Summary: Faculty retreat, and Schrödinger’s Students.
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Finally: Proof of God’s Existence
Posted on March 29, 2010 by anummabrooke
Summary: God doesn’t punish Bible woo directly, but apparently finds ways to keep up the spirits of the debunkers.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Entertainment, Old Testament | Tagged: Bible woo, Critical Thinking, culture, Hebrew Bible, humor, science | Leave a Comment »
A Middle-Eastern Origin for Small Dogs
Posted on March 15, 2010 by anummabrooke
Summary: Small dogs originate in ancient Near East?
Filed under: Ancient Near East, Old Testament | Tagged: dogs, Hebrew Bible, history, science | Leave a Comment »
Mysteries of the Global Flood Revealed!
Posted on March 10, 2010 by anummabrooke
Summary: Follow-up on reference to a “mid-sixth century” “world wide flood” in King and Stager’s Life in Biblical Israel.
Filed under: Ancient Near East, Books & Reviews, Old Testament, Writing | Tagged: Bible woo, Hebrew Bible, history, religion, science, Writing | 6 Comments »
Darwin’s Eve Mythicism with McGrath
Posted on February 11, 2010 by anummabrooke
Summary: McGrath writes on two similarly unreasoned positions: mythicism and creationism.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Links | Tagged: Bible woo, Critical Thinking, history, New Testament, science | 1 Comment »
Science Denial (NPR Science Friday)
Posted on January 26, 2010 by anummabrooke
Summary: Science denial: an interview with Michael Specter on NPR Science Friday.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Education, Links | Tagged: politics, religion, science | 1 Comment »
The Bible’s Night Sky
Posted on October 13, 2009 by anummabrooke
Summary: A brief preview of the night sky as seen through the lens of the Hebrew Bible.
Filed under: Old Testament, Research | Tagged: GETS11541, science | 1 Comment »
Changing the Rules: Being Religious at Work & Play
Posted on August 10, 2009 by anummabrooke
Christians and the understandable (but childish and dangerous) impulse to change the rules of scientific and historical inquiry in one’s own favor.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Links | Tagged: academic integrity, games, history, politics, religion, science | Leave a Comment »
Promises to Keep
Posted on August 3, 2009 by anummabrooke
A short list of the topics about which I have previously said, “I plan to write more about this in the near future.”
Filed under: An Informal Word, Placeholder, Writing | Tagged: being a student, Bible woo, blogging, carnival, distance learning, religion, SBL, science | 2 Comments »
Let’s Play Woo: Hebrew and Physics
Posted on July 13, 2009 by anummabrooke
A game: count the egregious falsehoods and fallacies in this YouTube video about Hebrew language and physics.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Hebrew Language | Tagged: Bible woo, games, Hebrew, science | 8 Comments »
