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Dr. Hector Avalos Has Joined DC!

By Anonymous at 8/04/2008
[Written by John W. Loftus] He said he might not be posting that often, and that's okay. Now he has an outlet to express himself in response to the many battles he has online. He's already posted several things at DC and I linked to others. Here are some of them: 

Video: Why Hector Avalos Rejected Christianity. 
Pages From Dr. Hector Avalos' Book, The End of Biblical Studies. 
Video: Hector Avalos: "How Archaeology Killed Biblical History." 
Hector Avalos: "The Ideology of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Demise of an Academic Profession." 
Dr. Hector Avalos Comments on his Debate with Dr. William Lane Craig. 
Dr. William Lane Craig Responds to Dr. Avalos' Allegations. 
Dr. Hector Avalos Responds to JP Holding/Robert Turkel. 
Avalos Contra Weikart: Part I: General Problems With Dr. Weikart’s Methods. 
Avalos Contra Weikart: Part II: Weikart's Seven Darwinian Aspects of Nazism. 
Dr. Avalos Responds to Triablogue on the Sargon Legend! 
Dr. Avalos v. Triablogue: Moses is a Basket Case of Bad History. 
Hector Avalos: "Creationists for Genocide." 
Dr. Avalos: "Dr. Paul Copan: Apologist for Genocide."

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