Bayesian craziness: Richard Carrier vs The world

[pevaquark (Matthew Pevarnik)]

You may enjoy this older thread where we had a guest join us and share some of the things he’s written as an atheist in response to Carrier:

New Atheism has a Fringe History problem

New Atheists quite rightly denounce Fundamentalist Christians for promoting junk science, but whilst they like to parade themselves as ‘champions of reason and skepticism’ to the point of cliché, this is not always the case. As part of their crusade to undermine the basis of Christianity they often promote fringe theories regarding the origins of the bible which have long been abandoned by the mainstream (and for good reason), often (I highly suspect) not because the evidence supports this concl…