I’m going to be making a monster drive to California and back, four days each way. I’ll have a ton of books in stow. Not literally; surely their gross weight will be substantially less than a ton. But in any case, many. This will happen the week before and the week after Thanksgiving. I’m going…
Help Build a Better Philosophy of Life: Take My Course on Coherent Worldview-Building!
Does atheism have a rational foundation? If we are just atoms in motion, how can anything be right or wrong? What is reason and why trust it? What is true? What should I believe, about myself and the world I live in? What should our politics be? What should our values be? Christians and Muslims…
Response to Pitts on the Resurrection Body
It’s been a really long time since I’ve bothered with the literature in resurrection apologetics. It mostly just bores me now. Nothing new has ever arisen since my best summary treatment in The Christian Delusion. But there is now something new and interesting, published just this year: Andrew Pitts, “Paul’s Concept of the Resurrection Body in…
Join Me at a Pub in Detroit the Weekend the Great Lakes Reasonfest Isn’t Happening!
Unfortunately the conference was canceled. But by coincidence I’m going to be in town that same weekend, Saturday evening, October 29. I’ll be hanging out at Andrews on the Corner from 7pm to 10pm (after shooting for a local vidcast earlier that day). I’ll have books to sell and sign. Or just come share a…
Help the Thinking Atheist Raise Funds for Camp Quest!
Camp Quest is a secular summer camp that has the potential to reach beyond the secular movement and bring the children of new secular families into the fold, learning secular philosophy, science, and critical thinking. They have been expanding for years, and are all over the country now, but demand is exceeding supply! So they…
Now on Kindle & Nook: Science Education in the Early Roman Empire!
My new book Science Education in the Early Roman Empire is now available on kindle and nook. And some other electronic formats. We are also working on the audio edition but that will still be many months yet. For more details on the book see Ancient Science Update and New Book.
History as a Science
In 1970, David Hackett Fischer published a meaty and entertaining book, Historian’s Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (well and briefly reviewed by Philip Jenkins at Patheos). I highly recommend it. He’s funny, but correct. It’s not a parody but a serious (albeit witty) survey of the alarming frequency with which all fields of…
Six Arguments That a Multiverse Is More Probable Than a God
Everyone agrees multiverse theory refutes any fine tuning argument for God. Because on a standard multiverse theory (e.g. eternal inflation), all configurations of physical universes will be realized eventually, and therefore the improbability of any of them is negated. No matter how improbable an individual universe is, the probability that it exists if a multiverse…
Reminder: I’ll be in Bloomington, Chicago, La Crosse, Milwaukee and (Near) Peoria in October!
On my way to the Milwaukee Mythinformation conference (which happens on October 21; get your tickets now if you haven’t already!) I’m making several stops on a long drive. Let anyone know you think might be interested! Or come by and say hi yourself. In general: Historian, philosopher, and author Dr. Richard Carrier (www.richardcarrier.info) will…
Speaking at Edinboro, Pennsylvania!
The Anthropology Club at Edinboro University has invited me to speak on Bayes’ Theorem Is the Logic of Historical Argument: A Demonstration Comparing the Historicity of Jesus and John Frum. That’s right, I’m going to compare Bayesian arguments for two invented legendary founders of apocalyptic cults, two thousand years apart, yet eerily similar in anthropological…
