Reading Time: 7 minutes In the closing stages of writing my latest book, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK] (please grab yourself a copy!), I had a few test readers. One was David Austin, down in Australia, who has provided a few guest articles for your delectation. As you can see, I’ve been on holiday and inundated […]
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Miracles as Parables
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the closing stages of writing my latest book, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK] (please grab yourself a copy!), I had a few test readers. One was David Austin, down in Australia, who has provided a few guest articles for your delectation. Here is another one – thanks muchly to him (as […]
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Disputing Miracles vs Disputing History (I)
Reading Time: 9 minutes I’m sorry, but I can’t remember who posted this comment but it is worth dwelling on; if I remember correctly, it was in response to me picking apart biblical narratives for their historical inaccuracies and problems, as well as their naturalistic impossibilities: John, why dispute these facts and not go right for the miracles? Because, […]
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What’s More Likely: Snake or Stake?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A recent comment by WCB on a thread today reminded me of the Exodus claim of Moses’ staff: The Staff of Moses is a staff mentioned in the Bible and Quran as a walking stick used by Moses. According to the Book of Exodus in the Bible, the staff (Hebrew: מַטֶּה matteh, translated “rod” in the King James Bible) was used to produce water from a rock, was transformed […]
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My Interview on the Resurrection with Harmonic Atheist
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve done a few interviews with Tim Mills/Harmonic Atheist and I love them. Here is a great chat about my latest book – The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK] – and one that, though long, only skimmed the surface, looking really at my approach than many of the explicit claims. Let me […]
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Critically Analysing the Resurrection: A Walk-Through
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is my latest video, walking through my book on the Resurrection of Jesus – The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]. Please like and subscribe and do all the things those UToobers tell you to. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also […]
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My Resurrection Interview with Laughing in Disbelief
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is the interview I have just had with Andy Hall of Laughing in Disbelief, discussing my new book The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]: Enjoy. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy some of my […]
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Interview about the Resurrection on Monday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fellow Patheoser Andy Hall is interviewing me about my latest book, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]. This is taking place at 7 am EST, or 12 pm BST, UK time. The YouTube streaming link is here: Be there or be square. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A […]
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Paine and Hume Regarding the Resurrection
Reading Time: < 1 minute Is this all we need when considering the Resurrection of Jesus? When examining artifacts from the past, historians assume that nature worked back then as it does today; otherwise, anything goes. American patriot Thomas Paine, in The Age of Reason, asked: “Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that […]
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Hitchens’s Razor vs Bayes’s Theorem
Reading Time: 7 minutes John W. Loftus has just endorsed my forthcoming book on the Resurrection in the following manner: Hitchens’s Razor, not Bayes’s Theorem, is the proper tool to use against the “absolute baselessness” of the resurrection belief (per David F. Strauss, as quoted in this book). There’s no objective evidence for it. The testimonial evidence is abysmally […]