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Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
This comic from Cyanide and Happiness relates to both religious ideas of punishments in an afterlife, and education, and so I had to share it. There is a long history of people imagining punishments in...
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Cheat-Proof Final Exams?
Since it is the end of the semester, and exams are in the minds of many, it seems appropriate to return to a topic I put on hold. Rutgers University made the news when the New York Times published an...
View ArticleHonest Political Ad
Click here to view the embedded video.This ad for Gil Fulbright for Senate is very funny and poignant. I’ve been having my students write about how to achieve utopian aims for the final papers in my...
View ArticleRichard Carrier’s Dishonesty
It is ironic that Richard Carrier’s blog post which accuses me of lying about his work blatantly misrepresents what I wrote. No one who has read things I’ve written – or listened to things I’ve said –...
View ArticleMaybe God Put Contradictions In The Bible To Weed Out Dishonest Christians
Kent Hovind has suggested that God may have put difficulties in the Bible to weed out the atheists. I’d like to suggest that it is more likely that God put them in there (if indeed God is to blame) in...
View ArticleProgressive Christianity is a Threat to Ken Ham’s Deceptions
Ken Ham has gone on record as saying that progressive Christianity is dangerous. This is good news. Any authentic Christianity ought to seem dangerous to oppressors and charlatans and the...
View ArticleThe Jesus Way or the YEC Way?
I took some words I wrote last year in a comment on another blog and turned them into an image.
View ArticlePlagiarism in Commentaries and Commentaries on Plagiarism
Given that I’ve now had my first plagiarism case of the semester, the time seems right to comment on this topic. Let me begin with an infographic that explains different kinds of plagiarism and...
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