Author: Sjoerd Bonting

  • Spirit and Creation

    1. Introduction “No primary Christian doctrine has been left so undeveloped dogmatically”, yet “the Bible is the Book of the Spirit”, wrote Wheeler Robinson (Robinson 1928). Although there existed a vivid awareness of the Spirit in the early Church (as shown by 302 references in the NT against 195 in the OT), there was little…

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    Evolution and Intelligent Design

    1. Introduction   Intelligent Design is a successor to creationism, but more subtle and more acceptable of the evolution theory. It arose from biochemist Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box,1 and was seconded, mainly on statistical grounds, by William Dembski.2 They claim that certain complex systems, like the immune system, bloodclotting, visual mechanism and bacterial…