Episode 111 - The Deconversion of Jake

Matthew interviews Jake about his deconversion from Christianity.

links to feed your curiosity......

That Bill Nye - Ken Ham debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI

YouTube channels to start with

https://www.youtube.com/@skydivephil

https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalGnosis

https://www.youtube.com/@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic

https://www.youtube.com/c/gutsickgibbon

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In this episode Matthew reviews a Creationist podcast that gives tips on how to debate evolution with an atheist. The podcast is from the Think Institute, by Joel Settecase, who is a Young Earth Creationist. We reviewed Joel's justification of this position back in Episode 80. In this episode, Joel has conversations with atheists with the intention of picking holes in evolution. There is some low quality dialogue in the exchanges, so Matthew will also be criticising things that are said to Joel, this won't be a one sided critique.

1) https://thethink.institute/

2) Episode 80

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/Ra7ULmbZ2Eb

3) https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/22-how-to-debate-evolution-with-an-atheist/id1462722483?i=1000582330068

4) EAAN:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism

5) EAAN Refuted

https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2012/12/plantingas-evolutionary-argument.html

6) https://humanorigins.si.edu/education/how-do-we-know/how-do-we-know-humans-are-primates

7) https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13230.xml

8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

9) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/7/5

10) http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/polystrate/trees.html

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This is an episode we genuinely looked forward to recording. Andrew and Matthew talk with Derek Kubilus, author of the book Holy Hell, A Case Against Eternal Damnation. Derek is genuinely compassionate and that comes across in his writing. His acknowledgment of the harm that hell theology causes and his case against it presents a god that many will find more palatable or even attractive. If hell doctrine is something that bothers you or even if you only have a passing interesting in hell, then we highly recommend reading his book, it has the power the heal wounds. If you enjoy this conversation, Derek has also appeared on the Deconstructionists podcast.

Derek Kubilus

https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802883179/

Derek on The Deconstructionists podcast part 1 and 2

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/derek-kubilus-holy-hell-a-case-against-eternal/id1080170463?i=1000633172265

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/derek-kubilus-holy-hell-a-case-against-eternal/id1080170463?i=1000633945184

Terry Eagleton - Culture and the Death of God

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23360122-culture-and-the-death-of-god

Universalism

https://www.theopedia.com/universalism

Derek's Heaven Buddies Sermon

https://player.fm/series/the-united-methodist-church-of-uniontown/exilecast-heaven-buddies

Open Theism

https://iep.utm.edu/o-theism/

Devid Bentley Hart - The New Testament: A Translation

https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Testament-David-Bentley-Hart/dp/0300186096?ie=UTF8&tag=mh0a9-21&hvadid=&hvpos=&hvexid={aceid}&hvnetw=o&hvrand=&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7dy1f5hemb_e

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Episode 107 - Stories and Legends

In this episode Andrew and Matthew are joined by David from Skeptics and Seekers to talk stories and legends. There is hilarity and seriousness, legends and even demons! Enjoy.

Exploring The Allegedly Grisly Meaning Behind ‘London Bridge Is Falling Down’

https://allthatsinteresting.com/london-bridge-is-falling-down-meaning

The legend of St David and St Non

St David is patron saint of Wales and St Non is his mother.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/St-David-Patron-Saint-of-Wales/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David

https://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/history/St-Non

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/23393540.history-look-life-st-non-mother-st-david/

https://woww.narberthmuseum.co.uk/st-non/

Gelert the saviour dog

https://www.beddgelerttourism.com/gelert/

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/The-legend-of-brave-Gelert/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelert

show me the toes

https://showmethetoes.com/

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Matthew reviews an episode of Unbelievable from October 2021. A promo for the Premier Christianity course Confident Christianity featuring William Lane Craig, John Lennox, Amy Orr-Ewing and Gary Habermas. As usual, there are references below.

1) Unbelievable podcast - Confident Christianity October 1st 2012

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/confident-christianity-john-lennox-amy-orr-ewing-william/id267142101?i=1000537264086

2) Callumn Brown, death of Christian Britain

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203350423/death-christian-britain-callum-brown

https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/236

3) Language Truth and Logic

https://archive.org/details/AlfredAyer

4) Verification

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/160940690200100202

5) Tim Hull

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/eFA0I31BLCb

6) God and other minds

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/plantinga-gom.pdf

7) The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271322119_The_Metaphilosophy_of_Naturalism

8) Sir Harry Kroto

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/02/sir-harry-kroto-nobel-prize-winning-chemist-dies-carbon

9) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/jul/04/harry-kroto-science-truth

10) Erwin Schrödinger

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger

11) ETS Walton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Walton#:~:text=Ernest%20Thomas%20Sinton%20Walton%20%286%20October%201903%20%E2%80%93,atom.%20This%20section%20needs%20additional%20citations%20for%20verification.

12) Ghillean Prance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillean_Prance

13) George Kline Quote

https://www.compellingtruth.org/scientists-believe-God.html

14) Lee Rigby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby

15) textual criticism

https://www.britannica.com/topic/textual-criticism

16) Richard I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England

17) Maurice Casey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Casey

18) Alexander the Great in legend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great_in_legend

19) Historiography of Alexander the Great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_Alexander_the_Great

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Episode 104 - Can Christians convince us of the resurrection? In this episode Matthew responds to a Christian podcast addressing atheist arguments against the resurrection. Can the things they say get us to reconsider our denial of the resurrection as an historical event?

Original YouTube video

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxsonUSCKcc

Paulogia on YouTube

2) https://www.youtube.com/@Paulogia

3) Seam McDowell video

https://youtu.be/elXMJoJA3cQ

4) Sean McDowell 480 page document on martyrdom on the apostles

https://repository.sbts.edu/handle/10392/4857

https://repository.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/4857/McDowell_sbts_0207D_10221.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

5) Polycarp

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Martyrdom-of-Polycarp

https://discerninghistory.com/2016/01/polycarp-the-man-the-flames-would-not-touch/

6) Gospel names

https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Gospels/

7) Brant Pitre is classic apologist

https://vridar.org/2016/02/09/why-the-anonymous-gospels-failure-of-scholarship-in-pitres-the-case-for-jesus/

https://vridar.org/2016/03/08/the-arguments-for-and-against-the-anonymity-of-the-canonical-gospels/

https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Gospels/

https://jameshiscoxblogs.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/apologetics-vs-real-scholarship-on-the-dating-and-authorship-of-the-gospels/

http://www.humanreligions.info/gospels.html#Anon

https://brill.com/view/journals/nt/50/2/article-p120_2.xml

8) Origen

https://brill.com/view/journals/scri/12/1/article-p181_11.xml?language=en

9) Swoon Hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_hypothesis

10) Miracle of the sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

11) Martyrs deaths

http://www.equip.org/PDF/JAF1392.pdf

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Andrew and Matthew have a conversation with Daniel, a Palestinian Christian.

An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians

https://www.change.org/p/an-open-letter-from-palestinian-christians-to-western-church-leaders-and-theologians

Daniel on the New Evangelicals podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CeHsj52D0tqgda0kJBpuS

Across the Divide Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/across-the-divide/id1714814860

https://open.spotify.com/show/5PrVCyafdQdh8Jpz5gZNyR

A fitting metaphor for Gaza

https://www.dawn.com/news/1787145

Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-prison-15

Half of Gaza's population is under 18. Here's what that means for the conflict

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206897328/half-of-gazas-population-is-under-18-heres-what-that-means-for-the-conflict#:~:text=Of%20the%20more%20than%202%20million%20people%20living,bracing%20for%20an%20Israeli%20ground%20invasion%20are%20children.

The argument that Israel practices apartheid, explained

https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate

Balfour Declaration: Theresa May hosts Israeli PM for centenary

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41819451

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi review – conquest and resistance

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/07/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-by-rashid-khalidi-review-conquest-and-resistance

International Poverty Line: Definition, Criticism, Uses

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/international-poverty-line.asp#:~:text=The%20international%20poverty%20line%20is%20a%20monetary%20threshold,poverty%20line%20is%20%242.15%20per%20person%20per%20day.

An Israeli ministry, in a 'concept paper,' proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt's Sinai

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-ministry-concept-paper-proposes-transferring-gaza-civilians-104487924

Debating Israei Ethnocracy and the Challenge of Secular Democracy:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/230811/pdf

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In this second episode, Andrew and Matthew continue their discussion with Eric, this time talking about the current conflict in Gaza and the modern history that contextualises it.

Profile: Mahmoud Abbas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20033995

Hamas Covenant 1988

The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

The story about beheaded babies is probably false.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/decapitated-babies-claim-intent-dehumanization.html

The hospital bombing was probably not Israel and the number of casualties is likely overstated

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/21/middleeast/cnn-investigates-forensic-analysis-gaza-hospital-blast/index.html

Hamas takes control of Gaza - 2007

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/15/israel4

What is a human shield and how has Hamas been accused of using them?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/human-shield-israel-claim-hamas-command-centre-under-hospital-palestinian-civilian-gaza-city

Israel claims Gaza's largest hospital is a Hamas command centre, but Palestinians and others reject claim

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-27-23/h_acdbf216cc4de120872cf48b55541c63

UN Conflict Casualties

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

1948 Palestine war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_war

THE WEST BANK WAS ANNEXED ONCE BEFORE. IT ENDED IN REGRET.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/martinkramer/files/the_west_bank_was_annexed_once_before._it_ended_in_regret._.pdf

Ernest Bevin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bevin

Memri TV Archives

https://www.memri.org/tv/archives

Israeli disengagement from Gaza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza

2006 Palestinian legislative election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

Battle of Gaza (2007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)

Netanyahu Accused of 'Genocidal Intentions' in Gaza After 'Holy Mission' Speech

https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-genocide

Gaza’s food system has been stretched to breaking point by Israel

https://theconversation.com/gazas-food-system-has-been-stretched-to-breaking-point-by-israel-188556

How Jenin battle became a 'massacre'

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/may/06/mondaymediasection5

Explainer: When are attacks on civilian infrastructure war crimes?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/when-are-attacks-civilian-infrastructure-war-crimes-2022-12-16/

Hamas Quietly Admits It Fired Rockets from Civilian Areas

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/hamas-quietly-admits-it-fired-rockets-from-civilian-areas/380149/

The United Nations — From Ally to Antisemitic

https://www.newsweek.com/united-nations-ally-antisemitic-platform-opinion-1636252

UN Watch

https://unwatch.org/en-observant-les-observateurs/

Hamas commits war crimes

https://jcpa.org/the-gaza-war-2014/legal-aspects-hamas-war-on-israel/

Israel war crimes

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/

UNRWA STRONGLY CONDEMNS PLACEMENT OF ROCKETS IN SCHOOL

https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-strongly-condemns-placement-rockets-school

UN resolutions against Israel compared

https://unwatch.org/2022-2023-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-of-the-world/