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The dumpster fire heats up on this special edition show...Trevor Valle, renowned paleontologist and regular on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, joins us to hear the reasons and evidence that dinosaurs never existed from a representative of Christians Against Dinosaurs and former guest and atheist Joe of Virtual Maya.Support The NonSequitur Show

The criminal justice system involves a broad array of interactions and processes, including: policing and arrest, bail and pre-trial detention, legal representation, plea bargains and (sometimes) jury trials, sentencing, juvenile detention, incarceration (including any rehabilitation programs, mental health treatment, and so on), re-entry support (or lack thereof), court fees and fines, and probation and parole. You can probably think of others. Almost all of these aspects of the system could be improved, and it’s a bit overwhelming to think about how inefficiencies and injustices accumulate from one step to the next. There is one theme connecting all of the problems in the criminal justice system: a lack of attention to research evidence in policy-making and practice. Too often, the research we need to guide policy simply does not exist: the relevant data either aren’t collected or aren’t shared (even across departments within a city!), or programs are implemented in a way that makes rigorous evaluation impossible (for instance, cherry-picking participants based on their likelihood of success, or implementing a program city-wide all at once instead of rolling it out more gradually). Other policy areas, such as education, are years ahead of the criminal justice system in this regard.Support The NonSequitur Show

The guys from the What The iF? Podcast joins us to engage in a thought experiment pretending to live on a flat earth. Matt is a professor at NYU and Phillip is a documentary filmmaker and former NASA intern. If youre wondering what that would be like in reality, just imagine sun holes, sideways volcanoes, angled trees and looping waterfalls... Check out their awesome podcast: http://whattheif.com/episodesSupport The NonSequitur Show

Dr. Traylor is the Chief Scientist and cofounder of The Math Citadel, a private mathematics research firm. She has previously worked as a research scientist for Dell EMC, as a quality control analyst for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, and a university lecturer at various universities. She has a PhD in Mathematics from University of Texas at Arlington, specializing in stochastic analysis and probability theory; a MS Statistics and BS Applied Mathematics, both from Georgia Tech. Her research interests are mainly in probability theory, but she'll wander anywhere in mathematics except category theory. Dr. Traylor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mathpocalypse Landon Curt Noll is an astronomer, mathematician, and american computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th which he discovered in High School and holds 8 mathematical world records and was vice-mayor of Sunnyvale California.Special Guests: Dr. Rachel Traylor and Landon Curt Noll.Support The NonSequitur Show

David Smalley of Podcast One’s “Dogma Debate” is taking on The Artist Formally Known As Christian Anarchist in a discussion on the problem of evil.Support The NonSequitur Show

Ever wondered about the story of King James and his decision to translate the Bible that would lead to Christians Against Christians and forever change humanity? Wonder no longer. Viewer favorite Dr. Misha Griffith’s other half, Jerry, joins the show to turn all those “thou, thee and shalts” into “why, who and whens.” Jerry's YouTube channel "Useless History": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClLsZdR_9NQ7c2SnkjZ6AuASupport The NonSequitur Show

Tim O’Neill is the author of several bodies of work, most notably his blog HistoryforAtheists.com which is dedicated to correcting many misconceptions often used in atheist argumentation. The following is taken from the About the Author page on the above website. “I am an atheist, sceptic and rationalist who is a subscribing member of the Atheist Foundation of Australia and a former state president of the Australian Skeptics. I have contributed to many atheism and scepticism fora over the years and have a posting record as a rationalist that goes back to at least 1992. I have a Bachelors Degree with Honours in English and History and a research Masters Degree from the University of Tasmania, with a specialisation in historicist analysis of medieval literature. As a rationalist, I believe strongly that people should do all they can to put emotion, wishful thinking and ideology aside when examining any subject and that they should acquaint themselves as thoroughly as possible with the relevant scholarship and take account of any consensus of experts in any field before taking a position. Which is why I began this blog in October 2015. After over ten years of seeing supposed “rationalists”, most of them with no background in or even knowledge of history, using patent pseudo history as the basis for arguments against and attacks on religion, I felt someone needed to start correcting the popular misconceptions about history which are rife among many vocal atheist activists. I also felt there needed to be some push-back by a fellow unbeliever against several fringe theories and hopelessly outdated ideas which have no credibility among professional scholars and specialists, but which seem to be accepted almost without question by many or even most anti-theistic atheists. “History for Atheists” has grown out of these convictions. In the years since I began this blog I have won a number of fans and supporters, but also gained a few detractors and hecklers. That’s the nature of the rough and tumble of the internet. If this is your first visit here I would ask you to try to put assumptions, a priori positions, and emotional preferences to one side and look objectively at the evidence and arguments I present. If we preach objectivity and dispassionate, well-informed rational analysis to others, we need to be prepared to practice these things ourselves. And remember that it’s usually only by discovering we have been mistaken about something that we can learn something new. “Support The NonSequitur Show

Ask a Satanist: With Darren Deicide from the Church of Satan. Link to Church of Satan: http://news.churchofsatan.com/post/173515501467/darren-deicide-interviewed-on-the-nonsequitur-showSupport The NonSequitur Show

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Today we are going to be talking about social justice and intersectionality…two really broad topics, I know, but let’s just kick this off with a little summary of what these things are. Social justice issues are divided into two broad categories: • inter-social treatment (so how we treat each other) and • unequal government regulations (how the government applies laws to people). Inter-social treatment can be based on a variety of factors: race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, education, economic status, or mental or physical ability. The unequal government regulation category deals with how the government uses these factors to create conditions that obstruct, limit, or deny groups access to the same opportunities and resources, relative to the rest of society. This type of regulation can lead to intentional and unintentional social injustice. Some examples of these areas are voting law, policing, environmental laws, healthcare regulation, education, and labor laws. Intersectionality is a framework that attempts to analyze the interconnected nature of social categorizations like race, gender, age, sexual orientation, etc., how they overlap to describe interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage for more complex social categories, and how those are impacted through unequal government regulation. So, for example, it seeks to explain how the experiences of a gay, white, non-religious woman from a poor family differ from that of a straight, black, Christian man from a middle class family and shows how the social and legal system impacts them or is applied to them differently so that we, as a society, can better pinpoint our problem points and fix them more effectively. These are fairly complex topics and breaking them down into a quick summary hardly does them justiceSupport The NonSequitur Show

A debate featuring Matt Dillahunty and Inspiring Philosophy's Michael Jones on the question "Is religion a positive influence on society?" Matt Dillahunty is an American public speaker and Internet personality. He was the president of the Atheist Community of Austin from 2006 to 2013. Matt has hosted the Austin-based webcast and cable-access television show The Atheist Experience since 2005 and formerly hosted the live internet radio show Non-Prophets Radio. He is also the founder and contributor of the counter apologetics encyclopedia Iron Chariots and its subsidiary sites. ​ He is regularly engaged in formal debates and travels the world speaking to local secular organizations and university groups as part of the Secular Student Alliance's Speakers Bureau. Alongside fellow activists Seth Andrews and Aron Ra, he traveled to Australia in March 2015 as a member of the Unholy Trinity Tour. In April 2015 he was an invited speaker at the Merseyside Skeptics Society QEDCon in the United Kingdom. ​ More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_DillahuntySpecial Guest: Matt Dillahunty.Support The NonSequitur Show

Rev. Stephanie Clarke started the first multi-racial, metaphysical, community in Johannesburg in the year 2000 with the intention of healing the wounds of Apartheid. It was totally successful but, as a one-woman show, I burnt out and left S. Africa. From 2005-2015 I taught and marketed English language programmes in Europe and Japan until Spirit called me back to S. Africa to take care of my elderly parents. That was in 2015. I am delighted to be home and to be back in the spiritual saddle. I regularly offer the Sunday talks at Soul Home and enjoy giving my support to Rev. Gerd Pontow, my student and successor, and our amazing rainbow community, so deeply anchored in unconditional love. It is truly a prototype for what is possible in South Africa. Learn more here: www.soulhome.za.orgSupport The NonSequitur Show

A Live stream with Dr. Richard Carrier and Dr. Kenny Rhodes on the Evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ. Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of secular naturalism. His books and articles have received international attention. With a Ph.D. from Columbia University in ancient history, he specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, with emphasis on the origins of Christianity and the use and progress of science under the Roman empire. He is also a published expert in the modern philosophy of naturalism as a worldview. He is the author of On the Historicity of Jesus, Proving History, Sense and Goodness without God, Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Not the Impossible Faith, Why I Am Not a Christian, and Hitler Homer Bible Christ, and a contributor to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, The End of Christianity, and Christianity Is Not Great, as well as copious work in history and philosophy, online and in print. He is currently working on several projects, but also teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology at The Secular Academy, and blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, feminism, and other moral causes, as well as his past in the military and his current life in polyamory. Dr. Kenneth W. Rhodes, II is Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Scofield Graduate School and Theological Seminary in Modesto, California. Dr. Rhodes (Pastor Kenny) also serves as the founding President of Scofield Seminary with Dr. Mal Couch serving as Vice-President. Pastor Kenny is Sr. Pastor of Mable Avenue Ministries, a ministry that oversees a number of church plants, para-church ministries and educational institutes around the world. Dr. Rhodes is also the Host and Bible Teacher for the "Reason for Hope" TV program that airs locally in Modesto, CA as well as online. He has been with M.A.M. since 2000 and is an ordained SBC pastor. He has been in the ministry since 1991 and has two earned doctorates, the PhD and DRE. Pastor Kenny is married to the former Tami A Russell of Manteca, CA whose father, grandfather and great grandfather were all ministers of the Gospel. Tami and Kenny were married April 16, 1994 and have three wonderful children, Tajiana (b. 1996), Micaela (b. 1998) and Kenneth III (b. 2000). Dr. Rhodes ministry philosophy is, "the heart cannot rejoice in what the mind rejects." He is committed to ministering to both the mind and heart of man. He is committed to Christian Apologetics and giving "an answer" to everyone. He is also involved and committed to the study of Hermeneutics, Calvinistic Dispensational Theology, and Creation Science. Pastor Kenny is part of a growing number of young theologians who have embraced true reformed theology and its implications for all doctrines of Scripture namely, that God elected Israel and their election is not subject to their sin "un-electing" them. Therefore, Israel is not replaced by the Church. This "new" historical theological view has been coined "Calvinistic Evangelical Dispensationalism." It is truly in the spirit of the premillennialism of the early church fathers, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Scofield, Chafer, Ryrie, S. Lewis Johnson, and so on. Special Guests: Kenny Rhodes, Ph.D and Richard Carrier, Ph.D.Support The NonSequitur Show

In 2016 Hughes launched a failed fundraising attempt for a rocket that earned only $310. After converting to believe in a flat Earth later that year, Hughes gained support of the flat-Earth community. His post-flat-Earth fundraising campaign made its $7,875 goal. He intends to make multiple rocket journeys, culminating in a flight to outer space, where he believes he will be able to take a picture of the entire Earth as a flat disk. He claimed in November 2017 that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had given him verbal permission more than a year ago to launch his rocket, pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration; however, a BLM spokesman said its local field office had no record of speaking to Hughes at the time. According to the BLM, after seeing some news articles about the planned launch, a BLM representative reached out to Hughes with concerns. The rocket launch was originally scheduled for the weekend of 25 November 2017; Hughes then rescheduled for 2 December, blaming ongoing difficulties in obtaining permissions. Hughes moved his launch pad four miles so that he will take off and lands on private property; however, the BLM maintains he still needs to fill out permits. Hughes defiantly stated the dispute would not stop him flying: "I'm a daredevil. I'm not much for authority or rules." The untested initial rocket is intended to reach a speed of 500 mph; further rocket trips, to be launched from a balloon 20 miles up, are intended to reach above the atmosphere into outer space. Hughes acknowledged there are risks, telling the Associated Press: "It's scary as hell. But none of us are getting out of this world alive." A fundraising campaign to cover the costs of the delay raised only around 100 of its 10,000 USD goal. On 3 February 2018 Hughes live-streamed another attempted to launch in front of spectators, but the rocket failed to ignite.Special Guests: Aron Ra and “Mad Mike” Hughes.Support The NonSequitur Show

Anthony Magnabosco is a worldwide promoter and practitioner of Street Epistemology, which is a conversational method for respectfully challenging claims by asking probing questions to uncover the reliability of one’s belief formation process. He has appeared on The Thinking Atheist, The Atheist Experience, The David Pakman Show, Cognitive Dissonance, The Friendly Atheist Podcast and blog, as well as several other podcasts and shows. Anthony has inspected hundreds of people’s beliefs using this approach, frequently uploads videos of those discussions to his YouTube channel (magnabosco210), and has given several talks, interviews and workshops on the subject. Be prepared to question your own conclusions on how to effectively engage with a God believer or anyone else who happens to make a claim!Special Guest: Anthony Magnabosco.Support The NonSequitur Show