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November 2020

November 29, 2020

Review of Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

In 2007 I read and reviewed an interesting book relevant to those interested in science...

October 2020

October 09, 2020

Should a Computer Choose (or be) the President?

I know this is something I talk about at this point in the semester every...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Because of the Fall: More on the Origin of Evil

I have already shared one recent interview I did about my work on the origin...

August 02, 2020

Doctor Who: Full Circle

The Doctor Who episode "Full Circle" is the first story in the E-Space trilogy, and...

October 2019

October 19, 2019

Manufacturing Conflict

Tom McLeish wrote recently: It’s been a long and tiring century or more of fake...

May 2019

May 12, 2019

A Teeny, Tiny Possibility You’re Wrong

Everything can be connected to a Friends episode, in my experience, and most things...

January 2019

January 08, 2019

Disarming Student Suspicions of Evolution

Rev. Dr. Charles Allen leads the wonderful progressive Christian campus ministry at Butler University known...

August 2018

August 14, 2018

Deceitful Design

I shared an interview with Dennis Venema on Facebook, highlighting this quote from the piece:...

July 2018

July 08, 2018

Racism, Religion, and Rejection of Evolution

In a recent blog post Steve Wiggins wrote, "The white man doesn’t believe in evolution...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Theology and Reality

Heather Goodman wrote this on Facebook, and I thought it was such a great...

August 2017

August 18, 2017

Grandmother Fish

I was delighted that author Jonathan Tweet, when he got in touch with me a...

March 2017

March 05, 2017

Fake News is Old News in Religious Studies

It was recently drawn to my attention that the fact-checking and debunking website Snopes links...

August 2016

August 14, 2016

The Evolution of the Eye

Jim Kidder shared the video above.

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Transitional Species (Looking in the Wrong Place)

It is fascinating how much misunderstanding there is about transitional species, in particular among those...

July 20, 2016

Ego, Eco, Evo

PZ Myers shared the above image a while back, comparing different ways of viewing the...

July 05, 2016

After the Monkey Trial

I am grateful to Fordham Press for sending me a gratis review copy of Christopher...

July 04, 2016

Darwin’s Pious Idea

Conor Cunningham's book Darwin's Pious Idea is an impressive effort, aimed at challenging the shared...

July 02, 2016

Death Before The Fall

Ronald Osborn's book Death Before the Fall is one that I put off reading for...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

Never Children

This Bizarro cartoon gets at one of the problems with the idea that Adam and...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Problem Solved

Sometimes science does indeed offer a clear answer to a supposedly insoluble problem...

April 03, 2016

It’s Time to Think about whether Evolution Really Happened

I’m always surprised at how much rancor is directed toward “creationists”—those who deny that evolution, whether...

March 2016

March 13, 2016

Venturing Outside One’s Area of Expertise

Everyone is talking about Neil de Grasse Tyson's problematic tweets - see the recent blog...

February 2016

February 12, 2016

Happy Darwin Day!

Happy Darwin Day! Thank you to Biologos for sharing the above video on the evidence...

February 08, 2016

Anti-Evolutionism as Stumbling Block

This came to my attention via the Facebook page Science Meets Faith, and I thought...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

More Textbook Disclaimers

For those who live in an area where disclaimer labels are added to science textbooks,...

January 30, 2016

The Real Difference Between Creationism and Mythicism

Creationists can find 3,000 academics who will sign a statement against evolution. That's not 3,000 academics...

January 29, 2016

What Do Conservatives Conserve?

We all need a reminder from time to time that the traditions which the conservative hold...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Christian Meteorology

I had been meaning to blog about "Christian meteorology" again well before Westboro Baptist Church...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

First Man

An interesting way of approaching the idea that religion and science are not necessarily an...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Literalism = Misconception and Incoherence

The quote comes from p. xxiii of Nahum Sarna's book Understanding Genesis.

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