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If you move in the circles of organized atheism, it is much as if you move in the circles of conservative Christianity: you can get the impression that certain ideas are getting lots of attention<\/a>, when they are only being given attention by your group which organizes for precisely that to happen.<\/p>\nJust like creationists, Richard Carrier<\/a> (in a piece<\/a> complaining about my blog post about Raphael Lataster\u2019s disappointing article<\/a>) writes \u201cI know professors who won\u2019t publicly admit they think we have a point, out of\u00a0fear for their career.\u201d That is, as you know, just what creationists say about dissent from Darwin in the academy<\/a>.\u00a0He also pretends that my post is a \u201cdefense of historicity\u201d rather than\u00a0a complaint about Lataster writing the way Carrier does, to the detriment of his credibility and probably ultimately his career.<\/p>\n See Philip Jenkins\u2019 recent post<\/a> for a sense of how mythicism looks to a professional historian<\/a> who actually works in academia.<\/p>\n Of related interest,\u00a0John Loftus shared<\/a> this video of Robert Price (who will be debating Bart Ehrman in Milwaukee<\/a>):<\/p>\n