Since my current research is not on Q, I thought that perhaps others for whom this is more their area of expertise might like to make use of some of the following puns (which I will gladly part with to the highest bidder) in posting on this subject: J’aQQQQQQ…Mark Goodacre A Qmulative Case for a [...]

Is there any evidence for Q that could puncture “the case against Q” which seems watertight to its proponents? Perhaps the Lord’s Prayer will answer the prayers of Q supporters everywhere. The Matthean version of the prayer is better known and longer. It is easy to envisage the author of Matthew adding these comments as [...]

I mentioned once before that I was surprised to find myself doubting the authenticity of a saying which the Jesus Seminar voted RED. I had always viewed their results as a fairly skeptical bare minimum. The issue relates to some material that is in both Matthew and Luke (and thus attributed by most scholars to [...]

I’d like to welcome Richard M to the blog – and since he commented extensively on a discussion on the Debunking Christianity blog about something I wrote, and does not have his own blog, I am offering today’s “guest post” which compiles some of his recent comments. I hope you enjoy them as much as [...]

I thought I’d try tinkering with the blog’s layout and appearance a little. With Matrix in the title, I thought maybe what you now see might be a bit more appropriate. Let me know if you have an opinion about it. I’m probably not done tinkering with it for good, so if you make a [...]

Thanksgiving reduces the need for theodicy. I don’t mean the holiday that is celebrated in the United States today – although presumably one could attempt to formulate an argument for the existence of a supremely benevolent deity on the basis of turkey, cranberry sauce and stuffing. But those with scarcely enough to survive could legitimately [...]

“the creator doesn’t always need to be as smart as his creatures” (N. Katherine Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2005) p.196, referring to the ability of computer programs to come up with solutions to problems that had not occurred to the programs’ creators). I found [...]