So What About Caligula? How Do You Know HE Existed!?
It’s getting hilarious now. N.T. Wright himself, that total hack with no history degrees everyone praises as a great historian (and by “everyone” I mean Christian fundamentalists), has now declared: “Jesus is as well established as a figure of...Dennett vs. Harris on Free Will
In January of 2014 Daniel Dennett, a philosopher and cognitive scientist who is renowned as a world’s leading authority on free will, wrote a lengthy critical review of Sam Harris’s book Free Will (Reflections on Free Will: A Review by Daniel C. Dennett). Sam Harris,...A Test of Bayesian History: Efraim Wallach on Old Testament Studies
An interesting article has been published under peer review, which tests my concept (developed and argued in Proving History) that all historical reasoning is already in fact Bayesian (historians just don’t know it), by applying it to the analysis of a major...I’ll Be Live During the Quantum Hug Marathon!
June 1 there will be a day long Quantum Hug Initiative online! Google Hangout of atheists, humanists, & others talking about mental health, critical thinking, the pursuit of happiness, & all manner of things. And I’ll be doing an hour, live, from 10 to...New Audiobook! The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire
My book The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire is now available in audio format! As for all my other audiobooks, I voiced the text myself for Pitchstone Publishing. They invest a lot in making these audiobooks possible, paying for professional studio time and audio...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...Debating Historicity with Dennis MacDonald Today (Live Online)
Wednesday (23 May 2018) at 2:30pm Pacific, I’ll be having a cordial online debate on the historicity of Jesus with eminent scholar Dennis MacDonald on Pinecreek Doug’s YouTube Channel (where around that time the feed should appear, so save that link)....Appearing in New York / Online Tomorrow!
Tomorrow I’m doing a special live event that will be streamed online, before a select audience in New York City. Saturday, 19 May 2018, from 2 to 4pm East Coast time. This Meetup link provides the URLs for all the live feeds if you want to tune in. And there may...Did Jesus Exist? Register for June, and Study the Best Arguments Either Way, or Even Debate It with an Expert!
Register now for my online course on the historicity of Jesus! Learn the best arguments pro and con (so not just my case against it, but also the best arguments and evidence for it), as well as the cultural and historical background of the origin of Christianity...Historicity Big and Small: How Historians Try to Rescue Jesus
When the question of the historicity of Jesus comes up in an honest professional context, we are not asking whether the Gospel Jesus existed. All non-fundamentalist scholars agree that that Jesus never did exist. Christian apologetics is pseudo-history. No different...Learn How to Critically Assess Claims about History!
This May, in preparation for my June course on the Historicity of Jesus, let’s get acquainted with all the critical thinking skills we should employ in examining all historical claims! Skeptics will benefit greatly from learning these practical insider skills....Next Two Weeks: Find Me in Arizona & Colorado!
Next Wednesday (April 25) I’ll be in Holbrook, AZ at the Empty Pockets Saloon on Navajo Boulevard. Then the following Wednesday (May 2) I’ll be in Grand Junction, CO at Charlie Dwellington’s on 1st. And the next day (May 3) I’ll be in Littleton, CO...The Argument from Specified Complexity against Supernaturalism
Creationists may have bitten their own head off with their idea of specified complexity. Because there is a case to be made that if specified complexity can exist, the supernatural cannot. The creationist William Dembski famously contrived the concept of...Money Buys Happiness? Not After You Hit Six Figures
Five years ago I took Michael Shermer to task for pushing pseudoscience in his bungled attempt to argue (in agreement with Sam Harris and myself) that moral philosophy could and should be retooled into a proper empirical science, the same way every other philosophical...Come Toast a Drink with Me in Chicago!
I will be at O’Callaghan’s in downtown Chicago having lunch and an early drink between noon and two pm this Monday (9 April 2018). I’ll have books on hand if you want to buy any (all usual forms of payment accepted). Or bring any you already have to...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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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.
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