Bill, let's continue examining the role of apologetics and academia.

We can use a recent response to one of our podcasts to do so.

Paula Gia had Derek Lambert of the Myth Vision podcast talk about your response to Dr. Richard

Miller on how Christian apologists are disdained in the upper echelons of scholarship.

Listeners can review that podcast that we did, it's called Responding to YouTube Critics,

Reasonable Faith at Org.

So let's start with a clip of them taking me to task for one of my comments.

Bill, I couldn't resist and I accused him in the comments of that video when I saw it,

of doing apologetics against apologetics.

Oh my gosh, okay, if we're going to be technical on the definition of apologist, it's simply

a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial, according to,

you know, dictionary online, Oxford.

But we all know what an apologist is, okay, this is someone who literally makes it their

duty to defend their particular faith view.

And we don't need to get into is atheism some type of worldview and is this something

that we need to defend.

That's irrelevant to me.

You can be agnostic, you can be theist, you can be atheist, you can be whatever you want.

But what they're doing is starting with their answer, just like you'd assign your faith

waiver in order to even go to these schools, they're not starting with the question.

And this is the investigation that is against the methodology Richard and those ivory tower

scholars I bring on my show and you've been bringing on yours Paul, they want the questions.

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