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If, to use recent examples, a family insists on adopting children who then set fires on the neighbour’s property, keep necessitating the sheriff coming out, sexually assault their siblings, and try to smuggle hard drugs across the border, yes, some introspection is necessary to say “Maybe we need t...

I was pondering this earlier... I do not think I ever really heard a sermon preached on adopting children. At least nothing in depth. I've heard sermons preached on a single person's role in a church setting, but can't say I heard anything on adoption. It should be part and parcel of the comprehens...

Also, Ken, what leads you to believe that the Hebrews believed the earth was flat and static? I was recently reading about the Pantheon in Greece and architects and masons now posit that the Greeks had tools that we currently don't have when it comes to stone construction. Just sayin' I don't think ...

Anyway, science currently says I have evolved from a primordial soup...where that soup came from has yet to be discovered...I also came from fish cuz when I look at my hands, those were formerly fins and had webbing between the fingers. My atheist friend is certain we are from the water, to which I ...

I am frankly puzzled by why so many conservative Christians are so insistent in arguing about evolution when when there are just as many other modern scientific theories that are equally inconsistent with the Old Testament and Genesis. Modern Plate Tectonics, for example. Or for that matter, a heli...

Also, may I ask you Ken when you embraced Darwinian theory? Quite frankly, I don't view Darwin as very intelligent.

And do you believe you descended from fish? Like what we call our hands, those, millions of years ago, were fins.

I would encourage you Ken to hang up teaching if you cannot present other, well as you see them, myths. My colleagues at work who are atheists are Gen Z and believe they are made of Martian material. I don't think teaching evolution as fact is fair, and at the very least you should be highlighting t...

Interesting discussion. Ken, while I get the sense you occasionally feel the need to push back against some of the dogmatism here (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), I''ll admit I'm not always sure where you fall on an issue, especially when it gets muddied in back-and-forths with Josh. But base...

Creationism isn't science. It isn't even coherent. People who advocate creationism don't even agree on what it means. And in any event, which creation story would you want taught in class? There are hundreds of them. In addition to the Hebrew one there is the Navajo creation story, the Chinook crea...

I'm not dogmatic about evolution. It is just one unit out of about 20 that I teach in regular biology classes along with all the other topics: Ecology, biochemistry, cell biology, photosynthesis, respiration, cellular reproduction, mendelian genetics, molecular genetics, history of life on earth, b...