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I began this post wanting to share the news that the forger of the lead codices has admitted that they are fakes \u2013 but David Elkington is claiming that his<\/em> are real. See Steve Caruso\u2019s<\/a>,\u00a0 Joel Watts\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0 Jim Davila\u2019s<\/a> and Tom Verenna\u2019s<\/a> posts on the subject for all the details.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the skeptical blogosphere, Joe Felsenstein points out that criticisms of Dembski\u2019s No Free Lunch<\/em> continue to be ignored by proponents of Intelligent Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Wilson emphasizes that no one takes the Bible literally<\/a> (HT Danut Manastireanu<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Arni Zachariassen explains why Christianity goes on the internet to die<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jim West shared<\/a> James Watts\u2019 article on whether the narrator in Job is unreliable<\/a> (and also told Ken Ham to shut up!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Finally, a piece in today\u2019s New York Times<\/em> focuses on why eyewitnesses are unreliable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"