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*** Blog Subjects ***

Religion
- Anthropology
   - Fossils
   - DNA
   - Dating techniques

- Geology
   - The Geologic Column
   - The Cambrian Explosion

- Archaeology
   - Epigraphic Database
   - Finkelstein
   - Mesopotamia (religion, history, etc.)

- Neurology
   - Unreliability of witnesses (memory)
   - Ease of tricking the mind (incl. NLP)
   - Neurological disorders
   - Physical damage and personality changes
   - NDE's
   - Free Will vs Determinism

- Biology (Evolution)
   - Atavisms
   - Biogeography
   - The Philogentic Tree (Cladistics)
   - Transitional Forms
   - DNA (endogenous retroviruses, redundant pseuodogenes)
   - Convergence

- History
   - Wrong history (OT & NT)
      - Exodus
      - The "Slaughter of the Innocents" and Census
      - Flood Myths and Noah

- Astronomy
   - Virtual Particles (Positrons)

- Biblical Criticism
   - Midrash and Homer in Mark
   - The Gospels in the Jewish Context
   - The missing voices (Philo, Pilate, 5,000)
   - Pilate

- Common Apologetics
   - Aquinas 5 Ways
   - Cosmological Argument
   - Minimal Facts
   - Biblical Literalism (YEC)
   - "Die for a Lie"
   - Josephus and The Testimonium
   - Intelligent Design
   - Evolution is "Only a Theory"
   - "You can add new information" (DNA)

- Common Counterapologetics
   - The Problem of Evil
   - Mythicism
   - Contradictions in the Bible

- Morality
   - God removing the Pharoah's free will.
   - Euthyphro's Dilemma
   - Bad Morality in the OT
   - What's missing from the 10 Commandments
   - Slavery in the Bible



Politics
- Minimum Wage

- Education

- Welfare

- Equal Justice

Book Breakdowns
- The Rejection of Pascals Wager
- The Free Will Delusion
- Biblical Literalism: A Gentle Heresy
- Faith vs Fact
- The Moral Arc
- The Soul Fallacy
- The Myth of Nazareth
- How Jesus Became God
- Why Evolution is True
- Jesus Wars
- Nailed
- The Bible Unearthed
- Evolution: What the Fossils Tell Us
- Born Believers
- The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
- The Trial and Death of Jesus




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