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Studying Religious Rhetorics in the Time of Trump and Kavanaugh: Part Two

Oct 13, 2018 | Andre Johnson, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Jim Wallis, Mark Masthay, Martin Medhurst, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by William Trollinger “Everyone got woke in the 2016 election.” So said Andre Johnson – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address at the University of Memphis – at the final keynote panel at last weekend’s Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st-Century Conference...

Incorrect Theory and Scientific Progress: Phlogiston and a Case for Ecumenism of Evolutionists and Creationists

Sep 16, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Creationism, Evolution, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Mark Masthay, Observational Science, Science, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

by Mark Masthay For his third post, Dr. Mark Masthay uses the historical example of the “Phlogiston Hypothesis” to discuss how scientists negotiate the meaning of scientific discoveries. In doing so, he provides a very generous proposition for unifying...

On the Relative Certitudes of “Observational” and “Historical” Science : A Chemist’s View

Sep 9, 2016 | Age of the Earth, Answers in Genesis, Historical Science, Ken Ham, Mark Masthay, Observational Science, Science | 0 comments

by Mark Masthay Rounding out our Putting Observational Science to the Test series, Dr. Mark Masthay, Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Dayton, presents a series of posts in which he provides a case for how...