Author: Leonard Eisenberg
Leonard Eisenberg is a geologist in Ashland, Oregon, where he lives with his family. After acquiring BS and MS degrees from San Diego State University, he worked for Chevron Overseas on exploration projects in Africa, the former Yugoslavia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. He now volunteer teaches and runs Evogeneao.com, which promotes a family approach to teaching evolution. Eisenberg presents school and community programs about evolution, earth history, the petroleum industry, and other subjects and helped design and build Briscoe Geology Park, where he presents the earth history educational program. He also helped design and build a similar Earth History Walk at Oregon Hills Park in Medford, Oregon. Eisenberg also designed and built the “Climb through Time” earth history climbing wall at ScienceWorks Museum in Ashland, Oregon, and was a principal in the 2018 Pterosaurs: Ancient Rulers of the Sky exhibit, also at ScienceWorks Musuem in Ashland, Oregon. Eisenberg’s current geologic research focuses on giant floods and long-lived lakes in the 200-million year-old Navajo Sandstone in Utah. He is past president of The Jefferson Center, an educational group in Ashland.
A New Natural Interpretation of the Empty Tomb
The purpose of this essay is not to determine the historicity of Jesus or the validity of apologists’ historical claims. Instead, this paper accepts at face value the key evidence for the resurrection (namely, the empty tomb and appearance stories) and proposes that they are most plausibly interpreted as the result of a confluence of …