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October 2007

October 06, 2007

May The Zero-Point Field Be With You

I just finished reading Bernard Haisch's book The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's...

October 06, 2007

The Dangers Of Dihydrogen Monoxide

Sometimes it takes a young, independent thinker to really make us aware of scientific issues...

October 06, 2007

Savants and the Mysteries of Mind

I'll comment at some later point on the book that led me to this topic...

October 05, 2007

Oceanic Flight 815 Was Shot Down

I have to admit, the bit about the nanobots in the quiches was pretty funny....

October 05, 2007

The Lucifer Effect

There is a very interesting post on the Quixotic Infidel blog about a new book...

October 05, 2007

Ways the Bible Speaks to us

Below are two stories that may or may not be well known, and which can...

October 04, 2007

Biblical Literalism: Fast Track To Atheism

Personally, I am fundamentally (if you'll excuse the pun) convinced that there are no genuine...

October 04, 2007

The Evolutionist Conspiracy

For either young earth creationism or intelligent design to be on the right track and...

October 03, 2007

What We Know And What We Don’t

I am currently grading assignments that asked how the Israelites came to be in the...

October 03, 2007

Eric H. Cline

I first encountered Eric Cline in the wonderful documentary on Joshua and Jericho in the...

October 03, 2007

C. F. D. Moule

New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule recently passed away. He was nearly 99 years...

October 03, 2007

Lectures On Line

Sean Carroll is one of the many top-notch scientists whose public lectures and presentations can...

October 03, 2007

Creature Comforts

Last night Sean Carroll began his public lecture with scenes from Nick Park's Creature Comforts....

October 02, 2007

Don’t Just Honor The Book – Read It!

Many fundamentalists (including, but not limited to, young earth creationists and proponents of intelligent design)...

October 02, 2007

Linguistics Undermines Scriptural Truth

Having vanquished the unholy proponents of chemistry, we may turn our attention to the next...

October 02, 2007

Sean B. Carroll

I had the privilege of having lunch today with a couple of my colleagues and...

October 01, 2007

Keeping Track of Comments

One feature I wish my Blogger blog had was the option to subscribe to comments,...

October 01, 2007

Lara Croft, Indiana Jones, and Eric Cline

I wonder how many readers of this blog entry are thinking "OK, I know the...

October 01, 2007

When Reality Mirrors Parody

I recently offered a parody of intelligent design on my blog, trying to show what...

September 2007

September 30, 2007

History and Fiction in the Bible & Beyond

Where does the border run between history and fiction? Sometimes it runs through a single...

September 29, 2007

Join the Nerd Herd

Being a nerd is far more acceptable these days. I just watched "Chuck", the new...

September 29, 2007

Added Ads Oddly At Odds

I'm just so glad someone finally said something! It has for a long time driven...

September 28, 2007

Job and Despair

This reflection began as a response to an event at which three of my colleagues...

September 28, 2007

Group Of Intellectuals Negating Godless Atomism + Generic Atheism

I apologize for the somewhat lengthy title for this new movement ("Group Of Intellectuals Negating...

September 28, 2007

Rumors of Evolution’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

In a recent post I directed readers to the many scientific papers on the web...

September 28, 2007

Letting Go(d): Buddhism and Bultmann

Today I showed one of my classes the episode "Footprint of the Buddha" from the...

September 28, 2007

Scripture and Violence

An article in Nature earlier this year showed what many of us have also encountered...

September 28, 2007

So You Wanna Be A Provost?

PROVOST AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRSButler University, one of the nation’s leading master’s comprehensive...

September 27, 2007

Francisco J. Ayala

The work of Francisco J. Ayala in both biology and theology is gaining significant attention...

September 27, 2007

The Darwin Code

I'll bet that many young-earth creationists and proponents of intelligent design are kicking themselves for...

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