You know what topics really bring people together? Politics and religion! So let's talk about them for a bit.

I am once again joined by my lovely wife for a conversation about some of the basics of our political beliefs and what we think Scripture has to say about how Christians relate to the government.

Was your great-great-great....-great-great-grandpa a cyanobacteria? Some Christians argue that was the case while still believing that Genesis 1 provides and accurate account of God creating the universe. How can that be?!

This week, we look at the concept of theistic evolution. We begin by considering the possibility that God truly did create everything that exists in six, twenty-four hour days and some of the philosophical concerns that come along with that. Then we consider some of the scriptural issues with affirming that God created by a process of evolution.

Regardless of where we land on the specifics of creation, we always affirm our trust in God and his word regardless of whether or not we understand everything about what it says.

Early in the 17th century, there was an intense conflict between the Catholic Church, which was teaching a geocentric model of the universe, and Galileo Galilei, who was espousing a heliocentric model. This conflict caused theologians worldwide to re-examine the Scriptures and realize that a geocentric view of the universe really wasn't taught by God's word (in fact, they had inherited that view from Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher). To what degree is that dialog between science and Scripture allowed?

To answer that question, we first need to understand what science really is and how it works. Welcome to this week's episode on the philosophical underpinnings and inherent limitations of modern science. This is what you get when you tune into a theology podcast taught by an astrophysics PhD...

Oh, and we do a short overview of Canaanite religion and how modern science philosophically parallels that ancient religion. Oh dear, quick, there's still time to switch to something else before the nerdiness-level reaches critical mass!

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