Well, welcome back everybody everybody, to the podcast.

I have with me today.

Matt Long, he is a Christian, a father of eight kids.

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And he has been studying an intelligent alternative design and the biblical shape of the earth since 2015. Matt believes the Bible is the

most accurate and reliable collection of books in the history of the world, and that while the

Bible is not a science book, it is scientifically correct. So with that intro, Matt, I know you're

an author, you're a speaker at conferences, you do all the things. So give us a

brief intro. Tell us about your background, your faith, how you got here. Yeah, so I grew up in Texas

where I currently live and I grew up playing sports and that was that was very central to my life. I didn't really consider much beyond that.

It was all I wanted to do. I wanted to be a professional athlete. And when all that kind of came to an

end in my mid-20s, I had to start looking for meaning in my life beyond just being an athlete. What I found was that

basically my entire self-worth was tied up in that. And so it was quite a shock to go into the

real world and get a real job. And you know, you get home at 6 o'clock and now it's time for

you to do whatever you want to do and it was it was just a big

um big shock for me at the time and i i had spent the the first i guess maybe the most of my 20s

from my teens into my 20s not believing the bible and and maybe not believing the Bible is the right way to put it because

I'd never read it for myself. So I actually, I gave the Bible no credit for having any,

um, any authority in my life. And I actually, embarrassingly, like I made fun of people

that believe the Bible and athletes that thanked

God after their victories and, you know, looking back at how ignorant I was, it's actually

quite shocking and embarrassing, but I started doing a little research for myself. I realized

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