J. R. R. Tolkien on Evil and the Purposes of God

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, made clear in his private writings he intended to proclaim a Christian message ...

Teddy Roosevelt's Humility Before Creator

President Theodore Roosevelt's love of the outdoors is well documented. He was responsible for the creation of several national parks and monuments. ...

Who Is Your Creator: God or Particles?

Professor and journalist Terry Mattingly writes:

[In his talks, author Phillip Johnson quotes] the Gospel of John, which states: "In the beginning ...

Creator Makes and Fixes Creations

When we were missionaries in the Philippines, we vacationed in Baguio City in the mountains of Northern Luzon. While there, we visited the St. Louis Silver ...

Earth Created to Sustain Life

Dr. Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the SETI Institute, points out in his course "The Search for Intelligent Life in Space" what conditions ...

C. S. Lewis Depicts Unbelief

In his book, The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis writes of the creation of fictitious Narnia through the song of Aslan (the lion who represents Jesus ...

Random Creation? Do the Math

A chance of 1 out of 1,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillion, 10 with 14 zeros) is considered a virtual impossibility. But when DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick ...

The Bear and the Atheist

An atheist was walking through the woods, admiring all the "accidents" that evolution had created. "What majestic trees! What powerful ...

Holiness in Creation

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes— The rest sit round it and pluck ...

Man Can't Duplicate Creation

Biosphere 2 was an attempt to set up an isolated living environment that would supply all the factors necessary for sustaining life. It was to be a self-contained ...