Exploring the Bible

  The Missing Link? Hunting for Dinosaurs in the Text of Scripture Walk into any natural history museum, and you are immediately greeted by the kings of the ancient past: the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Triceratops, the towering Brachiosaurus. Dinosaurs capture our imagination like few other things. They are the monsters under the bed that actually existed. For many believers, however, these fossilized giants present a puzzle. We read the book of Genesis, and we see lions, cattle, and creeping things. We see birds and fish. But where are the dinosaurs? If the Bible claims to be a history of the world, why does it seem to be silent on the most impressive creatures to ever walk the earth? The answer might be simpler than we think: we are looking for the wrong word, but the right description. The first hurdle in finding dinosaurs in the Bible is linguistic. The word "dinosaur" was not coined until 1841 AD , when British anatomist Sir Richard Owen combined the Greek words dein...

    Why Evolution Can't Explain Life's Code   We live in a world that often treats the Theory of Evolution not as a theory, but as a settled fact. We see the famous "March of Progress" illustration—the ape slowly standing up to become a man—in textbooks, museums, and pop culture. We are told that given enough time and random chance, pond scum eventually became poets, and molecules became mathematicians. But when we peel back the layers and look at the actual science—specifically the science of information and biology—the story changes. The more we learn about the complexity of life, the more the Darwinian explanation starts to fray at the edges. It turns out that believing in a Creator isn't "anti-science." In fact, it might be the only logical conclusion to the data we are finding. Imagine walking along a beach and finding the words "John loves Mary" written in the sand. You would never assume the waves rolled in and accidentally for...