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Richard Cevantis Carrier (born December 1, 1969) is a historian, atheist activist, author, public speaker, and blogger. He has a doctorate in ancient history from Columbia University where his thesis was on the history of science in ancient antiquity. He is a leading proponent of the Christ myth theory. Richard Carrier originally gained prominence as an advocate of atheism and metaphysical naturalism, authoring many articles on The Secular Web, and later defending his basic position in his book ''Sense and Goodness Without God''. Subsequently, he became interested in the question of the historicity of Jesus, authoring two books on the subject, ''Proving History'' and ''On the Historicity of Jesus''. The first of these books advances a methodology, based on Bayes' theorem, as the standard by which all methodology for any historical study must adhere to in order to be logically sound. The second applies this methodology to the question of the Historicity of Jesus, and reaches a conclusion of mythicism. He has also contributed chapters to three books of counter-apologetics edited by John W. Loftus entitled ''The End of Christianity'', ''The Christian Delusion'', and ''Christianity Is Not Great''. His blog appears on Freethought Blogs, and he has frequently been a featured speaker at various skeptic, secular humanist, freethought, and atheist conventions, such as the annual Freethought Festival in Madison, WI, the annual Skepticon convention in Springfield, MO, and conventions sponsored by American Atheists. Carrier has frequently debated Christian apologists such as William Lane Craig and David Marshall both in person and online. The Craig debate was broadcast on Lee Strobel's television show ''Faith Under Fire''.〔(Audio Archive of Debate )〕 ==Work== Carrier received a PhD in ancient history from Columbia University in 2008. His thesis was entitled "Attitudes Towards the Natural Philosopher in the Early Roman Empire (100 B.C. to 313 A.D.)."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clio Holdings Information )〕 He has published several articles and chapters in books on the subject of history and philosophy (see below). He was formerly the editor of and a substantial contributor to The Secular Web. His contributions there includes an autobiographical essay ''From Taoist to Infidel'' in which he discusses his upbringing in a benign Methodist church, his conversion to Taoism in early adulthood, his confrontation with Christian fundamentalists while in the U.S. Coast Guard, and his deeper study of religion, Christianity, and Western philosophy, which eventually led to his embrace of naturalism. This was reprinted in his major work defending atheism and naturalism, ''Sense and Goodness without God''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Carrier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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