Exposing PseudoAstronomy is a podcast hosted by Stuart Robbins. (Stuart is a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy whose focus is on planetary geophysics). I highly recommend it. He just posted the latest episode: Podcast Episode 83: David Sereda’s Claims Clip Show,...
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Theses and Dissertations on UFO-Related Topics
[UPDATE 6/26/2013: Thanks to Jonas for adding some theses and dissertations in a comment - I have added them at the end of this post. MSH. Thanks as well (7/1/2013) to the Spooky Paradigms blogger for directing my attention to his first post in the series, where he...
Myth and Mystery of UFOs: A Review
I just finished Thomas Bullard's book, The Myth and Mystery of UFOs, by scholar-folklorist Thomas Bullard (University of Kansas Press, 2010). Rather than write my own review, I found the work summarized nicely in this review over at Magonia review of books blog. I'll...
The Higgs-Boson Hype
I like to post on things like this every so often to remind readers that science can be marred by, and married to, hype. I was reading through some recent posts by mathematician Peter Woit on his Not Even Wrong blog this morning and came across several items worth...
A Blow to Inter-Dimensional ETs?
I'm not sure if the death of the multi-verse theory described in this obituary is correct, or if correct, whether that kills off the possibility of any other universe (shy of all the layers of the multi-verse). I'm also not convinced that "other universe" is an...
Appreciative, but Not Amazed by Wonders in the Sky
PLEASE BE PATIENT - This post has a lot of images to load. Review of Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times, by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck (Tarcher / Penguin, 2009); 500 pp. I've been promising this review for some time, so...
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Those of you who know me will know that one of my least favorite subjects is end times (eschatology). That might surprise you, given that I'm a Bible scholar. I mean it, though. Over on my other blog, The Naked Bible, I once wrote a short post on how everyone cheats...
Scientific Proof for Parallel Universes
Pretty cool article on a recent experiment at Cal-Santa Barbara. Obvious implications for what we talk about here. Editor's note: broken link removed; see here, instead: https://www.foxnews.com/science/freaky-physics-proves-parallel-universes-exist
“The” Christian View of Aliens, Part 4: Angels, Demons, Gods, and Aliens: An Interdimensional Common Ground?
In Part 3 of this discussion topic, I focused on the first of two descriptions of "alien" and talked about how that definition does not conform to the biblical characters we know as demons, angels, and gods. This first description of an "alien" went like this: 1. It...
UFOs: Physical or Metaphysical? Is the Answer Yes?
Check out the post by Mac Tonnies (thanks to Nick Redfern for posting this). I think much of what Mac says here is quite coherent. I've recently offered to do a lecture in Roswell next summer on the topic of why, in terms of biblical theology, intelligent alien life...
Discussion Starters on Bullard’s Supernatural Kidnapping Folklore Article
Well, by now a number of you have read the PDF articles from my last post. I want to make a few observations with respect to the first one (Bullard: "The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative in Technological Guise"). The article does two things, fundamentally: (1) it...