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Stephen Law is senior lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, London and director of the Centre For Inquiry UK. He joins Justin to reflect on his debate with William Lane Craig during the UK Reasonable Faith Tour where he defended atheism. Glenn Peoples is a Christian Philosopher from New Zealand.  He discusses Stephen's central argument against God - The Evil God Challenge and why he believes...

Edgar Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Materials at the University of London and the author of "Who Made God?" He returns to support the view that only God explains the ability of science to make sense of the world around us. Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology at University College London, he is an atheist and Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He argues tht belief in...

Edgar Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Materials at the University of London and the author of "Who Made God?" He claims that the hypothesis of God is the best explanation for a variety of aspects of human existence and the universe as revealed by science. He has debated Richard Dawkins. Robert Stovold is an atheist with a background in evolutionary biology. He believes that positing God is an une...

Stephen Meyer is a leading proponent of Intelligent Design who directs the Centre for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle.  His most recent book "Signature in the Cell" claims to show that the DNA code is the product of intelligent mind, not naturalistic processes.   Keith Fox is Professor of Biochemistry at Southampton University.  He chairs the UK Christians in Science netw...

William Lane Craig is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, California. As part of the Reasonable Faith Tour in October 2011 he visited Oxford.  As well as delivering a public lecture in the evening, Craig also addressed invited students about apologetics at a lunchtime gathering. This recording of elements of the Q&A includes Bill addressing questions such as "...

FOR FULL VIDEO OF THE EVENT http://youtu.be/fP9CwDTRoOE On 25th October 2011 Professor William Lane Craig spoke to a capacity audience at Oxford's Sheldonian theatre.  He critiqued Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion and interacted with a panel of academics.   THe event was Chaired by Professor Peter Millican of Hertford College, and the panel comprised Dr. Daniel Came, Dr Stephen Priest, and D...

Justin went backstage at the Bethinking Apologetics Conference last week to record a show with one of the speakers - Professor Gary Habermas and an atheist listener to Unbelievable? Geoff Campos. Habermas is Distinguished Professor of Apologetics and Philosophy at Liberty University, Virginia. Campos is an atheist convinced of materialism with a background in biological science. They discuss why G...

The Reasonable Faith Tour has concluded! This Special Podast edition of the show features the full audio from the debate held at Birmingham University between Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig and atheist Philosopher Peter Millican. William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. As well as publishing hundreds of academic works a...

BOOK NOW: The UK Reasonable Faith Tour is underway! INFO http://www.bethinking.org/craig TICKETS http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Due to popular demand we are releasing an early Special Podcast Edition of the show featuring the full audio of the recent debate between William Lane Craig and Stephen Law on "Does God Exist".  The debate took place at Westminster Central Hall on Mon 17 October in front...

Last chance to book: The Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig 17-26 October http://www.premier.org.uk/craig On today's Show: New Testament Scholar David Instone-Brewer and Bible sceptic Ken Humphreys met in a debte at Gunnersbury Baptist Church, London recently. David argues that the Bible is  reliable source of historical information, Ken Humphreys argues it is not.  Covering archaelogic...

BOOK NOW:  The UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig is one week away 17-26 Oct http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Peter J Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge and a first class scholar of both Old and New Testament. He takes non-Christian listener sceptical questions on the Old Testament. Nazam asks "Did Moses write the Torah?". Norman asks "Hasn't modern archaeology disprov...

BOOK NOW: The UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Watch the video preview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=pQifJkVCFaQ On this week's show:  We look ahead to the Bethinking National Apologetics Day Conference "Countering the New Atheism" on Sat 22 Oct in London. It will form part of the Reasonable Faith Tour.  Speakers include William Lane Craig,...

BOOK NOW: The Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig 17-26 October 2011 http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Peter S Williams is a Christian philosopher and apologist.  His latest book Understanding Jesus brings together lines of evidence for a philosophical, historical and theological understanding of Jesus. He takes listener calls on questions such as "How can Jesus be both God and man?" "Is t...

COMING SOON: Book into the UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig http://www.premier.org.uk.craig Geoff Crocker is a former Christian, now atheist. However, he says he still believes in Spirituality even as an atheist and that believing the universe is Godless does not mean there is no meaning to be grasped. His book "An Enlightened Philosophy" asks if atheism may be able to borrow from...

Book Now for October's UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Today's show: Patrick Sookhdeo converted from Islam to Christianity as a young man.  He has since gone on to represent the rights of persecuted Christians all over the world via the Barnabas Fund. His latest book "Freedom to Believe" challenges Islam to reform its apostasy laws - the death penal...

William Lane Craig is coming to the UK from October 17-26 2011 for a series of debates and lectures countering atheism and presenting strong rational grounds for belief in God. Book now for the Reasonable Faith Tour at http://www.premier.org.uk/craig William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, California.  As well as extensive writing on the Phil...

Bart Ehrman is James A Gray Distingushed Prof of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  He is well known as a Bible scholar who has thrown doubt upon the reliability of Scripture with bestselling books "Misquoting Jesus" & "Forged". Bart once held a strong evangelical Christian faith.  He explains why he abandoned it as he discusses his deconversion with Mike Licona w...

Rebekah Bennetch lives in Saskatoon, Canada.  She grew up in a Christian family.  Her dad is a pastor, and other family members are involved in Christian ministries.  She professed faith from a young age, went to Bible college, atteneded church and went on mission trips.  But in 2007 she "came out" as an atheist and now describes herself as the "black sheep" of her family. Sheridan Voysey is a wri...

Sceptical Bible scholar Bart Ehrman's latest book "Forged" claims that many of the writings of the New Testament are falsely attributed to apostles such as Peter and Paul.  He claims that they were not written by them and that a deliberate deception was taking place. Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary responds, saying that the case for forgery is not as conclusive as Bart claims. They exa...

Critics of Christianity sometimes make the case that Hitler was a Christian and that it influenced the Nazi regime.  Is that true?  Critics of atheism sometimes make the case that Stalin's atheism was a driving motivation for his murderous regime.  Is that true?   Peter Harris is a historian and Christian apologist.  Ed Turner is a solicitor and atheist blogger.  They discuss the historical eviden...

On Fri 22 July 2011 tragedy struck Norway as Anders Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo and shot dozens of people ont he island of Utoya. Soon afterwards news media were referring to Breivik as a "Christian fundamentalist"  But was he a Christian and did faith influence the terrible actions he took? Peter Harris is a historian and Christian apologist.  Ed Turner is a solicitor and atheist blogger.  T...

Recent statistics on abortion in the UK saw just under 190,000 abortions in 2010.  Figures were also released for late abortions carried out because of physical and mental disability. Dr. Wendy Savage of Doctors For A Woman's Choice On Abortion has been campaigning in the pro-choice movement all her life.  She says the right of the woman to choose comes before the rights of the foetus.  She has pe...

Scottish pastor and apologist David Robertson returns for a show interacting with three UK atheist listeners of the show. "Hasn't the experience of common morality around the world shown that we have no need of a divine law giver?" asks Jim.  Andrew shares his positive experience of church as an atheist and how best to understand those of other viewpoints. John questions the atheist/agnostic label...

Richard Weikart is a Christian and professor of History at California State University. He has drawn controversial conclusions regarding the role of Darwinism in providing a rationale for Hitler's Nazi ideology. Hector Avalos is an atheist and Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University.  He disagrees with Weikart, saying that Christian anti-semitism is the more likely explanation for...

William Lane Craig & AC Grayling debated at the Oxford Union in 2005.  Does the existence of evil and suffering in the world preclude the existence of the Christian God? Book for the UK Reasonable Faith Tour 2011 Info at http://www.bethinking.org/craig Book Tickets at http://www.premier.org.uk/craig William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology California, and...