Faith Meets Facts: Recent Episodes
Intersection Victoria
The thinking Christian's podcast. Discussing reality through the lens of philosophy, science, history and theology to answer the question: "what is going on?"
Is The New Testament historically accurate? Is archaeology a friend of the Bible? A look at the New Testament’s external consistency by using historical science (textual criticism and archaeology).
We examine Dr. Pinker's claim that humans do not possess a soul and therefore no true free will.
A journalist asked famed biologist Richard Dawkins about mutations and evolution. See his answer and our analysis of his performance.
A look at the New Testament to appreciate its position as the most well attested and preserved ancient document. Which will help us answer the question: "Did Jesus exist, and do we know anything about Him?"
A broad overview of some major intellectual disciplines (i.e.: biology, psychology, history, math, chemistry) and a discussion as to why they all lead to a theistic worldview...
In this second episode we look at the early heretics of Christianity - the Gnostics - to see what they have to say about Jesus. Then we move on to see the students of the apostles - the Early Church Fathers - and what they said about Christ.
A historical analysis of the life of the man known as Jesus of Nazareth. This episode explores Roman, Greek, Syrian and Jewish ancient sources that mention Jesus and early Christians.
Hear a short two minute message by BIOLA philosopher J.P. Moreland about the utterly crucial practice of robust Christian thinking. This little clip is the mission statement of our ministry.
The university system that unlocked the secrets of the universe was created by Christendom. Listen to a brief historical review of the birth of our higher learning and how it is inextricably linked to Europe's Judeo-Christian centered worldview in the middle, renaissance and enlightenment ages.
If hard methodological naturalism is true (i.e.: Atheism) than no one can think rationally. Let this short audio clip convince you of this!
17th century math genius Blaise Pascal converted to Christianity in his early thirties. After giving the world key scientific discoveries such as Pascal's Law (fluid pressure measurements) and Pascal's Theorem (a geometrics proof) he then gifted us with one of the more famous arguments for the reasonableness of believing in God: Pascal's Wager.
We explore logical, scientific and anecdotal evidence for the existence of an immaterial component to consciousness.