The National Center for Science Education has now made its periodical, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, available online for free. Read more

Sometimes the blogosphere seems to have a collective consciousness, or at least syncronicity. Four posts related to religion and video games appeared in my reader over the past day or so. First, one that answers the question that has been on everyone’s mind since they first played Super Mario Bros.: What’s Down There? Well, ChurchCrunch has the answer: In related news, New Scientist reports that a Godlike princess can not only conquer villains but improve childrens’ behavior. And Faith and Theology... Read more

I don’t know whether Steve Caruso was the original NT Wrong. But he is the new one. Read more

A happy holy week to Christian readers and happy Passover to Jewish readers. I’ve already shared previously some of the most relevant links I’ve come across – such as the social media Exodus – but a few things I’ve seen appear on blogs over the past few days seem to be worth sharing, and somehow interconnected. On the one hand, Duane Galbraith is discussing Maurice Casey’s recent book Jesus of Nazareth: An independent historian’s account of his life and teaching. I... Read more

There has been a lot of discussion over the years about how much and in what ways young-earth creationism and intelligent design are the same and in what ways they are different. Here’s one similarity: both are blasphemous. Both work with the assumption that God would only have created in a certain way, and would not work through processes such as those that biologists, geneticists, and paleontologists study. And since the evidence is more than adequate to demonstrate that the... Read more

A submission in Jim Linville’s creationist LOLCat contest explains why: Meanwhile, at BioBlog Allison Campbell offers another theory (in the looser sense) as to why dinosaurs didn’t survive down to the present day, from Bizarro Comics. Read more

Having created the Biblioblog Reference Library, Steve Caruso is now looking for biblioblog reference librarians to create featured articles – in essence, round-ups of key themes and topics. Read more

I can rarely pass up an opportunity to mention something about the intersection of religion and science fiction. And so here’s a clip that Hemant Mehta shared today (in a post that actually mentions some discussion of Star Trek and the Bible): From what little we learn about it in various episodes, Klingon religion is somewhat more complex than Worf’s remark in this clip suggests. And it isn’t clear that the Klingons fared better than the Bajorans as a result... Read more

Today Butler University hosts the 23rd annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Some 800 undergrads from more than 30 colleges and universities in the Midwest are on campus today to present on research that they have been doing. It’s a great event! Read more

Jokes for polyglots #129: American officials investigating what they believed were Israeli branches of organized crime syndicates remain perplexed by the fact that they seem to only sell perfectly legal baked goods. Jokes for church history geeks #237: A famous Mexican singer is being accused by church authorities of promoting Arianism. Read more