Episode 25: How Educated Do You Have to Be to Identify Nonsense?

Mama Bear Apologetics

Hillary Morgan Ferrer & Amy Davison

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

There is an interesting phenomenon which the late Herman Kahn described, where “those with engineering or sociology training [are unable to] understand certain issues which they would have been able to understand if they had not had this training.” Kahn called it “educated incapacity,” but the idea was originally taken from economist Thorstein Veblen, who […]

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0:00.0	I'm Hillary and I'm Hillary and I'm Rebecca and we are
0:08.7	Mom Bear apologetics. We're just two gals talking about life's big questions from a
0:14.1	biblical worldview because when it comes to the battle of ideas we need to be able to
0:18.6	say, mess with my kids and I will demolish your arguments. You mess, I demolish.
0:24.0	Got it?
0:25.0	Could peace?
0:28.0	Rise up, ladies.
0:29.0	Rise up, mama bears.
0:31.0	This might not affect your faith, but it might affect your children's.
0:34.0	Welcome to another episode of Mama Bear Apologetics. I'm Hillary.
0:42.0	I'm Rebecca. And so today we're going to be talking about something that was kind of
0:46.3	of birth from a Twitter, I don't know what to, I don't want to call it a Twitter
0:49.7	battle because it wasn't really a battle. I kind of stepped out and actually we had some pretty
0:53.4	awesome it was a troll attack it was a troll attack yeah we actually had some really
0:57.0	cool pop-a bears come in and I stepped back because they just started going after
1:01.2	this guy and I was like I don't even have to say anything.
1:03.6	Yeah, Papa Bears.
1:05.6	Yeah, Papa Bears.
1:06.6	So the title for today's podcast is, how educated do you have to be to identify nonsense? It's very chestertonian of you.
1:15.0	Oh, isn't it?
1:17.0	So it started out with this original quote that I posted from John Lennox.
1:22.0	So John Lennox is a mathematician.
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