Episode 123 - Miracles, Abortion, and the Minimum Wage

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: How would raising the minimum wage effect our economy? What do you think about miracles? When does a soul enter the body, and how does that inform a stance on abortion? Are there any credible, secular challenges to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution via Natural Selection. You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. Here are some resources if you’d like to dig deeper into topics from this episode. How would raising the minimum wage effect our economy? Minimum wage: Updated research roundup on the effects of increasing pay How a Rising Minimum Wage Affects Jobs in Seattle What do you think about miracles? https://www.christianbook.com/miracles-credibility-new-testament-accounts-vols/craig-keener/9780801039522/pd/039522#CBD-PD-Description When does a soul enter the body, and how does that inform a stance on abortion? Episode 23 - Pro-life, Pro-choice Are there any credible, secular challenges to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution via Natural Selection. Dubitable Darwin? Why Some Smart, Nonreligious People Doubt the Theory of Evolution Ask Science Mike is made possible by listeners like you. Learn more on our Patreon page. Here are some resources on each answer if you'd like to dig deeper. Preproduction by Andrew Galucki. Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin. The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy. You've got questions, he's got answers. Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway. You've got problems, he won't solve them, But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

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0:00.0	Miracles, abortion, and the minimum wage.
0:04.0	All that and other completely non-controversial topics on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike. problems he won't solve there but I'm talking talking talking
0:24.2	till it's blue in the face science faith in life I say it's Mike
0:38.0	Welcome to another episode of Ask Science Mike, the Weekly Podcast, where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life.
0:41.5	Now back on a weekly schedule following my move across the country.
0:46.0	It's good to be back. We've got a lot to talk about, not just questions, crazy stuff happening in Virginia. Well, yesterday.
0:53.0	So, I don't know.
0:54.0	Let's stop vamping and get it started.
0:57.0	Uh, I don't know. I don't know I don't really know how to do this. The Pepe theme song seems weird but it seemed
1:09.3	weirder to leave it out. I was going to, I thought about maybe canceling this episode and doing a special
1:15.9	episode, but I don't know that I have a show's worth of stuff to say. But if you haven't followed the news, there was a white supremacist march that turned
1:30.3	violent in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1:33.8	There were literally torch-carrying mobs of angry white men
1:37.6	and really encouraging signs of counter-protests
1:41.1	and even clergy standing in the gap.
1:45.0	Then, you know, somebody drove a car into crowds and I just wanted to take a moment and just grieve with you all that this is the state of our world and our country right now.
2:06.4	It's heartbreaking.
2:07.2	It's absolutely heartbreaking.
2:10.0	That there are people who openly and proudly campaign that America should be a white
2:18.3	only or white first nation. And I think most people find that completely morally repugnant. But I can't help
2:29.6	but notice in the same vein that, I have looked I have looked all over Facebook at
2:36.7	friends and family and people who have sending questions to the show or made comments on the past that have denounced,
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