Best Luke Whyte Podcasts (2026)

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Episode 95 - Virgin Births in Ancient Culture 1:30:03

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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 in Matthew and Luke’s gospels. What we don’t conclude…

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Episode 94 - Atheist Prayer Part 2 - with Prof Tim Mawson 1:20:45

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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 Experiment. The link to Divine Hiddenness is a strong theme. Ap…

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Episode 93 - Luke Wilson and the practice of ‘Conversion Therapy’ 1:37:41

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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 help of a programme, therapist, exorcist, boot camp, de…

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Episode 92 - Atheist Prayer Part 1 – yes it is a thing 1:23:27

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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 results of the Experiment. Tim Mawson himself has agreed …

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Episode 91 - The Council of God, Sons of God and a Pantheon 55:36

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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 existence of other gods. A key idea was a Heavenly Council …

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Episode 90 - Natural suffering and Is God lying in the bible 1:23:59

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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 suffering. In particular, we assess Sceptical Theism wh…

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Episode 89 - Poor Design or the Fall? 1:26:14

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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: "We must also remember that the world we are observing…

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Episode 88 - Sky Dive Phil and the Science of Fine Tuning 1:31:15

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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 the observations that cosmologists/physicists generally…

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Episode 87 - Behind the Gospels with John Nelson 1:24:02

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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 couldn’t hold back from asking about some hot topics, su…

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Episode 86 - Thinking about Heaven with guest Jim Paul 1:35:51

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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 a corruption of the Bible’s view, which is more earth…

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Masters of MEDDICC - How To Build A Diverse Winning Team With Josh Reiner 1:22:43

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In this episode of Masters of MEDDICC, Andy sits down with Josh Reiner, VP of EMEA at WIZ. This might be controversial, but Josh doesn’t like leads. In the current landscape, while customers may be coming to you more informed, they also might be coming with more preconceived ideas about what your solution can (or can’t) do. Josh tells Andy all abou…

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Episode 85 -Design Arguments Part2 1:15:40

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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 Intelligent Design (a lot), selecting by our design – not…

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Episode 84 - Flat Earth Update and a Jesus Mosaic 1:27:39

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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 happens when a group of prominent Flat Earth advocates a…

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Episode 83 - Dickens and “A Christmas Carol 1:13:56

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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 it is a Christian allegory. We wade in. The question o…

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Episode 82 - Yes Jesus Died and Design Arguments Part 1 1:24:07

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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 chapter which is on how our planet is ideal for doing …

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Episode 81 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion – Part 2 Religion poisons everything? 1:01:13

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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 Calvinist kind of religion. And we ask how it could have h…

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Episode 80 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion - Part 1 Utopia?mp3 1:07:50

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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 around 1700 which was when outsiders began worrying about …

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Episode 79 - A deep dive into Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy 1:30:17

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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 discuss how all approaches, apologetic or scholarly, lead …

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Masters of MEDDICC - Authenticy & Trust with Richard Dufty - Episode #18 1:02:20

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In this episode of Masters of MEDDICC, we have the first ever returning guest as friend of MEDDICC and CRO of Team Cymru, Richard Dufty, joins Andy in the studio. In the modern landscape of our industry, one of MEDDICC’s guiding principles has never been more true: prudent, not parsimonious. When running a business, being smart and using common sen…

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Episode 78 - The McGrewvianism Phenomenon – Part 2 1:27:40

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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 the New Testament documents and they related this ex…

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Episode 77 - Doubts Aloud Book Club Tom Holland’s Dominion – Part 2 1:26:05

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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 from historians. Tom makes a bold and interesting se…

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Masters of MEDDICC - The Art Of Decision Criteria With Luke Rogers - #Episode 17 1:08:02

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In the latest episode of Masters of MEDDICC, MEDDICC CEO Andy Whyte is joined by Luke Rodgers, VP of EMEA at ComplyAdvantage. Together they cover a wide range of topics on the intersection of MEDDPICC and leadership, including what it takes to be a truly successful leader, and the top mistakes people make when they THINK they’re using MEDDPICC. One…

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DA - Episode 76 - The McGrewvianism Phenomenon with Josh & John – Part 1 1:28:36

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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 scholarship when arguing for the historical reliability of th…

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Masters of MEDDICC - High-Performance Sales Leadership with Marina Ayton - Episode #16 56:49

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In this episode of Masters of MEDDIC, MEDDICC CEO Andy Whyte sits down with Marina Ayton, VP of Strategic Accounts for the UK&I at ZScaler. From an early age, Marina has been inspired to work hard. She tells Andy about what she believes is essential, in any role, to get where you want to be. Succeeding in sales isn’t easy – she and Andy share some …

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Episode 75 - Doubts Aloud Book Club: Tom Holland’s Dominion – Part 1 1:28:40

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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 book covered.We introduce Tom, his current faith pos…

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Episode 74 - The age of the earth with Rev Michael Roberts 1:14:58

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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 movement. Did you know that Darwin was a geologist at th…

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Episode 73 Presuppositional Apologetics Part 2 1:15:49

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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 discuss implications and objections to it. Links:The…

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Masters of MEDDICC - How to Build Sales Relationships with Jeff Miller - Episode #15 29:51

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SHOWNOTES Get ready for the latest episode of Masters of MEDDICC! Host Andy Whyte chats with experienced revenue leader, Jeff Miller, current CRO of StarTree. Listen and have a chuckle as the two talk about their shared history of selling door-to-door - and what they learned from it. The way you communicate with your customer can make or break a de…

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Episode 72 - Evangelicals and Zionism – How Did we Get Here? 1:24:41

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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 of historical interest but the US is very current and…

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Episode 71 - The One with Us Obsessing over Luke’s Census 1:30:36

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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 it dealing with the 3 main historical issues with the …

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Masters of MEDDICC - Level Up your Sales Teams with Adam Quartermaine - Episode #14 1:04:06

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In this episode of Masters of MEDDIC, MEDDICC CEO Andy Whyte is joined by Adam Quartermaine to dive into numerous ways MEDDPICC acts as a compass to success, both in your career and in your deals. Being too wary of the word ‘no’ can be a salesperson’s downfall. Adam talks to Andy about how getting an early ‘no’ can be the key to a final ‘yes’. Deve…

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Episode 70 - The One on Presuppositional Apologetics 1:25:35

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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 with her summary: “the only proof of the Christian posit…

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Episode 69- The One About Mormonism 1:30:19

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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 the holy land to the americas in around 600 BC. Andrew …

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Episode 68 - That Curse Tablet and Biblical Archaeology 1:02:38

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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 hear from both sides. This led on to Ed introducing t…

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Masters of MEDDICC - MEDDPICC as a Game-Changer with David Weiss - Episode #13 1:09:45

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In this Masters of MEDDIC episode, MEDDICC CEO Andy Whyte sat down with David Weiss to uncover how MEDDPICC utterly transformed the way he sells and why he teaches it to as many people as possible (including people knocking on his door to sell pest control services!). David Weiss has 20 years of experience as a sales leader, and is currently CRO at…

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Episode 67 - The One with Andrews Deconversion Story - PART 2 1:05:33

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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.By Doubts Aloud Podcast

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Episode 66 - The One with Andrews Deconversion Story - PART 1 52:13

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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.By Doubts Aloud Podcast

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Episode 65 - More Tumult in Christian Apologetics - with Josh Parikh 1:23:12

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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 the Discussion Group in London, and we were keen not to…

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Episode 64 - Josh Parikh - A Crisis in Christian Apologetics? Part 1 1:22:27

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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. This has overlapped with his time at Oxford Universi…

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Episode 63 - Homosexuality and the Bible part 2 52:43

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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 one found in the final text. Frances has researched re…

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Episode 62- Homosexuality and the Bible - Part 1 1:29:24

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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 it by Paul, in a long passage in Romans 1 (v 18-32) a…

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Episode 61 - The Simple Episode 1:21:44

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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 line of thinking, especially using the work of the O…

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Masters of MEDDICC - How to build a sales team ready for battle with Richard Dufty - Episode #12 1:24:19

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In this Masters of MEDDICC, hosted by Andy Whyte, Richard breaks down how both sales reps and sales leaders can break through emotional and mental barriers to become the best they can be. That can be anything from embracing a stoic approach to the sales rollercoaster to building a strong network to fall back on when times are tough. Richard has tak…

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Episode 60 - What on earth are the gospels? with John Nelson 1:25:01

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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 studies for his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in C…

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Episode 59 - History of Santa Claus with Paul Thompson and a Perfect Scam 1:21:49

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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 through The Perfect Scam. So all good fun and games …

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Episode 58 - Biblical Cosmology and the Rise of the Flat Earth Movement 59:25

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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 over whether Jesus was a flat earther. We can’t help b…

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Episode 57 - God Intervening in Experiments and in Life? 1:28:20

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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 methodological naturalism when it comes to the ‘science…

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Episode 56 - SkyDive Phil on the Kalam Cosmological Argument 1:21:56

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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 Lane Craig, states the Kalam cosmological argument as…

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Episode 55 - Does God Have A Body? 1:07:38

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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 unembodied universal Being. We look at the evidence for this …

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Episode 54 - Replay - The one about the Resurrection 1:08:55

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Resurrection interview with Mathew HartkeBy Doubts Aloud Podcast