I've sent a formal progress report to all donors explaining what I've gotten done, what's delayed me, and what I still have to do to complete my book On the Historicity of Jesus Christ. If you donated to that project and haven't received that progress report, please email me at once. That's for donor eyes only. But for everyone, here's an expansion on one item in it.
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Important News
A brief report on four developments of note for all my fans and friends:1. Blogger now lets me add a widget for Followers (a new feature explained here). I've added it down the right margin, just below the Subject Index. It will show the avatar and link to the profiles of anyone on Blogger who joins my "followers" list (which means people who follow my blog, not my international coven of cultists
No Need to Believe
P1 = I do not need to believe in God. I only need (at the very most) to live up to my own expectations of others, being in myself what I would want from anyone else.This premise is necessarily true, if the following premises are undeniable. And they are. The following premises consist of two kinds: those that are necessarily true (as logically necessary truths, they cannot be denied by any
Vote Vetrazzo
Please vote Vetrazzo. Huh? I'll explain in a bit.There are many reasons I'm proud of my wife. Jennifer is a kick-*ss stage manager, universally acknowledged as the best in the local theatre community wherever we end up (whether off-off Broadway or on the East Bay). Everyone wants to work with her. She gets sh*t done. Knows her stuff. Denmothers the actors with finesse. Always professional,
Are Women Just Stupid?
A friend of mine posted the following on a policy blog, and as I was meeting his request for a response by email I realized I was basically just writing my next entry for my own blog. So why not just post it all here?Monday, August 25, 2008Men or Women: Who’s More Intelligent?The other day, having my evening tea with friends in the university’s fast food restaurant, one of my well-read friends
Ancient Science Podcast
The San Francisco Exploratorium has launched a new website on "Evidence: How We Know What We Know." I was interviewed some time ago for this new launch, and elements of that interview are now available on their site as a podcast. Go to their new project page (above), click "Enter the Site" and select the Podcasts option down on the right side. I'm the second guest. It's about eleven minutes on "
And So the Lying Begins
Right wing pundits have begun the game of shamelessly lying about Barack Obama. The story they want you to believe (by repeating it over and over again and assuming you won't check the facts--and be honest, bow your head in shame: you weren't going to) is that Barack Obama is a "flip flopper" who is abandoning his principles to appear centrist. In actual fact Obama has always been centrist and
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