I had been ignoring the Biblioblog Top 50 these past months, since the scripts that allow blogs like mine at Patheos had not been updated since our addresses changed. But Steve Caruso finally found the time to update the script this past month, and now that Exploring Our Matrix is back in the running, I’m honored to say that it is the #1 biblioblog for this past month! It looks like Jim West might need his script updated… Elsewhere in... Read more
A friend made this image his Facebook cover photo, and I quickly made it mine too: Presumably the image makes more sense if we add narration: “When Dalek Herod realized that the Doctor and the Magi had tricked him, he sent Daleks to Bethlehem, saying, “Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!” Read more
The above photo came to me via Craig Hurle on Facebook. I am pretty sure that it is probably just a matter of religion books being in the next aisle over. But given my overlapping and intersecting interests, the photo still seemed worth sharing. And perhaps it is worth discussion in a more serious way – is there anything particularly appropriate or inappropriate about the placement? Read more
Bob MacDonald has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, and it is like no other I remember seeing. It has columns, and art, and music, and inserts, and all sorts of things which add to a rich experience of the usual carnival fare of links. Click through and enjoy! Read more
It is Christians who are most associated in our time with the notion of believing without seeing. But a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Obi-Wan Kenobi (who is purported to have been a Jedi and not a Christian) famously said “Your eyes can deceive you – Don’t trust them!” Believing without seeing is hard, and often foolish. Disbelieving what our eyes have seen is harder still. Two videos that have been circulating illustrate this well.... Read more
One more meme image that came to my attention on the theme of creationism: To be fair, in popular usage, the word “theory” does indeed get used regularly for a hunch or worse – after all, we talk of “conspiracy theories.” So perhaps we should spend less time blaming people who have little science education for misunderstanding the way scientists use the term, and more time explaining to them that, in science, a theory is an organizing framework which interprets... Read more
Blog reader Keika has a way with video mash-ups. Above is an opening credits sequence for this blog that he made. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Read more
The classes depicted below are shorter and simpler than ones that involve actual scientific information and research. No wonder some students would prefer them… For those actually interested in legitimate science, National Academies Press has a book available that you can download for free: Science, Evolution, and Creationism. The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is also out and available online. Read more
I came across this image on Facebook and realized that it manages to sum up a crucial point in few words: When someone offers evidence and does research that radically changes our understanding of the world, or decisively disproves something that was previously accepted, they make news headlines and win science prizes. The next time someone says to you that they have or know of evidence disproving evolution, or any other mainstream scientific conclusion, maybe the best thing to do... Read more
A newer song by Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote “Chiron Beta Prime.” Read more
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