An Approach to Many Biological Issues
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Theistic evolution
We fully support the scientifically approved theory of evolution, originally based on Charles Darwin. However, we must distinguish between science and the philosophical interpretation of science. So, whereas many biologists have adopted an atheistic interpretation of the evolutionary process, we affirm a theistic interpretation, recognizing that every step in this process has a Divine cause…
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The uniqueness of humans
The human brain is three times larger than the chimpanzee brain and organized in a way that has come to support a high level of consciousness. Humans owe their success to their uniquely developed ability to learn from others, social cooperation, and symbolic communication by means of language, which altogether became a prerequisite for culture.…
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Science and religion
We need to understand the differences between science and religion to see how those two areas can work perfectly together in a complementary way. In brief, science and religion relate to each other as: 1. Objectivity to subjectivity: Science has objectivity as an ideal: scientific claims, methods, and results should not be influenced…
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Mind and brain
The mind-brain problem is about how to address the relation between mental and physical phenomena and is one of the most fundamental scientific and philosophical questions. Why are we not just robots, capable of retaining and using information, but lacking consciousness and an inner life? Neuroscience can give us still more advanced neuroimaging maps…
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Biological sex and gender
There is a general tendency in Western societies today to cancel out the differences between men and women, presenting male and female as a cultural construct, depending upon the subjective mindset of each person. This development may be seen as alienation from nature as well as from Christianity in that we have lost much of…
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The crisis of motherhood
Western societies face several problems with motherhood, the causes of which are complicated. We should not blame women but rather the present culture and the lack of support by public authorities and, maybe, also the fathers. In short, the problems are as follows: For several decades, there has been dramatically declining fertility and birth…
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History
Charles Darwin, in his ‘Origin of Species’ (1859), told us that all forms of life are engaged in an endless struggle for existence with one another. This is the result of two facts: most organisms reproduce very rapidly, and there are far too few resources to support all of them. Given the tremendous variation among…