The Crash: Part 1 (A Sort of Christmas Story From My Youth)
Thirty years ago, almost to this day, I was involved in a car crash that changed the course of my life. I was a 16-year-old junior in high school who had his dr...
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Ken Ham’s Impossible and Incompatible Claims About the Effects of Noah’s Flood
As many of you know, I have been working on a book that I have entitled, The Heresy of Ham. In it, I am not only arguing that the claims of young earth creation...
Ken Ham vs. Michael Gungor: Round 2
A few days ago I received a comment regarding my original post on Ken Ham’s attack on Christian singer Michael Gungor. I promised this person I’d share my thoug...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 8): Jonah and A.I.
The final movie I want to discuss is the science-fiction film A.I. It is unique in that although it contains much of the same imagery and symbolism f...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 7): Jonah, Pinocchio, and a New Creation
One of the things I loved to do when I covered Jonah in my 9th grade Old Testament class was show my class the movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni. I wouldn’t sh...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 6): Five Biblical Themes in “The Matrix”
Given the basic plot of The Matrix, there are five essential biblical themes, one of which is a “Jonah theme,” that are essential to furthering the plot. The ot...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 5): Jonah and The Matrix (along with a few other biblical themes)
As hard as it is to believe, The Matrix is 16 years old. As I sat in the movie theater, watching The Matrix for the first time, I had two distinct impressions. ...
Ken Ham, Ron Burgundy…and a Little bit of Skepticism and Silliness
This evening, I noticed that Ken Ham had a new post on his blog, entitled, “A Hero in My Life.” No, he wasn’t writing about a hero in his life...
Biblical Intertextuality and Jonah (Part 4): The White Whale, Moby Dick–Satanic or God-like?
It is ironic that the central question literary scholars ask concerning the identity of Moby Dick is virtually the exact same question biblical scholars ask con...
Biblical Intertextuality: Captain Ahab, the Diabolical Antithesis of Jonah (Part 3)
One of the main questions concerning Moby Dick is the exact identity of the white whale: is Moby Dick symbolic of God himself, or just symbolic of nat...