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Carrier’s Historiography: Why we may have reason to doubt it’s utilitity (Part II)
Now we get to the good stuff: Bayes’ Theorem, Bayesian inference, and probability. A key issue that runs through both On the Historicity of Jesus and Dr. Carrier’s previous book Proving History is the confusion between Bayes’ Theorem (BT) and … Continue reading
Dr. Richard Carrier’s Hypotheses on the Historicity of Jesus
No, I’m not just writing this to pick on Dr. Richard Carrier (that’s just a perk; anybody who thinks they can resolve a ~300 year debate in the mathematics community in a book on historical methods is either just about … Continue reading
Richard Carrier: Proving history or idiocy?
In preparation for the release of the sequel to Dr. Richard Carrier’s book on the so-called “historical Jesus” and historical methods, I thought it would be good to address the foundations of the sequel as presented in its forerunner Proving … Continue reading
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