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Author: Douglas Whaley

Douglas Whaley is an emeritus professor of law at The Ohio State University, a prolific blogger, and the author of the atheist thriller Imaginary Friend (2008). This article is reprinted with permission from the author’s 2010 blog post, the most popular single essay of his blogging history.

Humanism at Large
What Did the Lions Eat on Noah’s Ark?
Volume 39, No. 2
February / March, 2019
Douglas Whaley

Noah had no idea how old he really was, but since he was certainly the oldest person he knew it sometimes seemed like he must be six hundred, so that’s what he claimed as his age. Eventually he’d really come to believe that number. It’s what he told his eventual biographer. When the bad dreams …


Humanism at Large
An Atheist Interviews God
Volume 38, No. 1
December / January, 2018
Douglas Whaley

Finally, the deity consents to an interview.

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Humanism at Large
Creating the Bible: Water into Wine
Volume 37, No. 2
February / March, 2017
Douglas Whaley

“I speculate as to what it must have been like for those learned men who first wrote down the legends they had gathered from many sources as they decided which ones were true and which false.”

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