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"Two trials of the same case often deliver..." They are no longer the same case. Cause: 1. **Temporal Disparity:** The passage of time between the initial trial and the retrial introduces new elements. Witness memories may fade, evidence may be lost or discovered, and societal attitudes o...

...use Bayesian analysis instead... Bayesian analysis is a tool for historians Bayesian probability analysis does not create evidence anymore than a trial jury creates evidence. Two trials of the same case often deliver different verdicts as a function of the variant evidence presented for each tri...

How does one show the validity of Bayesian analysis in any particular case? generic historical arguments from evidence, pp. 98-100 argument to the best explanation, pp. 100-03 any principled hypothetico-deductive method, pp. 104-06 Carrier, Richard (2012). Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Q...

Carrier's upper bounds derive from his a fortiori probabilities. Regardless, the claimed upper bounds are not representative of his own view of the confidence with which he rejects minimal historicity (and therefore rejects all that implies it). Since subjective probability represents nothing more ...

Jesus mythicism is unfalsifiable... Is Carrier's proposed Jesus mythicism unfalsifiable because of a reliance on reasoning in Bayesian terms and or Carrier's proposed Jesus mythicism does not meet the standards of ____? It is flawed as being unfalsifiable, which is a flaw not acceptable by said sta...

[W]hat can we do here on the forum that is valuable? [Is] the only relevance [of] any theory of early Christianity . . . to answer or “respond” to Christian apologetics (as Cooke says, “proponents of the myth theory can’t say much in response” to various Christian apologetical stances he lists). Th...

[T]he Evil One (Satan, the devil) is the Creator and Ruler of the world. This figure is equated to the Jewish God. They saw how Plutarch's Osiris represented the demiurge and "Negative Demiurgy" and became adversarial to Yahweh equated as Plutarch's Osiris. Some insight can be gained from...

Within the gospels, we can see an evolution of the idea of the resurrection of the physical body. Mark merely has an empty tomb and no resurrection appearance, and this is the sort of indicator that one reads in Greco-Roman stories of Heracles and co — the disappearance of the body was the conventio...

Jesus is one of the most mythified persons in human history. Where testimony/documents weave together a narrative that combines mundane claims with a significant proportion of extraordinary claims, and there is good reason to be sceptical about those extraordinary claims, then there is good reason t...

AdamKvanta wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 10:11 pm My interpretation of the situation...

• What is the available evidence for this interpretation?

Per the OP:

spin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 4:15 pm [W]hat facts do we actually know...