Links would be handy. Please provide them. Otherwise I know nothing about that.

But also, non sequitur. Thomas Jefferson kept slaves, which is way worse. That doesn’t discredit the present United States or its Constitution. So I will assume you meant something more than you stated.

Isn’t that the group founded by the woman who went on to kill a man & his daughter in a drunken head-on collision? That Audrey Kishline & her group. Yeh, not so much.

I would rather someone who isn’t a Christian fundamentalist obsessed with possibiliter fallacies and just-so stories. Eddy and Boyd are too biased to see clearly or argue well.

Goodacre, Crossley, Davies, I think possibly they could do a good job pro-historicity, even Bermejo-Rubio (after he reads On the Historicity of Jesus and Proving History, since they go together to make a complete argument). I don’t expect the best historicity defense to be successful (though welcome one that is), but it should at least be worth reading, enough that people can fairly compare the two views.

They are both awful. Ehrman’s has the more errors. But Casey’s is the most useless. I know, you’re wondering how that can be. I’ll summarize when I get the review up. Casey’s book reads like something written by a crazy person. It’s almost exactly like some weird blog by some wildly unorthodox Christian apologist who just randomly stream-of-consciousness rants about these other blogs he read. Ehrman’s book at least had an intelligible structure. (And authorial discipline and skill.)

Yes, Bible Unearthed is the perfect analog to Jesus Interrupted.

That’s a good point and I’ll definitely be mentioning that.

I don’t put much value in DNA. Culture is king. I’m breeding Richard (or Rochelle!) Carrier Jr.’s with my writing, speaking, and blogging, and, selectively, mentoring.

Likewise every other outspoken and active atheist scholar, writer, entertainer, who are making their own intellectual babies left and right.

That’s why the quiverfull movement is doomed. They are just making babies for us.

Cool. For readers’ benefit I’m assuming you mean this group.