CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

Darwin was exactly like Einstein – only not in the good way that turned out for him. I’ll tell you about that later in this programme.

Tag words: Charles Darwin; The Origin of Species; Cambrian Explosion Albert Einstein; theory of relativity; Richard Dawkins; evolution; Stephen Myer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; DNA; RNA; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; Pierre Grasse; Michael Behe; genetic homeostasis; E. coli; Colin Patterson; ...

DARWIN WROTE IN THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES that North American black bears had been seen "swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water." What did this have to do with the subject of his book? "Even in so extreme a case as this," Darwin continued, "if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in...

Now I’m about to enter into a discussion of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. I’ll be putting material that doesn’t agree with that theory, and that’s very brave of me. Maybe insanely brave. Maybe mad.

John Lennox, in his book, God’s Undertaker explained why recounting this story:

A leading Chinese palaeontologist Jun-Yuan Chen ran into this problem when visiting the USA in 1999. His work on the remarkable discoveries in Chengjiang of st...

The first great fall of man, that we know about, happened with Adam and Eve. Man was expelled from paradise, the Garden of Eden. Paradise was lost.

But then thousands of years later, in 1859, the world, looked at from the point of view of the British Empire, was living in another golden age, perhaps in a new Garden of Eden, as if we’d somehow managed  to find our way back into Eden. But then, perhaps even more startling, a new revel...

Carl Sagan was probably the best known scientist in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980 his 13 part series, Cosmos, aired and was a spectacular hit. In the very opening of the series he told his audience this:

So according to Carl Sagan, the cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. To elaborate he meant that the universe was made only from things in our universe -- matter and energy. Explicitly he was saying that th...

A great thinker said that the the medieval mind was broader than ours because they believed that the ultimate realities were outside place and time and that man could commune with them through mystical experience and after the death of the body. Who was it that said that?

Tag words: Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Nazi Death camps; the no-future generation; give-up-it is; depression; aggression; addiction; the existential vacuu...

In his book, 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson wrote:

So why not call this a book of "guidelines," a far more relaxed, user-friendly and less rigid sounding term than "rules"?

Because these really are rules. And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

One might think that a generation that has heard endlessly, from their more ideological teachers, about the rights, rights,...

Oppressors and oppressed. Victims and victimhoodr. Dr Viktor Frankl showed that there was an easy way any victim could escape their victimhood.

Tag words: Oppressors and oppressed; Victims; victimhood; Dr Viktor Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Auschwitz; Sigmund Freud; Alfred Adler; Darwin; Theory of Evolution; Dr Iacoboni; the mass murderer of Steinhof; Lubianka prison; Freedom; Responsibility; Arthur Miller; Incident at Vichy; N...

Dr Frankl, now liberated from the death camps, wrote in his book Man’s Search for Meaning: We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings about them. The prisoners of the Nazi death camps had been gutted. Would they ever feel again?

Tag words: Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Nazi death camps; God; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; St Paul; 2 Timothy 2; 2 Timothy 3; soul; Third ...

Dr Frankl, Dr Iacoboni and Carter would have definitely related to the lyrics of the Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”:

Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me, yeah
I'm stayin' alive

But would they? Would they stay alive?

Tag words: Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; brutality; SS; Nazi Death Camp; Dr Iacoboni; Reverend Billy Graham; atheist; God; omnipotent; free will; bargain with God; dea...

Death, in the form of cancer, had invaded Maria’s body – but she wasn’t afraid. Why not? Who would win – Maria or death? So many before, in her position, had been carried off by the Grim Reaper. Over 50 years before, in Hitler’s ever diminishing Greater German Reich, for Jews, death could come at any time from any one of many places or people in the Nazi death camps, or they could, instead, take their own lives – but these men didn...

There is the other side. Crossing over to the other side. To Dr Viktor Frankl it meant one thing – betrayal. To Dr Stephen Iacoboni it meant something else, something divine. Let’s dive deep into these two very different experiences.

Tag words: Crossing over to the other side; Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Capos; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Nazis; SS; gas chambers; Jews; botulism; lung cancer; chemotherapy; radia...

In 1981 Harold Kushner wrote a book called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. In this part of the programme I’ll provide the answer to the question Why?

Tag words: Harold Kushner; When Bad Things Happen to Good People; MD Anderson; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Psalm 121; Lake Pend Oreille; Jackson Browne; For a Dancer; God; multiple myeloma; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Wagner-Jauregg; Dennis Prager; Alan Dershowitz; Holoca...

Chernobyl. That’s a name to send a chill up your spine. The worst nuclear disaster in history. It happened on 26 April 1968 in Ukraine. Let me tell you how an American oncologist got involved with a man whose life was taken away in the literal fallout from that disaster – and, more importantly the way in which it changed Dr Iacoboni’s life.

Tag words: Chernobyl; oncologist; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; leukemia; Soviet Union; pave...

In this part of the series I’m going to tell you the story of a man who fell off an abyss, while another man watched helplessly. There’s another story that I have to tell too, of third man who was in serious danger of falling off an abyss. That man was going to have to be able to save himself because no one else would.

Tag words: Auschwitz; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; apathy; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul;oncologist; cancer; Dav...

Dr Frankl gave the most breathtaking observation on humankind. What we are like. What we are capable of. I promise you, read it and you’ll never forget it. Better still, let me read it to you.

Tag words: Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; Telos; God; Catholic faith; Supertramp; Logical Song; MD Anderson Cancer Center; Nazis; Jews; Shema Yisrael; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Hear O Israel; Auschwitz; Lords Prayer; Haro...