April 28, 2024
In case you missed it, last week we looked at what the ESV Study Bible and the Baker Illustrated Study Bible (CSB) have to say about God’s seemingly out-of-the-blue attempt on the life of Moses(?) and Zipporah’s appeasement of God by circumcising their firstborn son. As promised, this week we continue the investigation by looking […]
Tags: bridegroom of blood, circumcision, difficult Bible passages, Exodus 4, Gershom, God intends to kill Moses?, Moses, NET Full Notes Edition, NIV Faithlife Illustrated Study Bible, Zipporah
Posted in Religion |
April 21, 2024
It is time for the third entry (each in two parts) in this series, which looks at particularly baffling passages from the Old Testament that are often glossed over in study Bibles and Bible commentaries. The first entry was focused on Gen. 6:1-4 (“sons of God” and the Nephilim), and the second examined Gen. 9:18-29 […]
Tags: Baker Illustrated Study Bible, bridegroom of blood, circumcision, difficult Bible passages, ESV Study Bible, Exodus 4, Gershom, God intends to kill Moses?, Moses, Zipporah
Posted in Religion |
April 14, 2024
“[I]f you have an existing nuke, keep it open if you can. I think most people are agnostic on new nuclear, hoping that the next generation of reactors might pan out but fearing that they’ll be too expensive.” — Bill McKibben, author, activist, founder of 350.org If this topic sounds vaguely familiar, it might be […]
Tags: anti-nuclear power, California government, clean energy, climate change, Credit Award and Redemption Agreement, Dept. of Energy, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, eco-warriors, federal subsidies, Friends of the Earth, Gov. Gavin Newsom, green-friendly, growing support for nuclear power, Leftist ideology, Pacific Gas & Electric, pro-nuclear power, renewable energy is unreliable
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
April 7, 2024
“[T]he NIPCC’s regional approach to analyzing extreme events and historical and paleo records of temperature, rainfall, streamflow, glaciers, sea ice, and sea-level rise is commendable and frankly more informative than the global analyses provided by the IPCC.” — Dr. Judith Curry, then-professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech […]
Tags: agenda-driven, bad data, bias, career promotion, catastrophic man-made global warming, climate change alarmism, Climate Change Reconsidered, climate crisis skepticism, climate science, corruption, Craig D. Idso, false postulates, flawed projections, incomplete data, IPCC, Judith Curry, multidisciplinary, NIPCC, no consensus, Patrick T. Brown, politicization, Robert M. Carter, S. Fred Singer, UN, unreliable circumstantial evidence
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
March 31, 2024
Due to a mild case of procrastination, exacerbated by multiple distractions of varying importance, I almost didn’t get a blogpost prepared for this week. First, I wasn’t sure whether or not I wanted to do something Easter-related this year. I did have a potential source article to draw from regarding pagan origins. But, once I […]
Tags: Apologetics, archaeological evidence, astronomical evidence, biblical context, Easter, extrabiblical sources, historical crucifixion, Holy Week, Ligonier Ministries, Maundy Thursday, Reasons to Believe, Resurrection Day, resurrection of Jesus, Stand to Reason
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 24, 2024
“That’s not the resume of a ‘uniter in chief.’” — Jarrett Stepman, columnist for The Daily Signal and author of The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past What do you consider to be the biggest failures of the Biden administration (or, as some prefer, “Biden regime”), so far? Earlier this month, in […]
Tags: Biden presidency, Bidenomics, border crisis, DEI, global instability, illegal immigration, inflation, Jarrett Stepman, military, normalcy, The Daily Signal, weaponized DoJ
Posted in Politics |
March 17, 2024
Last week, we looked at what the ESV Study Bible and the Baker Illustrated Study Bible (CSB) study notes said about the incident involving Noah’s drunkenness and nakedness, Ham’s transgression regarding it, and the resultant curse against Canaan. This week, we continue the investigation by looking at the NIV Faithlife Illustrated Study Bible and the […]
Tags: Curse of Canaan, difficult Bible passages, disrespect, drunk and naked Noah, Genesis 9, Ham, NET Full Notes Edition, NIV Faithlife Illustrated Study Bible, possible sexual perversion, sin of Ham
Posted in Religion |
March 10, 2024
If you read my posts from 2/4/2024 & 2/11/2024, you can guess what I’m going to do this week and next. I have chosen a particularly baffling passage from the Old Testament which many commentators gloss over, and I will cite what four of the top study Bibles have to say about it. This time, […]
Tags: Baker Illustrated Study Bible, Curse of Canaan, difficult Bible passages, disrespect, drunk and naked Noah, ESV Study Bible, Genesis 9, Ham's sin, possible sexual perversion
Posted in Religion |
March 3, 2024
This is the last citation from Hugh Ross’s Improbable Planet, I promise. In this excerpt, Ross discusses the impact (in both senses of the term) of the Chicxulub asteroid, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction. In short, it was much worse than originally thought. — — — The decisive blow that […]
Tags: asteroid impact, blocked sunlight, Chicxulub, Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event, earthquakes, ecological consequences, evidence for design in nature, Hugh Ross, impact crater in Mexico, Improbable Planet, mass extinction, nitric oxide, ocean surface temperature drop, photosynthesis shutdown, sulphur aerosols, supervolcanoes, tsunamis
Posted in Science |
February 25, 2024
Some conspiracies are true. We hear a lot about “conspiracy theories” and the “nuts” that espouse them. In many cases, the theories are indeed unbalanced and not supported by evidence and/or rational thinking. But, conspiracies happen all the time, especially in the halls of power. The etymology of the word “conspire” means to “breathe together”. […]
Tags: Anthony Fauci, conspiracy theory, cover-up, COVID-19, EcoHealth Alliance, gain-of-function research, Imprimis, Jeremy Farrar, Kristian G. Andersen, NIAID, NIH, Peter Daszak, Rand Paul, Robert Kadlec, virology, Wuhan lab leak
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |