Last year I gave a presentation for the GCRR conference on atheism (Come See Me & Others Speak at the 2020 International eConference on Atheism!). This year I will be reprising that appearance on another subject (Come See Me & Others Speak at the 2021 International eConference on the Historical Jesus!). Both are related projects: in each case my talk is about methodology and what a better attention to it can do for us. Last time I spoke on how Bayesian methodology can be used to empirically demonstrate the overwhelming probability of atheism and deconstruct every theistic apologetic. I have written on that before of course, but this time I developed my talk into a formal, peer reviewed research paper that has now been published in GCRR’s flagship journal SHERM (Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry). This new paper is:

  • Richard Carrier, Ph.D., “Bayesian Reasoning’s Power to Challenge Religion and Empirically Justify Atheism” in Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry 3.1 (Summer 2021): 75–95.

I am allowed to disseminate that article for free but I want to encourage all interested readers to purchase it from the GCRR website, and to try and keep that the principal way anyone accesses the work, because they are charging hardly two dollars for it, which is an outstandingly reasonable price, and covering that will help them pay for the operation of their website and their journal’s editorial and peer review system. That they are using such a humanitarian price point makes it well worthwhile to support that. Indeed your showing that support may help encourage other journals to drop their outrageous article download fees into far more affordable ranges, which behavior (other journals’ currently outrageous pricing, often $35 to $45 or more for a single PDF article, any author of which will see not a dime of) I consider a censurable injustice. Two dollars is entirely reasonable and does not rake any profit for them. It just helps fund their servicing it.

So if you want to read or recommend my article, please use and share my article’s standardized DOI link: https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2021.vol3.no1.04.

I’ll likely repeat this process for my next conference presentation later this month on methodology in Jesus studies. You can experience that live, complete with Q&A, in just a couple of weeks. The resulting peer reviewed article, if such I do produce, will come the following year.

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