Monday, April 5, 2010

Fresh vegetables and flowers!

Spring has come !!

so in preparation the TWU bio club has grown vegetable and flower seeds to plant in the community garden. They will be going on sale Friday April 9th from 11-2:30 outside the Atrium. 1$ a plant. Plants are ready for transplanting! We have additional pots and soil to grown your own flowers in your room!
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans, peas etc. nasturtium, snow pea, and sun flowers! Come plant them in the Student garden for free!

questions--> justin.baerg@mytwu.ca

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Breast cancer seminar

This Thursday at 9:30am in Neufeld 37, there is a seminar with Dr. Urve Kuusk.
She is an oncology surgeon for Providence Heath and Vancouver Coastal Health, and associate professor of surgery at UBC. She will be speaking and answering questions concerning 'benign and malignant diseases of the breast'. If you want to know more about the disease, have concerns with treatments, or are just curious about cancer development this is the place to become educated without taking the Neoplasia course at TWU.

This event is open to all who are interested and there will be refreshments provided.


Thursday, February 11, 2010

Post- Faith and Science Week

If you happen to miss some of the talks during our Faith and Science Week, Feb 1-4th, you can still catch them by downloading the audio file. The quality is not fantastic, but my computer did the job in recording the voices. For more information on each speaker, look to previous posts:

Audio Files:
Arnold Sikkema
Dirk Buchner
David Clements
Origins Discussion Panel


If you have any other questions, feel free to comment or email me at: justin.baerg@mytwu.ca

Monday, February 1, 2010

F&S Thursday, Feb 4th

Faith and Science Week Finale!

Origins Discussion Panel

With speakers:
Paul Brown- As a chemist, information systems present in our human bodies point towards an intelligent agent. a.k.a. Intelligent Design

David Clements- As an ecologist, present day natural selection can be seen through the evolution of weed species tolerating global warming.

Arnold Sikkema- As a physicist, studies of moder astronomy and the big bang theory bring new interpretation to biblical references.

Dennis Venema- As a biologist, new fields of comparative genomics has supported the hypothesis that humans share ancestry with other forms of life.
(If you plan on attending this seminar, you should first check out his video on YouTube on modern genomics:
Can an Evangelical Christian Accept Evolution?

Remember, there is free coffee, tea, cookies etc!!


Here is the downloadable file
Origins Discussion

Sunday, January 31, 2010

F&S Wednesday Feb. 3rd

David Clements

How to be a Christian Environmentalist without leaving home
The Christian environmentalist movement has come a long way since the 1970s when it emerged alongside pagan hippies advocating for a greener world. In fact, with the present realization of the deep theological roots of creation stewardship, there is no movement to join. Followers of Christ are environmentalists, whether they realise it or not. In this talk I will introduce your creation care calling by introducing you to Christians who have lead the way and mentored me in the process. I will feature a fellowship of Loren Wilkinson, Cal De Witt, Peter Harris, Sir Ghillian Prance, John Wood, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Markku Kostamo, Matthew Sleeth and Ben Lowe. Each has left an enduring mark on the Christian community and creation itself.

Check out the audio file
Clements Seminar

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

F&S Tuesday Feb 2nd

Dirk Buchner

Genesis from a historical perspective


God revealed His story of how he interacts with us humans, to a culture that He regarded as worthy of receiving it and capable of fully understanding it.
We who are alive today, need to be humble and recognize that those ancient Middle-Eastern people were able to see things in ways that we westerners are unable to because we are blind.

To illustrate this I want to draw attention to the pictorial art of ancient people and what they understood by the building blocks of the cosmos, and how their symbolic universe presupposed a depth of understanding that goes far beyond the purely descriptive.

I want to give the audience some resources in order to understand how the ancient mind and imagination worked, so that the Genesis narratives and the poetry of the Psalms, which we may call neither myth nor history, can function as they were intended to, also in our intellectual sphere


This seminar is on Feb 2nd. in Block Hall at 7:00pm.

If you missed this seminar, you can listen to the audio recording
Buchner seminar

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

F&S. Monday Feb 1st

Arnold Sikkema
>How Modern Astronomy impacts our view of creation

Psalm 8 accurately describes the response of many people, throughout the ages, to the beauty and vastness of space: "When I consider your heavens...what is man that you are mindful of him?" Modern astronomy can deepen our appreciation of both the creation and the Creator. What can we learn about the history and origin of the universe, and of ourselves, by the study of stars and galaxies? And how do evangelical, Bible-believing Christians respond to what we hear from the astrophysicists and cosmologists?



Speaking at 7:00pm
Block Hall

If you missed this seminar, check out the audio file here
Sikkema seminar