by Carl Howard | Jan 11, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
–[continued from previous post]–the Ark was placed in a remote town and largely forgotten. Samuel’s long reign (over 20 years) is given just one chapter. The only notable thing he does is suggest the Israelites stop worshipping other gods so that YHWH will give them...
by Carl Howard | Dec 21, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
[continued from previous post]–Samuel’s a lad, helping out in the Temple where the Ark was. He’s sleeping and hears the voice of God calling out to him. In those days, prophecy was rare (YHWH engaging in a hissy-fit with an embargo of silence?) so Samuel doesn’t know...
by Carl Howard | Nov 21, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
Some creationist ads were appearing on ScienceBlogs.com advertising a free creationist booklet. PZ Myers suggested readers order some and write refutations. It sounded like fun and I haven’t blogged too much on creationism, so I thought why not? If you’re feeling...
by Carl Howard | Nov 16, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Time to say goodbye to the book of Job. In the last 5 chapters, God himself takes the stage and begins his reply to Job. Unfortunately God’s line of argument is pretty much the same as Elihu’s one from the previous section, so not much new. As is appropriate for a...
by Carl Howard | Nov 5, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Now that Job’s friends have run out of abuse to heap on Job, the next section of the book is dedicated to speeches by Elihu. Elihu steps up because he’s disappointed that Job’s friends didn’t find enough arguments. Again it’s not clear where the authors’ sympathies...
by Carl Howard | Nov 2, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
This post follows the posts on Galileo’s trial background and what happened at the re-enactment. Time to give my verdict. The most common “populist” argument is that the Galileo verdict was a travesty that represented a clear case of religion repressing science...
