Season 1

On this episode, Phil and Susie wrap up the inaugural season of the podcast.  This episode starts with a brief discussion about the recent comments made by William Lane Craig, a popular Christian apologist, who discussed his epistemic standards for believing in Christianity.  The rest of the episode is filled with Phil and Susie answering questions from listeners and a few questions for each other.  Stay tuned for announcements about Season 2 and some fun developments that will be launching during the offseason.  
Links referenced in the episode:
Reasonable faith: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/reasonable-faith-podcast/questions-on-quantum-mechanics-certainty-and-extreme-resistance 
William Lane Craig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LRWEoTtlII
Mythvision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LRWEoTtlII
Paulogia https://youtu.be/jjHo7qDLuNE
 
Susie's Blog: https://www.flawedtheology.com/ 
Phil's Blog: https://philqmusings.wordpress.com/ 
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Get ready Flawed Theology fans, it's almost the end of Season 1!  For the season finale, we are doing an "ask us anything" episode!! Send in your questions to us via email, Twitter, Instagram, or on our Facebook page.  Ask us questions about deconstruction, your faith journey (or lack thereof), theology, or whatever you'd like to know that might be interesting. 
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In today's episode, Phil and Susie delve into the concept of fear and how integral a part it plays in the life of a Christian.  We will talk about how fear is the basis of christianity (and many religions), but also teaches its followers to not be afraid.  It’s a dichotomy that we’d like to dissect and talk about.  The belief system is based on several ways that fear is used throughout the “christianity lifecycle”.
Susie's Blog:  https://www.flawedtheology.com 
Phil's Blog: https://philqmusings.wordpress.com/ 
Podcast Website: https://www.flawedtheologypodcast.com 
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Music:  "One Fine Day" and "Let the Sunshine" from Keep Calm and Podcast On; "Imagination" and "Sunshine" from LemonMusicStudio; "Alone with the Darkness" from Nature's Eye
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In today's episode, Susie and Phil talk with skeptic and atheist, Anthony Magnabosco.  Anthony has taken the concept of Street Epistemology to another level with his YouTube conversations and has big plans to take SE to new heights and to new applications.  We explore what SE is, how it can be useful beyond conversations about god belief and religion, and what Anthony has planned for the future of SE, especially with his new organization, Street Epistemology International.    
All of Anthony’s links:  https://linktr.ee/magnabosco 
Website: https://anthonymagnabosco.com/ 
YouTube: https://youtube.com/magnabosco210 
About SE: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-resources 
Street Epistemology International: https://streetepistemology.com/sei 
SE Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfb-sNm-sTE0fZQkynr-qTu6krq68S-po
How Minds Change book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Minds-Change-Surprising-Persuasion/dp/0593190297 
A Manual for Creating Atheists book: https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Creating-Atheists-Peter-Boghossian-ebook/dp/B00LKBT0MC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1659100155&sr=1-1 
How to donate: https://streetepistemology.com/donate
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In today's episode, Phil and Susie will ask the question, if the god of Christianity is the one true god, why is he so damn hard to find? We will talk about the idea of “divine hiddenness” and why a real deity, if they were all powerful, all loving, and truly wanted to save their creations, probably wouldn’t be so hard to find, but would want to be known and easily found by everyone.
Susie's Blog:  https://www.flawedtheology.com 
Phil's Blog: https://philqmusings.wordpress.com/ 
Podcast Website: https://www.flawedtheologypodcast.com 
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Music: from "Keep Calm and Podcast On" album
Show Notes
Susie's Blog post about divine hiddenness:  https://www.flawedtheology.com/2022/06/why-doesnt-god-make-himself-known.html 
https://www.gotquestions.org/divine-hiddenness.html
https://sufficientreasons.wordpress.com/17-2/
https://sufficientreasons.wordpress.com/29-2/
https://sufficientreasons.wordpress.com/50-2/
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God-Hiding 
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Seeking-God

Phil and Susie chat more in Part 2 with Lars Cade, self taught rage learning expert in the areas of evolutionary biology, young earth creationism, and all things scientific.  In this episode, we continue the conversation and talk about young earth creationism and why it's not possible, common arguments for YEC and how to debunk them, intelligent design, and Lars' doctrine of personal infallibility.  We start off with a complex scientific discussion between Phoebe Buffet and noted TV paleontologist, Dr. Ross Geller, which is sure to whet your appetite for some serious learning in this episode.  
 
Show Notes and Resources
Phil's Blog: https://philqmusings.wordpress.com/ 
Susie's Blog: https://www.flawedtheology.com/ 
(Post that explains "praying to the milk jug": https://www.flawedtheology.com/2021/11/does-prayer-work.html)
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Find Lars:
Answers to Answers in Genesis (https://www.facebook.com/groups/answers2aig/)
Deconversion Anonymous (https://www.facebook.com/groups/deconversion/)
Born Again Again (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bornagainagain/)
Interview on Graceful Atheist Podcast: https://gracefulatheist.com/2021/09/26/lars-and-christie-deconverted-family/
Interview on Dapper Dinosaur “Leaving Young-Earth Creationism” show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1OC_BXixg&t=140s)
Analysis of the Paleontology in the YEC film “Is Genesis History” written while still nominally a Christian (https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2017/06/26/is-genesis-history-digging-for-truth-and-coming-up-empty-handed-3/)
Learn Evolution
How Creationism Taught Me Real Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2vrmieg9tO3fSAhvbAsirT2VbeRQbLk7
Erika “Gutsick Gibbon’s” Five MORE Reasons Young Earth Creationism is Impossible https://youtu.be/DCJLssunrDI
Biologos Evolution Basics: https://biologos.org/articles/series/evolution-basics
The Logic of Science articles on evolution (I recommend starting with the series on evolutionary mechanisms): https://thelogicofscience.com/evolution/
A review of common misconceptions of evolution along with a good explanation of what it means: https://massivesci.com/articles/evolution-darwin-fitness-genes-selection/
How we found out evolution is true: John van Wyhe at TEDxNTU: https://youtu.be/18YwBwIK_no

In today's episode, Susie and Phil talk with Lars Cade about some very interesting topics.  We are both very interested in science and are always looking to find people who know more than we do about a given topic.  Lars is essentially a self-taught guru on the topics of evolutionary biology, young earth creationism, and intelligent design.  We are really excited to dig into these topics today and we hope that this will spark your interest to deepen your learning and knowledge in these areas, not only for the standpoint of being able to intelligently debate them with people who believe in YEC or ID, but also for your own personal knowledge building.  There are a massive amount of links below with a bunch of information that will help you on your scientific journey. 
Where You Can Find Lars:
Answers to Answers in Genesis (https://www.facebook.com/groups/answers2aig/)
Deconversion Anonymous (https://www.facebook.com/groups/deconversion/)
Born Again Again (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bornagainagain/)
Interview on Graceful Atheist Podcast: https://gracefulatheist.com/2021/09/26/lars-and-christie-deconverted-family/
Interview on Dapper Dinosaur “Leaving Young-Earth Creationism” show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1OC_BXixg&t=140s)
Analysis of the Paleontology in the YEC film “Is Genesis History” written while still nominally a Christian (https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2017/06/26/is-genesis-history-digging-for-truth-and-coming-up-empty-handed-3/)
Links:
Debunking YECism:100 Reasons the Earth is Old: https://ageofrocks.wordpress.com/100-reasons-the-earth-is-old/
Erika “Gutsick Gibbon’s” Top FIVE Reasons Young Earth Creationism is Impossible: https://youtu.be/T0tikAqD99M
Erika “Gutsick Gibbon’s” Five MORE Reasons Young Earth Creationism is Impossible https://youtu.be/DCJLssunrDI
Erika “Gutsick Gibbon’s” Bite Sized Busts playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEje1puXuKeMdjn4i-ext68l0_1IYzlw_
How Creationism Taught Me Real Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2vrmieg9tO3fSAhvbAsirT2VbeRQbLk7
Warnowiaceae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnowiaceae
Learn Evolution:Biologos Evolution Basics: https://biologos.org/articles/series/evolution-basics
The Logic of Science articles on evolution (I recommend starting with the series on evolutionary mechanisms): https://thelogicofscience.com/evolution/
A review of common misconceptions of evolution along with a good explanation of what it means: https://massivesci.com/articles/evolution-darwin-fitness-genes-selection/
How we found out evolution is true: John van Wyhe at TEDxNTU: https://youtu.be/18YwBwIK_no

In today's episode, Phil and Susie delve into some of the early childhood objections that Susie had to Christianity.  We will discuss the objections, how Christians might respond to these objections, and how we view these objections now as adults who've left the faith.  Asking these questions and exploring these objections would be viewed a heresy in our previous lives, so we named this episode "The One with the Heretical Objections" to poke the idea of heresy in the eye a bit, since the real heresy is Christianity.  
Passage mentioned by Susie about "shriveled" hands: https://biblia.com/bible/rsv/leviticus/21/16-23  (hebrew word used is sheber, meaning a breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash).  "Shriveled" may not be the best way to describe this, but that's how Susie interpreted and remembered this passage due to personal experience :)
 
Music: "One Fine Day" & "Childish Prank"  
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Phil's Blog: https://philqmusings.wordpress.com/ 
 
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