It has been my experience, that only about one in ten of the people who decide to visit this blog actually bother to comment on a post (and many of those choose to do so privately). Hence, the only real means available to me to measure a post's impact is to look at the number of views it has generated over time. What follows is a list of the posts that have generated the most interest since this blog began back in 2014:
The Regression of CGI (2019)
God's Imperfect Apostles (2014)
Who is Miller Jones and why does he write this stuff? (2014)
God doesn't care which religion you profess! (2014)
Is suicide a one-way ticket to the Lake of Fire? (2014)
Conclusive proof that God didn't have anything to do with writing the Bible? (2015)
Soothsayers and Prophets (2019)
The Two Covenants (2019)
A few questions about God and homosexual behavior (2015)
God and Dinosaurs (2015)
And, since 2014, 2015 and 2019 took the all-time honors, here are the popular posts from those other years:
In 2016, the most viewed post was Pagan Holidays or God's Holy Days - Really?
In 2017, the most popular post was The Bloomington Statement
In 2018, the most popular post was SHOULD CHRISTIANS BE EATING LUCKY CHARMS?
In 2020, the most viewed post was Herbert W Armstrong: A Dangerous Cult Leader
In 2021, the most viewed post was Two More "Prooftexts" for Unleavened Bread
In 2022 (so far), the most popular post has been Is that Christian?
Once again, the above picks reflect the interests of my readers. They do NOT necessarily reflect my own opinions about the posts which I consider to be the most important. Even so, I think that they reflect a kind of impartial commentary on this blog's content. These are the posts which my audience has deemed the most important!
Its weird going through page views as a metric. I have one post on my blog with about 10 times the number of views as the others, not even sure how that's possible... That post put me on the LCG chopping-block because I (and I quote the minister) 'flooded the LCG letter answering department with hard questions'. lol.
ReplyDelete"God and Dinosaurs" captured my attention. It was an examination of Young Earth Creationism as it turned out. I find belief in YEC to be of the same order as belief in unicorns. But a more interesting question is why did God create dinosaurs anyway? Did we really need a world of monsters? The Spokesman Club answer is that dinosaurs were necessary to provide pockets of oil in the earth's crust so that advanced civilization could happen. But algae and other microscopic ocean creatures are the principal source of crude oil. If oil were the purpose, the monsters seem gratuitous. So, I offer a couple of ideas.
ReplyDeleteThe first is that the Jurrasic informs us what the world could be like if it were not prepared for mankind's tenure. Life could be pretty nasty for us with a T. Rex occasionally visiting our backyards. Environmental conditions have been in turmoil in the past. I have seen a graph. Things began to go calm in coincidence to the rise of mankind to civilization. Our generations have lived in a goldilocks period.
Second, I will draw upon ideas of universalism. There was a creation, then a redemption through the Cross, then a restoration. The restoration is not just of humankind but of the Cosmos. It is called the Apokatastasis and is referred to in the New Testament. I believe T. Rex will be restored, for instance. He was probably originally intended to be a happy, amusing, polychrome little bird that would be welcomed by everyone. But lots of things went wrong and we ended up with a monster. My guess is that T. Rex was not created by fiat but was a mutational outcome. The history is both very fascinating and speculative but the future is much more important. The Cosmos has been redeemed and will be restored. The imagination cannot be too
fecund.