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Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin Of Animal Life And The Case For Intelligent Design By Stephen Meyer chats with Dr. Alvin

Stephen Meyer-Darwin Doubt The Evidence That Darwin Could Not Explain Charles Darwin knew there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record 530 million years ago without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life and makes a compelling case for the theory of intelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of the Cambrian animals and the biological information necessary to produce them. With a new epilogue that responds to critics.

By |June 14th, 2014|History, Science|Comments Off on Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin Of Animal Life And The Case For Intelligent Design By Stephen Meyer chats with Dr. Alvin
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Derrick Brown Sports Report 06.12.14 on DrAlvin.com: Spurs Win-NHL Stanley Cup-World Cup

D Brown Sports 061314 Click Here To Listen Get the latest in sports, news and commentary. NBA Championship. NHL Stanley. World Cup.  

By |June 13th, 2014|Sports|Comments Off on Derrick Brown Sports Report 06.12.14 on DrAlvin.com: Spurs Win-NHL Stanley Cup-World Cup
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Seeing The Voice Of God: What God Is Telling You Through Dreams And Visions By Laura Harris Smith chats with Dr. Alvin

Laura Harris Smith Click Here To Listen God is always speaking . . . even when He doesn't use words. We live in a post-verbal society that communicates through images--television, smartphones, the Internet--and our Creator longs to communicate with us visually if we'll live with our eyes wide open. With absorbing insight, Seeing the Voice of God demystifies nighttime dreams and daytime visions, revealing the science behind the supernatural and giving you a biblical foundation for making sense of what you see. You'll also: learn to discern if what you see is from God study the ten most common types of dreams discover spirit, mind, and medical tips for better dream recall interpret dream symbols [...]

By |June 13th, 2014|Gospel|Comments Off on Seeing The Voice Of God: What God Is Telling You Through Dreams And Visions By Laura Harris Smith chats with Dr. Alvin
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know About _____* I Learned from Monty Python: *History, Art, Poetry, Communism, Philosophy, the Media, Birth, Death, … Mythology, Fish Slapping, and Many More! By Brian Cogan And Jeff Massey chats with Dr. Alvin

Brian Cogan Jeff Massey Click Here To Listen A comprehensive and hilarious guide to understanding the many Monty Python jokes and allusions Throughout their five seasons on British television (and well into the troop’s movie sequels and assorted solo projects), Monty Python became a worldwide symbol not only for taking serious subjects and making them silly, but also for treating silly subjects seriously. Monty Python provided a treasure trove of erudite “in” jokes, offering sly allusions to subjects as diverse as T.S. Elliot’s "Murder in the Cathedral" (as part of a commercial for a weight loss product) and how to conjugate Latin properly (as explained by a Roman centurion to a Jewish zealot painting anti-Roman [...]

By |June 13th, 2014|Entertainment, Movies, Television|Comments Off on Everything I Ever Needed to Know About _____* I Learned from Monty Python: *History, Art, Poetry, Communism, Philosophy, the Media, Birth, Death, … Mythology, Fish Slapping, and Many More! By Brian Cogan And Jeff Massey chats with Dr. Alvin
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Love Is All You Need By Kim Rocco Shields chats with Dr. Alvin

Kim Rocco Shields Click Here To Listen Kim is a talented and controversial filmmaker, Kim Rocco Shields of Genius Pictures, has a multiple-award-winning viral short Love Is All You Need which has garnered over 30 million hits on YouTube and is about to become a full-length feature film. The concept of the film follows the life of an ordinary heterosexual girl who is bullied in a world where everyone is gay. Imagine a world where gay is straight and straight is gay. Challenging our current conception of the terms "gay" and "straight," this controversial film, written and directed by Shields, not only reverses the meaning of the terms but addresses the social and cultural prejudices [...]

By |June 13th, 2014|Children, Movies|Comments Off on Love Is All You Need By Kim Rocco Shields chats with Dr. Alvin
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How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding The Path To The Middle Class by John Hope Bryant chats with Dr. Alvin

John Hope Bryant Click Here To Listen   John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. Raised in poverty-stricken, gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, Bryant saw firsthand how our institutions have abandoned the poor. He details how business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. After decades of deprivation, the poor lack [...]

By |June 13th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Business, Careers, History|Comments Off on How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding The Path To The Middle Class by John Hope Bryant chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Deadly Business By Lis Wiehl chats with Dr. Alvin

Lis Wiehl-Deadly Click Here To Listen When a twenty-two-year-old convict walks into the courtroom, his eyes confirm what Mia Quinn already guesses: he blames her for his conviction. In seconds, he knocks her to the ground and holds a razor blade to her throat. While she manages to escape without injury, it's just one more reminder that Mia's job prosecuting Seattle's s most dangerous criminals is far from low risk. As a single mom, the last thing Mia wants is for her work to follow her home¬ – or discover that it already has. Now Detective Charlie Carlson is suggesting the very thing Mia doesn't want to believe—that her accountant husband’s deadly car accident was [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Crime, Fiction, Women|Comments Off on A Deadly Business By Lis Wiehl chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire By Geoffrey Wawro chats with Dr. Alvin

Geoffrey Wawro Click Here To Listen The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|History, Military, War|Comments Off on A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire By Geoffrey Wawro chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Put ’em Up! Preserving Answer Book: 399 Solutions To All Your Questions: Canning, Freezing, Drying, Fermenting, Making Infusions By Sherri Brooks Vinton chats with Dr. Alvin

Sherri Brooks Vinton Put Em Up Answers Click Here To Listen Do you have questions about preserving food? Sherri Brooks Vinton has the answers! In this handy Q&A reference, Sherri answers 399 of the most commonly asked questions about canning, pressure canning, refrigeration, freezing, drying, and fermentation, including how to apply these techniques to specific fruits and vegetables. She also addresses setting up your kitchen, choosing the best varieties for your needs, making substitutions, and much more. With this kitchen companion in hand, even complete beginners will soon be putting up the harvest, safely and easily.

By |June 12th, 2014|Cooking / Food|Comments Off on The Put ’em Up! Preserving Answer Book: 399 Solutions To All Your Questions: Canning, Freezing, Drying, Fermenting, Making Infusions By Sherri Brooks Vinton chats with Dr. Alvin
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Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer By Charles Marsh chats with Dr. Alvin

Charles Marsh   Click Here To Listen In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon. The scion of a grand family that rarely went to church, Dietrich decided as a thirteen-year-old to become a theologian. By twenty-one, the rather snobbish and awkward young man had already written a dissertation hailed by Karl Barth as a “theological miracle.” But it was only the first step in a lifelong [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Biography, Gospel, Spirituality|Comments Off on Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer By Charles Marsh chats with Dr. Alvin
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