For years, conservative Christians have been accused of being too willing to believe the teachings of an ancient book, without evidence and without good reason.

In contrast, many prominent atheists have argued that science is the only reliable means of ascertaining the truth.

In short, if you can't prove something via the

scientific method, it's probably not true. In our interview today, I'm talking with Mitch Stokes

about the many problems with an atheistic worldview, including logical holes that skeptics often

prefer to ignore. Mitch serves as a senior fellow of philosophy

at New St. Andrews College and is the author of

How to Be an Atheist,

why many skeptics aren't skeptical enough from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, Mitch, thank you so much for joining us today on the Crossway podcast.

Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

So this is the first question. We're going to dig into this issue of apologetics generally,

and in particular, some lines of argumentation that can be used with atheists and trying to understand

their worldview and maybe unpack it a little bit in different ways.

But before we kind of dig into the weeds on that, I wonder if you could share a little bit

about how you first got into apologetics.

Yeah, yeah.

So I've always been kind of a skeptical questioning.

I mean, probably sometimes too much.

So kind of a growing up just a little bit of an anti-authoritarian and so it wasn't, and

it wasn't necessarily virtuous but um that's kind of

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