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What was the shape of Noah’s Ark? For millennia Jewish and Christian clerics, scholars, and academics, as well as others with too much time on their hands, have pondered this question. Artist rendering of the one true shape of Noah’s Ark, scientifically provenILLUSTRATION: JON BERKELEY What makes it tantalizing is the precision of the numbers in Genesis 6 (here, in the King James translation): [13] And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. [14] Make thee...

Hey all, here are the Scans of my COLB front and back. They were imaged at 600 DPI and saved as JPG images. Because the canon MG6120 software is such complete CRAP, I was forced to save the images to a memory card, then get them to my computer. The images are unaltered, and have not been through any imaging software at all. Not paint.net, not photoshop, not Adobe. These are raw images so if they are huge, well thats why. After getting the images to save, I then had to get them to save on the PC. Grrrrrrr. I...

John 2:1-12 One does not have to venture far into the Anglican blogosphere to recognize that the dominant discussion is on the House of Bishops’ report. This morning, I was led to turn my eyes to Mary rather than the bishops. At the wedding in Cana, Mary comes to Jesus, who had not yet performed any public miracles, with a problem–"They have no wine.” She has a childlike trust that Jesus will do something about it–"Do whatever he tells you.” The scripture doesn’t tell us what she did next. I’ve always thought she went back to the party, but I...