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All Blog Posts With Tag: Evolution
John Calvin on Nicolaus Copernicus and Heliocentrism (May 21, 2014)
Geocentric Model of the 16th Century
John Calvin's reputation has suffered tremulously due to the following quotation that was wrongly attributed to him by famous men such as Bertrand Russell, Thomas Kuhn and many others, which Calvin had never uttered:
"Who,' asks Calvin, 'will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that […]
Karl Rahner on why Genesis 1-11 is not an Eyewitness Account (April 12, 2014)
Often it is alleged that Genesis 1-11 is an eye-witness account, and even if Adam was not there in the beginning of Genesis 1-2, then God was certainly there as an eyewitness. But this will not do! Karl Rahner explains why it is a travesty to treat the proto-history of […]
~ Updated and Revised: March 8th, 2019 ~
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851—1921) was a professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (and successor of Charles Hodge and his son A. A. Hodge), and B. B. Warfield is among the greatest and most influential Reformed theologians in American history. B. B. Warfield […]
John Calvin on Genesis 1 as an Accommodation to the Ordinary Custom of Men (January 27, 2014)
How are we to understand the two famous Creation narratives in Genesis 1-2, considering the scientific knowledge we have of the cosmos today? If we were to read Genesis 1-2 as a straightforward scientific account, we'd come to conclude that the Sun is the greatest luminary in the cosmos, and […]
