Reasonable Doubts Podcast
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Reasonable Doubts Podcast
Reasonable Doubts takes an informative and humorous look at religion from a freethinking perspective; offering news and commentary of interest to skeptics, atheists, agnostics, humanists, courageous religious believers looking for a challenge and freethinkers of all persuasions. In addition to inter...
Recent Episodes
172 episodes
139 What's Past is Prologue
Here it is�the final episode of Reasonable Doubts, featuring new Counterapologetics, God Thinks Like You and Polyatheism segments mixed with goodbye...
rd138 Interview with Shelley Segal
This podcast features a previously unreleased interview with Australian Singer and Songwriter Shelley Segal. Shelly shares about her experience growin...
rd137 Je Suis Charlie with guest Dan Fincke
This one is all about Charlie. Guest Dan Fincke defends free speach and the right to blaspheme. Dr. Galen examines the psychological root to religious...
rd136 Freedom Isn't Free
Dale McGowan, executive director of the Foundation Beyond Belief talks about some of the exciting ways the organization plans to put humanist principl...
RD Extra: Brayton v Schmig - Was the U.S. Founded on Christianity?
Is the US Government Founded on the Christian Religion?
Ed Brayton is the founder and owner of the Freethought Blogs network and the vo...
RD Extra: Lowder v Vandergriff - Metaphysical Naturalism or Christian Theism? Where Does the Evidence Point?
This RD Extra features a debate, hosted by the Reasonable Doubts Podcast, between Jeffery Jay Lowder and Kevin Vandergriff on "Metaphysical Naturalism...
rd135 Pain and Paradox
Physical 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...
rd134 Coming Out Atheist
Many non-theists keep their doubts hidden for fear of losing friends and love ones. But remaining in the closet also has drawbacks: stress, hypocrisy,...
rd133 Your God Detector is Busted
Our cognitive faculties evolved to help us detect agents in our environment and to predict the content of their minds but those same faculties also ge...
rd132 Euthyphro's Revenge
Does 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...
rd131 Witch-Hunt
The award-winning human rights activist Leo Igwe exposes how witchcraft accusations are used to prey upon societies most vulnerable, often with tragi...
RD Extra: Kozak vs Schieber - Does the Christian God Exist?
This debate on the existence of the Christian God took place at Ferris State University on October 23rd.
Steven Kozak - Christian Apolo...
rd130 How Jesus Beacame God with guest Bart D. Ehrman
How 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 t...
rd129 Get A New Hobby, Lobby
Ed Brayton of Dispatches from the Culture Wars joins the Doubtcasters for an analysis of the SCOTUS ruling on the recent Hobby Lobby case. Some popula...
rd128 Inside the Mind of a Religious Sexual Abuser
Major 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...
rd127 God's Not Dead
The Doubtcasters spend the whole hour reviewing the film "God's Not Dead." The whole hour. Seriously.
RD Extra: Does Religion Make Us Better People?
Does Religion Make Us Better People? An Empirical Critique of the Religious Prosociality Hypothesis.
Does religion make us happier, he...
rd126 Why Would God Hide?
Jesus 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 reall...
rd125 Nye Smokes Ham with guest Jordan Fett
The doubtcasters, along with friend of the show Jordan Fett, share thoughts and analysis (scientific, philosophical and psychological) on the debate b...
rd124 The Role of Religion in Global Conflict
New data from the Pew Research Center shows religious violence is on the rise world-wide. Religiously motivated sectarian violence, harassment of wom...
RD Extra Hallquist vs Rauser
In late 2013, Chris Hallquist (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq/) and Randal Rauser (http://randalrauser.com/) participated in a debate on the ratio...
rd123 Rules vs. Concequences
For the second part of our "Winter of Morality" series, Dr. Galen examines the psychological factors that make a deontological (rule-based) approach t...
rd122 a Deluge of Stupidity
Ken 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...
rd121 Divine Deception with Erik Wielenberg
Philosopher Erik Wielenberg joins us on the show to discuss his upcoming paper on Skeptical Theism and Divine Deception. The evidential argument from...
rd120 Church for Atheists? with guest Jerry Dewitt
After 25 years of ministry, Pentecostal preacher turned atheist, Jerry Dewitt, finds himself behind the pulpit once again. He's still singing, teachin...
rd119 Quivering Part 2 with guest Vyckie Garrison
Ex-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...
rd118 Quivering Part 1 with guest Vyckie Garrison
A disturbing trend is catching on among Christian fundamentalists across the nation. Couples are abandoning birth control and encouraging women to vi...
rd117 Why Are Atheists More Intelligent?
The Doubtcasters return from their ridiculously long, unannounced break to dissect the research behind the much reported headline that non-religious...
RD Extra: Andrews vs Schieber Debate - Does the God of Christianity Exist
This 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 exchang...
RD Extra: A Skeptical Review of Religious Prosociality Research
This RD extra features a lecture by Luke Galen "A Skeptical Review of Religious Prosociality" delivered to CFI Michigan June 26th 2013
...
rd116 The Outsider Test For Faith
How can one accept the Bible at face value but reject the Quran's teachings? How can one accept Christian miracles as evidence but reject Hindu miracl...
rd115 The Myth of Martyrdom part 3
The doubtcasters wrap up their "Myth of Martyrdom" series by discussing the evidence of others (non-apostles) who supposedly witnessed the resurrectio...
RD Extra: Smith vs Schieber - The Status of God in the 21st Century
Last month Justin Schieber was invited by Etcetera (Etcetera.org) to Traverse City, Michigan to debate/discuss with Scott Smith (TCApologetics.org) th...
rd114 The Myth of Martyrdom part 2: Who Would Die for a Lie?
Would anyone knowingly die for a lie? Christian tradition teaches us that many of Jesus' disciples were persecuted and martyred for their faith. But i...
rd113 The Myth of Martyrdom Part 1 with guest Candida Moss
Jesus famously told his disciples "take up your cross and follow me" and the church has proudly circulated stories of Christian martyrs ever since. St...
rd112 The Great Agnostic with guest Susan Jacoby
Today most Americans have never heard of Robert Green Ingersoll but in the 19th century he was considered one of the greatest orators of his age. Know...
RD Extra: Orme vs Schieber Debate - Does The Christian God Exist?
For this RD Extra, we give you a lengthy debate on the existence of the Christian god. Arguing in the affirmative is apologist Jared Orme of Conversio...
rd111 Goodbye Joey Ratz
Celebrate the end of Pope Benedict XVI's short reign with a look back at the good the bad and the ugly of the polemical pontiff's career. We'll discus...
rd110 Clever Hermeneutics
What is a thoughtful, compassionate Christian to do with all the outrageous violence and hatred in the Old Testament? Many liberal Christians will rej...
RD Extra: Debating the Amalekite Genocide
When Richard Dawkins wrote “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.�, he was spot on. Many Jews and C...