by Carl Howard | Aug 10, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Society
Picture me this: a maths graduate student comes up with an amazing proof for one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics. He/she submits this to a supervisor, who checks it thoroughly and points out an error. On page 137, an extra minus sign popped into the...
by Carl Howard | Aug 5, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
There’s a wonderful pair of verses in the book of Proverbs. The first of the verses is 24:17 which is a very famous verse. I’ve seen it used many times to show the righteousness of the Bible and I believe I’ve even seen it in a Jewish context as a way of showing that...
by Carl Howard | Jul 22, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Quite a few things happen in these 2 chapters which I’ll breeze through. David hides from Saul in a cave system and Saul with his soldiers go in to pursue him. The first interesting point is that the text says Saul went to “cover his feet”. In the Hebrew Bible, the...
by Carl Howard | Jul 12, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Language, Science and Skepticism
I’ve been moving and in the pandemonium have stuffed up the schedule so you might have seen a half-baked version of this yesterday. Here’s the real thing! A recent episode of the Atheist Experience has made me aware of one of the most ridiculous arguments for...
by Carl Howard | Jul 1, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
The next few chapters contain some of the most advanced story-telling in the Bible, something worthy of authors paying attention. And I do mean story-telling. From my Completely UnbiasedTM reading, the odds of these having any kind of historical basis (even if David...
by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Advice on Scheming Now that David is properly fleeing from Saul, he concocts an interesting plan with Jonathan. Part one of the plan: David is absent from two consecutive dinners at Saul’s household. The first night Saul, thinks David’s just “unclean” from a seminal...
