Unbelievable?

Presented by Ruth Jackson

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Unbelievable? 19 Sep 2009 - Would Europe be better off Atheist or Christian?

5 Jun 2014
01:20:49

Christian Apologist David Robertson, Atheist blogger Ed Turner and Christian convert Richard Morgan return to debate the rights and wrongs of Christian and atheist influence in society. For David Robertson's book "The Dawkins Letters" Click...

Unbelievable? 5 Sep 2009 - Bauckham on the Gospels - Pt 2

5 Jun 2014
01:19:47

Continuing on from their discussion last week, believing and non-believing New Testament historians Richard Bauckham and James Crossley discuss whether the testimony of eyewitnesses in the Gospels is trustworthy. Bauckham fills out his reasoning for....

Unbelievable? 12 Sep 2009 - Richard Morgan - from Atheism to Faith

5 Jun 2014
01:19:52

Richard Morgan was a confirmed atheist for much of his life and a keen poster on the richarddawkins.net website.  However, after becoming disillusioned with the mentality of some atheists on the website, he subsequently experienced a dramatic conver....

Unbelievable? 29 Aug 2009 - Richard Bauckham on the Gospels - pt 1

5 Jun 2014
01:19:34

"Jesus and the Eyewitnesses" has been heralded as a paradigm shift in the way the authorship of the Gospels should be seen.  Richard Bauckham is the author of the book, which won the 2009 Michael Ramsey prize.  He argues that the Gospels a...

Unbelievable? 22 Aug 2009 - Does religion make people unhappy?

5 Jun 2014
01:21:06

Many "New Atheists" have written books claiming that Christianity is bad for people.   Barry Duke is editor of "The Freethinker" - a longstanding humanist magazine and website that seeks to show why religion is bad for the world. ...

Unbelievable? 15 Aug 2009 - Scriptural reasoning

5 Jun 2014
01:20:49

Scriptural Reasoning is an organisation committed to honest interfaith dialogue that promotes "better quality disagreement".  Its founder Muhammad Al-Hussaini explains how they hope to bring greater understanding of the scriptures of the th...

Unbelievable? 1 Aug 2009 - Calvinism & predestination

5 Jun 2014
01:20:33

The first of two programmes focussing on inter-Christian debates over doctrine. 500 years ago the birth of John Calvin heralded the arrival of one who would have a momentous impact on the shape of world Christianity. Calvinism is most often defined ....

Unbelievable? 8 Aug 2009 - Hell - two different views debated

5 Jun 2014
01:20:33

What do Christians believe about the immortality of the soul and the justification for punishment?  Has hell been lost as a doctrine in the modern church? In their second inter-Christian encounter James White and Roger and Faith Forster explain thei....

Unbelievable? 25 Jul 2009 - Michael Shermer debates "Miracles"

5 Jun 2014
01:20:40

You don't have to look far for claims of the miraculous. But what constitutes a "miracle" and do Christian beliefs in this area make sense? Michael Shermer is a well-known atheist in the USA and Director of the Skeptics Society. He says mi...

Unbelievable? 18 Jul 2009 - Intelligent Design vs Evolution

5 Jun 2014
01:19:56

A re-broadcast of a classic debate that won a New York Radio Festivals Gold medal. Peter Hearty is an atheist who says that Evolution alone explains the living world around us.  Peter Williams, an Intelligent Design proponent claims that Evolution i....

Unbelievable? 4 Jul 2009 - Peter Hitchens debates Islam

5 Jun 2014
01:19:55

Peter Hitchens is a well known journalist and Anglican Christian.  Unlike his atheist brother Christopher, he believes Christianity is an essential bedrock for society.  He says Islam will fill the spiritual vaccuum of Britain if secularists have th....

Unbelievable? 11 Jul 2009 - Islamic & Christian converts debate

5 Jun 2014
01:20:31

Nabeel Qureshi converted to Christianity from Islam after being convinced that the weight of evidence was in favour of Christian faith.  Yahya Seymour's story is the opposite - he became a Muslim after having a Christian upbringing.  They discuss th....

Unbelievable? 20 Jun 2009 Before Nicea - what is the truth about Early Christianity?

5 Jun 2014
01:20:36

What did the first Christians believe about Jesus?  Muslim Abdul Haq, the author of "Before Nicea" claims that key doctrines of Christianity were formulated through later councils of the church.  He says that there is no good evidence that...

Unbelievable? 13 Jun 2009 The Moral Argument for God

5 Jun 2014
01:19:44

Atheist Paul Orton contacted the show saying he was unconvinced by the claim of some Christians that morality must be based in God, to make sense.  He claims that morality is a product of biological and social evolution and "the changing moral Z...

Unbelievable? 27 Jun 2009 - PZ Myers & Denis Alexander on Faith & Science

5 Jun 2014
01:20:04

Atheist Biologist PZ Myers is  an outspoken critic of Christianity.  He believes that faith in God and science are contradictory.  He debates theistic evolutionist Denis Alexander, Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Is scien....

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