#225 – How is a memory made?

Repeatedly recounting an event with/around other people over the years changes the memories, and can produce a community narrative. This week we’ll talk to one more expert on human memory, before we unpack what the three of them said about the reliability of eyewitness testimony and biographical stories gathered fifty years after the fact. Here, […]

They’re not stored as images or videos that can be retrieved, but as fragments that are reconstructed … making them vulnerable to change. Last week’s guest expert said if we want to understand how memory works, we’ll need to talk to a neurobiologist. Well, we got two world-class experts on the neurobiology of human memory. […]

A world-renowned expert on human memory tells us we’re only fooling ourselves when we insist on saying “I KNOW what I saw.” Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Her forty years of doing research on human memory has produced hundreds of papers in prestigious scientific journals and over […]

Intelligent Design advocates leverage engineering language to make their case. Daniel J Nicholson — a philosopher with graduate-level molecular biological training — identifies four general characteristics of all man-made machines: (1) require a very specific list of parts and a blueprint to assemble (2) perform highly specific functions (3) are highly efficient because they operate […]

Once again, we return to Exhibit A in the case of Evolution v. Intelligent Design: the bacterial flagellum. A highly influential YouTuber with 11.9M subscribers posted a video that gushed over the incredible complexity of the bacterial flagellum, and impressed on his audience that it just could not have come about through evolution … “it […]

A leading figure in the Open Relational and Process Theistic camp critiques our own new Christology/Theology We asked Dr. Thomas Jay Oord to comment on the new theology/Christology that we’ve been unpacking on this podcast over the previous two weeks, coming at it from the very non-conventional, non-traditional perspective of Open Relational and Process Theism. […]

A vibrant conversation between Luke, Scott and several of our more engaged listeners generated a lot of heat and light Several listeners wrote in over the past few weeks in response to the new Christology/theology that Luke unpacked in the 8-part mini-series we concluded last week.  This week, we unpack some of the questions and […]

After completely deconstructing the Christian faith he grew up with, Luke answers the question: “what do I still believe about Jesus?” This week’s episode is the cap-stone on the archway we’ve built up in this 8-part mini-series over the past two months, as well as many other episodes over the past five years that gave […]

John’s Gospel is so different from the other three Gospel accounts, one might have to wonder ….. This week, we talk to a New Testament scholar with particular expertise on the writing of the Gospels. His most recent book focuses squarely on the Gospel of John. After asking some basic background information on that Gospel […]

Literary scholars such as JR Tolkien and CS Lewis see Christianity as not only the fulfillment of ancient Hebrew prophecies, but also the deep-seated yearnings of the human heart, expressed through a multitude of myths and religions. [this is a re-release from our Archive; Scott was not part of the team at that time] In […]