tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post4594104145565241489..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: Richard Carrier and the Domesday WatermillsJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-27541340014049876652011-02-25T15:45:29.573+00:002011-02-25T15:45:29.573+00:00Richard has taken the trouble to respond on the co...Richard has taken the trouble to respond on the comments thread - i'll read through it and stick up a response when I have time.<br /><br />http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2010/01/flynns-pile-of-boners.html?commentPage=2Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936974517695558399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-76703112761759954912011-02-14T13:28:44.436+00:002011-02-14T13:28:44.436+00:00Oh, and another thing - I have to add my snort of ...Oh, and another thing - I have to add my snort of derision to the comment that rainfall in Britain decreases in winter. Anyone who actually, like, y'know, lives there an' stuff, can call him on that.<br /><br />James HAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-43467229678590690822011-02-14T13:26:52.009+00:002011-02-14T13:26:52.009+00:00If Hitler was 'unmistakeably a God-fearing Chr...If Hitler was 'unmistakeably a God-fearing Christian', he did a damn shoddy job of it - wasn't the second-highest proportion of religious inmates in the camps (after Jews) Catholic priests?<br /><br />But then, my information is obviously biased. Whereas his research is a model of Clear, Logical, Consistent, Unbiased, Bright thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-13194276904795649722011-02-14T00:23:05.945+00:002011-02-14T00:23:05.945+00:00Carrier has been to outright invent source citatio...Carrier has been to outright invent source citations. For instance, in order to "prove" that Jesus was only temporarily buried he cite Josephus' Jewish Wars... except the actual passages he quotes are from Antiquities. He then quotes two paragraphs separated by over a dozen paragraphs and links them together if they were related when they are discussing different topics. He even changed some of the words, and lifted lines from other paragraphs and inserted them into the text. He is a pathological liar and deserves to have his PhD revoked for academic malpractice.Rational Gazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619088305860471429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-49146810742986774722011-02-12T03:21:54.760+00:002011-02-12T03:21:54.760+00:00If I was in a meaner mood I would suggest Carrier ...If I was in a meaner mood I would suggest Carrier is secretly a Christian wanting to give Atheism a bad name.Observernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-91839879711511132452011-02-11T22:21:13.878+00:002011-02-11T22:21:13.878+00:00Nice stuff. Yet again Richard "Artie Ziff&qu...Nice stuff. Yet again Richard "Artie Ziff" Carrier has been shown to be an unemployed librarian's assistant with a PhD and too much time on his hands. His hobby seems to be pretending to be an objective amateur historian, but the fact that he seems to always come to a conclusion that just [i]happens[/i] to be anti-Christian or supporting some quasi-Gibbonian romanticised view of the Classical world sort of gives the game away.<br /><br />He does serve as a caution to atheists like me - beware wall-eyed ideological bias.Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-56964086444651855172011-02-11T14:33:49.268+00:002011-02-11T14:33:49.268+00:00According to Carrier, when DID a high number of wa...According to Carrier, when DID a high number of watermills appear in Great Britain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-70730076749047047482011-02-11T10:56:13.932+00:002011-02-11T10:56:13.932+00:00I agree with the Duke of Earl. I think after the ...I agree with the Duke of Earl. I think after the first paragraph, I will have to address the post's author as Sir Humphrey.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-35734803051653360742011-02-11T07:45:10.325+00:002011-02-11T07:45:10.325+00:00I've been noticing Carrier being proved wrong ...I've been noticing Carrier being proved wrong again and again. He is shown to be sloppy, arrogant, and condescending (Eg. Jesus, baysesian theory, mills, etc). I don't feel I can really trust him anymore.Tylor S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08845319845437916073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-6711369218614685672011-02-11T00:49:47.206+00:002011-02-11T00:49:47.206+00:00I see, your comments about Carrier in the first pa...I see, your comments about Carrier in the first passage were sardonic. Very droll, very droll. English humor at its finest. :-)Duke of Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891442161634560912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-302868790999557872011-02-10T23:21:04.903+00:002011-02-10T23:21:04.903+00:00Hi Anon - very interesting. Does that depend on wh...Hi Anon - very interesting. Does that depend on what region of California you happen to be in - for instance as bad as the rainy winters are in East Anglia the precipitation is much worse in Wales, Scotland and Northern England.<br /><br />If it's not California he is getting confused with then I have no idea; Nevada?, New England, Middle Earth??Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936974517695558399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-21789054152370224132011-02-10T21:52:37.612+00:002011-02-10T21:52:37.612+00:00As a Californian, I would have actually expected w...As a Californian, I would have actually expected winter to be when the water mills were used because that's when we first get rain water filling up the creeks and rivers. Certainly there's snow melt in the spring, but that doesn't take away from all the water in the winter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com