In this episode, Adam interviews Clark Moghadam, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who is studying biology and philosophy. Clark is helping out at Convincing Proof this summer and loves studying topics in the fields of theology, history, and philosophy.

You can watch a talk Clark gave earlier this year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7fq61nJzM

Is it true that we only believe in Christianity because we were raised in a Christian culture? This argument claims that if our religious beliefs are only relative to the arbitrary place in which we were born, then we can’t trust them to be true. However, this is a poor argument. To see why, we can ask this: Why limit this to just our religious beliefs? What about our political, moral, scientific, or philosophical beliefs? Are those simply fixed by where we were born? Should that cause us to discount them?

Ayn Rand was an influential thinker who lived during the 20th century, and many conservatives and libertarians have appreciated her ideas, particularly her championing of freedom of speech, capitalism, and individual rights. However, Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist who did not like religion or Christianity. So how should we, as Christians, approach the ideas of Ayn Rand?