A "fundamentalist" is someone who takes everything in the Bible literally. A "liberal theologian" is one who takes most of it metaphorically. Or so everyone says. The problem with this simplistic dichotomy is that language is fundamentally metaphorical. We seldom … Continue reading
In the last post, I made a list of entities which we Christians believe exist (I'll be referring to numbers from that list in this post, so you might want to pull it up in another tab). However, the composition … Continue reading
My second pillar of Science is elegant hypotheses, that all else being equal we should prefer explanations which are (some combination of) "simple, uniform, common-sensical and aesthetically pleasing". In a Bayesian analysis, this factors into our choice of prior probabilities, … Continue reading
There's an interview of me in the July edition of the BioLogos newsletter. Also, I've been going back and forth about whether to mention this, but as long as I'm going on about myself, it turns out that I won … Continue reading
Warsaw (where I was when I wrote this post) is supposed to have had a basilisk: Also a friendly mermaid who is supposed to protect the city (although our guidebook cynically suggests that she hasn't been seen when needed most): … Continue reading
