A Seminary Student Visits the Creation Museum: 27 Million Dollars of Bad...
Ken Ham here and Georgia Purdom here have made a response to this blog on the AiG website.I just recently got back from Ken Ham's Creation Museum with a couple of other seminary friends. In this post I...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean by "Monotheism"?
[Addendum] The ensuing is adapted from a recent paper of mine. It scolds the categorical monkeying around we evangelicals are used to committing to make sense of the term ‘monotheism.’ The end...
View ArticleThe gods of Deut. 32:8: An Israelite Pantheon?
An artistic iconographic harmonization of my own.The divine beings of Israel's religion share manyof the titles, iconography and functions employedby their surrounding neighborsAt the end of my last...
View ArticleGreat Podcast Resource for Studying Ancient Mediterranean Religion
Philip Harland from York University has a blog of extensive podcasts on Ancient Mediterranean religion. (Disclaimer: I don't take many of his presuppositions.) Readers of this blog will find many of...
View ArticleAnswers in Genesis Responds to my Critique of their Museum
[Edit 8/19/13: I've introduced some clarifications, stylistic changes and minor marked emendations into this post.] Answers in Genesis' Ken Ham and Georgia Purdom have posted these two responses to my...
View ArticleWhy the villain of Eden was a snake
I've got a new video on the youtube channel:Footnotes:[1] Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2015), 87. See also, Michael...
View Article10 Ways the Creation Museum Misinterprets the Bible
I've got a new video up:Footnotes:1] Ken Ham, “What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs,” in The New Answers Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible,ed. Ken Ham (Green Forest, AR:...
View ArticleThe Solid Heavenly Dome of Israelite Cosmology: A Response to Younker and...
Most Semitists believe ancient Israelite religion believed the sky was a solid dome which retained a celestial ocean above it from flooding the earth--in parallel with the Mesopotamians and Egyptians....
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