Dr. Richard Carrier - Critical Thinking Skills And Ancient Xians & Science- 5/7

Please check back to confirm * location * details. This will be in Hoops Hall if 20 people or less, but will likely be moved if we get a bigger crowd.

4 Hour Seminar !!!

> = First seminar: 11 am - 1 pm

> "Mastering Logical Reasoning"

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> = Second seminar: 2 pm - 4 pm

> "Ancient Christian Hostility to Science"

We will make lunch arrangements for the 1 pm to 2 pm break, and everybody pays for their own. We will have coffee, tea and a few edibles at 10:45 am, with lecture starting at 11 am. Contributions cheerfully accepted!

Dr. Carrier will also be speaking to both the Skeptics in the Pub and the Ethical Society, most likely.

From http://www.richardcarrier.info/jesus.html :

Jesus Studies

Dr. Carrier has written Not the Impossible Faith on the social and intellectual context of the rise and early development of Christianity, and contributed important chapters to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, and Sources of the Jesus Tradition, on whether there is enough historical evidence to conclude that Jesus actually rose from the dead, and how Bayes' Theorem should be adapted to the methodology of Jesus studies. Below are links to Dr. Carrier's other work on the historical origins of Christianity.

With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, Dr. Carrier specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly the history of science (http://www.richardcarrier.info/ancientscience.html) and the origins of Christianity. This page is dedicated to the latter, cataloguing his most important work online, more of which is listed at the Secular Web (http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/index.html). He also discusses this subject on his blog (http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/) (see entries indexed under Jesus (http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/search/label/Jesus) and resurrection (http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/search/label/resurrection)). For his recommended readings on this subject, see Richard Carrier Recommends (http://astore.amazon.com/richardcarrier-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6)