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September 2013

September 04, 2013

7 more things that are older than (Ken Ham’s) Adam

Ken Ham and other young-Earth creationists tell us the universe is 6,000 years old. The...

August 2013

August 08, 2013

8 more things that are older than Adam

Ken Ham and other young-Earth creationists maintain that the universe is about 6,000 years old....

August 04, 2013

Why Millennials are leaving the church

Very often, it's because the church lied to them. Specifically, it's often because the church...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Fundamentalism vs. reality: How fundie faith destroys itself

The larger problem is that according to fundamentalism, those falsehoods are inextricably linked to everything...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Sin and death and drosophila

I think the Apostle Paul would be surprised -- and rather angry -- to learn...

March 17, 2013

Noah’s ark, manna, and a convenient device for ignoring the inconvenient point

"Did exactly this actually occur precisely in this way?" is probably the least interesting, least...

March 14, 2013

7 things that are older than Ken Ham’s universe

Young-earth creationists say that the universe is 6,000 years old. Scientists say the universe is...

March 07, 2013

Another ‘Noah’s Ark,’ but this one might be OK

The story of Noah is particularly tempting for a certain kind of illiteralist reader. The...

March 03, 2013

Please stop looking for the ‘original sin’ gene

We can only make sense out of the idea that sin is "genetic" if we're...

February 2013

February 13, 2013

Geocentrism and a historical Adam

This is a fact: the geocentric model of the universe is not true. That fact...

February 04, 2013

A grove of aspen trees that proves Ken Ham is full of it

You can study legitimate biblical scholars and learn from them that Ken Ham is full...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Uwe Reinhardt says Europeans visiting the U.S. marvel at infrastructure that reminds them of the...

November 16, 2012

Bulgarian town survived Noah’s flood

Even more remarkable than the ancient town's unique fortifications or its "peculiar burial positions and...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

Fighting for a system built to fail

Anti-science Republican Rep. Paul Broun is unopposed on the ballot for re-election to his U.S....

October 22, 2012

If we won’t let Esther speak, at least listen to Mordecai

I'm happy to learn of The Mordecai Project -- although not nearly as happy as...

October 10, 2012

Things that are not in the Bible: ‘In the creation account, God creates Adam and Eve, the world and everything in it in six days.’

Adam and Eve are not part of the story of God creating "the world and...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

I mean it, don’t make me turn this car around …

“Stop hitting your sister” is an inadequate statement in that it’s not a comprehensive argument...

September 25, 2012

Young-earth creationism is no better than any other form of malicious gossip

Young-earth creationism is no different than any other form of contemptuous gossip. Some play an...

September 24, 2012

Not all sins are stupid and not all stupidity is sinful, but young-earth creationism is both

When undeniable facts “conflict with your beliefs,” then you have only two options. You can,...

September 22, 2012

Giving names to the animals

Here's a delightfully odd Bob Dylan song: I've been thinking about that one lately as...

September 04, 2012

Why I am not a ‘theistic evolutionist,’ etc., part 2

In the first part of this discussion, I objected to the idea that the modifier...

September 02, 2012

Why I am not a theistic evolutionist and why I do not ‘believe in’ evolution (part 1)

BioLogos has listed what it calls "Core Tenets or Assumptions of Theistic Evolution." I mostly...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Ken Ham’s biblical exegesis is just as sound as his science

Let me step back and explain where I'm coming from with today's odd burst of...

August 11, 2012

‘Stuff that you long ago forgot isn’t general public knowledge’

"What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?" asks Maggie Koerth-Baker at BoingBoing. She goes...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

‘Making the text say things that it never meant’

One of my pet-peeve misconceptions is the notion that an illiterately literal reading of Genesis...

July 03, 2012

A request re: Tubal-cain, the Iron Age and transparent aluminum

So the other day I tripped over Tubal-cain and wound up wishing I'd paid more...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

Omphalos theory fan fiction

The "Omphalos hypothesis" discussed in the previous post is horrifying as theology. The idea that...

June 20, 2012

Creationism requires a global conspiracy of lying scientists and/or a lying God

The results from the annual Gallup survey on creationism are out, with the numbers right...

June 12, 2012

Missing links, mantis shrimp and koalas at sea

RJS at Jesus Creed reminds us that anyone who wants to know what the Bible...

June 11, 2012

‘The Big Four’ — ‘the package deal of Christianity’

Jonathan Dudley in Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics: I...