Religion is science
"May it please God to raise up a new generation of Scientists who are duly respectful of their Maker and who, recognising the limitations of human scientific enquiry, give full weight of respect to the statements of propositional truth of Holy Scripture - being the authoritative Word of God."
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
"Furthermore, if the Biblical record is to be trusted, we must acknowledge within our grand geophysical paradigm the historicity of a world-wide flood as outlined in Gen 6-10. If the Biblical narrative is secure and the listed genealogies (e.g. Gen 5; 1 Chro 1; Matt 1 & Lu 3) are substantially full, we must reckon that this global catastrophe took place in the relatively recent past. Its effects are everywhere abundantly apparent."
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
"It makes sense that because we are children of a loving God, who has shown Himself in Jesus, then a literal understanding of the early chapters of Genesis (that God chose to create that way) is no problem. It was clearly the way Jesus read it (Matthew 19:3–6, Mark 10:6–9)."
Source: Standing upright for creation, December 2002, Jonathan Sarfati interviewing Richard Porter, Answers Magazine, Volume 25 Issue 1
Author: Richard Porter
Creationist organisations to which he belongs or is associated with:
Truth in Science (council of reference)
"But won't the integrity of 'Science' be threatened if we allow a divine foot in the door? Johnson, who has written extensively and with much helpful insight, has clearly shown a widening audience that defining scientific endeavour in such materialistic and naturalistic terms, contrary to popular opinion, actually stifles and cripples scientific progress."
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
"We can look at cosmic and biological science and say perhaps that sometimes the observations don’t seem to fit Genesis, but wait a bit—there are lots of suppositions. Keep thinking, and you can be confident that eventually science will show God did it the way He said He did.
"Different scientists may examine the same facts about biology, geology or cosmology but reach quite different conclusions. The evolutionist will reach one view probably because he never thinks about, or rejects, a young Earth."
Source: Standing upright for creation, December 2002, Jonathan Sarfati interviewing Richard Porter, Answers Magazine, Volume 25 Issue 1
Author: Richard Porter
Creationist organisations to which he belongs or is associated with:
Truth in Science (council of reference)
"It remains for us to examine a few notable examples of how naturalism has infected the National Curriculum in each of the three principal areas of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. In doing so we shall try to provide a measure of suggestion and practical advice for those involved at the chalk-face."
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
Religion is physics
"Display a variety of topical data which is not readily explained by current orthodox science. E.g. presence of information in DNA; lack of Solar neutrinos; rapid decay of Geo-magnetic field; recessional velocity of the Moon; lack of intermediate fossils to mention but a few!"
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
Religion is chemistry
"Chemists should point out the remarkable fact that an astonishing variety of materials and compounds now known to us are all formed from 'the dust of the ground' and that the evident order epitomized in the periodic table betrays the fact that the Creator is a God order not chaos. They ought to recognise the delicate balance of power which governs atomic and molecular bonding mechanisms and which gives rise to the vast array of substances formed."
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
Religion is biology
"Biologists must constantly remind pupils that information concentrated in cellular tissue ensuring function, growth and replacement is a distinct entity from the molecules upon which it is written. Such information never arises spontaneously by chance: rather, in accordance with the universal law of cause and effect, it must be the product of intelligent thought. The genetic code thus provides overwhelming prima facie evidence for intelligent design. Only blind, wilful ignorance prevents serious-minded people from seeing it. The Apostle Paul, with remarkable prophetic insight, immediately afterwards comments, 'For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools' (Rom 1:21,22)"
Source: The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective, A lecture given by Steven Layfield at Emmanuel College, Gateshead on (21 September, 2000)
Author: Stephen Layfield speaking as a member of The Christian Institute
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member, resigned); Christian Institute
Religion is cosmology
"Scripture teaches that God made the world first - the implications for astronomy are discussed in John Byl's recent book 'God and Cosmos'. He and other scientists who take a 6 literal day Creation view are no obscurantists and maintain that the Creation is a singular event which cannot be interpreted in terms of natural processes today."
Source: The incompatibility of Biblical Christianity and Evolution, See Link, see also edited version in Evangelical Alliance's Idea magazine, July/August 2005
Author: Andy McIntosh
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member); Answers in Genesis; Biblical Creation Society
Religion is geology
"Furthermore the science of a worldwide Flood is completely consistent with the fossil record. Right through the fossil record are fossils of both extinct creatures and those like today, sometimes in the same strata. The fish found in the old red sandstone of Scotland were not so different to fish today. Some were exactly the same as those today. The sedimentary geology of Scotland and around the world bears testimony to the geological power not 'of the vestiges of an antique past' but of recent events 4,500 years ago. Indeed some strata can only be explained by catastrophic deposition. For instance the coal seams all over the world, in places miles thick, are formed from vegetation, but the high rank coal that is often found in these seams can only be explained by catastrophic deposition, since high rank coal needs oxygen exclusion of the vegetation that would otherwise only form a low grade peat. Other evidence of polystrate fossil trees running right across strata again indicate rapid deposition and burial - all consistent with a worldwide Flood and which we have no excuse not to believe in. The rocks all around us testify to this, and we do well to heed, for God states (2 Peter 3) that the same Word that brought in the ferocity of worldwide judgement at the flood, will usher in the last days when every knee shall bow before the Creator and Judge - none other than our Saviour in all His glory."
Source: The incompatibility of Biblical Christianity and Evolution, See Link, see also edited version in Evangelical Alliance's Idea magazine, July/August 2005
Author: Andy McIntosh
Organisations to which he belongs:
Truth in Science (board member); Answers in Genesis; Biblical Creation Society
