Latest Nontheism Podcast Episodes
139 What's Past is Prologue
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - September 21, 2015 22:25 - 2 hours - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsHere it is�the final episode of Reasonable Doubts, featuring new Counterapologetics, God Thinks Like You and Polyatheism segments mixed with goodbyes from our fans and outtakes from the past eight years of doubtcasting. Thank you to everyone who made this show what it was. Special thanks to Jon...
rd138 Interview with Shelley Segal
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - March 29, 2015 21:56 - 42 minutes - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThis podcast features a previously unreleased interview with Australian Singer and Songwriter Shelley Segal. Shelly shares about her experience growing up in a conservative Jewish household and how her music naturally turned to turned to secular themes when she decided she was an atheist. She als...
rd137 Je Suis Charlie with guest Dan Fincke
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - January 25, 2015 21:40 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThis one is all about Charlie. Guest Dan Fincke defends free speach and the right to blaspheme. Dr. Galen examines the psychological root to religious extremism and the Enuma Elish is the subject of this episode's Polyatheism.
rd136 Freedom Isn't Free
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - December 15, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsDale McGowan, executive director of the Foundation Beyond Belief talks about some of the exciting ways the organization plans to put humanist principles into action in 2015. Also, statistics on the public's attitudes towards the Christmas holiday, the John Templeton Foundation donates millions of...
RD Extra: Brayton v Schmig - Was the U.S. Founded on Christianity?
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - December 02, 2014 00:07 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsIs the US Government Founded on the Christian Religion? Ed Brayton is the founder and owner of the Freethought Blogs network and the voice behind the popular blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars. He is the co-founder and past president of Michigan Citizens for Science and the recipient of the F...
RD Extra: Lowder v Vandergriff - Metaphysical Naturalism or Christian Theism? Where Does the Evidence Point?
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - November 15, 2014 13:58 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThis RD Extra features a debate, hosted by the Reasonable Doubts Podcast, between Jeffery Jay Lowder and Kevin Vandergriff on "Metaphysical Naturalism or Christian Theism? Where Does the Evidence Point?"
rd135 Pain and Paradox
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - October 29, 2014 18:35 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsPhysical pain plays an important biological role, but should we expect it to in a world created by God? Also, a recent paper in the journal cognition posits distinct cognitive attitudes underlying religious belief and factual reasoning, but is the evidence from cognitive science and philosophy su...
rd134 Coming Out Atheist
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - October 07, 2014 01:55 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsMany non-theists keep their doubts hidden for fear of losing friends and love ones. But remaining in the closet also has drawbacks: stress, hypocrisy, the oppression of silence and fear of being found out. Despite the risks, those who've made the decision to be open about their atheism almost nev...
rd133 Your God Detector is Busted
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - September 23, 2014 20:31 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsOur cognitive faculties evolved to help us detect agents in our environment and to predict the content of their minds but those same faculties also generate beliefs in supernatural minds and divine agents. While this seems to suggest that religious intuitions are untrustworthy by-products of ordi...
rd132 Euthyphro's Revenge
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - September 09, 2014 03:30 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsDoes God approve actions because they are good? Or is an action good because God approves it? Euthyphro's Dilemma is perhaps the oldest challenge to a theistic conception of morality, but many modern philosophers of religion believe the dilemma to be a false one. While the traditional formulation...
rd131 Witch-Hunt
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - August 27, 2014 22:29 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThe award-winning human rights activist Leo Igwe exposes how witchcraft accusations are used to prey upon societies most vulnerable, often with tragic consequences. He recounts how the study of philosophy emboldened him to speak out against the dangers of superstitious and magical thinking in hi...
RD Extra: Kozak vs Schieber - Does the Christian God Exist?
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - August 19, 2014 22:33 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThis debate on the existence of the Christian God took place at Ferris State University on October 23rd. Steven Kozak - Christian Apologist, Author (Stevenkozak.com) Justin Schieber - Atheist, Podcast Co-host (doubtcast.org)
rd130 How Jesus Beacame God with guest Bart D. Ehrman
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - July 25, 2014 18:21 - 53 minutes - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsHow did Jesus, an apocalyptic prophet from Galilee, come to be regarded as a God by his followers? Bart D. Ehrman, Professor of Religious studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, joins us on the show to discuss his new book "How Jesus Became God", which traces the historical evolu...
rd129 Get A New Hobby, Lobby
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - July 11, 2014 16:45 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsEd Brayton of Dispatches from the Culture Wars joins the Doubtcasters for an analysis of the SCOTUS ruling on the recent Hobby Lobby case. Some popular misunderstandings about the ruling and its implications are dispelled, and the true dangers of the decision are discussed. Also, Luke Galen revie...
rd128 Inside the Mind of a Religious Sexual Abuser
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - May 06, 2014 01:20 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsMajor League Baseball player Chad Curtis will always be remembered as the man who led the New York Yankees to victory by catching the last out of the last World Series game of the 20th century. To many religious sports fans, Curtis was a hero for taking a strong stand for Christian principles. He...
rd127 God's Not Dead
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - April 18, 2014 01:23 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThe Doubtcasters spend the whole hour reviewing the film "God's Not Dead." The whole hour. Seriously.
RD Extra: Does Religion Make Us Better People?
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - April 07, 2014 02:21 - 47 minutes - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsDoes Religion Make Us Better People? An Empirical Critique of the Religious Prosociality Hypothesis. Does religion make us happier, healthier and more helpful? A number of popular psychology books and articles argue that religion is a positive force for enhancing the health and well-being of b...
rd126 Why Would God Hide?
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - March 24, 2014 18:06 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsJesus said "seek and you will find" but for many spiritual seekers, clear evidence for God cannot be found no matter how hard they search. If He really exists, why would God reveal himself only to some people and not to all? For this episode we examine "The Argument from Divine Hiddenness" which ...
rd125 Nye Smokes Ham with guest Jordan Fett
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - February 14, 2014 02:57 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThe doubtcasters, along with friend of the show Jordan Fett, share thoughts and analysis (scientific, philosophical and psychological) on the debate between Creationist Ken Ham and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Also we discuss some of the psychological barriers to understanding evolution that both c...
rd124 The Role of Religion in Global Conflict
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - January 27, 2014 22:40 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsNew data from the Pew Research Center shows religious violence is on the rise world-wide. Religiously motivated sectarian violence, harassment of women, mob-violence and terrorism have increased steadily and dramatically over the past 7 years in every region except the Americas. Still, many of t...
RD Extra Hallquist vs Rauser
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - January 18, 2014 19:17 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsIn late 2013, Chris Hallquist (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq/) and Randal Rauser (http://randalrauser.com/) participated in a debate on the rationality of belief in God. This debate was not a live debate, rather it was a series of audio exchanges that took place in late 2013.� The exchang...
rd123 Rules vs. Concequences
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - December 19, 2013 17:17 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsFor the second part of our "Winter of Morality" series, Dr. Galen examines the psychological factors that make a deontological (rule-based) approach to morality more appealing to most religious people than a consequentialist approach. Meta-ethical questions aside, does adopting a deontological pe...
rd122 a Deluge of Stupidity
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - November 27, 2013 15:58 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsKen Ham is trying to raise 24 million Dollars to build a life size replica of Noah's Ark for the Ark Encounter theme park and zoo. Ham hopes that the park will convince people that Noah really could have fit two of each of the worlds animals on a 450 foot wooden boat. While apologists like the C...
rd121 Divine Deception with Erik Wielenberg
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - November 05, 2013 21:31 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsPhilosopher Erik Wielenberg joins us on the show to discuss his upcoming paper on Skeptical Theism and Divine Deception. The evidential argument from evil concludes that the existence of God is unlikely given the many cases of gratuitous suffering we witness in nature. Some theists have responded...
rd120 Church for Atheists? with guest Jerry Dewitt
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - October 19, 2013 20:51 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsAfter 25 years of ministry, Pentecostal preacher turned atheist, Jerry Dewitt, finds himself behind the pulpit once again. He's still singing, teaching and calling upon his congregation to share testimonials...but this is no ordinary "church." The Community Mission Chapel, where Dewitt now serves...
rd119 Quivering Part 2 with guest Vyckie Garrison
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - October 04, 2013 21:35 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsEx-quiverful mom and activist, Vyckie Garrison, joins us in the studio to talk about the aftermath of her decision to leave her husband and religious community and to share what she is doing to help women like her to escape abusive patriarchal households. Also on this episode we take a critical ...
rd118 Quivering Part 1 with guest Vyckie Garrison
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - September 20, 2013 03:24 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsA disturbing trend is catching on among Christian fundamentalists across the nation. Couples are abandoning birth control and encouraging women to view their “wombs as weapons� in America's culture wars. Dubbed the “quiverful� movement, these families come from different denominational backg...
rd117 Why Are Atheists More Intelligent?
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - August 31, 2013 07:55 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThe Doubtcasters return from their ridiculously long, unannounced break to dissect the research behind the much reported headline that non-religious people are, on average, more intelligent than the religious. While the available data makes it clear that religion is negatively correlated with in...
RD Extra: Andrews vs Schieber Debate - Does the God of Christianity Exist
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - August 03, 2013 20:38 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThis debate was not a live debate, rather it was a series of audio exchanges that took place through the months of June and July of 2013. The exchanges were according to agreed upon time limitations on each section. For each of their several sections, the debaters were given at least a week to a...
RD Extra: A Skeptical Review of Religious Prosociality Research
Reasonable Doubts Podcast - July 19, 2013 00:42 - ★★★★★ - 809 ratingsThis RD extra features a lecture by Luke Galen "A Skeptical Review of Religious Prosociality" delivered to CFI Michigan June 26th 2013 It is often suggested that religion leads individuals to be more prosocial, that is, more cooperative, generous, friendly, and happy. A commonly held belief is t...
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