Yes, the same Ben Carson who recently delivered a message at the National Prayer Breakfast. In this 10-minute interview with David Boze, he explains why he rejects Darwinian evolution.
An excerpt:
I think one of the most damning pieces of evidence against evolution is the human genome. You can see that you have very complex, sophisticated coding mechanisms for different amino acids, and various sequences that give you millions of different genetic instructions — very much like computer programming, which uses a series of zeros and ones in different sequences, but gives you very specific information about what that computer is to do.
A significant percentage of 18-29 year olds once raised in the church are no longer attending one. The social forces which once brought transitioning adults back to the church (e.g., marriage, child-raising) are being delayed, sometimes indefinitely. Moreover, our culture, as a whole, is less religious. For example, an Oct 2012 Pew survey shows those claiming “no religion” jumped from ~15% to ~20% from 2007-2012. Among 18-29 year olds, it’s one out of three (32%).
Yet somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4 of such young adults were raised in religious homes. At least temporarily, the church seems to be losing its youth in droves. I’ve recently read two excellent books on this phenomenon, Generation Ex-Christian and You Lost Me. Each is well written and rich in content and analysis.
Dr. Benjamin Carson addressed the National Prayer Breakfast this past Thursday morning. He’s the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the author of America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great (currently the #1 book on Amazon). It’s a phenomenal speech in many ways, covering an array of topics–political correctness, personal responsibility, the value of education and hard work, even the federal deficit, national debt, tax policy, and health care.
The other night my wife and I were able to hear Andrew Peterson at the TruthXChange conference. I was so glad that he played You’ll Find Your Way, from his new album Light for the Lost Boy. It’s a song many parents can relate to. Andrew wrote it for his son when he turned 13, basing it on Jeremiah 6:16: “Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.’”
Provocative argument in the New York Times today by Arthur C. Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, and a former professor at Syracuse University, on the way he completed a bachelor’s degree on the cheap. He makes a strong, moral case for the so-called “10K-B.A.” The conclusion:
The 10K-B.A. is exactly the kind of innovation we would expect in an industry that is showing every indication of a bubble that is about to burst, as Thomas K. Lindsay of the Texas Public Policy Foundation shows in a new report titled, “Anatomy of a Revolution? The Rise of the $10,000 Bachelor’s Degree.” When tuition skyrockets and returns on education stagnate, we can expect a flight to value, especially by people who can least afford to ride the bubble, and who have no choice but to make a cost-effective college investment. Continue Reading…
A great collection of short videos by the folks at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate in London on how science and Christianity are not at odds. Here’s the introduction:
In Chapter 3 of Saving Leonardo, Nancy Pearcey anticipates the change in rhetoric on display from pro-abortion advocates: Namely, an acknowledgement that, biologically, life does begin at conception. They’ve had to admit this given the advancement of ultrasound technology which lets us see inside the womb.
How, then, to justify abortion? Either deny that life = personhood (and define personhood as having certain mental capacities), or simply say that some lives are more important than others. The latter strikes me as a more honest representation of those who support abortion rights. John Piper writes:
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(currently the #1 book on Amazon). It’s a phenomenal speech in many ways, covering an array of topics–political correctness, personal responsibility, the value of education and hard work, even the federal deficit, national debt, tax policy, and health care.
. It’s a song many parents can relate to. Andrew wrote it for his son when he turned 13, basing it on Jeremiah 6:16: “Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.’”
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