Still Unbelievable!

Episode 156 - A lesson in fact checking

This short episode is going to be a lesson in fact checking. Fact checking takes time and, personally, I enjoy doing it, it helps my critical thinking stay sharp and I usually learn something on the way. It is genuinely satisfying to get to a result, even if I already knew what the result would be. Fact checking is also important because it helps us to validate things that we have been told. Fact checking should be considered the twin sister of skepticism, because being skeptical should also mean being prepared to put in effort to check the things we want (or don't want) to believe.

1) Five Mere Christians
https://www.jordanraynor.com/five-mere-christians
https://somersetuk.borrowbox.com/product/DRA_6616304/title/five-mere-christians
https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/the-church/christian-leadership/five-mere-christians-9780736991704/

2) Hannah More
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_More
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/hannah-more/biography

3) the Hannah more quote - page 301
"We saw but one Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower-pot."
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Memoirs_of_the_Life_and_Correspondence_o/eeUDFO5UJVgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=hannah+more&printsec=frontcover

4) a secondary source - suggests Cheddar
https://www.thomasgenweb.com/shipham_history_p146_147.jpg

5) Text of Charlotte M. Yonge on Hannah More
https://archive.org/stream/hannahmore00yon/hannahmore00yon_djvu.txt

6) map location - wrington
https://www.bing.com/maps/search?FORM=HDRSC6&style=r&q=Wrington%2C+England&ss=id.sid%3A%22d27d6233-be8d-7984-e8c2-951480a9b3cc%22&st=Wrington&sfa=England&cp=51.330758%7E-2.647284&lvl=11.3

7) map location - shipham
https://www.bing.com/maps/search?FORM=HDRSC6&style=r&q=Shipham%2C+England&ss=id.sid%3A%22def872f8-765b-714f-25e0-2f974167557d%22&st=Shipham&sfa=England&cp=51.297337%7E-2.715230&lvl=11.8

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Episode 154 - David from Graceful Atheist

Matthew chats with David from the Graceful Atheist podcast we talk about losing faith, maintaining relationships with christians and more....

1) https://gracefulatheist.com/podcast/
2) https://lifeunwasted.org/

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J Warner Wallace reacts to TikTok atheists. Because we all know they are the worst!

For those that might not know, J Warner Wallace makes a big thing of his credentials as a cold case detective and he makes a big thing out of using his cold case methodologies for validating the existence of his god. We at Still Unbelievable!, along with many other atheists, are not impressed by his reasoning.

Here we will respond to his responses to atheists so that we can explain why he does not impress.

As usual, the link the original episode being responded to is link 1 in the show notes. You can find more of J Warner's content at cold case Christianity.

1) original podcast episode
https://coldcasechristianity.com/podcasts/podcasts-about-gods-existence/does-god-exist-a-cold-case-detective-reacts-to-tiktok-atheists-podcast/

2) Major Crime Investigation Manual
https://library.college.police.uk/docs/NPCC/Major-Crime-Investigation-Manual-Nov-2021.pdf

3) Methodology of a Murder Investigation
https://dspace.aab-edu.net/bitstream/handle/123456789/567/Mentor%20Shabani%20-METHODOLOGY%20OF%20THE%20MURDER%20INVESTIGATION.pdf

4) did the universe begin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol7IWdtCS2Q

5) fine tuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-fj3lqJ6M

6) evolutionary flaws disprove design
https://www.titan.uio.no/english/2020/evolutionary-flaws-disprove-theory-intelligent-design.html

7) Friedmann equations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann_equations

8) Paolo Saraceno
https://cortonafriends.org/paolo-saraceno/

9) abigenesis
https://biologyinsights.com/can-life-come-from-non-life-a-look-at-abiogenesis/?utm_source=copilot.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-026-01969-w?utm_source=copilot.com
https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/education/anthropology/abiogenesis.php

10) are viruses alive?
https://scienceinsights.org/are-viruses-dead-or-alive-the-debate-explained/?utm_source=copilot.com

11) DNA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/?report=reader&utm_source=copilot.com

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Episode 152 - Matthew gives his deconversion story

In this episode, Matthew talks about his early life, the kind of Christianity he was brought up in, and what cause him to eventually leave.

In another episode he'll talk in more detail aby why he can't go back.

1) Confessions of a YEC blog
https://confessionsofayec.wordpress.com/

2) Graceful Atheist
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/matthew-taylor-confessions-of-a-young-earth-creationist/id1456800368?i=1000442160645
https://gracefulatheist.com/2023/12/30/matthew-taylor-why-we-podcast/

3) Life unwasted
https://lifeunwasted.org/matthew-learning-to-stay-when-leaving-is-normal-s05e03/

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Episode 150 – Stand To reason still don't understand atheists

In this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew responds to an episode of the Stand to Reason podcast — where Amy and Greg tackle the terrifying phenomenon of… an atheist who says he doesn’t have a worldview.

Shocking stuff.

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1) the original podcast
https://podtail.com/podcast/-strask-with-greg-koukl/what-would-you-say-to-an-atheist-who-claims-to-lac/
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/strask/what-would-you-say-to-an-atheist-who-claims-to-lack-a-worldview

2) objective morality discussion
https://philosophy.acadiau.ca/tl_files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_ABM.pdf?utm_source=copilot.com

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