Via Wishing Doesn’t Make It So, I’ve ended up participating in a discussion at the New England Pastor blog on “The Mythical Book of Genesis“. I suspect many regular readers may also find the discussion interesting and worth joining in. Read more

Doug Chapin has recommended abandoning talk of “what the Bible says”, with further discussion by Henry Neufeld and Sean the Baptist. Paul Flesher compares ancient and modern readers. The news about the Revelation of Gabriel is being followed by PaleoJudaica, Stephen Cook, Think Christian and many others. Creationists are appealing to the Flintstones in their support. A philosopher has taken on the idea of irreducible complexity. New Scientist covers the latest legal threat to evolution and thus to decent science... Read more

The current iPhone enables one to make and receive phone calls, e-mails, and text messages, view pdf files, photos, and videos, not use turn signals, and drive at 15 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. Rumor has it the next generation of iPhone will include an additional safety feature: an airbag, for those instances where one inevitably careens into oncoming traffic while using it. Read more

The Mandaeans use a solar calendar which consists of 12 months, each consisting of exactly 30 days, with an additional 5 days added at the end of the year which do not belong to any month. Apparently, this same calendar was used in ancient Egypt throughout most of its history. An additional day once every 4 years was added to the calendar before the first century C.E. The Jews down the ages have used a lunar calendar for the most... Read more

John Pieret has a “cracker” of a post. Ann Fontaine highlights some bloggers who are blogging the Qur’an. Ken Schenck continues working through James D. G. Dunn’s The Partings of the Ways. The Evolution of the Mystery talks about miracles. Scot McKnight has a little exercise for young theobloggers. Jim West shares Joe Zias’ thoughts on the “Revelation of Gabriel”. Chris Heard’s two interests, teaching Bible and role playing games, are finally converging. Mark Goodacre blogs the Doctor Who season... Read more

Here’s another scam e-mail I received. As usual, when they make it through the spam filter, I post a warning, since I get lots of gullible people finding their way to my blog searching for key words and names from the e-mail, since somehow they think the e-mail might be real and worth checking. Here’s the contents of the most recent one. It is a scam. No one wants to transfer money to a complete stranger. No one. Not now,... Read more

The news is just breaking in the blogosphere that Sir John Templeton, founder of the Templeton Foundation, has passed away. He was 95. He is best known for his financial success, and for his work in promoting a free market approach to religion and constructive dialogue between religion and science. Read more

Here are some better video clips of our hummingbirds: And now for a couple of clips of a deer that visits our garden regularly. Read more

I just watched “Journey’s End”, the season finale of Doctor Who. This post contains spoilers. It also explores the Bible and theology in light of this episode of Doctor Who that you may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. Loren Rosson is of course right that there were ad hoc resolutions to issues, unconvincing waves of magic technobabble that made problems resolve themselves. But that just means it was Doctor Who we were watching. The show has always tied itself... Read more