Apologetics 315 Podcast 006 – Outgrowing God? with Peter S. Williams
Today’s Show Notes:
Episode 006 – Outgrowing God? with Peter S. Williams
In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross interview Christian Philosopher Peter S. Williams about his book Outgrowing God?: A Beginner’s Guide to Richard Dawkins and the God Debate.
Find his resources at www.peterswilliams.com
2:50 – Introduction to Peter and his various books.
5:00 – The goal for writing a book dealing with Richard Dawkins’ book, Outgrowing God.
12:20 – The characters in the book, and coming at the God debate from various angles.
16:00 – Why address Dawkins and not “the best that atheism has to offer?”
19:00 – Key things that Peter would want to challenge Dawkins on in his thinking.
22:30 – Addressing inconsistency and lack of philosophical training.
24:00 – Problems with requiring “extraordinary evidence” for “extraordinary claims.” The subjectivity of the word “extraordinary.”
30:05 – Engaging in the God debate with the best of scholarship.
34:00 – Different ways of looking at the Old Testament, and reasons to take it seriously. Accurate incidental details we see in the OT.
40:00 – Addressing the topic of slavery, how we define it, and what we see in the Bible.
44:00 – Human rights and dignity, the Biblical worldview, and the culture of the day. Moral development in culture.
48:30 – How moral values are grounded. Dawkins judging the character of Yahweh. What worldview makes the best sense of our moral experience?
52:00 – Is there any hope of grounding moral values in something other than God? Discussion of moral platonism.
58:00 – Characters in the book struggling with depression; presenting the Christian life with more realism.
63:00 – Where to find more resources for the book.
64:20 – Reflections on the interview.
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