It’s that time of year – a new round of interviews with scholars and professors at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). Here are the two episodes into which those interviews were grouped. Stay tuned for interviews from the SBL Meetings as...
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Sanctified Gullibility is Still Gullibility
It doesn't get much more embarrassing than this. Jason Colavito has a short write up on how Christian apologists are using a prop -- a giant human skeleton that isn't a skeleton at all -- from von Daniken's ancient astronaut theme park for the gullible. Since when is...
Of Sophistry and Antagonism Toward Fine-Tuning
I found this recent post entitled, "Is This the Dumbest Ever 'Refutation' of the Fine-Tuning Argument Ever?" worth the read (and a bit funny). It's about some very poor thinking on the part of British philosopher Anthony Grayling with respect to his disdain of the...
The (Bart) Ehrman Project
I heard today about a new website just starting up that seeks to address the various claims of New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman. I've blogged about Bart Ehrman before, so in case you don't know who he is, go here (you'll have to scroll down and through some pages to...
Apologetics and the Dead Sea Scrolls
I have to say I can identify with this post, though I'd skip the scatological language in his assessment. Still, it sums up the typical "interest trajectory" you'll see with the scrolls. By the way, if you want to be exposed to the worst (most bone-headed and...
ET Life Bigger than Jesus?
That is the gist of this blog post from Greg Bishop. Follow the link to his post, which leads to a news article about how more people in the UK say they believe in ETs / aliens and "the supernatural" than God. This isn't news to anyone who follows the intersection of...