By Hays’ reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical...

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It is...

Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence

We don’t want to be known as the ‘Intelligent Design University,’ … We don’t think this is science.

He doesn’t want to do it where he’s asked questions about this by opponents, … The nature of science is to submit your ideas for scrutiny.

We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design.