What if the universe has a designer who never walked away from His creation? In this episode of Faith and Science, host Kaysie Vokurka and Dr. John Ashton explore chapter 13 of The Big Argument: Does God Exist?, “Who Is God and What Is He Like?” by Stephen Thompson. They look at how the Bible’s picture of a Creator both above and involved in the world supports a biblical worldview, and at the evidence for God found in the laws of nature and in eyewitness accounts of miracles.

Dr. John Ashton is the author of The Big Argument and a scientist who examines the origins debate through evidence. Many people assume that science demands a purely naturalistic explanation, and that a God who cannot be put in a lab experiment is not worth taking seriously. Dr. Ashton unpacks the difference between God’s transcendence and immanence and explains why the demand to test God experimentally confuses science with scientism, given the large body of reported supernatural events. He concludes that the origin of the universe and its laws, together with a mind able to understand them, points to a personal Creator who is a “Who,” not a “what.”

In this episode, you will hear:
• Why the Bible’s Creator is entirely outside the universe, unlike the snake, turtle, or Greek gods of other religions, yet still seeks a relationship with us
• The “scratching versus knocking at the door” illustration: a “what” versus a “who”
• How miracles witnessed by a whole nation, such as the Red Sea crossing and the stones piled up after the Jordan crossing, were preserved as memorials
• Why Stephen Hawking’s appeal to gravity leaves a question unanswered: who made gravity, and where do the laws of nature come from?

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What if the universe isn’t morally neutral, and our deep sense of right and wrong points to something built into creation itself? In this episode of Faith and Science, host Kaysie Voklurka explores chapter 13 of The Big Argument: Does God Exist?, where God is portrayed as both lawgiver and judge. It’s a thoughtful look at evidence for God through the universal human longing for justice, a conversation in Christian apologetics that challenges the idea that truth is whatever we vote it to be, and a clear picture of a biblical worldview with a moral center.

Dr. John Ashton takes on the postmodern claim that truth is relative to the individual, along with the evolutionary assumption that the universe is morally neutral. Drawing on chapter 13, he examines our shared sense that some acts are plainly evil, the Bible’s portrait of a judge with complete knowledge and no bias, and well-known cases of flawed or fraudulent evidence used to support evolution. His conclusion is that the moral law written within us points to a Creator who made humanity in His image and will one day judge with perfect fairness.

In this episode, you will hear:
• Why almost everyone recognizes atrocities like the Holocaust and the Pol Pot regime as wrong, and where that moral sense comes from
• How Piltdown Man and Haeckel’s drawings show what happens when truth is treated as a matter of consensus
• Why scientists writing in Scientific American on the evidence for inflation theory argued that truth isn’t found by “counting noses,” and why there is still no known chemical explanation for how non-living matter becomes life
• How a judge with complete knowledge and zero bias offers hope for victims of injustice who never saw accountability

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When life falls apart, where is God, and does the oldest book in the Bible have any answers? In this episode of Faith and Science, host Kaysie Vokurka explores the Book of Job and the problem of evil, asking why the best answer to pain is sometimes a relationship rather than a reason. It’s a thoughtful look at suffering through a biblical worldview, with evidence for God drawn from what science still can’t explain, and a practical example of Christian apologetics for anyone wrestling with doubt.

Dr. John Ashton, author of The Big Argument: Does God Exist?, takes on the common claim that the existence of suffering and evil disproves a loving Creator. Drawing on chapter 12 of his book, he walks through the story of Job, including the heavenly challenge over whether love can be genuine rather than bought, and God’s response of pointing Job to the wonders of creation. His conclusion is that the unsolved mysteries of life’s origin and the universe’s formation point to a Creator who is worthy of our trust, even when we don’t have all the answers.

In this episode, you will hear:

- Why Satan’s challenge in Job raises the question of whether love can be bought, and what it means for God’s judgment of character
- The true story of a husband at Julian Rocks, Byron Bay, who paddled between a great white shark and his wife on their honeymoon
- A young doctor in Virginia who, while dying, urged her attacker to accept Jesus, and what Dr. Ashton makes of “why her?”
- How God’s questions to Job (“Were you there when I created snow?”) echo today’s unanswered science on the origin of life and the universe

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