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Please don’t forget about ISIS

    There is a horrific evil loose in the world, and it’s metastasizing rapidly:   64 soldiers killed in ISIS attack on Egyptian Army’s Sinai checkpoints   I fear that we may be growing accustomed to such reports, but we shouldn’t be:   74 children executed for ‘crimes’ that include failure to fast   [Read More...]

Three from Dr. Hamblin

      Professor Jenkins may now actually have retired from the competition, as he earlier said that he was doing.  Or not.  I have no idea.  Anyway, Professor Hamblin continues to post on behalf of truth and light:   Hamblin 20:  Centrality of Hermeneutics   Hamblin 21:  Maya King-Lists   Hamblin 22:  Comments from [Read More...]

The Hamblin/Jenkins rumble continues

    Eight more installments on Saturday.   And despite the seeming wrong order below, this is the order in which they appear on Professor Hamblin’s blog:   Jenkins Rejoinder 10: Prove It   Hamblin 16: Dear Phillip   Hamblin 17: The Debate Thus Far   Hamblin 18:  Quantity of Evidence   Jenkins 11   [Read More...]

Meet the world’s first married lesbian threesome!

    It’s not the first “throuple.”   I know of this one in Thailand, for example.   But it’s an exciting step for three brave pioneers!   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/art...   And they’re expecting!   They hope, eventually, to acquire one baby for each of them.    

“Report: ISIS fighter who enjoyed killing Christians wants to follow Jesus after dream of man in white who told him ‘You are killing my people’”

    Hmmm.  I wonder if this is true:   http://www.christianpost.com/news/rep...   If so, it’s extremely interesting.   (Thanks to Darren Zechiel for calling this to my notice.)    

“Some Other ‘Pseudo-Sciences’”

    Another sidebar comment  from John Gee on the Jenkins/Hamblin exchange:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/201...    

Notable reactions to the Supreme Court’s diktat

    Three religious comments:   A Statement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints   Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage   Why Homosexuality is Not Like Other Sins   And a thoughtful piece from my friend and former student Ben Huff:   A Nation Divided    

The Two Ways

    Reading over at the valuable Ether’s Cave blog run by my friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague Matt Roper, along with my friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague John Gee, I saw this.  I like it so much that I’m altogether stealing it.  I hope that Matt won’t be too angry:   “Without anything [Read More...]

Today, 171 years ago

    On 27 June 1844, in Carthage, Illinois, the Prophet Joseph Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob along with his brother, Hyrum Smith, patriarch to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  John Taylor, later to become third president of the Church, was grievously wounded in the same attack.   The official [Read More...]

On science and peer review

    Steve Smoot kindly sent me this note:   Thought you’d appreciate this.   http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/...   That science can fail, however, shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. It’s a human construct, after all. And if we simply accepted that science often works imperfectly, we’d be better off. We’d stop considering science a collection [Read More...]