Via Jeremy Myers Read more
Via Jeremy Myers Read more
Via Caitlin Coberly on Facebook. Even seven, were ants kosher, would not have been enough. Anteaters eat thousands a day. Plus ants have lifespans that are much shorter than the duration of the flood. Has any young-earth creationist ever addressed the ant problems with treating the story as a factual account? Read more
Christian Brady shared the above Bizarro cartoon. There are a number of important topics it gets at. One is the simple fact that some think the Bible contains material that looks ahead to later science and technology, and yet the evidence does not support this. But another is that, for those of us who appreciate some of the principles in the Bible rather than thinking that it directly addresses our time and concerns, it is ironic how rarely those principles... Read more
I just learned of a new website, Noah’s Flood, created to look at stories of natural cataclysms from long before the Bible up through the new Noah movie. I have only taken a quick look, but it looks interesting and worth sharing. Read more
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Phil Long pointed out yesterday that the next Biblical Studies Carnival was imminent, and that he needs volutneers for future ones. It has now appeared as Mossissimus Mose. Bob Macdonald has volunteered to host the next one. See also the latest round-up of Hebrews-related posts. Read more
Time magazine and Newsweek are reporting that the debate with Bill Nye is a key reason why the Answers in Genesis ark park now has enough funding to proceed. While some may shake their heads and think this means the debate was a bad idea, I am not so sure. It is not clear that the ark park would not have been built even so, and it does seem that the debate did not win Ham any supporters and may... Read more
The truth is, evangelical Christians have already “lost” the culture wars.And it’s not because the “other side” won or because evangelicals have failed to protect our own religious liberties. Evangelicals lost the culture wars the moment they committed to fighting them, the moment they decided to stop washing feet and start waging war. And I fear that we’ve lost not only the culture wars, but also our Christian identity, when the “right to refuse” service has become a more sincerely-held... Read more
John Schneider said this on Facebook, and it seems like such an important point, made so succinctly, that I wanted to turn it into a meme. Here’s another one, if you’d like a smaller image: The idea that the Bible is “inerrant” is something that has to be imposed on the Bible, forcibly, fighting against all the extensive counter-evidence that the Bible proffers, kicking and screaming until its multitude of voices are mostly silenced by the inerrantist straightjacket, which allows... Read more
Dave Walker’s latest, as it appeared in Church Times. HT Al Pinto on Facebook. Read more
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