{"id":1515,"date":"2010-03-10T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/who-will-drive-the-furthest-to-hear-john-walton-speak-at-butler\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:38:00","slug":"who-will-drive-the-furthest-to-hear-john-walton-speak-at-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/who-will-drive-the-furthest-to-hear-john-walton-speak-at-butler.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Drive The Furthest To Hear John Walton Speak At Butler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>John Walton will be giving a talk at Butler University on March 18th at 6pm, in the Johnson Room in Robertson Hall. The talk will be entitled \u201cThe First Sunset: Cosmology in the Ancient World and Genesis One.\u201d There is more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/event.php?eid=10150124348170381\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>. This event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Walton just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleinterp.com\/articles\/genesis1357910.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article in <em>The Bible and Interpretation<\/em> entitled \u201cGenesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology\u201d<\/a> which may give a foretaste of what to expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2010\/03\/john-walton-to-speak-at-butler-university-march-18th\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts is planning on driving 5 1\/2 hours<\/a> to come hear Walton. Does anyone think they can beat that?<\/p>\n<p>In other related news, <em>The Telegraph<\/em> in the UK had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/expat\/expatnews\/7412606\/US-creationists-unswayed-by-evolution-exhibition.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article today about US creationists<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/anumma.com\/2010\/03\/10\/mysteries-of-flood-revealed\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brooke Lester continues exploring<\/a> a strange reference to a global flood. And last but not at all least, Hemant Mehta shares that if you get into debates with young-earth creationists \u2013 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/03\/10\/creationist-claims-iphone-app-is-free\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">there\u2019s an app for that<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2281955358967982853?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Walton will be giving a talk at Butler University on March 18th at 6pm, in the Johnson Room in Robertson Hall. The talk will be entitled \u201cThe First Sunset: Cosmology in the Ancient World and Genesis One.\u201d There is more information on Facebook. 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