Missives

A collection of apologetic and encouraging notes for Christians in need of some power-boosts from time to time.

2023 marks the 70th anniversary of Watson and Crick's Nobel prize-winning discovery of DNA. Since then, we continue to discover astounding features in this dense information storage device. Allow me to illustrate DNA's capabilities with a made-up story about the discovery of an electronic tablet (DNA) in a deserted alien spaceship.
If you have ever attempted to loosen a bolt, you encountered chirality (ky-RAHL-ittee). Perhaps you muttered the phrase "lefty loosey, righty tighty". That's because nearly all bolts are threaded in one direction.
Before we make further progress towards deflating evolution's significance as even partially true, we need to address the seemingly untouchable argument of deep time.
Evolution rests on the chance-based idea that raw matter plus undirected energy creates increasingly complex and ordered systems.
You can blame it on the devil. He started this whole mess by posing an evil question: Yea, hath God said?
In 2006 scientists euphorically reported the 2004 discovery three-quarters of a fossilized fish under the ice in arctic Canada they named Tiktaalik roseae. It was hailed as convincing proof ...
While I attended geology classes at the University of Texas (UT), we were taught how to identify the age of certain rock layers. One of them, called the Devonian layer, was ...
One of the most persuasive arguments for evolution comes from the iconic apes-to-man parade. If it is real history, then Genesis chapters 1-2 are wrong.
In 1859, Charles Darwin expressed a concern over the deficiency of transitional fossils in his book, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life". He hoped that ensuing discoveries ...
God's fingerprints are absolutely imprinted upon all living things, but the devil sends waves of deceived charlatans to twist God's claims. We begin with a famous case, and one you've probably seen.