07 October 2008

CG Bible Cross-Reference Graf

As much as I love scholarly interpretation tools for the Bible, I've always contended that "Joe Sixpack" with a good cross-reference Bible (preferably an NASB) would come to the same conclusions 90 percent of the time as a Ph.D. with access to a seminary library. The scriptures interpret themselves, and the image below illustrates that.Cited by National Geographic in the Best Science Images of 2008, the computer-generated graph shows the arcs of biblical cross-references, from Genesis (on the left) to Revelation (on the right). " 'It almost looks like one monolithic volume,' said Carnegie Mellon's Chris Harrison, who--along with Christoph Romhild of North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamburg, Germany--won an honorable mention for illustrations in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge."

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