{"id":1148,"date":"2014-07-25T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:07:40","slug":"from-around-the-web-and-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/07\/25\/from-around-the-web-and-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"From Around the Web (and Youtube!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some good counterapologetics on youtube:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vjtWLU9t0gs\">Scott Clifton gave a great speech at Reasonfest<\/a>. Be sure and check out the other videos posted by Hambone!<\/p>\n<p>KnownNoMore <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ptBZHsmtPZE\">also made a great video on the Kalam<\/a>, and once again, his other videos merit a look as well.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hallquist once again brings very heady philosophy down to a common-sense level, and does so on an issue that has all-too-often baffled otherwise critical thinkers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hallq\/2014\/07\/negatives-arent-special\/\">Negatives Aren&#8217;t Special<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AmazingAtheist <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JisCl6-q2fA\">made a hilarious video<\/a> about a certain viral youtuber who attempted to disprove evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Other stuff:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Plus size&#8217; model <a href=\"https:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/healthy-living\/plus-size-model-robyn-lawley-wins-praise-for-posting-unretouched-bikini-photo-162315511.html\">gets props<\/a> for posting unaltered photo of herself. I think she&#8217;s hot. Don&#8217;t know why some women have an obsession with skinniness, I think most guys (and I count myself among them) find non-zero size women attractive.<\/p>\n<p>I have to give a shout-out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vridar.org\/\">VRidar<\/a>. His blog exercises just the kind of skepticism New Testament scholars ought to (but typically don&#8217;t) have about their field.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting paper: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/6958843\/The_Messianic_Scapegoat_in_the_Apocalypse_of_Abraham\">The Messianic Scapegoat in the Apocalypse of Abraham<\/a>.&#8221; Also see the excerpt from a different paper on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/maqom\/azazelscapegoat.html\">Azazel as the Celestial Scapegoat<\/a>.&#8221; The author, Andrei Orlov, is a very accomplished scholar and <a href=\"http:\/\/andreiorlov.com\/\">many of his other papers<\/a> strike me as being pregnant with implications for early Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good counterapologetics on youtube: Scott Clifton gave a great speech at Reasonfest. Be sure and check out the other&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-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}