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Doubts Aloud Podcast
by Doubts Aloud Podcast
The Doubts Aloud Podcast! Join us as we allow doubts to be voiced regarding faith, religion and worldviews. Two of us have been Christians and none of us believe, so our current conclusion is that the doubts regarding Christianity are justified, but we are keen to question ourselves and hear Christian arguments and hear from Christian guests. Our background means that our conversation with Christianity will tend to dominate over other faiths. We are Frances Janusz, Andrew Whyte and Ed Atkinson. We value the use of reason and evidence to assess matters of faith and worldview. (Should we doubt those assumptions?). We will consider philosophy, theology, Biblical Studies, human experience from the thinking layman’s viewpoint. We greatly value respect for those we disagree with and engaging in discussion. Meet us all in person at the monthly Unbelievable Christian and Skeptic Discussion Group in central London https://www.meetup.com/Unbelievable-Christian-
Episodes
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Episode 104 - Is Faith just pretending to know? Part 1
Show Notes Is faith “complete trust or confidence or something or someone” or “belief without evidence” which implies “pretending to know things that you don’t know”? That was the Unbelievable debate over a decade ago which has stayed in Ed’s mind ever since. He has long thought it over…
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Episode 103 - An Anatomy of a Discrepancy
Show Notes The inconsistencies between the two NT narratives of Judas Iscariott’s death has long been a ‘poster child’ of bible contradictions. We are prompted to cover it by an excellent video recently released by CJ Cornthwaite who suggests the actual reasons for the differences between the...
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Episode 102 - The mysterious world of the Trinity
Show Notes Andrew has noticed that debates within Christianity on the Trinity have become much more prominent recently. We go back even to the Old Testament and cover the 1stC AD, Church Fathers, Council of Nicaea, the Reformation, and more recent debates following the story. We marvel at how...
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Episode 101 - Belief is Not a Choice, with Jon Cohen
Show Notes We welcome Jon Cohen who leads us on his journey in life which has more recently led him to engage with Christians of all kinds on his successful YouTube live-stream show “Unconvinced”. Unlike many of us, he has no history as a Christian and so has a true outsider’s view of the faith.…
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Episode 100 - Celebrating our 100th Episode with John Nelson
Show Notes We started with Episode 1 in Feb 2018, today we celebrate our 100th Episode with friend John Nelson, who is now the main host at Unbelievable?. We discussed John’s PhD thesis book on what Jesus looked like, his work at Unbelievable?, his tour with Alex O’Connor and his blog “Behind the...
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Episode 99 - C.S. Lewis's Trilemma
Show Notes We start by dipping into the book with 50 arguments for God and a chapter “Jesus as God” which says that if we ditch 4th & 5thC debates and modern categories of Trinity, we see Jesus expressing his divinity in his own way. It explains Jesus’ caged language on this as Jesus needing to...
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Episode 98 - When a Christian fully embraces evolution
Show Notes Ed has recently recorded an Unbelievable? Show with Dr Denis Alexander who is an evangelical Christian, a biologist and author of books like “Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?”. Denis fully embraces evolution. While these ideas are fresh, we took the time to think through…
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Episode 97 PART 2 -The Evangelical Case for Conditiional Immortality
The evangelical case for conditional Immortality Recommended books. Edward Fudge - The Fire That Consumes Henry Constable - The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment Edward White - Life in Christ John Stott - Essentials Rethinking Hell - Readings in Evangelical Conditionalism
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Episode 96 - The Kirk Cameron Controversy and the Case for Conditional Immortality
Episode 96 - The Kirk Cameron Controversy and the Case for Conditional Immortality Kirks original video that sparked the controversy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RflbA8Vt_Y Kirk Camerons subsequent round table disscusion of the issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds3UbUsIaQs
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Episode 95 - Virgin Births in Ancient Culture
Text for DA Podcast Ep 95 Title Suggestions Virgin Births in Ancient Culture Virgin Births in Greek and Hebrew Culture Show Notes We look for origins of the Virgin Birth doctrine in Christianity. Principally we search the Greek and Hebrew cultures that are the context behind the birth narratives…
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Episode 94 - Atheist Prayer Part 2 - with Prof Tim Mawson
Show Notes In episode 92 we explained the idea of Atheist Prayer and introduced a philosophy paper on it by Oxford prof Tim Mawson. This episode Tim is our guest. We discuss the “Atheist Prayer Experiment”, which Tim’s paper inspired, and his contribution the Unbelievable? Shows on the…
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Episode 93 - Luke Wilson and the practice of ‘Conversion Therapy’
Show Notes We welcome Dr Lucas Wilson (also known as Luke), he’s an academic and has both studied and experienced the practice of Conversion Therapy. The idea behind such therapy is that sexual orientation and/or gender identity is a mental disorder which can be fixed, usually by God, with the…
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Episode 92 - Atheist Prayer Part 1 – yes it is a thing
Show Notes Yes, atheist prayer is a thing! We explain the idea and introduce a philosophy paper on it by Oxford prof Tim Mawson. The paper gave rise to the “Atheist Prayer Experiment” which Justin Brierley conducted and reported on via the Unbelievable? Show in 2012. We discuss the setup and...
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Episode 91 - The Council of God, Sons of God and a Pantheon
Show Notes Andrew leads us through the development in the Hebrew scriptures regarding how other Gods/gods alongside Yahweh were understood. Initially Yahweh was seen as Israel’s God within a Henotheist context, where Henotheism is the belief in or worship of one god while acknowledging the...
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Episode 90 - Natural suffering and Is God lying in the bible
Show Notes Last episode we discussed apparently poor design within the Intelligent Design argument. It led into assessing whether the Fall is a good explanation for poor design and hence natural suffering. Here we discuss other explanations for a good and loving God making a world with natural...
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Episode 89 - Poor Design or the Fall?
Show Notes In recent episodes we have discussed Design Arguments and Intelligent Design. Here we cover another chapter from the 50 Arguments for Faith book which explains the apparent suboptimal Design. It is interesting to see what reasons Intelligent Design proponents give. One suggestion is…
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Episode 88 - Sky Dive Phil and the Science of Fine Tuning
Show Notes We looked at Design Arguments in our Episodes 82 & 85 but avoided diving deep into Fine Tuning, waiting for our discussion with Phil. It was worth it! We covered questions such as what are the actual physical observations which we call Fine Tuning? What are the main explanations for…
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Episode 87 - Behind the Gospels with John Nelson
Show Notes We welcome again our great friend John Nelson as our guest. John has started an excellent academic blog, “Behind the Gospels”, which we discuss at length. We cover individual issues that John has covered, especially whether Matthew the disciple was the author of Matthews Gospel. We...
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Episode 86 - Thinking about Heaven with guest Jim Paul
Show Notes We welcome a new guest Jim Paul, a Christian thinker from the UK L’Abri community. He introduces us to a view of Heaven which is in contrast to the familiar ethereal heaven in our culture. The familiar view is centuries old with its fluffy clouds and plump babies with wings, but it is…
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Episode 85 -Design Arguments Part2
Design Arguments Part 2 Show Notes In episode 82 we started our discussion on Design Arguments and got up to the start of the 19thC. Later in that century the argument was turned on its head by Darwin and his Origin of Species. We discuss this and move on to modern creationism (a little) and...
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Episode 84 - Flat Earth Update and a Jesus Mosaic
Show Notes We start from an informative update on the Flat Earth movement. Their model for the earth usually includes a wall of ice round the rim – Anarctica, that implies the 24 hour sunshine in the Anarctica summer is impossible and their claims often include that it does not occur. So what...
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Episode 83 - Dickens and “A Christmas Carol
Show Notes We start with the recent UK Parliament decision in favour of assisted dying and the religion and secular division that it brought out. Then we enjoy discussing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at length. There’s a debate among academics on whether it is a fully secular story, or if…
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Episode 82 - Yes Jesus Died and Design Arguments Part 1
Show Notes We start with the next chapter selected by the randomiser in our 50 Arguments for God book. “Can We Be Certain That Jesus Died on a Cross? A Look at the Ancient Practice of Crucifixion” We agree that the answer is Yes, and enjoy ourselves on the way. Then we move on to another random...
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Episode 81 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion – Part 2 Religion poisons everything?
Show Notes Ed continues relating the history of the remote isolated Scottish island of St Kilda and its amazing community. We had finished Part 1 at about 1700 AD with a kind of Utopia and a gentle folksy religion. Here we discuss its decline (our take) into a harsh, puritan, rule-bound and...
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Episode 80 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion - Part 1 Utopia?mp3
Show Notes Ed shares from his longstanding interest in the remote isolated Scottish island of St Kilda and its amazing community that survived for 1000s of years up to 1930. In part 1 we cover its geography, community structure and social conditions, and then its religious history finishing…
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Episode 79 - A deep dive into Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy
Show Notes We covered the book of Daniel in episode 44 explaining it’s likely ‘forgery’ status and we briefly discussed his 70 Weeks prophecy in that episode. Here Andrew leads us into a deep dive, plunging the murky waters. Indeed, studying the prophecy has been called a ‘dismal swamp’. We…
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Episode 78 - The McGrewvianism Phenomenon – Part 2
Show Notes In Part 1, friends of the show John Nelson and Josh Parikh returned as guests and discussed “McGrewvianism”, which is the apologetic approach of partners Tim & Lydia McGrew. Their critiques of McGrewvianism centred largely in lack of engagement in the last 150 years of scholarship into...
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Episode 77 - Doubts Aloud Book Club Tom Holland’s Dominion – Part 2
Show Notes We return to our “Doubts Aloud Book Club” with a second episode on Tom Holland’s book ‘Dominion’ which has caused quite a stir in Christian apologetics circles over the last few years. We cover some of the critical responses, including ours. But most importantly we sought out responses...
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DA - Episode 76 - The McGrewvianism Phenomenon with Josh & John – Part 1
Show Notes Friends of the show John Nelson and Josh Parikh return as guests together. They introduce Josh’s new term to the world: McGrewvianism, which is the apologetic approach of partners Tim & Lydia McGrew. They are scholars in their own fields but do not use the methods of modern NT...
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Episode 75 - Doubts Aloud Book Club: Tom Holland’s Dominion – Part 1
Show Notes Tom Holland’s book ‘Dominion’ has caused quite a stir in Christian apologetics circles over the last few years and we’ve been reading it. We also attended a church leader’s evening where he was the speaker. So we thought we would start a “Doubts Aloud Book Club” with Dominion the first...
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Episode 74 - The age of the earth with Rev Michael Roberts
Show Notes We are excited to have guest Rev Michael Roberts with us, he’s an Oxford geologist who subsequently became an Anglican vicar. He is extremely knowledgeable on the history of geology and the age of the earth in science, Christian academic thought, theology and the modern Young Earth...
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Episode 73 Presuppositional Apologetics Part 2
Show Notes his month we return to that different form of Apologetics - Presuppositional Apologetics. Please see Part 1 - Episode 70 - where we gave a more social and historical background to it. Here we look at the basic argument made: the Transcendental Argument for God, “TAG”. We set it out and...
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Episode 72 - Evangelicals and Zionism – How Did we Get Here?
Show Notes We deal with the current conflict in Israel and Gaza by looking at the influence of religion, in the minds of the Israeli leaders & the settlers taking land in the West Bank and also in the minds of the Evangelical Zionist backers in the UK and US. The UK evangelical influence is more…
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Episode 71 - The One with Us Obsessing over Luke’s Census
Show Notes Merry Christmas one and all and what could be more festive than digging into the historical reliability of that Census? The one Luke uses to set up his nativity narrative. We make our case as to why this matters, after all, Luke is said to be a great historian by many. Then we get to…
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Episode 70 - The One on Presuppositional Apologetics
Show Notes This month we (in our view) bravely jump into a completely different form of Apologetics - Presuppositional Apologetics. It can be a bid disorientating as in Andrew’s words it can be summarised as “God’s word says you are wrong so you have no case to make". Frances is more measured…
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Episode 69- The One About Mormonism
Show Notes In this episode Andrew shares his research on the origins of the Book of Mormon and the early roots of the Mormon church. This includes discussing the belief that gold plates were discoverd near New York in the early 19th century that gave the purported story of jews emigrating from…
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Episode 68 - That Curse Tablet and Biblical Archaeology
Show Notes Andrew has been following a story about a ‘Curse Tablet’ found at an archaeological site in Israel which proponents claim should up-end Biblical Archaeology in such a way as to confirm the conservative evangelical view of the Torah – the first five books of the OT. We look into it and...
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Episode 67 - The One with Andrews Deconversion Story - PART 2
This episodes is Part 2 of a 2 part show with just with Andrew on his own and and he recounts in detail his own de-conversion story.
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Episode 66 - The One with Andrews Deconversion Story - PART 1
This episodes is Part 1 of a 2 part show with just with Andrew on his own and and he recounts in detail his own de-conversion story.
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Episode 65 - More Tumult in Christian Apologetics - with Josh Parikh
Show Notes We continued our discussion with friend of ours Josh Parikh - a Christian Apologist who has always thought deeply about the issues and maintained intellectual integrity. There were two Old Testament case studies that Josh included in his talk “A Tumultuous Period in Apologetics?” to…
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Episode 64 - Josh Parikh - A Crisis in Christian Apologetics? Part 1
Show Notes Josh Parikh is an old friend of ours having contributed to our Discussion Groups over many years as a Christian Apologist who has always thought deeply about the issues and maintained intellectual integrity. He has been on a journey, especially having engaged with Biblical scholarship....
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Episode 63 - Homosexuality and the Bible part 2
Show Notes For Part 2 of our discussion of same-sex relationships, sexual practice and the Bible, we start with background and origins for the OT Law (we covered its interpretation in Part 1). One scholar has identified an evolution in the laws in Leviticus from a more lenient view to the harsh…
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Episode 62- Homosexuality and the Bible - Part 1
Show Notes We do a tour of the Bible and its material on same-sex relationships and sexual practice. We find that the story of Sodom isn’t the place to start and the OT Law has issues with interpretation. Jesus didn’t directly teach on the subject and so we spend more time with the references to…
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Episode 61 - The Simple Episode
Episode 61 – Show Notes Occam’s Razor shows us how simple explanations are superior to complex ones and so simplicity is a concept that might lead us to believe in God as this one simple concept – a supernatural personal agent – can explain all the complexities of the world. We try to assess this...
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Episode 60 - What on earth are the gospels? with John Nelson
Episode 60– Show NotesJohn Nelson returned as our guest to start off 2023. He’s been monitoring the debate about what literary genre we should consider the gospels to be and what the implications would be if they are taken as biography in the Greek & Roman tradition. The question fits with his...
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Episode 59 - History of Santa Claus with Paul Thompson and a Perfect Scam
Episode 59– Show Notes We had a great time with our guest Paul Thompson of the Skepticule Podcast. Paul has done a lot of research on St Nicolas and his afterlife as Santa Claus which we enjoyed. He also researched scams as part of the UK sceptical community and gave us the benefits by leading us...
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Episode 58 - Biblical Cosmology and the Rise of the Flat Earth Movement
Episode 58– Show Notes Andrew is on a roll again, reporting his research into flat earth beliefs in the Bible. Actually, it is just a component in a whole cosmology of how the ‘heavens’, earth and under the earth fit together. Spoiler – no turtles. This eventually moves on to Ed getting excited...
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Episode 57 - God Intervening in Experiments and in Life?
Episode 57– Show Notes We start with methodological naturalism and whether rejecting can be scientifically legitimate, as this is the next chapter in our 50 Arguments for God book. Chapter title: “The Scientific Status of Design Inferences”. We discuss the argument in the chapter for rejecting...
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Episode 56 - SkyDive Phil on the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Episode 56– Show Notes We’re delighted to welcome SkyDive Phil back on the show. Not on vegetarianism as we’d trailed (please be patient) but on his recent work on the Kalam Cosmological Argument. The most prominent form of the argument, as defended by Christian apologist and philosopher William...
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Episode 55 - Does God Have A Body?
Episode 55 - Title Suggestions 1. God’s Body 2. Does God have a Body? 3. God really has a Body and we’re not joking 4. The one where God has a body Episode 55– Show Notes The idea we explore is that the Old Testament authors all thought that God had a body. For them He wasn’t an ethereal…
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The Doubts Aloud Podcast!
Join us as we allow doubts to be voiced regarding faith, religion and worldviews. Two of us have been Christians and none of us believe, so our current conclusion is that the doubts regarding Christianity are justified, but we are keen to question ourselves and hear Christian arguments and hear from Christian guests. Our background means that our conversation with Christianity will tend to dominate over other faiths.
We are Frances Janusz, Andrew Whyte and Ed Atkinson. We value the use of reason and evidence to assess matters of faith and worldview. (Should we doubt those assumptions?). We will consider philosophy, theology, Biblical Studies, human experience from the thinking layman’s viewpoint. We greatly value respect for those we disagree with and engaging in discussion. Meet us all in person at the monthly Unbelievable Christian and Skeptic Discussion Group in central London
https://www.meetup.com/Unbelievable-Christian-
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