Richard Carrier

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Name: Richard Carrier
Date registered: November 7, 2011
URL: http://www.richardcarrier.info/

Biography

Richard Carrier is the renowned author of Sense and Goodness without God, Proving History, and Not the Impossible Faith, as well as numerous articles online and in print. His avid fans span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He has also become a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and the epistemology of history. For more about him and his work visit www.richardcarrier.info.

Latest posts

  1. Two Bayesian Fallacies — May 23, 2013
  2. What Do Ron Lindsay and an Oklahoma Tornado Have in Common? — May 22, 2013
  3. Appearing in Vegas and DC — May 14, 2013
  4. How to Be Skeptical of a Technological Singularity — May 13, 2013
  5. Two New Awesome Bloggers — May 9, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. The New Atheism + — 696 comments
  2. Is Thunderf00t a Sociopath? — 457 comments
  3. Ex Nihilo Onus Merdae Fit — 391 comments
  4. Ehrman on Jesus: A Failure of Facts and Logic — 351 comments
  5. Ehrman Trashtalks Mythicism — 346 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr 22 2013

Three New Videos

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My Huntsville debate with David Marshal can now be viewed online (“Is the Christian Faith Reasonable?“) as can my Raleigh talk on the literary study of the Gospels (“Why the Gospels Are Myth: The Evidence of Genre and Content“) and my Greensboro talk on the historicity of Jesus (“Why I Think Jesus Didn’t Exist: A …

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Apr 16 2013

Ten Years to the Robot Apocalypse

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mind, morality, philosophy, science, technology

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Counting down. Soon we shall all be doomed. Okay, I wrote this on the plane to Alabama about a month ago. It’s been languishing in my queue until now. So step back in time. I’m presently five miles above the earth hurtling through space in a giant metal bullet at hundreds of miles an hour. …

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Apr 11 2013

Appearing in Irvine Next Week

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I will be giving two talks at the University of California, Irvine, next Wednesday (April 17th, 2013). One for the Classics Department (in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Program in the History and Philosophy of Science), and one for the campus chapter of the Secular Student Alliance (homepage on Facebook). Both talks are open to the …

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Apr 10 2013

Is Thunderf00t a Sociopath?

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atheism plus, feminism, racism, replies, women

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In response to my video promoting positive goals and values for the atheist community (Atheism…Plus What?), Thunderf00t (whose real name is Phil Mason) has expanded his anti-feminist rants to the point that I am seriously worried he might have no empathy for other human beings at all. He is now even ranting against concern for …

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Apr 03 2013

Atheism…Plus What?

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atheism plus, morality, podcasts, sexism, video

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Picture of Dr. Carrier at the podium discussing Atheism Plus at the 2013 American Atheists convention

Video of my talk at the 2013 American Atheists Convention (their 50th anniversary!) is now online. It is getting downvotes from the haters (even at one point more downs than ups). Please go watch that video (Atheism…Plus What?) and see if you can find anything in it that honestly deserves a downvote. Seriously. And if …

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Mar 22 2013

Kiva Now or Never!

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atheism, charity

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Okay, time to do some good. The Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and Non-Religious team at Kiva is just a few hundred members away from winning a $10,000 bonus matching fund. Let’s get them that bonus! It only costs you $25. (And maybe not even that yet…for a while, due to another matching grant, …

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Mar 19 2013

Status Report

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about, updates

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Two notes today, one to readers of my blog and another to the donors who funded Proving History and On the Historicity of Jesus Christ: (1) Today I shall begin recording in studio for the audiobook edition of Not the Impossible Faith. Two other books have already been done and are available on Audible now …

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Mar 15 2013

Record-Breaking Atheist Charity Drive

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atheism, charity, health, updates

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Last year I blogged about the national atheist community’s engagement with the Light the Night charity drive to fund Leukemia research (see This Is Atheist Charity and Charity Legend Update). Well, it achieved remarkable results. The atheist movement officially raised nearly half a million dollars (and may yet meet or exceed that target: see how …

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Mar 12 2013

That Christian Nation Nonsense (Gods Bless Our Pagan Nation)

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Christianity, morality, philosophy, politics

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This is a transcript of my speech at this year’s convention for the National Atheist Party (minus spontaneous asides and ad-libs). Though this was an oratorical adaptation and rearrangement of my previous work online (Christianity Was Not Responsible for American Democracy), it is also much improved and contains new material, and I received multiple requests …

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Mar 04 2013

Sense and Goodness without God Now an Audio Book

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audiobooks, naturalism, philosophy, publications

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My flagship defense of a naturalist worldview (and of philosophy in general), Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, is now available as an audio book, through Audible.com. It’s a fairly faithful reading, so even things I’d probably change now (mostly minor stuff) is still in there (I didn’t want to deviate …

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