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 | On 2008-MAR-11, the University of Dallas School of Ministry
sponsored a panel presentation and discussion titled: "Evolution and
Creationism: Scientific and Religious Perspectives." Panelists and
topics were:
The video is 40 minutes in duration and is available in both high and low resolution. See: http://www.udallas.edu/ |
One site contains news of recent developments in human evolution:
| Becoming Human, a service of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University maintains an impressive web site called "Becoming Human." Their home page at http://www.becominghuman.org/ contains a link to their "News and Views" section which describes new discoveries in human ancestry. |
One web site features creation myths from religions around the world:
| The International Association of Intercultural Education maintains an educational web site "The Big Myth." It features a collection of creation myths from around the world. It is optimized for teaching 12 to 14 year olds. See: http://www.bigmyth.com |
Some websites have many links to "origins" web sites:
| Creation and Evolution Links at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/ |
| The Creation/Evolution Reference Database by Thomas Moor is at: http://www.baz.com/litm/CERD/ |
| Creation vs. Evolution is a web site prepared by the 1998 ThinkQuest contest team 19012 (Ross Lag and Jonathan Taylor, then aged 13 years) at: http://library.advanced.org/19012/intro.htm |
| A part of Cuban's Pale Place at: http://members.aol.com/fostrak/ce.htm |
Creation Science links:
These conservative Christian web sites generally promote the inerrancy of the Bible, a young earth less than 10 millennia old, and a global flood in the days of Noah:
| Answers In Genesis is at: http://www.answersingenesis.org |
| The Center for Scientific Creation has a web site at: http://www.creationscience.com/ |
| Christian Geology Ministry uses "science, logic and the EXACT English wording of the King James Bible to MORE PERFECTLY interpret the Genesis Narratives and the Earth's Geology." See: http://www.kjvbible.org |
| The Creation Research Society is at: http://www.creationresearch.org/ |
| Creation Science is a web site by a group of scientists at: http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/ |
| The Creation Studies Institute hopes to build a Creation Studies Center in South Florida. See: http://www.csinfo.org/ |
| Evolution: Science says "No!" is a ministry of two Teens for Christ groups in Pennsylvania. They take a very dim view of Evolution, saying: "In addition to being pseudo-science, evolution has been the basis of philosophies such as Nazism, fascism, and communism and has been the basis of instances of mass genocide." See: http://www.evolutionisfalse.org |
| "Faith with Reason: Why Christianity is True" is a 110 page book by Joseph Farinaccio
that has been posted to this web site with the permission of
BookSpecs Publishing. According to the publisher, the book "...is
geared towards those who want to get to the heart of
worldview
disputes between Christians and unbelievers....[It] Plainly explains the
naturalistic faith-based assumptions of Darwinism and five reasons why
evolution is easily disproven [sic]...." Chapter 10 "Creation
or Evolution" starts on Page 78. It is a 734 KB file, so it may
load slowly. You may need software to read these files. It can be obtained free from:
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| The Institute for Creation Research has a research center and radio program. See: http://www.icr.org/ |
| In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood (6th ed.) is an online book by Walt Brown. |
| In the days of Noah is an online book by Allan Ask. |
| An invitation to the truth, by Harun Yahya, is a creation science site featuring books written from a Islamic perspective. See: http://www.harunyahya.org/Eng/ |
| "Jesus, Dinosaurs and more!" is "a webpage of scientific evidence supporting the biblical account of creation," at: http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/ |
| "Moses didn't write about creation!," a book by "Ephriam" attempts to reconcile the Bible account of creation with the findings of science. He has published the first two chapters of his book at: http://hometown.aol.com/ephraim7/ |
| The Presbyterian Church in America published a Report of the Creation Study Committee in the year 2000. This is a small conservative Presbyterian denomination, not to be confused with the much larger Presbyterian Church (USA). See: http://reasons.org/resources/ |
| The Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism sponsors a creation science mailing list. A form for joining is at: http://www.nazarene.net/ |
| The Triunity Report contains many reports critical of various scientific theories. See: http://www.corp.direct.ca/trinity/ |
| The True.Origin Archive "provides an intellectually honest alternative to...pro-evolutionism websites." See: http://www.trueorigin.org/index.htm |
| www.creationism.org has a web site at http://www.creationism.org/ with many links to creation and evolution sites. |
Progressive (a.k.a. old Earth) creationism:
These conservative Christian web sites generally promote the the inerrancy of the Bible, but differ from most creation scientists by teaching that the universe is many billions of years old:
| Reasons to Believe is at: http://www.reasons.org/ They believe that science and the Bible can be harmonized with the concept of God creating the universe billions of years ago. |
| Evolution in Action at http://www.proofgodexists.org/ |
| Creation, Evolution and Adam is written by "Ed," an Evangelical Christian who describes himself as a "progressive creationist" His web site has frequently been relocated. His introduction has been temporarily posted at: http://members.aol.com/dwise1/ |
Many Internet sites, primarily secular, promote "naturalistic evolution":
| Ed Babinski has a web site on Creation vs. Evolution at: http://edwardtbabinski.us/ He converted from a young-earth creationist and Evangelical Christian to an Agnostic and supporter of evolution. |
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The Clergy Letter Project promotes the teaching of evolution in public schools. See: "Welcome to the Clergy Letter Project," at: http://www.uwosh.edu/ They also promote Evolution Sunday -- close to the birth date of Charles Darwin (1809-FEB-12) -- when many Christian, Unitarian Universalist and other faith groups and congregations celebrate the harmony of evolution and religion. See: http://www.uwosh.edu/ |
| Darwin Day Celebration (DDC) proposes an international recognition of Darwin's 2000th birthday on 2009-FEB-12. By coincidence, Abraham Lincoln was born on the same day. DDC will also be the 150th anniversary of the publication of his most famous book "On the Origin of Species." The DDC website states: |
"The objective of Darwin Day Celebration is to encourage existing institutions worldwide, such as municipalities, public and private schools, colleges and universities, libraries, museums, churches, private organizations and individuals to celebrate Science and Humanity every year, on, or near, February 12, Darwin's birthday!"
| "Evolution" is a web site by Larry Morn of the Dept. of Biochemistry, at the University of Toronto. See: http://bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca/~lamoran/ It lists many pro and anti-evolution sites at: http://bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca/~lamoran/ |
| "Frequently Encountered Criticisms in Evolution vs. Creationism" by Mark Voltaic at: http://www2.uic.edu/~vuletic/cefec.html |
| The Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University maintains an impressive web site called "Becoming Human." It is a "journey through the story of human evolution in a broadband documentary experience." See: http://www.becominghuman.org/ |
| The National Association of Biology Teachers has published a "Statement on Teaching Evolution" at: http://www.nabt.org/sub/ |
| The Secular Web contains many documents which promote the theory of evolution. Search for titles using the search word "evolution" at: http://www.infidels.org/ |
| Talk Reason attempts to defend "genuine science from numerous attempts by the new crop of creationists to replace it with theistic pseudo-science under various disguises and names." See: http://www.talkreason.org/ |
| Talk.origins, promotes evolution at: http://www.talkorigins.org |
A few sites specialize in harmonizing science with Genesis:
| "Science Christianity United: The Bottom Line," by C. Gordon Winder is at http://publish.uwo.ca/~cwinder/index.html |
| Reasons You Can Trust the Bible discusses "Genesis creation, evolution...Noah's flood," etc. attempting to harmonize the scientific and biblical viewpoints. See http://www.trustbible.com |
| Faith and Reason Ministries at http://www.faithreason.org/ |
Some sites promote "Intelligent Design":
This is the concept that living things, the earth and the rest of the universe cannot have come into existence through blind evolutionary forces, but must have been created. See:
| Access Research Network at: http://www.arn.org/ |
| Center for Science & Culture at: http://www.discovery.org/crsc/ |
| IntelligentDesign.org at: http://www.intelligentdesign.org/index.htm |
| WorldView Test Site: "Evolution vs. Creation (Intelligent Design)" at http://geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8830/evolcreation.html This contains a list of links to Intelligent Design websites. |
Some sites promote other points of view:
| "100 year old news: Theosophy and the human dino," at: http://www.homestead.com/theosophy/ascension.html |
| "Science and Religion: The Origins Debate," argues that the debate between Christianity and science should never have taken place, because science does not have jurisdiction in this area. See: http://sciencetheoryreligion.angelcities.com/ |
| "Bible Quotes and Science Info" provides inspirational Bible quotes which point to intelligent design. They offer Bible and science in a novel, in free articles, free newsletter, and a creation vs. evolution directory. See: http://www.bible-quotes-science-info.com/ |
Other material:
| Google Earth is a well known free program that allows you to scan places on the earth, even down to the building level. The version of the program introduced in 2007-AUG has a "Switch to Sky" option built into its pull-down menu. It allows you to scan 125 of the most popular Hubble images, to see the outline of the constellations, and other options. |
Book references:
| Isaac Asimov, "Asimov's Guide to the Bible", Wings Books, New York, (1981). You can read reviews and purchase this book safely from Amazon.com |
| Jonathan Wiener, "The Beak of the Finch: A story of evolution in our time," Vintage Books. You can review or buy this book. Almost all of Amazon.com's reviewers rated this book 5 out of 5. |
| Charles Pellegrino, "Return to Sodom and Gomorra", Avon, New York, NY (1994) Review or buy this book |
| R W Berry, "Is God a Creationist?", Charles Scriber's Sons, (1983) Book out of print but Amazon.com might be able to get a used copy |
| The Institute for Creation Research maintains an online bookstore with an extensive line of creation science texts at: http://www.icr.org/book.htm |
| Jim Schicatano, "The Theory of Creation: A Scientific and Translational Analysis of the Bible Creation Story," (2001) Review or buy this book The author attempts to harmonize the apparent conflict between science and Genesis. He has a web site at http://www.thetheoryofcreation.com |
DVD reference:
| Michael Dowd has a new 4-hour DVD for general audiences called "The
Great Story." It is a science-based epic of evolution understood in a
sacred, meaningful way. It includes his most popular programs:
They were filmed in 2005 before live audiences. It is digitally enhanced with supplemental charts, photographs, and other illustrations. The DVD sells for $30.00 plus S&H. The purchaser is allowed to make as many copies as they wish for others. See: http://www.thegreatstory.org/ |
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