2011-12-17T14:57:58-05:00

Last updated on: December 17, 2011 at 2:57 pm   By

I’m grateful to Michael Heiser for highlighting the ridiculousness of a typical creationist claim. According to the Bible, the command to “be fruitful and multiply” was there prior to the Fall. According to young-earth creationists, death was not. And so that means that the vision of “paradise” that young-earth creationists have is of a world that quickly becomes filled with humans and presumably other living things packed tightly as sardines. If you get the impression that young-earth creationists make bold... Read more

2011-12-17T14:31:45-05:00

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Jim Linville has posted a reminder about this month’s biblioblog carnival, as well as a list of which blogs will be hosting the biblioblog carnival in the first several months of 2012. With LOLcats. Read more

2011-12-17T10:39:24-05:00

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2011-12-17T10:34:38-05:00

Last updated on: December 17, 2011 at 10:34 am   By

HT The Lead While there have unsurprisingly been arrogant, misguided and unhelpful comments from Christians, there have also been some particularly appreciative ones. Here’s an example from Bo Sanders: “Hitchens helped me by rabidly critiquing that false god of Empire and cutting open the giant bloated carcass of Christendom with razor-sharp clarity.”   Read more

2011-12-17T08:37:22-05:00

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Christmas music composed by Eric Whitacre. The words are a Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri of an English poem by Edward Esch. They mean “Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the newborn babe.” Read more

2011-12-16T19:49:10-05:00

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It is appropriate that I have reached the episode “The Daleks’ Master Plan” from the William Hartnell era. In addition to being something of an epic – it had twelve parts! – it also can be said to be or at least contain the first “Doctor Who Christmas Special” – a tradition that continues to the present day, with fans eagerly awaiting this year’s Christmas special, “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.” Since this is a lost episode, you... Read more

2011-12-16T12:53:22-05:00

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This post provides official notification of my intention, on or immediately prior to the 25th of December 2011, to wish readers of my blog a Merry Christmas. If you are likely to find such expression of Christmas greetings/wishes offensive, you are hereby asked to refrain from reading any and all posts on this blog which may have Christmas, Noel, or other synonymous terminology in the title which may be posted between midnight of December 24th and midnight of December 26th... Read more

2011-12-16T09:36:54-05:00

Last updated on: December 16, 2011 at 9:36 am   By

Someone recently asked me what we are supposed to imagine that the singing angels in Luke’s Gospel sounded like. Presumably they sounded something like the little angel in this video. More or less. HT Mark Goodacre Read more

2011-12-16T08:01:22-05:00

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People go into the transporter, people come out of the transporter. You can’t explain it. (If you don’t get what this is poking fun at, click here) Read more

2011-12-16T07:08:16-05:00

Last updated on: December 16, 2011 at 7:08 am   By

Christopher Hitchens, sometimes referred to as one of the “four horsemen” of the “new atheist” movement, has passed away. He was 62. As a liberal Christian, I appreciate individuals such as Hitchens, since the same problems he highlighted with respect to the Bible and historic Christianity are the reasons I find conservative Christianity unpersuasive. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, but that was not unrelated to the cancer from which he had been suffering. One of my favorite memories... Read more

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