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The Rhetoric of Mockery

November 21, 2005

Some recent stories illustrate that human rhetoric has evolved from sophistry to philosophy – then back again. (In ancient Greece, sophistry was criticized of being nothing more than the art of making your opponent look foolish. Socrates, among others, questioned the value of such exercises and tried to elevate rhetoric to higher purposes.) The rise […]

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Bible History News

November 11, 2005

Three stories of interest to historians of the Holy Land were reported recently: A Is for Aleph: A stone abecedary, or alphabet tablet, has been unearthed in the hill country south of Jerusalem. It is dated to the 10th century BC, the time of David and Solomon. See MSNBC News for a summary. The New […]

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Pope Affirms Intelligent Design

November 10, 2005

Just when pro-Darwinists were parlaying one bishop against another on the Catholic position on evolution (see the UK Times Online for an op-ed piece with some historical context), the Pope made it clear: he expects the faithful to embrace intelligent design. The Discovery Institute was pleased that Pope Benedict XVI used the phrase “intelligent project” […]

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Creation-Evolution Contest in Grand Canyon: New York Times Prints Eyewitness Report

October 6, 2005

New York Times reporter Jodi Wilgoren explored “parallel universes” along the Colorado River this summer (here for multimedia version). She rode a raft with a creationist group led by Tom Vail for several days, then rode with another party led by evolutionist Eugenie Scott. Her experiences with these two groups illustrated the stark contrast between […]

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Tulsa Zoo Tolerates Religion &#150 Except the Bible Kind

July 16, 2005

It’s OK to praise the Hindu god Ganesha and preach pantheism at the Tulsa zoo, but not to mention Genesis. The zoo board reversed itself after first agreeing to permit an exhibit of the biblical creation account, reported Agape Press. Christian supporters argued that the zoo “already features religious symbols in other displays, including a […]

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Another Dead Sea Scroll Fragment Discovered

July 15, 2005

“A secretive encounter with a Bedouin in a desert valley” has produced a fragment of the Bible transcribed nearly two millennia ago, reported MSNBC News. The fragment, a portion of Leviticus on parchment, was found near the Dead Sea, and “has given rise to hope that the Judean Desert may yield more treasures.” The artifact […]

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Easter Essay

March 27, 2005

Accompanied by a picture of a cross and a sunset, captioned “The Sun and the Son,” a somber-looking Brian Walden wrote an essay in the BBC News expressing his reaction to Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees’ “chilling” comment that “It will not be humans who witness the demise of the Sun six billion years hence; […]

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New Date for Edom Fits Biblical Record

February 18, 2005

The critics were wrong, and the Bible was right, according to new dates established for the kingdom of Edom southeast of the Dead Sea. This is the gist of a report from UC San Diego that found evidence of extensive copper mining in the area much earlier than previously thought. The area studied had “been […]

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Shroud of Turin Debate Reopens

January 26, 2005

The shroud was from the 13th century, concluded earlier researchers, using carbon 14 dating methods. Now, other experts are claiming the methods were flawed, because the researchers dated a mended patch made by medieval monks. The BBC News reports a new claim that it is older than thought: between 1300 and 3000 years old. National […]

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SETI Needs to Read, Not Listen

September 1, 2004

What technology would an extra-terrestrial intelligence use to communicate with us? For fifty years, the search has presumed that an ET would use radio waves to announce “we’re here.” Not a good idea, says a professor of computer and electrical engineering at Rutgers. He thinks investors on distant planets would put their money not on […]

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What Would a Man Born Blind See With New Eyes?

August 26, 2004

The Bible records an instance of a man born blind miraculously healed, who was immediately able to walk and recognize things. Scientists had doubted whether a blind person suddenly able to see would understand the world of vision at all, or be able to make any sense of his new sense. Then a real world […]

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Biblical History Artifacts Falling Prey to Looters

August 23, 2004

The plunder of antiquities in Iraq and Israel continues, forever diminishing the ability of archaeologists to recreate the Biblical past, say Newsweek reporters Melinda Liu and Christopher Dickey in MSNBC News. Neither the new government in Iraq nor coalition troops are able to guard the many sites at which looters, in full daylight, dig up […]

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Newton Believed in Absolute Truth

August 19, 2004

One would think by now everything written by or about Isaac Newton has been printed. Not so; Nature1 reports August 19 that a commentary on the Apocalypse (Revelation) by Newton was published for the first time just last month by The Newton Project online. Newton’s commentary holds “radical” views that the Pope was the personification […]

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Neural Darwinism: The Evolution of Truth

June 3, 2004

Can evolutionary theory build a bottom-up explanation of higher cognitive functions? David Papineau (King’s College) doubts it. In his review of The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux (transl. Malcolm DeBevoise, Belknap Press: 2004), published in the June 3 issue of Nature,1 he gives the author high marks, but concedes that […]

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Movie Jesus: Fact or Fiction?

June 2, 2004

At a large rally at Biola University June 1, the Jesus Film Project, in collaboration with the university, announced a new DVD entitled Jesus: Fact or Fiction?. Each household at the rally received a free copy. Half of the DVD contains the full length Jesus film, a project that has been translated into more languages […]

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