Dr. Lydia McGrew provides a different approach to reading the Gospels (and the Bible as a whole) in terms of assessing their reliability. She believes that Mike Licona's "composition/literary devices" approach is based on his misreading Plutarch and that it’s therefore inaccurate to draw the conclusions he’s drawn using that source. Further, she thinks that any differences in the gospels can be reconciled through commonsense harmonization efforts.

Dr. Michael (Mike) Licona discusses his views on the Gospels and how his research on their reliability; he argues that the majority of New Testament scholars now hold that most if not all of the Gospels belong to the genre of Greco-Roman biography and by comparing the Gospels to the works of Plutarch, he discovers that this genre permitted some flexibility in the manner that historical events were narrated via the use of various “compositional devices”.

We interview Robert Stanley from the Right to Reason Podcast to discuss various issues including; i) Is the Bible true?, ii) Religion and Politics- Is a Theocracy a good thing? and, iii) The Morality of the Bible.

Miracles.  What are they?  How does one identify and evaluate them?  Are there any actual examples of such that Christians can point to? Two Christians and an Atheist come together to have a respectful and substantive dialogue to find out if there answers to these important questions.

The human predicament is something that continues to baffle the world's best and brightest- Why am I here?  What happens to me when I die?  Most thoughtful people throughout history have felt existential pains of wanting our lives to "mean" something, something that is supremely valuable and worthwhile in terms of a ultimate purpose.  In this discussion Marvin and David assess whether such a "meaning" exists and whether it even matters or not.

In this episode, I interview my former University professor on his area of expertise; prophecy.  As a non-Christian he has an interesting take on what prophecy is and offers his open-minded view on how communications from "higher beings" like God, might be understood, identified and used by us as human beings in terms of our religious beliefs.

This is the final part of my lecture series on Substance Dualism (i.e. the existence of the soul).  Here we look at 4 skeptical arguments against the existence of the soul and evaluate 4 main physicalist theories of what the conscious subject entails.

his is Part 3 of series on Substance Dualism- here we address the second issue of contention of the Mind-Body Problem- providing Positive arguments for the existence of a non-physical conscious subject.

How does one go about Identifying and Evaluating Miracles of God in general.  I argue that the Specified Complexity" criteria of Intelligent Design proponent Dr. William Dembski is the key.

Plus, I give my brief take on modern Miracle Healings specifically in this regard.

This is the second part of the series on the existence of the soul & substance dualism- here we assess the nature of mental properties and states (the first issue of contention of the Mind-Body Problem).