Update: Here’s this week’s show.
On this week’s Partisan Gridlock — Wednesday, March 18th at 10:00 PM on KPFT, 90.1FM in Houston…
With all that we know — from planetary geology to physics to cellular biology — why do we continue to cling to explanations about the nature and composition of the universe offered 4,000 years ago by nomadic Middle Easterners? Let’s face it, Middle Easterners aren’t all that sophisticated today, to say nothing of their ancient fantasies.
Offering their views will be physicist, professor, Methodist minister, and current University of St. Thomas scholar-in-residence Dr. John F. Wilson as well as my very own rabbi, Brian Strauss of Congregation Beth Yeshurun.
Possible topics of discussion:
- Can God create a rock so heavy he can’t lift it?
- Scientific theories can be objectively proved or disproved. We know science works — and if you doubt it, next time you have to go to Minneapolis, try flying there on a unicorn instead of what scientists and engineers call an “airplane.” Why then do intelligent people cling to the belief that God exists, despite the complete lack of evidence?
- Which parts of the Bible should we follow to get into heaven? I hope it’s not the part that prevents eating shellfish. Mmmm….lobster. My wife says she’s hoping that she’s not going to have her hand lopped off in the event she sees me in a fight and grabs my opponent’s jimmy. (Deuteronomy 25:11: “If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.”)
Side bet:
- Who will be the first to raise Pascal’s Wager?
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