Apparently someone wanted to be the millionth hit on Exploring Our Matrix very badly. Today I’ve had in excess of 10,000 hits so far, mostly on the post about the number of hits on the blog nearing a million. I can just imagine someone spending the day clicking “refresh”… Anyway, thanks for the early Christmas present, whoever you are! Read more
This is a repost of something I wrote a couple of years ago. It’s a challenge to those Christians who denigrate scholarship as causing confusion and inappropriately asking questions and raising issues. Just read the Bible for yourself, without the aid of scholarship. Sounds simple, right? Sounds like just what you wanted to do? Not so fast… If you are going to do what I’ve challenged you to, then you cannot read an English translation of the Bible. Translations rely on... Read more
Due to significant cloud cover, the lunar eclipse early this morning was not visible in my area. But it is good to hear that other bloggers managed to see it: Chet Raymo saw it in the Bahamas, and Charles Halton shared a link to photos as well as thoughts on eclipses in ancient Babylonia and Israel. Steve Wiggins had an exam to give today and so couldn’t stay up. Did you stay up to watch it? To mark the occasion, here’s... Read more
Jesus Creed has been focusing a lot of attention on matters of religion and science lately. Today there is a post about the accusation of religious discrimination related to the case of Martin Gaskell. One important point that is made is that there are extremes of viewpoint and rhetoric on both sides which contribute to cases like this – opposition to mainstream science in many churches and dismissal of any religious believer as inevitably guilty of stupidity or sloppy thinking... Read more
Mark Stevens has a guest post by NT Wrong about issues of historicity in the infancy stories in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Read more
Arni Zachariassen shared a cartoon from Mikey Burton. Burton labelled it as comparing a good student to a smart one, but Arni interpreted it in terms of “religion and science.” What does it suggest to you? The cartoon originally appeared accompanying an op-ed in the New York Times about how students are rewarded (or not) for effort, meeting deadlines, etc. I can think of at least two other things the cartoon might suggest. On the one hand, I notice that... Read more
It is that time of year again, as winter begins and joy fills the hearts of professors everywhere. My grades for this semester have been submitted, and so now I can do nothing but relax and perhaps read for pleasure… I hope you laughed out loud at that last statement. It is so not true. But the truth is that I do expect to take pleasure in the things I have lined up to read over the Christmas holiday break, namely a... Read more
A colleague sent this to me: Read more
The video version on YouTube of the Bucharest Madrigal Choir singing this carol is cut off at the end, so here’s an audio-only version of one of my favorite carols they perform, “Domnuleţ şi Domn în Cer” composed by Gheorghe Cucu. Corul Madrigal – Domnulet si Domn din cer http://embed.trilulilu.ro/audio/ruga/cbc78f3020ba94.swf Asculta mai multe audio diverse Read more
Those few readers who regularly scroll all the way to the bottom of the blog may have noticed the little counter near the bottom left side, and thus may be aware that this blog is approaching an important milestone. Based on typical numbers of hits per day, there is a slim chance that the number of hits on Exploring Our Matrix (since it relocated to Blogger) will hit one million by Christmas. But it will almost certainly get there before... Read more
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