How The Christian Doctrine of creatio ex nihilo or ‘Creation Out of Nothing’ Makes Bill Nye a Saint, and Ken Ham a Heretic
By Bobby Grow http://growrag.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/how-the-christian-doctrine-of-creatio-ex-nihilo-or-creation-out-of-nothing-makes-bill-nye-a-saint-and-ken-ham-a-heretic/ In light of the forthcoming debate between Bill Nye – The Science Guy – and Ken Ham – The Creation Science Guy – which will take place at Ham’s Creation Science Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio on February 4th; I thought it would be interesting to consider how the Christian orthodox teaching of creatio ex nihilo (‘ creation out of nothing’), which serves prominent for T. F. Torrance’s approach to things, might impact how we as Christians might think about the relationship of Christian theology and the empirical or so called ‘hard’ sciences that engage in observational science. It might in fact be surprising to some, how ’creation out of nothing’ might in fact favor the methodology advocated by Bill Nye , more so than it does Ken Ham. C...