Can Creationism Be Disproven?
The ideal in science is to come up with testable hypotheses that can be confirmed or proved wrong by evidence, at least in principle. It seems to me that the various forms of pseudoscientific...
View ArticleFinishing my Mythicism Article Series
I have a new article published in The Bible and Interpretation: “Mythicism and the Making of Mark.”I think that this will be my last article in this series about Richard Carrier’s book On the...
View ArticleIs Mythicism Falsifiable?
As Neil Godfrey helpfully drew attention to in a comment, there seems to be no agreement among Jesus-mythicists about when the earliest Christian sources were written, which sources are the earliest,...
View ArticleUnfalsifiable Inerrancy
When pastor Peter LaRuffa recently said that he would believe the Bible even if it said 2+2=5, he probably thought he was standing up for Biblical inerrancy. In fact, he was undermining it, showing it...
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