Schoolyard taunts are for children.

I am only interested in the judgment of adults.

No, I had not (there are hundreds of things like this online). But thanks!

As is so often the case, my book already refutes their argument. They just don’t quote or address those refutations. So I’m content to let people just read my book for the rebuttal.

Seriously?

Those are fantastically lame.

Do you really need to be walked through how lousy those responses are?

Because, honestly, my chapters in The Empty Tomb and The Christian Delusion already refutes them (with a bonus in The End of Christianity). And that’s the sign of a terrible critique: when your arguments are already refuted by the material you claim to be rebutting. No further response is needed: just read the original material. And compare.

Just out of curiosity, do you ever plan on responding in greater detail to your Christian critics? I was reading Steve Hays response to your chapter on the spiritual resurrection and the tomb legend in This Joyful Eastertide and it was quite the critique. Do you ever plan on responding to that? Then there’s the Infidel Delusion. I saw your response to that one on this blog but I have yet to see you respond in detail to the criticisms of your chapter on the resurrection. Do you ever plan on responding and showing us what a first-rate historian you are?

You know what I would love to see? I would love to see you and Hays debate the historicity of Jesus or you debate Jason Engwer on the historicity of the resurrection. But I don’t expect you to have any interest. That’s too bad, too. They’re the best Christian apologists on the net and you’re the best secular historian alive in America. I would’ve thought that you would give anything to show these apologists that they’re full of hot air.

No, not yet. Low priority. They both misunderstand various things. But that will take time to explain.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2014/05/09/the-carrier-barnes-exchange-on-fine-tuning/