We have a flood of information available today that we've never had before.

But what is that flood of information doing to our brains, to our culture, to our ability

to have civil conversations about hard issues.

We'll answer these questions and more with our guest today journalist Bonnie Christian.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDow.

And this is ThinkBiblically, a podcast from tablet school theology here at Biola University.

Bonnie, welcome, so delighted to have you with us, we commend your book, Untrustworthy.

The Knowledge Crisis is breaking our brains,

polluting our politics and corrupting our Christian community.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, you maintain the United States that we have a knowledge crisis.

What exactly do you mean by that and what

evidence do you have for such a crisis? Sure, yeah, so the idea of the knowledge

crisis is I think something that feels very familiar to a lot of us to the point that even if we might

have a little bit of difficulty articulating exactly what it is, I haven't had anyone

when I've said that phrase say oh no I don't I don't

experience that I don't know what you're talking about it's that sense I think of

confusing and uncertainty in this very chaotic and often overwhelming information environment we have where you frequently find yourself often not necessarily but often online and often and again not necessarily but often in political contexts

looking at something and saying you know I just I don't know if this is true I don't know how I

would figure out if this is true there are competing claims here I don't know

how to adjudicate them.

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