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Recollections from September 11th, 2001
I moved back to the United States in the summer of 2001, having spent most of my time during the decade prior to that in Europe – in the UK as a student, and then as a professor in Romania. I managed...
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Have We Been Going About This All Wrong? Fun With Conspiracy Theories
A cartoon from XKCD (HT P. Z. Myers) illustrates a different approach to conspiracy theories: combating like with like.How might that be applied to some of the conspiracy theories that regularly get...
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Mythicism, Creationism, and other Conspiracy Theories
I was made aware of a post by John Anthony Dunne, asking whether there is any parallel in Judaism for what Richard Carrier and other mythicists claim that Paul believed, namely that a celestial being...
View ArticleIntelligent Design is Counter-Evidence to Intelligent Design
This XKCD cartoon is not new, but seeing it again after a commenter shared a link to it, it struck me in a new way. Read the comic, then see my thoughts below it… The Intelligent Design movement, like...
View ArticleA God No One Really Believes Exists?
A while back I posted on why I don’t think anyone today really believes that God, exactly as depicted in the Bible, exists. In the Bible, God doesn’t hesitate to show off, demonstrating power by...
View ArticleDeath Star Trutherism
This is a great Star Wars parody of 9/11 trutherism – and all other conspiracy theories! As with other conspiracy theorists, there is usually some glaring error that makes it hard to take what they say...
View ArticleSkeptics of a Feather
I happened across a document reflecting mythicist claims and views recently, and was struck when I noticed where it was hosted. The blog is “Citizen for 9/11 Truth.” It is not a coincidence that...
View ArticleJesus’ Sermon at Ground Zero
I confess that when a friend of mine posted a link on Facebook to an article about a Bible that was found fused to a piece of steel in the wreckage from the collapsed Twin Towers after 9/11, I...
View ArticleShock and Awe: Apocalyptic in Sci-Fi, Jihad, and Other Eschatologies
Via 3QuarksDaily, I learned of this piece by Lewis Lapham about the end times. Since it relates to several of my academic and personal interests, and the intersection between them, I thought I should...
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