When we present our children for baptism, we acknowledge in the Form for the Baptism of Infants that our children are “conceived and horn in sin.” In a recent discussion it became evident that this is generally understood to mean that both conception and birth are sinful acts or events. But what is conception? And […]
This parallel to “What‘s in a name?” from Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet was raised by one of my students near the end of the past school year. The young man asked whether it is really so important to have a wedding ceremony, and whether we must go through that formality of signing a piece of […]
Last month, THE OUTLOOK presented the first in a series of articles under the general heading: Seek First the Kingdom – that article by Professor Merle Meeter being entitled: Seek First the Kingdom – in Literature. The second article, is on: Science by Dr. Aaldert Mennega, chairman of the Biology Department at Dordt College in […]
“Genesis is unreliable because the dates and ages of the men living before the Flood just don’t come out right.” This statement was meant as a challenge; and, of course, I could not resist the urge to check for myself to see what exactly Genesis does say. It turned out to be a rewarding experience […]
Following is a continuation and the final installment of Dr. Aaldert Mennega’s evaluation of the book, WHERE ARE WE HEADED?, by Dr. Jan Lever, professor of Zoology at the Free University of Amsterdam (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI, 59 pp., $1.65, 1970). Dr. Mennega is chairman of and associate professor in the […]
Following is a continuation of Dr. Aaldert Mennega’s evaluation of the book, WHERE ARE WE HEADED?, by Dr. Jan Lever, Professor of Zoology at the Free University at Amsterdam (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 59 pp. $1.65, 1970). Dr. Mennega is Chairman of and Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at […]
With a healthy appetite I set myself squarely on my chair and was ready for his nine-course banquet. But what a letdown it turned out to be! What a letdown! – There is nothing like a good appetizer before a good meal. When I picked up Jan Lever’s little book, Where Are We Headed,* I […]
Although Dr. Abraham Kuyper certainly was not always right in all he said. he was endowed with a sense of direction for the Christian community which since his time has not been equalled. It was with real vision that he founded the Free University exclusively on Reformed principles. Kuyper saw that there are only two […]
The godless believe that all of the cosmos, including the solar system, the earth, and all living forms happened by chance. So man also is a product of chance evolvement from amoeba to segmented flatworm, to tree shrew, to ape, to homo sapiens, who by reason of his scientific know-how will evolve to a higher […]
For the Christian Biology teacher it is very difficult to choose a textbook for his classes for the simple reason that no textbook has been available which presents the scientific data from a Christian perspective. It appears that in the past the best one could do was to pick the least dogmatically evolutionistic textbook, and […]