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We're back with the second episode discussing the moral argument for God's existence. Tim deals with a specific objection posed by Erik Wielenberg to the first premise of this argument. Wielenberg is an atheist philosopher at Depauw University, and he purports to have a model by which the atheist can hold to objective morality. Needless to say, this episode was quite interesting! The objection we...

The Moral Argument for God's existence is one of the most powerful that the Christian has. Tim and I begin discussion of the first premise of the argument in this episode. We talk about Sam Harris' attempt to ground objective morality in human flourishing and conclude that this attempt is unsuccessful. The great thing about this type of argument is that it's quite simple to learn how to defend. Mo...

Finally, we've reached the conclusion of the Kalam cosmological argument. This is Tim's favorite part, as there is so much we can learn about God merely from the conclusion that the universe has a cause. Tim walks you through all of the characteristics of the cause of the universe, which is like discovering God! The Kalam is such a simple and powerful argument for God's existence. It may seem rath...

Listen closely to this one, as it's very easy to get lost while defending the second premise of the Kalam. Fortunately for you, Tim takes you through exactly what you need to know for 95% of all of your interactions using this argument. This premise of the Kalam is a tough one for me to defend, as I am not very good with a lot of the science that is talked about in support of it. But what I love a...

Yes, it's the Kalam cosmological argument this week! It's one of the simplest and most powerful arguments we as Christians can use. It also happens to be one of Tim's "Mount Rushmore" arguments, so it's definitely an important one to understand and have in your toolbelt. Tim gives a fairly comprehensive defense of the first premise in this episode. He takes you through most of the objections you m...

It's the final episode on the FAAN! Don't worry, if you haven't listened to the first two episodes on the argument, we recap a bit of what we talked about. But seriously, you need to listen to those episodes (come on, they're called parts 1 & 2 for a reason!). We've reached the conclusions of the argument that have some very interesting consequences. This argument deductively proves that humans po...

It's the next episode on the FAAN! I try and push back on premises 3 and 4 of the argument, of which 3 is by far the one most taken issue with. In order to defend any good argument, you need to be prepared to answer objections of all sorts. Never be surprised by the same objection twice! As you follow along in this series on the Freethinking Argument, we always encourage you to be reading the arti...

Atheists love to label themselves as freethinkers, but as Tim Stratton argues, this is actually an oxymoron! In this episode, Tim and I discuss the Freethinking Argument Against Naturalism (affectionately abbreviated as FAAN). This argument was Tim's first ever argument he crafted on his own, so it was interesting to get the backstory of how he came up with it. Tim gives an overview and defense of...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Freethinking Podcast! In this introductory episode, Tim Stratton and myself, Scott Olson, have a conversation about Freethinking Ministries, the Christian apologetics & theology ministry started by Stratton himself. If you're listening to this podcast, you likely have taken 1 Peter 3:15, which says "but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being p...