Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Sunspots 996

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  Gizmodo reports on betting on Christ's return . NPR points out two simple tests to tell us if food is ultra-processed , The Naturalis ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

No Abraham, no Moses: Major events in history, according to Answers in Genesis

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Answers in Genesis (AiG) tells us that the Bible is "a history book that reveals the major events of history that are foundational to ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Sunspots 938

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to others*: Computing: Gizmodo reports that a TikTok official m...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Answers in Genesis's 7 C's of History, revisited

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The graphic above is from Answers in Genesis (AiG) on-line materials. It represents a 4th C, confusion. I believe getting permission for its...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Is Genesis 1-11 history, or myth? Comparing the sequence of events in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2

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First, what is a myth? The Project Gutenberg eText of Webster's 1913 dictionary says this: 1. A story of great but unknown age which ori...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Sunspots 840

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to others*: The Arts : Some Gizmodo writers reflect on what the earliest hum...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Ken Ham/Answers in Genesis ignores much of the Bible: revising Ham's 7 C's

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Answers in Genesis has posted a way of looking at history , by Ken Ham and Stacia McKeever. They hang human history on 7 C's, as follows...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Sunspots 643

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Christianity Today ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Relevant and Sojourners ...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Sunspots 615

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: A Relevant writer says that we're...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Sunspots 603

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: The Arts: Relevant reports on some amazing sc...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 65

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I take in order the next instance offered: the idea that Christianity belongs to the Dark Ages. Here I did not satisfy myself with rea...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Sunspots 540

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Benjamin L. Corey on how ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Sunspots 474

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: The Huffington Post has an ...
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Thursday, January 02, 2014

Thomas Aquinas and God's use of natural selection in creation

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In two recent posts in the BioLogos Forum, a Roman Catholic theologian claims that Thomas Aquinas , considered the most important theologian...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

The My America series

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Some time ago, I read My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary , by Mary Pope Osborne, and The Journal of C.J. Jackson: a Dust Bowl Mi...
Monday, August 13, 2012

National Public Radio on David Barton's view of US history

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National Public Radio has done some fact-checking about claims made by David Barton , whose view of history is so congenial to the right wi...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Christian Responses to Hitler: Obeying Civil Authority

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I am not an expert on history. But I am a Sunday School teacher. This week's Sunday School lesson, in our church, includes Paul's st...
Monday, April 05, 2010

Are the ideas of the past always wrong? Chronological snobbery

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I was reading a book about C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, and came across a discussion of an idea that was common to these two literary giants. Th...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Christ Church, Philadelphia

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The photo above shows the steeple of Christ Church , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, arguably the most important church in the history of t...
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