#353: Is Atheism Dead?—Eric Metaxas
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🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Most books by Christians about the atheism v theism debate start with the reasonableness of faith. Popular radio host and author Eric Metaxas starts with the reasonableness of science as filled with evidential power for the existence of God as can be known by faith. His brand new book is titled Is Atheism Dead? And what a stemwinder it is. Truly thought-provoking stuff hiding in plain sight—evidence of intentional and intelligent design.
In this Episode You Will Learn
- Why Metaxas decided to take the fight, so to speak, to the scientists
- The miraculous properties of water
- The staggering unlikelihood that the moon’s (small) size and distance to the sun (huge size) would line up as appearing to be the same dimensions as seen from earth
- The conversion to theism (at a bare minimum) of high profile atheists Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Antony Flew
- Why atheists are often bitterly opposed to even the idea of God
- An array of incredibly fascinating facts hidden in nature that point to God as First Cause
- The difference between the God of the philosophers and the Father of Jesus Christ
- Reasons why faith is reasonable and not contrary to reason
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. We're going to talk about the unreasonableness of Godlessness |
| 0:05.9 | with Eric Metaxas, who was an outstanding new book. It's so funny and wise and |
| 0:11.6 | deep and readable. It's called is atheism dead. Very important, not only as a |
| 0:16.8 | pala cleanser to all the other fistfights in the culture where we're all |
| 0:20.7 | fighting, but it's a really great deep dive into the notion of fine-tuning as |
| 0:25.7 | evidence of God's existence. Eric Metaxas will join me shortly. I don't want you |
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| 1:09.8 | celebrity endorsement, Eric Metaxas. |
| 1:11.7 | Morning. The following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge |
| 1:16.2 | your worldview. You know me. I'm a famous actor and the narrator of every |
| 1:21.9 | documentary ever made. And I am the voice of the thrice holy God. And I say unto |
| 1:30.3 | you, listen to my servant, Patrick Coffin. So great to have back on the show. My |
| 1:37.9 | friend Eric Metaxas, number one best-selling author, New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:42.5 | Has a nice ring to it. First, really watched Eric operate as a speaker, standing |
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