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Post by timoneill on Oct 25, 2015 0:09:04 GMT
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Post by wraggy on Oct 26, 2015 2:28:03 GMT
But I'm a........ Theist. I feel discriminated against.
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Post by unkleE on Oct 27, 2015 7:57:39 GMT
Looking forward to your posts. But I'm a........ Theist. I feel discriminated against.
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Post by wraggy on Oct 28, 2015 5:27:55 GMT
Them is fight'n words Tim.
Tim, do you think that "pseudo historian" may possibly be a little over the top as a description of Richard Carrier? He does have a legitimate PhD from a legit university even if he is an amateur.
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Post by timoneill on Oct 28, 2015 7:47:23 GMT
Them is fight'n words Tim. Tim, do you think that "pseudo historian" may possibly be a little over the top as a description of Richard Carrier? He does have a legitimate PhD from a legit university even if he is an amateur. A pseudo historian is someone who produces pseudo history. David Irving had suitable qualifications and a far more prestigious academic publishing record than Carrier could ever dream of. Yet his crippling ideological biases meant he produced pseudo history as well. They are both pseudo historians.
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endrefodstad
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Post by endrefodstad on Oct 28, 2015 9:16:00 GMT
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Post by timoneill on Oct 29, 2015 0:24:33 GMT
Comments were predictably irritated and uninformed. The comments aren't showing for me - just a notice saying the comments are closed.
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Post by bjorn on Oct 29, 2015 7:37:39 GMT
Comments were predictably irritated and uninformed. The comments aren't showing for me - just a notice saying the comments are closed. Here's the first one, google translated: Charming.
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endrefodstad
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Post by endrefodstad on Oct 29, 2015 11:55:16 GMT
Odd you can't see the comments. They're open for me. Excepting a few rather uninformed posts on the topic, they also tried to start arguing over the term agnosticism ("The most pompous self-attribution possible"), posted a few comments on how "The choice is between Delusion or Evolution" (which does not work as well in norwegian as in english), and claimed that the term "new atheist" was simply something coined to hit atheists over the head with. Some also called you an idiot. So despite this being the forum for a well-organized norwegian atheist community the general level is as sad as ever.
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Post by timoneill on Oct 30, 2015 6:53:25 GMT
Odd you can't see the comments. They're open for me. Excepting a few rather uninformed posts on the topic, they also tried to start arguing over the term agnosticism ("The most pompous self-attribution possible"), posted a few comments on how "The choice is between Delusion or Evolution" (which does not work as well in norwegian as in english), and claimed that the term "new atheist" was simply something coined to hit atheists over the head with. Some also called you an idiot. So despite this being the forum for a well-organized norwegian atheist community the general level is as sad as ever. So, about typical then. I plan to post my first proper article this weekend. Working title: "Hypatia, Hyperbole and Hysteria". It will focus on a particularly overwrought and error-laden article I found on Skepchick which manages to mash together the Great Library/Serapeum myth, the Hypatia martyr hagiography and the "Christians caused the Dark Ages" stuff, but with some of the most hysterical prose you can imagine.
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Post by unkleE on Nov 4, 2015 23:40:30 GMT
Tim, here is another topic you may like to write about, and everyone here may be interested in. Cosmologist Luke Barnes comments on some claims by Neil deGrasse Tyson that Newton failed to solve some problems because of his religiosity. Barnes seems to show conclusively that Tyson has read into the situation polemics that historically are not there.
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Post by timoneill on Nov 5, 2015 2:30:49 GMT
Tim, here is another topic you may like to write about, and everyone here may be interested in. Cosmologist Luke Barnes comments on some claims by Neil deGrasse Tyson that Newton failed to solve some problems because of his religiosity. Barnes seems to show conclusively that Tyson has read into the situation polemics that historically are not there. Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm still writing my first post on Hypatia, but in the meantime the comedy gold rational atheist appraisal of history just keeps on coming. Like this mine of gems, in which the writer tells us he was convinced about Mythicism by a podcast he did featuring Carrier, Price, David Fiztgerald, Frank Zindler and "Acharya S" - a gaggle described therein as all being "scriptural experts with some expertise in ancient history, ancient languages and comparative religion".
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Post by wraggy on Nov 5, 2015 2:31:59 GMT
Tim, here is another topic you may like to write about, and everyone here may be interested in. Cosmologist Luke Barnes comments on some claims by Neil deGrasse Tyson that Newton failed to solve some problems because of his religiosity. Barnes seems to show conclusively that Tyson has read into the situation polemics that historically are not there. At least he is up front about it.
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Post by timoneill on Nov 5, 2015 2:42:58 GMT
At least he is up front about it. I liked the anecdote about the historian and the heart surgeon too.
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Post by wraggy on Nov 5, 2015 3:13:31 GMT
I liked this comment: And when you click the link under "some historians" to see these "historians' you get sent to an article by David Fitzgerald.
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