[CLOSED — AND THANK YOU ALL!] Close to Underwater on Bills = Hire Me to Speak or Teach?
Thank you to everyone who helped. My wife and I are immensely grateful. Sincerely. We’re now good as far as the budget emergency goes. So you can disregard this post now. But I always welcome hosts hiring me in for interviews and discussions on their channels,...Comparing Apologetical Methods: Jonathan Sheffield vs. Michael Licona
There is a largely overlooked internal debate among Christian apologists about approach. The gist of which is how much Christians should allow fudging, omitting, spinning, and overreach (though the pro side would never describe what it’s doing that way, which is...Three Perspectives on the Life Sciences in the Roman Empire
I teach several online courses you can join every month. Two include a history of atheism (our western freethought heritage) and a history of ancient science and technology in the West. I highly recommend you check them out. It’s a great way to get in some...The Other Problem with Nothing (and Kalam Shazam!)
In May philosopher Alex Malpass will debate William Lane Craig on the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God, and in preparation he is running a weekly series at Thoughtology on every argument there is for or against every premise of the KCA. It’s looking like a...David Fitzgerald’s Review of David Skrbina’s Amateur Jesus Hoax
A Note from the Editor: I rarely publish guest articles on my blog. But this one, by my friend David Fitzgerald (author and journalist), is exceptional and is being stalled by other venues to avoid publishing it. Since I pretty much agree with all of it, and this...Recommendations in the Philosophy of History
I teach online correspondence courses every month in philosophy and history, and I highly recommend you check them out. It’s a great way to get in some guided self-learning, with a whole month of being able to pick my brain about the subject for a very...Christianity in Hitler’s Ideology: The Definitive Study
I’ve long pointed out that attempts to make Hitler and the Nazis into atheists is counterfactual propaganda. They were stalwartly and predominately Christian, and largely driven by Christian motives. I’ve covered this several times (in Hitler Homer Bible...Hansen’s Contribution to the James in Josephus Debate
There is a valuable new study by Chrissy Hansen, “Josephus and the Murder of James: An Argument Against Some Common Wisdom,” in the new journal Studies of Biblical Interest 2 (2025). I don’t agree with its conclusion but I think it’s a quality...T.C. Schmidt on James in Josephus: Apologetics vs. History
After Exposing T.C. Schmidt’s Oxford Apologetics for the Testimonia Flaviana altogether (and his fellow Christians failed to rescue him), I now shall address his appendix on my case against Josephus referring to the Christian Jesus when relating the execution of a...The Ontology of Moral Facts
Fifteen years ago I was asked to give a lecture to Christian high school students on “the ontology of morality,” which I did using clips from movies and television shows to illustrate the physical instantiation of moral facts in interacting human systems....Errata for Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus
This page will be continually updated. The first section lists typos that will be fixed in a future printing. The second lists additions or changes that might be implemented in a future edition but for now are usefully available here. One error has already been...How to Use Pseudo-AI
Pseudo-AI is garbage and a bubble. And AI content is banned in comments on my blog. Yet people are still gullibly over-trusting AI chatbots, constantly sending me chatbot content and gushing over how brilliant it is and proves whatever they want. I have to explain...On Being Childish vs. Paying Attention: Buffoons vs. Bayes, Aristotle Edition
A childish Philosophical Muser tried claiming there are “errors” in this month’s article on The Historicity of Aristotle. And boy, if only you saw my DMs from this bozo. You will already get an idea from the article I just linked. But his DMs are...Public Zoom on Josephus and Bayes
This video is now publicly available. I am keeping the original announcement below. But to watch see The Knowledge Nexus. The de-animated slides are available here (but the usual advisory: the slides are not the lecture, so don’t just read the slides and think...The Historicity of Aristotle
In my new book The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus I show mathematically why we are so confident in the existence of most ancient persons, and why we get different results for Jesus when we hold him to the same standard as everyone else—in the second...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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