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Macrophage Strategy

Macrophage Strategy

By Ben Kissling

Macrophage Strategy is a new podcast about the intersection of science and theology, along with whatever other topics are bouncing around in Macrophage's brain at any given time. Macrophages don't actually have brains. This sounded better in his head, which he doesn't have. What he does have is a strategy for eliminating dangerous foreign pathogens from the body of Christ.

If you would like to bounce something around in Macrophage's head, email him at: macrophagestrategy@gmail.com
Follow him on Twitter: twitter.com/BenKissling
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Ep. 1 - To Russia With Love

Macrophage StrategyMar 22, 2022

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Ep. 11 - Response to Gavin Ortlund

Ep. 11 - Response to Gavin Ortlund

Macrophage lazily rips the audio from a couple of Youtube videos from several months ago to generate fresh content...depending on your definition of "fresh." Gavin Ortlund did a couple videos criticizing YEC, and fun was had by all. Also included in the links are a few subsequent videos in the potentially ongoing saga.


1.) Ken Ham's interview with Allie Beth Stuckey, Part 1: https://youtu.be/U6Jd1SK5Ahk?si=HE7CoJeE_FbW0LhL

Part 2: https://youtu.be/Mt_IsyqhyAs?si=sOgVN2uMbxRzUci1


2.) Gavin Ortlund's response to Ken Ham: https://youtu.be/FL9t3O-1E7w?si=j3ZHzUwcPlZvYpe8


3.) My first response: https://youtu.be/Xqc7-9Wl1jU?si=rUHxd0xfP_HqgpCB


4.) Ortlund's second video: https://youtu.be/95B-NrAmS_U?si=LM_S363vA1Oluzxp


5.) My second response: https://youtu.be/NpIP1Q78-Zg?si=9xBPoShwLTzygIEB


6.) My appearance on Think Institute w/ ApoloJedi: https://youtu.be/tDVN03JSRVA?si=blUlDo2bDbSAUo85


7.) Ortlund's local flood video: https://youtu.be/Rq5tUg4SWzs?si=npTyLTbNC88PT_Fx


8.) Think Institute w/ ApoloJedi responds: https://youtu.be/boxdby6ppaE?si=_QIeS27i5vrz3KrA


9.) My reaction to Alex O'Connor's attempt to debunk Genesis just for fun: https://youtu.be/fhJvYMxYBxg?si=IvpVmJZlGtBKX63r

Feb 16, 202401:02:52
5MB - The Truth About Islam
Jan 15, 202414:04
Ep. 10 - Interview: FandomFighter (Archie)
Aug 03, 202301:30:48
Ep. 9 - Interview: ApoloJedi on the Local Flood and Hugh Ross

Ep. 9 - Interview: ApoloJedi on the Local Flood and Hugh Ross

Macrophage considers stealing ApoloJedi's Twitter handle, but thinks better of it after learning of his Star Wars heresy. Oh, and something about a flood and days and stuff.

Links:

1) ApoloJedi's site: https://apolojedi.com/

2) Noah's Flood: Global or Local? Video by Michael Jones AKA Inspiring Philosophy: https://youtu.be/Q07gxxbggJs

3) ApoloJedi's Review of A Matter of Days by Hugh Ross: https://apolojedi.com/2020/01/02/a-matter-of-days/

4) ApoloJedi's appearance on Curious Christianity: https://youtu.be/5nKCv4shoQQ

5) My appearance on Curious Christianity: https://youtu.be/1lfq0v0k96A

6) My recent appearance on Fuzzy Logic: https://www.youtube.com/live/R5hZqLFANJE?feature=share


Jun 02, 202301:12:23
4MB - 4 Responses to Other Shows
May 08, 202321:03
Ep. 8 - Interview: Winston Ewert, ID Troublemaker

Ep. 8 - Interview: Winston Ewert, ID Troublemaker

Macrophage wonders about the software modules in his DNA, so he asks the discoverer of the dependency graph of life and troublemaker extraordinaire Winston Ewert.


Links:

1) Dependency Graph of Life paper: https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArticle/BIO-C.2018.3

2) Related resources: https://dependencygraph.org/

3) The Design Inference by William Dembski: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Inference-Eliminating-Probabilities-Probability-ebook/dp/B00INYG5NG?ref_=ast_author_dp

4) The Evolutionary Informatics Lab (Look under "Publications" for some of Ewert's papers discussed in the interview): https://evoinfo.org/

Mar 30, 202331:08
Ep. 7 - Progressive Creation's Love Triangle with YEC and ID

Ep. 7 - Progressive Creation's Love Triangle with YEC and ID

Macrophage sets everyone's relationship status to: It's complicated.

Links:

1.) My 2nd appearance on Current Topics in Science with Christopher Sernaque: https://youtu.be/erHwR2lLrc0

2.) My appearance on Conversations with Strangers with Micah Loughman: https://youtu.be/vMaP99801JE

3.) My appearance on Still Unbelievable:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mSjdiEcCwTDi0cGUpyh6W?si=203688590c834a46

4.) My appearance on the Non-Sequitur Show with Steve McRae: https://www.youtube.com/live/8v-kefk48CI?feature=share

5.) Jeanson and Lisle’s CHNP paper: https://answersresearchjournal.org/origin-eukaryotic-species-diversity/

6.) Guliuzza and ICR on the CET model: https://www.icr.org/CET/

7.) Evangelical Theological Society panel discussion of In Quest of the Historical Adam by Craig: PART ONE: https://youtu.be/TsRTMbasD5c, PART TWO: https://youtu.be/TtaGdOWAyH8, PART THREE: https://youtu.be/xZWv-GzVTdw

8.) Hans Madueme on Let’s Talk Creation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6efZngYNjQ6SdwBgif00ku?si=4cdb7c9a82d84bcb

9.) Madueme’s TGC review: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/quest-historical-adam/

10.) Richard Buggs on population bottlenecks: blog post: https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/22075-adam-and-eve-a-tested-hypothesis?channel_id=522-journal-club , forum post: https://discourse.biologos.org/t/adam-eve-and-population-genetics-a-reply-to-dr-richard-buggs-part-1/37039/592

11.) Rob Carter on the population bottleneck at the Flood: https://creation.com/effective-population-sizes-flood-bottleneck

Mar 17, 202301:03:55
3MB - Evolution at the Movies: Where the Crawdads Sing

3MB - Evolution at the Movies: Where the Crawdads Sing

Macrophage reviews a movie, and a culture, all about people behaving like animals. 

Jan 16, 202315:23
2 Macrobytes - Kanye West Brings Something to the Table
Dec 02, 202209:37
1 Macrobyte - John Lennox Lies About Intellectual History

1 Macrobyte - John Lennox Lies About Intellectual History

Macrophage bytes another common historical lie recently regurgitated by John Lennox. 


1. Lennox lying at the Veritas Forum:  https://youtu.be/S26Dq3Uu6nM 

2. My youtube video dealing with this in more depth: https://youtu.be/Jw-iBixJAeY

Nov 30, 202207:10
Ep. 6 - Book Review: In Quest of the Historical Adam by William Lane Craig

Ep. 6 - Book Review: In Quest of the Historical Adam by William Lane Craig

Macrophage goes toe to toe with the tenth most influential philosopher of whatever and comes out on top. 

Links:

1) My
youtube series on William Lane Craig and Genesis: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIOw3HaBd7hlJBXKLnFJEO39-pCWngeVc

2) My written review of the book: https://creation.com/historical-adam-craig

3) The book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZSN6BY4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i7 

4) My appearance on Current Topics in Science: https://youtu.be/ONcXZ4l7-AM 

5) Craig's Sunday school series Defenders 3: Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/podcasts/defenders-podcast-series-3/excursus-on-creation-of-life-and-biological-diversity 

6) Craig's Question of the Week #605:  https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/hermeneutical-vs-scientific-young-earth-creationism

7) Jason Lisle's article on confirmed YEC predictions from the James Webb Space Telescope:  https://biblicalscienceinstitute.com/origins/creation-cosmology-confirmed/

8) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on scientific realism:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/

9) Rob Carter's podcast on the Creation Research Society's meeting:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/4d2hcRTXLA6uFEo4W8z0z2?si=203c95c853e64ec6 

10) Let's Talk Creation podcast on the book, part two with Marcus Ross:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cSfU2RPmRsZ8VM93DLDbA?si=f6a5a1873a174946

11) Michael Murray and John Churchill's paper Mere Theistic Evolution:  https://peacefulscience.org/prints/mere-theistic-evolution/

12) Craig's paper responding to MTE: https://peacefulscience.org/prints/ets-wlc-mte/

13) Lisle's debate with Hugh Ross on the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention: https://youtu.be/L1VU7kw04Os

Sep 12, 202201:35:20
Ep. 5 - It's Free Will, Jordan Peterson
May 31, 202251:27
Ep. 4 - Early Christians and the Age of the Earth

Ep. 4 - Early Christians and the Age of the Earth

Macrophage eats a common misconception about when young earth creationism came on the scene and what ancient Christians really believed about the age of the earth, the days of creation, and the relationship between science and the Bible. 

References in the order of appearance:

Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book III, Chapter XXVIII, Leading Chronological Epochs, ~180 A.D.

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/theophilus-book3.html

Julius Africanus, Chronography, Fragment 18:4, 221 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0614.htm

Origen, Contra Celsum, Book I, Chapter XIX, 248 A.D. https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/origen161.html

St. Augustine, City of God, Book XII, chapter 10, "Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World's Past", 426 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120112.htm

Johannes Kepler, Book V, The Harmony of the World, 1619 A.D.

Hippolytus of Rome, Fragments, On Daniel II:4-6, ~ 205 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0502.htm

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 5, Chapter XXVIII:3 ~ 180 A.D. https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/irenaeus-book5.html

Basil, Hexaemeron, Homily II:8 , ~370 A.D. (commentary on Gen. 1:5) https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/32012.htm

Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, 1.19.39, Taylor, J.H., translation and annotation of St Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis(Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram), Vol. 1, Newman/Paulist Press, New York, 1982. 

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book II, Chapter II, The World Was Not Formed by Angels, or by Any Other Being, Contrary to the Will of the Most High God, But Was Made by the Father Through the Word, Part 5, ~180 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103202.htm

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book II, Chapter XXVIII, Perfect Knowledge Cannot Be Attained in the Present Life: Many Questions Must Be Submissively Left in the Hands of God, Part 2,~180 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103228.htm 

May 17, 202246:49
Ep. 3 - Movie Review: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

Ep. 3 - Movie Review: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

Macrophage reviews the new movie Everything, Everywhere, All At Once and also explains why he thinks studying art from opposing worldviews is helpful. 

Apr 24, 202256:43
Ep. 2 - Four Reasons to be YEC

Ep. 2 - Four Reasons to be YEC

Macrophage gives four macroreasons to be a young earth creationist. 

Apr 10, 202237:05
Ep. 1 - To Russia With Love

Ep. 1 - To Russia With Love

Episode 1 ends up being a rare foray into foreign policy and global affairs due to current events surrounding Russia and Ukraine, but it still ends up being all about identity which is what's at stake in the origins debate. Come listen to Macrophage make every political pundit mad and every normal person sad. 


SHOW NOTES:


Kevin D Williamson's articles:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/a-problem-like-putin/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/are-we-at-war/


Duff Cooper's resignation speech:

https://speakola.com/political/duff-cooper-against-appeasement-hitler-1938

Mar 22, 202249:30
Intro - What's a Macrophage?

Intro - What's a Macrophage?

Introduction to the new podcast Macrophage Strategy. (The name has been changed to protect the guilty.) Macrophage explains the meaning behind the name, the topic(s) of the pod, life, the universe, and everything.

Mar 05, 202218:57