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Sodom goes mainstream (and Gomorrah we die?)
I’ve mentioned the excavations at Tall el-Hammam before, for example here and here, in connection with the increasingly plausible theory that this site is the biblical Sodom, with a highly unusual destruction layer from the 17th century BCE. Now, in case you’ve not noticed, a major article in Nature by a specialist group explores the destruction evidence in detail, and concludes that the most likely explanation is a Tunguska-type airburst around the year 1650 BCE.
Posted in History, Science, Theology
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Eating and drinking (viral) judgement
One of my enduring, and blackly amusing, memories of being a houseman was my occasional duty of administering radioactive isotope tracers in radiological examinations.
Posted in Medicine, Theology
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What is COVID? (Pontius Pilate)
The first article I wrote for the then-prestigious World Medicine, though it took a few months to get published in October 1981, was a tongue in cheek piece called Tonsillitis and the march of science.
Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science, Theology
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Has the Lord not brought it about?
The most significant commentary I’ve seen on the Afghanistan crisis is this prophetic article from American Doug Wilson.
Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Theology
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Sheep with and without shepherds
I confess I’ve been troubled, for longer than the Coronavirus issue, at how Christians, including even my own local brethren, seem to have been amongst those most easily deceived by the lies surrounding us in the world. For in the Bible, Satan’s deception during the end times is represented as what distinguishes the elect from the reprobate (and not the bloody-minded from the law-abiding).
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The phenomenological cosmos of childhood
In The Generations of Heaven and Earth I make a case for the Genesis 1 creation story being in essence a phenomenological, rather than an ancient “scientific,” account of the world, though that is complicated by the author’s concept of this creation as a temple reflecting the form of the wilderness tabernacle and/or the Jerusalem temple.
Posted in Creation, Science, Theology of nature
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Scurvy knaves as the products of worldviews
In my last post I finished off by speculating whether the ambitions of technocrats like Klaus Schwab for a new world order, dangerously near to fulfilment because of the apathy of the majority, might in part be based on the materialist worldview which regards free-will as an illusion.
OK, where’s my Aston?
On March 18th 2020, shortly before the first world-orchestrated lockdown, I sketched out its likely effects on the blog with some fear and trepidation.
Posted in Politics and sociology, Theology
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Lasting effects of debunked theories
I’ve read a few articles in the mainstream press recently about the burgeoning culture of sexual harassment in schools in the UK.
Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Theology
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How climate alarmism becomes a woke cause
When I wrote Seeing through Smoke I rather surprised myself, and annoyed some otherwise supportive readers, by bracketing the climate change issue together with the propaganda campaign for issues of gender and sexuality, with which it has no obvious links.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics and sociology, Science, Theology
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