Via Rachel Held Evans, I learned of Jim LePage’s “Word Bible Designs” which attempt to encapsulate what is central to a book in the Bible in a single image. Many of them are provocative, in ways that range from the gory to the racy to the simply creative and striking. Here are a few samples: Click through to see more. Let me know which, if any, strike you, and why. And do take a look at... Read more
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HT Marc Cortez UPDATE: The book in question is Stats: Modeling the World (or perhaps the first edition, which was called Stats: data and models, which included the same footnote) written by David E. Bock, Paul F. Velleman, and Richard D. De Veaux. Read more
The blog Irtiqa got to a topic that I was hoping to mention. It already seemed to me that the snowflake (which in many parts of the Northern hemisphere is readily available for observation at the moment) provides a great illustration of what is wrong with Intelligent Design. Looking at a snowflake, it would be easy to say that something so beautiful, so ornate, and so logically and precisely structured must be a product of an intelligence. That’s perhaps even... Read more
In discussing areas related to my teaching and interests lately, whether Biblical studies or biological science, the question has come up whether it might not make sense to actually examine an example of pseudoscholarship or junk science in teaching students to recognize the real thing. It is easy enough to say that young-earth creationism is to genuine science, or Jesus mythicism is to genuine history, as this place is to a real McDonald’s: The question is how to train someone... Read more
I probably shouldn’t tamper with the wording of a song for the title of this post. Cee Lo Green has sparked a lot of controversy with his New Year’s Eve rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” in which he changed “no religion, too” to “all religion’s true.” But in fact, what Cee Lo did with the song illustrates the point I want to make in this post nicely. When is it OK to rewrite a song to say what you want... Read more
The Doctor Who episode “Arc of Infinity” is well-known among fans for several reasons, perhaps most of all because it witnessed the first appearance of Colin Baker on the show – not yet as the sixth Doctor, but as the Gallifreyan commander of the chancellery guard, Maxil. Colin Baker was only one of many such instances during the show’s history: Nicholas Courtney, Lalla Ward and Karen Gillan being other actors and actresses who appeared on the show for a role in... Read more
The blog Sacred Techs is now live, and will focus on the use of modern technology to study Biblical and other ancient texts. It has a corresponding podcast (also available via iTunes) as well. If you are interested in the intersection of the sacred and the techs, you’ll want to keep an eye on this one. HT Chris Brady and Charles Ellwood Jones Read more
HT Marc Cortez (This is for all my zombie-loving friends out there – you know who you are.) Read more
If you have a bird feeder in your yard, you will surely have had the experience of finding a squirrel sitting there, eating its fill and keeping birds from getting access to the feeder. No matter how cute you think squirrels are, you presumably want birds to be able to eat from the bird feeder. But keeping them away is a challenge, because of their intelligence and persistence, as this video illustrates: So if you really do want to keep... Read more
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