Hemant Mehta shared the image below, offering it as a response to Ken Ham’s silly remarks that we should not be looking for aliens, since they are doomed to hell because God became man and not Klingon: IO9 also had a piece dealing with the range of Christian responses to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. It is interesting to consider the narrowness of Ham’s viewpoint in historical perspective, and in view of the fact that aliens are mentioned in the Bible... Read more
The quote comes from an IO9 article by Esther Inglis-Arkell with the title “Stop Using Quantum Mechanics as Evidence for Magic.” Read more
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Larry Hurtado has expressed some frustration with some members of his blog audience. Here is an excerpt from his recent blog post on the topic: Scholarly work intended to have an impact on the field isn’t done in blogging. The amount of data, its complexity, the analysis and argumentation involved, and the engagement with the work of other scholars that forms an essential feature of scholarly work all require more space than a few hundred words of a blog-posting, or... Read more
From This Isn't Happiness. HT Jeff Carter. Read more
There is a transcript on the Bible Odyssey website. Read more
GenCon 2014 is fast approaching – a little over two weeks. If you will be in Indianapolis for the occasion, let me know – perhaps our paths will cross, although it is unlikely to happen unless it is planned, given how large and crowded an event it is. To celebrate the occasion, I thought I’d share this image I saw on Reddit, which features a prediction about gaming in the year 2000, made in the 1980s. It is surprisingly accurate. My... Read more
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The above photo was kindly taken by Ryan Eller on the recent trip I led to Israel. He gave me the strangest look when I told him that you never know when a photo of oneself exiting a first-century tomb will come in handy. The tomb in the photo is a replica at the Nazareth Village open air museum. When I shared the photo on Facebook, I got some funny comments, among which one that suggested I should get out... Read more
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