The God Proofs: An Interview with Author Douglas Ell

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In The God Proofs, two friends embark on an epic journey to tackle the ultimate mystery: does God exist? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks to author Douglas Ell about his new graphic novel. Ell tells about his own journey from theism to atheism and what convinced him to return to belief in God. He describes how his experience as a successful attorney prepared him to argue the case for God in his books. He also unpacks the three lines of evidence featured in The God Proofs: the numbers proof, the common sense proof, and the logic proof. Whether you’re new to the arguments for intelligent design or have been studying them for years, The God Proofs Read More › Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:13.1	Well, welcome to ID the Future. I'm Andrew McDermid, your host. And today, my guest is attorney and author Doug L. or Douglas L. to discuss his new
0:23.4	graphic novel, The God Proofs. Doug is an attorney in Washington, D.C., with an undergraduate
0:28.9	degree in math and physics from MIT, and a master's degree from the University of Maryland
0:34.1	in theoretical math. Doug's legal training and work, combined with his
0:38.7	academic science background and a lifetime of independent study, make him pretty well qualified
0:44.2	to untangle the confused and often emotional relationship between science and religion.
0:50.5	Doug considered himself an atheist while at MIT, but life events challenged him to examine the scientific evidence for God.
0:58.0	And what he found and continues to find has amazed him, and he delights in sharing his findings in creative ways.
1:04.9	And one of those creative ways is the topic of our podcast today.
1:08.8	It's a new graphic novel that we're going to unpack called The God Proofs.
1:14.2	Now, Doug, welcome to the podcast.
1:16.0	I'm excited.
1:17.2	Thank you, Andrew.
1:18.1	Delighted to be here.
1:19.3	Thanks for having me.
1:20.7	Yeah, you're welcome.
1:21.9	Well, let's start with your upbringing.
1:24.2	When you were young, you really loved numbers.
1:26.4	In your first book, yeah, in your first
1:28.7	book, counting to God, you recall thinking of them as magic as your friends. Their precision was
1:34.8	comforting and their relationships beautiful. Now, as you got older, though, you read every book
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