{"id":1212,"date":"2012-12-02T09:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2012-12-02T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:32:02","slug":"my-first-talk-on-the-nativity-yesterday-went-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2012\/12\/02\/my-first-talk-on-the-nativity-yesterday-went-well\/","title":{"rendered":"My first talk on the Nativity, yesterday, went well"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I gave my first public talk on my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination yesterday. It was a bit of a warm up for my next to, being to a group of students at a small conference (very small!) of humanist \/ atheists representatives from local universities (they were doing workshops on how to run successful groups and campaigns.<\/p>\n

Anywho, it was great to see Richard Edwards there, a sometime commenter here, evolutionary biologist with his own blog that can be found here<\/a>. We chatted about a potential future project and evolution and rationalism etc. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

The talk went well, and I liked that people asked questions as I went along, making it relevant to them and more interactive. It certainly seems a cut and dry case that the Nativity accounts in Luke and Matthew are a-historical.<\/p>\n

I know have to spend some time trimming my opening statement in my debate with Randal Rauser<\/a> on “Are the Nativity accounts historically reliable?”. My half an hour opener needs to be 20 mins. Oops. Deadline today. Double oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I gave my first public talk on my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination yesterday. It was a bit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,237],"tags":[293,294,238,197],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-speaking-engagements","tag-randal-rauser","tag-richard-edwards","tag-the-nativity-2","tag-the-nativity-a-critical-examination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}