{"id":407,"date":"2011-01-27T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/around-the-blogosphere-creationisms-gaps-are-bigger-and-badder\/"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:42:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-creationisms-gaps-are-bigger-and-badder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/around-the-blogosphere-creationisms-gaps-are-bigger-and-badder.html","title":{"rendered":"Around the Blogosphere (Creationism&#8217;s Gaps are Bigger and Badder)"},"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>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/biblioblogtop50.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/27\/new-biblioblogs-added-jan-2011\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblioblog Top 50<\/a> I learned of several new blogs, including <a href=\"http:\/\/larrytanner.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larry Tanner\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0blog Textuality. And so I\u2019m sharing <a href=\"http:\/\/larrytanner.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/evolution-very-basic-overview.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a post on creationism\u2019s gaps from several months ago<\/a> that I just encountered for the first time. The key point he makes is this: \u201cWhen we compare evolution to creationism, then, we can fairly conclude that <strong>Whatever the gaps in evolution, the gaps in creationism are substantially bigger and badder.<\/strong> Indeed, this conclusion seems to me so obviously sensible and accurate that I really wonder why anyone would prefer creationism to evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Pieret discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/well-deserved-inferiority-complexes.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThoughtsInAHaystack+%28Thoughts+in+a+Haystack%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Albert Mohler\u2019s intellectual dishonesty<\/a>\u00a0in relation to the same subject.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Watts points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/01\/the-precipitation-of-my-crisis-of-faith-was-not-questioning-scripture\/?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\">crises of faith are not always precipitated by finding problems in the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scot McKnight discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/01\/27\/leaving-fundamentalism-taylor-george\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">leaving fundamentalism<\/a>. Also at Jesus Creed, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/01\/27\/creation-and-worldview-2-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing review of Carlson and Longman\u2019s book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Otagosh points out <a href=\"http:\/\/otagosh.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/stark-choices-5.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thom Stark\u2019s argument that Biblical literalists\/inerrantists do not exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3465962589786463502?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Biblioblog Top 50 I learned of several new blogs, including Larry Tanner\u2019s\u00a0blog Textuality. 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