The Top 3 Things Christians Need to Know About Government, Evolution, and the Health Crisis with Dr. Jay Richards

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In our final podcast episode of 2024, Dr. Jay Richards returns to discuss three essential topics that often cause confusion and dissent among both Christians and non-Christians in America today: the history and purpose of government, macroevolutionary theory vs. intelligent design, and the root cause of chronic disease. Together, Frank and Jay address questions like:* What is the biblical purpose of government?* Where do our rights come from?* How should we define American exceptionalism?* Was America founded on Christianity or something else?* What did Thomas Jefferson mean by “separation of church and state” and how has the term been misused and misunderstood?* What is macroevolutionary theory and why does it fail to explain the origin of life and new life forms?* How should Christians respond to the “God of the gaps” objection?* Is Darwinism consistent with what we can observe in biology?* Why is America sicker than ever despite our ultra-advanced health care system and will RFK Jr. solve the problem?If you enjoyed this podcast episode PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY BY SUPPORTING OUR MINISTRY. 100% of your donation goes to ministry, 0% to buildings!Resources mentioned during the episode:Jay's work at The Heritage Foundation: https://www.heritage.org/staff/jay-w-richards-phd (https://www.heritage.org/staff/jay-w-richards-phd)Follow Jay on X: https://x.com/DrJayRichards (https://x.com/DrJayRichards)Stephen Meyer at the Discovery Institute: https://www.discovery.org/p/meyer/ (https://www.discovery.org/p/meyer/)Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine: https://segm.org/ (https://segm.org/)Biological Integrity: https://biologicalintegrity.org/ (https://biologicalintegrity.org/)The Privileged Planet - https://privilegedplanet.com/ (https://privilegedplanet.com/)Book - 'Money, Greed, and God': https://a.co/d/46pGwlS (https://a.co/d/46pGwlS)Book - 'Return of the God Hypothesis': https://a.co/d/hI6RmYt (https://a.co/d/hI6RmYt)Book - ‘Undeniable’: https://a.co/d/5w0aCby (https://a.co/d/5w0aCby)Book - 'Eat, Fast, and Feast': https://a.co/d/7zVgxmg (https://a.co/d/7zVgxmg)Book - 'Good Energy': https://a.co/d/igUjom0 (https://a.co/d/igUjom0)

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final podcast of 2024, but I hope this will be an
0:08.9	Evergreen podcast, meaning you can listen to it anytime because we're talking about principles here
0:13.4	that are not just current events.
0:15.3	We're talking to my friend Dr. Jay Richards.
0:18.0	We just had him on the podcast on the American Family Radio Network, talking about
0:24.8	the essentials of some important topics.
0:27.2	We covered a little bit of economics based on his book, Money, Greeting God.
0:30.8	Then we start talking a little bit about transgenderism.
0:34.0	He's leading the charge to protect young people from this insidious fad that's been going on through the Heritage Foundation.
0:42.7	Go to heritage.org for more on that. And then we just started to talk a little bit about the role of Christians in politics and some of the objections you get for that.
0:52.1	We're going to continue our conversation there.
0:58.6	Then we're going to get into intelligent design a little bit, macro-revolutionary theory.
1:01.4	We're also going to get into American wellness.
1:05.0	In other words, how can we improve the health of Americans?
1:06.7	Jay has written a book about that as well. But Jay, let's start talking a little bit about politics, if you will.
1:10.7	What is the biblical purpose of government?
1:15.0	According to the Bible, why do we even have a government?
1:17.0	Let's start right there.
1:18.2	Yeah, I mean, the government is basically to punish evil doers.
1:22.0	I mean, that boils it down.
1:23.6	And so if you think about it in terms of nation states, I mean, the purpose of a government is to protect us from each other.
1:30.6	So protect people from getting stolen from or enslaved or kidnapped or murdered.
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