1. “Past Truth or Present Truth?”, Friday night.
   • MP3 file (18.8MB)
   • Presentation in PowerPoint format
2. “Do we need more Truth?“, Saturday morning, Sabbath School.
   • MP3 file (12.5MB)
   • Presentation in PowerPoint format
3. “Are you for real?“, Saturday morning, main Sabbath service.
   • MP3 file (7MB)
   • (no presentation)
4. “What does it mean to be Postmodern?“, Saturday afternoon.
   • Part 1 MP3 file (10.5MB)
   • Part 2 MP3 file (12.2MB)
   • Q&A session MP3 file (8MB)
   • Presentation in PowerPoint format
5. “God’s grand narrative“, Sunday morning.
   • MP3 file (16MB)
   • Presentation in PowerPoint format
6. “Our message for Postmoderns“, Sunday morning.
   • MP3 file (8.8MB)
   • Presentation in PowerPoint format

In the latest in our series of annual lectures in Crieff, Professor John Walton presented:

Update on the Origins Debate – Downsizing neo-Darwinism

Professor John C Walton is Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Resources:

• Recording of Lecture (MP3 file, 01hr 03min, 15.2MB)
• Recording of Q&A session (MP3 file, 12min, 2.8MB)
• Presentation in PowerPoint format (PPT file, 16MB)

Our annual study weekend was taken this year by Pastor Reinder Bruinsma, of the Belgium Luxembourg Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

His subject was “Can Daniel and Revelation be relevant for today?” with a particular emphasis on reaching the postmodern audience, both within Adventism and in secular society.

Dr Reinder Bruinsma

“Can Daniel and Revelation be relevant for today?”

The sessions ran as follows:

Friday 28 October 2011

• 6.30 pm Light refreshments
• 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm        “Past Truth or Present Truth?”

Sabbath 29 October 2011

• 10.00 am – 11.00 am    “Do we need more Truth?”
• 11.15 am – 12.30 pm     “Are you for real?”
• 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm        “What does it mean to be postmodern part 1?”
• 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm        “What does it mean to be postmodern part 2?”

Sunday 30 October 2011

• 10.00 am – 11.00 am    “God’s grand narrative.”
• 11.15 am – 12.30 pm     “Our message for postmoderns.”

The Scottish Mission Day of Fellowship will be held at Wallace High School, Airthrey Road, Stirling FK9 5HW, on  Sabbath 10 September 2011.  The main speaker will be Dr John Webster from La Sierra University , USA and the theme is “Sabbath Festivals – Creation, Salvation, Consummation”.  We also have the new British Union Conference President, Pastor Ian Sweeney, as our special guest.

Come and join us for a day packed full of blessings and thought provoking presentations.  Bring a packed lunch, and enjoy fellowship with others during this special day.

For those unable to attend the Day of Fellowship in Stirling, there will be a service in Crieff Church.

MP3 files

• The lecture, ‘Can a scientist believe in miracles?‘ (18MB, 71min)

If you find them interesting please let us know!

1. “An Alternative Gospel ~ Mark and Imperial propaganda”, Friday night.
   • MP3 file (21MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
2. “A Battle of Equals?  Jesus and agonistic Palestinian society”, Saturday morning.
   • MP3 file (14MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
3. “A Wilderness Route ~ Jesus and the return of Yahweh”, Saturday morning.
   • MP3 file (13MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
   • Handout in PDF format
4. “On Cycles and Roads ~  Plot and arrangement in Mark”, Saturday evening.
   • MP3 file (17MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
5. “That Clever Ending ~  Mark as an early understanding of the death of Jesus”, Saturday evening.
   • MP3 file (17MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
6. “A Right Pair ~  Reading Mark with the help of Ezekiel”, Sunday morning.
   • MP3 file (14MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
7. “The Future (and Further Developments). Mark 13 and the flow of NT apocalyptic revelation”, Sunday morning.
   • MP3 file (25MB)
   • Presentation in PDF format
   • Handout in PDF format

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?

UPDATE – An MP3 recording of the talk is now available.

On Tuesday 9th November, Doctor John Walton, professor emeritus at St Andrews University, will be presenting another interesting lecture ‘Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?’, at the Seventh-day Adventist Church.  All welcome

UPDATE – MP3 recordings of the talks are now available.

Bible Conference with invited Speaker Pastor Cedric Vine, lecturer in New Testament Studies, Newbold College.

The theme for the weekend is ‘Angles on Mark‘, and will take place in the Crieff SDA Church.;

Some details on our speaker

• Cedric Vine MA (Newbold)
• Position:  Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Course Director for BD (Hons)
• Research Interests:  New Testament Theology and Pauline Epistles
• Cedric served as a student missionary at the Polish Seventh-day Adventist Seminary. He then went on to teach English Communication and English language at Newbold and in Latvia. Before joining Newbold’s Theology Department, he pastored the Derby district of churches for several years.

The sessions run as follows:

Friday, 15th

• 19:00-21:00 ~ “An Alternative Gospel. Mark and Imperial Propaganda.”

Saturday (Sabbath), 16th

• 10.00-11:00 ~ “A Battle of Equals?  Jesus and agonic Palestinian society”.
• 11:15-12:30 ~ “A Wilderness Route.  Jesus and the return of Yahweh.”
• pot luck lunch and free time
• 17:00-18:15 ~ “On Cycles and Roads.  Plot and arrangement in Mark.”
• finger buffet tea
• 19:00-20:30 ~ “That Clever Ending.  Mark as an early understanding of the death of Jesus”.

Sunday, 17th

• 10:00-11:00 ~ “A Right Pair.  Reading Mark with the help of Ezekiel”.
• 11:30-12:30 ~ “The Future (and Further Developments).  Mark 13 and the flow of NT apocalyptic revelation”.

Come and be a part of this study weekend to exercise your brain and gain a blessing from in-depth Bible study!

MP3 copies of every presentation will be posted immediately following that presentation.

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.