Ken Ham is apparently willing to compromise about more than geocentrism and the firmament. Now he is backtracking on the claim that people rode on saddled dinosaurs. That is something depicted in Ham’s own book, Dinosaurs of Eden: Tracing the Mystery Through History. Just take a look at the sample page on Amazon.com: I still think that Ken Ham is genuinely out to make Christians look as foolish and dishonest as possible because he hates Christianity. I can find no... Read more
An amazingly beautiful composition by 20th century composer Alan Hovhaness, his Symphony No. 6, “Celestial Gate.” Read more
Jim West has posted the premiere Biblical Studies Carnival of 2013. Click through to read it – and then you’ll see the title he gave it and understand why I made the image below… Read more
Libby Anne wrote an interesting post recently about the experience of her child encountering the New Testament stories against the background of both other classic children’s mythology as well as more recent stories. And so the child came up with not only the angel Gabriel as “Mary’s fairy godmother” but also (with prompting after some confusion) Jesus as a time lord and thus the Roman centurions as cybermen. For some, this seem like a horrible travesty. But for others, it... Read more
Joseph Hoffmann posted on whether “anything goes” in mythicism, providing a wonderful discussion of the appropriate and inappropriate sorts of “skepticism” and illustrating how historians reason about the evidence regarding Jesus. Around a lengthy treatment of Hegelianism, he writes things like this: To say that Jesus is a plausible figure is thus merely to say the following: (1) His description fits the historical matrix from which it comes; (2) Allowing only for the credulity of writers and listeners of the time, there is... Read more
If your faith can move mountains, it should be able to withstand a little criticism. — Source unknown, via Robert Cargill on Facebook Read more
Jim West has posted his final reminder to those who wish to be part of this month's Biblical Studies Carnival to send their submissions. Read more
In related news, David Bradley will play William Hartnell in a documentary about the origins and early days of Doctor Who! Here’s what that might look like: Read more
Trains. Now you know. Read more
A few things of interest. The Lead asked whether robots could ever replace clergy. It’s science fiction now, but will it always be? Some Turks took offense at what they perceived to be a patterning of a LEGO version of Jabba the Hutt’s palace on the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (not Constantinople). It was, they suggested, an insult aimed at Islam, even though the Hagia Sophia’s origin is as a church. Here’s a mash-up imagining what the trailer for the... Read more
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