Reading 1 Kings 18 in my daily Bible reading, I thought of theistic evolution. But Terry, what does 1 Kings 18 have to do with evolution? This was 2600 years before Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species! Elijah called the people to Mount Carmel for a showdown with the prophets of Baal and Asherah. This is one of my favorite Bible accounts. Elijah said to the people: “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the Lord…..
Peter Ward, a University of Washington Biology professor, claims that people being stressed from Donald Trump’s presidency will cause an evolutionary change.1 Ward states: “Were finding more and more that, for instance, people who have gone through combat, or women who have been abused when you have these horrendous episodes in life, it causes permanent change, which is then passed on to your kid.” He then goes on to say “On a larger scale, the amount of stress that Americans…..
This past week I was struck by two news stories. The first one was Rachel Dolezal being disinvited from a Baltimore book festival.1 She was the person forced to resign as President of the NAACP because it was discovered she was not “black.” The second news story was a federal appeals court ruling that a 17 year old Wisconsin high school student, Ashton Whitaker, who is female, may use the boy’s room.2 Writing about the school’s policy, U.S. Circuit Judge…..