Bad Philosophy

New guest Bryson Rushing joins Kevin, Stephen, and John Elliott to debate the nature of science, the Higgs Boson, and avian progressive rock bands.

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ATLAS, beer, Big Bang, black holes, Brick, Bryson, Buddha, causation, CERN, CMS, correlation, DARPA, Eagle Scout, Einstein, faith, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Higgs Boson, idealism, Inception, induction, internal consistency, John Elliott, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Looper, NeXT, Pascal's Wager, physics, post-structuralism, probability, religion, Russell's Teapot, science, scientific method, Standard Model, statistics, Stephen, structuralism, Texas Tech University, The Internet, The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, Tycho Brahe, World Wide Web

Stephen and Kevin tackle a fan’s Formspring suggestion, the frickin’ Moderny film “The Sunset Limited,” starring two stereotypes having a conversation about suicide. Hooray!

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Alien, Christianity, Cormac McCarthy, epistemology, existentialism, faith, film, God, Michael Fassbender, modernism, nihilism, No Country for Old Men, power, Prometheus, race, realism, religion, Rifftrax, Samuel L. Jackson, Star Wars, statism, stereotypes, suicide, The Sunset Limited, theatre, Tommy Lee Jones, TV Tropes

Once the high subsided, we got the strangest urge: to do an episode on religion. It’s controversial, it’s deep, it’s something we’ve never before… it’s totally BF. Though our microphones refused to comply (again!), we completed the episode successfully (albeit in 16kHz… oops). Open your mind, put your bias aside, and indulge as we tackle one of the biggest questions of all time… “Why be religious?”

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academia, anthropic principle, Arby's, atheism, Baylor University, Ben Stein, bias, Bill of Rights, biology, black magic, Burger King, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creationism, design argument, Digital Media Studio, Disciples Fallacy, Donald Miller, education, ego, egocentrism, ethics, evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, faith, fine tuning, First Amendment, food, free speech, free will, geocentrism, God, Godwin's Law, heaven, heliocentrism, hell, Hitler, homosexuality, intelligent design, irreducible complexity, Jesus, Julie, Kepler's Laws, Kevin, library, love, Matt, McDonald's, meditation, music, natural selection, New Orleans, On The Origin of Species, paradox, Pascal's Wager, physics, problem of evil, psychology, rationality, redemption, religion, retrograde motion, Richard Dawkins, science, Searching for God Know's What, selfishness, september 11th, Spanish Inquisition, spirituality, Stephen, suicide bombing, supernatural, Taco Bell, The Crusades, The God Delusion, The Quran, theology, truth, UFOs, weather

Back from the dead (or so you thought!), BF is coming at you with our long-overdue ultra-cliche excessively-hyphenated Halloween episode! Our panel of friendly ghosts, including Lost Episode veteran Michael Hayslip and first-time guest but long-time #1 fan Jediah Cummins, takes a spooky ride through the cultural, historical, and religious facets of the holiday. But […]

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2008 election, Ayn Rand, Canada, candy, Catholicism, Ceres, children, chiropractic, Christianity, Christmas, classification, costumes, dating, Death of a Salesman, Dia de Los Muertos, Dr. Horrible, Easter, evangelism, faith, fear, free will, Guy Fawkes, Halloween, harvest, hell, hell house, HijiNKS Ensue, How I Met Your Mother, Hulu, Jediah, Jerry Seinfeld, Joss Whedon, Judaism, Kevin, Kids Vote, Kim Carrey, Mean Girls, Michael H, Nickelodeon, ninjas, non-conformity, paganism, planets, Pluto, polling, Portal, Pride and Prejudice, Psycho, Rocketeer, Sarah Palin, science, sluts, Snickers, Stephen, taxonomy, Thanksgiving, The Fountainhead, The Mask, The Riddler, Trick or Treat, working out, X-Men