Two years ago, S. Joshua Swamidass came out with his book, The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry. He contacted me and offered to send me a free copy to review on my blog. To be honest, I was a bit hesitant because, looking at the preview on Amazon, it struck…
Last week, Jason Lisle put out his third installment in which he offers his critique of William Lane Craig’s new book, The Quest for the Historical Adam. Lisle’s post is entitled, “The Historical Adam: A Worldview Based on Fact or Fiction,” and the title alone is quite telling, for as I’ve noted in the earlier…
This post is going to be a slight departure from what I normally write about…and I’m giving myself no more than one hour to do it. But over the past week or so, I’ve been watching the unfolding news, both about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the recent indictments coming from the Durham Investigation. As…
A few days ago, I started a series on the recent criticisms that YECist Jason Lisle has had about William Lane Craig’s new book, The Quest for the Historical Adam. As I said in Part 1, I haven’t yet read WLC’s book, but have seen a few interviews and read a few articles about it….
Last month, Jason Lisle of the young earth creationist organization, Biblical Science Institute, began a blog series in which he critiqued William Lane Craig’s recent book, The Quest for the Historical Adam. To date, he has written two parts in his series with more to come. Now, I haven’t written that much lately on either…
Chances are that virtually no one reading this post is an “expert” in the minor prophets. In fact, if we were being totally honest, aside from a few more famous verses among the Old Testament prophets, most people’s eyes quickly glaze over if and when they try to actually sit down and read, let’s say,…
Back during the 2020 presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders was asked for his reaction to Donald Trump calling him a Communist. He replied by saying he was Democratic Socialist, and then said, “Obviously, I’m not a Communist. Maybe President Trump doesn’t know the difference.” Okay, so what is the difference between a Communist and a Democratic…
Twenty-eight years ago, in 1993, I was in the first Peace Corps group to go into Kazakhstan, one of the former republics of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had fallen a mere 18 months before I stepped foot in Kazakhstan, so it is no exaggeration to say that my time in the Peace Corps…
Earlier this month, someone I follow on social media posted a short endorsement of Daniel Bowman Jr’s book, On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity. It didn’t say much about the book, other than basically, “Hey, great book!” Given the fact that my 10-year-old son is on the spectrum, the little blurb…
One of the books I read over the summer was Michael Heiser’s book, Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness. In many ways, it is very similar to his earlier book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. A few years ago, I wrote a short book analysis…