What are conspiracy theories and why are Christians so drawn to them?

How should Christians think about conspiracy theories?

Our guest today, Mike Austin, is the co-editor of a fascinating new book called

Qenon, Chaos, and The Cross, in which he has compiled a team of very thoughtful

philosophical contributors to weigh into this issue today to help us think

biblically about conspiracy theories. Mike, thanks for joining us.

Yeah, thank you very much for having me. Looking forward to discussing it.

Yeah, well, let's jump in.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host Scott Ray.

And this is Think Bibbically, a podcast of Taub school theology,

by O'La University. Mike, your train is in philosophy. of T

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is in philosophy I'm curious what motivated you to compile a book on conspiracy theories?

Yeah it's interesting.

A friend of mine, a Christian publisher, had asked him about writing a book and so I thought about that but then I thought

I don't know nearly enough to write a book myself on this so a friend of mine

Greg Bach actually the co-editor he's used this in in a intro philosophy and kind of an intro logic class as a way to tie the whole class together.

So it was kind of at his invitation.

And then, I mean, of course, as philosophers and just human beings,

concerned with things like truth and

knowledge and evidence and of course philosophers often pay particular

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