{"id":1066,"date":"2014-06-21T00:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2014-06-21T00:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T00:59:49","slug":"big-bang-jesus-mythicism-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/06\/21\/big-bang-jesus-mythicism-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bang, Jesus Mythicism, and More."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/03\/26\/chaotic-inflation-the-logic-behind-the-science\/\">inflationary cosmology<\/a> (which I wrote about here) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/20\/science\/space\/scientists-debate-gravity-wave-detection-claim.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">may not be confirmed<\/a> after all (we will have to wait some weeks or months for new data to see if it is). I expect the results will be positive, but I am glad that there are skeptics asking the tough questions in physics.<\/p>\n<p>I had never <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audubonmagazine.org\/articles\/birds\/alien-landing\">seen a Green Heron<\/a> before today. I think they&#8217;re beautiful, they almost look like a living <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu\/diapsids\/birds\/archaeopteryx.html\">Archaeopteryx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com has just shipped my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1909697494\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1909697494&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20&amp;linkId=MHR5CAQNRDKJUZFN\"><em>On The Historicity of Jesus<\/em><\/a> by Richard Carrier. It&#8217;s the first book ever to argue for a mythical Jesus that has been published by an academic press (Sheffield-Phoenix). Expect a review soon!<\/p>\n<p>Love Dan Dennett&#8217;s talk <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/m5tGpMcFF7U\"><em>What should replace religion?<\/em><\/a> Especially the secular music he shares <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/m5tGpMcFF7U?t=16m55s\">about 17 minutes in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like inflationary cosmology (which I wrote about here) may not be confirmed after all (we will have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}