How do we deal with our intellectual doubts? In this episode, Daniel gives four practical ways to deal with doubts, based upon his 30 years as a pastor, and on his own life.

This episode covers the topics of faith, doubt, reason and certainty.

It reminds us that "faith" is more about trust than belief, and that you can have faith and still doubt. It also reminds us that faith is not opposed to reason, and that, indeed, faith without reason is irrational, and not true religious faith.

What is faith opposed to? Certainty.

Listen to find out why.

Do we humans have a purpose? Is that purpose given to us, or do we seek to make one for ourselves?

Are humans uniquely valuable? More valuable than gorillas and gophers? If so, why?

This episode discusses how each of the four great world views would answer those questions.

The history of the world is dominated by four great worldviews -- four families of ideas about the universe and reality. They are theism, atheism, pantheism, and polytheism.

In this episode these four worldviews are explained with the help of two illustrations.

This will form the foundation for future episodes, where we will examine how each of this worldviews gives different answers to the questions of ethics, human uniqueness and value, how we can know things, what is beauty, and more.

Our first episodes explores the questions:

• What is philosophy?
• How do Philosophy and faith fit together?
• Do non-religious philosophy still utilize faith?
• How can you decide between competing worldviews.