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Someone hacked Dr. Jim West\u2019s blog, and so it is a sad day in the blogosphere for all who value intelligent discussion of serious issues related to theology and the Bible. But there is happy news: he seems willing to start over<\/a>! [UPDATE: Bob MacDonald at Sufficiency<\/a> has made an archived version of the posts from Jim\u2019s old blog available here<\/a>. Thanks Bob!]<\/p>\n

I\u2019m involved in a continuing discussion of salvation and different religions at Pisteuomen<\/a>. Check it out!<\/p>\n

In other news, Bill Dembski seems to think<\/a> that, if prominent physicists expressed doubts about Darwinian evolution, then all the biologists, geneticists and paleontologists must be wrong. What a strange argument\u2026<\/p>\n

Episcopal Cafe highlights how, when it comes to money, the Bible belt is quite happy to not take the Bible literally<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Francis Collins on the Colbert Report, like anyone<\/em> on the Colbert Report, is definitely worth seeing.<\/p>\n