Dec 21, 2014: Notre Dame Philosophical Review: Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths
Reviewed by Russell Grigg, Deakin University
Reviewed by Russell Grigg, Deakin University
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Sept 19, 2014: Beyond Thirty Nine: Ernst Haeckel and his recapitulation theory
To explain the gap between inorganic non-living matter and the first spark of life, he invented for example minute protoplasmic organisms called Monera, ‘not composed of any organs at all, but consist entirely of shapeless, simple homogeneous matter … nothing more than a shapeless, mobile, little lump of mucus or slime, consisting of an albuminous combination of carbon.’ (“The Imaginary Monera” – Russell Grigg). Feb 7, 2014: Matavuvale: Did Adam Sin Out Of love for Eve?
Russell Grigg’s feedback article of 11 January 2014 has generated some (unexpected) further feedback, namely that Adam sinned out of love for Eve, and that he and Eve were not arrogant towards God. We present these comments below, and Russell’s response to the points they raise. |
Russell M. Grigg (1927—) is or has been a scientist, creationist, editor, and missionary. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He attended Victoria University College in Wellington, New Zealand (now known as Victoria University of Wellington), where he studied Chemistry He worked as the chemist for a number of years, then as a manager of a paint factory. Grigg then studied theology at the New Zealand Bible Training Institute (now called Laidlaw College). In 1959, after he finished studying, he went to Indonesia for twelve years with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, where he was both in charge of OMF's publishing program and met and married Merle Cornelius of Adelaide, South Australia, who was also in Indonesia with OMF.
Leaving missionary work in 1971, he moved to Adelaide, where he worked at an Australian publishing company for ten years, finishing up as one of their senior editors. While there, he wrote two books: Australian Trains and Death in the Family: What to Do. In 1982 Grigg returned to OMF, serving as their State Director for South Australia. During this time he came across Creation Ex Nihilo (now Creation), and decided that he could help with it.
When Dr. Duane Gish came to Australia in 1988, Grigg and Peter Sparrow wanted to arrange a debate. However, nobody from any university was willing to take part, so Grigg changed his plan. His idea was that Dr. Gish would put the case for Creation in the first hour, and then the case against evolution in the second hour. In other words, Dr. Gish was 'debating' by himself. Members of the Christian body, Students for Christ, supported Grigg’s idea; they put up posters and gave pamphlets to people at the university. When Dr. Gish's lecture was held, a large audience comfortably filled the lecture theatre. Grigg moved to Brisbane, Queensland, in 1990, where he joined Creation Ministries International (publisher of Creation), and has written many articles for Creation, as well as editing and reviewing other articles for the magazine and reviewing other creationist material.
Leaving missionary work in 1971, he moved to Adelaide, where he worked at an Australian publishing company for ten years, finishing up as one of their senior editors. While there, he wrote two books: Australian Trains and Death in the Family: What to Do. In 1982 Grigg returned to OMF, serving as their State Director for South Australia. During this time he came across Creation Ex Nihilo (now Creation), and decided that he could help with it.
When Dr. Duane Gish came to Australia in 1988, Grigg and Peter Sparrow wanted to arrange a debate. However, nobody from any university was willing to take part, so Grigg changed his plan. His idea was that Dr. Gish would put the case for Creation in the first hour, and then the case against evolution in the second hour. In other words, Dr. Gish was 'debating' by himself. Members of the Christian body, Students for Christ, supported Grigg’s idea; they put up posters and gave pamphlets to people at the university. When Dr. Gish's lecture was held, a large audience comfortably filled the lecture theatre. Grigg moved to Brisbane, Queensland, in 1990, where he joined Creation Ministries International (publisher of Creation), and has written many articles for Creation, as well as editing and reviewing other articles for the magazine and reviewing other creationist material.
Some Creation magazine articles written by Russell Grigg
- ‘Nevertheless, it moves!’: Copernicus, Galileo, and the theory of evolution
- Eve created from Adam’s rib
- Lottie Moon-A life poured out for China and for God
- Alfred Russel Wallace—‘co-inventor’ of Darwinism
- Huxley, morality and the Bible
- Did Darwin abandon natural selection?
- Ibn Khaldun: 14th-century Islamic evolutionist
- Dawkins’ dilemma: how God forgives sin
- Stephen Hawking: Key to the Cosmos
- Abandoned transitional forms
- Darwin, slavery, and abolition
- Anyone for fundamentalism?
- A remarkable witness to creation—Satan
- Zoogenesis—a theory of desperation
- Hitler’s ‘master race’ children haunted by their past
- Nietzsche: The evolutionist who was anti-God and anti-Darwin
- Missing the mark: How a missionary family gave rise to the top name in ‘apeman’ research (Louis leakey)!
- The ten plagues of Egypt. Miracles or ‘Mother Nature’?
- Potatoes and ‘white chimpanzees’
- Meeting the ancestors
- Darwinism: it was all in the family
- The Future: Some issues for ‘long-age’ Christians
- Are there ape-men in your ancestry?
- Light, life and the glory of God
- The Love Trap
- Don’t blame Malthus!
- What’s in a name? The terms for God in Genesis 1 and 2: no contradiction!
- Walking trees … Modern sciences helps us understand a puzzling miracle
- Ernst Haeckel: Evangelist for Evolution and Apostle of Deceit
- The sixteen grandsons of Noah
- From the beginning of creation: Does Genesis have a gap?
- Do I have to believe in a literal creation to be a Christian?
- Eugenics … death of the defenceless: The legacy of Darwin’s cousin Galton
- Dinosaurs and dragons: stamping on the legends
- Should Genesis Be Taken Literally?
- [Embryonic] Fraud Rediscovered
- Creation—how did God do it?
- Did Moses really write Genesis?
- Naming the animals: All in a day’s work for Adam
- Golden Numbers: Mysterious numbers in nature
- News blackout on strange creature!
- A brief history of design
- Flood! [Deluge legends]
- The Galileo ‘twist’
- Preaching the Gospel in today’s society
- How long were the days of Genesis 1?
- Could Monkeys Type the 23rd Psalm?
- Thunder lizards
- Does the Bible say Pi (π) equals 3.0?
- Darwin’s slippery slide into unbelief
- Morning has broken … but when?
- Is Jesus Christ the Creator God?
- The Gospel in time and space
- The Da Vinci Code: Fiction masquerading as fact
- First Adam — Last Adam
- Darwin’s Mystery Illness
- The fish with four eyes
- Who was the serpent?
- Did Darwin recant?
- Joshua’s Long Day
- Unfolding the plan
- Encyclopædia Britannica: supporting a young earth!
- Stalin’s ape-man Superwarriors
- The ‘Great Global Warming Swindle’ Debate
- Raymond Dart and the ‘missing link’
- Mission not impossible!
- Should missionary societies have a position on creation/evolution?
- ‘Hooray for eugenics!’
- Stalin: from choir boy to communist butcher
- Strategy of the Devil
- ‘The people who walk backwards into the future.’
- The mind of God and the ‘big bang’
- Darwin’s mentors: How clergymen unwittingly helped pave the way for evolution
- Turning the tide
- Hummingbird hitch-hikers
- Was Adam more guilty than Eve?
- Is ‘the ultimate curse’ the result of ‘the sin of Adam and Eve’?
- Did Adam sin out of love for Eve?
- What was Adam’s sin?
- Is Genesis allegory or poetry?
- Exploring the God Question: 2, Life and Evolution, Part 1 (Darwinism)
- Exploring the God Question: 1. The Cosmos, Part 2 (Multiverses)
- Exploring the God Question: 1. The Cosmos, Part 1 (The big bang)
- Which came first: the Archaeopteryx or the dinosaur egg?
- Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah’s Ark
- David Attenborough’s Rise of the Animals, Episode 1: From the Seas to the Skies
- David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
- Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero: Alfred Russel Wallace
- Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
- Galápagos with David Attenborough: Origin
- Galápagos with David Attenborough: Adaptation
- Galápagos with David Attenborough: Evolution
- The importance of the Resurrection of Christ to our salvation
- David Attenborough’s First Life: Conquest
- David Attenborough’s First Life: Arrival
- Stephen Hawking’s end of the universe
- Did Charles Darwin become a Christian before he died?
- Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: Aliens
- The Dalai Lama, the Templeton Prize and Buddhism
- Do correspondents’ letters mean what they intended?
- Stephen Hawking: Is there meaning to life?
- What happened before the big bang?
- Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe?
- The Inscriptions on the Cross (Apologia 3(2):17–18, 1994)
- Intelligent Design—‘A War on Science’ says the BBC
- Evangelical colleges paid to teach evolution
- The Da Vinci Code movie
- The Lost Tomb of Jesus: Another ‘Titanic’ Disaster
- Genesis—the seedbed of all Christian doctrine
- Occam’s Razor and creation/evolution
- How do people come into a right relationship with God?
- Theological colleges—on ‘the slippery slope’?
- Genocide, evolution and the Bible
- Darwin’s arguments against God
- Genesis: Myth or History?
- The Fall, Curse and Satan
- Darwin’s bulldog—Thomas H. Huxley
- The Trial and Death of Adolf Eichmann
- Atheists to do religious education in schools
- Is death a good thing or a bad thing?
- Darwin and the Fuegians
- Spot the Spin: A review of Darwin’s Brave New World, Episode 1
- Experiments that actually don’t prove evolution: A review of Darwin’s Brave New World, Episode Two
- Natural selection and change, yes; Evolution, no: A Review of Darwin’s Brave New World, Episode Three
- What did Wilberforce really say to “Darwin’s bulldog”?
- Monkeying with probability
- “Creationism creeps into NSW Schools”: Evolutionists aghast Scripture teachers teach that their faith is true
- Carl Sagan and Contact: Defiance of God and promotion of ET
- Discovery Channel program: How the Universe Works
- Doom and gloom from the BBC: Comment on Wonders of the Universe: Destiny