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See Me Discuss Ancient Science & Technology at Chabot Space & Science Center!

2 April 2015

Wednesday this April 15 (2015) at 7pm at Chabot SSC in Oakland (CA) I’ll be delivering a lecture on my favorite topic: How far did the Roman Empire get in science and technology? What, if anything, was still holding them back? What’s the real reason they...

Why I Don’t Always Trust Israel

2 August 2014

Does Israel resort to war crimes, and then lie about it, to gain its ends? It has in the past. Which is why I have a hard time believing Israel’s claims now that it isn’t targeting schools and hospitals, which are UN-observed civilian refugee sites. That...

List of Responses to Defenders of the Historicity of Jesus

18 June 2014

Since my book On the Historicity of Jesus was published, for convenience I have been collecting here links to all the responses I’ve published to defenders of the historicity of Jesus. This article will be continually updated with new entries. Within the listed...

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Richard Carrier is the author of many books and numerous articles online and in print. His avid readers span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism and humanism, and the origins of Christianity and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He is also a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and historical methods.