The latest in the hilarious “How It Should Have Ended” series. HT SF Signal. This one had me laughing out loud – literally! Read more
The latest in the hilarious “How It Should Have Ended” series. HT SF Signal. This one had me laughing out loud – literally! Read more
The Gospel as it is proclaimed in the New Testament nowhere mentions the process whereby God created. It is never presented as a part of the Gospel message proclaimed by Christians in any way, shape, or form. It isn’t that it is “just a minor tenet” or something like that – it isn’t mentioned at all. People held all sorts of views about the process of creation and the nature of the natural world in those times. And yet we... Read more
Someone asked a question along these lines on Facebook recently, asking what one piece of evidence in particular persuades people to adopt the view that they do. There are multiple things that I find particularly indicative. The reference to a dome in Genesis 1 is itself significant. But the point becomes even clearer if one knows other creation stories from the Ancient Near East. In the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, Marduk slays Tiamat (their version of the more... Read more
I've been asked to contribute a couple more entries to a reference work, The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, which I have contributed to before. The two new entries are the sections on film/movies, under the following subject heading entries: Illegitimate Offspring Kinship of Jesus The first is self-explanatory, and connects with the research I have done on the question of Jesus' illegitimacy and his social status. The second presumably includes both the family of Jesus in his... Read more
From yesterday's Non Sequitur. Read more
With all the discussion of J. J. Abrams agreeing to produce Star Wars Episode VII, when he is already involved in the Star Trek franchise, made me think that it was worth sharing this classic bit of humor again, “Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended.” It brings the two franchises together, although not in a way that is likely to be part of an actual J. J. Abrams movie. 🙂 Read more
From yesterday’s Bizarro Comics. Read more
So that's who Cumberbatch is playing in Star Trek Into Darkness… Read more
You won’t need to be a child of the 7os to appreciate the long Pink Floyd-style extended variation on the Doctor Who theme. Or this (which someone on Reddit pointed out is psychedalek!): Read more
Stephen Savage made reference to JJA and JJB in discussing the next Star Wars movie. Suddenly the connections all make sense! Read more
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