Articles

These files are shared by David Snoke of the University of Pittsburgh. If you have questions you can contact David Snoke
at "snoke@pitt.edu".

Click here to see abstracts of the following articles:

Science and Faith issues:

APOLOG.pdf  "The Apologetic Argument"
EPIST.pdf  "The Problem of the Absolute in Evidential Epistemology"
SCIENTIST.pdf "On Being a Scientist and a Christian"
UNITY.pdf "Toward a Unified View of Science and Christian Faith"
RUSSELL.pdf "Why I Am Not Impressed by Bertrand Russell's 'Why I Am Not a Christian'"
SURPRISE.pdf "Should We Be Surprised? A Survey of Large Numbers Paradoxes in Cosmology"
GAPS.pdf "In Favor of God-of-the-Gaps Arguments"
DESIGN.pdf "Toward a Quantitative Theory of Design"
ANIMALS.pdf "Why Did God Create Dangerous Animals?"
ENTROPY.pdf "In Praise of Entropy"
UNDESIGN.pdf "Defining Undesign in a Designed Universe"

Political Issues:

LEFTRIGHT.pdf  "The Christian Right and the Christian Left: A Political History"
RACISM.pdf  "The Southern Presbyterian Church and Racism"

General Issues of the Church:

MEANING.pdf "Has My Life Been Meaningless?"
FEDERALVISION.pdf "Can I Know I Have Eternal Life? A Critique of the Federal Vision"
PRESBY.pdf "Must a Presbyterian Be Presuppositionalist?"
DATING.pdf  "Sensible Christian Dating"

Books

Natural Philosophy: A Survey of Physics and Western Thought (2003)
available from Access Research Network
 
This is an introductory physics textbook which integrates philosophy and Bible study in a unified curriculum.
It can also be interesting reading for people who want to skip the math and just read the philosophy parts.

    Click here to see sample passages from the book.
 
A Biblical Case for an Old Earth (2006)
available from Baker Book House

This is a theological book which addresses the issue of the age of the earth-- can a Christian who believes
in the Bible affirm that the earth is billions of years old? That animals died long before Adam and Eve?

Links

Organizations:

Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
Reasons to Believe--Hugh Ross
Pitt Physics and Astronomy
Presbyterian Church in America
Renewing Your Mind-- R.C. Sproul
Discovery Institute
American Scientific Affiliation

Recommended books by others on science and faith issues:

C. Hunter, Darwin's God
W. Dembski, No Free Lunch
M. Behe, The Edge of Evolution
C. John Collins, Science and Faith
Barrow and Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
P.C.W. Davies, The Accidental Universe

 See a cheesy video of me.

Powerpoint slides:
seminar 1 (design in the universe)
seminar 2 (presuppositionalism)
seminar 3 (the age of the earth)
seminar 4 (quantum mechanics)