Added the ninety-seventh Freethinker Podcast YouTube sixth Interview with Richard Carrier on Miracles & Evidence (2025) to the Freethinker Podcast page under Resources on the Secular Web.
Check out Freethinker Podcast host Edouard Tahmizian’s latest interview with freethinking historian Richard Carrier for a half-an-hour-plus discussion of how to assess the historical evidence for the occurrence of New Testament miracles and how Calvinists try to deflect the argument from evil, among other things. The interlocutors canvass arguments to the effect that canonical Gospel miracle accounts written 25-50 years after Jesus’ death are historically more reliable than other ancient world miracle claims because not enough time elapsed for legends to accrue compared to accounts often written a century later or more, whether the ancient historian Josephus’ recounting of miraculous events during the First Jewish-Roman War a mere decade after their supposed occurrence accrues their occurrence more credibility still, whether early Christian historical documents could ever convince Carrier beyond a reasonable doubt that a miracle occurred, and whether the Calvinist doctrine of predestination makes God the author of evil and thus the efficient cause of all sin. Tune in for a succinct overview of assessing historical miracle claims and facile attempts to deflect a major argument against the existence of God!