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:
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.”
Posted in Calendar, Study, Study Conferences, Worship on August 17th, 2011
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.
Posted in MP3, Study Conferences on November 20th, 2010
Below are links to resources from the 9th November 2010 lecture by John Walton.
MP3 files
Audio recordings (in MP3 format), presentations and handouts (in PDF format) from Cedric Vine’s weekend study conference, ‘Cedric Vine – Angles on Mark’, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 15-17 October 2010.
If you find them interesting please let us know!
- “An Alternative Gospel ~ Mark and Imperial propaganda”, Friday night.
- “A Battle of Equals? Jesus and agonistic Palestinian society”, Saturday morning.
- “A Wilderness Route ~ Jesus and the return of Yahweh”, Saturday morning.
- “On Cycles and Roads ~ Plot and arrangement in Mark”, Saturday evening.
- “That Clever Ending ~ Mark as an early understanding of the death of Jesus”, Saturday evening.
- “A Right Pair ~ Reading Mark with the help of Ezekiel”, Sunday morning.
- “The Future (and Further Developments). Mark 13 and the flow of NT apocalyptic revelation”, Sunday morning.
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.
Posted in MP3, Study, Study Conferences on November 11th, 2009
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
Presentation
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?, 6th 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.
Posted in Calendar, Study, Study Conferences on November 5th, 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.
- ‘What is the beginning of the story?’ (23MB, 1 hr 37 min)
- ‘What is the Centre of the Story?’ (13MB, 56 min)
- ‘Jesus, the Lamb of God’ (7MB, 32 min)
- ‘What is the Goal of the Story?’ (14MB, 1 hr 4 min)
- ‘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.
Posted in MP3, Study, Study Conferences on November 17th, 2008
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, 2nd 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.
- The Encounter with Jesus with the Samaritan Woman (15MB mp3). Friday night.
- The Relevance of Ellen White for Adventist Theology and Practice (13MB mp3). Saturday morning as part of the Sabbath worship service.
- The Biblical Concepts of Revelation and Inspiration (18MB mp3). Saturday evening, part one.
- Hermeneutics (17MB mp3). Saturday evening, part two.
- Devotinal, Psalm 27 (13MB mp3). Sunday morning.
- The Sanctuary Doctrine Part 1 (32MB mp3). Sunday morning.
- The Sanctuary Doctrine Part 2 (32MB mp3). Sunday morning.
Posted in Calendar, Study, Study Conferences on July 8th, 2008
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
Posted in MP3, Study, Study Conferences on June 4th, 2008
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.
- Lecture, 57 mins, MP3 audio recording in two forms
- PowerPoint that accompanied the lecture, contains all book and article references (8MB)
Book List (see this post for an expanded list…)