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Backyard Professor: 04: New Podcast Series – God & Infinity

James Lindsay booK: “Dot, Dot, Dot, Infinity Plus God Equals Folly”

Giving us the ground to grasp the problems with making God infinite as Joseph Smith does in D & C 20:17

In this exciting episode we get to hear the atheist voice in this discussion sharing his ideas and doubts.

I discuss some reactions to the multiverse and why it is not a viable scientific theory, but more of a desperation to find a way… Read More »Backyard Professor: 112: The Multiverse and Complications

John Lennox Video sources of many hundreds available by title. Can be Googled easily: 1. “Is God Relevant?” 2. University of Chicago Open Forum With… Read More »Backyard Professor: 111: The New Atheism Defeats Itself: Science Vs. God

I continue looking into the lack of rigor and logic in so called scientific criticisms and philosophy of people who see things differently than Orthodox… Read More »Backyard Professor: 104: Misuse Science to Abuse Religion? Not on My Watch

I discuss several New Atheists’ views and philosophical blunders which are ridiculous in the extreme. I believe their disparagement of philosophy is their Achilles Heel.… Read More »Backyard Professor: 103: Scientist/New Atheism: They Need to Learn Philosophy – Theirs is Woeful

Continuing my discussion of what science does when it clashes with religion, and how religion reacts to the challenge. In this part I discuss the… Read More »Backyard Professor: 102: Science Vs. Mormonism; Religion in General as Well, Part 7

A more scientific look into the Mormon Doctrine of interpreting Genesis.

Continuing the saga of this complicated fascinating issue.

Continuing the discussion of Mormonism’s anti-intellectual and anti-science stances through time and how they need, drastically need to change this for today. Right now. Not… Read More »Backyard Professor: 097: Mormonism’s Problems with DNA & Evolution, Part 4

I continue to explore how Mormons deal with evolution from the leadership through to the scholarship.

Continuing discussing the problematic nature of Mormonism’s response to evolution.

Reviewing and discussing Eric Metaxas’s new book “Is Atheism Dead?”