User:Jonathan Tweet

The story of our common descent within the animal kingdom is the most important creation story that a child could ever learn. Get a copy of Grandmother Fish for your child, your child’s teacher, a librarian, a Sunday school teacher, or anyone else tasked with the education of our young people. Spread the happy news that we are all part of the great family of animals. Find the author and me under the name ”Grandmother Fish” on social media.

While I’m a natural-science guy, I’m also a big fan of the historical Jesus. Do you as a Wikipedia editor need something looked up? I have good mainstream resources on Jesus, early Christianity, Paul, Bibles, and Christianity. Let me know if I can help. Wikipedia is full of partisans who hate the mainstream, scholarly view of Jesus and early Christianity. It’s hard to blame them, since scholars deny their fundamental tenets. Even C. S. Lewis was opposed to mainstream scholarship. If you want help establishing modern scholarship against partisan resistance, let me know.

Evolution and Grandmother Fish
Evolution is the awe-inspiring story of how we and all living things on earth came to be. Inspired by my own daughter, I've written the first picture book to teach evolution to preschoolers: Grandmother Fish. It helps little children see their connection to the animals that came before us and the animals all around us. Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, and Jonathan Haidt all blurbed it. School Library Journal calls it “groundbreaking”. You can see more at GrandmotherFish.com. The artist from Grandmother Fish and I also collaborated on an evolution game, Clades, and a version with dinosaurs, Clades: Prehistoric. They ship December 2017. I also sometimes blog about evolution and what it means for us to be humans (link).

Historical Jesus
We atheists have a bad habit of underestimating this man's importance, or even doubting his existence. As you might imagine, there's a lot of emotional resistance on WP to treating Jesus as a historical figure, not only from Christians but also from certain atheists. There's a lot of new, great, historical information about this prophet, but the new scholarship is going up against centuries of tradition. Jesus gets some coverage on my blog, too. Here are my Jesus posts. And remember, edit unto others as you would have others edit unto you.

Friendly atheism
We atheists could stand to be nicer and more self-aware, especially when it comes to religion.

Games
Although I'm a professional game designer, I don't work much on game articles here on WP. You can read about my games on my WP page.

Find me online
If you like evolution, historical Jesus, secularism or geeky tabletop games, you might want to find me online.
 * My blog is Secular Sunday School.
 * On Twitter I'm @JonathanMTweet.
 * On G+, I'm Jonathan Tweet.

Happy editing!