The Elusive Guanaco

[Editor's Note: this post was edited for clarity in the paragraph following the quote from Augustine.] This post was inspired by a bl...

The following is the first sermon in a series of talks I gave in Red Deer on April 12-14, 2013, on creation care. This text provides the gis...

The following is the introduction to a series of talks I gave in Red Deer on April 12-14, 2013, on creation care. This text provides t...

Ceratium hirundinella , featured above, is a single-celled dinoflagellate, which may very well be the coolest non-dinosaur name given to ...

I'm getting more comfortable using my microscope to identify the incredible diversity of organisms living in Alberta's ponds. Rather...

Hello everyone and happy New Year. Now that I have finished teaching my course on Science and the Christian Faith at Alberta Bible College, ...

I was asked to write an article on the Creation Care component of the Social Justice League for Bow Valley Christian Church's newsletter...

I came across this beautiful poem this morning while reading The Groaning of Creation  (2008) by Christopher Southgate. I will have more to ...

I enjoy the occasional horror movie, but it is always nice to know that those vampires or zombies or Stay-Puff Marshmallow men are fiction. ...

Answers in Genesis has an interesting little article about the use of dinosaurs to promote their work .  They have been producing a serie...

Giant humans, or fakes?  These human tracks were claimed by locals to have  been found at Paluxy and sold during the Depression. A few...

'What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?  You made him a little lower than the heavenly being...

The following is a sermon I gave at Pine Lake Life Camp (formerly family camp) over the 2012 May long weekend. Read Luke10:25-37 HOM...

Romans 1:19-20 reads, '...since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.  For since the ...

Creation Groans was on Saturday, and it was a huge success.  As part of the day, I brought out my microscope and showed life in a drop of wa...

Should Christians care for the environment?  This is the leading question at a workshop being put on by myself and Ryan Scruggs on June 23 a...

Yesterday a new toy arrived in the mail for me (as a graduation present!) - a Celestron digital microscope!  I immediately acquainted mysel...

My former supervisor, Dr. Jeffrey Hutchings, current President for the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (of which I am a member) s...

So far in our tour of the Origin we have seen that pre-Darwinian scientists defined species as distinct entities created by God, and varie...

It has been an interesting few months for my particular flavour of Christianity, the Restoration Movement (also known as the Stone-Campbell ...

We are halfway through our top ten reasons for creation care, and this just in time for Earth Day this Sunday!  Rather than go through t...

Sorry I've been off for a while, I took a week long challenge to stay away from all forms of electronic entertainment, which include...

We're continuing on with our top ten reasons that every Christian should care for the environment.  Specifically, these are scriptural ...

  Today we continue our countdown of the top 10 reasons every Christian should care for the environment. 10. The world is good. 9. God bl...

Locust swarms involve intense competition for resources At this point in our tour of Darwin’s Origin , Darwin has questioned the 19 t...

We continue our countdown of the top 10 reasons every Christian should be taking care of this planet, in preparation for Earth hour at...

Saturday, March 31, at 8:30 pm is Earth hour, in which people around the planet will be unplugging the electric items in their house and ...

Update: Due to mechanical failure, Dr. Dennett's plane did not arrive in Calgary on time.  His talk has been rescheduled for Saturday...

The giraffe species is divided into several populations, each exhibiting a region-specific colouration pattern on the hide.  These have be...

This semester I am taking a course on Darwin’s first edition of On the Origin of Species .  I thought that I would post chapter summaries o...