David and Adam are back at it, exploring the ramifications of philosophy and modern science on the question of God’s existence. They begin with a brief conversation about what it means to be a critical realist and then hone back in on Big Bang cosmology while introducing the notion of what is often described as the fine-tuning of the universe.

Show Notes:

·       The book David and Adam keep referring to is Stephen C. Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis.

·       Also see Alister McGrath’s A Fine-Tuned Universe and Darwinism and the Divine.  

·       The Nobel Prize winning astronomer Adam mentioned was Arno Penzias. On the evidence we have from the universe, he commented: “The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole.”

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David and Adam begin their series on the various arguments for (and reasons to believe in) God’s existence. This episode begins with a little history behind the cosmological argument followed by a conversation about the implications of a contingent universe.

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David and Adam discuss how reason’s competence (with respect to the Christian tradition) has changed over the centuries. Plato and Aristotle, medieval schoolmen like Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, and modern thinkers such as René Descartes and Charles Darwin are all discussed to set the stage for subsequent episodes addressing the reasonableness of belief in God's existence.  

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What is fideism?

David and Adam define fideism and discuss its problematic place in the epistemology of much contemporary Christian thought.  

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David and Adam bring some nuance to the issues surrounding faith and reason by discussing the different ways the terms are used (and misused) in academic and popular discourse.

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What does faith have to do with reason?

In this first episode of the Faith and Reason Exchange, David and Adam introduce themselves and their work after which they discuss the relationship of faith and reason. They begin by reflecting on the common assumption and, sometimes, accusation that faith and reason have nothing to do with each other and conclude, after a wide-ranging discussion, that the two are inseparable.

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