{"id":4439,"date":"2014-12-14T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2014-12-14T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:38:43","slug":"a-christmas-debate-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/12\/14\/a-christmas-debate-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Debate for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>A few years ago, around the time of the release of my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0956694853\/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_lc?tag=atipplingphil-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0956694853&amp;adid=0H37EV3YVVMMK7YCRY6V&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fskepticink.com%2Ftippling%2F2014%2F12%2F09%2Fdoes-free-market-capitalism-close-the-inequality-gap-no%2F\">The Nativity: A Critical Examination<\/a>, Reasonable Doubts hosted a radio podcast debate, pre-recorded, between myself and Randal Rauser. Here is the fruit of our labour, detailing the arguments for and against the historicity of the Nativity accounts. Let me know what you think:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Nativity Debate - Rauser vs. Pearce\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZT2ZFTvBmX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0956694853\/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_lc?tag=atipplingphil-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0956694853&amp;adid=1KCR2EDJXAW2F6TJ514Q&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fskepticink.com%2Ftippling%2F\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4277\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/files\/2014\/08\/Cover-sized-670x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cover sized\" width=\"465\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/files\/2014\/08\/Cover-sized-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/files\/2014\/08\/Cover-sized-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/files\/2014\/08\/Cover-sized.jpg 1571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, around the time of the release of my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination, Reasonable Doubts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,159,13,25],"tags":[316,238,197],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-debates","category-jesus","category-the-nativity","tag-reasonable-doubts","tag-the-nativity-2","tag-the-nativity-a-critical-examination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}