Digging for Truth Podcast

How old is the Earth? 4.5 billion years? or more like thousands of years... Geologists Dr. Andrew Snelling discusses how scientists use radiometric dating and carbon-14 dating to determine the ages of things, and the assumptions that are used in those scientific calculations.

Does Radioisotope Dating Prove that the Earth is Old? - Is Genesis History

How Can Carbon-14 Be Evidence for a Young Earth? - Is Genesis History

Bryan Windle joins Henry Smith to discuss his list of the top ten archaeological finds relating to the New Testament.

Top Ten Discoveries Relating to the New Testament - Bible Archaeology Report

Does the Bible condone slavery? Dr. Josh Kline joins to discuss the background and historical nuance in the Bible and other cultures around the world. And spoiler alert, everyone agrees that slavery is wrong.

Henry Smith, Scott Lanser, and archeologist Dr. Scott Stripling have a round table discussion on ABR's most important artifiact ever found, an ancient curse tablet found on Mt Ebal in an altar that dates back to the time of Joshua. They talk about the Biblical context, wet sifting technology, analysis of the proto-alphabetic writing on the inside of the tablet, and how that writing on the inside is now the oldest Hebrew text ever found in Israel, and its implications.

You are Cursed by the God YHW - Heritage Science Journal article

Joshua's Altar on Mt Ebal - DFT TV

Scott Stripling on Centerpoint - Mt Ebal tablet find announcement

Henry talks with Archaeologist Dr. Titus Kennedy about his book Unearthing the Bible: 101 Archaeological Discoveries That Bring the Bible to Life. Don't worry, we don't talk about all 101 things, but just a few highlights.

Dr. Titus Kennedy Bio

Unearthing the Bible - Purchase link

The Old Testament was written thousands of years ago, and then was copied, re-copied, translated and even updated or modernized for the times. How did that all work? Dr Peter Gentry, a fellow wth the Text and Canon Institute discusses a whole bunch of questions related to the history of scriptural preservation.

textandcanon.org

There are lots of lists out there ranking the top archaeological discoveries. Pastor Bryan Windle brings his list of discoveries directly related to people, places and events in the Old Testament, or relating to the composition of the Old Testament itself.

Top 10 Discoveries Relating to the Old Testament - BibleArchaeologyReport.com

The largest tel (or mound) in Israel is over 200 acres, and is the ruins of an ancient city that probably most people haven't heard of - Hazor. Henry Smith had a chance to be part of the excavation there and talks about his experience, and what makes Hazor an important historical site.

Hazor-Excavations.org

The story of Queen Esther taks place in Persia and is remembered every year in March during the Jewish holiday called Purim. Dr. Todd Bolen joins to discuss some the archaelogy of the Persian Empire that is related to Esther that he got to witness when he visited Iran.

Hammurabi Stele

Xerxes (King Ahasuerus) - DFT TV

Cyrus the Great - DFT TV

Does the Bible condone Killing? Critics say that the Jews commited genocide in the Promised Land when the killed all the Canaanites. And what about Christian crusaders? Didn't they kill a lot of people during the Crusades in the name of God? And what about Islam? They have Jihads, holy wars, and kill in the name of Allah. Then Nazis killed millions of Jews in the name of no god, Atheism.

Dr Josh Kline joins Henry to discuss killing in the Bible, and throughout world history, with the apparent contradiction to the commandment: thou shalt not kill.

Genocide in Canaan (Part 1) - DFT TV

Genocide in Canaan (Part 2) - DFT TV