Jonathan MS Pearce

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Feb 7, 2021

Political Bots Being Used to Sway Opinion

Political Bots Being Used to Sway Opinion

This has just been happening on Twitter (as it has for years): En masse spelling mistakes aside, this is insidious and horrible. Public opinion is being swayed by simulated/dishonest/untrue creations. This

Feb 5, 2021

Hitchens's Razor vs Bayes's Theorem

John W. Loftus has just endorsed my forthcoming book on the Resurrection in the following manner: Hitchens’s Razor, not Bayes’s Theorem, is the proper tool to use against the “absolute baselessness”

Feb 4, 2021

Fantastic Ezra Klein Interview

Fantastic Ezra Klein Interview

[caption id="attachment_32779" align="alignright" width="188"] Irn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Ezra Klein, who now writes for the NYT and has

Feb 3, 2021

Christian Comedy, the Church & Politics

Christian Comedy, the Church & Politics

This was a pretty interesting listen, with an insight into Christian communities and the growing politicisation of them (or, the greater likelihood of people being outspoken about their political positioning).   Stay in touch!

Feb 2, 2021

Genesis & Cosmology: A Debate

Skydivephil has created, with his wife through the eponymous YouTube channel, some staggering good videos on cosmology, having interviewed pretty much most of the leading cosmologists in the world (from Guth to Vilenkin,

Feb 1, 2021

Causality and Kalam

A YouTuber commenter hit me with this comment the other day in the context of me having written a book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument (Did God Create a Universe from Nothing) [UK]