All Apologetics articles – Page 36
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Why is the Universe the way it is? Hugh Ross & Paul Davies - Unbelievable?
Hugh Ross is an astronomer and founder of Reasons To Believe, an apologetics organisation aiming to show why modern science confirms and supports the Christian worldview. Paul Davies is a British astrophysicist and popular science author currently based at Arizona State University.
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What’s wrong with the world? Unbelievable?
Book now for Unbelievable?: The Conference 2012 http://www.premier.org.uk/reasons On the show this week: Andrew Wilson is an apologist, author and elder at KingsChurch Eastbourne. His new book ‘If God, Then What?’ presents arguments for the existence of God and how the Christian Gospel addresses the issues of suffering and death in the world. Geoff Lillis, a humanist atheist from Ireland returns to chat with Andrew.
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Was Jesus Liar, Lunatic or Lord? CS Lewis’ apologetics - Unbelievable?
April is CS Lewis month on Premier Christian Radio. In this edition of the show we examine two of CS Lewis’ apologetic arguments for Christianity. The Trilemma - “Either Jesus is a lunatic, a liar or Lord. He cannot simply be a great moral teacher, he has not left that option open to us”. Does Lewis’ argument still stand 60 years on?
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Is apologetics a waste of time? Unbelievable?
Chris Sinkinson is a pastor and tutor at Moorlands Bible College. His new book ‘Confident Christianity’ aims to equip the believer with an overview of apologetics and how it can be used to make a rational defense of the Christian faith. James Croft is an atheist Brit studying at Harvard University and director of ‘Temple of the Future’.
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Demons: Do they exist? Different Christian views - Unbelievable?
Three Christians of different theological persuasion discuss the existence of demons. John Tancock (JT) is involved in Charismatic Church leadership. He believes demons are real. As well as pursuing apologetics, he is involved in deliverance ministry and had regularly prayed for demons to be cast out of people. Will Van Der Hart is a vicar in the Church Of England and a founder of Mind and Soul - helping Churches to understand mental health issues.
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Unbelievable? Believing Bulls**t - Is Christianity an intellectual blackhole?
Stephen Law is an atheist and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College and director of the Centre for Inquiry UK. His latest book “Believing Bulls**t: how not to get sucked into an intellectual black hole” looks at the reasons people are persuaded into believing irrational things. Jame Orr is a Christian convert studying for a Doctorate in philosophy at Cambridge University. He engages Stephen on whether the criteria for recognising “intellectual black holes” applies to the claims of Christianity, including The Resurrection.
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Unbelievable? - Did man make God, or did God make man?
Edgar Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Materials at the University of London and the author of “Who Made God?” He returns to support the view that only God explains the ability of science to make sense of the world around us. Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology at University College London, he is an atheist and Vice President of the British Humanist Association.
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Unbelievable? - William Lane Craig apologetics Q&A
William Lane Craig is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, California.
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Unbelievable? - Gary Habermas & Geoff Campos - Belief in Miracles
Justin went backstage at the Bethinking Apologetics Conference last week to record a show with one of the speakers - Professor Gary Habermas and an atheist listener to Unbelievable? Geoff Campos.
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Unbelievable? - William Lane Craig vs Peter Millican - Does God Exist?
The Reasonable Faith Tour has concluded!
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Unbelievable? - William Lane Craig vs Stephen Law - Does God Exist?
Due to popular demand we are releasing an early Special Podcast Edition of the show featuring the full audio of the recent debate between William Lane Craig and Stephen Law on “Does God Exist”. The debate took place at Westminster Central Hall on Mon 17 October in front of an audience of over 1700 people.
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Unbelievable? - Old Testament Grill-a-Christian with Peter J Williams
Peter J Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge and a first class scholar of both Old and New Testament. He takes non-Christian listener sceptical questions on the Old Testament.
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Unbelievable? - Craig, Lennox, Habermas & PJ Williams - Apologetics conference preview
On this week’s show: We look ahead to the Bethinking National Apologetics Day Conference “Countering the New Atheism” on Sat 22 Oct in London. It will form part of the Reasonable Faith Tour. Speakers include William Lane Craig, John Lennox, Gary Habermas & Peter J Williams.
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Unbelievable? - Can an atheist believe in meaning?
Geoff Crocker is a former Christian, now atheist. However, he says he still believes in Spirituality even as an atheist and that believing the universe is Godless does not mean there is no meaning to be grasped. His book “An Enlightened Philosophy” asks if atheism may be able to borrow from Religion “reintrepreted as myth”. Peter S Williams is a Christian Philosopher and apologist. He says that Atheism does not allow for objective meaning, value or purpose, only theism can provide those.
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Unbelievable? - Dialogue with an ex-Christian
Rebekah Bennetch lives in Saskatoon, Canada. She grew up in a Christian family. Her dad is a pastor, and other family members are involved in Christian ministries. She professed faith from a young age, went to Bible college, atteneded church and went on mission trips. But in 2007 she “came out” as an atheist and now describes herself as the “black sheep” of her family. Sheridan Voysey is a writer, speaker and broadcaster on contemporary spirituality.
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Unbelievable? - Does Religion make people kill?
On Fri 22 July 2011 tragedy struck Norway as Anders Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo and shot dozens of people on the island of Utoya.
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Unbelievable? - Is there justification for abortion?
Recent statistics on abortion in the UK saw just under 190,000 abortions in 2010. Figures were also released for late abortions carried out because of physical and mental disability.
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Unbelievable? - Unbelievable? the Conference
Justin introduces two elements of the conference. Professor John Lennox, Scientist and Christian apologist gave the opening address “What are we apologising for?”
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Unbelievable? - Is the Bible Unbelievable?
Former Methodist minister turned atheist Leslie Scrace stopped reading the Bible after he lost his faith. 20 years later he read it again and wrote a book-by-book account of how he views it as an atheist called “An Unbelievers Guide to the Bible”. Leslie criticises parts of the Old Testament that he sees as primitive and immoral while praising other parts of scripture that illustrate humanist values.
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Unbelievable? - Presuppositional apologetics round 2
6 months ago Sye Ten Bruggencate and atheist Paul Baird met to discuss Sye’s presuppositional approach to proof of God. Sye claims that the fact Paul believes in laws of logic, maths, science and rationality prove that God exists. The show was a popular download with many subsequent online debates. They are back - Paul brings 6 months experience of debate on the subject online with him.
