"Over 200 different features of our galaxy must be fine tuned to make our existence possible" That idea rests on two assumptions: 1) that for 13.5 billion years, give or take, the goal of the universe was to produce humans, and 2) there can be no other way "life", however you define that, could have existed or does exist anywhere else in the universe. Was oil formed in the Mesozoic Era so that the Wright Brothers could invent the airplane? Were the one or more meteors which brought a close to the Cretaceous Era with its mass extinctions an intentional act on the part of universe or a random one? The fine tuning argument is a planet sized Pandora's Box which when opened has more puzzling contradictions than quantum physics.

I believe Craig is correct about how he rejects the sin of Adam being somehow contagious or passed down to humans etc. I heard it said somewhere each one of us sins individually and in essence we are all a Adam unto ourselves.

I can’t hear the man speaking now. I can hear Hugh and the moderator

I didn't understand the reference to Sean Carroll by Dr. Ross who said if you believed that way, why would you get married. Was it asking the question why do atheists get married? Maybe I didn't pick up the whole conversation about that.

Excellent interview! Wikipedia is flawed as secularists and Leftists dominate the editors.

This was a great discussion between two scholars who have an exceptional gift to communicate the intricacies of science to non-specialists. I hope Dr. Ross will have Dr. Keating back again as a guest for more of this fascinating content.

God bless Hugh Ross. He has taught me so much. A brilliant man that is very humble and kind. Love you Hugh

I really appreciated this episode, it has to be one of my favorite -- it is rare to see anyone challenge statements of fact in videos on this channel, and I really appreciated Brian's willingness to challenge Hugh's statements in order to bring greater clarity to the discussion, it was all very "enlightening!" I look forward to the next time Brian is on the show!

Enjoyed it, but I'm not ashamed to say that I only understood about 20% of it.

Brian Keating is going to get into Trouble going on RTB!

Listening to this and it seems the Big Bang may have some challenge's to it's theory based on the James Web Space Telescope's recent findings that look like strong evidence to challenge our current age of the universe. I'd like to know an AstroPhysicist's opinion. Would it derail Christianity if the universe is infinitely old? I'm a Christian and I'm certain it wouldn't. Jesus never fails.

Sooooo ... more evidence the Drake Equation is way, way, way to simplistic. My own opinion is that other life in the cosmos is highly doubtful. But even if there is, the physical laws of spacetime prohibit mankind from ever knowing, much less meeting, these 'others'.

You are assuming that the " evening and morning were not a standard 24 hour day.

This guy, Becket Cook is AMAZING! Had seen just one of his podcasts, but never before an interview. Will just say, that as we do not yet know for sure just why some human beings are same-sex attracted, and it is a thing which has impacted our culture so very much - almost all of us know someone, often someone close to us, who identifies as "gay" (homosexual), so it is something we all have to face.... What sets Becket Cook apart from other Christian leaders (if you will) is his HONESTY, openness, a willingness to help those of us who do not nor ever shared that experience - or perhaps sometimes wonder about it all and wish to understand; he provides a way to set all of this in true perspective in light of the Gospel. Really, homosexuality is like any other sin, no worse, no better, and to say or think otherwise is prideful, a sin in and of itself. IF people like Becket Cook can help us understand, we can probably empathize, and thus help bring those so caught up in the lifestyle into the Kingdom of G-d as well. KUDOS! - to Mr. Cook, and to the RTB host here as well whose interview helps educate other believers. Keep it up guys!

Btw George Haraksin looks very young and must have been at Biola no earlier than the late 90s, early aughts. Great interview, George.

Thank you Reasons to Believe for all that you’re doing. Praying for you all. May God grant you continued strength, wisdom and peace as you contend for the faith.

Psalm 104:29-30

I really appreciate these "News of the Day" videos. I subscribe to several science sources and science KZfaq channels, but can't begin to sort through everything to distill down to what I might be able to use in my ministry, but I use a lot of Reasons to Believe materials.

I don't get the deceiving argument (and I'm no scientist) because all the unknowns about ages and ages for transitions can be just as confusing/deceiving. There are so many things both spokesmen couldn't explain, so maybe their old earth hypothesis is just as deceiving. Here's a question I don't understand: If "hominids" and humans all were breeding together, even a little bit, shouldn't we have a lot more "living beings" on earth today? Why did they develop so slowly? I've heard that there were wars and pestilences that have kept the populations down. Well, in modern history, there has been no lack of wars and pestilences, but in the last 2000 years, we've grown to more than 8 billion people. In the Bible, people lived and procreated for a long time, so how many people were there on earth at the flood? Couldn't there have been billions of people? Just some musings from a "neanderthal."

I'm sure you've had dialogue with young earth scholars, and that would be far more helpful and interesting to me for future podcasts.

I love how God chooses to invade a person's life. Such a beautiful testimony.

Appears he’s reading from the apocrypha and not the Holy Scriptures. In the original text, both Adam and Solomon were called sons of God. Those who point out that created beings do not procreate are absolutely correct. Shalom

Thankyou for sharing

Hats off to Becket!

There’s a trick to it. Step 1: Find all the things that happened in the past that, if they had been different, would have made our present different. (Basically everything.) Step 2: Claim there must be intention behind avoiding those metaphysically possible other timelines because they clearly didn’t happen. (The only way metaphysically possible alternative timelines don’t happen is an intender, right? …right?) Step 3. Call it a god.

Good science, but of course there was no plan 700 million years ago to create humans. We're not the "goal" of the universe"

Why, its Almost like there's a Plan or something.

WOW wow wow.. thank you Dr. Ross..

Thank you Becket! You give me hope for my daughter!

Ex Nilhilo in Gen 1:1 is not grammatically supported in the Hebrew. A indefinite article issue. “When God began to create…”.

Is it fair to say ANE including Israelites understood a geocentric universe. The Sun and stars moved, not a rotating Earth. The Sun actually rose in the morning? The Earth was fixed. 4 pillars idea?

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Nicely done!

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I think fear is nearly as significant as prufe.

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The topography of the universe over time and how it changes nothing but our perceptions of time and distance. If dark matter changes states between a liquid and gaseous state then there would have been a time where almost all of the dark matter cooled, condensed and collapsed. This liquid state contraction could possibly have led to direct collapse black holes and galaxies. The condensing of dark matter may have also contributed to that uniformity of temperature. If the dark matter was in its liquid state then baryonic and dark matter would have been much more concentrated. This would have resulted in deeper gravity wells. The time in these gravity wells to us would seem to be moving slower to us. But due to dark matter condensing the baryonic matter would also have been cooled and rushing together. Once stars were formed and black holes became active the ratio of liquid to gaseous dark matter would have decreased over time thus affecting the evolution of particle masses. And making the gravity wells progressively shallower and larger in diameter over time. Galaxy clusters would have evaporated almost all of their liquid dark matter resulting in the shallowest part of the gravity well being near the canter of the cluster. Also part of redshift is due to the difference depth of the average gravity well at that point in time compared to now. The slope of that line would also have decreased over time. As vaporized dark matter spread further from the gravity wells the slope there would have increased (dark energy). Light red shifts as it climbs out of a gravity well. Thus the further you go back in time the more light is redshifted. This would leave everything the same with the exception of our perception that the universe is expanding. Also if a big portion of the redshift is from climbing out of a deeper gravity well then we are not looking as far into the past as we think. Phase transitioning dark matter could also answer several of the biggest questions in cosmology. Spacetime is flat but has the equivalent of topography due to the cumulative effect of gravity on the passage of light through spacetime. It is probably more due to the time portion of spacetime than the actual speed of light. Light slows down in different materials I believe that the concentration of dark matter affects the speed of light. In the Virgo cluster there is a 6 degree area that has over a hundred blueshifted galaxies most of which I believe are actually in a filament that climbs into the void behind where they appear to be. This could be the key to figuring out the distance to DM concentration ratio. The early universe was much denser and the gravity wells much deeper. Light red shifts as it climbs out of a gravity well so part of our distance and time perception is due to light climbing out of the deeper gravity wells. The cosmic web was formed by condensing dark matter across spacetime. Once stars began fusion and black holes became active the dark matter began to evaporate. Resulting in progressively shallower gravity wells since then. Redshift minus the difference in gravity well depth equals actual distance. This may be proven by over a hundred blue shifted galaxies that are located within a 6 degree area of the Virgo cluster. I believe these are in a filament rising out of the other side of the cluster into a void area. Because the filament is rising gravitationally toward a void the increasing blueshift makes these galaxies look like the are in the Virgo cluster.

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I think that particular rainbow was a special event God created to confirm and verify that the sun was coming out and the flood was going to recess.

Steve needs to learn to stop rotating in his chair. It’s very distracting when you’re on video.

Thank you, very interesting.

I must be frank with one thing here. Amongst other saints, I always hear the phrase, "a Christian view," or "Christian world view." This is false. We in Christ have no world view or Christian view! We have the truth in all things by Jesus' word! We ought never to use these phrases, because they positively infer just one view amongst others. They are most certainly not! It is not a view, but Christ's truth! All others are in error. Please do not use these phrases any longer. It brings Christ down to just another "OK" along with the rest, and it's really moral relativism. When He was here He never spoke this way, but "because I tell you the truth (not His view) you seek to kill me." For the truths sake, Lord Jesus!

Thank you both for the compassionate and thorough approach to this emotional topic. Would love for you to make another episode on it and include DSD. So far I think DSD is a physical issue, whereas transgenderism is more a psychological issue but some might claim it has physical reasons, too.

Ah yes, the guy who blames youth depression on cell phones and Tik Tok for making young women think they are transgender. (which is ironically the opposite of those who blame it for making young women act too sexy) Do cellphones increase the discussed suicide risk for young people; or is it a cell phone in the hands of their peers from religious conservative homes who bully/attack those in school who are different or perhaps gay. I guess they're being bullied by other LGBQT kids in Willing's world? It's always the white males with no background in history who want to take us back to an earlier time when life was groovy . . . for white males. For instance here is a passage by Zach Rausch in a work that Willing endorsed in his essay "The Anxious Generation: "Building on the country’s long-standing associational spirit, which Alexis de Tocqueville had praised in the 1830s, the extensive civic cooperation and institutional trust developed in the Progressive Era, and solidarity spurred by the attack on Pearl Harbor and the four-year national struggle against Germany and Japan, Americans had extraordinarily high levels of social capital in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. Civic groups, voluntary associations, and interfamily networks thrived in this era, giving Americans a strong sense of belonging as well as an abundance of place-based community networks." That's an America which existed only on television of course, because in the real America of that time non-white males couldn't work, vote or live where/when they wanted to. In fact many Christian churches were whites only and many others had separate seating sections for non-whites. Country clubs automatically excluded Jews and women as a matter or course. Hispanics were completely invisible in American society. Did you know that the Chinese exclusion acts were not repealed until 1943 and then only for symbolic reasons when there was no chance of actual Chinese immigrants arriving here. Being gay was not only disparaged but actually illegal since it wasn't until Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) that laws against sodomy between consenting adults were finally ruled unconstitutional. How many know that all contraceptives were illegal in the US until Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 (a decision that many, many, evangelical Christians have called to reverse, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last year) One of these days, it would be interesting to see RTB have an actual historian discussing changes in American society, if they are to be blamed for all the ills of our world today.

Thank you Very much Dr. Ross

It is true that it's not just a theological issue. Even Richard Dawkins thinks that the current "affirmative" fad is crazy.

Doesn't matter. Rom 3/23. ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ALL, Everyone. Period. That's why Jesus came for ALL/EVERYONE.