(March 26, 2015 at 11:30 am)Minimalist Wrote: Now for the "or worse" part. He almost always tends to over-value religious positions I suppose in the interest of "fairness."
It's not an issue of fairness. His rationale for being overly generous to the religious argument is saying that even if we grant them their best case scenario, we can still demonstrate their evidence is bad, their justifications fallacious and their arguments invalid, so any refinement of the probabilities he assigns to their arguments will only make their position weaker and the mythicist position stronger.
(The rationale for the a fortiori argument technique he uses was outlined in Proving History.)
(March 26, 2015 at 11:32 am)Judi Lynn Wrote: CM, what is a YA book?
Young Adult
Twilight, Harry Potter, Divergent, Ender's Game, basically think of all the recent movie franchises based on books and they're probably adaptations of young adult books.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.