Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable? exists to encourage non-believers to explore faith and to help Christians to understand, defend and share their faith with confidence.

Presented by Ruth Jackson

Every Saturday from 6pm - 7pm

Unbelievable? 9 Jan 2010 - Bill Dembski & Norman Hansen on Natural Evil

5 Jun 2014
01:20:59

William (Bill) Dembski is an American mathematician, theologian and professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, TX.   Bill returns to defend his latest Book "The End of Christianity" -an argument defending the Christ...

Unbelievable? 26 Dec 2009 - Are the two Christmas accounts contradictory?

5 Jun 2014
01:20:04

Matthew and Luke are the two Gospel writers that include narratives of the birth of Christ.  The traditional Nativity Story is an amalgamation of the two accounts.  Critics claim the two stories do not match up.  Barrister Charles Foster wrote "...

Unbelievable? 2 Jan 2010 - Intelligent Design - William Dembski debates Lewis Wolpert

5 Jun 2014
01:20:38

One of the world's leading Intelligent Design proponents joins Justin to explain why he believes biological life exhibits "specified complexity" that runs against Darwinian evolution. William (Bill) Dembski is an American mathematician, the...

Unbelievable? 5 Dec 2009 - Dan Barker on losing faith

5 Jun 2014
01:20:45

Dan Barker was a Christian evangelist and musician for 19 years before he lost his faith.  He tells the story in his book "Godless: How an evangelical preacher became one of America's leading Atheists".  Dan is now President of the Freedom...

Unbelievable? 19 Dec 2009 - What does science tell us about God?

5 Jun 2014
01:20:18

Professor Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology at University College London.  Professor Russell Cowburn is Chair of Nanotechnology at Imperial College. Wolpert is an atheist, Cowburn a Christian. Following on from a debate at Gunnersbury B....

Unbelievable? 12 Dec 2009 - Dawkins Debate on Atheist fundemantalism

5 Jun 2014
01:20:50

Atheists Richard Dawkins, and AC Grayling recently squared up against Christians Richard Harries and Charles Moore for a debate on the motion "Atheism is the new fundamentalism". Justin Brierley reviews the debate with audio clips from the...

Unbelievable? 14 Nov 2009 - Alister McGrath interview

5 Jun 2014
01:20:13

Alister McGrath combines a background in science with a passion for theology and apologetics.  "The Dawkins Delusion" - his critique of Richard Dawkins and the New Atheism has been a bestseller. In this wide-ranging interview McGrath shares...

Unbelievable? 7 Nov 2009 - John Shelby Spong vs. Terry Boyle

5 Jun 2014
01:20:09

John Shelby Spong is one of the most influential liberal Christians in the world and advocates that Christianity needs to re-interpreted for the modern world leaving behind supernatural beliefs.  In his latest book "Eternal Life: a new vision&qu...

Unbelievable? 24 Oct 2009 - Christian conversion of Hindus

5 Jun 2014
01:21:07

In light of Premier's Faith Without Fear campaign, this discussion between Anil Bhanot and Sunil Raheja addresses the tensions that exist when Christians seek to evangelise Hindus in India. What is acceptable?  Is the response of some Hindus justifi....

Unbelievable? 31 Oct 2009 - Preterist, Dispensational and Liberal views of The return of Jesus.

5 Jun 2014
01:21:26

Matthew Chapter 24's "Olivet Discourse" records Jesus saying that his followers will see him "coming on the clouds of the sky with great glory" and that "this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened...

Unbelievable? 17 Oct 2009 - The "Evangelical Universalist" is revealed

5 Jun 2014
01:20:41

"The Evangelical Universalist" was published several years ago.  The author claimed to be an evangelical Christian who believes that everyone will ultimately be saved.  He published under a pen name, but recently revealed his true identity...

Unbelievable? 10 Oct 2009 - Jesus and the God of Israel

5 Jun 2014
01:19:39

Many have suggested that Christian belief in the divinity and worship of Jesus as God was a late development, and that Jesus' early followers did not regard him as being equal with God.  So was Jesus merely regarded as an "elevated" being? ...

Unbelievable? 18 Aug 2007 - Atheist and Christian bloggers discuss

5 Jun 2014
01:13:57

Ian Thorpe is an atheist and Jenni Hutchinson a Christian. They got chatting about faith after bumping into each other on the internet. They discuss whether the church is having a beneficial effect on society, Ian's concerns over "fundamentalism...

Unbelievable? 3 Oct 2009 - What picture of God does the Bible paint?

5 Jun 2014
01:20:20

Andrew Wilson is an author and church leader.  His book "GodStories" describes the Bible as "the gospel of God". He says the story is told in multiple ways of sins forgiven, shame removed, beauty restored, and meaning reinstated....

Unbelievable? 26 Sep 2009 - "Creation" the movie review with interviews & debate

5 Jun 2014
01:19:35

The film "Creation" is released in the UK Sep 2009.  Telling the story of how Charles Darwin came to write "On the Origin of Species" 150 years ago, the film highlights the clash of evolutionary theory and Christian belief.  The p...