Richard Carrier

Hello everyone!

For more information: please see my remarks in the Lounge, which might answer some questions and give you some handy info.

Regarding the Birmingham, Alabama "challenge": as a general rule, I will go anywhere to speak to freethinkers, if my travel and lodging expenses are covered. So if you can afford to get me there, I'll come!

What Tool Kit?

Yes, I (and others) have applied the criteria I discuss to other characters and events from the same period of history outside the 'miraculous'. However, I discuss three sets of criteria, and one of them is certainly limited only to miracles--in fact, to only one particular set thereof: prophecies. But the other two are generic.

For more on the questions raised here about Historical Method, see my new thread of that name in this Forum.