A Response to Ken Ham: Let’s Make Peace

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Evolving in Monkey Town made national news last week when it was featured in a Nashville Tennessean story that was picked up by USA Today.  The story described various views regarding the evolution-creationism debate and included my perspective that young Christians long for a more nuanced, constructive approach to this issue.   “My generation of evangelicals is ready to call a truce on the culture wars,” I said. “We are ready to move on." This quote caught the... read more

Kirk Cameron and Six Evangelical Stereotypes

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You know that feeling you get when your sweet, 90-year-old grandmother makes a blatantly racist comment at Thanksgiving dinner or your creepy uncle starts rambling about how the moon landing was staged? You are no doubt familiar with the spontaneous full-body wince that inevitably follows an interview with Al Sharpton in which he claims to represent all African Americans, Michael Moore in which he claims to represent all liberals, or Ann Coulter in which she claims to represent all Christians. W... read more

The Missing Link?

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This week I recorded and watched the History Channel documentary, “The Link,” which featured the recent scientific findings surrounding a miraculously intact primate fossil, estimated to be about 47-million years old. The documentary was interesting, but far too long. I’ll save you some time and summarize the two-hour presentation in two sentences:  The fossil, (discovered in the Messel Shale Pit in Germany), appears to be a transitional species that shows characteristic... read more

So I Want to Buy a Billboard...

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Although the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 ended long ago, tensions between religious fundamentalists and secularist still run high here in Dayton. Passions were recently reignited by a local billboard war. First, the Freedom from Religion Foundation put this billboard up just outside the Dayton city limits:   Then, local activist June Griffin put this one up in town: The billboard wars have left Dayton residents with two equally ill-informed choices. The first advocates sacri... read more

Making Peace with Science

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In belated recognition of Darwin’s 200th birthday, I thought I’d post a series on faith and science, culminating with a really fun post on Friday that you’re not going to want to miss. (Hint: It’s about the billboard war in Dayton.) I thought I’d start by sharing my own story of how I came to respect evolutionary theory as a viable explanation for how God created the heavens and the earth, and how this position has enriched rather than destroyed my faith. Defacing... read more

Guest Post: Micah Visits the Creation Museum

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Thanks to Micah for letting me use this post from his blog, Forty Monkeys, Ten Minutes. My Visit to the Creation Museum   by Micah O. So this happened quite a while ago, but I haven't gotten around to writing it up (in part because I kept putting it off until I got the pictures off my phone, and in part because I knew it would be long). I went to the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky with the Elderberries, the 60+ crowd from VCC. The Creation Museum is an offshoot of Answers in Genes... read more

Book Club Discussion: In the beginning, at 9 a.m...

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It’s Monday, so today we continue our conversation about Crystal Downing’s How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith. Seeing as my hometown of Dayton, Tennessee became famous for the evolution/creation debate of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, I found Downing’s analysis of 17th century theologian James Usher’s creation timeline fascinating. Downing writes that “based on his reading of all the ‘begats’ in the Bible, along with the stated ages of Old Testament pat... read more

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