HT to Lori Baron for pointing out the above video to me. I decided it was too good to save until May the 4th. Also fun and related to Star Wars is this explanation of March Madness in Star Wars terms (HT SF Signal): Read more
HT to Lori Baron for pointing out the above video to me. I decided it was too good to save until May the 4th. Also fun and related to Star Wars is this explanation of March Madness in Star Wars terms (HT SF Signal): Read more
I just saw this image on Facebook: I may have to show it to my classes in the future. When the concept of Messiah first comes up, I ask if anyone knows what it means. Usually there is someone who knows that it means “anointed” or “anointed one.” Then I ask what it means to be anointed. Often there is someone who knows the answer to that question, but not always. It means to be smeared with oil. And so,... Read more
Doctor Who returns at the end of this month. These two videos with preview clips from the upcoming season are really intriguing. Spoilers… HT IO9 and Inter-Galaxy Portal. See also the “50 Great Doctor-ish Moments from 50 Years of Doctor Who” at IO9. Read more
The question of whether it is possible to change history is a staple of time travel science fiction. SMBC’s latest cartoon has an interesting take on it: HT Luke Barnes Read more
In response to my post “Were you there?”, several people have mentioned another possible source for Ken Ham's “Were you there?” question: The Book of Job. If that is his source for it, then it shows that his incomprehension of Biblical literature is more severe than I thought. The message of the entire Book of Job is focused on the limitations of human comprehension, and about the fact that, when we try to force experience or other new data to... Read more
From Unvirtuous Abbey, and a natural follow-up to yesterday's post. Read more
The Bible describes human beings as made in the image of God. Although young-earth creationists may claim to be defending that view of human beings, they in fact deny it. I say this because the statement about human beings being made in the image and likeness of God is a statement about human beings in general, and not only about the first two human beings. Genesis 9:6 makes this clearer than any other passage, when it emphasizes the seriousness of... Read more
The question “Were you there?” probably has two resonances for Christians. It is the title of a famous spiritual. And it is a phrase that Ken Ham encourages people to ask in science classes. One of them is an invitation to bridge the distance between past and present. The other closes that bridge in a way that is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity. Christianity has at its core claims about the past. For some conservative believers, those claims are arguably excessively... Read more
This is a great Star Wars parody of 9/11 trutherism – and all other conspiracy theories! As with other conspiracy theorists, there is usually some glaring error that makes it hard to take what they say seriously. In this case, it is calling the planet “Aldebraan.” HT IO9 and then later Tom Verenna on Facebook as well as Michael Barber. Read more
Since today was the first day after Spring Break, I decided to devote much of my class on the Bible to an activity that didn’t require one to have done the assigned reading (I’m a realist). And so, given the plan of a campus ministry to bring someone from Answers in Genesis to campus, I thought we could do some fact-checking of their claims. I mentioned two of the countless pieces of evidence regarding the age of the earth and... Read more
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