Happy Birthday Darwin!

There are many things around the web and blogosphere related to Darwin’s birthday. Darwin Day Celebrations. My colleague Michael Zimmerman suggests ways to celebrate. And of course there’s the usual quote-mining and misinformation, alas.

Tacitus on Mythicism

Although I can empathize with mythicists’ avoidance and/or skepticism of Josephus as evidence for a historical Jesus, given the clear evidence for tampering, I do not understand why anyone who had not already set out in advance to disprove the existence of Jesus would doubt the testimony of Tacitus (Annals 15.44) writing in the early second century: [...]

Already LOST

The student whose blog about LOST I recently mentioned has already moved to a new address: http://smokymcgee.blogspot.com/ Having mentioned the blog, it seemed appropriate to let you know that it has moved and where it has moved to. Also of interest is Diglotting offering a theory about Jacob and Esau, and DocArtz blogging about “the [...]