How the Mental Evidence Points to the Existence of God
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner Wallace continues his six part mini-series summarizing material from his book, God’s Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Investigates the Evidence For A Divinely Created Universe. J. Warner describes two pieces of “mental” evidence: consciousness and our common experience of free agency. Can these two pieces of evidence “inside the room” of the universe be explained by staying “inside the room”? This simple question helps homicide detectives determine if a death scene is a crime scene. Could the same question be applied to the evidence in the universe to determine if a cosmic “intruder” is the most reasonable inference?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective. |
| 0:07.6 | Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:12.7 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline. |
| 0:17.0 | For more information about Jim's work and the case for Christianity, please visit coldcase |
| 0:21.7 | Christianity.com. |
| 0:23.5 | Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome back to Cold Case Christianity. |
| 0:32.1 | As you know, if you've been watching our show over the last few weeks, we are talking |
| 0:35.1 | about eight pieces of evidence in the universe and asking |
| 0:38.3 | the question. Can naturalism explain these eight pieces of evidence? Can I get an explanation |
| 0:44.3 | for these? Can these eight pieces of evidence get in the room of the universe, you know, kind |
| 0:48.3 | of looking at it as a crime scene? Can these eight pieces of evidence get in the room |
| 0:52.3 | and be explained by some form of evolutionary processes, natural processes, |
| 0:57.0 | just processes involving space, time matter, the laws of physics and chemistry that govern such things? |
| 1:01.0 | Or is it more reasonable to step outside the room for an explanation? |
| 1:07.0 | This is exactly how we look at death scenes. We ask the question, can I explain everything in the room by staying in the room? If I can, it's probably not a murder. On the other hand, if I have to go outside the room for an explanation of some piece of evidence inside the room, there's a good chance that I've got an intruder who came in the room to deposit that piece of evidence, and then I've got to shift my investigation toward the reasonable inference of a murder. Now if that's the case, could we apply such a technique |
| 1:32.6 | to the universe itself? We've done that over the past few weeks and if you're kind of catching |
| 1:37.0 | up with us and you're not devouring our show, you can go to our cold case Christianity.com |
| 1:42.8 | website, hit the YouTube link and you can see the archive shows right there on our YouTube page. |
| 1:49.2 | So catch up with us because I think in the end, what we're going to do is assemble a pretty strong case for you. |
| 1:54.1 | And it's part of an hour and 40 minute presentation that I gave at a church in Collieville, Texas called Compass Church. |
| 2:01.6 | And they were gracious enough to provide me with the video, which I now kind of |
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