Below are links to various resources from Prof John Walton’s lecture ‘Forbidden Science and the Controversy over Origins‘, held at the Crieff Adventist Church on 11 November 2009.

MP3 files

• The lecture, ‘Forbidden Science‘ (14MB, 58min)
• The question and answer session following the lecture (5MB, 22min)

Presentation

• The PowerPoint used during the lecture (23MB)

John Walton has also provided us with a suggested reading list.

Science, Philosophy & Intelligent Design

• Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin on Trial, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, 1993.
• Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box, The Free Press, New York, 1996.
• William A. Dembski, The Design Inference, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
• Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution, Regnery, Washington, 2000.
• Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma, Penguin Books, London, 2007.
• John Lennox, God’s Undertaker, Has Science Buried God, Lion Books, Oxford, 2007.
• Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion, SPCK, London, 2007.
• Thomas Crean, A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins, Family Publications, Oxford, 2007.
• John Cornwell, Darwin’s Angel, Profile Books, London, 2007.
• David Robertson, The Dawkins Letters, Christian Focus Publications, Fearn, 2007.
• Anthony Flew with Roy A. Varghese. There is a God, HarperCollins, New York, 2007.
• M. Beauregard and Denise O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, HarperOne, New York, 2007.
• S. C. Meyer, S. Minnich, J. Moneymaker and Ralph Seelke, Explore Evolution; the Arguments for and Against Neo-Darwinism, Hill House, Melbourne, 2007.
• Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution, Free Press, New York, 2007.
• Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God, Lion, Oxford, 2008.
• S. C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell, DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, HarperOne, 2009.
• Norman C. Nevin, editor, Should Christians Embrace Evolution, IVP, 2009.

Scriptural Reliability

• F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents; Are They Reliable?, 6^th Ed., IVP, Downers Grove, 1981.
• I. Provan, V. P. Long and T. Longman II, A Biblical History of Israel, WJK, Louisville, 2003.
• K. A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003.
• N. Thomas Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, SPCK, London, 2003.
• David N. Marshall, The Battle For the Bible, Autumn House, 2004.
• James H. Charlesworth, editor, Jesus and Archaeology, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2006.
• Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2006.
• Paul R. Eddy and Gregory Boyd: The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition, Baker Academic, 2007.

New Atheist and Theistic Evolutionist Books

• Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Books, London, 2006.
• Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, Bantam, 2009.
• Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Atlantic Books, 2008.
• Sam Harris: Letter to a Christian Nation, Bantam, 2007.
• Daniel Dennett: Breaking the Spell; Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Penguin, 2007.
• Dennis Alexander, Creation or Evolution, Do We Have to Choose? Monarch, 2008.
• Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution is True, OUP, Oxford, 2009.

UPDATE: An MP3 and PowerPoint from the lecture now available…

Did Darwin get it right?

In this 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth you are invited to a lecture given by John Walton, Research Professor of Chemistry at St Andrews University.  Dr Walton will present a ‘health check’ on Darwinism in the light of modern scientific discoveries.  Is there an alternative theory of human life which involves intelligent design?

Many of you will have attended Dr Walton’s lecture last year ‘Why doesn’t God stay dead?‘.  Come along and hear more from this well-respected speaker.

All seats free.

You can listen to an MP3 of the lecture, download Prof Walton’s PowerPoint presentation and view a suggested reading list.

MP3s from Gunnar Pedersen’s weekend study conference, ‘The Bible as a Grand Story‘, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 23-24 October 2009.

1. ‘What is the beginning of the story?’ (23MB, 1 hr 37 min)
2. ‘What is the Centre of the Story?’ (13MB, 56 min)
3. ‘Jesus, the Lamb of God’ (7MB, 32 min)
4. ‘What is the Goal of the Story?’ (14MB, 1 hr 4 min)
5. ‘A 7-stage structure for the reading of the Bible’ (70MB, 1 hr 15 min)

Crieff church is hosting a series of 4 seminars by Dr. Gunnar Pedersen, Principal Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Head of Department of Theological Studies at Newbold College.

MP3 files of each talk are posted here.

• The first seminar is entitled ‘What is the beginning of the story?’ and is on Friday evening at 7:00pm, preceded at 6:30pm with light refreshments.
• Sabbath morning at 10:00am, seminar 2 is ‘What is the Centre of the Story?’,
• followed by the Worship service at 11:15 when Dr Pedersen will preach on the topic of ‘Jesus, the lamb of God’.

There will be a bring-and-share lunch, followed by time for a walk, and

• seminar 3 commences at 4pm ‘What is the  Goal of the  Story?’,
• seminar 4 at 5:30pm ‘A 7-stage structure for the reading of the Bible’.

All welcome.

John Walton has provided us with a list of books for those who are interested in the current Science/Religion debates (see this post for MP3s of Prof Walton’s talk at Crieff Church):

Recommended Reading on Recent Aspects of the Science and Religion Debate.

Books on Intelligent Design

• Phillip. E. Johnson, Darwin on Trial, 2^nd ed.,* Inter Varsity Press, Downers Grove, 1993. [Law Professor critiques Darwinism]
• Phillip. E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance, the Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education, Inter Varsity Press, Downers Grove, 1995.
• Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box, Free Press, New York, 1996. [Biochemist shows how complex biological machines are evidence of design in Nature]
• Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution, Free press, New York, 2007 [Biochemists shows that evolution is limited in its range]
• William A. Dembski, Intelligent Design; The Bridge Between Science & Theology, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, 1999.
• William A. Dembski, The Design Revolution, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, 2004.
• William A. Dembski, ed. Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, ISI Books, Wilmington, 2004. [Dembski is a mathematician and theologian who gives the theoretical/philosophical foundation to intelligent design]

New Atheists Present Their Case

• Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Books, London, 2006.
• Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Atlantic Books, 2008.
• Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation, the End of Faith, Knopf, 2006.
• Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Viking Adult, 2006,

Replies to the New Atheists

• Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion, SPCK, London, 2007
• Thomas Crean, A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins, Family Publications, Oxford, 2007
• Anthony Flew with Roy A. Varghese. There is a God,* HarperCollins, New York, 2007. [One of the world's most influential atheists explains why he came to believe in God]
• John Cornwell, Darwin’s Angel*, Profile Books, London, 2007.
• David Robertson, The Dawkins Letters, Christian Focus Publications, Fearn, 2007.

Interesting Books in the Science/Faith Area

• Paul Davies, The Mind of God, Simon and Schuster, London 1992; see also: The Goldilocks Enigma, Penguin Books, London, 2007.
• John Lennox, God’s Undertaker, Has Science Buried God?* Lion Books, Oxford, 2007.
• Francis S. Collins, The Language of God, Free Press, New York, 2006, [Head of the human genome project presents evidence for belief]
• Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet, Regnery Publishing, 2004. [How our place in the Cosmos was designed for discovery].
• Jonathan Wells Icons of Evolution, Regnery Publishing, Washington, 2000 [Very readable exposure of the exaggerated claims of textbooks on evolution].
• Robert Shapiro, Origins, A Skeptic’s Guide to The Creation of Life on Earth, Bantam Books, Toronto, 1986.
• Michael Cremo and R. L. Thompson, Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust; 2nd Revised edition 1993.

Books of the Authenticity of Faith and the Reliability of the Bible

• Kenneth A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003.
• Iain Provan, V. Philips Long and Tremper Longman II, A Biblical History of Israel, WJK, Louisville, 2003.
• Paul R. Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd, the Jesus Legend, A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2007.
• F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? Eerdmans, 2003.
• James H. Charlesworth, editor, Jesus and Archaeology, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2006.
• Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2006.
• N. Thomas Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, SPCK, London, 2003.

Books About the Believability of Miracles

• Eddy and Boyd (above)
• Norman L. Geisler, Miracles and Modern Thought , Zondervan, 1982.
• C. S. Lewis, Miracles, New Edition from Fount, 2002.

MP3s from Radisa Antic’s weekend study conference, Radisa Antic ~ Seventh-day Adventist Church Doctrine and Ellen White, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 29-31 August 2008.

1. The Encounter with Jesus with the Samaritan Woman (15MB mp3).  Friday night.
2. The Relevance of Ellen White for Adventist Theology and Practice (13MB mp3).  Saturday morning as part of the Sabbath worship service.
3. The Biblical Concepts of Revelation and Inspiration (18MB mp3).  Saturday evening, part one.
4. Hermeneutics (17MB mp3).  Saturday evening, part two.
5. Devotinal, Psalm 27 (13MB mp3).  Sunday morning.
6. The Sanctuary Doctrine Part 1 (32MB mp3).  Sunday morning.
7. The Sanctuary Doctrine Part 2 (32MB mp3).  Sunday morning.

A weekend of seminars from Friday 29 – Sunday 31 August, by Dr Radisa Antic, Curator of the E G White Centre at Newbold College.

MP3s of the various talks are available here.

• Friday evening 19:00 The Encounter with Jesus with the Samaritan Woman

• Sabbath morning service 11:15 The Relevance of Ellen White for Adventist Theology and Practice.
• Sabbath fellowship ‘potluck’ lunch – please bring a contribution.
• Sabbath evening 18:00 The Biblical Concepts of Revelation and Inspiration; Hermeneutics

• Sunday morning 10:00 The Sanctuary Doctrine.
• Sunday lunch finger buffet.

All welcome, limited accommodation provided – contact Carole Peacock at the Scottish Mission Office Telephone 01764 653257, or Email: sdascotland@onetel.com

MP3s and a PowerPoint from Prof John Walton’s lecture, ‘Why Doesn’t God Stay Dead?’, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 4th June 2008.

1. Lecture, 57 mins, MP3 audio recording in two forms
   • High quality but large (30MB), recorded at 80kbps
   • Lower quality but smaller (12MB), recorded at 32kbps
2. PowerPoint that accompanied the lecture, contains all book and article references (8MB)

Book List (see this post for an expanded list…)

• The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
• God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John Lennox
• Darwin’s Black Box by Michael J. Behe
• The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath
• Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Riposte to “The God Delusion” by John Cornwell
• The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths by David Robertson
• A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins by Thomas Crean
• There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew and Roy Abraham Varghese

UPDATE: An MP3 and PowerPoint from the lecture now available…

You are invited to this fascinating and important lecture given by Professor John Walton.

Prof. Walton is now Honorary Research Professor at St. Andrews University having lectured there for 38 years in Reactive Chemistry and receiving numerous awards including the silver medal for Organic Reaction Mechanisms by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Prof. Walton will trace the rise of the ‘God is Dead’ movement from the beginning of the 20th century to the present time and to the time of Dr. Dawkins and ‘The God Delusion’.

Prof. Walton is a Christian and challenges this very secular age with the ‘problem’ of God.

All seats free

MP3s from Jan Barna’s weekend study conference, ‘The History of Adventist Beliefs: A Continuous Search for Identity’, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 21-23 September 2007.

1. Adventist Beliefs: An Immaculate Conception? An overview of developmental stages and influences which shaped the genesis of the Adventist beliefs (13MB)
2. The Legacy of Adventist Tradition: Faith seeking (An ever present) understanding (10MB)
3. Who had the Final Word in Doctrinal Issues in Early Adventism, the Book or the Books? (11MB)
4. So, what do Adventists teach about Salvation, Grace or the Law? (12MB)

A weekend to challenge and we hope enlighten ~ Jan Barna, PhD cand., Assistant Lecturer in Systematic and Biblical Theology, Newbold College, will be with us leading several presentations over the weekend.

Friday evening 7:00 – 8:00pm kicks off with the title ‘Adventist Beliefs: An Immaculate Conception? (An overview of developmental stages and influences which shaped the genesis of the Adventist beliefs)’.

Sabbath main service 11:15am-12:30pm is entitled ‘The Legacy of Adventist Tradition: Faith seeking (An ever present) Understanding’. The sermon explores the peculiar relationship between faith and change and suggests that Adventist tradition itself contains an effective key for dealing with the relationship in the form of the present truth concept.

Saturday evening 7:00pm continues with ‘Who had the Final Word in Doctrinal Issues in Early Adventism , the Book or the Books?’ – this will be a presentation on Biblical authority versus Ellen White’s role on the emerging beliefs in early Adventism.

Sunday morning 10:30am finishes with ‘So, what do Adventists teach about Salvation, Grace or the Law?’ ~ Uncovering the tension between the 1888 Righteousness by Faith and the 1930’s Perfect Last Generation.

There will be a buffet lunch following the Sunday session, to nourish the body after all the spiritual and mental food for thought.

Bibliographical Information ~ Jan has worked as a pastor for several years in Slovakia, his native country. In addition to his pastoral experience he holds a degree in leadership from Andrews University. He is presently a PhD candidate at Trinity College Bristol, where he is working on a doctorate in systematic theology. He’s been teaching modules in Systematic, Historical and Biblical theology for Newbold College since 2002. Jan is married to Ivana, who works as a medical doctor.

MP3s from the 3 Missions study conference held at Crieff Adventist Church on 12/13 February 2007. Jean-Claude Verrecchia is the Principal Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Newbold College. (Files uploaded 20th Feb 07)

1. The OT cult under deconstruction (24MB)
2. Worship place under deconstruction (19MB)
3. God Himself declared the first covenant ‘old’ (16MB)
4. Regulations for the body only 20MB)
5. A new ritual (21MB)
6. Let us approach… (8MB)

MP3s from the weekend study conference held at Crieff Adventist Church on 1-3 September 2006. Files are 32kbps encoded and aren’t the highest quality but they are reasonably sized. So we have…

1. Friday night session (14MB)
2. Sabbath School (11MB)
3. Sabbath Sermon (14MB)
4. Sabbath night session (16MB)
5. Sunday morning session (17MB)