Always good to have you on Reasonable Faith of Dr. William Lane Craig.

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Bill, I'm starting to see interviews on social media with Dr. Emily Koreshi Hurst.

She's a teaching associate in the Divinity Department at Cambridge and author of the

forthcoming Decoding the Cosmos, God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper for deeper explanation. She's an atheist who loves

Christian theology and the natural sciences. And she joins the growing ranks of academics who are

not Christians, but have a deep respect for the Christian faith and utterly reject Richard Dawkins and the

fading remnants of the new atheist. And to illustrate, here's an excerpt of her recent interview

with Alex O'Connor, clip number one. I've always been fascinated by the way that humans

try to understand their place in the world, try to understand

their experience, try to understand why we're here. And I think that the two most significant

ways that humanity has done that is science and religion. And yet, we see in popular discourse,

although I think that that's being corrected now, this idea that

science and religion are completely in conflict, they can't ever exist together. One has to

defeat the other. I really, really loved Richard Dawkins. So that was my first taste of science

and religion. And then when I got to university and realized that that was a very reductive and unhelpful way of viewing things.

But every stage I've gone forward in academia, atheists have fallen away.

And so I'm surrounded by a lot of religious people now and I am in a minority very much so.

Yeah, I'm in a similar position in that I'm really interested in particularly, like, New Testament studies.

And a lot of people are sort of like, I don't get it. You know, it's one thing to study religion as a sociological phenomenon or something. But, you know, why do you care about whether the Gospel of John is polemic if you're an atheist?

Yeah, you know, Alex O'Connor considers himself in the same camp, Bill.

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