Moorlands School of Apologetics

We are so looking forward to our next School of Apologetics. On 5^th November 2011, we will be hosting “50 years after the Flood: Scientific and Theological Reflections on The Genesis Flood.” There will be four sessions, plus a time for questions, interspersed with lunch and refreshments. The day starts at 9am and finishes by 3.30pm.

In 1961, two years after the centenary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, John Whitcomb and Henry Morris published The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and its Scientific Implications.  The book brought science and faith together in a way that some found liberating, and others found exasperating. But it set the agenda for the ongoing debate between creation and evolution, theism and atheism.  Fifty years on, how has the debate developed?  This conference brings specialists in apologetics, geology, philosophy and hermeneutics together to reflect on its significance today.

Chris Sinkinson is Lecturer in Old Testament and Apologetics at   Moorlands College.  He has a BA in English and Philosophy, an MA in Biblical Studies and a PhD in Theology, and is the Pastor of Alderholt Evangelical Congregational Church.

John Matthews holds a BSc in Mathematics, and a PhD in Earth Science   and, for six years, was a visiting professor at Imperial College, London.  He is also a licensed lay minister (Reader) in the Church of England.

Andrew Sibley is a Meteorologist with an MSc in Environmental Decision Making. He is presently engaged in postgraduate level work in Theology.

Alistair McKitterick is Lecturer in Hermeneutics and Biblical Studies at Moorlands College.  His first degree was in Physics, and he holds both BA and Masters degrees in Theology.

Session Titles:

Chris Sinkinson: Genesis Flood: 50 years of apologetics?

John Matthews: The Geology of The Genesis Flood: Still Moving Mountains?

Andrew Sibley: Relating science and theology in the light of the “Genesis

Flood”

Alistair McKitterick: Before and After the Flood in Genesis

Panel: Questions and Answers

For more information and to book a place, please email:

nes.dufeu@moorlands.ac.uk.