The description we've have of the new heaven and new Earth is found in Revelation 21 and 22. We're using systematic deduction in order to make sure that we account for each verse in these chapters.
Systematic Deduction of Revelation 21 and 22
The Foundation of the Earth
The phrase "the foundation(s) of the earth/world" carries a lot of meaning. We conduct a systematic study of the phrase.
Species Concepts
Understanding how the process of evolution incorporates into the creation narrative solves a lot of issues, not the least of which is the potential space problem on Noah's ark.
Extinction of Some Species
"Extinction of some species." Dead bodies buried in sediment from Noah's flood represent entire flocks, herds and populations of animals. If they were the only living members of their species, that's why they're extinct.
Dinosaur Classification
Whether or not a Biblical word translated as a kind of serpent refers to something which may have been a dinosaur is context dependent. Sometimes a snake is just a snake. Sometimes a serpent is a Sauropod.
Carl Linnaeus
The classification of plants animals and minerals is called taxonomy or systematics. Our scientific background is plant systematics. The modern age of systematics is based on comparing DNA sequences.
Coding a Character State Matrix
When you use a computer to analyze data it has to be coded in a form that the computer can understand. This is where personal bias and circular reasoning starts: not in the analysis, in the coding.
A Phylogenetic Tree of Life
Back in the early days of using DNA in systematics, when PCR machines (polymerase chain reaction) were cool new toys, the data was fragmentary. We were a grad student in one of the molecular labs sequencing plant DNA.
Cladistics and Circular Reasoning
Despite the rigorous application of philosophical ploys to guard against circular reasoning in cladistic analysis it's a poster boy for circular reasoning because it's based in a paradigm which is the result of personal bias.
What’s a Tarheel?
In the fall of 1990 we began the graduate program in Plant Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On our first day we were shown around Coker Hall by a senior graduate student