A Brief History of Theology’s Most Reliable Miracle Theology has produced many great themes. There is I’m Right, You’re Wrong, the spiritual equivalent of planting a flag on a hill and declaring the map complete. There is Miracles for Me,… Continue reading

The Taung Child and the Unpredictability of Fossilization It started, as so many modern arguments do, with a comment thread. The claim was blunt: fossils “cannot be formed over millions of years” because, under “NORMAL conditions,” bodies simply decompose or… Continue reading

A week ago, in the middle of one of those endlessly recurring social media discussions about whether atheism is somehow a religion, someone dropped a comment that immediately stood out from the noise: “So, we should start praying to atheist… Continue reading

How Evidence Updates Beliefs About Ancient Narratives Ah, another day with Facebook and Threads! On this Americano fueled Tuesday, I saw this gem from Lost World Museum. “Many creation scientists theorize one of the major contributors of preflood longevity was… Continue reading

Or the career that never quite begins I’m retired. That already puts me in a strange minority, like someone who caught the last ferry before the schedule was quietly canceled. I did well. Better than well. Enough to step off… Continue reading

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The Sahara is often written like a barrier. A clean geographic severance. Sand as punctuation. But that reading feels wrong the moment you start tracing the movement of people across it. The crossings were constant, older than most states, older… Continue reading

Dennis MacDonald is the kind of scholar who ruins dinner parties in the best possible way. He doesn’t argue that ancient authors copied other texts because they were lazy or deceitful. He argues it because ancient writers were trained to… Continue reading