Science Detects Order and Directionality, Faith Sees the Purposes of an Intelligent Creator

One of my first encounters with this question took place in college physics class. My lab group was assembling an experiment on circular motion and figuring out what to measure using the messy pile of equipment on the lab bench. We got it set up, made our measurements of radius, velocity, etc., then did some…
Intuitions, Proteins, and Evangelicals: A Response to Undeniable

Doug Axe and I share a number of similarities: we both profess faith in Jesus Christ; we both did our graduate training in cell/molecular biology in the late 1990s and early 2000s; we both rejected and opposed evolution during that time; and we both embraced the ideas of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement as a…
Was It Chance or Was It God? Introducing Axe’s Undeniable

Chance or God? This is perhaps the central theme of the science-religion interaction in evolutionary biology. Most people—even hardnosed atheists—agree that the natural world looks as if it were designed. The question is, what is the explanation of that apparent design? The central argument of Douglas Axe’s book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our intuition that…
Controversy and Conversation

I’m thankful for the opportunity to participate in this series about the Cabal and Rasor book, Controversy of the Ages. I agreed to the assignment having had no previous knowledge of the book. But I had met Ted Cabal at one of the private meetings with BioLogos, Reasons to Believe, and Southern Baptist seminary professors…