Unbelievable?

In this debate from the Reasonable Faith UK tour in 2011, William Lane Craig visited the Cambridge Union. The motion under debate is "This house believes that God is not a delusion". The other debaters are Peter S Williams, Arif Ahmed & Andrew Copson For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes

The second of two debates in which Young Earth Creationist Andy McIntosh debates paleontologist Robert Asher. Andy responds to a number of questions left hanging over from the previous show. Both are Christians and give their differing views on how the Genesis stories of Adam and Eve and death and suffering can (or cannot) be reconciled with evolutionary theory. For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Resources recommended by Andy McIntosh http://www.truthinscience.org.uk Origins: Examining the Evidence Origins: Examining the Evidence For Robert Asher http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/rja58/ Evolution & belief: Confessions of a religious paleontologist Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Did Adam & Eve exist? Denis Alexander, Fuz Rana & Peter Enns

A special radio feature titled "A Different Kind of Coming Out" sees Justin meet three evangelical church leaders who talk about their struggle with same-sex attraction and why they've decided to choose celibacy, or being 'post-gay'. For the Christianity Magazine interview by Justin click here. Justin is joined by Anglican blogger Peter Ould and Savi Hensman of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement to discuss the programme. For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Peter Ould http://www.peter-ould.net/ For Savi Hensman http://www.lgcm.org.uk Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 19th January 2013 - Steve Chalke on his new gay affirming stance

The Young Earth Creation movement claim that the Bible and science show that the world is only a little over 6000 years old. In the first of two debates Justin Brierley hears from a leading UK "young earther" who claims that the rock and fossil record were laid down by the flood of Noah, and a paleontologist who argues that science is clear that they were laid down over millions of years of evolutionary history. Andy Macintosh is Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at the University of Leeds. He is a leading British Young Earth Creationist. He debates with Robert Asher, a paleontologist at the Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, and the author of “Evolution and belief: Confessions of a religious paleontologist”. For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Resources recommended by Andy McIntosh http://www.truthinscience.org.uk Origins: Examining the Evidence Origins: Examining the EvidenceRadioactive Dating: Research confirming the Biblical Record For Robert Asher http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/rja58/ Evolution & belief: Confessions of a religious paleontologist Feathered Dinosaurs: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Vol. 33 Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 17 June 2012 - Do we live on an old or young earth? Andy McIntosh, Hugh Ross, Stephen Lloyd & Ken Samples

Greg Koukl is the host of the apologetics radio show Stand To Reason whcih aims to equip believers with good reasons for their faith and to answer the objections of sceptics. Greg talks to three atheists on today's show. Stuart questions whether Christian doctrines of sin and atonement make sense. Bill asks whether the argument from morality makes sense. Derek points out that Christians seem to hear contradictory things from God. For more debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Stand To Reason http://www.str.org For Stuart Ingrouille's book http://goo.gl/4iSu7 Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 11th May 2013 - Amy Orr-Ewing gets grilled by 3 atheists Unbelievable? 8 Oct 2011 - Old Testament Grill-a-Christian with Peter J Williams

CS Lewis said "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." Peter Kreeft is a philosophy professor and well know Christian thinker and writer. He defends the "argument from desire". Does our experience of transcendent longing indicate that there is a God to satisfy it? Atheist philosopher Richard Norman says that the argument amounts to wish-fulfillment. For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Peter Kreeft http://www.peterkreeft.com For Richard Norman http://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/distinguished-supporters/professor-richard-norman/ Click for direct MP3 of this show Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 17 December 2011 - Believing Bulls**t - Is Christianity an intellectual blackhole?Stephen Law & James Orr Unbelievable? 12th March 2011 - Music & God - David Robertson & Gordon Livesey

Christian philosopher Richard Swinburne has used probability theory to show that the likelihood of the resurrection of Christ is 0.97. Calum Miller is a Christian apologist and student of Swinburne. He talks about why he believes that probability theory can be used to show that the resurrection is highly likely to be true. Chris Hallquist is an atheist blogger who argues that the resurrection is not well supported by evidence or probability. For more debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Calum Miller http://www.dovetheology.com For Apologetics UK http://apologeticsuk.blogspot.co.uk/ For Chris Hallquist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 16th April 2011 - Biblical evidence for the Resurrection - Bart Ehrman & Mike Licona. Unbelievable? 7 April 2012 - Are the Jesus Scandals evidence for Easter? David Instone-Brewer vs Bob Price.

Former atheist Holly Ordway came to Christian faith via poetry and literature. She tells her story and explains her passion for literary apologetics. Laura Miller is an online literary critic and an agnostic. She loved the Narnia stories as a child but felt betrayed by CS Lewis after discovering their Christian symbolism as an adult. Holly and Laura discuss the rights and wrongs of using literature for a Christian message. Do great art, poetry and literature point to a transcendent reality? For more debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Holly Ordway http://www.hieropraxis.com For her book "Not God's Type" http://amzn.to/q2eMFi For Laura Miller http://www.magiciansbook.com Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 27th April 2013 - Alister McGrath on the life of CS Lewis. Unbelievable? 6 Jun 2009 A Skeptic in Narnia Narnia & CS Lewis - Michael Ward & Laura Miller.

Two different approaches to apologetics are debated on the show. K Scott Oliphint is Professor of Apologetics & Systematic Theology at Westminater Theological Seminary, PA. Kurt Jaros is the founder of www.realclearapologetics.com Scott believes that the best apologetic method is to assume that Christianity is true and show why a non-Christian is suppressing that truth. Atheists presuppose the existence of God even to argue against Him. This approach is called presuppositional or covanental apologetics. Kurt Jaros believes that method is flawed and argues for the primacy of Natural Theology (or evidential apologetics) in presenting the case for Christianity to non-believers. For more debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter For Kurt Jaros http://www.realclearapologetics.com For K Scott Olipihint http://www.wts.edu/faculty/profiles/ksoliphint.html For Covanental Apologetics http://amzn.to/106Umx3 Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 31 July 2010 - Presuppositional apologetic proof of God Paul Baird and Sye TenBruggencate. Unbelievable? 19 Mar 2011 - Presuppositional apologetics round 2

Over 600 people attended the third Unbelievable? Conference in London in May 2013 - Jesus: Liar, lunatic, Legend or Lord. In this programme we hear some audio extracts from the conference which aimed to equip Christian with good reasons for the faith. Alister McGrath gives the opening address on "Joy Meaning and Purpose". We also hear the panel discussion and questions from the audience as Alister, Peter S Williams, Trevor Stammers, Kurt Jaros and Fuz Rana answer questions on how to more effectively engage British society with the Gospel. For more debates and interviews visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 9th June 2012 - Unbelievable? The Conference 2012 - Michael Green & guests Unbelievable? 11 June 2011 - Unbelievable? The Conference - John Lennox & Guests