- Evidences of natural time esp. geological and astronomical
- Fitness of natural selection to explain and predict biological changes
- Evidence of ancient life / fossil evidence
- Paucity of the challenges
- The false-friend of ID (really an attempt to resurrect the Argument from Deisgn or the Teleological Argument. These are not explanatory; we see what we want to see.
- The "brain weight" including contemporaries like Francis Collins and John Polkinghorne as well as ancients like Augustine
- Hermeneutics properly practiced: thinking correctly about how to read ancient documents especially according to time and genre
- The "very good" of God / God as trustworthy
- The goodness of matter / natural law and its necessity for confessing the incarnation, the benefit of Jesus's sacrifice, and obtaining a real hope for eschatological deliverance
- The danger of replacing the theology of the cross with a theology of glory
- The importance of the Book of Nature
- Animals need to hope as well
- The danger that bad thinking poses for the health and growth of the church.
Objections that a friend of mine raised:
Radiometric dating -- when does it start?
Tampering.
Mt. St. Helen's rocks. Slow formation of sediment trees. Logs in Mt St. Helens.
Ken Ham and his group-basis for evaluations.
