Welcome to the Eric McTaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey there, folks. I'm in Arizona. That's all I know. It's three hours different in terms of time zone.

So I'm really confused. I'm not really sure what day it is. All I know, Albin, I know this much.

Yesterday was the launch day of my new book. Yes. Is atheism dead? Yep. And it went to 138 on Amazon.

Yep.

And before I say anything else, I want to say thank you to everybody who preordered it.

Because it just makes a huge, huge, huge difference.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

If you've had any problems, feel free to email us. We don't want anyone to be

upset that you didn't get this. You didn't get that. Just email us. I want to say today,

we're going to be airing my conversation with Steve Collins. Now, the reason I wrote the book,

there are two people that really ultimately were the ones that made me

write this book. Stephen Collins is the man who discovered biblical Sodom. I won't say any more

about that, except that I got to know him, and he's going to tell his story in the next hour.

When we're done with this segment, we will play his story. It is just astonishing. One of the

reasons I wrote the book is because people need to know that this happened, that this was

discovered. It is stunning corroboration of the historical value of the Bible from the very

first pages of the Bible. So it's insane. In our two, we're going to play my

conversation with James Tour. Have we played that before? Yes. This is an encore.

James Tour is the other guy that I wrote this book because of James Tour. I met James Tour,

and he started telling me about what's called aviogenesis and how science has no

idea, no idea how life came into being on planet Earth four billion years ago. They say it did,

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