Apologetics 315 Podcast

1:00 - Boba Fett costumes and Masters of the Universe! www.bobamaker.co.uk5:30 - Books currently reading, Dallas Willard, spiritual disciplines, and finding quiet. "The relentless elimination of hurry." The celebration of content creation. 11:00 - Having the mindset of a tortoise. Slow diligence. J. P. Moreland's book "Finding Quiet". How to find quiet when you have tinnitus. 17:00 - Topic 1: How can the church enable and support members in their pursuit of degrees in science, philosophy, theology, and apologetics? Are there organisations who provide this support? (Let us know!)24:00 - Tips for Budding Philosophers: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/apologetics/advice-to-european-christian-apologists/27:00 - Topic 2: Discussion of a question regarding "How can God be happy with 31% of the population being Christians?" Would more miracles persuade belief? What role does free will play?48:15 - How can Christ be the only way to God? https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/christianity-other-faiths/how-can-christ-be-the-only-way-to-god/

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross interview Christian Philosopher Peter S. Williams about his book Outgrowing God?: A Beginner’s Guide to Richard Dawkins and the God Debate.Find his resources at www.peterswilliams.com2:50 - Introduction to Peter and his various books.5:00 - The goal for writing a book dealing with Richard Dawkins’ book, Outgrowing God. 12:20 - The characters in the book, and coming at the God debate from various angles.16:00 - Why address Dawkins and not “the best that atheism has to offer?”19:00 - Key things that Peter would want to challenge Dawkins on in his thinking.22:30 - Addressing inconsistency and lack of philosophical training.24:00 - Problems with requiring “extraordinary evidence” for “extraordinary claims.” The subjectivity of the word “extraordinary.”30:05 - Engaging in the God debate with the best of scholarship.34:00 - Different ways of looking at the Old Testament, and reasons to take it seriously. Accurate incidental details we see in the OT.40:00 - Addressing the topic of slavery, how we define it, and what we see in the Bible. 44:00 - Human rights and dignity, the Biblical worldview, and the culture of the day. Moral development in culture.48:30 - How moral values are grounded. Dawkins judging the character of Yahweh. What worldview makes the best sense of our moral experience?52:00 - Is there any hope of grounding moral values in something other than God? Discussion of moral platonism.58:00 - Characters in the book struggling with depression; presenting the Christian life with more realism. 63:00 - Where to find more resources for the book.64:20 - Reflections on the interview.

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross talk about current reading, experts vs. generalists, atheistic tweets and putting Jesus at the center.2:00 - "Where are you from... originally?"3:10 - Current book reading, Jesus the Great Philosopher: Rediscovering the Wisdom Needed for the Good Life by Jonathan T. Pennington, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein. 8:25 - Being an expert or a generalist in apologetics? The problems with not having a diversity of experiences or influences. "Skill stacking."14:20 - Thinking about an atheistic tweet by Real Atheology. Christian Apologetics vs Christian Philosophy?35:00 - Feedback on the Trinity from the kids.37:30 - Putting Jesus at the center: dealing with fear, anxiety, worry and stress. 42:30 - Prayer for the listeners.

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross talk about podcasts, memes, and talking about the Trinity.0:50 - A few podcasts we listen to: ID The Future, Frank Turek, The Briefing with Albert Mohler, Unbelievable? with Justin Brierley, Reasonable Faith, Defenders, Like Trees Walking with Mike J. Nelson (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Think Biblically, Stand to Reason (Greg Koukl), Real Atheology.8:10 - Responding to memes, "Jesus never talked about abortion," and the case against abortion.21:30 - How might we turn conversation stoppers into conversation starters? Dealing with nervousness, pressure, and anxiety responding to arguments.34:15 - One approach for talking about the Trinity with kids. The strengths and shortcomings of Trinity analogies. The Trinity is a solution, not a problem.

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross reflect on Richard Dawkins' latest book, and answer a some listener questions.1:50 - The Flow Bee home hair-cutting system!5:00 - Dawkins' new book, "Outgrowing God", and reflections on the content.20:30 - Responding to the line, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."29:00 - Apologetics as a tool for evangelism36:00 - J.P. Moreland's "The Kingdom Triangle"37:30 - Tips for getting more out of reading, and how to listen to ebooks (text-to-speech hacks).43:00 - Questions from listener: How do I influence others to engage their faith intellectually? Should I resign myself to the current state of the evangelical church? And where are all the spiritual mothers and fathers?

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross answer a listener question and talk about apologetic interactions.1:00 - Ghostbusters quotes incorporated into your questions are guaranteed to be answered!2:00 - Answering a question about apologetics degrees and certificates. How important are they?19:45 - Are people being skeptical or simply cynical, or a contrarian? 34:05 - Is mockery ever an appropriate strategy when doing apologetics? 50:00 - Prayer for the listeners

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross talk about the reboot of the Apologetics 315 Podcast.1:00 - introducing Chad Gross from Truthbomb Apologetics, and their friendship.6:30 - Reflections, history, origins of Apologetics315, and the journey. Where did the interviews podcast go?18:50 - Bringing logic and argumentation into your marriage? Self-awareness.22:50 - Why did the podcast stop?23:30 - Movies quotes, Ghostbusters, and the goal of the podcast.25:40 - Chad’s biggest influences in apologetics.29:39 - How Brian got into apologetics, the Rational response squad, and Ray Comfort.36:40 - What’s daily life look like?42:30 - Apologetics and parenting. Teaching our kids to think well.

Today’s interview is with Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee, a Christian news satire site. Seth talks about the history and origins of The Babylon Bee, the purpose and role of satire, dealing with controversy, the Babylon Bee podcast, engaging with today’s culture, the Disrn news website, and more.Visit the Babylon Bee at www.babylonbee.comVisit the Disrn website at www.disrn.comEnjoy.

Today’s interview is with Christian Hubbs, one of the hosts of the Articifially Intelligent podcast. Christian holds an Master of Science from ETH Zurich (that’s Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) , he has an MA in Christian Apologetics from Biola University, and is an AI researcher for a Fortune 50 Company… all while completing his PhD in machine learning and optimization at Carnegie Mellon University. His podcast can be find at www.artificiallyintelligent.tech, which focuses on AI and economics and a blog on the topic at [ datahubbs.com]( http://datahubbs.com/) . Christian was also the RF Chapter director in Zürich, Switzerland for 3 years.The purpose of today’s interview is to talk to Christian about artificial intelligence: what is AI anyway, are terminators going to take over the world? The practical uses of AI and current AI research, and how the Christian worldview informs our thinking about AI.

Today’s interview is with biochemist Fazale Rana, the vice president of research and apologetics at Reasons to Believe. He is the author of several books, including /Who Was Adam, Creating Life in the Lab/, /The Cell’s Design/and /Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth/. He holds a PhD in chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry from Ohio University. The purpose of this interview is to explore the topic of trans humanism: what is it? How do technological advances affect out lives? To what extent can they enhance our lives, our bodies, our minds? What are the ethical implications of human advancement though technology?