Thanks to Think and Wonder, Wonder and Think for pointing out that the 2010 Hubble Advent Calendar is online. Here’s a sample: There are also, as in the past, Hubble holiday cards that you can print out and send. Read more
Thanks to Think and Wonder, Wonder and Think for pointing out that the 2010 Hubble Advent Calendar is online. Here’s a sample: There are also, as in the past, Hubble holiday cards that you can print out and send. Read more
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Today in my Sunday school class I decided to turn our attention to seasonal matters. Soon, the topic of being wished “Happy Holidays” as opposed to “Merry Christmas” came up. And so I took that opportunity to talk about what I consider one of the great Christmas miracles: the fact that long ago Christians managed to “hijack” the already-existing solstice festival, and turn it into a Christian celebration so thoroughly and so effectively that, more than a millennium and a... Read more
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James Kidder explains about the fossil record, human evolution, and traditional forms. With lots of pictures. BioLogos also offers discussion of the Cambrian Explosion. Homebrewed Christianity offers some sound advice from Galileo Galilei which seems remarkably (and depressingly) timely. The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity focuses on Charles Townes. And David Opderbeck shares a video: Conor Cunningham’s BBC series, “Did Darwin Kill God?” Among other things, it includes a discussion of Philo of Alexandria’s approach to the creation stories in Genesis.... Read more
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The victory of authentic science education in Louisiana is being reported widely. It seemed to me worth taking the time nevertheless to look closely at what the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education president and lone dissenting voter Dale Bayard had to say: I am an open-minded person, and I challenge anybody to come and tell me — and I’ve asked a couple of educators that are friends of mine — can you do me a favor and tell me,... Read more
The post that I referred to as “gone missing” in my earlier post about the Society of Biblical Literature’s new rules relating to student paper proposals has now appeared definitively here. Read more
In incredibly ironic news, Mark Goodacre announced on his blog just minutes ago that he has (rather embarrassingly) discovered The Q Document. It was on his shelf the whole time! Read more
A letter was sent to student members of the Society of Biblical Literature, and it is getting a lot of circulation and discussion around the blogs and on Facebook. Among other things, it requires those not holding a PhD to submit the full paper and not merely an abstract with their proposal. Perhaps the most significant blog post on the subject that I’ve read thus far came from Deane Galbraithe, who suggests that the policy change actually infringes on the membership agreement... Read more
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