Classic Replay: Natural evil – Bill Dembski and Norman Hansen

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

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How can natural evil and death that have existed for millions of years on an Old Earth view be reconciled to the view that the Fall brought these things into God's good world? Why does God answer some prayers and not others? Does free will exist? American mathematician, professor of theology and author of The End Of Christianity, Bill Dembski engages with former Christian Norman Hansen. For Dembski's blog see http://www.uncommondescent.com/ For Norman Hansen see http://www.nrhansen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ For Unbelievable? The Conference 2021 http://www.unbelievable.live USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unbelievable, with Justin Browley.
0:16.7	I'm Ruth Jackson, part of the unbelievable team and you are listening to a classic replay
0:21.0	programme from the archives.
0:23.0	The episode you are about to hear was first broadcast on Premier Christian Radio on the
0:27.3	9th of January 2010. The discussion focused around the topic of Natural Evil with Christian
0:33.4	Bill Dempsey and former Christian Norman Hanson. You can get in touch with the show and listen
0:39.2	to more episodes at premierChristianRadio.com slash unbelievable.
0:45.0	We're talking about the problem of evil and theodicy, that's somewhat fancy word, it's
0:53.7	essentially a way of reconciling a good god with the evil we see in the world.
0:59.6	Bill Dempsey joins us again on the programme, talking about his most recent book The End
1:04.0	of Christianity. We'll find out what that title exactly means and how Bill has come up with
1:09.0	a new theological approach as he sees it to reconciling the problem of evil with the
1:13.3	god of scripture. Also with us as a say Norman Hanson and Norman's got an interesting
1:18.1	story as a former Christian. He lost his faith partly because of concerns over the
1:23.4	creationist view of the world and those who were trying to convince him of that, we'll
1:27.2	find out more about his story. The problems he has with Bill's attempt to justify why
1:34.2	there is even in the world and why we have a good god in scripture. That's the show
1:38.3	today here on Unbelievably.
1:42.9	Well thank you gentlemen for joining me. Let's say a quick hello to both of you first
1:47.4	of all. Bill thanks for coming back on the programme. You have been a Christianer and long
1:53.3	time and you told us in last week's programme how your journey of faith developed you.
1:59.1	You said that you did actually not initially but end up having some problems with house
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