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The Crossway Podcast

On Apologetics: The Best of The Crossway Podcast

The Crossway Podcast

Crossway

Books, Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In today's very special episode, we take a look back into The Crossway Podcast archives and put together our favorite clips of authors talking on the topic of apologetics. Check out the interviews featured in the episode below: Episode 6: Christianity on the Decline? (Rebecca McLaughlin) Episode 226: How to Respond to Common Arguments against Christianity (William Lane Craig) Episode 210: 12 Quick Questions about the Reliability of the Bible (Peter Williams) Episode 113: Surviving College with Your Faith Intact (Michael Kruger) Episode 185: Why Apologetics Is Easier Than You Think (Neil Shenvi) Authors featured in this episode: Rebecca McLaughlin is the author of 'Confronting Christianity', named Christianity Today’s 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year. William Lane Craig is a research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California, and at Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas. He has authored or edited over thirty books including 'Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics'. Peter J. Williams is the principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge, the chair of the International Greek New Testament Project, and a member of the ESV Translation Oversight Committee. He is the author of 'Can We Trust the Gospels?'. Michael J. Kruger is the president and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the author of 'Surviving Religion 101: Letters to a Christian Student on Keeping the Faith in College'. Neil Shenvi has worked as a research scientist at Yale University and Duke University and has published over thirty peer-reviewed papers. He is also the author of 'Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity'. Read the full transcript of this episode. Subscribe to our brand new Crossway Podcast YouTube channel! If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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Over the past four years, I've had the privilege of interviewing over a hundred guests on dozens of different topics.

0:10.0

And today, we thought it'd be interesting to go back into the archives to find some of our favorite clips related to the big topic of apologetics.

0:19.0

Today, we're going to be hearing from the likes of Rebecca McLaughlin on how non-Christians

0:23.1

often unknowingly borrow from a Christian worldview, from William Lang Craig on the problem

0:28.6

of evil, from Peter Williams on the so-called contradictions of the Bible, from Michael

0:34.3

Kruger on preparing ourselves to engage with unbelievers in everyday life,

0:38.3

and from Neil Shenby on how the study of mathematics testifies to God's existence.

0:43.3

To start off, let's go back to a conversation with Rebecca McLaughlin,

0:47.3

author of the best-selling book Confronting Christianity.

0:50.3

In this clip, Rebecca and I discussed the propensity of new atheist writers like Richard Dawkins

0:56.0

to make sweeping moral claims, while at the same time denying the only basis for a universal morality.

1:03.0

She also pushes back against the idea that science in the Bible are fundamentally at odds with each other,

1:09.0

an idea promoted by both many non-Christians and

1:12.1

even some Christians. Take a listen.

1:18.9

And I want to read this quote by Richard Dawkins. It's a famous quote that I think really

1:23.4

captures the sentiment of some of these atheistic scientists. He writes,

1:28.5

The universe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design,

1:35.0

no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. What do you say to that?

1:43.9

Firstly, I would say that Richard Dawkins and other writers of his ilk

1:49.0

often ask questions of science that science is not designed to answer for us.

1:55.1

And that plays out in two directions. One is they sneak metaphysical claims into scientific

2:00.8

statements.

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