Episodes
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
The DC World and Internal Critiques
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
In this short episode I rebroadcast a segment I did several years ago when the movie Batman vs Superman was released. I have been trying to help people understand how internal critiques work and found this illustration to be helpful.
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Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Case for Life with Aaron Brake - Part 1
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
In this special episode, friend of the show Aaron Brake, presents Part 1 in a series dealing with abortion and the right to life. For those who know me, you know that this is an issue that I am very passionate about but also passionate about presenting a cogent, rational, scientific case for the anti-abortion/pro-life position. Aaron does a truly excellent drop in this series in presenting a robust case for the right to life of the fetus.
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Wednesday May 02, 2018
I Got 144,000 Problems but Revelation Aint One
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Wednesday May 02, 2018
In this episode I review an article by Clint Archer dealing with the issue of the 144,000 found in the book in the Revelation. This article is a good case study in the differences of hermeneutics between Reformed and Dispensational Christians.
You can find the text of this article here: https://www.academia.edu/32930724/144_000_Cattle_on_144_000_Hills_A_response_to_Clint_Archer_on_the_meaning_of_the_144_000_Sealed_in_Revelation_7_and_14
You can find Archer's artlce here: http://thecripplegate.com/why-144000-means-144000/
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Friday Dec 15, 2017
Freed Byte - God Rocks!
Friday Dec 15, 2017
Friday Dec 15, 2017
In this drive by episode, I respond to a listener question about God and big rocks... you may be familiar with it.
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Monday May 30, 2016
Isn't The Bible Misogynistic?
Monday May 30, 2016
Monday May 30, 2016
In this episode we continue our series on the so-called "Bible Atrocities" and ask the question "Isn't the Bible Misogynistic?" This is Part 1 of a 3 part section seeking to answer that question.
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Calvinism as an Apologetic
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
In this episode we wrap up our discussion of the Doctrines of Grace by showing how Calvinism is relevant in the discipline of apologetics and why Calvinism is a more helpful response to the problem of evil and the problem of divine hiddenness than that of typical responses to those arguments.
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Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Atheistically Speaking - A Mulligan
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
In this episode, I circle back to some of the things that I discussed with Thomas Smith on his podcast Atheistically Speaking. I wasn't entirely happy with some of my responses so I wanted to flesh them out a little more here. I discuss everything from the literary master of the Bible to the Bible's polemical use of the Enuma Elish.
I also discuss my views on the ever controversial Genesis 1 creation account - this will be a delight to YEC and OEC alike!
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As I mentioned, here are some of the sources you can use to look into what I discussed. In addition to these, I recommend looking up a lecture by John Walton called Reading Genesis Through Ancient Eyes.
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Various Views:
Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation edited by David Hagopian
Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation by J. Daryl Charles
Did God Create In Six Days edited by Joseph Pipa and David Hall
Four Views on the Historical Adam edited by Ardel B. Caneday
Old Earth Views
Genesis One: A Scientific Perspective by Hugh Ross
In The Beginning by E. J. Young
7 Days that Divide the World by John Lennox
God's Pattern for Creation: A Covenantal Reading of Genesis 1 by W. Robert Godfrey
A Biblical Case for an Old Earth by David Snoke
Young Earth Views
The Genesis Record by Henry Morris
In the Beginning of the World: A Scientific Study of Genesis 1-11 by Henry Morris
Literary/Historical Views
In The Beginning We Misunderstood by Miller and Soden
Kingdom Prologue by Meredith Kline (Framework Model)
The Lost World of Genesis One by John Walton
Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology by John Walton
Last Things First by J.V. Fesko
In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis by Henri Blocher
Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary by C. John Collins
Friday Jul 10, 2015
Bible Atrocities - Slavery Part 3
Friday Jul 10, 2015
Friday Jul 10, 2015
In this episode we continue our series on the supposed atrocities that are found within the Bible. We have looked at slavery in the past two episodes dealing with the Ancient Near Eastern cultural context and the casuistic laws found in the Old Testament. In this episode we move into the 1st century and explore how Jesus and Paul interacted with the topic of slavery.
Friday Jun 26, 2015
Bible Atrocities - Slavery part 2
Friday Jun 26, 2015
Friday Jun 26, 2015
In this episode, we continue our look at the Old Testament laws regarding slavery and respond to critical views that say that the Bible condones slavery and the abuse of slaves.
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Books Are Dogs Now
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
In this episode, I review some recent interactions on various Facebook threads in which the rise and intensification of Atheistic Fundamentalism and Anti-Intellectualism were demonstrably observed.
Here are the links to various lectures and articles referenced in the episode:
Links to the lectures on the history of Science and Religion:
Lawrence Principe - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFVARio4pAk
Ronald Numbers - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BliF1xcToPk
Allan Chapman – https://vimeo.com/22188636
David Lindberg – https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/florentine-heretic-galileo-church-and-cosmos
Edward Davis – https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/center-for-research-in-science/id421902830?mt=10
(That is the link to the iTunes section. I have in mind his lecture “Why History Matters.” I haven’t listened to all or most of the lectures there so I cannot vouch for the quality of the lectures as a whole.)
Link to the Faraday lectures:
https://www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/Lectures_old.php
Links to Polemics in the Old Testament:
Currid’s book on polemics in the OT - http://www.amazon.com/Against-Gods-Polemical-Theology-Testament/dp/1433531836
Excepts from Currid’s book - http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/polemic.html
An interview with Currid - http://reformedforum.org/ctc281/
Currid’s lectures on iTunes U - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/crass-plagiarism/id378879778?mt=10
Other Lectures that I have posted in the thread which they refused to listen to because they are by “creationists”:
Science and Secularization, A discussion between Lawrence Princepe, Ronald Numbers and John Brooke: https://vimeo.com/54400918
Philosophical Breakfast Club and the Invention of the Scientist – A lecture by Laura Snyder: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HY27DpJUF8A
Scientism and the Humanities – A lecture by Roger Scruton: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5X9amkH2s
Philosophy and Scientism – A lecture by Peter M.S. Hacker: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAFqo67yuU
Science, Scientism and the Public Good – A lecture by Daniel
Robinson: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWHZfOGpn8