I’ve want to write a post about plagiarism, with reference to an excellent series of educational “what-is-plagiarism?” posters that I recently discovered. But, the company publishing the posters won’t return my emails asking for permission to reproduce them. [Plagiarism Paralysis was written by G. Brooke Lester for Anumma.com and was originally posted on 2011/04/06. Except [...]
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Summary: Bruce Waltke made to resign from faculty position for acknowledging fact of evolution. President of seminary celebrates diversity of acceptable views overstepped by Waltke.
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Pay now or pay later. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. As you sow, so shall you reap. Give someone enough rope and they will hang themselves. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. Rome was not built in a day. If a [...]
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Christians and the understandable (but childish and dangerous) impulse to change the rules of scientific and historical inquiry in one’s own favor.
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Debunking the “Barak Obama = antichrist” video.
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A recent round of entries concerns anti-Judaic bias and use of evidence in early source-critical biblical scholarship. The comments to these posts represent a good example of critical collegiality on bias and evidence.
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Summary: a characteristic of “Bible woo” is the promise of simple and comfortable explanations to inconvenient textual evidence.
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David Hymes wrote a thoughtful response to a Deseret News article in which Professor David Wiley was quoted as saying, “Institutions [of higher ed] will be irrelevant by 2020.” It turns out that Wiley claims to have been misquoted: his original utterance began along the lines of, “IF universities do not respond to certain crises [...]
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