The Seven Series with Gregg Davidson

This episode continues the Designed for Discover series, but shifting from evidence of intentionality in creation to stories illustrating how creation is designed to allow discovery of earth's ancient past - long before human eyes were around to see.

In this episode, you get a glimpse of what my geology students learn about how we figured out that continents move, how we know they were once all together, and how we can test the competing hypotheses of conventional geology and young-earth flood-geology! 

The universe is not only finely tuned for life to exist (see Ep 29), but our unique position in the solar system and galaxy also appears intentionally crafted for scientific exploration and discovery. Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet, joins me in this episode with a special focus on just how unique our earth-moon-sun system is, and our position in the Milky Way galaxy.

Multiple physical properties turn out to require incredibly precise values for stars, planets, and life to exist. I am particularly intrigued by how weirdly easy it is for stars to produce carbon, an atom that turns out to have no equal in its ability to support life, and the cosmic distribution system for supplying that carbon to planets.

I am joined in this episode by Dr. Luke Barnes, co-author of A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos, to talk about fine tuning, evidence for a Creator, and if fine tuning is compatible with a fallen creation. 

New series: Designed for Discovery! Our universe has the hallmarks of being intentionally fashioned with exploration and discovery in mind, allowing scientific methods to be applied to discover ancient earth history (before any humans were around to observe), and to find bread crumbs to a trail that leads back to a Creator.

In this kickoff episode, I share my own expertise on water, delving into the unique properties of water that make it just plain weird relative to most other natural substances - but in ways that are critical to life and ecological diversity.

In the 7th and final episode in the mini-series on Questions of Creation, I am joined by author Dr. Joel Edmond Anderson to discuss his newly revised book, The Heresy of Ham. Joel shares his story of loss of employment and severed relationships that resulted from questioning young earth dogma, and explains why he now believes the young earth message to be legitimately labeled as heresy.

The Heresy of Ham
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMK2JN88/ 

Young Earth arguments often sound very convincing, though too often because critical information is left out, opposing arguments are misrepresented, quotes are taken out of context, or claims are made that simply not true. In Friend of Science, Friend of Faith, I have a full chapter devoted to the methods employed by Young Earth organizations that are aimed more at winning converts than communicating truth. In the long run, barriers are constructed that block the view of the Cross. 

In episodes 25 and 26 episodes, I am joined by Dr. Joel Duff, a biologist and partner in Christian ministry, to walk through seven tactics routinely employed by Young Earth advocates that fall short of a Gospel standard. The objective is not to disparage those who hold a different opinion, but to discourage use of arguments that ultimately undermine genuine Christian witness. 

Young Earth arguments often sound very convincing, though too often because critical information is left out,  opposing arguments are misrepresented, quotes are taken out of context, or claims are made that simply not true. In Friend of Science, Friend of Faith, I have a full chapter devoted to the methods employed by Young Earth organizations that are aimed more at winning converts than communicating truth. In the long run, barriers are constructed that block the view of the Cross. 

In the next two episodes, I am joined by Dr. Joel Duff, a biologist and partner in Christian ministry, to walk through seven tactics routinely employed by Young Earth advocates that fall short of a Gospel standard. The objective is not to disparage those who hold a different opinion, but to discourage use of arguments that ultimately undermine genuine Christian witness.

In this episode of the Questions of Creation series, I discuss how the definition of Intelligent Design (ID) has changed over the last few decades, in ways that are not an improvement over the original formulation. Modern ID has attempted to take on a scientific mantle, with theological and logical baggage.

In an effort to defend the Bible as teaching accurate science, many claim it contains descriptions of nature that preceded scientific discovery by thousands of years. Examples include the hydrologic cycle, ocean floor topography and currents, a spherical earth, and an expanding universe. In this episode, we take a closer look at the verses in question, asking what they would have meant to the original audience, if a consistent hermaneutic is being applied in modern interpretations, and whether we would buy the same argument from a Muslim if the same wording was found in the Koran.

No references to source material are given in the audio of this episode. You can find documentation and references in my book, Friend of Science, Friend of Faith from your favorite online bookseller. (I have recently found ChristianBooks to have better prices on my books than Amazon or Barnes & Noble.)

In the second episode in the series Question of Creation, I am joined by British doctor and author Jon Garvey, to discuss his book God's Good Earth, The Case for an Unfallen Creation. What started as a personal quest to understand historical and contemporary Church understanding about the Fall turned into a book - with some unexpected discoveries.