Posted: Feb 02, 2012 3:56 am
by TheOneTrueZeke
proudfootz wrote:

All I hear is non-historians saying it solves nothing.

Why would I take an interest in so much hand-wringing by people outside the discipline?



Why would you spend so much time posting in a place that affords you no possibility of interest?

You tell me because evidently you do take an interest.


Naturally, that is where the rubber meets the road - how does an author justify their subjective opinion of something's 'probability'?

One does not preclude the other.


Uh, no, but the one offers real insight to which the other adds nothing.


So some here are claiming. There's always folks on the interwebs around to dispute anything an expert might say.


Carrier has a degree in mathematics?

News to me.