The episode is now live. This brisk Q&A tackles a stack of listener questions across Heiser’s core themes. He begins with the perennial “Is there sex in heaven?”—distinguishing earthly procreative embodiment from glorified life and noting that Genesis 6 (Watcher...
Islam
Did Muslims Discover America in 999 AD?
Short answer: No. Longer answer: Jason Colavito’s post: Did Ibn Farrukh Discover America in 999 CE? (CE is the “non-Christian” abbreviation commonly used in academic convention in place of “A.D.”). As usual, Jason has done a great job...
Islamic Temple Mount Conspiracy?
Read about it here (the details of secret, off-limits digging are real; the motivation or object is the question). My guess is “no.” It wouldn’t matter with respect to attempts to erase the Jewish altar remnants if Leen Ritmeyer is right (see the...
666 PaleoBabble
Someone kindly brought this piece of paleobabble to my attention recently. The site argues that certain Arabic letters/symbols visually resemble the Greek text of “666” in the book of Revelation. More accurately, the Arabic allegedly resembles the common...
Aliens, Abductions, and the Jinn
Nick Redfern recently posted this story about a possible connection between abductions and the Jinn, supernatural creatures known from the Quran. There are a number of things said about the Jinn in the Quran that fit abductee narratives. That said, the article Nick...
The ET Mythology as a Propaganda Tool, continued
This is a follow-up to my earlier post in regard to the article on how folklore served as a useful propaganda tool in Nazi Germany. The article was meant to point out that governmental power, totalitarian or otherwise, often makes use of “big picture”...