Our perception affects our thinking which affects our actions. Could anyone, even if they know what is going on here, fail to slow down? There’s a cool practical point to take away from this. But it’s also a really cool idea! Feel free just to enjoy the awesomeness of the image and whoever thought to create something like this. But if you’re so inclined, feel free to discuss how some misperceptions may be advantageous to us in certain respects… Read more
I’ve actually written some serious treatments of whether machines can ever be people, including in my chapter in Religion and Science Fiction. The series of posters that IO9 highlighted today about droids suffering from what they described as “low self esteem” actually seem to me to depict them doing more than that, reflecting on very human questions and emotions. Take a look and see what you think. Here’s one of my favorites: From Papers Beats Scissors. What do you think?... Read more
Timothy Dalrymple posted a blog entry responding to one that I wrote for a previous Christmas and shared again this year. His historical point about uncertainty regarding the reason for the choice of date is probably a fair one. But I don’t think that I was at all caricaturing those who think there is a “war on Christmas.” Just take a look at the AFA’s call to boycott Walgreens, or SayMerryChristmas.net (the creator of which actually left a comment on... Read more
Sabio Lantz posted a graphic asking how big your deity is, with a continuum running from abstraction to judge. I would have had the continuum running the other way. The sort of deity that is anthropomorphized and reflects our worst traits, looking to inflict suffering on people who fail to sing his praises (literally or metaphorically), seems to me the smallest. The sort of deity who is beyond concepts, beyond comprehension, beyond anything we can hope to imagine or describe,... Read more
This video from Japan shows the latest in cutting-edge, innovative technology, designed to allow fast walkers to circumvent slower ones. You know you’ve wanted to be able to do this. So what is it? A jetpack? Levitating surfboard? Watch and see! Apparently these are already available in some stores in the English-speaking world. HT Jonathan Robinson Read more
The Doctor Who episode “The Gunfighters” is a light-hearted one with lots of comedy. The Doctor and his companions end up in Tombstone in the wild West. There the Doctor gets mistaken for Doc Holliday and deputized by Wyatt Earp (whom he persistently refers to as “Mr. Wearp”) while Stephen and Dodo are forced to offer musical entertainment at the Last Chance Saloon. Since this is an episode which survives, you can watch that scene on YouTube or in the... Read more
A useful video from the BioLogos foundation. Please share it with any young-earth creationists or other antievolutionists you happen to know! Read more
A bit of historic footage from Jerusalem in 1896 has appeared on YouTube (HT John Byron): And from Dănuţ Mănăstireanu, the first in a planned series of videos from a justice tour he participated in. Read more
Mythicism is just one of several categories of implausible claims that one will encounter in connection with Jesus. The Life of Antoninus Pius has a blog post about another one, that proposed by Francesco Carotta, who claims that Jesus was Caesar. Click through to read about it, and why no one ought to find it persuasive. Carotta’s argument (found in his book Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report) has many similarities of approach to that... Read more
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