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Animal death before the Fall

Animal death before the Fall

Does God care anything about animal death and suffering? The Bible says ‘yes’. It’s part of God’s nature.
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17 Mar, 2020
Accounting for blighting plant and disfiguring animal diseases

Accounting for blighting plant and disfiguring animal diseases

How did the Fall affect fungi?
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13 Mar, 2020
Aussie bushfire crisis

Aussie bushfire crisis

How should we respond to Australia’s current bushfire situation?
Article
17 Jan, 2020
Salad-eating sharks

Salad-eating sharks

Bonnethead sharks have short ‘carnivorous ancestry’ intestines, yet their stomachs have been found to contain up to 62% seagrass
Article
08 Jan, 2020
Bodily functions before the Fall?

Bodily functions before the Fall?

Normal bodily functions occurred pre-Fall, and DNAs dynamism may have also allowed for blue eyes and lactose tolerance.
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22 Dec, 2018
Preserving God’s image in the face of death: Important lessons in remembering
World War 1

Preserving God’s image in the face of death: Important lessons in remembering World War 1

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the end of World War 1. Even in the horror of war, important lessons can be learnt about the truth of Genesis.
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11 Nov, 2018
Bioethicists obsessed with killing babies—why?

Bioethicists obsessed with killing babies—why?

Explaining a worrying trend in bioethics.
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09 Oct, 2018
Cannibal deer!

Cannibal deer!

Deer show us that nearly any animal could become a carnivore … under the right conditions.
Article
20 Aug, 2018
Pre-Fall seafood

Pre-Fall seafood

What fish ate before the Fall
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21 Apr, 2018
Christian apologists trip over the age of the earth … again

Christian apologists trip over the age of the earth … again

A Christian advocate of millions of years of death and ‘natural evil’ before Adam is challenged to answer the dilemma this poses, namely that it implies that the Creator God is a moral monster.
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10 Apr, 2018
Why did God allow sin at all?

Why did God allow sin at all?

Could God have created a world where nobody sinned? If so, why didn’t He?
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23 Dec, 2017
Farming frustrations? ...

Farming frustrations? ...

Despite the latest technological advancements and increasing scientific knowledge, it is still hard work to successfully grow our food.
Article
31 May, 2017
What about those who have never heard the Gospel?

What about those who have never heard the Gospel?

When we think about those who have not yet heard the Gospel, our response should drive us to evangelism.
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20 May, 2017
Physical new earth

Physical new earth

The whole point of the eternal state is that it’s a restoration of the world to the way God originally created it in Genesis 1—very good.
Article
21 Jan, 2017
2nd Century Church Fathers: God will make lions vegetarian again

2nd Century Church Fathers: God will make lions vegetarian again

Second century Church Fathers believed God would end animal suffering and predation.
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09 Nov, 2015
Cecil the lion: should we care?

Cecil the lion: should we care?

Global outrage over a hunter killing an African lion highlights the contradiction between care and concern for the treatment of animals and blind, pitiless evolution.
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15 Sep, 2015