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Unbelievable? 9 Jan 2010 - Bill Dembski & Norman Hansen on Natural Evil

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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šŸ—“ļø 5 June 2014

ā±ļø 82 minutes

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Summary

William (Bill)Ā Dembski is an American mathematician,Ā theologian and professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, TX.Ā Ā  BillĀ returns to defend his latest Book "The End of Christianity" -an argument defending the Christian God against the argument of Evil. How can natural evil and death that have existedĀ for millions of years on anĀ Old Earth view be reconciled to the view that the Fall brought these things into God's good world?Ā  Why does God answer some prayers and not others?Ā  Does free will exist? Just some of the questions tackled by Bill as he engages with Former Christian Norman Hansen. For Dembski's blog see http://www.uncommondescent.com/ For his book " The End of Christianity" Click here For Norman Hansen see http://www.nrhansen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ For more Christian/non Christian debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievableĀ or get the podcast Ā or via Itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy Unbelievable? 10 Jan 2009 Bart Ehrman & Richard Swinburne - "God's Problem: does the Bible fail to answer the problem of suffering?" Unbelievable? 19 Apr 2008 Philosophical problems with God - an Atheist and Christian philosopher debate Join the discussion at the Unbelievable? Group at the Premier Community

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0:00.0

When we put prayers to end extreme poverty into practice, there's no going back.

0:05.0

Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.

0:08.0

You see when...

0:09.0

When we are trained in new skills, we can provide for ourselves.

0:12.0

Can I carry on? We can grow our own

0:14.9

vegetables, send our children to school, build our own homes. Do you want to do the

0:19.6

whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your prayers into practice so there's no going back to

0:25.6

extreme poverty. To donate search for Tier Fund no going back.

0:29.8

Good afternoon and welcome to Unbelievable the show that gets Christians and non Christians talking I'm Justin Briley your host for the next hour and a half as we look at another debate and I'll be giving you the details of what we're talking about in just a moment's time. If you'll bear with me though I did

0:43.8

mention last week at the beginning of the show that we're doing a screening of the film

0:48.7

expelled. It's being released on DVD towards the end of January here in the UK.

0:54.0

We're still working on the details and sorry we haven't been able to give you a specific date and venue yet,

0:59.0

but we're hoping that those will be available within the coming week so again please do check

1:04.2

back to premier dot org UK forward slash unbelievable if you're interested in

1:09.2

attending that debate in London and the screening so do check check back again. Sorry we haven't been

1:14.4

able to get everything in place before today's show, but it's the Christmas

1:20.2

season has I'm afraid rather scuppered some of our hopes and plans and we're just

1:25.1

having to try to rework a few things.

1:27.3

Okay, let's find out what's coming up on the program today.

1:30.8

You're unbelievable. We're talking about the problem of evil and theodicity, that's a somewhat fancy word,

1:39.1

it's very essentially a way of reconciling a good god with the evil we see in the world.

1:45.0

Bill Dembski joins us again on the program.

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