The Professor’s Notes

(apologies to our British friends for the lame play on words in the title)
Alternate Title: Confused About Race in 2008 America
A recent imbroglio on another blog got me thinking. Not about intellectual fascism (which set the whole thing off), but about the ObamaNation defending Reverend Wright by saying “Jerry Falwell is Just As [...]

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Thanks to my brother, I have once again become engaged in a discussion of what can be “proven” and “dis-proven.” Or more to the point for this discussion, whether one can “prove” a negative.
Apparently, there is an on-going debate amongst biblical scholars (minimalists, and maximalists) concerning whether one can accept the historicity of biblical [...]

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I have been viewing the independent documentary, Jesus Camp, on YouTube, and reading the comments on there as well. In addition, I watched a discussion with the directors of that film. All in all, I think it is a very well done documentary.
In reading through the comments, one thing has struck me. [...]

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I have just had guests over for the evening, and the husband commented that it looks more realistic in person than on the website, and the wife commented that she can no longer use that bathroom without covering “him” up with a cloth or tissue. Modest, apparently.
– The Professor

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Okay, so many people have commented that this Jesus in the Floor was like Mary in the grilled Cheese. I wondered about that, so I went and found the Mary in the grilled cheese stories, and pictures, including in Wikipedia (anyone want to add my Jesus Floorboard to Wikipedia?). I have pulled the [...]

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Several people have asked some very good questions. I figured I would answer a few now!

“Did it suddenly appear?” A very good question. Actually I have been staring at it for a while, and wasn’t sure I wanted to say anything about it. Hey, you see a religious figure in your bathroom [...]

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Well, I thought I was losing my mind, but after several months of staring at the floorboards in the bathroom, I finally said to my wife and son, “well, I may be crazy, but has [...]

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My brother has chosen to poke the hornet’s nest, by writing about Richard Dawkins, and his apparent attack on no lesser figure than God Himself. Prior to his posting, he and I had several conversations about this topic, and the broader view that there is a strong “anti-religion” movement amongst the scientific world as [...]

 

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I have stayed away from this discussion, mainly because my views are quite practical, and would most likely alienate people from all sides of the debate. Given the latest story from the Boston Herald outlining the Boston Globe’s directive for gay couples to either marry or lose benefits, it’s perhaps as a good a [...]

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Floating Ice May Explain How Jesus Walked on Water, Researchers Say
This is perhaps one of the more interesting explanations of a miracle. for years many of us have joked while walking across a frozen lake that we were walking on water.
Let’s, for a second, assume that is correct. There are still a couple [...]

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