Jesus said to the Jews of His day that if they really believed in Moses they would believe in Him, but if they did not believe in Moses, He asked how they could really believe in His words (John 5:46-47).

Jesus said that Moses testified of Him. And foundational to Moses' testimony is the creation account of Genesis, including the creation of the first human beings, Adam and Eve. Can Moses then be compatible with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection? Many Christians who hold to "theistic evolution," a combination of evolutionary ideas and God as the Creator, believe Darwin is compatible with Moses.

This week and next on the Profile we speak with former nurse, author, and Christian apologist Dr. Tricia Scribner about how theistic evolution impacts a traditional, orthodox understanding of God.

Tricia Scribner's Website

Tricia is a former registered nurse. She holds an MA and PhD from Southern Evangelical seminary and is the author of seven books as well as a Nana to ten grandchildren. She is currently on staff with Mama Bear Apologetics.

Recommended Resources:
*Aquinas and Evolution by Michael Chabarek

*BioLogos website, biologos.com

*Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe

*Evolutionary Creation, I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution by Denis Lamoureux

*God After Darwin, God After Einstein by John Haught

*Mapping the Origins Debate by Gerald Rau

*Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution by Karl Giberson

*Theistic Evolution by J.P. Moreland and Stephen Meyer, eds.

*Thomistic Evolution by Ku, Davenport, Brent, Austriaco

*Answering the Music Man: Dan Barker’s Arguments Against Christianity, eds. Keltz and Scribner.

*LifeGivers Apologetics: Women Designed and Equipped to Share Reasons for the Hope Within by Tricia Scribner Amazon carries the book and impactapologetics.com also carries the teacher and student study guides

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How does philosophy inform modern physics? And how do physicists incorporate philosophy into their research?

On this episode, we dive into those questions with philosopher Dr. Timothy McGrew and astrophysicist Dr. Luke Barnes in order to help you fine tune your thinking about the fine tuning of the universe.

Critics of the fine-tuning argument will often invoke probabilities in order to get around the argument's deeper implication of the existence of God.

Tim and Luke will explore some of the issues in probability theory as it informs the physics of the fine-tuning argument.

Dr. Timothy McGrew

Timothy McGrew is Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University, where he has taught for the past 25 years. His research interests include formal epistemology, the history and philosophy of science, and the history and philosophy of religion. When he is not doing philosophy, he enjoys playing chess online, coaching at his local chess club, running trails, and making high quality paper airplanes. He lives in SW Michigan with his wife, Lydia McGrew, and their daughters.

Dr. Luke Barnes

Dr Luke A. Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at Western Sydney University. With a PhD in astronomy from the University of Cambridge, he has published papers in the field of galaxy formation and on the fine-tuning of the Universe for life. He is the coauthor with Prof. Geraint Lewis of A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely-Tuned Cosmos and The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang), published by Cambridge University Press.

Free Articles from Watchman Fellowship

• Profile on Naturalism: https://www.watchman.org/Naturalism/ProfileNaturalism.pdf
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• Profile on Atheism: https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/atheismprofile.pdf

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Again this week we talking with YouTuber Bradley Cooper who hosts the God Loves Mormons channel. Bradley sat down with Daniel Ray at the Utah Christian Research Center in Draper, Utah this past April during General Conference weekend for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bradley shares with us his experiences in his outreach to the LDS community as well as some of the challenges facing today's generation of LDS.

Here on part two we will dive into some of the significant differences between traditional Christian and Latter-day Saint doctrines of salvation.

Bradley's YouTube channel.
Utah Christian Research Center

Resources from Watchman Fellowship

• Watchman Fellowship Profile on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: www.watchman.org/Mormonism
• Apologetics Profile podcast What Is the Gospel? with Mormon apologist Scott Gordon and Christian apologist James Walker (YouTube): www.watchman.org/GordonWalker
• Apologetics Profile podcast list of all episodes about Latter-day Saints https://www.watchman.org/files/ldspod.htm
• Watchman Fellowship articles on Mormonism: watchman.org/LDS
• Watchman Fellowship Profile on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: watchman.org/Mormonism

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