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August 2026

Where Were You?
The Age of the Universe and the Epistemic Challenge of Job 38
 • JD Longmire
The Epistemology of Origins: Mystery, Credit Cards, and the Limits of Modeling
A follow-up to Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Creation
 • JD Longmire
Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Creation
A Commentary on Joel Duff’s “What if the ‘Ordinary’ Days of Creation Weren’t Ordinary?”
 • JD Longmire
Who makes the Bible infallible?
An answer to a false dilemma
 • JD Longmire
Why Didn’t God Just Make Us Unable to Sin?
Genesis 6:6 sounds strange in English.
 • JD Longmire
The Naturalist’s Burden: What Designism Accounts For
There’s a familiar asymmetry in debates over naturalism and design.
 • JD Longmire
The Flood’s Heat Problem, and the Fix Nobody Tried
Every serious attempt to explain the Genesis Flood as a real, catastrophic geophysical event runs into the same wall, and it’s not the one you’d guess.
 • JD Longmire
Logical Sovereignty or Brute Emergence
The boolean temptation
 • JD Longmire
Richard Dawkins misunderstands God’s nature
Richard Dawkins keeps asking a question that sounds simple and isn’t: if God is omnipotent and merciful, why the incarnation, the sacrifice, the cross?
 • JD Longmire
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Why Couldn’t God Just Forgive?
Richard Dawkins keeps asking a question that sounds simple and isn’t.
 • JD Longmire
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