Viced Rhino: The Podcast

Today, Kyle Butt of World Video Bible School explains his 6 facts that prove the resurrection of Jesus...and in order to reach his conclusion, he has to blatantly lie about his sources. Sources: Source Criticism: https://bit.ly/36NuWMB Dialogue with Trypho: https://bit.ly/3y2OmJm Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities. Oxford University Press, 2003. The Acts of Andrew: https://bit.ly/3euk22P Original Vi...

Today, Patricia Engler of Answers in Genesis Canada goes through her critical thinking checklist and applies it to the topic of transitional fossils. Of course, this involves completely misunderstanding what transitional fossils even are. Sources: The land-based ancestor of whales: https://go.nature.com/3xJmOZx Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India: https://go.na...

Today, Grace Digital Network explains to us what the seven conditions are for having your prayer listened to. No, don't be silly, they won't guarantee an actual answer...just that they were listened to. Sources: Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales: https://bit.ly/3hyPFdg Original Video: https:...

Today, Lee Strobel (author of The Case for Christ) gives us his top reasons for belief in the resurrection of Jesus. There's a whole lot of ambitious claims, and not much in the way of sources to back up those claims... Sources: The Jewish Roman World of Jesus: https://bit.ly/3hO93Sz On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ: https://bit.ly/3yB7K07 Is There Any Evidence for Jesus Outside the Bible?: h...

Today, we go over the story of the covid vaccine development, and answer the question of how we know it is safe when it was developed so quickly. Sources: The 5 Stages of COVID-19 Vaccine Development: What You Need to Know About How a Clinical Trial Works: https://bit.ly/3qNRyWK Preclinical Testing for Vaccines: https://bit.ly/2TItvw3 The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Request: htt...

Today, Professor Peter Kreeft (real professor) of PragerU (not a real university) explains to us why he thinks belief in god is more rational than atheism...and his reasoning is quite something. Sources: Rational, Normative, Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Choice Behavior? The Search for Integrative Metatheory of Decision Making: https://bit.ly/3c93BbQ Australian attitudes to climate change and adap...

Today, we look at a segment from the 700 Club, in which they give a brief summary of the evidence for Jesus that is targeted toward a more casual audience. Are they properly equipping their viewers? No. They are not. Sources: Historical method: https://bit.ly/3h6rTVP Did John Use Mark as a Template?: https://bit.ly/3x8vUPi Historicity of the Homeric epics: https://bit.ly/3h4Hsxi Saint Paul’s Contr...

Today, Calvin of Answers in Genesis Canada tells us how to reconcile apparent biblical contradictions. Just kidding, he addresses contradictions that nobody even claims are contradictions. Sources: Plutarch • Life of Alexander (Part 1 of 7): https://bit.ly/3jrRA50 Tacitus, Histories — Book IV Chapters 80‑86: https://bit.ly/3jFHtpY Contradictions as listed in the SAB book: https://bit.ly/3jqaHw1 Wh...

Today, the guy from Freedom In God tries to explain why atheism is a religion. Sources: Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook: https://bit.ly/3xYhFwB Unknown God: https://bit.ly/2TWiMhr Saint Ignatius of Antioch: https://bit.ly/3jbWYJl What is Secular Humanism?: https://bit.ly/34itIc8 Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice: https://bit.ly/3zTutpP Enlil: https://bit.ly/35NXrtk Strong, James. Strong’s Conc...

Today, we look at a video from the channel "What Would You Say?" that explains to us why the old testament genocides were perfectly moral, with many reasons ranging from "they allowed draft dodgers" to "they weren't supposed to needlessly kill trees." It's quite...something. Sources: Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia: https://bit.ly/2Sit0Iq Major Wars and Conflicts of the 20th Century: https://bit....

Today, Cold Case Detective J. Warner Wallace explains five reason that you can trust your bible. Sources: Dating of the Book of 1 Thessalonians: https://bit.ly/35Ach6s Impairing existing declarative memory in humans by disrupting reconsolidation: https://bit.ly/3q74nek Molecular mechanisms of memory reconsolidation: https://go.nature.com/2S9ZPYb 1 Peter: https://bit.ly/3wFEBAr 2 Peter: https://bit...

Today, we discuss the ontological argument for god's existence, to see how it holds up. Sources: Ontological Arguments (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): https://stanford.io/3iKEXBC Reasons Not to Believe – Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion: https://bit.ly/2S2yeId Cards: Rational Belief is Bad!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5jyNI4nLls Become a supporter of this podcast: ht...

Today, Brian Holdsworth tells us about his favourite argument for god. It's less than impressive. Sources: An alternative to the war on drugs: https://bit.ly/3gthh1G Electrical brain stimulation: https://bit.ly/2Tyxc7c Ownership: Changing Concepts and Practices: https://bit.ly/35nC9Cv Does the Bible allow a husband to spank his wife?: https://bit.ly/2UaNraX Theoretical perspectives accounting for...

How dare you even think of questioning god or the bible? Only stupid people do that! Sources: Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words: https://bit.ly/3eG2EbN Effect of swearing on strength and power performance: https://bit.ly/3ziW43k Original Video: https://bit.ly/3wca64P Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-...

Today, Patricia Engler of Answers in Genesis Canada explains to us why everyone who even slightly disagrees with her worldview is a liar. Sources: Mixed Cropping Agriculture Technique: https://bit.ly/3v9H4kW Original Video: https://bit.ly/3pwzcZu Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support . All my various links can be found here: h...

Today, we discuss morality. But rather than dwell on the big ticket items like apologists like to do, I ask about some everyday situations that are much more relevant to people's day to day lives. Sources: Wild justice and fair play: cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals: https://bit.ly/3eUcCUI NADIS - National Animal Disease Information Service: https://bit.ly/3ghUnZB Original Video:...

Today, we see some proof of Christianity based in prophecies...and math! Sources: Who is God's Suffering Servant?: https://bit.ly/3fHwAot When wrestling with God, wear a cup: https://bit.ly/3g5B6vQ Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah: https://bit.ly/3vI16nN Science Speaks by Peter W. Stoner, Chapter 3, The Christ of Prophecy: https://bit.ly/3yXP2k6 ‘Disgrace’: Indigenous le...

Today, some jerk decides he's going to explain why the Christian god does not exist. Sources: Lost Christianities - Bart D. Ehrman (2003) pp 123 What does it mean that humanity is made in the image of God (imago dei)?: https://bit.ly/2RHmL0L Do animals think rationally? Researcher suggests rational decision-making doesn't require language: https://bit.ly/2RHtAzr Shock to a conspecific as an aversi...

Today, Frank Turek of Cross Examined explains to us not only how he knows god exists, but how he knows it is, in fact, the Christian god. Sources: Al-Ghazali: https://bit.ly/3fmg6lD The Kalam Cosmological Argument: https://bit.ly/3vkrZhi Can water stay liquid below zero degrees Celsius?: https://bit.ly/3ul4bIW How Many Churches Did the Apostle Paul Start?: https://bit.ly/2QRbXwp Dying-and-rising d...

Today, Dapper Dino treats us to a response to Matt Powell claiming that chickens are evidence against evolution because he thinks they evolved from chickens. Dapper Dino's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCOGbuDrLeDBqIR8vBlE-yA Sources: Could methane produced by sauropod dinosaurs have helped drive Mesozoic climate warmth?: https://bit.ly/3wNOBY7 The Anatomical and Functional Evolution o...

Welcome to Tinfoil Tuesday where Viced Rhino takes on the first guest creator duties, as he looks at a Creationist's take on the age of rocks! Sources: Chalk: A biological limestone formed from shell debris: https://bit.ly/3v2NbYJ Lemon, Roy - Principles of Stratigraphy (1990) pp 30-32 Ibid, pp 88-89 Sedimentary rock - Sedimentary structures: https://bit.ly/3tyOEFJ Salina Group: https://bit.ly/32t...

Today, Father Casey from Breaking in the Habit looks down his nose at us in order to explain why he's better than us. Sources: Why wear the Franciscan habit?: https://bit.ly/3v5NrXt Why Do Catholics Confess Sins to a Priest?: https://bit.ly/3bZOIYD Unsealing of Vatican archives will finally reveal truth about ‘Hitler’s pope’: https://bit.ly/3fy7S8O Criticism of Mother Teresa: https://bit.ly/3v9er8...

Today, Cameron Bertuzzi of Capturing Christianity explains why his special pleading isn't special pleading by using special pleading. Sources: Evolution of the Universe: https://go.nature.com/2T4ezIa William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll - God and Cosmology: https://bit.ly/3dfSqy9 Original Video: https://bit.ly/3tRu4Q9 Cards: What's Your Evidence for the Lack of Evidence?: https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Today, the people at "What would you say?" explain to us how it is wrong for anyone to restrict religion's right to restrict people's rights. Sources: The Johnson Amendment In 5 Questions And Answers: https://n.pr/3fq0NXH When Does a Fetus Develop a Brain?: https://bit.ly/3bzU24H Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2018: https://bit.ly/3wgAIBj Later Abortion: https://bit.ly/3vbxkaw Evidence Mou...

Today, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries HQ (RZIM HQ) explains to us that proof of god is just a weird thing to expect... Sources: The origins of religion : evolved adaptation or by-product?: https://bit.ly/3ogyqz8 Religious concepts promote cooperation: https://go.nature.com/3tLNK8h Complex societies evolved without belief in all-powerful deity: https://go.nature.com/2RX3oQI Disbelieve it o...