While science is skeptical, the Bible doesn't seem to be afraid of ghosts. In 1 Samuel 28, King Saul consults a medium who brings the prophet Samuel back from the dead. As you can imagine, Samuel's ghost wasn't too pleased about it, and he teaches Saul some healthy fear of the de...
The most well-known example of a ghost word is “dord.” This word was created accidentally created by the editors of theWebster’s Dictionaryin the 1930s. An editor submitted a note for the dictionary’s list of abbreviations, citing “D or d” as chemists’ shorthand for “density.” ...
he formulated the response of many intelligent but troubled Victorians to the new God-less cosmos inaugurated by Darwin's "dangerous" idea. Butler was no Bible- thumping reactionary, but an acute thinker, aware of the shift in humanity's self-image that On the Origin of Species had triggered...
or by politicians courting the evangelical vote. People from all walks of life, including some who haven't been to a worship service in years, reference the Bible without knowing it.