Theological Data Mining

Last weekend I saw the Book of Mormon musical and it reminded me of a joke I heard on a Jewish radio show: "Why did God create Mormon...

I once heard that if you're not 100% sure (about God), you're 100% lost. I couldn't disagree more. I would rephrase it like this...

You've probably heard the saying "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." It's the starting point for perha...

A major theme of this blog is that we shouldn't force data to answer questions it doesn't actually answer. Overfitting and confirma...

According to a Gallup survey of over 1700 random people, approximately 17% of the U.S. population believes that creatures such as Bigfoot an...

Has the messiah come? Christians say yes, and they usually use the gospels to "prove" it, showing that Jesus fulfilled messianic p...

I often hear the question "Do you interpret the Bible literally or figuratively?" The answer is "both" and "neither...