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If we trust the author, either of the Gospel or of the early tradition, then even a non-saying may be historically illuminating about the primary Jesus: this was what a primary source, perhaps even a close one, thought that he meant. But how do we distinguish between what Jesus did mean, what an early close acquaintance thought that he meant and what later Christians claimed that he had said?

Robin Lane Fox, The Unauthorized Version, (New York: Vintage, 1993), p. 203.

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January 31, 2006

Livin' on the edge

Category: Personal

There's a great story in the Rake about the Dakotas—that place just a few miles west of where I'm sitting. This is an odd part of the world, where population is actually contracting and drifting away to leave our...

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Say it ain't so, Jonathon!

Category: Weirdness

Our vampire candidate for governor, "the Impaler", has been arrested for "escape" and "stalking". I just have to say…Duh. What do you expect from a vampire? (via MNSpeak)...

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It's somebody's birdday...

Category: Personal

…so go wish them a happy birthday....

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More Koufax nominations!

Category: CreationismEvolutionGodlessnessPoliticsScienceWeblogs

I've got a couple of posts that have been nominated for The 2005 Koufax Awards: Best Post, so I've quickly brought them on board here at the new site. Voting isn't yet open, but here they are: Idiot America. This...

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The proper reverence due those who have gone before

Category: EvolutionScience

Some people might think I'm a rather morbid fellow. Years ago, when I was an undergraduate lackey at the University of Washington and working at the med school, there, I made a wonderful discovery one lunch hour: a bone...

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Planet of the Hats

Category: Godlessness

I know you will not believe me, but I swear it's true: I'm not of this earth. I fled here years ago because my home planet was driving me crazy. Let me explain. My home world is very much...

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Idiot America

Category: CreationismGodlessnessPolitics

I love this article. Ctenotrish sent along a copy of Greetings from Idiot America, by Charles P. Pierce (sorry, but it's behind a firewall, and you have to pay $2.95 to see it) from the latest Esquire. I don't...

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Debbie Does Derangement

Category: Politics

Oh. My. Nonexistent. God. Debbie Schlussel. How does anyone take these "conservative commentators" seriously? She read a NYT article that shows a genetic link between Asians and Native Americans, and guess what that means? It was OK for Europeans to...

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ID floats a lead-lined trial balloon

Category: Creationism

We're getting signs that the Discovery Institute is going to be shifting their strategy a little bit. Thoughts from Kansas has an excellent discussion of the subject. Basically, they're going to embrace more of the actual science, and focus their...

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SOTU prognostications

Category: PoliticsScience

Well, Kevin Drum's prediction about the State of the Union address is a bit vague and general: Bush's theme may well be that he's right and his critics are wrong; and his vision may well be of a year of...

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January 30, 2006

Hey, is this another Circus of the Spineless?

Category: Politics

Remember these names when Alito screws us over. These are the ones who didn't even try to stop him. Akaka, Daniel K. (Coward-HI) Baucus, Max (Doormat-MT) Bingaman, Jeff (Toady-NM) Byrd, Robert C. (Ditherer-WV) Cantwell, Maria (One-termer-WA) Carper, Thomas R. (Lickspittle-DE)...

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Miscellaneous Dawkinsiana

Category: Godlessness

I sat down and watched both episodes of Dawkins' series, The Root of All Evil? this weekend (because I can!), and I have to say…I liked it very much. I've already commented on the first episode, and if you want...

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That's some law, that Patriot Act

Category: Politics

It's got everything a fascist dictator might want in a law. A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on...

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Required reading

Category: AcademicsPolitics

I will join the chorus in praising Bérubé's essay on academic freedom. It's excellent; now if only the people most desperately in need of reading it weren't barely literate anti-intellectual thugs, it would be an awesomely persuasive rhetorical tool....

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I teach Intelligent Design, too

Category: Creationism

John Lynch catches Dembski getting all breathless about a class in Switzerland that includes a lecture on ID. Big whoop, John says, he teaches it, too. So do I. Why wasn't Dembski announcing this glorious victory last semester, when I...

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I am an addict

Category: PersonalWeblogs

I gave up on caffeine this past summer—I actually cut it off cold turkey for a good long while. I'm backsliding a bit now, though, just because my early morning teaching schedule has me feeling mostly exhausted all the time...

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