{"id":3366,"date":"2008-10-24T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/around-the-blogosphere-21\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:19:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/around-the-blogosphere-21.html","title":{"rendered":"Around the Blogosphere"},"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>Stephen Mathesen discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/sfmatheson.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/how-evolution-can-inspire-faith.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how evolution can inspire faith<\/a>. Chet Raymo asks what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemusings.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/heavens-proclaim.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the heavens proclaim<\/a>. The contrast between the two is striking. Jesus Creed discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/?p=4432\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">original sin and Adam<\/a>. There\u2019s a video on YouTube about \u201cstupid design\u201d (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2008\/10\/24\/neil-degrasse-tyson-against-intelligent-design\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Florien<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2008_10_19_archive.html#2317538273441897119\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paleojudaica<\/a> highlights an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1030946.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jewish mysticism<\/a>. SF Gospel argues that <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgospel.typepad.com\/sf_gospel\/2008\/10\/why-heroes-isnt-good-now-wasnt-good-before-and-will-never-be-good-in-the-future.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Heroes is misnamed<\/a>. Ken Schenck blogs about <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/133-scripture-and-money.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scripture and money<\/a>. Ben Myers reviews <em><a href=\"http:\/\/faith-theology.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/nate-kerr-christ-history-and.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christ, History and Apocalyptic<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NT Wrong has a bootleg (shhhh!) <a href=\"http:\/\/ntwrong.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/24\/nt-wright-bart-ehrman-debate-more-theodicy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recording of a debate about theodicy between Bart Ehrman and N. T. Wright<\/a>. Abnormal Interests not only discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomtally.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/one_more_time_anson_rainey_and_hebrew_origins.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anson Rainey on Hebrew origins<\/a>, but also announces that he will host the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomtally.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/a_carnival_is_coming.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblical studies carnival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7817865172163621157?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Mathesen discusses how evolution can inspire faith. Chet Raymo asks what the heavens proclaim. The contrast between the two is striking. Jesus Creed discusses original sin and Adam. There\u2019s a video on YouTube about \u201cstupid design\u201d (HT Daniel Florien). Paleojudaica highlights an article about Jewish mysticism. SF Gospel argues that Heroes is misnamed. Ken [&hellip;]<\/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-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stephen Mathesen discusses how evolution can inspire faith. Chet Raymo asks what the heavens proclaim. The contrast between the two is striking. 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