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Discussions of topics at the intersection of God, Philosophy, Science, and Culture. Host, Kirk Durston, is a scientist, philosopher, and clergyman. Co-host, Heather Bowman, is a mother of three young adults and also has an intense interest in these questions. Check out Kirk’s Website for his blog and articles https://www.kirkdurston.com
Episodes
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What does it mean to be human?
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An understanding of what it means to be human is essential to understanding why God permits suffering in this world.
Tuesday May 07, 2024
The Slaughter of the Canaanites
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Arguments from evil against the existence of God hang on the premise that God cannot permit gratuitous evil. But if we grant that premise, then when a society becomes a gratuitous evil, God must terminate it. But then there are the objections ...
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Why We Don't Know What God Should Allow
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Every event produces an exponentially increasing number of consequences to the end of history, affecting an exponentially increasing number of causal chains, making calculations of the net moral value of any event impossible.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Are the Concepts of Evil and Injustice Rooted in Anything?
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Just as it is absurd to complain about a high crime rate if, in fact, there are no laws to break, so it is nonsense to complain about evil and injustice unless there is some ultimate standard of truth and beauty that is being violated.
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Did the Universe Originate from a Mind?
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Maybe the reason the universe is incredibly fine-tuned to support life, is that it was actually designed to do so--which has implications for a mind behind the universe.
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
What Caused God?
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Science cannot answer this question but cold, hard logic can.
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
The Origin of the Universe, Logic, and the Existence of the Supernatural
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Why cold, hard logic requires that the cause of nature, cannot be natural.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Unspoken Factors in Abandoning Belief in God
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
In listening to many testimonials from young Christian leaders who abandoned their belief in God, they appeared to be utterly unaware of three factors that may have had a very significant influence in their loss of faith.