Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier--historian, philosopher, and author of Sense and Goodness without God--will be speaking in Ventura, California, on Monday night, December 26. The event is sponsored by the Ventura chapter of Atheists United and begins at 7pm (and with Q & A it may run to 9:30pm), and will take place at The Underground Cafe (3367 Telephone Rd., Ventura, CA, between Main & Mills). The subject will be Miracles & The Historical Method, a fun and educational presentation, with an interesting slide show. This has always been well-received--it's Carrier's most popular talk. He will describe a "tool kit" for examining miracle claims in history, offering a basic but fairly complete discussion of the methods for analyzing and weighing historical claims, with many entertaining examples. You'll get to see dazzling archaeological "proof" that Egyptian sorcerers controlled the weather and God was incarnated on earth as a mutant snake, and you'll hear why we can be more certain that Caesar crossed the Rubicon than that Jesus rose from the grave, and much more.

Boro Nut

I've heard that one before Richard. I attended a presentation of Life On Earth on the promise of 'an interesting slide show' only to find it was entirely on topic.

Like me, Caesar probably just peeled the coloured stickers off and reapplied them. Hardly in the same league as performing the rising-from-the-dead trick when you’ve never been born in the first place.

PS - I still think your bags are more functional than Gucci’s though.

Boro Nut

Toto

Homepage for the Underground Cafe with maps, directions, etc.

Richard Carrier

Am I missing the joke? Why would a slide show not be on topic?

Well, at any rate, all I mean by "interesting" is photos of archaeological "evidence" of miracles and cartoons of horses giving birth to rabbits and mass resurrections of cooked fish and stuff like that. Granted, these are interspersed with purely functional outlines of what I'm talking about at any given point. But generally people like the fact that they got to see the statue of a human headed snake carved from the likeness of the genuine God Incarnate.

Toto

Willowtree digression split off here