References:

1. Surveys show that 50% of young people who finish high school and attend a university soon abandon their faith.

2. You don’t have to have an explanation for every explanation.

3. There are no good reasons to believe in a Flying Spagetti Monster, the tooth fairy, or fire-breathing dragons in the center of the earth.

4. But there are good reasons to believe in God.

5. Eugenics and the millions of deaths in the 20th century by Communist and Nazi regimes are disastrous consequences of Darwinian evolution.

6. There are 2 different kinds of theology: revealed theology and natural theology.

7. Natural theology consists primarily of rational arguments of a single, infinite, monotheistic, personal God that do not appeal to sacred Scriptures for their cogency.

8. I recommend the books “The Universe Next Door” 4th edition by James Sire and “Worlds Apart” by Norman Geisler and William Watkins.

9. 4 basic rational tests: Does the data we have fit the facts? Is it logically consistent and coherent? Is it empirically adequate? Is it existentially relevant?

10. I gave 3 proofs based on the beginning of the universe, the moral argument, and the origin of life.

This is Episode 103.