The Pseudo Scientists Podcast-Episode 9
17Apr. 09
INTRO: Jason in America, Our Recent Success, Teaching Placement.
INTERVIEW: Sean McCabe: Assistant to James “The Amazing” Randi, Blogger from Weird Things.
NEWS: Simulating Neurons With Hardware, Christian Australian Survey on Christianity, US Senator Uses Bible to Debate Global Warming.
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April 18th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
some islamic people (maybe most, I don’t know the whole details) also believe that jesus existed, and some people who put themselves down as jews in the census are also christians, thus more flaws in that survey.
April 19th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
In the interests of supporting the exciting upcoming event mentioned, I have just whipped out the credit card and sent you guys a small donation :)
April 24th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Donation made. Definitely will try to make it to the event, even though I’m quite bad at actually organising myself to go to things.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Hi guys, at the moment i am immersed in ‘Jesus Interrupted’ by Bart Erhman. From this and other readings he mentions that there is NO evidence outside the bible at all for this historical Jesus. I think most historians will agree that there was someone called Jesus (shit, it was a common name) who was one of thousands of men peddling his own version of spirituality. The distinction that was missed was that no historian of that time (there were quite a few who made detailed writings of that time and those places) has made a single mention of a guy walking around raising the dead and performing miracles. It should also be pointed out that not even christians in the first century all agreed with a divine jesus. There were 4 maing groups with differing takes and eventually the strongest, wealthiest and most devious (?) won out and whalla, we get a divine son of god. The reason this study (if you could call it that) shows people believing in things like the resurrection and such is because nobody has told them any different. I spoke on the weekend to two very committed christians who stared at me blankly when i started talking about the historical versus devotional reading of the bible. Remember you are dealing with people who are trained not to think critically about their religion. Ladies and gentleman — i give you faith.