A conversation with Eric Metaxas - S9.E11
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The modern narrative says science is at odds with faith. But evangelical author and talk show host Eric Metaxas points to a growing body of scientific evidence for the existence of God. He unpacks that evidence, and other proofs from history, in his new book, Is Atheism Dead? In this conversation with Warren Smith, Metaxas talks about why he wanted to return to writing about apologetics.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with radio talk show host and bestselling author, Eric Metaxus. |
| 0:13.1 | He's the author of a new book called Is Atheism Dead? |
| 0:19.4 | I think we're in a paradigm shift right now. I think that the science is so clear about the |
| 0:26.8 | existence of God that we have to have a recalibration. And so I think we're going to see a |
| 0:32.2 | paradigm shift because some people are going to be really angry. But science is science. This is |
| 0:36.7 | well-established stuff. And I think a lot of people in the church are going to be really angry, but science is science. This is well-established stuff. |
| 0:38.7 | And I think a lot of people in the church are going to be emboldened in their evangelistic efforts once they |
| 0:44.3 | familiarize themselves with what is true. I think a lot of people are going to be shocked. |
| 0:49.4 | So I really do think even though we're living in tumultuous times in all kinds of ways, I think we're going to see a paradigm shift where faith will be taken more seriously, even by people who don't agree with us. |
| 1:00.4 | Ten years ago, Eric Mataxis was, you might say, the bell of the evangelical ball. Indeed, his |
| 1:08.1 | evangelical bona fides were nearly impeccable. |
| 1:12.9 | Early in his career, he had written for veggie tales and worked for Chuck Colson. |
| 1:17.4 | He wrote humorously but piercingly about Christian apologetics. |
| 1:22.6 | His biography of Bonhofer was named the Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association |
| 1:29.8 | and received honors from World Magazine as well. |
| 1:33.8 | His keynote address to the National Prayer Breakfast in 2012 became a viral sensation, |
| 1:40.2 | with great wit and rhetorical flourish, and with President Barack Obama sitting just a few feet away, |
| 1:48.8 | he gave a passionate defense for the unborn. |
| 1:53.0 | Eric Metaxus was becoming what many evangelicals claimed the movement needed, an intellectual Christian, someone who took the Bible and doctrine |
| 2:04.3 | seriously, but who was also taking seriously himself in the secular public square. |
| 2:12.9 | Then Donald Trump happened. After being initially skeptical of Trump, Eric Metaxos became a full-throated |
| 2:21.6 | advocate on his then-new Salem radio program, which was syndicated nationwide. He wrote two |
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