Perhaps the most common objection to the Christian faith is that Christianity is responsible for a great deal of evil and suffering in the world. Moreover, many Christians are morally bankrupt. This objection has received major support in recent times with the flurry of popular atheistic books being published. In this podcast, I demonstrate that, even if we grant that the Christian institution is responsible for great evil, this fact has no bearing on the truth of Christianity. For book reviews I take a look at 'The Impossible Faith' by J.P. Holding and 'God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist.'

Many believers claim to have personal experiences of God. In this episode, I argue that such believers may rationally believe that God exists on the basis of this personal experience, apart from any consideration of the evidence for and against God’s existence. This episode has book reviews for 'Simply Christian' by N.T. Wright and 'God is Not Great' by Christopher Hitchens. For the audience question I consider if the digits of pi constitutes a genuine example of an actual infinite in the real world.

This episode presents an argument for believing in theism based on the meaning of life. I argue that atheistic worldviews cannot provide an objective meaning of life, and theistic worldviews can. Since we should always adopt a worldview with a possibility of meaning, we should therefore adopt a theistic worldview. Episode also contains book reviews of 'Breaking the Spell' by Daniel Dennett and 'Jesus’ Resurrection: Fact or Figment' by William Lane Craig and Gerd Ludemann.

Richard Dawkins has recently emerged as an extremely popular and influential atheist. His book 'The God Delusion' was a bestseller and helped confirm Dawkins as one of the leading voices of atheism. This podcast contains a detailed critique of his book. For the book reviews I take a look at 'The Case for a Creator' by Lee Strobel and 'Atheism: The Case against God' by George H. Smith. For the audience question, I briefly discuss the reasons I have named the website and the podcast the “Skeptical” Christian.

One of the best and most discussed arguments for God’s existence is the Teleological Argument from the fine-tuning of the fundamental constants of the universe. This episode takes a detailed look at this argument, and answers a slew of objections, including the controversial multi-verse hypothesis- according to which the cosmos is composed of many universes. This episode also has a brief book review of 'God and Design,' edited by Neil Manson.

One of the most popular arguments against the existence of God in philosophical circles is the Argument from Nonbelief, or the Problem of Divine Hiddenness. In this show I offer several reasons why nonbelief is not evidence against Christianity. Book reviews of 'Mere Christianity' and 'God: The Failed Hypothesis' are also included. For the audience question I analyze whether nondeterministic atom decay violates the causal premise that everything which begins to exist requires a cause.

A common challenge to the Christian faith is that it requires extraordinary beliefs, including belief in God and belief in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What sort of evidence should be required for these types of extraordinary beliefs? In this episode I analyze the claim that “extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence” and apply this analysis to God’s existence and Christ’s resurrection. There are also book reviews of 'Reasonable Faith' by William Lane Craig and 'Does God Exist' by J.P. Moreland and Kai Nielsen.

According to many nonbelievers, using God as an explanation commits the so-called ‘God-of-the-Gaps’ fallacy. Additionally, they claim that the steady march of science has shown that supernatural explanations are always unnecessary. In this episode I consider both of these claims. Book reviews of 'The End of Faith' by Sam Harris and 'Scaling the Secular City' by J.P. Moreland. For the audience question I consider some objections to the Cosmological Argument.

A detailed discussion of the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God’s existence, including responses to a slew of objections. Book reviews of 'Letter to a Christian Nation' by Sam Harris and 'The Kalam Cosmological Argument' by William Lane Craig. For the audience question this week we look at Cantorian set theory and the existence of an actual infinite.

This episode discusses the importance of apologetics and the meaning of faith. This episode has two book reviews- 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins and 'The Case for Christ' by Lee Strobel.