Is Science Mike right about God, evidence and the benefits of believing? Mike McHargue & JD Walters

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🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Mike McHargue (aka Science Mike) joins Justin again to revisit his book 'Finding God In The Waves' about his deconversion to atheism and reconversion to Christian faith. Mike interacts with math & science teacher and theology blogger JD Walters on Mike's rejection of a rationalistic approach to evidence for God and his championing of believing for the psychological benefits that faith affords. For Mike McHargue: http://findinggodinthewaves.com/ For JD Walters: https://godnaturally.com/ Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk Get Unbelievable? the Conference 2017 DVD/CD & Digital Download: http://www.premier.org.uk/shop For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievable. This is the program that brings different perspectives
0:11.5	together for dialogue and debate. Creating conversations that matter every Saturday
0:15.6	here as part of Faith Explored on Premier Christian Radio and available around the world
0:19.9	as a podcast for our website, premierChristianradio.com slash unbelievable. Links there of course to other
0:26.2	unbelievable resources, including this year's unbelievable conference on DVD and CD and of course
0:31.0	the digital download. Perfect for the apologetics lover in your life if you want to get hold of
0:36.1	it for them for Christmas. Equally they might be interested in unbelievable the book. The story
0:40.8	of this show and why after 10 years of talking with atheists I'm still a Christian. My very first
0:45.5	book, very pleased that it's out there and being discussed and debated and looked at and you can
0:49.9	get the audio version assigned copy of the book and much more from our website. Unbelievablebook.co.co.com
0:56.2	was able to be on Janet Partial's show again. That's a show that airs out in the USA on the
1:02.9	Moody Radio Network in the market with Janet Partial. So that's available to listen back to again
1:08.1	and hoping to join her again in the not too distant future on her US radio show. But it's great
1:13.4	to have these opportunities to tell people further afield about the unbelievable show and we'll be
1:17.8	hearing your thoughts about some of the recent additions of the program towards the end of today's show.
1:21.6	Lots of your feedback that I've been saving up. So look out for that towards the end of today's
1:26.3	program. Well today on the program we're asking questions such as is it okay to believe in God
1:34.6	on the basis of its practical psychological value? Mike McCarg aka science, Mike is the author of God
1:40.9	in the waves how I lost my faith and founded again through science. Now he came on unbelievable
1:45.1	last year to tell his story and he returns this week to offer his perspective on whether there's a
1:50.4	rational basis for God belief and his view that God and science are primarily reconciled by seeing
1:55.8	the pragmatic value of prayer, religious experience and things like going to church. Well in conversation
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