A lot of people think that the New Testament documents must be unreliable because (like all published texts from the ancient world) they are based on translations of copies of copies. So how can we know whether the original version … Continue reading
Last time I wrote a long discussion of what I think is the best evidence for and against Christianity. When it comes to the historical testimony to the Resurrection, I analyzed the data in terms of a set of minimal … Continue reading
In this post I am going to outline what I consider the most relevant evidence for and against Christianity, in the form of a Bayesian probability analysis. Now, just to be clear in advance, I'm not even going to take … Continue reading
My first pillar of Science is that it is based on repeatable observations. In order to see how Christianity measures up, we need to examine whether it is based on observations, and whether it is repeatable. Observations ultimately boil down … Continue reading
It's a little bit strange liturgically to have Easter on Christmas Day, but that's how things worked out in this series. I'm going to quote a passage from the Gospel of St. John, which illustrates the Resurrection claim and connects … Continue reading
