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September 2016

September 04, 2016

Mayim Bialik on Religion and Science

HT Jerry Coyne, who obviously doesn't appreciate her perspective.

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Perfect Battle for Bigots

The quote comes from George Zebrowski's introduction to the volume Strange Gods edited by Roger...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

Killing Wonder With a Giant Ark

The above quote comes from Paul Wallace's great blog post, "Ark Encounter and the death...

July 06, 2016

Why Science Does Not Disprove God

I am grateful to Morrow for sending me a gratis review copy of Amir Aczel's...

July 06, 2016

Mapping the Origins Debate

I am grateful to IVP for sending me a gratis review copy of Gerald Rau's...

July 01, 2016

The Grand Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth

Since the Ark Encounter is opening in seven days as a tourist attraction dedicated to...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The Bible Then and Now

You've probably seen versions of the above that make the false claim that the Bible...

May 2016

May 08, 2016

Pics or it Didn’t Happen

Jerry Coyne recently shared this image: To the image itself, one could simply respond with...

May 07, 2016

As Time Goes By

Here's the audio recording from the recent ArtsFest event that I participated in together with physicist...

May 02, 2016

Religion and Science are Compatible: Just Ask Galileo

Pictoral Theology posted the image above, and I'm not surprised that Jerry Coyne thought highly...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Consensus is Part of the Scholarly Method

An article in Real Clear Science highlighted that consensus-building is part of the scientific method. Alex...

April 02, 2016

Trump Research

"If Donald Trump was a scientist" was created by Matt Crawford and shared on Facebook....

March 2016

March 18, 2016

Science-Denier Bingo

See also Ted Herrlich's post specifically on the Discovery Institute's climate change denial.

March 01, 2016

Science, the James Ossuary, and the Talpiot Tomb

I'm not sure if there are new posts or reposts of older material. But James...

February 2016

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 17, 2016

Methodological Atheism and Agnosticism in the Study of Religion

Academic study focuses on the world of cause and effect, on evidence and probability. And...

January 09, 2016

Heliocentrist Propaganda

Here's another problematic image I came across on Facebook. It was accompanied by the statement,...

December 2015

December 06, 2015

Presenting Your Findings

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Finding God in the Genome

This image from Pictoral Theology illustrates nicely a number of things about the approach many...

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 22, 2015

Do the Fundamentalist Rocks Cry Out?

Fundamentalists say that the Bible must be trustworthy in everything it says - about nature,...

August 19, 2015

Mythicism, Creationism, and other Conspiracy Theories

I was made aware of a post by John Anthony Dunne, asking whether there is...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Gravity: Only a Theory

Skeptic magazine published this comic about climate change, gravity, and what pseudoskeptics get wrong when...

July 22, 2015

Biblical Scholars Fighting Creationism

Hector Avalos has a new article in The Bible and Interpretation about the need for Biblical scholars...

July 20, 2015

I’ve Done My “Research”

From time to time I've had a commenter repeatedly copy and paste at length from...

July 19, 2015

Whose Fault Is It?

The Facebook page Science and Scripture has been making and sharing a number of interesting...

July 08, 2015

Theoretical Cosmoses and Historical Jesuses

I almost opted for the alternative plural forms of both words in the title of...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

Approaching Failure Scientifically

June 02, 2015

Misunderstanding Peer Review

Dudley Chapman has written a really helpful blog post, addressing a popular misunderstanding about peer...

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