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.

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.

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

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

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)