Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#169 – Life starts shape-shifting
After life got a foothold on Earth, it immediately set about to filling the various emerging ecosystems with new organisms.
If you compressed the …
1 year, 10 months ago
#168 – Life from non-life?
Deep ocean hydrothermal vents may have been the stage for the biggest play on earth, preprogrammed into the Big Bang: the origin of life!
Over the…
1 year, 10 months ago
#167 – Fine-tuning without a “Tuner”
An atheist response to fine-tuning: a super intellect ‘monkeying’ with the physics, a cosmic computer simulation, the multiverse hypothesis, and “th…
1 year, 11 months ago
#166 – What it takes to make a LIVING universe
It takes an incredibly finer level of fine-tuning to produce a universe that has carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, copper,…
1 year, 11 months ago
#165 – What it takes to produce a universe
Getting twenty five fundamental constants and physical laws just right to produce a universe full of electrons, neutrons, and protons … all the way …
1 year, 11 months ago
#164 – Fine Tuning: getting the pencil to stand on its tip!?
“Fine Tuning” really means three very different things, two of which are recognized by astrophysicists of all stripes; but one of them … not so much…
1 year, 11 months ago
#163 – Evolution, a “good” creation, and the problem of pain
Can we say God used evolution to produce a “good” creation if it involves so much pain, suffering, predation and death?
Our listeners asked us to …
1 year, 11 months ago
#162 – Bending the arc of the moral universe
Humans have been developing the toolkit needed to fulfill the Divine command: “learn to get along and take care of the planet”!
Martin Luther King…
2 years ago
#161 – Human evolution, morality, and our ultimate purpose
Human evolution is hard to take for some Christians, especially when we claim that humans have been climbing up the evolutionary ladder in the moral…
2 years ago
#160 – Richard Dawkins v. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The scientist poster-boy for atheism and an ex-Muslim, ex-atheist Christian have a conversation (not a debate) about worldviews (not God).
One of …
2 years ago