religion

Can you Prove Jesus with Bayes Theorem?

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Jesus and Bayes Theorem

Can you take a statistical tool such as Bayes Theorem and calculate meaningful answers to religious questions such as “Is there a God?“, “Did Jesus exist?“, or “Did Jesus rise from the dead?“. It has been tried, people really will deploy this approach. When challenged they often exclaim “You can’t argue with the maths, it … Read more

Poll: Decline of US confidence in Religion continues

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decline of religion in US

The news comes via the publication of the latest Gallup poll. The title of their release is “U.S. Confidence in Organized Religion Remains Low“, but dive in and you find that this is a bit of a misleading title. It has actually declined even further. It has not simply remained low, but has continued to … Read more

#ThingsJesusNeverSaid – Pointing at Right-Wing Hypocrites

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There is a wonderful twitter tag called #ThingsJesusNeverSaid. No this is not a religious trend, but rather is a political one. The background context is that the GOP jumped into bed with Jesus a few decades ago because they wanted to harvest the religious vote by pandering to that demographic. It worked, and so we … Read more