Via George Takei on Facebook. Solidly at the intersection of religion and science fiction. Read more
Via George Takei on Facebook. Solidly at the intersection of religion and science fiction. Read more
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Anthony Le Donne has taken it upon himself to make what he calls “honest business cards” for himself and a bunch of other scholars he knows. Here is the one he made for me: Click through to see the others. What would yours say? Read more
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Everyone knows at least something from Bernard Herrmann’s work as a film composer. His concert works deserve to be wider known than they are. Read more
The recording from the episode of the Drew Marshall show that I was on is now available online on the radio show’s website. You can stream it, or download the mp3. Have a listen and let me know what you think! As a reminder, it was me and Jonathan Ryan (of the blog Geek Goes Rogue) talking about the debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye. Read more
The Natural Historian blog recently focused on one of the more bizarre aspects of Ken Ham's variety of young-earth creationism: it says evolution as mainstream biology understands it is wrong and impossible, and yet claims that evolution worked much faster than mainstream biology posits, in order to get from the small number of “kinds” in the ark to the large variety of species today. As Bill Nye emphasized, we should see new species appearing daily if that were true. But... Read more
The quote is from Fred Clark’s blog post, “Inerrancy is Not a Victimless Crime.” Read more
Brian Bowman drew the above image to my attention, which comes from the website Evogeneao. Why is this amazing scientific information, that all living things on this planet are related, felt by some to be antithetical to religion? Because their religion is not about awe towards God which is open to discovering and learning new things over the course of their lives, but about dogmatically insisting that a simplistic depiction of the truth that they heard as children should represent... Read more
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