Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves the evidence for the Christian faith

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Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves the evidence for the Christian faith is a religion podcast hosted by Joe Mott, with 287 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves the evidence for the Christian faith

  False Ideas About Truth - Part 22 - Evidence against Darwinian Evolution

  Aug 17, 202617 min

  References: (1) The Miller-Urey experiment used a mixture of organic chemicals presumably MIMICKING a PRIMORDIAL SEA despite the fact that no one has ever SEEN or ANALYZED the contents of the primordial sea. (2) But the Miller-Urey experiment FALSELY led people to think that scientists could CREATE LIFE in a test tube because the experiment could create SOME of the building blocks of life. But these building blocks produced by the experiment was only a FEW amino acids FAR REMOVED from what is needed for life. Nevertheless the myth of the Miller-Urey experiment still remains in school textbooks COMPLETELY OVERLOOKING the problems with this experiment. (3) The medical doctor Geoffrey Simmons and author of the books What Darwin Didn’t Know and Billions of Missing Links used the fact of MISSING TRANSITIONAL LINKS and the SHAKINESS of Darwin’s claims to say that Darwin’s claims NO LONGER RISES the level of a theory but perhaps only to a proposal of historical importance. (4) Drawing on the most recent research and on years of clinical work Simmons tells the REAL STORY about the human body’s amazing complexity. The book “What Darwin Didn’t Know” pictures the wonders of the human body in their TRUE CONTEXT — a marvelous system fashioned by an infinitely wise DESIGNER. (5) In the book Billions of Missing Links Simmons reveals how interdependent structures and systems — massive complexity upon massive complexity — apparently came about ALL AT ONCE, WHOLE AND ENTIRE. There are NO PRECEDENTS, NO IN-BETWEENS, NO MISTAKES, NO FIRST TRIES. So there is NO HINT of things happening by CHANCE. (6) Simmons is not particularly fond of Darwin’s personality. He says, “Much of Darwin’s work reflects prejudices, false assumptions, assumed natural laws, and feigned research projects, as well as the reasonable thoughts of unnamed colleagues. Among the notables who have adopted his conclusions have been Hitler, Marx, and Stalin.” To those I would add Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Nicholas Madura, and Pol Pot. (7) The Bible says that wisdom is JUSTIFIED by all its CHILDREN. In other words, things like accepted cultural ideas, myths, worldviews, philosophies, politics, etc. enter to give a fuller picture of the character of a person. (8) The eugenics movement will forever be associated with Adolf Hitler, whose quest to build an Aryan MASTER RACE during the 1930s and '40s culminated in the Holocaust, the extermination of 6 millions Jews as well as all the deaths of multitudes of soldiers in WWII. That is a child of Darwinism. (9) For over 40 years Dr. Jerry Bergman, with 7 graduate degrees in biology, chemistry, psychology, and evaluation and reseasrch, has chronicled the weakness and absence of evidence supporting the theory of Darwinian evolution. Don’t you think that Bergman with those credentials deserves an audience? (10) The American eugenics movement received extensive funding from various CORPORATE FOUNDATIONS including the Carnegie Institution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Institution), Rockefeller Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation), and the Harriman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Henry_Harriman) railroad fortune. In 1906, J.H. Kellogg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.H._Kellogg) provided funding to help found the Race Betterment Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Betterment_Foundation) in Battle Creek, Michigan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Creek,_Michigan). The Eugenics Record Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Record_Office)(ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Spring_Harbor,_New_York) in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B. Davenport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Davenport), using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution. (11) Eugenics allowed some people to JUSTIFY THEIR BIGOTRY who then would take things a STEP FURTHER by claiming that "lesser" races needed to be PHASED OUT. In this way, SOCIAL DARWINISM became a means to construct a supposed HEIRARCHY of race — and ensure that Caucasian people (and their genes) remained the ideal standard. This idea of heirarchy of races affected Hitler where he thought the Aryan race was the MASTER RACE. Eugenics and Social Darwinism are the children of Darwinism. (12) Before Hitler took eugenics to its DEADLY EXTREMES of executing millions, many people considered at least some eugenics-related ideas to be COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE — despite their SERIOUS MORAL IMPLICATIONS. (13) What is the lesson learned here? Here is one: Any bias can be taken to extremes, hatred can ensue, and people can lose their lives. We see it now in the Trump DERANGEMENT SYNDROME which has precipitated multiple assassination attempts against the president of the United States. We saw it Charlie Kirk’s murder. We see it in school, places of worship, and drive-by shootings. It manifests itself when a few radical nations want to wipe out another nation. We see it exhibitions of genocide. (14) When will the world recognize that hatred can destroy everything we hold dear? Rather than supporting eugenics that removes people, we need to excise the cancer of hatred. This is episode 289.

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  False Ideas About Truth - Part 21 - The Bridge of Evolution is Faulty

  Aug 10, 202617 min

  References: (1) Charles Darwin’s 1859 book “Origin of Species” produced a REVOLUTION in human thinking perhaps more profound in science than anything before or since. The 16th century Copernican revolution removed the EARTH from its privileged position at the center of the universe, but the Darwinian theory removed GOD from His privileged position as the Creator of the universe and of all life, most notably of human life. (2) We are asked to believe that, first, a tiny BACTERIUM had come from non-living matter, and then, second, that it has evolved into 1.7 million highly complex species. The evidence supporting evolution would have to SPAN A VERY LARGE GAP between non-life and human life. Is the evidence strong enough? I am trying to show that it does not. (3) Now, thanks to the scientific work of Albert Einstein and other scientists, the beginning of the universe has been confirmed. That proves that a BEGINNER, a Creator, exists. Thanks to space probes and high-powered telescopes, we can determine the age of the universe to be about 13.7 or 13.8 billion years old. General relativity has been confirmed also. (4)”Not by Chance” by Lee Spetner. (5) “The Blind Watchman” by Richard Dawkins. (6) The 1952 article in “American Scientist” by Richard Goldsmith says, “Evolution of animal and plant world is considered by all those entitled to judgment to be a FACT for which NO FURTHER PROOF is needed.” (7) The mechanisms — natural selection, random mutations, and abiogenesis — have to work correctly in order for what is claimed to really occur. (8) The transfer of one species to another has NEVER BEEN OBSERVED, and how life came from non-life is still a MYSTERY. (9) It seems to me that the bridge of evolution is a failure. (10) In the case of evolution, the entire sequence of evidence must be strong or Darwin’s theory will fall apart. One broken element in the evolutionary span is all it takes for the theory to be a FAILURE. (11) “A Skeptics Search for God” and “Dismantling Evolution” by Ralph Muncaster. (12) Darwin himself identified 37 problems of evolution that needed to be defended. (13) I began to list key elements of evidence against Darwinian evolution although it is almost universally accepted. This is episode 288.

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  False Ideas About Truth - Part 20 - Darwin and Lamarckianism

  Aug 3, 202616 min

  References: (1) “Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution” by Alpheas Packard. (2) Questions: What hard-science evidence is there that Darwinian evolution is true? Why are there no true transitional links? Since there are no transitional links to test, is it possible to demonstrate hard evidence of DNA mutational change? (3) “Dismantling Evolution” by Ralph Muncaster. (4) Given that neo-Darwinism requires GRADUAL CHANGE over long periods of time, how do evolutionists explain the sudden appearance of many new life forms on earth in the Cambrian Explosion? (5) Muncaster continues, “The existence of ‘transitional’ species would imply that a creature was in a STATE OF DEVELOPMENT between two species. For example, it might be a reptile with a partially formed feather, not a wholly developed one; or a creature with a part of an eye that didn’t yet ‘work.’ Now, even though millions of fossils have been found since Darwin’s time, we still can’t IDENTIFY transitional species — let alone ’countless numbers’ of them. In fact, in the fossil record body parts and systems are either FULLY FORMED or NON EXISTENT.” (6) What is harder to understand is WHY this 150-year-old theory (though somewhat modified) is STILL BEING TAUGHT as a FACT in light of recent discoveries? (7) However, change BETWEEN species has NEVER BEEN SUBSTANTIATED. (8) “Now, having much recent evidence that was UNAVAILABLE to Darwin, how do MODERN EVOLUTIONISTS support their theory? It seems that, often, either they attempt to hold onto OUTDATED IDEAS by the simple ASSUMPTION that evolution is a FACT — or else the evidence is simply IGNORED. In other cases they explain the theory’s many problems by REACHING INTO OUTER SPACE for answers. . . . Are evolutionary theorists now so FRUSTRATED that they look to extraterrestrials as possible SOLUTIONS to problems about the origin of life that can’t be resolved? Moreover, this just puts the difficulties one step FURTHER AWAY. It doesn’t answer the question, ‘How did these extraterrestrials come to be?’” (9) The third area into which flaws of evolution can be separated is the way Darwinian evolutionary theory has been used as the FOUNDATIONAL BASIS for POLITICAL SYSTEMS like Nazism and communism. Those governmental regimes adopted the idea of atheism. (10) What were the consequences of the governmental regimes of Nazism and communism? Nazism caused the Holocaust thereby destroying over 6 million Jews and perhaps 10 million Christians. Josef Stalin left seminary after having read Darwin’s book becoming an atheist in the process. Ultimately over 18 million Russians were killed under Stalin’s regime in Russia. Marxism/communism in China under Mao destroyed over 100 million Chinese. Marxism/communism was responsible for Pol Pot’s killing fields in Cambodia whereby over half of the population of Cambodia were destroyed. (11) Darwin’s theory of evolution also was the FOUNDATION for theories like SOCIAL DARWINISM and EUGENICS. You may know that eugenics advocates for the elimination of individual people DEEMED SOCIALLY UNFIT. The theories of social Darwinism and eugenics have been used to JUSTIFY DISCRIMINATION and have contributed to some of the most RACIST social programs over the last 167 years. (12) “Darwin’s Black Box” by Michael Behe. This is episode 287.

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  False Ideas About Truth - Part 19 - Tactics Against Darwinism’s Opponents

  Jul 27, 202617 min

  References: (1) Ever since Darwin first published his Origin of Species, his defenders’ favorite TACTIC against critics have been to use the process with a Latin name ad hominem which means attack against the person. For example, Sir Richard Dawkins, the indefatigable defender of evolution and former professor of biology at the University of Oxford, wrote: “It is absolutely SAFE TO SAY that if you meet someone who claims NOT TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION, that person is IGNORANT, STUPID, or INSANE (or WICKED, but I’d rather not consider that).” (2) In the book “Darwinism Under the Microscope” by James P. Gillis, MD and Tom Woodward, PHD and in the chapter by Dr. Mark Hartwig called “Challenging Darwin’s Myths” is stated that “Darwin himself used [this tactic] against some of the greatest scientists of his day, accusing them of SUPERSTITION and RELIGIOUS BIAS.” (3) Hartwig continues, “Time has not been kind to Darwinism, however. Paleontologists have certainly found more fossils, but these fossils have only DEEPENED THE PROBLEM. What paleontologists discovered was NOT GRADUAL CHANGE, but STABILITY AND SUDDEN APPEARANCE. It seems that most fossil species APPEAR ALL AT ONCE, FULLY FORMED, and CHANGE VERY LITTLE THROUGHOUT THEIR EXISTENCE. (4) Even Oxford zoologist and prominent Darwinist Richard Dawkins has remarked, “It is as though they were JUST PLANTED THERE, without ANY EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. . . . Darwinists, of course, express CONFIDENCE that future discoveries will clear up the mysteries. But so far, the research has only deepened them.” I would say confidence is NOT EVIDENCE. (5) An article from gotquestions.org indicates that FLAWS in the theory of evolution can be separated into 3 BASIC AREAS. I have added a fourth category. (6) Generally in the first edition of The Origin of Species Darwin made claims with NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. How can that version of Darwinian evolution be a SCIENCE if it does not use the scientific methodology? (7) Survival of the fittest on a short time line, is UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED. But this is more about MAJOR TRANSITIONS. No scientist has ever observed a natural collection of organic chemicals SPONTANEOUSLY linking up to form a PROTEIN, or thousands of different proteins, fats, sugars, and minerals combining to CREATE A FUNCTIONAL CELL, or millions of different cells FUSING INTO A JELLYFISH, or anything remotely similar to an AMPHIBIAN, or a frog transitioning to a lizard, of a bear transitioning to a whale, or an ape GIVING BIRTH to a human. (8) The philosopher and historian Stephen Meyer writes, “Intelligent agents have unique CAUSAL POWERS that nature DOES NOT . When we observe effects that we know only agents can produce, we rightly INFER the presence of a PRIOR INTELLIGENCE even if we did not observe the ACTION of the particular agent responsible. Since DNA displays an effect (namely, information content) that in our experience only agents can produce, intelligent design (and not apparent design) stands as the best explanation for the information content in DNA.” This is episode 286.

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  False Ideas About Truth - Part 18 - Additional Questions About Darwinian Evolution

  Jul 20, 202616 minS0

  References: (1) Many people have been taught evolution as an UNQUESTIONABLE FACT while being UNAWARE of the numerous historical errors, frauds, exaggerations, and premature conclusions that have appeared in its defense. (2) Remember Science is performed by fallible people. A PREDETERMINED BIAS can influence scientific conclusions. Incorrect ideas sometimes remain in textbooks for decades. Scientific consensus does not guarantee the truth. (3) Darwin acknowledged that there were “a crowd of difficulties” with his theory and stated, “Some of them are SO SERIOUS that to this day I can HARDLY REFLECT on them without being in some degree STAGGERED; but, to the best of my jud...

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