Unbelievable?

Asking and answering the tough questions, the articulate and respectful discussion… 5 stars all the way.

Show has changed since Justin is not host. I’ve listened for years but now skip almost all episodes. I guess it’s time to stop listening. Go back and relisten to older episodes.

(Now Dr.) McLatchie ‘busted’ his debate opponent decisively. Mr. George (preferring a pseudonym so as to not put off consumers of faith who might buy his book) insisted on keeping the debate at a grade school level. His chief tactic seemed to be distraction and interruption when Dr. McLatchie approached a strong point of refutation or analysis of George’s position. The “science can explain everything” argument is not just dead but enjoys a regularly-recurring embarrassment.

Vince - I would rather you were participating in this - rather than moderating. My understanding is this was a debate about Evil God between two philosophers of which neither were believers. Whaaattt???? I may be a simpleton, but: 1) Good can exist without Evil, but Evil cannot exist without Good. So if we are talking monotheism, can it not be argued that what Evil God did would be labelled Good? 2). I am confused. What standard are we using to determine Evil? If God described is a mixture of Good and Evil, than He is not perfect and not a God I want to worship. 3) In Christianity - God did not discover or make up good (morality) - He just was Good and revealed His nature. So for Evil God to teach morality does not make sense as he would be inventing it rather than being it. 4). It sounds like Steve was applying his reasoning and his standards of good to his arguments. Is not that playing God? To the last point in Proverbs, Job, and Paul’s writings - who is he to question God - playing the fool, and God laughs at his logic and reasoning. Unbelievers will never get it, because by turning their back to God everything must make sense with God not in the picture.