That's So Second Millennium

This ended up being an emergency episode Paul recorded solo, since Zencastr ate all but a few minutes at the beginning of each recording. There seem to be serious problems with Zencastr since Paul’s MacBook died and he had to resurrect his Windows laptop.   The Big Bang; cosmology seems to require a beginning, uncaused cause Problems of mind; intellect / qualia, possibility of free will. There is no materialist explanation of human intellect, only assertions of dogma and crude shufflings of the feet.   Ongoing occurrence of miracles, Lourdes medical board, Fatima, Shroud of Turin; Bob Schuchts There are far too many miracles and supernatural phenomena that defy materialist explanation: Eucharistic miracles, healings at Lourdes and elsewhere, Fatima, demonic possession… The testimony of the first Christian disciples requires absolutely crazy explanations that themselves defy our best science even if we reject the idea that Jesus rose from the dead. The continuing existence and expansion of the Church