I've been a resident in Cambridge for many years, which included my secondary and university education. My degree (BSc) is in Building Surveying. Cambridge happens to be full of beautiful buildings - most of which have been exquisitely designed!
Although I have always been an active person, this has been drastically curtailed due to a recent illness (transverse myelitis from September 2011) which has left me paralysed from the chest down. See my blog for details!
At the end of August 2011, I was fortunate enough to successfully complete the 'Three Peaks Challenge' within 24 hours (the peaks of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon).
I attend a local church, New Life Church, based in Histon, Cambridge.
Some of the photographs displayed in the slideshow, below, were taken in Cambridge, where I am fortunate to live. I hope you will enjoy them!
Although I have always been an active person, this has been drastically curtailed due to a recent illness (transverse myelitis from September 2011) which has left me paralysed from the chest down. See my blog for details!
At the end of August 2011, I was fortunate enough to successfully complete the 'Three Peaks Challenge' within 24 hours (the peaks of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon).
I attend a local church, New Life Church, based in Histon, Cambridge.
Some of the photographs displayed in the slideshow, below, were taken in Cambridge, where I am fortunate to live. I hope you will enjoy them!
Cambridge, the beautiful city in which I'm fortunate to live...
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The purpose of this website is to demonstrate why I believe in the existence of an imminent God, who loves us. Furthermore, that He created the heavens and the earth - and, originally, the living plants and animals that populate it, including mankind of course!
This is not a popular view, especially in a highly academic city like Cambridge. But all the same, my intention is to show that this belief is perfectly reasonable - and is evidence based. The Apostle Peter, encourages us to "always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." The famed Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, was founded in 1874 by the Chancellor of the time, William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. The first director of the laboratory was James Clerk Maxwell, widely regarded as the scientific link between Newton and Einstein, and a great scientist in his own right, contributing to such wide fields as electromagnetism and colour analysis. He was also a Christian, who had his coat of arms carved in the main door of the laboratory, along with a section of Psalm 111 in Latin: 'Great are the works of the Lord, sought out by all those who take pleasure therein.' The Cavendish Laboratory has had an important influence on biology, mainly through the application of X-ray crystallography to the study of structures of biological molecules. Francis Crick already worked in the Medical Research Council Unit, headed by Max Perutz and housed in the Cavendish Laboratory, when James Watson came from the United States and they made a breakthrough in discovering the structure of DNA. For their work while in the Cavendish Laboratory, they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, together with Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, himself a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Wikipedia). |
So, why 'Creation ex nihilo'?
Basically, this expression simply means 'creation out of nothing' (i.e. no pre-existing material) and in a sense all theories must boil down to this concept, save those that assume that the universe itself is eternal. But my belief, which is fully defendable, is derived from the Bible in the book of Hebrews chapter 11 v3 (NIV):
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
Within the academic world, if you believe that God had anything to do with creating the universe, you are a 'creationist' (by definition)... The trouble is, the spectrum of belief among 'creationists' is enormous - and the 'New Atheists' in particular, tend to assume that being a 'creationist' means a commitment to 'Young Earth Creationism' (an earth that is no more than 10,000 years old).
Personally, I'm not necessarily committed to a 'young earth' - although it is possible - and it tends to be the most logically consistent view of scripture.
The Bible simply does not say how old the earth, or universe, is. It is inferred to be young by YEC advocates, by counting up the genealogies of the patriarchs - and working it back to the creation of 'Adam'. In this view, Adam is taken to be a literal specific person, rather than some kind of ethereal or 'collective' name for humanity. In addition, the creation 'days' of Genesis are taken literally (i.e. six 24 hour periods)
The belief that 'Adam' was a real person is vital, irrespective of the age of the earth, as it was through Adam that the creation became cursed - and it is through the second Adam (Jesus) that the creation will be liberated and restored.
As things stand, the scientific estimate for the age of the universe, calculated from WMAP, Hubble Deep Field and Red Shift data, is approximately 13.8 billion years, and the earth approximately 4.5 billion years old. The age of the earth is derived from radiometric data.
Basically, this expression simply means 'creation out of nothing' (i.e. no pre-existing material) and in a sense all theories must boil down to this concept, save those that assume that the universe itself is eternal. But my belief, which is fully defendable, is derived from the Bible in the book of Hebrews chapter 11 v3 (NIV):
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
Within the academic world, if you believe that God had anything to do with creating the universe, you are a 'creationist' (by definition)... The trouble is, the spectrum of belief among 'creationists' is enormous - and the 'New Atheists' in particular, tend to assume that being a 'creationist' means a commitment to 'Young Earth Creationism' (an earth that is no more than 10,000 years old).
Personally, I'm not necessarily committed to a 'young earth' - although it is possible - and it tends to be the most logically consistent view of scripture.
The Bible simply does not say how old the earth, or universe, is. It is inferred to be young by YEC advocates, by counting up the genealogies of the patriarchs - and working it back to the creation of 'Adam'. In this view, Adam is taken to be a literal specific person, rather than some kind of ethereal or 'collective' name for humanity. In addition, the creation 'days' of Genesis are taken literally (i.e. six 24 hour periods)
The belief that 'Adam' was a real person is vital, irrespective of the age of the earth, as it was through Adam that the creation became cursed - and it is through the second Adam (Jesus) that the creation will be liberated and restored.
As things stand, the scientific estimate for the age of the universe, calculated from WMAP, Hubble Deep Field and Red Shift data, is approximately 13.8 billion years, and the earth approximately 4.5 billion years old. The age of the earth is derived from radiometric data.