Posts Tagged ‘ Richard Carrier ’

Stay Tuned For My Monday Podcast – Another MG Video Available

July 26, 2012
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I’m publishing another podcast Monday. In the meantime, enjoy the video of my podcast with Dr. Richard Carrier recently posted to YouTube and my video page.

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Richard Carrier’s Bayesian Challenge to Jesus Studies

Click here to go to Carrier’s website. Click here and scroll down to Carrier’s pdf tutorial on Baye’s Theorem, and click here to learn more about Baye’s Theorem. You can find my discussion of this podcast here and also here.

My Fear of Math and Zombies

July 2, 2012
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Any serious math problem causes my eyes to glaze over, my mind to wander, and produces a thin trickle of saliva to dribble from my lips. I’m truly stupefied by difficult equations. I admitted this to Dr. Richard Carrier when I interviewed him for my recent podcast. My previous post…

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Scholar Questions Historical Jesus With Method, Criteria, Math

June 29, 2012
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Here’s an easy way to start an argument: Question the historicity of Jesus during your next conversation with family or friends. The location of your conversant’s religious beliefs along the atheist-theist continuum won’t matter – everyone has an opinion on this guy. Many hard-core atheists who believe this 1st century…

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The Historical Jesus: A Challenge (Podcast)

June 26, 2012
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Richard Carrier’s Bayesian Challenge to Jesus Studies

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Richard Carrier

The study of Jesus is rife with bias, assumptions, and an alarming lack of data. In this short, non-technical and informative podcast, historian and philosopher Dr. Richard Carrier talks about how he examines these issues in his new book, Proving History, Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus. Bayes’ Theorem is a logical argument expressed mathematically to calculate the probability of a belief. Carrier assesses the logical foundations and practical applications of both methods and criteria historians use, and he does so through the lens of Bayes’ Theorem.

How Christianity Failed Science

May 31, 2012
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In an essay titled Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science, Richard Carrier loosely defines delusion as an easily falsifiable belief held disproportionately to the evidence. Carrier’s essay, which appeared in the 2010 book, The Christian Delusion, Why Faith Fails, easily discredits the fantasy that Christianity begat science. I recently…

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Non-Believers Argue Over Jesus

March 24, 2012
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Two accomplished scholars recently voiced differing and combative views on the historicity of Jesus. I’ve read works from both of the men involved, and they are both accomplished authors and historians. Even though I’m a little surprised at some of the rhetoric used, I plan on providing this academic contretemps…

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