Real Seekers

I recieved an email from a fan of the show named Omar Fakhoury and having spoken to him, I quickly realized he had a very interesting faith journey growing up as Muslim, then turning Atheist to then being a devoted Hindu for more than 10 years (studying under a guru in India) and then finally to being a general Theist with a keen interest in the truth of the claims of christianity.   &nb...

In this TheoGeeks episode David Russell and I are joined by Tyler Fowler to continue are series on Egalitarianism vs. Complementarianism.  Part 2 deals with a general moral/ethical evaluation of these positions on women's roles before turing to look at women's role under ideal conditions (Pre-Fall) in Genesis 2 (what does being a "helper" imply?) and then we look at the Post-Fall conditions i...

In this episode I interview John Loken from the Shroud Science Group.  John takes a Pro-Shroud position (though he prefers not to use that label for himself) in that he believes the Shroud is historically authentic and wrapped the dead body of Jesus.  However, as an Agnostic, he has doubts about the Resurrection of Jesus and thus, he thinks the Shroud images are not only explaianable usi...

Barrie Schwortz is Back! Again! In this episode, I'm joined by Barrie Schwortz, a world-renowned expert on the Shroud of Turin and the official STURP photographer back in 1978.  In this Part 2 show, Barrie presents to us what we know for sure about the Shroud from the STURP investigaiton and more specifically, he address what we know the Shroud images are NOT in that the images were not made...

This the start of a new series, my Shroud Wars Panel Review Sessions series!  In this series I will be bringing on various Shroud experts to discuss the pros and cons of my Shroud Solo Lecture series.  In this first installment, I'm joined by Pro-Shroud expert Bob Rucker and Shroud skeptic Hugh Farey to discuss 3 major issues; i) The Irrelevancy of the Dating (Solo Show Part 1), ii) The...

I'm joined by the famous apologist and medical expert Joseph W. Bergeron, a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with decades of experience evaluating musculoskeletal injury, including medical legal analysis.  Dr. Bergeron’s practice experience provides unique insight on Jesus’s cause of death (and refutes the swoon theory conclusively) and further provides scrutiny of the Hallu...

In this special episode, I'm a guest on Guy Powell's great Shroud podcast, "The Backstory on the Shroud of Turin", to discuss some of my more unique ideas related to studying the Shroud and its evidence for the truth of Jesus as our Lord and Saviour.  We first get into my notion of how to identify miracles in general using intelliegent design and Bill Dembski's "Specfied complexity" criteria...

Finishing off my series on Faith & Reason and the question of what one ought to do when one thinks that the arguments both for and against the existence of God are unpersuasive; here we look at two philsophers William Clifford and William James.  Clifford argues that one morally ought to suspend judgement here and thus take the agnostic position whereas James argues tha when it comes to b...

Moving on with my historical survey of philosophers from the past, I first take a look at the original ontological argument as laid out by the 11th cenutry philsopher St. Anselm.  Then, I get into a series on Faith & Reason and the question of what one ought to do when one thinks that the arguments both for and against the existence of God are unpersuasive; here we look at the Atheist Mic...

In this episode, I finish off this series with my own personal evaluation of Hume's two-step argument against the possiblity of rationally relying on testimonial evidence for religious miracles.    Looking at every single one of Hume's premises, I find them to be rife with unproven assumptions and fallacious reasoning; Hume's work on miracles should come with a little warning label...

In this episode, I go over the relevant background knowledge outlining David Hume's famous (or rather infamous) argument against testimonial evidence for miracles.  Furthermore, I outline world-renowned Christian philosopher Richard Swinburne's devastating critique of Hume's argument on this front.  Finally, I provide a general outline on some background knowledge about the modern philos...

I had some guests reschedule some shows or later in the month and so I figured I would put on a bonus solo show whereby I present and evaluate 3 Classical or Historical arguments for the existence of God.  Starting with Cosmological arguments, I first evaluate Thomas Aquinas' "2nd Way" argument showing that all natural things have an ultimate or uncaused effiecient cause (i.e., God) of their...

In this episode of TheoGeeks, David and I engage in the Egalitarianism (Dale) vs. Complementarianism (David R.) debate and discuss whether or not women can serve as Pastors or Elders in the church.

Continueing on with my series on trying to understand and address the objections of former Biblical Unitarian turned skeptic David Kemball-Cook, both David Russell and myself try to tackle his claim that the New Testament provides contrdictory teachings on the notion of salvific Predestination/Election vs. freewill as understood by Calvinists vs. Molinists.

Arif Khan, a friend of Barrie Schwortz, joins me to discuss his Pro-Shroud position from an Ahmadiyya Muslim perspective.  We assess many of the similarities and differences in the interpretations that Arif has from traditional Pro-Shroud christians in understanding the Shroud evidence.

In this bonus Shroud show, I decided to post up some bits of previous Shroud shows that I edited out due to irrelevancy and time constraints.  The first bit is a Q&A session that David Johnson asked me to do for my Shroud Solo Show Part 6 (obviously, on Real Seekers I fit the first part of Part 6 with my Part 7 show instead on RSM).  Additionally, I edited out the first section of my...

Everyone's favorite biologist is back and this time he's argueing that the scientific data related to our brains and how they function shows that we have an immaterial mind/soul.  I post some of the papers he refers to on my Blog.  Enjoy :)

This week it's David Russell's turn to pick a topic and he wishes to do an in-depth analysis of the Beatitudes in Matt 5 and so we do so.  We go over things like the setting and meaning of being "poor in spirit" vs. "rich in spirit".

This week it's David Russell's turn to pick a topic and he wishes to do an in-depth analysis of the Beatitudes in Matt 5 and so we do so.  We go over things like the setting and meaning of being "poor in spirit" vs. "rich in spirit".  

Last time, as a professional biologist and scientist, Harry Stark provided his case on how science helps to prove the existence of God.  Atheists and skeptics were not very happy with the case he laid out.  He listened to the objevtions and complaints and now Harry Stark is back to give the skeptics an education in science and how to think rationally!

In this episode, David Kemball-Cook returns to discuss mt response to his previous argument regarding the Problem of Evil.  In response, I raised the Molinistic Defeater as an undercutting defeater for his argument and at that point David wondered if I might try to modify it into a rebutting defeater in the standard form whereby I take on the burden of proof to prove that my Molinistic Defeat...

Barrie Schwortz is Back!  In this episode, I'm joined by Barrie Schwortz, a world-renowned expert on the Shroud of Turin and the official STURP photographer back in 1978.  In this Part 1 show, Barrie presents to us what we know about the Shroud from photography as my 2 Pro-Shroud co-hosts (Daniel Lowry & Teddi Pappas) probe him further afterward.

This was another fan request, this time from an entrenched Atheist named Vel from Club Schadenfreude Blogs, where she debates various issues with famous Christian apologist Ray Comfort.  After the debate, I provide my own review of the debate and mention 5-6 criticisms about the debate.

Dr. Paul Seungoh Chung joins me to discuss how science relates to religious truths about the reality of God based on his book entitled, ".  Everything from God's own nature to how to read and understand God's creation of the universe is discussed.

In this episode, I review the Muslim Metaphysician's take on the Trinity and why he feels it is logically incoherent. I show that this Muslim is in error on his evaluation that the "Trinity Monotheism" model of William Lane Craig doesn't make sense.  Further, I attmept to conduct a historical investigation on some of the controversies surrounding the Islamic doctrine of "Tawheed" and show tha...