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My own response to the "no evidence" charge is, I think pretty well known, and it goes like this:  We first have to define what ...

Doug Benscoter argues that this argument wouldn't just rule out the Resurrection, it would rule out the Big Bang.

For Easter.A redated post. “It is simply not possible to investigate whether Jesus rose from the dead without taking a view about how prob...

"Any theory of hallucination breaks down on the fact (and if it is invention [rather than fact], it is the oddest invention that ever e...

This is by Jeffrey of Failing The Insider Test. Tim responded here  to Jeffrey's original critique.

An attempt to explain how Christianity could have been founded without a Resurrection.

I have a take on the role of probabilistic arguments that might be of help here. Look, when it comes to the resurrection of Jesus, a person...

It's easy to dismiss and discredit an opponent when you don't make any effort to understand what that opponent has written. There is...

I see two major issues with respect to the Bayesian analysis of Resurrection history. One has to do with the left side of the theorem. Is th...

Richard Carrier thinks so, calling it "crappy." Rumor has it that Tim and Lydia disagree. I will tell you this much. If I could ge...

There is a sense in which I agree with the ECREE thesis, it is just that I don't believe that there is any objective way of proving that...

Based on Dale Allison's book.

I argue that when it comes to miraculous claims yesterday’s evidence no longer can hold water for me, for in order to see yesterday’s evide...

The title link goes to Babinksi's response to McGrew at his own site, this is Tim's response.  Tim's new comments are in blue, t...

Let me get back to my central thesis here. I am trying to argue a couple of things. One I am simply assuming, which is that there is no good...

Vic, you've got it wrong here and you don't realize what you're doing. On the one hand you find the philosophical arguments ...

Before entering, however, on this examination of the incidental allusions or secondary facts in the New Testament narrative, it is importa...