Most people today think that science and philosophy are two different things. They are not. Science is a branch of philosophy. Historical Context Before the 19th century, this claim would have gone largely unchallenged. Before this time, what we now call science was known as natural philosophy—clearly understood as a branch of philosophy rather than […]
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In this episode, Jay Forrest examines the mystery of miracles and whether they are true acts of divine intervention or natural events shaped by perception and belief. From the exposed deceptions of faith‑healers to the philosophical logic of Deism, he questions why a perfect Creator would ever need to “fix” the universe He designed. Speaking
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The word atheism comes from the Greek atheos (ἄθεος), meaning “no god.” It combines the prefix a– (“no”) and theos (“god”), with the suffix -ism indicating a belief or doctrine. In its most literal sense, atheism means “the belief that there is no God or gods.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it this way:
In this episode, Jay Forrest argues for the reality of God—defined as the Impersonal Rational Ground of Being, not a supreme being but being itself—challenging atheism’s unevidenced denial while marshaling design, cosmology, natural laws, moral universality, and innate intuition as proof. Drawing from process philosophy, Aristotle, and thinkers like Dawkins, Hawking, Flew, Darwin, and Einstein,
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Voltaire once declared, “The Bible is filled with contradictions, follies, and horrors.” If God’s word were truly perfect, it would be universal, unchangeable, and flawless—qualities only nature itself possesses. Yet the Bible falls short on every count, riddled with human flaws that reveal it as a product of ancient minds, not divine perfection. Neither Perfect
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In this episode, Jay Forest unpacks Deism as a rational, individual path for the “spiritual but not religious.” He defines it as belief in a non-intervening Creator God knowable through reason and nature’s laws, contrasting it with theism’s personal divine involvement. Identifying as a Deist philosopher blending Eastern wisdom, karma, and process thought, Jay draws
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