Summary: Faculty retreat, and Schrödinger’s Students.
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Summary: Faculty retreat, and Schrödinger’s Students.
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Summary: God doesn’t punish Bible woo directly, but apparently finds ways to keep up the spirits of the debunkers.
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Summary: Small dogs originate in ancient Near East?
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Summary: Follow-up on reference to a “mid-sixth century” “world wide flood” in King and Stager’s Life in Biblical Israel.
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Summary: McGrath writes on two similarly unreasoned positions: mythicism and creationism.
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Summary: Science denial: an interview with Michael Specter on NPR Science Friday.
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Summary: A brief preview of the night sky as seen through the lens of the Hebrew Bible.
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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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A short list of the topics about which I have previously said, “I plan to write more about this in the near future.”
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A game: count the egregious falsehoods and fallacies in this YouTube video about Hebrew language and physics.
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