Science, history, and the Bible
Where do evolution and the Bible fit into how we investigate science and history?
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Why did God give us a book?
Out of all the possible modes of communication, why did God give us a book?
What part of Genesis should we believe? All of it!
A conservative columnist slips up on Genesis.
The Issue of Issues
Christianity’s enemies have long recognized that this is the key issue at
which all battle lines converge. (And no, it’s not creation/evolution.)
The Bible: Jewish folklore and nothing more?
Today’s feedback features a skeptic who questions the authenticity and reliability of the Bible, positing hopeless contradictions between Jesus and Paul and portraying the Bible
as Jewish folklore.
Are praying mantises kosher?
Can the Bible count the number of legs on an insect?
Responding to liberal scholarship on Behemoth
Some liberal scholars are advancing a ‘lewd hypothesis’ about the description of Job’s behemoth in Job 40:17.
Animals on the Ark
Various old-earth positions have loads of trouble figuring out why God put animals on the ark!
Was the Bible updated?
We answer the question: Was the Bible’s text updated by later scribes?
Did Mark plagiarize Esther?
Responding to a skeptical demand for wooden literalism.
Responding to William Lane Craig’s Attack on Biblical Inerrancy
Do the Gospels contain contradictions concerning Peter’s three denials of Christ?
The parable of the cupboard and Genesis 1:29–30
A simple parable to help you in your conversations with Christian old-earthers.