Capturing Christianity Podcast

In this interview, I sit down with Dr. Tomas Bogardus to discuss a new forthcoming paper he wrote entitled, "If Naturalism is true, then Scientific Explanation is impossible." Link to Dr. Bogardus's Paper: https://philpapers.org/archive/BOGINI.pdf Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LdjZ-7adds Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

Matt 16:18 is the famous passage that says: "And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it." The question that will be discussed in this dialogue is who the rock is referring to. Does it refer to Peter? To Jesus? To someone/something else? Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw2M4jIWqeI Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

In this video, I sit down with my friend Ben Watkins to discuss his journey from Christianity to atheism. Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A74K7P2FvA&t=1s Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

Dr. Sy Garte is a retired biochemist. For most of his life, he was an unbelieving atheist. In this interview, he details his journey from being an atheist scientist to a believing Christian. Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMBQwGzn_TE Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

In this livestream, I'm joined by Joe Heschmeyer to discuss his case for the papacy. Why is the papacy so important? Well, if it's true, then Catholicism is true. If it's false, then Catholicism is false. It's one of Catholicism's most distinctive doctrines. Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kulehiDK0BY Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

Ever wondered what a case against the papacy might look like? In this livestream, Dr. Gavin Ortlund, a Protestant expert on Roman Catholicism, presents his case against the papacy. Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCLzEI92gI Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

Daniel Speak (Ph.D., University of California, Riverside) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He specializes in metaphysics (especially the metaphysics of free will) and the philosophy of religion. He also has research and teaching interests in ethics and epistemology. His book The Problem of Evil was published in 2014 by Polity Press. In addition, he is the co-editor (with Kevin Timpe) of Free Will and Theism, a collection of essays focused on central issues of overlap between the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of action (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has published chapters or articles in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2nd Edition), Faith and Philosophy, Res Philosophica, The Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies, The Routledge Companion to Free Will, and (as they say) elsewhere. Feel free to follow him at: https://lmu.academia.edu/DanielSpeak Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEexALvv5GE Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

In this video, I'm joined by Dr. William Lane Craig to respond to Stephen Woodford's video in which he purports to debunk every theistic argument in a mere 14 minutes. Link to Stephen's Video: https://youtu.be/o9Ctc9LlfiA Link to this YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Hu720zsWI Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

In this video, I respond to Cosmic Skeptic's video "Christianity's Biggest Problem." Alex's original video: https://youtu.be/5KDnnp0sDkI DESCRIPTION #1: The example Grandin cites comes from a book on this, Antoinio R. Damasio "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain." And she also cites for the chapter as a whole "Freeman, W., and J.W. Watts. 1950. 'Psychosurgery in the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain.' Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher." Also, just as a general rule, if you just google leucotomies and pain you'll find all kinds of stuff on this connection between leucotomy patients and people reporting reduced suffering. They did leucotomies in the 50s and 60s and they were way weird. DESCRIPTION #2: “A hypothesis h suffers from probabilistic tension if and only if h is logically equivalent to some conjunctive hypothesis, h1& h2, such that either P(h1| h2) is [greatly lesser than] 1 or P(h2| h1) is [greatly lesser than] 1: that is, one conjunct of the hypothesis is very unlikely, conditioned on the other conjunct. Among other things, a hypothesis h that suffers from probabilistic tension will be very unlikely: since P(h) = P(h1& h2) = P(h1| h2) x P(h2) = P(h2| h1) x P(h1), it follows that if P(h1| h2) is [greatly lesser than] 1 or P(h2| h1) is [greatly lesser than] 1, then P(h) is [greatly lesser than] 1.” In our case, atheism represents h. If h is really the conjunction of Atheism & Evolution, as Alex assumes, then we can represent Atheism as h1 and Evolution as h2. Since the probability of Evolution on Atheism is very unlikely, the probability of h2 given h1 is also very unlikely. Following Collins, this leads us to conclude that the intrinsic probability of h is very unlikely. DESCRIPTION #3: BOOKS: -Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil by John Schneider -God, Evolution and Animal Suffering by Bethany Sollereder -The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution and the Problem of Evil by Christopher Southgate -Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil by Nicola Hoggard Creegan -Thomism and the Problem of Animal Suffering by Kyle Keltz DISSERTATIONS: -The Problem of Evil and Animal Suffering: A Case Study by Faith Pawl -All Creation Groans: A Theodicy for Suffering Animals by Matthew Douglass OTHER RESOURCES: -The Problem of Evil by Peter van Inwagen (has a chapter on animal pain) -A Random-Based Theodicy for Evolutionary Evils by Josh Rasmussen and J. Wesling -Certain global theodicies: e.g. skeptical theism, multiverse models, etc. DESCRIPTION #4: Why Didn't God Just Create Everyone in Heaven?? - https://youtu.be/kOmOLre6CyM DESCRIPTION #5: http://dustincrummett.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/philosophy-of-religion-for-all-final-version-4-13-2019-1.pdf DESCRIPTION #6: There aren't a lot of arguments for the conclusion that animals are essentially non-rational, and the ones that exist are not very good. Special thanks to Wade Tisthammer (@Maverick Christian), Justin Mooney, Joe Schmid (@Majesty of Reason), Josh Rasmussen (@Worldview Design), Dustin Crummett, & Liz Jackson (@PhiLizophy) for providing helpful comments on earlier drafts of the script. Link to this YouTube Video: Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

Back in June of 2020, YouTuber Arvin Ash published a video that attempts to scrutinize the Fine-Tuning Argument for God's existence. In this response video, cosmologist Luke Barnes, who also happens to be my favorite superhero, explains Arvin's many mistakes. Link to Arvin Ash's Video: https://youtu.be/sm0Ul-Ym8Ys Link to this YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi54OCH34pU Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity