A.L. Van Den Herik Talks Female Apologists/Riding Dinosaurs/Arguments For Faith
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show.
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to A. L. Van Den Herik who is the author of a new book called The Shortest Leap: The Rational Underpinnings of Faith in Jesus. This is a great dialogue about the historical, rational, and scientific arguments for Christianity and how a person decides to become a Christian.They discuss whether a woman can write an apologetics book, break Ethan’s brain with Einstein’s law of relativity, and trigger Kyle with old earth arguments.
Topics Discussed
- C.S. Lewis and apologetics
- Women writers on the Christian book scene
- Allyson’s conversion from hardcore atheist & leftist to Christianity
- Tarantula wasps and rabbits eating their own poop
- Dinosaurs are cool
- God’s wisdom in how he has revealed Himself
- Time dilation & light speed travel or how the movie Interstellar maybe backs up the days of the Genesis creation account
- Were all of her professors at Stanford and Berkley like Kevin Sorbo’s character in God’s Not Dead?
- The Noah’s Ark story and did people ride dinosaurs?
- Do people decide to be a Christian through pure reason?
- “Christians” that don’t believe in God
- Pagan creation, flood and resurrection myths
- Parenting tips while working on big projects
- Working for Rush Limbaugh
- The Ten Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word Galarius. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | He's a brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B interview show. |
| 0:43.0 | Alison Van Den Herrick, right? |
| 0:46.0 | Did I say that right? |
| 0:47.0 | In Herrick? |
| 0:48.0 | Yes. |
| 0:49.0 | Should we call you A.L. the hometown? |
| 0:51.0 | Or Ali? |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, you know the A.L. |
| 0:53.0 | That's the like, the C.S. Lewis JK Rowling. |
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