Added the forty-fifth Freethinker Podcast YouTube second interview with Aron Ra on creationist arguments (2022) to the Freethinker Podcast page under Resources on the Secular Web.
Tune in to Edouard Tahmizian’s 20-minute interview with Aron Ra about three common creationist objections to Darwinian evolution. First, Aron Ra surveys concepts of abiogenesis from the 1860s to present as they show up in creationist arguments. Next, he responds to creationist arguments from information/complexity (e.g., that there is digital information recorded in our DNA that could not have arisen by natural causes). He then criticizes the claim that there are missing transitional fossils, or ‘gaps’ in the fossil record, as simply factually inaccurate, before turning to the biological implausibility of the Noah’s Ark story. Check out this brief but informative interview!
Added the forty-fourth Freethinker Podcast YouTube second interview with Dennis R. MacDonald on the Gospels (2022) to the Freethinker Podcast page under Resources on the Secular Web.
Join host Edouard Tahmizian in this twenty-minute follow-up interview with New Testament scholar Dennis R. MacDonald on his forthcoming 2-volume reference work Epic Tragedy and the Gospels (on the literary background to gospels that were never intended to be read as histories), the scholarship of Robyn Faith Walsh on mimesis (mythologizing Jesus), the misappropriation of his work by fellow atheists, the Q source and the synoptic problem, and much more. Tune in for this engaging interview with a long-established man of letters!