Public review draft

Evidence-first critiques of apologetics episodes.

This site is a public critique layer over separated private transcript corpora. It evaluates claims by asking whether confidence remains proportionate to the relevant evidence.

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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl and STR

The five most recent public critiques from the Stand to Reason corpus. Full transcripts remain in the separated private podcast assets.

July 31, 2026

Does Age Always Match the Appearance of Age?

This episode is strongest when it treats creation chronology as an evidential and interpretive question rather than a test of divine power. It is weakest when introspective privacy…

July 29, 2026

Find a Good Bible Translation and Stick with It

This episode mixes practical Bible-use advice, call-in ethical tactics, end-times and afterlife speculation, Israel hermeneutics, and a non-biblical argument for survival after death. The…

July 24, 2026

Questions for Someone Who Casually Refers to Karma

This episode is strongest when Greg uses questions to slow down casual metaphysical claims, especially around karma and LDS authority. It is weakest when the same burden-of-proof discipline…

July 22, 2026

What About Baptism for the Dead?

This episode is at its strongest when Koukl tells listeners not to build a doctrine from one vague verse and admits uncertainty about baptism for the dead. It is at its weakest when that…

July 17, 2026

Inclusivism Gives People False Hope

Koukl’s episode is strongest when it distinguishes trust from ignorance and when it warns against empty religious self-labeling. It is weakest when it converts internal Protestant exegesis…

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Frank Turek

The five most recent public critiques from the CrossExamined corpus, rendered through the same critique workflow and display system.

July 31, 2026

3 BIG Reasons Why Every Christian Should Care About Israel + Immigration with John Ferrer & Jason Jimenez

This episode mixes defensible pastoral concerns about Jewish safety, Hamas violence, and immigration order with much stronger theological, historical, and policy conclusions than the…

July 28, 2026

Is America on Stolen Land? Debunking More Historical Myths with Tim Barton

This episode argues that America’s founding, normative authority, constitutional compromises, Christian identity, and land history are badly misrepresented by secular historical…

July 24, 2026

Rewriting History – Debunking the Lies You’ve Always Been Told About America with Tim Barton

This episode offers a patriotic counter-history framed as a correction to anti-American revisionism. Some cautions survive: slogans about founders, slavery, and Columbus can be simplistic…

July 21, 2026

Anything But Christianity? Answering College Students’ Toughest Objections with Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle

This episode tries to answer campus objections by combining biblical-context arguments, social-benefit claims, ethical apologetics, an argument from reason, and resurrection apologetics.…

July 17, 2026

How to Demolish Your Christian Doubts with Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle

This episode is strongest when it admits that doubt can be useful and that Christian certainty is not mathematical proof. It is weakest when it treats campus anecdotes, ethical discomfort…