The Seven Series with Gregg Davidson
Welcome to The Seven Series Podcast, where we tap into the Biblical number of perfection in creative ways to explore theology, science, and culture. Your host, Dr. Gregg Davidson, along with various guests, provides insights into the Biblical theology, the intersection of the Bible with science, American culture wars and influencers, and political intrigue. Topical links with the podcast title may be on the symbolic use of 7 in the Bible, or a series of 7 episodes, people, examples, points, or minutes. Wait and see how creative we get!
Episodes
35 episodes
Ep 34 - Planetary Rovers and Martian Geology, with Dr. Roger Weins
Final episode in the 7-part mini-series Designed for Discovery!The creation has not just been designed to explore the history of our planet, but others as well. In this episode, I am joined by Planetary Scientist Dr. Roger Weins to talk ...
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Ep 33 - Dinosaurs and Birds!, with Dr. Mary Schweitzer
Mary Schweitzer is best know for the discovery of surviving organic tissues in 65 million year old dinosaur fossils. Her story is fascinating, for she started her educational journey as a young earth creationist intent on disproving evolution, ...
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Ep 32 - Evolution of Whales, with Dr. Ryan Bebej
Whales and hippos share a common terrestrial ancestor? And we can tell that how? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Ryan Bebej about the story of discovery of whale evolution from a four-legged land ancestor. The conversation takes us...
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Ep 31 - Discovery of Moving Continents
This episode continues the Designed for Discover series, but shifting from evidence of intentionality in creation to stories illustrating how creation is designed to allow discovery of earth's ancient past - long before human eyes were around t...
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Ep 30 - A Special Place in the Cosmos, with Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez
The universe is not only finely tuned for life to exist (see Ep 29), but our unique position in the solar system and galaxy also appears intentionally crafted for scientific exploration and discovery. Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Pr...
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Ep 29 - Fine Tuning of the Universe, with Dr. Luke Barnes
Multiple physical properties turn out to require incredibly precise values for stars, planets, and life to exist. I am particularly intrigued by how weirdly easy it is for stars to produce carbon, an atom that turns out to have no equal in its ...
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Ep 28 - Water: Weird and Wonderful
New series: Designed for Discovery! Our universe has the hallmarks of being intentionally fashioned with exploration and discovery in mind, allowing scientific methods to be applied to discover ancient earth history (before any humans were arou...
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Ep 27 - Heresy of Ham, with author Joel Anderson
In the 7th and final episode in the mini-series on Questions of Creation, I am joined by author Dr. Joel Edmond Anderson to discuss his newly revised book, The Heresy of Ham. Joel shares his story of loss of employment and severed relationships...
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Ep 26 - Young Earth Tactics: Part 2
Young Earth arguments often sound very convincing, though too often because critical information is left out, opposing arguments are misrepresented, quotes are taken out of context, or claims are made that simply not true. In Friend of Scie...
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Ep 25 - Young Earth Tactics: Part 1
Young Earth arguments often sound very convincing, though too often because critical information is left out, opposing arguments are misrepresented, quotes are taken out of context, or claims are made that simply not true. In Friend o...
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Ep 24 - Intelligent Design: New, And Not Improved
In this episode of the Questions of Creation series, I discuss how the definition of Intelligent Design (ID) has changed over the last few decades, in ways that are not an improvement over the original formulation. Modern ID has attempted to ta...
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Ep 23 - Does the Bible Predict Scientific Discoveries?
In an effort to defend the Bible as teaching accurate science, many claim it contains descriptions of nature that preceded scientific discovery by thousands of years. Examples include the hydrologic cycle, ocean floor topography and currents, a...
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Ep 22 - What happened to nature when humans sinned? with guest Dr. Jon Garvey
In the second episode in the series Question of Creation, I am joined by British doctor and author Jon Garvey, to discuss his book God's Good Earth, The Case for an Unfallen Creation. What started as a personal quest to understand historical an...
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Ep 21 - Questions of Creation: Death Before Sin?
This next series revisits the subject of creation, addressing questions or claims raised by young earth and intelligent design advocates. Episodes will address questions of death before sin, what happened to nature after Eden, are there things ...
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Episode 21
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Promo for next 7 episodes, Questions of Creation
The next series is a return to the subject of origins, with a focus on questions and issues related to the biblical creations story. We will explore questions such as How is nature addressed throughout the Bible? Could death have predated sin? ...
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Ep 20 - Is the Bible misogynistic? with Dr. Sandra Richter
Critics of the Bible often mock its supposed morality with claims that Old Testament law says a raped women has to marry her rapist. Does the Bible really place that little value on the human dignity of women?In the 7th and final episod...
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Ep 19 - The Challenge of Raising Boys, with Nick Dotti
We live at a time in American society when normal male behavior is considered toxic, and healthy differences between men and women increasingly erased. I am joined in this episode by Nick Dotti - retired special forces Lt. Col. turned camp dire...
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Ep 18 - What is a Woman?, with Dr. Katie McCoy
It is a remarkable sign of the times that one of the most controversial subjects is the definition of a woman or of a man. When Justice Kendaji Brown Jackson was asked to define a woman, she deferred saying she "was not a biologist." Ironically...
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Ep 17 - Richard Dawkins Indentifies as a "Cultural Christian"?
In an April 1, 2024, interview with LBC, Richard Dawkins self-identified as a "Cultural Christian," even lamenting the loss of some of the trappings of Christianity - all while disavowing belief in Christianity itself. There is much to this tha...
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Ep 16 - The Bible and Immigration, with Melvin Manickavasagam
The prompt for this episode is the mass migration across the American southern border, though perhaps with a more nuanced conclusion than you are accustomed to. My co-host for this conversation is Melvin Manickavasagm, an immigrant from Malaysi...
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Ep 15 - Navigating Professional Hostility to Faith
Most likely think that a scientist speaking on the intersection of science and faith is a "one-way street" - science delivered to the church. Do such speakers ever aim their message back to their secular colleagues? More often than ...
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Episode 15
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Ep 14 - Science and the Bible: Evidence for Evolution?
We often hear claims that evolution is "just a theory" and lacks any real evidence. In this episode, I am joined by biologist Dr. Joel Duff of the University of Akron talking about what we should expect to see in the fossil record for a o...
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Episode 14
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Ep 13 - Science and the Bible: Evidence of Earth Age
This episode is the first in the series to consider the strength of scientific evidence - in this case for the age of the earth. I am joined by my friend and fellow geologist, Ken Wolgemuth, to discuss four common myths or misunderstandings of ...
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Ep 12 - Science and the Bible - Is There Inherent Conflict? (Part 2)
We continue with asking if modern scientific understanding, particularly as it relates to origins, is inherently in conflict with the biblical creation account. Part 2 dives into human origins - whether Adam and Eve were speciall...
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Episode 12
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Ep 11 - Science and the Bible: Is There Inherent Conflict? (Part 1)
In this episode, we ask if modern scientific understanding, particularly as it relates to origins, is inherently in conflict with the biblical creation account. Part 1 considers the beginning of everything, the origin of plants and animals, dea...
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