{"id":3961,"date":"2008-01-24T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/around-the-blogosphere-43\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:21:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/around-the-blogosphere-43.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>It has been a while since I\u2019ve shared links to other blogs, and there have been a number that I\u2019ve considered particularly significant. Top of the list is Julie Bogart\u2019s entry <a href=\"http:\/\/julieunplugged.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/aberration.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Aberration<\/a> about modern fundamentalist Christianity as a rather odd and aberrant \u201cblip\u201d far from the mainstream of historic Christianity. If you read only one link from this page, let it be that one.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Willitts has a post at Euangelion about <a href=\"http:\/\/euangelizomai.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/antioch-incident-richard-hays-view.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Antioch incident in Galatians 2<\/a>, which is what my class on <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~jfmcgrat\/paul\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Paul and the Early Church<\/a> focused on today, and in particular the question of how the visits Paul makes to Jerusalem which are mentioned in that letter relate to information in Acts. <\/p>\n<p>A number of science blogs have mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/authority\/2008\/01\/the_dissent_from_darwinism_lis.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">list of \u201cdissenters from Darwinism\u201d<\/a>. At a whopping 700 names, consisting mostly of people whose credentials have nothing to do with biology, it pales next to the list of dissenters from dissent from Darwinism \u2013 and also next to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/resources\/articles\/3541_project_steve_2_16_2003.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the list of scientists named Steve who are persuaded by the evidence for Darwinian evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/24\/the-zias-statement-on-the-talpiot-conference\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddengospels.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/tomb-that-wont-close-more-reflections.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">April DeConick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ntgateway.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/talpiot-tomb-controversy-revisited.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marc Goodacre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhl.ac\/blog\/?p=417\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Pfann<\/a> are among those scholars who have been covering the recent conference on the Talpiot tomb. Most recently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/tomb\/bswbTombIntro.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblical Archaeological Review<\/a> has chimed in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rtjones.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/24\/the-case-for-extra-terrestrials\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">R. T. Jones mistook me for Alister McGrath<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I also recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/347716\/tips-on-defending-earth-against-alien-invaders\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">io9<\/a>, a great source for science fiction and unusual science news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchofthemasses.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/bsg-is-greatbut-is-it-good.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Church of the Masses<\/a> has discovered Battlestar Galactica. (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/intheopen.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/more-nicolosi-on-bsg.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carmen Andres<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2562860868064331023?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I\u2019ve shared links to other blogs, and there have been a number that I\u2019ve considered particularly significant. Top of the list is Julie Bogart\u2019s entry The Aberration about modern fundamentalist Christianity as a rather odd and aberrant \u201cblip\u201d far from the mainstream of historic Christianity. 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