Unbelievable?

Christian apologist John Cranman presents his version of the Moral Argument arguing that God is the best explanation of the existence of objective moral values and duties.

Atheist Cory Markum responds by arguing that, in various ways, God cannot ground objective morality. They both also debate whether objective morality/moral realism exists.

For Unbelievable? the Conference 2017: http://www.premier.org.uk/whychrist 

For John Cranman's "Riot in Reason" podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/riot-in-reason/id1124201626?mt=2 

For Cory Markum's "Hinge" podcast http://hingepodcast.org/

For Cory's blog on the moral argument: http://www.atheistrepublic.com/blog/cory-markum/god-morality-reloaded 

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Frank Turek is a Christian apologist, author and host of the US radio call in show Cross Examined. His book ‘Stealing From God: Why atheists need God to make their case’ argues that skeptics steal from a Christian worldview to make their case for atheism.

David Smalley is an activist for secular humanism and the host of the atheist talk show Dogma Debate. He engages Frank on whether atheists can ground logic and reason without God.

For Unbelievable? the Conference 2017: http://www.premier.org.uk/whychrist

For Frank Turek: http://crossexamined.org/ 

For Justin’s appearance on the Cross Examined radio show: http://player.subsplash.com/6jpcdgc

For David Smalley: http://dogmadebate.com/

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Wayne Rossiter was an atheist biologist who experienced an adult conversion to Christianity. He also changed his mind about evolution and his recent book ‘Shadow of Oz: Theistic Evolution and the Absent God’ argues that those who claim Darwinian evolution is compatible with Christianity are being misleading.

Denis Alexander, emeritus director of The Faraday institute in Cambridge and one of the leading proponents of Theistic Evolution, interacts with Rossiter.

For Unbelievable? the Conference 2017: http://www.premier.org.uk/whychrist

For Wayne Rossiter’s ‘Shadow of Oz’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Oz-Theistic-Evolution-Absent/dp/149822072X 

For Denis Alexander’s ‘Creation or Evolution: Do we have to choose?’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creation-Evolution-Do-Have-Choose/dp/1854247468 

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David Marshall is a Christian thinker and author whose latest book “Jesus is no Myth!: The fingerprints of God on the Gospels” aims to refute claims by authors such as Bart Ehrman, Reza Aslan and Richard Carrier that the Gospels borrowed from other religious figures and mystery religions of their day to create their picture of Jesus.

Richard Carrier engages with him in a ‘gloves off’ debate on whether Marshall’s critique of the mythicist theory is academically credible and his evidence for the authenticity of the Gospel’s picture of Jesus.

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For “Jesus Is no Myth!”: https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-No-Myth-Fingerprints-Gospels/dp/0970227841

For David Marshall: http://christthetao.blogspot.co.uk/ 

For Richard Carrier: http://www.richardcarrier.info/ 

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Randal Rauser is a Christian theologian and philosopher, Justin Schieber is an atheist philosopher. They’ve written a conversational book together called “An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a bar… Talking about God, The universe and everything” (Prometheus).

In this show they discuss one of the themes of the book: religious disagreement. If there is a God shouldn’t we expect to find people across the world to have broadly have the same ideas about him? And since they don’t, is that evidence against God? Justin says yes, Randal says no.

For “An atheist and a Christian walk into a bar”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atheist-Christian-Walk-into-Bar/dp/1633882438  

For Randal Rauser: http://randalrauser.com 

For Justin Schieber: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQa6mPLOE2yuMCrDjRio_nA 

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Joe Ogborn is a Christian who has been going to church in Cambridge with his friend Tom Hallam for several years. But Tom is an atheist.

Justin finds out about Joe and Tom's friendship, what impact going to church as a non believer has had on Tom and how worshipping next to an atheist has affected Joe's faith.

They talk about the ups and downs of going to church and what it would take for Tom to believe. 

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To read Joe Ogborn's article in Premier Christianity magazine "My Friend the Atheist Churchgoer": https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2017/January-2017/My-friend-the-atheist-churchgoer  

For a free sample copy of the magazine: http://www.premierchristianity.com/freesample 

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In a New Year's Eve special, Justin interviews two women involved in theology and apologetics in different ways. 

Jessica Kelley describes the heart-breaking story of losing her 4 year old son Henry to brain cancer. She also explains how adopting a "warfare" view of suffering gave her a theological framework for trusting God through the pain, as described in her new book 'Lord Willing?'.

Read her interview in Premier Christianity magazine here: http://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2016/December-2016/My-4-year-old-son-got-brain-cancer.-But-God-isn-t-to-blame

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Justin's second guest is Sarah Foster who works in evangelism to Muslims with Pfander Centre for Apologetics. She talks about her own faith journey and why she is spearheading youth resources to help a younger Christian generation who are being challenged by their Muslim counterparts, especially in the black church community.

For Jessica Kelley and 'Lord Willing? Wrestling with God's role in my child's death': http://jessicakelley.com/lord-willing/

For Sarah Foster and Pfander Apologetics: https://www.pfander.uk/  

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In a Christmas Eve edition of the show Justin is joined by Christian guest Colin Nicholl, atheist Aaron Adair and agnostic Mark Kidger, each of whom has written a book on the star of a Bethlehem from different perspectives.

Nicholl says his research has led him to conclude the star was a comet. Adair says the star was pious fiction by the writer of Matthew's

Gospel. Astronomer Mark Kidger also shares his ongoing research on the possible explanations of the star and the Magi who heralded its appearance. 

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For 'The Great Christ Comet' by Colin R. Nicholl: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Christ-Comet-Revealing-Bethlehem/dp/1433542137 

For 'The Star of Bethlehem: A skeptical view' by Aaron Adair: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Bethlehem-Skeptical-View/dp/0956694861 

For 'The Star of Bethlehem: An astronomer's view' by Mark Kidger: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Bethlehem-Astronomers-View/dp/0691058237 

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Hitler is often claimed to have been an atheist or a Christian by believers and skeptics eager to put the dictator in the other's camp. Christian historian Richard Weikart argues he was neither in his new book "Hitler's Religion: The twisted beliefs that drove the Third Reich".

Richard Carrier is an atheist historian who has researched Hitler's purported anti-Christian statements often quoted by apologists in his book "Hitler, Homer, Bible, Christ". He says that Hitler was anti-Catholic but thought of himself as a "positivist" Christian. In contrast Weikart argues Hitler was a pantheist who personally despised Christianity and only used it in public to aid his rise to power. 

For Richard Weikart's "Hitler's Religion": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitlers-Religion-Twisted-Beliefs-Drove-ebook/dp/B01MG45IZ8 

For Richard Carrier: http://www.richardcarrier.info/

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Mike McHargue – known as ‘Science Mike’ - was a Christian who lost his faith then found it again through science. He tells his story of coming back to faith through an experience on a beach and how he now puts science and Christian faith together.

Ben Watts is an atheist who grew up with a Christian Faith but lost it after going to university to study science. He engages with Mike on this week’s show.

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For Mike McHargue’s “Finding God In The Waves”: http://findinggodinthewaves.com/ 

For Ben Watts: http://exchristianskeptic.blogspot.co.uk/  

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