Author Archives: David Snoke

David Snoke

About David Snoke

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

Video of the 2020 Annual meeting now available online

To see the videos of our past meeting, on the topic of “Does Anyone Come to Faith by a Rational Process?”, go to this link. You must be logged in as a full or associate member to see the link. … Continue reading

Uncategorized

News items June-July 2020

Ongoing debate about whether the Cambrian explosion was really abrupt. See this article on Discovery’s Evolution News and Views website. This relates to the argument of Stephen Meyer in his book, Darwin’s Doubt, that the Cambrian explosion is to all appearances miraculous. Another … Continue reading

Uncategorized

News items, May 2020

Proposal for censorship of scientific journals to prevent intelligent design from being published. See this summary on Discovery’s Evolution News and Views website. Article in Scientific American says earth-like planets may be extremely rare, See this link. DNA replication inspires advances in … Continue reading

Uncategorized

Review of God’s Good Earth

Jon Garvey, God’s Good Earth, (https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Good-Earth-Jon-Garvey/dp/1532652003/) In my talk for the webinar, I mentioned this book by Jon Garvey. Subtitled “The case for an unfallen creation”, it arguues for just that: that the physical created world is not “fallen” at all, … Continue reading

Biblical Interpretation, Creation, Darwinism, History of Science, Problem of evil, Reviews, Theistic evolution

comments on Hugh Ross’s talk

By Brett van de Sande, member I was thinking a bit about Hugh Ross’ fine-tuning argument.  Essentially, he is saying that any instance of fine-tuning is a good thing and that it is best explained by a personal creator.  The … Continue reading

Apologetics, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Events