Here are seven criticisms of the multiverse

Here are seven criticisms of the multiverse

Straight Thinking: The Logic of the Multiverse, Part 2

Do multiverse proponents commit the gambler's fallacy?

Do multiverse proponents commit the gambler's fallacy?

Straight Thinking: The Logic of the Multiverse, Part 1

Was the Early Earth Dark?  Is Intelligent Design "Science"?

Was the Early Earth Dark?  Is Intelligent Design "Science"?

28:19 - The Ethics of a COVID-19 Vaccine

Christian Orthodoxy

Lessons for today from Christians from the past

Lessons for today from Christians from the past

Straight Thinking: Shapers of Historic Christian Orthodoxy, Part 2

Why Does God Allow Miscarriages?  Goosebumps as Evidence for Creation

Why Does God Allow Miscarriages?  Goosebumps as Evidence for Creation

28:19 - A Christian Perspective on Pixar's SOUL

How Christians from the past shaped the faith 

How Christians from the past shaped the faith

Straight Thinking: Shapers of Historic Christian Orthodoxy, Part 1

Discussing God's love with Muslims

What Is the Best That Christianity Has to Offer? Part 2

How the love shared among a trinitarian God makes all the difference

How the love shared among a trinitarian God makes all the difference

What Is the Best That Christianity Has to Offer? Part 1

How has historic Christianity been a force for good in the world?

How has historic Christianity been a force for good in the world?

Straight Thinking: What's So Good about Christianity?

Does a Computer Algorithm Explain Life? Were Adam and Eve "Specially Created"?

Does a Computer Algorithm Explain Life? Were Adam and Eve "Specially Created"?

28:19 - Is Atheism the Default for Scientists?

RTB's mission is to spread the Christian Gospel by demonstrating that sound reason and scientific research consistently support, rather than erode, confidence in the truth of the Bible.

Is Christianity true and also good for the world?

Is Christianity true and also good for the world?

Straight Thinking: Historic Christianity: Truth and Goodness

Why Does a Mathematician Believe in God?  Examining Origins of Life Theories 

Why Does a Mathematician Believe in God?  Examining Origins of Life Theories

28:19 - How to Start an Apologetics Ministry

How does Christianity compare with other worldviews?

How does Christianity compare with other worldviews?

Straight Thinking: Thinking Worldviewishly, Part 2

Why Does a Mathematician Believe in God? Examining Origins of Life Theories 

Why Does a Mathematician Believe in God? Examining Origins of Life Theories

Where Is God in a Coronavirus World? Do Superhabitable Planets Exist?

Where Is God in a Coronavirus World? Do Superhabitable Planets Exist?

28:19 - The Mystery of the Incarnation

What kinds of questions help identify a worldview?

What kinds of questions help identify a worldview?

Straight Thinking: Thinking Worldviewishly, Part 1

Is there more agreement or disagreement among the branches of Christendom?

Is there more agreement or disagreement among the branches of Christendom?

Straight Thinking: Christendom: Agreements and Disagreements, Part 2

Sharing Our Faith in a Hostile World  Social Media and the Social Dilemma 

Sharing Our Faith in a Hostile World  Social Media and the Social Dilemma

28:19 - God's Mercy in Pain

Is Christendom hopelessly divided?

Straight Thinking: Christendom: Agreements and Disagreements, Part 1

How truth, beauty, and goodness inform discussions about ultimate issues

How truth, beauty, and goodness inform discussions about ultimate issues

Straight Thinking: The 3 Transcendentals - Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, Part 2

The episodes where they focus their conversation and time to the episode title are great! When they, mostly Ken Samples, wander or circle around the topic, the episode become too long and almost unsharable to non-Christians who would really benefit. Episodes that are focused and under an hour, well under is better, are ideal. 

Also, show notes with the book titles and authors would be great. Been more than one episode where resources were rattled off. Again, for sharing for those interested, a text list would be a useful tool.

Great podcast when on topic

Good variety of topics from theology to history to apologetics. Honest and open.

Sound and faithful. Thought-provoking.

Reasons to Believe Podcast

What Are the Biggest Faith Challenges on the Horizon? Why Music Moves Us. How Does Geology Point to God?

What Are the Biggest Faith Challenges on the Horizon? Why Music Moves Us. How Does Geology Point to God?

28:19 - 4 Myths about Old-Earth Creation

What Does Christianity Say about Reality? Climate Change and the Younger Dryas. What Is Freedom?

What Does Christianity Say about Reality? Climate Change and the Younger Dryas. What Is Freedom?

28:19 - Were Adam and Eve the First Humans?

Hugh Ross

Tornadoes and natural evils or gratuitous evils exist, but question seems to me what makes them optimal such that one less gratuitous evil as the next possible world to us wouldn't be better?  ​It seems that natural evils found in nature are not necessary evil but more likely good. I see the good things that mankind proclaim are more inherently evil. A read a paper a number of years ago that showed earths' temp.changes tracked nicely with sunspot activity, and therefore this was the primary cause of climate change. True?  ​If the Arctic ice all melts and the Arctic Ocean is open, why would it not freeze over again pretty quickly and shut the increased water vapor again?  Aren't there a lot of green house gasses being released from the polar ice-cap melt?  Shouldn't NOAA climate models take into consideration astronomical as well as CO2 / H2O feedback mechanisms?  Hugh said there has been a 1 deg C rise in temp in the last 70 years but he did not explain the precise cause of the rise, What caused it? Man made CO2 production or something else?  If the climate gets hotter then ice melts but it also evaporates - so what's the balance? Also, is the amount of water (liquid, ice, gas) fixed on earth?  The View From Mars Hill​since God knows the beginning from the end, can't we expect that He knew how our thriving would affect climate and created healing mechanisms we may not be fully aware of? 

Tornadoes and natural evils or gratuitous evils exist, but question seems to me what makes them optimal such that one less gratuitous evil as the next possible world to us wouldn't be better?  ​It seems that natural evils found in nature are not necessary evil but more likely good. I see the good things that mankind proclaim are more inherently evil. A read a paper a number of years ago that showed earths' temp.changes tracked nicely with sunspot activity, and therefore this was the primary cause of climate change. True?  ​If the Arctic ice all melts and the Arctic Ocean is open, why would it not freeze over again pretty quickly and shut the increased water vapor again?  Aren't there a lot of green house gasses being released from the polar ice-cap melt?  Shouldn't NOAA climate models take into consideration astronomical as well as CO2 / H2O feedback mechanisms?  Hugh said there has been a 1 deg C rise in temp in the last 70 years but he did not explain the precise cause of the rise, What caused it? Man made CO2 production or something else?  If the climate gets hotter then ice melts but it also evaporates - so what's the balance? Also, is the amount of water (liquid, ice, gas) fixed on earth?  The View From Mars Hill​since God knows the beginning from the end, can't we expect that He knew how our thriving would affect climate and created healing mechanisms we may not be fully aware of?

RTBLive Extra: Global Warming Q&A with Dr. Hugh Ross

Six ways Islam differs and why it matters

Six ways Islam differs and why it matters

Straight Thinking: How Does Islam Differ with Christianity?

Stuart McAllister

Is western society in a post truth era?

Straight Thinking: An Interview with Stuart McAllister

Ken Samples

How can we know the authorship of new testament? What would your advise be to people thinking through all the conspiracy theories circulating on the internet &amp; how would you recommend Christians engage these online discussions? How do feel about John being the primary book where Jesus declares himself to be God and it being the last written of the gospels? Have you heard arguments from Bart Erhman, etc? Does the Bible line up well enough with history and “secular” discoveries to prove or validate itself?  Believing and knowing are somewhat different. What is the evidence? What Do you think of the ontological argument? Is God subject to Identity, Non-Contradiction, and Excluded Middle? If God exists, how can anything be natural? How does faith based on reason justify or explain hell?

How can we know the authorship of new testament? What would your advise be to people thinking through all the conspiracy theories circulating on the internet &amp; how would you recommend Christians engage these online discussions? How do feel about John being the primary book where Jesus declares himself to be God and it being the last written of the gospels? Have you heard arguments from Bart Erhman, etc? Does the Bible line up well enough with history and “secular” discoveries to prove or validate itself?  Believing and knowing are somewhat different. What is the evidence? What Do you think of the ontological argument? Is God subject to Identity, Non-Contradiction, and Excluded Middle? If God exists, how can anything be natural? How does faith based on reason justify or explain hell?

RTBLive Extra: Q&A with Ken Samples

Patrick McGuire

Are we running out of fossil fuels?

Straight Thinking: An Interview with Engineer Patrick McGuire

Fuz Rana

With a silicon chip, you can erase information and write over new information. Can you overwrite data on DNA like you can on silicon chips?   What are the arguments against Paley and how can they be answered?  Can DNA be used as data to monitor human activity?  Do you consider DNA to be "the software of life"? If so, could changes (adaptation and variation) be preprogrammed within the DNA "software"?  Given our Creator's amazing character, would you predict that there are other as-yet-undiscovered biological functions facilitated by DNA's electrical properties?   By what mechanism does a immaterial being use to make or assemble the DNA? 

With a silicon chip, you can erase information and write over new information. Can you overwrite data on DNA like you can on silicon chips?   What are the arguments against Paley and how can they be answered?  Can DNA be used as data to monitor human activity?  Do you consider DNA to be "the software of life"? If so, could changes (adaptation and variation) be preprogrammed within the DNA "software"?  Given our Creator's amazing character, would you predict that there are other as-yet-undiscovered biological functions facilitated by DNA's electrical properties?   By what mechanism does a immaterial being use to make or assemble the DNA?

RTBLive Extra: Does Religious Experience Count as Evidence for God? - Fuz Rana

How do we ensure that we're not living in an idealogical cave?

How do we ensure that we're not living in an idealogical cave?

Straight Thinking: The Greatest Philosophical Story Ever Told

Dave Rogstad

Physicist Dave Rogstad explains what factors led to faith in Christ

Physicist Dave Rogstad explains what factors led to faith in Christ

Straight Thinking: An Interview with Dr. Dave Rogstad

Calculating the Probability of Jesus Fulfilling Prophecies. Being a Physicist AND a Christian. Pascal's Art of Persuasion.

Calculating the Probability of Jesus Fulfilling Prophecies. Being a Physicist AND a Christian. Pascal's Art of Persuasion.

28:19 - Should We Seek to Prove Christianity?

Early Christian symbols helped define and pass on the faith

Early Christian symbols helped define and pass on the faith

Straight Thinking: Historic Christianity's Early Alphabetic Symbols of Jesus Christ

Does the Fossil Record Prove the Evolution of Whales? The Greatest Apologetic Challenges in Our Culture Today. The State of Theology.

Does the Fossil Record Prove the Evolution of Whales? The Greatest Apologetic Challenges in Our Culture Today. The State of Theology.

28:19 - Were the Leviathan and Behemoth Dinosaurs?

The best podcast episodes on non-current politics. Covering topics such as universal basic income, democracy, poverty & justice and more. For anyone interested in learning more about politics that affect that world, not just now, but in the longer term. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

OwlTail

Roger Ailes started Fox News and is described by many as one of the main drivers of the polarisation of US politics. 
If you don't know about Ailie you should. A great place to start is the ShowTime miniseries "The Loudest Voice". 
This interview is with Joe Lindsley who worked directly for Ailes for 2 years. 
"Very earlier on, Roger called me Ailes Junior. He told my dad, 'I've never met anyone more like me than Joe.'" As the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Joe Lindsley was closer to the man who built Fox News than any Fox executive.
Lindsley recounts how Ailes would routinely ask him to change media coverage of stories based on 'who is good and bad' and how Ailes said 'there is no such thing as truth'. 
This interview corroborates much of the TV miniseries "The Loudest Voice".

A 1st hand account of Roger Ailes

"Very earlier on, Roger called me Ailes Junior. He told my dad, 'I've never met anyone more like me than Joe.'" As the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Joe Lindsley was closer to the man who built Fox News than any Fox executive. He helped write Ailes' speeches, sat next to him at executive meetings, and went to church with his family on Sundays. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan? For a deeper dive into his epic odyssey, check out Joe's memoir — Fake News / True Story: www.inkshares.com/books/fake-news-true-story

Reckonings

"Very earlier on, Roger called me Ailes Junior. He told my dad, 'I've never met anyone more like me than Joe.'" As the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Joe Lindsley was closer to the man who built Fox News than any Fox executive. He helped write Ailes' speeches, sat next to him at executive meetings, and went to church with his family on Sundays. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan? For a deeper dive into his epic odyssey, check out Joe's memoir — Fake News / True Story: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inkshares.com%2Fbooks%2Ffake-news-true-story&amp;token=d4a977-1-1558671273247" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.inkshares.com/books/fake-news-true-story</a>

#18 || The defection of a Roger Ailes warrior

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sits down with Glenn Thrush in London to discuss the relationship between American and British politics, his close relationship with the Clintons, Brexit, and the danger of approaching politics with a closed-mind.

POLITICO's Off Message

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sits down with Glenn Thrush in London to discuss the relationship between American and British politics, his close relationship with the Clintons, Brexit, and the danger of approaching politics with a closed-mind.

Tony Blair: Centrism may be dead

Best Non-Current Politics Podcasts

The best podcast episodes on parenting. Interviewing experts and talking through common issues surrounding parenting. This topic is filled with important lessons and insights for anyone listening. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

Parenting is fraught with uncertainty, changing with each generation. This hour, TED speakers share ideas about raising kids and how — despite our best efforts — we're probably still doing it wrong. Guests include former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims, former firefighter Caroline Paul, author Peggy Orenstein, psychologist Dr. Aala El-Khani, and poet Sarah Kay.

TED Radio Hour

Turning Kids Into Grown-Ups

The multibillion-pound parenting industry tells us we can all shape our children to be joyful, resilient and successful. But what if it’s all bunk? Intelligence Squared are bringing together a panel of top geneticists and parenting experts to explore just how important parenting is.Arguing in favour of the motion are Robert Plomin, Psychologist and Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London; and Stuart Ritchie, Lecturer in the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London.Arguing against the motion were Susan Pawlby, a developmental Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years of experience working with mothers and babies both in clinical and research contexts; and Ann Pleshette Murphy, a therapist, parenting counsellor and advocate for young children and their families.The debate was chaired by Xand van Tulleken, a medical doctor and broadcaster who has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Channel 4, often alongside his identical twin brother Chris.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Intelligence Squared

The multibillion-pound parenting industry tells us we can all shape our children to be joyful, resilient and successful. But what if it’s all bunk? Intelligence Squared are bringing together a panel of top geneticists and parenting experts to explore just how important parenting is. Arguing in favour of the motion are Robert Plomin, Psychologist and Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London; and Stuart Ritchie, Lecturer in the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. Arguing against the motion were Susan Pawlby, a developmental Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years of experience working with mothers and babies both in clinical and research contexts; and Ann Pleshette Murphy, a therapist, parenting counsellor and advocate for young children and their families. The debate was chaired by Xand van Tulleken, a medical doctor and broadcaster who has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Channel 4, often alongside his identical twin brother Chris.  Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared</a>.See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

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