An op-ed piece I wrote about the attention Joseph Atwill has been getting lately has appeared on The Bible and Interpretation website. The title is “Selective Skepticism.”   Read more
An op-ed piece I wrote about the attention Joseph Atwill has been getting lately has appeared on The Bible and Interpretation website. The title is “Selective Skepticism.”   Read more
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My colleague Brent Hege recently gave an excellent lunchtime talk about the Creation Museum, focusing on how the phenomenon of “creation science” is a radical departure from historic Christianity in its definition of key concepts such as faith. As he was talking about the circularity of the argument presented in the Creation Museum, I found myself recalling something I had heard about the Nigerian bank scam e-mails that we've all seen. The latter often seem to be so riddled with... Read more
I am proposing that, on November 2nd, the day that a conference on Religion and Doctor Who is being held at the University of Manchester, we organize a synchroblog on the topic. For a blog like mine, it may just be business as usual. But hopefully blogs that regularly cover Doctor Who but rarely touch on religion, blogs that regularly focus on religion but rarely on Doctor Who, and blogs which normally cover neither but whose author(s) are interested in... Read more
The BBC held a press conference today, then embargoed those present from publishing the details before midnight UK time. It is almost time, but some details have already begun to leak, and it is pretty amazing news. Nine parts of episodes previously lost have been recovered, and they are from the Patrick Troughton era. They apparently include five parts of “The Enemy of the World” and four of “The Web of Fear,” both of which I can say from having... Read more
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Peter Kirby has made a ranking of biblioblogs using a different method than has been used in the past: by number of other sites linking there. Exploring Our Matrix comes in at #10. Click through to see the others. Â Â Read more
Some think that they can start with certain information about, and/or knowledge revealed by, God, and then proceed to extrapolate to key values. That those values end up resembling those of the individual and their culture is, we are reassured, entirely coincidental. I’d like to suggest that the process, whether admitted or not, is always the opposite. Sometimes it happened in a previous generation, so that a later generation genuinely does embrace a vision of God and correlated valued which... Read more
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