March 31, 2023 by limey

Episode 91 – Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down

Summary

Episode 91, Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down. In this episode Andrew and Matthew welcome Bekah McNeel to talk about her book and the deconstruction that prompted it. Bekah is an engaging author and a delightful individual and we both thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. We also highly recommend her book, it is insightful. Towards the end of this episode we touch on Bekah’s next book and we hope to have her back when that is out. In the meantime, if you know someone or you are someone, who can speak authoritatively on gun violence or on abortion and how each are impacted by fundamentalist Christianity, then please get in touch we are actively seeking out guests for both those subjects. Reasonpress@gmail.com

Bekah McNeel

https://bekahmcneel.com/about/

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Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down

https://bekahmcneel.com/book/

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March 18, 2023 by limey

Episode 90 – Justin Brierley

Summary

In this episode we chat with Justin Brierley, host of the very popular Premier Unbelievable? podcast.

We’d really enjoyed this chat with Justin, but we didn’t get to cover many of the questions that we gathered, so we will ask and try to have him back again.

We cover a little bit of his show and we also talk about arguments for Christianity and why people leave Christianity.

Listen to (or watch) Matthew’s appearance on Unbelievable?

https://www.stitcher.com/show/unbelievable/episode/uninvented-are-the-stories-of-jesus-too-unusual-to-have-been-made-up-mike-dvirgilio-vs-matthew-taylor-211507478

Andrew on Unbelievable? discussing the book Still Unbelievable!

https://unbelievable.podbean.com/e/can-justin-defend-his-own-book-feat-david-johnson-andrew-knight-randal-rauser/

Read Still Unbelievable! for free

https://www.reasonpress.net/SU1E/Introduction

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December 31, 2022 by limey

Episode 85 – Answering Dr Michael Brown’s 7 Questions for atheists

Summary

Episode 85: 7 Questions for Atheists by Dr Michael Brown

This is Matthew and in this episode of Still Unbelievable! Andrew and I are joined by friends who are repeat guests to answer questions for Atheists by Dr Michael Brown. To see his list of questions, see link 1 in the show notes. As part of our response to the first question, Andrew gives a couple of resources for those struggling with religious issues, these are can be found in Links 2 and 3, link 3 covers most countries around the world, not just the USA. Links 4 and 5 are UK based resources I was able to find.

Also during the discussion Andrew references a discussion with Brian Blais on miracles, that is Epsiode 84, and finally David mentions his Red Letters blog and book, see link 6.

Enjoy the show.

1) https://www.christianpost.com/voices/7-honest-questions-for-atheists.html

2) https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/hotline-project2

3) https://www.seculartherapy.org/

4) https://www.hopevalleycounselling.com/resources

5) https://www.religionrehab.co.uk/

6) David’s RedLetters blog and book redletters: https://www.patreon.com/redletters

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September 11, 2022 by limey

Episode 82 – When Belief Dies Kills John Lennox

Summary

Matthew reviews episode 94 of When Belief Dies, in which they interview John Lennox

Episode 94 of When Belief Dies

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF6JySDwrHQ

2) https://open.spotify.com/show/5nUeWwl36pBXpPSXFsP5R0

Dawkins on scientism

3) https://unherd.com/thepost/richard-dawkins-scientism-is-a-dirty-word/

4) https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/The_Blind_Watchmaker.pdf

Review of Nagel’s book

5) https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/mind-and-cosmos-why-the-materialist-neo-darwinian-conception-of-nature-is-almost-certainly-false/

6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis

7) https://books.google.ca/books?id=HqflJ99KzsEC&pg=PA830&lpg=PA830&dq=ridley+%2B+%22who+doubts+evolution%22&source=bl&ots=CLv–5pAgs&sig=dMCnStG9LevjawmiiYMoQrJ3Op8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib0c7i-fHXAhVK5YMKHfBMD2wQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=ridley%20%2B%20%22who%20doubts%20evolution%22&f=false

8) http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part3.html

9) https://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part1-4.html

10) https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8-Xm_gQgboUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA51&ots=4oJQb-7EFA&sig=iPZW_ejg-26aXe0QIF0_RCeaQMQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Flew

12) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-what-is-panpsychism/id1436336109?i=1000465737651

13) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock

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July 31, 2022 by limey

Episode 79 – How (not) to talk to an atheist

Summary

In this episode, Matthew reviews a podcast where Christians give their take on about how to talk to an atheist.

Unapologetic video:

Dealing With Deconstruction YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/DealingWithDeconstruction

1) Mental Health awareness

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week

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July 31, 2022 by limey

Episode 80 – Why I am (not) a YEC

Summary

In this episode, Matthew picks apart a podcast where a Christian justifies why they are a Young Earth Creationist.

1: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/worldview-legacy/9-why-i-am-a-young-earth–4HLGsCO95w/

2: https://anchor.fm/still-unbelievable/episodes/Episode-19-YEC-is-not-only-wrong–its-dangerous-e5lbto

3: https://biologos.org/series/science-and-the-bible/articles/theistic-evolution-history-and-beliefs

4: https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores

5: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/how-tree-rings-date-archaeological-site

6: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=jibs

7: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/taking-back-astronomy/about-the-author/

8: https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/starlight/distant-starlight-thesis/

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July 10, 2022 by limey

Episode 75 – Casey Luskin is Unbelievable!

Summary

Matthew examines the claims of Casey Luskin on a recent episode of the Unbelievable? podcast.

Casey Luskin:

1) https://www.discovery.org/p/luskin/

Adam Shapiro

2) https://www.americanscientist.org/author/adam_shapiro

3) https://www.discovery.org/b/comprehensive-guide-to-science-and-faith/

Extreme functional sensitivity to conservative amino acid changes on enzyme exteriors

4) https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.2000.3997

Estimating the Prevalence of Protein Sequences Adopting Functional Enzyme Folds

5) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8389796_Estimating_the_Prevalence_of_Protein_Sequences_Adopting_Functional_Enzyme_Folds

6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson

7) https://ncse.ngo/list-steves

8) http://nebula.wsimg.com/e4f4b2bb26ebae17e962d71647af66f2?AccessKeyId=A6FBFFFE99B075CE040A&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

9) http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.pdf

10) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61586-y

11) https://www.jmtour.com/

12) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-021-00417-w

13) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195259/#pone.0202513.ref001

14) https://evolutionnews.org/2020/01/meyer-on-nested-coding-another-successful-design-prediction/

15) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Scherer

16) (PDF) https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/download/BIO-C.2018.2/BIO-C.2018.2

17) (PDF) https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.84.17.6195

18) https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Is-Intelligent-Design-advancing-or-in-retreat-Casey-Luskin-Adam-Shapiro

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July 10, 2022 by limey

Episode 76 – Can the Minimal Facts Move Us?

Summary

Andrew and Matthew discus the main 6 minimal facts, made popular by Gary Habermas, and ask themselves if these facts move them closer to accepting the resurrection of Jesus, and if not, why not!

Sceptical source:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Minimal_facts_argument

Christian Sources:

https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=sod_fac_pubs

https://ses.edu/minimal-facts-on-the-resurrection-that-even-skeptics-accept/

The Minimal Facts of the Resurrection

http://christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/11/13/minimal-facts-method/

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July 10, 2022 by limey

Episode 77 – Alleged Evidence for the Resurrection

Summary

Matthew addresses an episode of Unbelievable? where New Testament scholars Dale Allison and Justin Bass discuss their different approaches to the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection.

1) https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Is-there-historical-evidence-for-the-bodily-resurrection-of-Jesus-Justin-Bass-Dale-Allison

2) https://www.ptsem.edu/people/dale-c-allison-jr

3) https://lexhampress.com/product/183925/the-bedrock-of-christianity-the-unalterable-facts-of-jesus-death-and-resurrection

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