Talk:Evidence for the historical existence of Jesus Christ/Archive15
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[edit] Post on Jerry Coyne's blog on this topic
Ben Goren guest post. May be useful for stuff and tropes. This comment is particularly interesting in terms of academic bias on the question - David Gerard (talk) 12:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
- Carrier's Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt: Should We Still Be Looking for a Historical Jesus? tounched on another interesting aspect: "A superbly qualified scholar will insist some piece of evidence exists, or does not exist, and I am surprised that I have to show them the contrary. And always this phantom evidence (or an assurance of its absence) is in defense of the historicity of Jesus." That the "evidence" for a historical jesus is based on a Bermuda Triangleish repeating of what the previous expert said (without checkin if they were even right) should not surprise us. The whole historical Jesus camp has seemingly become this gigantic echo chamber.--BruceGrubb (talk) 18:51, 7 September 2014 (UTC)