

Adherent Apologetics
Zac Sechler
Welcome to Adherent Apologetics, where I talk with leading thinkers about Christianity.
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Sep 25, 2021 • 19min
201. Response to Rationality Rules on the State of Apologetics
Recently Steve Woodford (Rationality Rules) released a video where he talks about how his views have changed in the past five years. In this video, I make a response to the section on his views about apologetics. We talk about design, beauty, and more!
Steve's Video: https://youtu.be/dIromog6h10
Was the Watchmaker Blind?: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745452/?fbclid=IwAR0TgLCtoX3fOCUKQIIuq8qI4pdiN-R_ay7jfqbvD0La4Y0ZCn22g84UiR4
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Sep 24, 2021 • 57min
200. Emerson Green: Everything Wrong with Physicalism
Emerson Green runs the podcast Counter Apologetics and Walden Pod. In this video, Emerson and I talk about problems with physicalism. Including responses to physicalist YouTubers on the topic.
Follow Emerson: https://linktr.ee/emersongreen
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Sep 18, 2021 • 51min
199. Zachary Ardern: How Evolution Could Be Evidence of Design
Dr. Zachary Ardern is an evolutionary biologist using microbial genome and gene expression data to answer fundamental evolutionary questions and to understand microbial diversity better. In this interview, we talk about how evolution can be evidence for design.
Dr. Ardern's Website: https://zacharyardern.com/

Sep 17, 2021 • 53min
198. Jerome Creach: Did God Command Genocide? Spiritualizing Old Testament Violence
Rev. Dr. Jerome Creach is the Robert C. Holland Professor of Old Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. We talk about his view of spiritualizing violence in the Old Testament.
More info on Dr. Creach: https://www.pts.edu/creachj
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Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 12min
197. 3,000 Subscriber Q&A on God, Evil, & Sports
To celebrate 3,000 subscribers, I did a live Q&A on YouTube. We covered topics such as Classical Theism, Evil, Chelsea, and more! Note in the middle of the recording there is a gap because of poor internet!
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Sep 14, 2021 • 27min
196. Why I Am a Christian
This video goes through my own journey and why I am a Christian. I hope you enjoy it! I cover how I think about arguments, my story, the most powerful theistic and atheistic arguments, and more.
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Sep 11, 2021 • 1h 13min
195. Two Christians Answer Matt Dillahunty About the Contingency Argument (w/ Josh Yen)
Josh Yen joins me to respond to a video by Matt Dillahunty on the contingency argument. We take a look at Matt's thoughts and then respond.
Original Video: https://youtu.be/l6esL6yz52Q
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Sep 10, 2021 • 49min
194. Iain Duguid: A Scholar Explains the Book of Numbers
Rev. Dr. Iain Duguid (PhD, Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. In this interview, I talk with Dr. Duguid about the book of Numbers. We talk about origins, meaning, important questions, and more!
Dr. Duguid's Website: https://faculty.wts.edu/faculty/duguid/
Big Questions in EVERY Book of the Bible: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj8S949x_pmR9brHqG0K9CyK5ovdI_X9V
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Sep 8, 2021 • 44min
193. Randal Rauser: Why isn‘t God Clearer? Dealing with Biblical Ambiguity
Why isn't God clearer in the Bible? Dr. Randal Rauser joins me to talk about the last chapter of his book, Jesus Loves the Canaanites, and the issue of Biblical Ambiguity.
Randal's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Loves-Canaanites-Biblical-Intuition/dp/1775046249/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jesus+loves+the+canaanites&qid=1630369081&sr=8-1
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Sep 5, 2021 • 31min
192. Does Theism Have Internal Problems? A Response to Emerson Green (w/ Plantinga‘s Bulldog)
Plantinga's Bulldog joins me to look at part v of Emerson Green's video 'Why I am an atheist.' We look at Emerson's claim that Theism suffers from various internal problems.
Emerson's Video 'Why I am an Atheist': https://youtu.be/bPDkaWpuTgE
Responses to Skeptics: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj8S949x_pmRcc8uxrO4diaE_13h47EwH
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