Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast. This audio is brought to you by

Canon Press. Before we get started I wanted to make sure you knew that Douglas

Wilson has a new book at Canon refuting the new atheists, a Christian response to

Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchins, and Richard Dawkins.

In refuting the new atheists, Doug shows that atheists stand on millennia of Christian culture and morality

when they emphasize the problem of evil, and that atheistic materialism cannot give any

account of truth, beauty, or goodness. This book contains all three of Douglas Wilson's book-length responses to the new

atheists published for the first time in a single volume. You can get this book at cannon press.com. Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never turn.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 195. Hard to believe, right?

195. Particularly hard to believe if you've been listening to these things from the

beginning. That's years, man. So the thing I wanted to talk about,

the timely issue of the day that I wanted to talk about,

was the election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.

And I don't want to get into the ins and outs of the counting,

because I don't know enough about it, right?

That's not the area I wanted to address

because I don't know who's doing what,

I don't know who's spiny, I don't know anything.

But the thing I'm interested in is the nature of the controversy

that surrounds the audit or the recount.

So here, this is Zoom out, back up and take a look at the mere fact of an audit or the

mere fact of a recount. Let's and and of course you have to understand that partisan politics will get into everything,

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