Having moved to this new site, I suppose there is another thing I should explain about this blog. It is a biblioblog. I know librarians who blog use that term too, but the most authoritative source in the known universe (which is being considered as a candidate to be declared a UNESCO heritage site) says that it means a blog dedicated to Biblical studies. And so presumably that settles it. Even if you’ve been reading this blog only since it... Read more
There were so many useful and interesting posts related to evolution and religion that it seemed worthy of a round-up. RJS discusses Tiktaalik, an important fossil of a transitional form. Biologos has a video and post on Intelligent Design as bad theology as well as weak science. Marc Cortez also linked to it. Larry Moran discusses Jonathan Wells‘ junk science on junk DNA. Joel Watts links to a United Methodist statement on faith and science. The Dispersal of Darwin links... Read more
My recent post on the connection between certain kinds of end-times expectation and ongoing crises in the Middle East generated some discussion. Here are links to some things related to this topic that have turned up on other blogs. Richard Hall links to the text of a lecture by Amy Jill Levine: “Old Habits Die Hard: A Critique of Recent Christian Statements on Israel.” Velveteen Rabbi discusses the tension between the celebration and mourning that mark the anniversary of the... Read more
A post this morning by John Byron on what is wrong with “Rapture theology” made me think of a parable about the Rapture that Peter Rollins told. Because of what has been in the news lately, when I went to his web site to look for it, I found he had reposted it in his most recent blog entry. Here it is: Just as it was written by those prophets of old, the last days of the Earth overflowed with... Read more
In addition to it being Towel Day, it is also Geek Pride Day. I’m not sure why we cannot simply combine the two, considering the substantial overlap. A year ago The Geek Muse drew my attention to the fact that May 25th is Geek Pride Day – according toWikipedia. At that time, I disputed that the day should be understood to apply equally to nerds (being a nerd myself), but recognized that since nerds rank above geeks in their editing of Wikipedia,... Read more
PZ Myers posted a reminder that today is Towel Day, in honor of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Read more
Nik at Nite posted a reminder about the conference on the TV show LOST scheduled to take place October 6th-8th, 2011 in New Orleans, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South. The deadline for proposals of papers is June 30th 2011. Click through for more information about the conference and how to propose a paper. Read more
Many of us had been wondering where the 2012 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting would be held – and whether the lack of information about the meeting on the SBL web site was due to concerns about the Rapture or the Mayan Apocalypse potentially interfering with the event. However, at long last SBL has sent out the following announcement about not only the 2012 but also the 2013 International meetings: The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is pleased to... Read more
Wile E. Coyote heads towards the cliff but doesn’t see it. We’ve all seen the cartoons – he can keep running, until he looks down and notices there is no longer anything beneath his feet to support him. This is, in essence, the situation of the young-earth creationist movement. Every single objection that did not consist of pointing at unanswered question – and even some of those – has been answered by scientists, and still more evidence than we might... Read more
If you have forgotten to update the address for Exploring Our Matrix in your feed reader, you’ve been missing what I’ve been blogging – including a poster from Harold Camping’s 2011 Rap Tour! I have created a Feedreader feed for Exploring Our Matrix. If you use the address below when you subscribe, if the blog ever moves again, I can simply change things on my end, and your subscription via Feedreader will update and life will carry on seamlessly! http://feeds.feedburner.com/ExploringOurMatrix/... Read more
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