2011-12-02T08:55:44-05:00

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Recent discussions with young-earth creationists have illustrated well how young-earth creationists do serious harm to the Bible, and not only science, in their bizarre attempts to treat the Bible as though it were a scientific textbook and science textbooks as though they were someone’s Bible. Take, for instance, the parallels that scholars have identified between days 1-3 and days 4-6 in Genesis 1, illustrated best by using a chart: The first three days feature the creation of habitats, and the... Read more

2011-12-01T22:15:14-05:00

Last updated on: December 1, 2011 at 10:15 pm   By

HT Mark Goodacre I don’t think that even those who take exception at some elements of the theology in the lyrics will dispute that this is AWESOME! Read more

2016-09-14T19:47:35-04:00

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2011-12-01T16:41:07-05:00

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This video from a few years ago came to my attention again today, and so I thought I would share it, since it is as relevant now as it was when it was first made. Read more

2011-12-01T15:30:06-05:00

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It is difficult to work out the precise number of anti-evolutionists there are in the world, but an experiment to illustrate the sheer number of them has been proposed. If you took all the young-earth creationists and proponents of Intelligent Design, and laid them down head to foot along the equator, presumably some of them would drown, or get run over or eaten by lions. Sounds like an experiment which will produce useful results whatever its outcome, doesn’t it?  ... Read more

2011-12-01T13:24:05-05:00

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I had no idea that the Book of Job had been turned into a song, much less a 1970s style progressive rock song. But a recent discussion on Facebook drew the band Seatrain and their “Song of Job” to my attention. Here it is: Read more

2011-12-01T11:32:24-05:00

Last updated on: December 1, 2011 at 11:32 am   By

I have written several contradictory things over the years about the notion of a slippery slope, but one of them focused on the idea of a “radical middle,” where one tries to maintain their balance with slippery slopes on both sides. Scot McKnight posted something very similar today, as he reflected on the fact that no one seems to ever get kicked out of the Evangelical Theological Society for being too conservative, but only for being liberal, however slightly. Here... Read more

2016-12-22T19:58:39-05:00

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2011-12-01T00:05:03-05:00

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2011-11-30T21:13:57-05:00

Last updated on: November 30, 2011 at 9:13 pm   By

As a Doctor Who fan, I was tempted to call this “Carnival of Giants” as a mash-up of two episode titles, “Carnival of Monsters” and “Planet of the Giants.” But even though I didn’t, there is still a giant carnival over at Deane Galbraith’s blog Remnant of Giants. There are some posts from here and lots from elsewhere, including blogging related to the recent AAR and SBL conferences. Related to SBL, Jim Linville posted on the (un)holy alliance between SBL... Read more

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