(August 28, 2015 at 7:33 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Then why is it that no scholars (atheist or theist) take them seriously? Ehrman points out that only Richard Carrier has any REAL credentials, and yet, Ehrman still thinks Carrier is a loon.
Say, what you want about me. The problem is them.
First, Carrier is not the point.
The point is that you haven't spent years at university learning the methodology to evaluate written sources from different periods of time. You don't know the different genres, as has been proven by missing the mark on my question and you don't know how to extract useful information from a totally biased text.