The Weird Fruit Mystery (Correcting a Sentence in My Survey of Roman Science)
An attentive reader caught an error in my book on The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire (which was based on my Columbia university dissertation). It actually involves a Weird Fruit Mystery. So this article will serve as a corrective footnote, and a solution to the...Did Christians Steal Their Religion from Egypt?
There will be an online special event next week: the night of the 23rd of December (a “pre” Christmas Eve!), I will debate Jabari Osaze on whether Christianity was stolen from Egyptian religion. This is an exclusive webinar event. Tickets are $30. This is...How Textual Criticism Can Help or (Sorry) Hurt Your Cause
In both Classics as well as New Testament Studies, “textual criticism” is a tool for analyzing ancient texts through the lens of manuscripts, the data they present, and our accumulated knowledge of what often or rarely happened in the transmission of texts...An Ongoing List of Updates to the Arguments and Evidence in On the Historicity of Jesus
My academic study On the Historicity of Jesus was published in 2014, by respected biblical studies press Sheffield-Phoenix. It was the first complete study of the historicity of Jesus to pass peer review in over a hundred years. Since then only one other has been...What I Said at the Brea Conference
Earlier this year I presented at the Pacific regional Society of Biblical Literature conference. My paper’s title in the program was, “Field Update on the Case Against the Historicity of Jesus: Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications For and Against.” Which is now...Hitler’s Table Talk: Another Update
There’s more news about Hitler! In 2016 I published an update on the saga of Hitler’s Table Talk and its fraudulent or questionable quotations making him out to be an atheist that he wasn’t. That 2016 article contains the background explaining my...Tour Changes: Chicago Is Now This Sunday & OKC Has a New Venue!
Two last-minute changes to my July-August tour: I’ll be in Chicago this Sunday night instead of Wednesday; and my Oklahoma City gig has a new venue in OKC itself! Chicago (IL) • NEW DATE: 22 July (Sunday) • 7-10pm • Holloway’s (Marriott at 410 N. Dearborn...How the Right and the Left Nuked Atheism Plus
Though I rarely have time, I occasionally check out what’s being produced in atheism. And thus I went on a binge of Noel Plum videos recently. My entryway was researching what happened to The Atheist Conference, which collapsed almost as soon as its planning began,...Bullshit from Day One: The First Century Gospel Is a Third Century Gospel
It’s officially the mythical mummy Gospel. The “first century” manuscript of Mark Christian apologists have been gloating about and beating everyone over the head with for years…is not a first century manuscript of Mark. It also didn’t...The Mummy Gospel Isn’t Even a Mummy Gospel!? Updates on That Supposed First Century Manuscript of Mark
Remember that dubious claim going around for years now that a first century manuscript of the Gospel of Mark had been found? Well, there’s news! Last year I gave advice on how to vet suspicious claims about ancient Jesus literature before asking me about it (see...Laguna Beach Pubmeet Moved to a Thursday
As several requested, I’ve changed the date of my upcoming pubmeet in Laguna Beach, California, to Thursday, March 15th. It’s still to be at Hennessey’s Tavern on 213 Ocean Ave. (Laguna Beach, CA) from 7-9pm. See you there!Sacramento: Where to Find Me This Sunday!
For Sacramento Freethought Day I’ll be selling and signing my books at The Hotel Bar on 1501 L Street, right across from the corner of Capitol Park by the festival (15th & L), from 2-5pm, this Sunday (15 October; and I’ll even be happy to stay later if you can’t...Canton, Michigan, Event Canceled
The event I was going to be doing with Robert Price and Robert Price this month with Ehteshaam Gulam has been canceled due to Gulam facing some serious health difficulties. It may be still happen in 2018, and I’ll announce that when it gets rebooked. I have all...Update: My Event in Waterloo Has Changed!
Change of plans for my Waterloo, Ontario, stop on August 25 (Friday) for my Mighty Canada Tour: I will not be at the Games on Tap Board Game Café that evening (but I might be that afternoon: if you are still interested in gaming then, message me on Facebook). Instead,...Epilogue to the Sam Harris Moral Facts Contest
A few years ago, Sam Harris put on a contest, that awarded $2000 to the best essay critiquing his “moral landscape” theory of moral facts—and could have awarded them $20,000 had it convinced him. It didn’t. I agree it shouldn’t have. But...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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