Edgar Andrews’ Onefootinglory Podcast

We are often told that chimp and humans share 98% of their genes but this claim is based on comparing ONLY the 5% of the genomes that (wait for it) are similar! And when whole genomes are compared the similarity between humans and chimps drops to as little as 70%. In this episode we see that what matters is not so much the genes as the way they are expressed, which differs profoudly between humans...

The person of Christ is central to the gospel and thus to biblical apologetics. Who is Jesus Christ? is a question that must be asked and answered. In this video exposition of John 8:12 we explore what it means that Jesus is "the light of the world". We conclude that he provides light to the believer in the darkness of this fallen world; that his incarnation, life as a man and teaching reveal and...

In this episode we look for the alleged common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees and find that it has gone missing. No one knows what it looked like, how long it took to 'evolve' into chimps and humans repectively, how it overcame Haldane's dilemma of impossibly long 'waiting times' for the fixation of a genetic change, or why over the same period of time it evolved into another ape (the chimp) w...

God's gracious dealings with Abraham in Genesis 18 show us how he also deals with all his children, always keeping his promises, always revealing his purposes, and always answering our prayers. He may not always do these things the way we expect or plan for, but we can be sure that in his sovereign grace "all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according...

We do not live in a peaceful world but those who live by faith in Christ not only have peace WITH God but also peace IN God because in Christ they are united across social, racial and political divides. Finally the peace OF God keeps the hearts and minds of those who follow the Apostle's injunction to be of one mind with other believers, who rejoice in the Lord always, who trust rather than worry,...

Man is the only biological species that worries about death and taxes, a fact that neatly sums up the uniqueness of Homo sapiens and introduces in an entertaining manner a new section of the book "What is Man? Adam, alien or ape?". We provide a biological perspective to Benjamin Franklin's famous claim that "nothing is certain except death and taxes", examining in detail the way that human attitud...

WE NEED A NEW REFORMATION  SPECIAL GUEST VIDEO BY DONALD WILLIAMS Western Evangelicalism stands in urgent need of a new Reformation. This is the belief of American pastor, writer and apologist Prof. Donald Williams expounded in his new book “95 Theses for a New Reformation”. Adopting a format designed to remind us of Martin Luther’s famous 1517 manifesto, the author presents his case powerfully in...

Can a mutiverse pop up from nowhere like a string of cosmological volcanoes? Or are new universes (or 'worlds') created by each and every quantum event? In a new reading from the book "What is Man? Adam, alien or ape?" we examine two further multiverse theories and their strange and muddled implications. Are they scientifically plausible or science fiction? Judge for yourself. NOTE; this gets a bi...

At the end of the letter to Thyatira in Revelation 2:18-29, amazing promises are made to all who trust in Christ. Those in this troubled church who remain faithful to the apostolic gospel and are not seduced by cultic errors will, along with all believers, one day reign with Christ and sit in judgement upon an unbelieving world and even upon angels. But even more amazing is that the redeemed will...

Is our universe just one of a huge number of alternative universes? The "multiverse" hypothesis claims this to be the case and explains why our universe is simply lucky to be fine-tuned to support life, rather than being the result of divine creation or intelligent design. (We discussed 'fine tuning' in our two previous episodes of readings from "What is Man? Adam, alien or ape?" which remain avai...

The letter to the church at Thyatira reveals Christ as the judge of His people and specially of churches that allow cultic behavior to develop within them. We see how the Lord dealt differently with the same false teaching in two different churches, using the power of the preached Word to supppress unbiblical sects in one, and physical punishment to remove a cult in the other. There are important...

NOTE; revised video posted on 24 May to remove editing errors We conclude our study of cosmic fine tuning by a further reading from Chapter 4 of "What is Man? Adam, alien or ape?" in which we ask what exactly is fine-tuned about our universe. We follow the claim of Britain's Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees that only six physical quantities need to be 'just right' for a universe to be life-suppor...

Most cosmologists and space scientists agree that the cosmos must be "fine-tuned" to permit life to exist, but opinions differ greatly when it comes to explaining how this came about. To some it is just an accident of nature, to others it suggests the existence of a "multiverse" in which only a few among millions of possible universes can offer life-sustaining conditions. Others see the universe i...

Passports are in the news. For example, should vaccinated people get covid 19 passports allowing them to access certain events and places? In a new episode of Revelation Revisited we study the second part of Christ's letter to the church at Pergamon and discover that Christians possess a passport they often forget ... the white stone (Rev. 2:12-17) bearing Christ's Name that symbolises their acces...

In Galatians 5:17 Paul describes how the "flesh" (our old sinful nature) battles with the indwelling Holy Spirit to prevent us living the quality of life to which all who follow Christ are called. But in this passage (Gal. 5:16-25) we are shown how to overcome our sinful tendencies and produce the fruit of the Spirit ... behaviour that pleases God and against which there is no law. An in-depth exa...

The letter to the church at Pergamon begins with the power of Christ's word, symbolized by a sharp two-edged sword. It proceeds by praising the church for its steadfast faith in the face or persecution but then points the sword, not at the pagan religions that dominated the city, but at the church itself. Why? Because the church was tolerating serious sin within its ranks. Here is a powerful call...

Is planet earth unique in its ability to sustain life? Having critiqued in the previous episode the claim that life must be abundant in the universe, and examined the enormous but fruitless search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we now turn to the fact that earth is specially equipped to be the cradle of life. Reading the second half of chapter 3 in the book "What is Man? Adam, alien or...

Continuing our readings from the book "What is Man? Adam, alien or ape?" this episode contains the first half of Chapter 3 which considers the existence or non-existence of life, and especially intelligent life, elsewhere in the universe beyond earth. Did you know that the main driving force behind much modern space exploration is the search for extraterrestrial life? And did you realize that bill...

Current atheistic cosmology accepts that the cosmos was created out of nothing but insists that this happened not by divine creation but by the operation of natural law. We show that what the atheists concerned mean by "nothing" is nothing of the kind, requiring space, time and some laws of nature to be present in order to create a universe. But all these are necessarily constituent parts of an ex...

In our readings from the book What is Man? Adam, alien or ape? we now visit the first part of Chapter 2 in which we think about the origin of the universe and Man's place in it.  The atheist asks "if God made the universe, who made God?" and argues that the question is unanswerable.  We explain why the simple answer "no one made God because he made everything" is not sufficient in itself. However,...

The tragedy of the incarnation of Christ lay in his rejection .... the failure to recognize him as the long-promised Messiah. We examine in depth the reasons behind this rejection and discover the triumph of the incarnation, namely,  Christ's ability, then and now, to bestow on sinners the privilege of becoming children of God, with all that that entails.

Against a background of dead and formal religion, Isaiah 66:2 tells us what constitutes true biblical religion, the attitudes of heart and mind that recognize our need for God to so work in us by His Holy Spirit that we shall be 'poor in spirit, contrite in heart and submissive to God's word, the Bible.

THIS VIDEO IS A TEMPORARY POST AND TEST-OF-CONCEPT. Could this be a novel and useful way to answer children's questions about God and the Bible? Feedback from parents is sought but this is difficult on the podcast so should be posted on Edgar Andrews' FaceBook time line please.

This episode of "Revelation Revisited" takes us again to Smyrna (Rev. 2:8-11; see previous episode also), where we find a church under severe persecution which is about to get worse as it becomes the special target of Satan's spite. Yet the glorified Lord Jesus Christ tells them not to be afraid because he is sovereign over Satan. Indeed, he uses the Devil's designs to carry out his own eternal pu...

In this second reading from the book What is Man? Adam, alien or ape? we complete the introductory first chapter. The previous reading argued that the Darwinian model of Man's origin is implausible (a contention developed throughout the book). So what alternatives do we have in seeking to understand human origins and nature? Here we give preliminary consideration to three further models of Man's o...