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• ↓ New Atheists Getting History Wrong!
• ↓ Interview – Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism
• ↓ Review – Alice Roberts “Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity”
• ↓ Interview – Dr Dan McClellan on the Hebrew Bible
• ↓ The Great Myths 16: The Conflict Between Science and Religion
• ↓ Interview – Dr Thomas C. Schmidt on Josephus’ Testimonium
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"My very special guest today is Professor Bart Ehrman. Bart will need no introduction for most people, but in case you aren’t aware: he is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of over 30 books on early Christianity and New Testament studies, including the best sellers Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why and Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in…"

"Alice Roberts, Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, (Simon and Schuster, 2025), 413 pp. There is no shortage of excellent books on both the end of the Roman Empire and on the formation of Christendom. Most are by expert historians, many are recent and several are highly accessible works aimed at the general reader. So it may be wondered why another such book has been released and why a non-historian – a biologist –…"

"My guest today is Dr Dan McClellan. Dan is the presenter of the Data over Dogma podcast and a public educator who has won the Society of Biblical Literature’s 2023 Richards Award for Public Scholarship for his YouTube and TikTok videos on the academic study of the Bible. He is also the author of The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues (2025). Dan holds a Masters in Jewish Studies from Oxford and did…"

"The “Conflict Thesis” forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervasive idea…"

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New Atheists Getting History Wrong!

Interview – Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism

Review – Alice Roberts “Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity”

Interview – Dr Dan McClellan on the Hebrew Bible

The Great Myths 16: The Conflict Between Science and Religion

Interview – Dr Thomas C. Schmidt on Josephus’ Testimonium