Estranged Notions: Debunking the “One God Further” Objection

Today's post:

Debunking the “One God Further” Objection

Estranged Notions: Did the Accounts of Jesus Evolve?

Today's post:

Did the Accounts of Jesus Evolve?

Estranged Notions: Richard Carrier’s Deeply Flawed Argument To Show God Is Unlikely

Today's post:

Richard Carrier’s Deeply Flawed Argument To Show God Is Unlikely

Estranged Notions: Science or Myth: A False Dichotomy

Today's post:

Science or Myth: A False Dichotomy

Estranged Notions: The Contingency Argument for God

Today's post, another tedious retread (how many times have we had this one?) of the argument from contingency:

The Contingency Argument for God

Estranged Notions: It’s That Simple: The First Cause and Occam’s Razor

Today's post, which could have been better titled “Misunderstanding Occam's Razor for Fun and Profit”:

It’s That Simple: The First Cause and Occam’s Razor

Hint: declaring something to be simple does not make it so.

Estranged Notions: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?

Today's post, in which Longenecker defends his position in the previous post:

Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?

His defense is of course hopeless, but I suppose he at least gets credit for trying.

Estranged Notions: David Hume, Miracles, and the Resurrection

Today's post:

David Hume, Miracles, and the Resurrection

Estranged Notions: Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators

Today's post:

Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators

Estranged Notions: The Common Consent Argument for God

“Silly arguments for God” day today, with the argument “Most people are religious, therefore God exists”.

*headdesk*

The Common Consent Argument for God

Estranged Notions: The Human Strain

Today's post:

The Human Strain

Estranged Notions: Popular News Site Claims Jesus Never Existed

Historicity day! Today's article responds to Valerie Tarico's recent article, which is kind of odd because Tarico is a psychologist, not a historian, and if you want to argue honestly for historicity you should be arguing against the best case (currently Carrier's book), no?

Popular News Site Claims Jesus Never Existed

(Also, using Ehrman's pathetic and overcooked response as your counter-argument is lame.)

Old Testament Historicity

Since it looks like this subject would benefit from its own thread, here it is.