellent book on interpreting the Creation narrative, The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One.

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Unpluggable gaps?

Posted on 27/08/2024 by Jon Garvey

Earlier this month I wrote a piece on the accusation that ID resorts to a version of the “God of the Gaps” fallacy (whilst repeating my belief that the fallacy is itself largely a fallacy).

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Plugging more gaps in the God of the gaps

Posted on 11/08/2024 by Jon Garvey

Last Thursday I was interviewed for a podcast on God’s Good Earth by geologist Gregg Davidson, co-author with Ken Turner of the excellent Manifold Beauty of Genesis One, as well as writing an excellent sci-fi trilogy. The podcast should be online in about five weeks, Gregg says, so I’ll let you know about it when it happens.

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All flesh is grass

Posted on 27/02/2024 by Jon Garvey

Yesterday a (highly) local landmark met its end, succumbing to a relatively moderate windy night as winter merges into spring. I’ve come to know the ancient ash tree – I suppose 150 years old or more – as “the jackdaw tree” since we moved here fifteen years ago.

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Are we in a simulation? Materialist and theist approaches

Posted on 29/12/2023 by Jon Garvey

The idea that the world is nothing but a “simulation,” akin to that in the Matrix films, has cropped up over the last few years in serious academic papers, in many YouTube videos, and even in comments by Elon Musk. And now it has reached the popular press in the form of this Daily Mail article.

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Skin in the game

Posted on 23/12/2023 by Jon Garvey

It doesn’t take much imagination to realise that the bloke who wins a Nobel Prize for, say, the No-threshold linear mutagenesis model of radiation is not the most susceptible to research debunking it. Nor is a renowned race activist immersed in intersectional theory the most amenable to evidence that racism has decreased. For they both have “skin in the game.”

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The religious apologetics of naturalistic materialism

Posted on 09/11/2023 by Jon Garvey

James Tour, as many of you will know, is a noted chemist who wears his Christian faith on his sleeve, unashamedly engaging in apologetics alongside his groundbreaking research, particularly that involving nano-particles.

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Providence, raindrops and horsehoe-nails

Posted on 25/09/2023 by Jon Garvey

One throw-away line in a video for the excellent Christian course Discipleship Exploredcaught my attention. The narrator, speaking of God’s care for us, said that “each drop of rain has its intended target.”

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