Paley Fan’s Blog

I have been an avid student of the evidence for and implications of Biblical creation since I entered college in 1977.

After graduating second in my class from high school in 1975, I didn’t go to college with my peers, but instead took two years to farm, help build my family’s home, and work a construction job. A pretty typical, narcissistic, very nominally religious teenager, I found myself also increasingly consumed with a sense of needing to find God. I went to college as a biology major with a goal to go to med school, I also found myself in a fraternity with two deeply committed Christians who changed my life.

In a short while the conflict between two truths, both of which I was certain, began to reach an impasse for me. I knew, and had always known (because everyone knows), that the account of Adam and Eve wasn’t really true, and that science had disproven parts of the Bible. I also now knew that the center of my life was following Jesus Christ.

The problem came when I realized I needed to know at what point the Bible started being true. True True. Because if that point didn’t happen by the time it talked about Jesus, my life was heading down a wrong road.

Although the story of how that crisis resolved is somewhat interesting, I won’t relay it here. Suffice it to say I began connecting with professors and books that claimed to have scientific evidence for God, and even for the history of Genesis.

Over the next six years much of my life was involved in reading, studying, thinking, asking, speaking, debating, and even starting student organizations all related to this subject. Now, over 30 years later, the evidence and the implications of a communicating Creator is utterly profound to me.

In all this I find answers, glorious answers, for so many of the questions that trouble our world today. I find the basis to know who I am and who my neighbor is. I find the basis to define my world instead of letting it define me.

The purpose of this blog is to help other people connect with both the evidence and implications for this amazing reality called God. It is a wonderful pursuit. Half of the fun is asking the questions. (I believe God loves an honest sceptic) The other half is in the answers you find.

If you have questions or comments you can contact me via this blog (obviously) or at John.O.Meyer@comcast.net.

P.S. Other more practical biography: I’m married with 4 sons, two still at home. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado and pastor a church there. I love to travel and have gotten to visit some fascinating places in the world. One of my dreams (probably not to be realized) is to travel the Southwest on a motorcycle.