Richard Carrier: Bayes' Theorem and Historical Reasoning: How Historical Methods Can Be Improved and Why They Need to Be
| 16th November 2012 |
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| Stamford Street Lecture Theatre |
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| 7.30pm - 9pm (7.00pm registration) | |||
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Drawing from his new book Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
(Prometheus, 2012), Dr. Carrier will explain what Bayes' Theorem is (in
terms anyone can understand), how it underlies all valid historical
methods even when we don't realize it, and why knowing this can improve
historical reasoning and argument in all fields of history.
£7 - General
£5 - Students / BHA members
Free - "Friends of CFI"(and LAAG)
Venue
Stamford Street Lecture TheatreFranklin Wilkins Building
Waterloo Campus
King’s College London
127 Stamford Street
London
SE1 9NQ
Nearest tube: Waterloo
19.00 for a 19.30 start
About the speaker
Richard Carrier is an American historian and philosopher and author of several books which have received international attention, including The Empty Tomb and Why I am Not a Christian. Richard now specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome. Richard also writes for and was Editor in Chief of the Secular Web (Internet Infidels).http://www.richardcarrier.info
6 comments:
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This is a really helpful site. You have some great ideas.
Regarding historical explanations of the resurrection of Jesus, another data point is in the BBC news today
"Sam Ledward turns 106 after being declared dead in 1936
The former joiner crashed his motorbike in 1936 and says he was in a coma so deep that doctors ordered his body to be taken away.
He was being taken to the mortuary when a hospital porter noticed his "corpse" move and returned him to the ward."
full article here
Even in relatively modern times coma and death could be confused so why not in 1st century middle east?
If Jesus was in a coma and revived, why would Paul explain that 'the last Adam became a life-giving spirit'?
Paul had his own ideas obviously.
What struck me was that the Sam Ledward case was a specific instance of someone who appeared dead in the view of expert witnesses, having suffered serious injury and later revived. Here is a documented resurrection with no divinity involved.
Steven Carr, how would Paul know? It's not as if Paul ever had any actual interaction with Jesus. Paul expressed his own beliefs. Whether those beliefs might be mistaken is precisely the subject under consideration. Therefore, those beliefs aren't admissible as evidence for their own veracity. That's circular reasoning.
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