The Blog of Dr. James F. McGrath, Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University, Indianapolis
It is a common claim of young-earth creationists that they are looking at the same data as mainstream scientists, and merely interpreting it differently. But in actual fact, reality, with its hard facts, has a way of changing our minds even when we are determined to interpret things differently. And so I share this more [...]
From The Far Left Side. The official stance of the Catholic church is that evolution occurred, but there are certainly promoters of pseudoscience among Catholics (think Denyse O’Leary). And so this seems like a rather complimentary cartoon about Catholicism, depicting the church going to such great lengths to promote mainstream science and convince skeptics among [...]
The winner of the giveaway of a copy of Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom and Wonder, is commenter number 62… By my count, that makes the winner Jason Gardner! (Feel free to double-check my counting if you are so inclined – we can have a Florida style recount if necessary). Congratulations, Jason, and please let me know [...]
From today’s Speed Bump. More serious discussion of apocalypticism and the expectation of the end of the world soon…
Just because you’ve seen Sith wearing hoodies, like Darth Maul or my old apprentice (before he ended up in a full-body armor suit that doesn’t really go with a hoodie) doesn’t mean that you should discriminate against everyone whom the Force is strong with. Some of us are just ordinary Jedi, trying to go about [...]
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