Ben Witherington lets Martin and Barton interact on meaning and interpretation of the Bible<\/a>, sharing before he\u2019s done an experience of hitchhiking to the \u201cfour corners of the earth\u201d..<\/p>\n There\u2019s a debate between Bart Ehrman and James White<\/a>, as well as the continuation<\/a> of a discussion between James Crossley and Michael Bird<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paul Levinson talks about the time-loop compass in LOST<\/a>. IO9 has a fascinating post<\/a> about whether Daniel Faraday named his rat after his mother, and whether he recognized her on the island in this past week\u2019s episode. I\u2019m starting to wonder whether Daniel Faraday is not only the son of Eloise Hawking, but also of Charles Widmore, and thus Penny\u2019s brother. Penny looks a lot like the younger \u201cElly\u201d, and perhaps it will be this revelation that will persuade Penny to accompany Desmond further on his journey, perhaps even to the island.<\/p>\n There are videos from a course at Stanford called Darwin\u2019s Legacy<\/a>, as well as other links to Darwin scholars<\/a> at The Dispersal of Darwin. Gordon Glover<\/a> is making video lectures by Dennis Venema<\/a> available. John Pieret blogs the responses<\/a> to Jerry Coyne\u2019s recent piece on religion and science in Edge<\/em>.<\/p>\n April DeConick has concluded that the Jesus reconstructed by Norman Perrin and by the Jesus Seminar are \u201cbankrupt\u201d. She helpfully clarifies that this doesn\u2019t lead her to a \u201cmythicist\u201d position, because \u201cparallels between Jesus\u2019 myth and other ancient myths tell us nothing about whether or not he lived as a real person. It only tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8138139152694056100?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")