“God is a God of truth, so the truth cannot unravel our faith if our faith is legitimate.” — Ken Schenck, in a blog post entitled “Paul, Athens, Evidence, Presuppositions” Read more
“God is a God of truth, so the truth cannot unravel our faith if our faith is legitimate.” — Ken Schenck, in a blog post entitled “Paul, Athens, Evidence, Presuppositions” Read more
Today is the tenth bloggiversary of Exploring Our Matrix. Even before it moved to Blogger, there was a version hosted on my own academic web space. And that is still there! So you can click through and see what things looked like when this blog first began. Read more
There’s some of the same footage, but also some that we didn’t see in the first trailer the BBC released. And what’s here has me even more excited for this upcoming 50th anniversary episode. I particularly like an echo of words that we’ve heard more than once, but which we heard for the first time from the Second Doctor played by Patrick Troughton. I am delighted that, even if there may not be other Doctors besides two recent ones and... Read more
Yesterday I got to see the movie Ender’s Game. Although quite a bit had to be left out in order to make the story into a regular feature-length film, I felt that what was depicted was fairly true to the original, or at least in keeping with it. The visual effects were impressive and brought to life – and up to date – the things that the novel itself got us to imagine. There are spoilers in what follows. I... Read more
Young-earth creationism takes it upon itself to do something that none of the Biblical authors does. Even though there were lots of different views in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and later in Greece and Rome, about the processes involved in nature, we never see a Biblical author challenge any of those views. Not one. Sometimes, however, they do simply accept those views – such as when Paul treats the heart as the location of human thought rather than the brain, following... Read more
This comment was left on Facebook in response to a blog post of mine that someone shared: What’s especially ironic is the contrast between the young-earth creationist approaches to scripture, and to the natural world. They insist that the Bible must be literally true in every word, because God does not lie. And yet in denying the obvious evidence of the natural world, they claim that God created with the “appearance of age.” For what purpose? To deceive us, or... Read more
A blog post by Jericho Brisance, “Christian Agnosticism and Touching Earth,” was drawn to my attention. It emphasizes that it is unacceptable to use history and science in an attempt to justify the Bible without being open to the disconfirmation of the Bible through the use of those same methods. Here is a taste: We claim normative knowledge in the Bible. It is subject to normative evaluation, and that means that such claims are indeed verifiable… and falsifiable… by normative... Read more
I’ve been having a long and extremely repetitive conversation with a Jesus-agnostic over the past several years, including most recently in the comments section on my post “The Quest for the Historical Nazareth”, on the subject of James, the brother of Jesus as evidence for there having been a historical Jesus. Here’s what I wrote, trying to sum up the evidence: Paul refers to Jesus in a way that indicates that he believes he was a human figure descended from... Read more
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