Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Atheist Richard Dawkins

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future puts atheist Richard Dawkins’s book Outgrowing God under the microscope and reveals multiple ways his argument smashes up against contrary scientific evidence. Walking us through the critique are author and Mama Bear Apologetics founder Hillary Morgan Ferrer and her co-host, Amy Davison. Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules. But Ferrer explains why the phenomenon of bird murmuration doesn’t even begin to approach what we find when sophisticated engineering order emerges in the growth of embryos. Ferrer also considers the challenges of re-engineering sperm thermoregulation to move from how it works in marine life to how it works in land animals. Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Greetings and welcome. I'm Tom Gilson. Today's idea the future episode takes
0:17.2	direct aim at Richard Dawkins and his 2019 book Outgrowing God, a
0:22.2	beginner's guide, a book he says is for all young people when
0:26.9	they're old enough to decide for themselves, and an Amazon reviewer added, it's also
0:32.2	for their parents. Well today we get to hear some parents responding.
0:36.1	Hillary Morgan Farrer has her MS in biology from Clemson University and she's the chief author of two books on raising kids to counter
0:46.0	cultural lies and live out God's design for sexuality.
0:50.7	Chatting with her today is Amy Davison, mother of three sons with a
0:55.1	masters in Christian apologetics from southwestern Baptist theological seminary.
1:00.6	Together they host the podcast called Mama Bear Apologetics at mama Bear Apologetics.
1:07.0	dot com. Dawkins has a prominent academic reputation, Farrer and Davison have something better.
1:15.0	They have facts.
1:16.0	Welcome to another episode of Mama Bear Apologetics.
1:19.5	I'm Hillary.
1:20.5	And I'm Amy. And we are continuing in our doubting dachins series where we're going through
1:26.0	Richard dachins book outgrowing God where he basically talks about his journey
1:32.0	away from the Christian faith using, well there's reasons and there,
1:38.0	I'm not completely convinced that they're good reasons, but they are reasons.
1:42.0	And so we're actually getting into one of his
1:44.7	areas of expertise right now and we actually I think the last one that we did on him was also his area of expertise and we had nothing but good things to say because the way that he described the complexity of our world I thought was he I think he really nailed it.
1:58.7	Oh I think he did a great job and even describing it in science the videos he included I was like this is
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