Macrophage Strategy: Recent Episodes

Ben Kissling

Macrophage Strategy is a new podcast about the intersection of science and theology, along with whatever other topics are bouncing around in Macrophage's brain at any given time. Macrophages don't actually have brains. This sounded better in his head, which he doesn't have. What he does have is a strategy for eliminating dangerous foreign pathogens from the body of Christ.

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Macrophage examines another attempt to reconcile creation and evolution that caught his eye, or maybe pseudopod...whatever macrophages have.

Links:

  1. Mere Theistic Evolution paper: https://peacefulscience.org/prints/mere-theistic-evolution/

  2. MTE panel discussion at EPS 2019: https://youtu.be/SIWvDg5Ag9g?si=wUk91Ou0z94GpHhc

  3. MTE response papers: https://peacefulscience.org/prints/mere-theistic-evolution/#article-series-this

  4. My appearance on Current Topics in Science on MTE: https://youtu.be/sDstmGQszTM?si=dP7J_1Tpe-XyTJcj

  5. Convo on Peaceful Science on MTE: https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/response-to-mere-theistic-evolution/16699

  6. J.P. Morelend defends "eclectic realism": https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Nature-Science-Philosophical-Investigation/dp/0801062497/ref=sr_1_65?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SwwVUTHGfDYkKsXJbX-uBl3HOIV9QBJYdLJuguO-KmmQBG2MqW3Xmu9UGVaZapuoA7_Q46aobnFxgu3qo1PyPA.xyF0AOirbWx33dEzQDiS0coz74Z-nQC0bIK1nkHeFRM&dib_tag=se&qid=1722964091&refinements=p_27%3AJ.+P.+Moreland&s=books&sr=1-65&text=J.+P.+Moreland

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Macrophage talks with scientist Randy Hernandez about ancient historical records and the age of the earth, theistic evolution and "random" mutations, his research on Alzheimer's and dementia, and how it's okay to murder untold thousands of adorable mice as long as you feel bad about it.

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Macrophage lazily rips the audio from a couple of Youtube videos from several months ago to generate fresh content...depending on your definition of "fresh." Gavin Ortlund did a couple videos criticizing YEC, and fun was had by all. Also included in the links are a few subsequent videos in the potentially ongoing saga.

1.) Ken Ham's interview with Allie Beth Stuckey, Part 1: https://youtu.be/U6Jd1SK5Ahk?si=HE7CoJeE_FbW0LhL

Part 2: https://youtu.be/Mt_IsyqhyAs?si=sOgVN2uMbxRzUci1

2.) Gavin Ortlund's response to Ken Ham: https://youtu.be/FL9t3O-1E7w?si=j3ZHzUwcPlZvYpe8

3.) My first response: https://youtu.be/Xqc7-9Wl1jU?si=rUHxd0xfP_HqgpCB

4.) Ortlund's second video: https://youtu.be/95B-NrAmS_U?si=LM_S363vA1Oluzxp

5.) My second response: https://youtu.be/NpIP1Q78-Zg?si=9xBPoShwLTzygIEB

6.) My appearance on Think Institute w/ ApoloJedi: https://youtu.be/tDVN03JSRVA?si=blUlDo2bDbSAUo85

7.) Ortlund's local flood video: https://youtu.be/Rq5tUg4SWzs?si=npTyLTbNC88PT_Fx

8.) Think Institute w/ ApoloJedi responds: https://youtu.be/boxdby6ppaE?si=_QIeS27i5vrz3KrA

9.) My reaction to Alex O'Connor's attempt to debunk Genesis just for fun: https://youtu.be/fhJvYMxYBxg?si=IvpVmJZlGtBKX63r

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Is Islam a religion of peace? Are Islamic terrorists radically departing from mainstream Islamic theology? As always, Macrophage tells the truth nobody wants to hear.

He recorded this shortly after the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel.

  1. Ben Shapiro's Ep. 1826 Why I'm Showing You Hamas' Atrocities.

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Macrophage finds a frienemy on Twitter and talks about the design argument, Mackie and Plantinga, and the problem of evil with a weak atheist.

Links:

1) Check out my 3rd appearance on Current Topics in Science: https://youtu.be/qb9mbOuDMyc

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Macrophage considers stealing ApoloJedi's Twitter handle, but thinks better of it after learning of his Star Wars heresy. Oh, and something about a flood and days and stuff.

Links:

1) ApoloJedi's site: https://apolojedi.com/

2) Noah's Flood: Global or Local? Video by Michael Jones AKA Inspiring Philosophy: https://youtu.be/Q07gxxbggJs

3) ApoloJedi's Review of A Matter of Days by Hugh Ross: https://apolojedi.com/2020/01/02/a-matter-of-days/

4) ApoloJedi's appearance on Curious Christianity: https://youtu.be/5nKCv4shoQQ

5) My appearance on Curious Christianity: https://youtu.be/1lfq0v0k96A

6) My recent appearance on Fuzzy Logic: https://www.youtube.com/live/R5hZqLFANJE?feature=share

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Macrophage hears without ears four goings on in the multiverse from William Lane Craig, Stephen Meyer, Brian Keating, Alex O'Connor, and James Tour, and adds some Brownian motions of his own to the mix.

Links:

1.) Reasonable Faith podcast on Stephen Meyer's anti-multiverse arguments: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ETAS9Et7XPb1CUedt2j4Z?si=8ec2167450f54783

2.) Meyer and William Lane Craig's discussion on CrossExamined: https://youtu.be/na3eFynnTOo?t=4423

3.) Brian Keating on the Jordan B. Peterson Show: https://youtu.be/o392_NrdflY?t=303

4.) Alex O'Connor on the Within Reason podcast: https://youtu.be/RlY7wDDpjpQ?t=962

5.) James Tour on Socrates in the City: https://youtu.be/9qxoH7u3FXw?t=3771

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Macrophage wonders about the software modules in his DNA, so he asks the discoverer of the dependency graph of life and troublemaker extraordinaire Winston Ewert.

Links:

1) Dependency Graph of Life paper: https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArticle/BIO-C.2018.3

2) Related resources: https://dependencygraph.org/

3) The Design Inference by William Dembski: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Inference-Eliminating-Probabilities-Probability-ebook/dp/B00INYG5NG?ref_=ast_author_dp

4) The Evolutionary Informatics Lab (Look under "Publications" for some of Ewert's papers discussed in the interview): https://evoinfo.org/

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Macrophage sets everyone's relationship status to: It's complicated.

Links:

1.) My 2nd appearance on Current Topics in Sciencewith Christopher Sernaque: https://youtu.be/erHwR2lLrc0

2.) My appearance on Conversations with Strangers with MicahLoughman: https://youtu.be/vMaP99801JE

3.) My appearance on Still Unbelievable: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mSjdiEcCwTDi0cGUpyh6W?si=203688590c834a46

4.) My appearance on the Non-Sequitur Show with Steve McRae:https://www.youtube.com/live/8v-kefk48CI?feature=share

5.) Jeanson and Lisle’s CHNP paper: https://answersresearchjournal.org/origin-eukaryotic-species-diversity/

6.) Guliuzza and ICR on the CET model: https://www.icr.org/CET/

7.) Evangelical Theological Society panel discussion of InQuest of the Historical Adam by Craig: PART ONE: https://youtu.be/TsRTMbasD5c, PART TWO:https://youtu.be/TtaGdOWAyH8, PART THREE: https://youtu.be/xZWv-GzVTdw

8.) Hans Madueme on Let’s Talk Creation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6efZngYNjQ6SdwBgif00ku?si=4cdb7c9a82d84bcb

9.) Madueme’s TGC review: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/quest-historical-adam/

10.) Richard Buggs on population bottlenecks: blog post: https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/22075-adam-and-eve-a-tested-hypothesis?channel_id=522-journal-club, forum post: https://discourse.biologos.org/t/adam-eve-and-population-genetics-a-reply-to-dr-richard-buggs-part-1/37039/592

11.) Rob Carter on the population bottleneck at the Flood: https://creation.com/effective-population-sizes-flood-bottleneck

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Macrophage reviews a movie, and a culture, all about people behaving like animals. 

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Macrophage somehow turns Kanye West's mental instability into a lecture that is certainly NOT about creation. 

  1. Kanye West tells Alex Jones...uuuuhhhh wut?:  https://youtu.be/t86V-1dmS6k

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Macrophage bytes another common historical lie recently regurgitated by John Lennox. 

  1. Lennox lying at the Veritas Forum:  https://youtu.be/S26Dq3Uu6nM 

  2. My youtube video dealing with this in more depth: https://youtu.be/Jw-iBixJAeY

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Macrophage goes toe to toe with the tenth most influential philosopher of whatever and comes out on top.

Links:

1) My youtube series on William Lane Craig and Genesis: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIOw3HaBd7hlJBXKLnFJEO39-pCWngeVc

2) My written review of the book: https://creation.com/historical-adam-craig

3) The book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZSN6BY4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i7

4) My appearance on Current Topics in Science: https://youtu.be/ONcXZ4l7-AM

5) Craig's Sunday school series Defenders 3: Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/podcasts/defenders-podcast-series-3/excursus-on-creation-of-life-and-biological-diversity

6) Craig's Question of the Week #605: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/hermeneutical-vs-scientific-young-earth-creationism

7) Jason Lisle's article on fulfilled YEC predictions of the James Webb Space Telescope: https://biblicalscienceinstitute.com/origins/creation-cosmology-confirmed/

8) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on scientific realism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/

9) Rob Carter's podcast on the Creation Research Society's meeting: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4d2hcRTXLA6uFEo4W8z0z2?si=203c95c853e64ec6

10) Let's Talk Creation podcast on the book, part two with Marcus Ross: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cSfU2RPmRsZ8VM93DLDbA?si=f6a5a1873a174946

11) Michael Murray and John Churchill's paper Mere Theistic Evolution: https://peacefulscience.org/prints/mere-theistic-evolution/

12) Craig's paper responding to MTE: https://peacefulscience.org/prints/ets-wlc-mte/

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In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration

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Macrophage gets triggered by Jordan Peterson and rants about free will, explains in excruciating detail how he decides what pizza to order, and drops a metric ton of easter eggs. 

Steubenville lecture "You Probably Should Have Read the Bible": https://youtu.be/tB3qqb3U0Kc

Cambridge lecture "Solving the Problem of Perception": https://youtu.be/5HgSnS-z4JU

Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse podcast "Jordan Peterson is Back!": https://youtu.be/O55mvoZbz4Y

Jonathan Bartlett at Mind Matters on Musk’s self-driving cars: https://mindmatters.ai/2021/04/tesla-continues-to-walk-back-full-self-driving-claims/

William Dembski on directed contingency:  https://arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_idtheory.htm 

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Macrophage eats a common misconception about when young earth creationism came on the scene and what ancient Christians really believed about the age of the earth, the days of creation, and the relationship between science and the Bible.

References in the order of appearance:

Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book III, Chapter XXVIII, Leading Chronological Epochs, ~180 A.D.

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/theophilus-book3.html

Julius Africanus, Chronography, Fragment 18:4, 221 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0614.htm

Origen, Contra Celsum, Book I, Chapter XIX, 248 A.D. https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/origen161.html

St. Augustine, City of God, Book XII, chapter 10, "Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World's Past", 426 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120112.htm

Johannes Kepler, Book V, The Harmony of the World, 1619 A.D.

Hippolytus of Rome, Fragments, On Daniel II:4-6, ~ 205 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0502.htm

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 5, Chapter XXVIII:3 ~ 180 A.D. https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/irenaeus-book5.html

Basil, Hexaemeron, Homily II:8 , ~370 A.D. (commentary on Gen. 1:5) https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/32012.htm

Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, 1.19.39, Taylor, J.H., translation and annotation of St Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis(Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram), Vol. 1, Newman/Paulist Press, New York, 1982.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book II, Chapter II, The World Was Not Formed by Angels, or by Any Other Being, Contrary to the Will of the Most High God, But Was Made by the Father Through the Word, Part 5, ~180 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103202.htm

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book II, Chapter XXVIII, Perfect Knowledge Cannot Be Attained in the Present Life: Many Questions Must Be Submissively Left in the Hands of God, Part 2,~180 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103228.htm

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Macrophage reviews the new movie Everything, Everywhere, All At Once and also explains why he thinks studying art from opposing worldviews is helpful. 

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Macrophage gives four macroreasons to be a young earth creationist. 

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Episode 1 ends up being a rare foray into foreign policy and global affairs due to current events surrounding Russia and Ukraine, but it still ends up being all about identity which is what's at stake in the origins debate. Come listen to Macrophage make every political pundit mad and every normal person sad. 

SHOW NOTES:

Kevin D Williamson's articles:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/a-problem-like-putin/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/are-we-at-war/

Duff Cooper's resignation speech:

https://speakola.com/political/duff-cooper-against-appeasement-hitler-1938

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Introduction to the new podcast Macrophage Strategy. (The name has been changed to protect the guilty.) Macrophage explains the meaning behind the name, the topic(s) of the pod, life, the universe, and everything.

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