Still Unbelievable!

Episode 104 - Can Christians convince us of the resurrection? In this episode Matthew responds to a Christian podcast addressing atheist arguments against the resurrection. Can the things they say get us to reconsider our denial of the resurrection as an historical event?

Original YouTube video

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

Paulogia on YouTube

2) https://www.youtube.com/@Paulogia

3) Seam McDowell video

https://youtu.be/elXMJoJA3cQ

4) Sean McDowell 480 page document on martyrdom on the apostles

https://repository.sbts.edu/handle/10392/4857

https://repository.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/4857/McDowell_sbts_0207D_10221.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

5) Polycarp

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Martyrdom-of-Polycarp

https://discerninghistory.com/2016/01/polycarp-the-man-the-flames-would-not-touch/

6) Gospel names

https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Gospels/

7) Brant Pitre is classic apologist

https://vridar.org/2016/02/09/why-the-anonymous-gospels-failure-of-scholarship-in-pitres-the-case-for-jesus/

https://vridar.org/2016/03/08/the-arguments-for-and-against-the-anonymity-of-the-canonical-gospels/

https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Gospels/

https://jameshiscoxblogs.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/apologetics-vs-real-scholarship-on-the-dating-and-authorship-of-the-gospels/

http://www.humanreligions.info/gospels.html#Anon

https://brill.com/view/journals/nt/50/2/article-p120_2.xml

8) Origen

https://brill.com/view/journals/scri/12/1/article-p181_11.xml?language=en

9) Swoon Hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_hypothesis

10) Miracle of the sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

11) Martyrs deaths

http://www.equip.org/PDF/JAF1392.pdf

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Andrew and Matthew have a conversation with Daniel, a Palestinian Christian.

An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians

https://www.change.org/p/an-open-letter-from-palestinian-christians-to-western-church-leaders-and-theologians

Daniel on the New Evangelicals podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CeHsj52D0tqgda0kJBpuS

Across the Divide Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/across-the-divide/id1714814860

https://open.spotify.com/show/5PrVCyafdQdh8Jpz5gZNyR

A fitting metaphor for Gaza

https://www.dawn.com/news/1787145

Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-prison-15

Half of Gaza's population is under 18. Here's what that means for the conflict

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206897328/half-of-gazas-population-is-under-18-heres-what-that-means-for-the-conflict#:~:text=Of%20the%20more%20than%202%20million%20people%20living,bracing%20for%20an%20Israeli%20ground%20invasion%20are%20children.

The argument that Israel practices apartheid, explained

https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate

Balfour Declaration: Theresa May hosts Israeli PM for centenary

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41819451

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi review – conquest and resistance

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/07/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-by-rashid-khalidi-review-conquest-and-resistance

International Poverty Line: Definition, Criticism, Uses

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/international-poverty-line.asp#:~:text=The%20international%20poverty%20line%20is%20a%20monetary%20threshold,poverty%20line%20is%20%242.15%20per%20person%20per%20day.

An Israeli ministry, in a 'concept paper,' proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt's Sinai

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-ministry-concept-paper-proposes-transferring-gaza-civilians-104487924

Debating Israei Ethnocracy and the Challenge of Secular Democracy:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/230811/pdf

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In this second episode, Andrew and Matthew continue their discussion with Eric, this time talking about the current conflict in Gaza and the modern history that contextualises it.

Profile: Mahmoud Abbas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20033995

Hamas Covenant 1988

The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

The story about beheaded babies is probably false.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/decapitated-babies-claim-intent-dehumanization.html

The hospital bombing was probably not Israel and the number of casualties is likely overstated

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/21/middleeast/cnn-investigates-forensic-analysis-gaza-hospital-blast/index.html

Hamas takes control of Gaza - 2007

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/15/israel4

What is a human shield and how has Hamas been accused of using them?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/human-shield-israel-claim-hamas-command-centre-under-hospital-palestinian-civilian-gaza-city

Israel claims Gaza's largest hospital is a Hamas command centre, but Palestinians and others reject claim

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-27-23/h_acdbf216cc4de120872cf48b55541c63

UN Conflict Casualties

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

1948 Palestine war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_war

THE WEST BANK WAS ANNEXED ONCE BEFORE. IT ENDED IN REGRET.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/martinkramer/files/the_west_bank_was_annexed_once_before._it_ended_in_regret._.pdf

Ernest Bevin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bevin

Memri TV Archives

https://www.memri.org/tv/archives

Israeli disengagement from Gaza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza

2006 Palestinian legislative election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

Battle of Gaza (2007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)

Netanyahu Accused of 'Genocidal Intentions' in Gaza After 'Holy Mission' Speech

https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-genocide

Gaza’s food system has been stretched to breaking point by Israel

https://theconversation.com/gazas-food-system-has-been-stretched-to-breaking-point-by-israel-188556

How Jenin battle became a 'massacre'

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/may/06/mondaymediasection5

Explainer: When are attacks on civilian infrastructure war crimes?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/when-are-attacks-civilian-infrastructure-war-crimes-2022-12-16/

Hamas Quietly Admits It Fired Rockets from Civilian Areas

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/hamas-quietly-admits-it-fired-rockets-from-civilian-areas/380149/

The United Nations — From Ally to Antisemitic

https://www.newsweek.com/united-nations-ally-antisemitic-platform-opinion-1636252

UN Watch

https://unwatch.org/en-observant-les-observateurs/

Hamas commits war crimes

https://jcpa.org/the-gaza-war-2014/legal-aspects-hamas-war-on-israel/

Israel war crimes

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/

UNRWA STRONGLY CONDEMNS PLACEMENT OF ROCKETS IN SCHOOL

https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-strongly-condemns-placement-rockets-school

UN resolutions against Israel compared

https://unwatch.org/2022-2023-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-of-the-world/

In this special bonus Episode, Andrew and Matthew welcome Eric to talk about the history of Israel.

History of Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel

History of Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_State_of_Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine

British Mandate on Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine

Gaza is not friendly to the LGBT+ community

https://epgn.com/2019/08/22/some-palestinians-don-t-forget-to-kill-the-homosexuals/

Dreyfus Affair

https://jewishunpacked.com/what-was-the-dreyfus-affair/

Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN Sept 21, 2023.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141237

Abraham Accords

https://www.abraham-accords.uk/

https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2020/10/23/the-abraham-accords-a-peace-deal-in-name-only/

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-09-14/debates/7F307569-9A0D-40F0-9863-53806E19349E/AbrahamAccords

https://mei.edu/publications/two-pillars-abraham-accords

The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative

https://israeled.org/resources/documents/2002-arab-peace-initiative/

US ambassador Phillip Lader on BBC question time 2001-09-13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of6fsC9mOyU

Animated History of the Israel Palestine conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m19F4IHTVGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU

Animated History of the Jews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIYHMdOr5Aw

A Brief History of Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DadVT2Ux_4

A longer History of Palestine (which tells a different perspective to the video above)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCeQt8zg5o

Merneptah Stele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele

The Origins of the Ancient Israelite States

https://vdoc.pub/documents/the-origins-of-the-ancient-israelite-states-jsot-supplement-series-7dm6fak708e0

Tel Dan stele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_stele

Maccabean Revolt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabean_Revolt

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan

Bar Kokhba Revolt

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bar-Kokhba-Revolt

How Christian Europe created anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/how-christian-europe-created-anti-semitism-in-the-middle-ages/47800164

The Shock of the Black Death

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/persecution-and-toleration/shock-of-the-black-death/F8E3957BC21A02DA40E0DDEB50696D77

Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian spy

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/02/25/ion-mihai-pacepa-romanian-spy-star-defector-revealed-sordid/

Israel and Gaza maps: How the borders have changed throughout history and where Palestinians live

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/israel-gaza-maps-borders-changed-history-where-palestinians-live-2690900

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-54116567

PLO History

https://remix.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/plo.html

http://palestineun.org/about-palestine/palestine-liberation-organization/

Hajj Amin al-Husayni meets Hitler

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/hajj-amin-al-husayni-meets-hitler

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hajj-amin-al-husayni-wartime-propagandist

Operation Barbarossa

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-operation-barbarossa

The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/courses/290h_09/readings/klee_pushed_to_their_psychological_limits.pdf

Himmler visits Minsk

https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/einsatzgruppen/himmlervisitsminsk.html

Allied forces knew about Holocaust two years before discovery of concentration camps

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/holocaust-allied-forces-knew-before-concentration-camp-discovery-us-uk-soviets-secret-documents-a7688036.html

Ask Project YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/@CoreyGilShusterAskProject

In this episode Matthew chats with Stephen from Ravel podcast. Stephen admitted on a recent episode that he no longer considered himself Christian, so naturally we wanted to have a conversation with him. As it turns out, we had a fabulous one. we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Ravel Podcast

https://www.instagram.com/ravelpod/

https://www.owltail.com/podcast/1AdkF-Ravel/episodes

Beer Christianity

https://www.beerchristianity.co.uk/

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This episode of Still Unbelievable is a replay of a conversation that Andrew and I had with Philip Goff and Brian Blaise. The original conversation is Episode 3 of the Proscenium podcast, if you have not already listened to that, then this episode is a conversation where we invited philosopher Philip Goff to discuss Panpsychism and his book Galileo's Error, which I recommend.

We invited Brian Blaise to join the conversation because we though that Philip and Brian would have a conversation worth listening to. I think you'll find we made a good call.

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In this Episode of Still Unbelivceable! Andrew and Matthew chat with Christian listener, William Gretton, who contacted us proposing a conversation. As a result we had a genuinely enjoyable discussion. Of course we didn't agree on everything. But we did agree with grace and William showed us that it is possible to have these conversations and to part with a respect and liking for our fellow humans. May we all have more of these.

Matthew's music video appearance: Green Brick Pub

https://youtu.be/FO7acv-4abw

William's book: No Deals Mr President

https://amzn.eu/d/as9XEua

William's Granddaughter is also an author (and a former Olympic Swimmer).

To read Ellie's book, follow this link.

https://amzn.eu/d/0nyUb7s

Matthew on the Unbelievable? podcast with Mike D'Virgilio

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/uninvented-are-the-stories-of-jesus-too-unusual-to/id267142101?i=1000597920064

https://youtu.be/foThkxnpHFY

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Episode 100 - One hundred episodes of hate.

To celebrate Still Unbelievable! reaching 100 episodes over four years, Andrew and Matthew invite Clint and Darren to chat about why they do what they do and to address the very specific accusation that they hate Christians.

The BITE model of control

https://www.alittlebithuman.com/the-bite-model-of-cult-mind-control-explained/

Clint's Mindshift Podcast

https://mindshiftpodcast.co.uk/

I was a Teenage Fundamentalist Podcast

https://www.iwasateenagefundamentalist.com/podcast/

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in this episode of Still Unbelievable Matthew is joined by David from Skeptics and Seekers to interview Heather Wells, author of the book Trustworthy, a Journey from American Christianity to Freedom. Heather writes powerfully about her life experience and that comes across as David and I describe our reactions to her book. Heather has also been interviewed by David, the Graceful Atheist, see the show notes for a link to that episode and for other links to resources helpful to the those journeying away from Christianity.

Buy the book here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trustworthy-Journey-American-Christianity-Freedom-ebook/dp/B0BD18FZ12

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/trustworthy-a-journey-from-american-christianity-to-freedom

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1319756

Heather on the Graceful Atheist podcast:

https://gracefulatheist.com/2022/11/06/heather-wells-trustworthy/

Recovering From Religion

https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/

Journey Free

https://www.journeyfree.org/

Janice Selbie

https://twitter.com/Wise_counsellor

https://www.religioustraumaconference.org/

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Bart Ehrman

https://www.bartehrman.com/

Armageddon on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=bart+ehrman+armageddon&adgrpid=1184175078655947&hvadid=74011170480282&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=69110&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-74011193619739%3Aloc-188&hydadcr=11904_2290925&tag=mh0a9-21&ref=pd_sl_215yrdn1k9_e

Olivet Discourse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivet_Discourse

Preterism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterism

Bart Ehrman on the Graceful Atheist podcast

https://gracefulatheist.com/2023/04/09/bart-d-ehrman-armageddon/

Bart Ehrman on I was a Teenage Fundamentalist

https://iwasateenagefundamentalist.podbean.com/e/074-armageddon-isn-t-coming-with-bart-ehrman/

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In this episode Andrew and Matthew are joined by David and Michael, two of our fellow authors from Still Unbelievable! the book. We spent 3 hours going through the listener comments from my appearance on Unbelievable? where I conversed with Mike D'Virgilio about his book, Uninvented. This episode goes very long, and we have a good time picking apart the variety of comments, there is laughter and there is frustration. Various resources are mentioned and as always, the links are in the show notes.

Matthew on Unbelievable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foThkxnpHFY&t=4117s

Unbelievable? podcasts

https://www.premierchristianity.com/podcasts/unbelievable

Matthew talking Miracles with David on Skeptics and Seekers

https://skepticsandseekers.squarespace.com/blog-1/4s-s2e3-miracles

https://skepticsandseekers.squarespace.com/

Read Still Unbelievable! for free

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

Israel Finkelstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Finkelstein

Rank–Raglan mythotype

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%E2%80%93Raglan_mythotype

What Happened In A.D. 70? The Destruction of Jerusalem

https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-D-Destruction-Jerusalem/dp/193284404X

Matthew Talking about Miracles on Skeptics and Seekers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiLK1Oi_TCw

Derren Brown on Unbelievable?

https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-zdf8x-153b78

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4ew3m-63245d

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dihn7-63245e

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In this Episode, Matthew makes reference to an incident where he misquotes Jonathan. The original YoutTube conversation is at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdcd3lTmv9c&t=1s

The Still Unbelievable! episode of the audio is available at:

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/WJi4zgDaezb

The segment where I misquoted Jonathan is in my intro where I make reference to millions of years for a specific mutation to arise. The Audio from Jonathan that is being referenced is at 49m though 53m. I think what I did was during my research following the episode I mixed up the ape and the whale examples that Jonathan references and that mental mixup resulted in an innacurate representation. As stated in this episode, Jonathan was very gracious in his response to me on that.

Alpha video 2: Who is Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtTnSMNtE44

New Testament manuscripts compared with those of other ancient texts

https://truthfaithandreason.com/case-making-101-how-does-the-bible-compare-to-other-ancient-documents/

https://carm.org/about-the-bible/manuscript-evidence-for-superior-new-testament-reliability/

https://reformedwiki.com/bible-ancient-texts-voddie

Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Myths-Mistakes-Testament-Textual-Criticism/dp/0830852573

F. F. Bruce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._F._Bruce

300 Prophesies fulfilled by Jesus

https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/7/20/jesus-fulfilled-over-300-prophecies#:~:text=365%20Prophecies%20Fulfilled%20by%20Jesus%20%20%20,%20%203%3A36%20%2024%20more%20rows%20

Timothy McGrew on the Arguments from Silence (I could not find a free to read version)

https://philpapers.org/rec/MCGTAF-2

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271972928_The_Argument_from_Silence

Expulsion of Jews from Rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius%27_expulsion_of_Jews_from_Rome

Christian Evidence Society

https://christianevidence.org/

Still Unbelievable episodes 73 and 74 on The Christian Evidence Society sessions

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/66k5ars3Czb

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/YO8gmqs3Czb

Bishop of Durham, David Jenkins Controversy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/06/david-jenkins-bishop-durham-biblical-facts-fire-york-minster

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Episode 95 Ridiculous Reasons to Believe

In this short episode Matthew will be picking apart a video from Reasons to Believe that William Lane Craig posted on his twitter timeline in March 2023.

The sequence is titled, Did Jesus rise from the dead? Part 1, the facts. See link 1 for the full 6.5 minute video and the additional follow on videos. There is a very simple objection to any claim about Jesus rising from the dead, and that is, all claims start from the assumption that the gospel accounts are truthfully reporting events that actually happened. We don't know this, and we can't know this, which is why starting from this position and then using this unsupportable starting point to argue for the literal resurrection of Jesus is unreasonable.

1) https://www.reasonablefaith.org/did-jesus-rise-from-the-dead

2) https://www.history.com/news/resurrection-stories-ancient-cultures

3) https://listverse.com/2013/03/30/10-resurrected-religious-figures/

4) https://www.britannica.com/topic/textual-criticism

5) https://overviewbible.com/how-did-the-apostles-die/

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In this episode of Still Unbelievable!, Andrew and Matthew give a brief update on what's going in their lives outside of Still Unbelievable! and then give thoughts on Matthew's appearance on the Unbelievable? podcast and some shows with Christians that have they've recently recorded.

As always, please see the show notes for items that are discussed.

Brian Blais

https://bblais.github.io/

Mike D'Virgilio

https://mikedvirgilio.com/

Jonathan McLatchie

https://jonathanmclatchie.com/

Matthew's Conversation with Mike D'Virgilio

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

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Mike D'Virgilio

https://mikedvirgilio.com/

Matthew and Mike on Unbelievable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foThkxnpHFY&t=4117s

Unbelievable? podcasts

https://www.premierchristianity.com/podcasts/unbelievable

The Robe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robe

Jesus of Nazareth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Nazareth_(TV_series)

Blog post listing 50 Separate Extrabiblical Verifications of Luke’s Historical Accuracy

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2022/02/evangelist-luke-archaeology-history.html

Suetonius on Crossing the Rubicon

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Suetonius1.php#anchor_Toc276121854

Book One: XXXII The Die is Cast

As he stood there, undecided, he received a sign. A being of marvellous stature and beauty appeared suddenly, seated nearby, and playing on a reed pipe. A knot of shepherds gathered to listen, but when a crowd of his soldiers, including some of the trumpeters, broke ranks to join them, the apparition snatched a trumpet from one of them, ran to the river, and sounding the call to arms blew a thunderous blast, and crossed to the far side. At this, Caesar exclaimed: ‘Let us follow the summons, of the gods’ sign and our enemy’s injustice. The die is cast.’

skydivephil on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/skydivephil

Our conversation with Sky Dive Phil

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/8v6CsH2Bczb https://www.stitcher.com/show/ask-an-atheist-anything-2/episode/episode-11-talking-cosmology-with-skydivephil-77966367

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Andrew and Matthew and joined by Phil Halper, who own the YouTube channel skydivephil where he posts excellent videos on cosmology.

Phil also wrote two chapters of our book Still Unbelievable! and has appeared on other podcasts, including Unbelievable?

Before the big bang playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_pILPr7B8&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqqj2D8eSk7yoa4hnojoCR4m

Cosmology playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqrC4ce700XI8JjeeC3l70NZ

QLC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgwJmWXoWWI

Black Holes and Dark Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFJtDLR4bTo

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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/

https://twitter.com/BekahMcneel

Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down

https://bekahmcneel.com/book/

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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.youtube.com/watch?v=foThkxnpHFY

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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In this episode, Andrew and Matthew are joined by Aaron and Tim to talk over the subject of, properly understood, the bible is the most potent force for atheism. This is a great episode that we enjoyed immensely, thank you to both of our guests.

Arron ricker

https://mcgill.academia.edu/AaronRicker

Tim O Neill

https://historyforatheists.com/about-the-author-and-a-faq/

Jesus The Jew

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-Jew-Classics-Geza-Vermes/dp/0334028396

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_the_Jew

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Talking about the Resurrection

In this Episode, Ed Atkinson joins Andrew and Matthew to discuss the Resurrection of Jesus and how we dealt with the minimal facts in Episode 83. Ed was part of the team behind the book Still Unbelievable! and wrote the chapter on the resurrection.

Matthew's recent appearance on Unbelievable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foThkxnpHFY

Ed's Doubts Aloud Podcast:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/247243319147813/

https://player.fm/series/doubts-aloud-podcast

Peter Enns:

https://www.eastern.edu/peter-enns

https://thebiblefornormalpeople.com/

James Crossley:

https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/jesus-and-the-chaos-of-history/

Phantom Vibration

https://www.phantomvibrationsyndrome.com/why-does-it-feel-like-my-phone-is-vibrating-when-its-not/#:~:text=The%20main%20cause%20for%20phantom%20vibration%20syndrome%20is,controlling%20this%20symptom%20and%20they%20include%20the%20following%3A

Mark Goodachre

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/scholar/mark-goodacre/

https://podacre.blogspot.com/

Robyn Walsh

https://people.miami.edu/profile/8b65d0bdbf97af63671314512424a475

Unbelievable? with Crossley and Habermas

https://backtracks.fm/discover/s/unbelievable/1cf6c8e84860992b/e/do-the-minimal-facts-support-the-resurrection-gary-habermas-james-crossley/b9cee096d599ad5b

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Episode 87, Polytheism. In this episode of Still Unbeliveable! Andrew and Matthew Welcome Steven Dillion to discuss Polytheism. 

The episode art is the Greek god Asclepius (also Asklepios), the reason why is revealed at the end of the show.

Steven Dillon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1785359797/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_RRE1TDRKKC717G44ETY9_0

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/moon-books/authors/steven-dillon

Prof. Michael Huemer:

https://www.owl232.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Huemer

further details on Henadacity

https://henadology.wordpress.com/philosophy/

Asclepius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius

Red Letters Season Finale:

https://skepticsandseekers.squarespace.com/red-letters-discussion/4s-with-red-letters-season-1-finale-end-of-the-road

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Andrew and Matthew welcome Young Earth Creationist, Ben, to discuss what it means to be a YEC and why Ben is convinced it's the correct conclusion.

Additional Links provided by Ben after editing completed:

Chicxulub (Yucatan site): Clarey, T. L. 2017. Do the Data Support a Large Meteorite Impact at Chicxulub? Answers Research Journal. 10: 71-88. https://answersresearchjournal.org/large-meteorite-impact-chicxulub/ 

Numerical Simulation of the Large-Scale Tectonic Changes Accompanying the Flood, John Baumgardner. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh, C. L. Brooks, & R. S. Crowell (Eds.), pp. 17–28, 1986. https://www.icr.org/article/large-scale-tectonic-change-flood/ 

Physical Mechanism for Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field During the Flood, Russell Humphreys. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh & C. L. Brooks (Eds.), pp. 129–140, 1990. https://www.icr.org/article/reversals-earths-magnetic-field-flood/ 

‘Fossil’ magnetism reveals rapid reversals of the earth’s magnetic field, Andrew Snelling. Creation 13(3):46–50, June 1991. https://creation.com/fossil-magnetism-reveals-rapid-reversals-of-the-earths-magnetic-field 

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics major paper:  Austin, Stephen A. et. al. (1994).  Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh (Ed.), pp. 609–621. https://www.icr.org/article/catastrophic-plate-tectonics-flood-model/ 

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Matthews numbered links, referenced in the show:

Ben's podcast: Macrophage Strategy

1) https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/macrophage-strategy/3962530

Eric Pianka links

2) https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/people/influential-people-in-texas-biodiversity/eric-pianka

3) http://www.cathyyoung.net/speech/Piankaspeech.htm - speech transcript

Tucker Carlson TV Interview

4) https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=professor+eric+pianka&docid=608032679459840399&mid=C87D7B7236A026BF2100C87D7B7236A026BF2100&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Evolution News inaccurate reporting

5) https://evolutionnews.org/2006/04/doctor_doom_eric_pianka_receiv/

Tim Clarey - ICR

6) https://www.icr.org/article/grand-canyon-carved-by-flood-runoff

7) https://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2014/03/18/on-ignorance-bias-data-and-the-tentative-nature-of-interpretations/

Tim Clarey - Yukatan

8) https://www.icr.org/article/chicxulub-crater-theory-mostly-smoke

9) https://astronomy.com/news/2021/03/asteroid-dust-found-at-chicxulub-crater-confirms-cause-of-dinosaurs-extinction

Thermal Runaway (Runaway Subduction)

10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_runaway

11) https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol3/iss1/14/

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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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Episode 84 Miracles.

We welcome returning guest Brian Blais to talk about miracles. Andrew gives an update on the failed prayer to heal his eyesight, and towards the end of the show, she have a special appearance by David from Skeptics and Seekers.

For further discussion regarding the shoe on the roof NDE story that we raise and Gary Habermas likes to promote see the digital gnosis youtube video in link 1. It's a very long video and they talk about a lot of cases, including this one, including the detail that one of the accounts is 4th hand and 7 years later. Something that Gary Habermas fails to mention.

1)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdLoGpIu3Q&t=11263s

 Digitial Gnosis Bad Apologetics series: 

2) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Mar/23/a-long-discussion-about-miracles/

Brian's blog: 

3) https://bblais.github.io

All about miracles from the blog: 

4) https://bblais.github.io/search.html?q=miracles

Why we need double-blind studies: 

5) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/May/31/why-do-we-need-double-blind-studies/

The Mozambique study discussion: 

6) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Mar/23/a-long-discussion-about-miracles/#therapeutic-effects-of-proximal-intercessory-prayer-in-rural-mozambique

Original mozambique prayer study paper on researchgate

7) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45505841_Study_of_the_Therapeutic_Effects_of_Proximal_Intercessory_Prayer_STEPP_on_Auditory_and_Visual_Impairments_in_Rural_Mozambique

Another critique of the paper

8) https://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2011/02/truly-dreadful-study-into-effects-of.html

Double blind accupuncture study

9) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352029/

The macular degeneration "miracle": 

10) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Mar/23/a-long-discussion-about-miracles/#case-report-of-instantaneous-resolution-of-juvenile-macular-degeneration-blindness-after-proximal-intercessory-prayer

The pool table "miracle": 

11) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Mar/23/a-long-discussion-about-miracles/#jp-moreland-gets-a-pool-table

Brian's responses to John McLatchie:

Dubious medical procedures: 

12) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2020/Jul/09/skepticism-and-dubious-medical-procedures/

On what would convince Brian: 

13) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Jan/24/ongoing-conversation-with-jonathan-mclatchie/

Bayes, prophecy, etc...:

14) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Jan/18/bad-apologetics/

Resurrection vs Proton Decay: 

15) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Jan/17/proton-decay-and-the-resurrection-of-jesus/

Some comments and math on testimony: 

16) https://bblais.github.io/posts/2022/Jun/14/sometimes-more-testimony-is-worse/

Item on NDEs, which includes the shoe on the roof that we discuss.

17) https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1340&context=lts_fac_pubs

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Andrew and Matthew discuss and review a Christian podcast talking about the Minimal Facts claims for the resurrection.

Original Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbzPdROPUY

Critique of the Criterion of embarrassment:

1) https://skepticink.com/humesapprentice/2014/08/21/the-criterion-of-embarrassment/

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT3hdI5Peo4&t=1136s

3) https://www.routledge.com/Oral-Tradition-A-Study-in-Historical-Methodology/Vansina/p/book/9780202308197#

4) http://www.ericlevy.com/Revel/Intro2/Hoerth%20-%20Egyptians.PDF

5) https://academic.oup.com/book/6259

6) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hy_RBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=what+makes+%22meryibre%27s%22+confessions+credible&source=bl&ots=vLqCl6quxr&sig=ACfU3U3ETZRv9MxTwDp5j-daXJMSMT0MCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYhYCFrqD5AhWNS8AKHTwOAYQQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20%22meryibre's%22%20confessions%20credible&f=false

7) https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/no-saul-the-persecutor-did-not-become-paul-the-apostle/

Download the PDF of the Gerd Ludemann - WLC debate

8) https://vdoc.pub/download/resurrection-fact-or-fiction-a-debate-between-william-lane-craig-gerd-ludemann-2osj9tmr9k8g

9) https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Resurrection_of_Christ.html?id=GRHZAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

Paul Timeline

10) https://www.understandchristianity.com/timelines/chronology-pauls-ministry/

11) https://totallyhistory.com/biblical-history/paul-the-apostle-timeline/

12) https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/apostle-paul-timeline

13) https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/paul/timeline.cfm

Jesus Timeline

14) https://www.oxfordbiblechurch.co.uk/index.php/teachings/bible-chronology/2572-the-chronology-of-jesus-from-john-s-gospel

15) https://bible-history.com/chart-jesus-chronology/

16) https://www.datesandevents.org/people-timelines/36-timeline-of-jesus.htm

17) https://christianity.org.uk/article/timeline-of-jesus-life

18) https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/four-other-gospels-review-article/

19) https://alchetron.com/John-Dominic-Crossan

20) http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/CraigCrossanDebate.mp3

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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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Matthew has a conversation with Pauline, a UK resident of French descent. In this episode we cover Christianity in France, France's challenges in maintaining a secular society, difficulties in the UK Evangelical church, and poor mental health.

UK Exvangelical Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2218653308373098

New Frontiers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfrontiers

Terry Virgo:

https://www.terryvirgo.org/

https://www.youtube.com/terryvirgoonline

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

Unapologetic video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z8FlPrP3OM

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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Matthew has a chat with the Tall Friendly Atheist Dad.

The Tall Friendly Atheist Dad Podcast:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tall-friendly-atheist-dad-podcast-the-MZFjCa6HNxi/

Let's Save The Governor-General!

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lets-save-the-governor-general-save-general-vREYh2GUDwp/

Wrestling With Atheism:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/wrestling-with-atheism-wrestling-with-atheism-ykuaBLKSpMW/

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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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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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In this episode, Darren is back to discuss our experience of session 3 and 4 of the 2022 Christian Evidence Society presentations.

We also address some feedback we had regarding our response to race session of the 2021 presentations, in Episode 54.

Christian Evidence Society

https://christianevidence.org/

Session 3:

Professor Dr Barbara Drossel, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Are we here by accident?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQNEJU4TSjE

Professor Dr Barbara Drossel:

https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/about/people/prof-dr-barbara-drossel/

Session 4:

Dr Jennifer Wiseman: Are we alone in the universe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6DSAXJ3Rk

Dr Jennifer Wiseman:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/dr-jennifer-j-wiseman-hubble-senior-project-scientist

2021 Session Videos

https://christianevidence.org/2021/05/14/questions-of-our-times-videos-available/

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The Christian Evidence Society sessions are back for 2022. This time it's four sessions, which we will cover in two episodes of Still Unbelievable!

Darren joins Andrew and Matthew to attend the sessions and then review them afterwards.

Christian Evidence Society

https://christianevidence.org/

Session 1:

Alister McGrath: Should we always follow the science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykFAxEkgvuM

Professor Alister McGrath

https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-alister-mcgrath

http://alistermcgrath.weebly.com/

Session 2:

Mary Ellen Foster: Will a robot steal my job?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpi1O9mBIo

Dr Mary Ellen Foster

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mefoster/

Gary Marcus:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-next-decade-in-ai-gary-marcus-four-steps-towards-robust-artificial-intelligence/

The Turing Test:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/

Skydivephil:

Physicists & Philosophers reply to the Kalam Cosmological Argument featuring Penrose, Hawking, Guth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME&t=4s

2021 Session Videos

https://christianevidence.org/2021/05/14/questions-of-our-times-videos-available/

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Tim Hull is a Christian with his own YouTube channel and posts content addressing Deconstruction, among other topics. Tim and Matthew have engaged many time over the years on the Unbelievable? Facebook page, so Matthew felt it was time that they had a genuine live conversation. 

Dealing with Deconstruction

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

One Minute Apologist

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkgIl5W-HXG8-srQdyAbDw

Image Church

http://www.imagechurch.live/

Christian Evidence Society events for March

https://christianevidence.org/2022/01/27/questions-of-our-times-webinars-will-follow-the-science/

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Did you listen to our episode where we answered Braxton Hunters 10 Questions for atheists 2021?

Braxton did, and he did a special response to our answer to question two, where Matthew said, "Arguments are not Evidence".

This Episode is part two of our response to Braxton's response. Part 1 is Episode 70.

Link to Braxtons YouTube response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyr_xpkw-XQ

SkyDivePhil's video responding to the KCA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME

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Did you listen to our episode where we answered Braxton Hunters 10 Questions for atheists 2021?

Braxton did, and he did a special response to our answer to question two, where Matthew said, "Arguments are not Evidence".

Link to Braxtons YouTube response: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyr_xpkw-XQ

Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs:

https://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21533

Physics in a minute: The double slit experiment:

https://plus.maths.org/content/physics-minute-double-slit-experiment-0

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In this episode, Matthew addresses comments by Justin Brierley about atheists being too wedded to their worldview to consider Christianity as true. 

The referenced Peter Atkins YouTube clip is: https://youtu.be/dRWIsuEL0Ac

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Matthew draws attention to how Hamilton can show what God's love looks like.

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In this Episode, Andrew and Matthew answer 3 Questions put forth by the YouTube channel, Capturing Christianity. Apparently, these are not supposed to be gotcha questions, but we don't believe Cameron!

CC original 3 questions video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tcsb2aPLI

Evidentialism:

https://iep.utm.edu/evidenti/#:~:text=Evidentialism%20is%20a%20theory%20about,justificatory%20status%20of%20one's%20beliefs.

Planet X:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hypothetical-planet-x/in-depth/

Kilogram redefined:

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666310991/say-au-revoir-to-that-hunk-of-metal-in-france-that-has-defined-the-kilogram

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In this short episode, Matthew addresses comments made in a recent episode of Unbelievable? where two Christians discussed abortion. The show was a good example of two people disagreeing (mostly) with grace, but several comments made by the anti abortion participant needed addressing.

show link: 

1) https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Abortion-and-the-Texas-heartbeat-bill-Stephanie-Gray-Connors-vs-Rev-Bromleigh-McCleneghan

Human rights and abortion.

2) https://www.ipas.org/our-work/human-rights-and-abortion/

3) https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/sexual-and-reproductive-rights/abortion-facts/

4) https://reproductiverights.org/un-human-rights-committee-asserts-that-access-to-abortion-and-prevention-of-maternal-mortality-are-human-rights/

Questions answered about the law:

5) https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-abortion-law-explained/

Science of the heartbeat

6) https://www.livescience.com/65501-fetal-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-explained.html

7) https://www.wired.com/story/heartbeat-bills-get-the-science-of-fetal-heartbeats-all-wrong/

Death of Savita Halappanavar

8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar

1967 PDF putting forward different views. 

9) https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.57.12.2163

10) https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/udhr.pdf

Stephanie on contraception

11) https://lozierinstitute.org/a-scientific-view-of-when-life-begins/

Canada: 15.2 USA: 20.8 UK: 17

13) https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country

Abortion rates are higher in countries where abortion is illegal.

14) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-abortion-idUSKCN0Y22QO

USA has twice the rate of Teen Pregnancy as Canada

15) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852976/

the science is not settled on a new life

16) https://www.wired.com/2015/10/science-cant-say-babys-life-begins/

Clips:

1:54 - 3:04 Intro to the show

4:38 - 5:38 Stephanie affirms a human rights argument against abortion

14:37 - 16:42 Justin asks about the Texas Heartbeat bill, Stephanie outlines the heartbeat bill

17:35 - 18:20 Justin asks Stephanie if she is in favour of the law

22:56 - 23:17 Stephanie responds to push back that it's 'not really a heart beat'. 

23:53 - 25:14 Stephanie responds to a challenge about abortion being a health care activity and that suggesting otherwise is manipulative.

31:31 - 32:54 Stephanie asks the very important question of what constitutes human rights 

42:05 - 42:21 What responsibilities do civil societies expect? 

43:41 - 43:46  it's a separate life at fertilisation.

47:24 - 47:33 dog and cats - sperm egg fusion, no one debates that. 

47:52 - 48:11 UN declaration of human rights says everyone has the right to life.

53:58 - 54:17 people who claim to be Christians won't embrace abortion.

54:45 - 55:10 humans are so valuable top god he suffered and died.

55:10 - 55:16 repeats science tells us human life at fertilisation

1:09:46 - 1:10:03 Stephanie says US and Canada abortion rates are essentially the same

1:13:33  "that moment", equality begins when we begin, 

1:14:06 - 1:14:35 ethical response 

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Braxton Hunter has done another 10 questions, in this Episode Andrew and Matthew review and answer the questions.

Original Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXhWIMT_9r8

Links:

- Contingency Argument

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.13916

- the Cosmological Argument

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmological-argument/

- Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument

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Andrew and Matthew invite Mark Clark on for a conversation about his latest book, The Problem of Jesus.

Andrew was unable to make this recording, so we invited David from Skeptics and Seekers to join Matthew in hosting Mark. We have a fascinating conversation about Mark, his work as a pastor and what drove him to write his books.

Find out more about Mark here:

http://www.pastormarkclark.com/

Mark's book, answering the Problem of Jesus is available here:

https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/understanding-the-faith/teaching-on-jesus/the-problem-of-jesus/?site_id=162595&adtype=pla&device=c&product_id=5225230&gclid=CjwKCAjwp_GJBhBmEiwALWBQk0lX0nXrC9Jj05u5nL513LfbrdZZlvufuDNnRSUph-DWnW1lf5ZK7xoCx1YQAvD_BwE

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Would you worship god if you were convinced he existed?

David, The Graceful Atheist, joins Matthew and Andrew to answer whether a god could change the mind of an honest atheist.

In this episode we discuss various issues around the idea of worship and directly the answer the challenge of why we would (or would not) worship the Christian god.

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This episode features David Johnson from Skeptics and Seekers, Clint Heacock from The MindShift podcast and David Hayward the Naked Pastor. We discuss events from the past year, like lockdown and race riots as well as some lighter hearted moments.

The Naked Pastor: https://nakedpastor.com/

The Lasting Supper: https://thelastingsupper.com/

Skeptics and Seekers: https://skepticsandseekers.squarespace.com/

The Mindshift Podcast: https://mindshiftpodcast.co.uk/

David on the MindShift podcast: https://mindshiftpodcast.co.uk/2021/07/16/papering-over-the-ugly-truth-the-history-of-the-church-and-racism-with-david-johnson/

CORT 2021

Conference on Religious Trauma: https://pheedloop.com/CORT/site/home/

Jesus and The Disinherited

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-Disinherited-Howard-Thurman/dp/0807010294/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=124553499049&dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw092IBhAwEiwAxR1lRhWTQDOxmPuo8U3sd5nctRZVsSr2zn0rS70u3Fn9GzxlpOmMdWEathoCh4IQAvD_BwE&hvadid=519011821422&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045659&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1829422166190730871&hvtargid=kwd-312474190297&hydadcr=24429_1748939&keywords=jesus+the+disinherited&qid=1628945948&sr=8-1

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Caleb and Kevin return for another series of questions from Andrew and Matthew. This is a friendly back and forth and we would like to extend our thanks to both Caleb and Kevin for their honesty and grace in this conversation. We respect them both and hope to have them back again to ask us questions.

Caleb Johnston - Questioning Christianity: https://www.facebook.com/QuestionChristianity/

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