Don't take this list the wrong way. Yes, I'm in chemotherapy for cancer, but this isn't some sort of "last words" post! It just popped into my head today that I ought to make such a list for readers / followers like I did years ago on "Heiser's Laws for Bible Study"...
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Eric Walker and Mike Heiser Take Lexham Press’s Demons Quiz
This was fun - Messianic rabbi Eric Walker walk through Lexham Press's Demons quiz (it markets my book). We both missed a few! Find out why:
No – I’m Not Working For, or At, AREA-51
First, let me say this: Darn! If I did work at AREA-51 I might finally get into the Illuminati. It would be a nice credential to enhance my resume. What am I talking about? Well, a week or so ago a YouTube video was posted that claimed a new, super-secret military...
Naked Bible Fantasy Football Winner
I'm happy to let the world know that the Pugnacious Pugs, led by my pug, Mori, dominated in the Naked Bible Fantasy Football league (291-189 over Craig's Steel Curtain). It's been a long time since I've won the league. Mori's drafting skills no doubt played a major...
Fake Exegesis: Return of the א-ת BS
You've heard of fake news? (Who hasn't?) How about some fake exegesis? Some time ago I blogged about the nonsensical idea that the Hebrew particle את has an amazing hidden meaning in Gen 1:1 (that's an aleph and taw, read right-to-left, for those who don't read...
Will the Confirmation of Water on Europa Lead to Panspermia Non-Sequiturs?
You bet it will. People will erroneously conclude that water on Europa means there was or is life on Europa. Maybe ... maybe not. They'll say it invalidates a biblical creator (uh ... why?) and all sorts of other points of theology. It wouldn't. But let's stick to the...
Ancient Aliens: The Perfect Picture
Hat tip to Leyla for sending this to me. It needs no description. Just perfect (even the hair/fur).
Fun with the Mosaic Law: What to Do with Your Ox in a Flowchart
You have to check this out. The flowchart on what the Law says about oxen was created by a friend at Logos, Vincent Setterholm, a few years ago. I'm glad to see it's finally gotten the attention it deserves via Christianity Today. This alone should make you glad that...
PaleoBabble Logic: A Fun Non Sequitur Illustration
A non sequitur is a conclusion that does not follow from the data considered. PaleoBabble research is riddled with them. One of the more frequent flaws in thinking that produce non sequiturs is the confusion of correlation and causation: just because two things...
Mike at AREA-51
A couple days ago I paid a visit to AREA-51 (for real . . . at least as far as they let you go). It was fun (and of course there was a research benefit). Along the way my wife took a picture at the Extraterrestrial Highway sign that pilgrims encounter along the way....
Why Conspiracy Thinking Can Be So Incoherent
You just HAVE to watch the video below (7:00). It's clear and to the point, and you'll no doubt have a laugh or two - a video on how Luke Skywalker's destruction of the Death Star was *really* an inside job. It's very well done and has almost two million views on...
Shroud of Turin Double-Take: Yep, It’s Easter
This headline caught my eye today: "Turin shroud makes rare appearance on TV amid claims that it is not a forgery." Why, you ask? Because last year at precisely this time -- Easter -- basically the same sort of story ran. I blogged it here under the title, "Is 'Jesus...
When Uninformed Journalists and Antiquity Collide: The Book of 1 Enoch
This post from Jim Davila's PaleoJudaica blog made me chuckle. He comments on how a report on an opera based on the book of 1 Enoch being performed in New York makes bonehead errors related. Classic. Davila is an expert on the Pseudepigrapha and Second Temple Judaism....
Top Ten List of Other Things You Believe if You Believe the World Ends on Dec 21, 2012 Because of Planet X
If you believe in this nonsense, then here is what else you must believe: 1. That everything we know about astronomy and celestial mechanics is wrong (I'd want to know how we put people on the moon, why Voyager was a success, and how we landed rovers on Mars if that's...
What Will YOU Being Doing When the World Doesn’t End?
With ten days to go until mythical doomsday, I was wishing today that there was a convenient way to celebrate the epic fail with PaleoBabble readers -- something like an online New Year's Eve party for sane people with geeky fascination for the ancient world, where we...