g_pepper comments on A Bayesian Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus - Less Wrong

12 Post author: lukeprog 08 January 2011 05:05AM

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Comment author: g_pepper 05 April 2015 10:11:18PM *  2 points [-]

Why is this a featured article?

Presumably because today is Easter and therefore the article is relevant to the date.

Bayesian defense of the resurrection of Jesus gives me a 404, so I cannot even read it

The referenced article can be easily located using Google. Here's a current link:

Bayesian defense of the resurrection of Jesus

The referenced article is quite long (75 pages). Luke's podcast interview with Lydia McGrew is quite interesting, IMO, if the article is longer than you wish to read. The podcast is a great example of a civil dialog between an apologist and a skeptic. Ms. McGrew's outlook is somewhat different from many well-known apologists and I think the podcast (which I am listening to now) will be interesting to many LW'ers. Interestingly, about 2/3 through the interview, she puts forward a refutation of the fine tuning argument - it is a refutation that had occurred to me before, but that I had never thought all the way through, so I was surprised to hear it precisely articulated (particularly by a Christian apologist).