CLICK IMAGE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW! Cellar Door Skeptics are back this week after a one week hiatus. We apologize for the week off and come back full force this week to talk about some important topics. This week the duo talks about digital remote diagnosis that has been sweeping the country and is what some has lauded as an answer to expensive doctors visits. The discussion centers around if this is worth it and what the constraints to this method of diagnosis could be. The s

https://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/the-darkest-timeline Cellar Door Skeptics returns with a more serious episode. Tanner and Hanna talk about how America has entered the darkest timeline. Society seems to continue to feel like we live in Bizarro World as Trump creates a denaturalization taskforce. This is not as funny as space force was because it is setup to start deporting citizens. To help ease some of the bad news this week, the duo talk about their love of

https://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/alpha-god This episode is a solo effort by Tanner, as Hanna’s wife just had their second child and he is taking time off to be with the family. We wish him the best and are excited to see all the amazing baby pictures whenever he recovers from the shock of being a father a second time. The episode though is close to Tanner’s heart as he interviews Dr Hector Garcia, author of Alpha God The Psychology of Religious Violence and Op

https://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/care-in-chaos Cellar Door Skeptics dedicated the podcast to helping bring to light stories that may enrage you, enthrall you, educate you, and entertain you. Tonight’s episode comes with a content warning. CN: Abortion Clinic Violence / Anti-Choice Violence This episode has a special place in the hearts of the host. Their first topic for the tonight is a great interview with Lindsay Beyerstein and her new documentary “Care in C

http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/is-artificial-intelligence-predicting-ou Ever wondered if Cellar Door Skeptics talked about AI? Well this episode the duo take on an economist article that examines AI ability to predict your sexuality. That is right folks, this article talks about a soon to be published journal that use already existing methods to try and determine what sexuality you are. Also on the agenda for this episode is a discussion the future of evoluti

http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/amazon-welfare_1 This is the remainder of episode 93 that was not recorded Tuesday due to the length of the discussion on the Charlottesville Terrorist Attack. But this episode comes back strong talking about how Amazon is getting corporate welfare and tax breaks. The show will end on their science segment talking about an article that discusses whether new experiments into the 2nd law of thermodynamics hold the key to the origi

This blog post is a quick look inside Host Chris Hanna’s mind as he prepped for the debate. I thought this would be good for those who want to read what went into our side of the debate. Don’t forget to check out the episode right here! Listen to the episode right here! Opening statement (10 mins) Things to ask in rebuttal to Aaron’s opening His definition of evolution: Science and fine tuning Looking from the wrong direction: if you start at the solution (the theist way) t

#75: DEBATE – “Is evolution a dead theory?” Cellar Door Skeptics presents the debate between Aaron Furlong and Chris Hanna. The positive will be taken by Creationist Aaron Furlong and the negative will be taken by Chris Hanna. The topic is “Is Evolution a Dead Theory?” https://www.spreaker.com/episode/11555650 #evolution #atheist #science #creationist #presuppositionalist 10 min opening statements each -whoever is making the positive claim goes second 5 min rebuttals each.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/10330425 #64: Cellar Door Spacemen of Astronomy On Tonight’s episode of Cellar Door Skeptics, we take another look at Dan Batcheldor book “Astronomy Saves the World” while discussing some of Dan’s most recent projects he is working on. If the word astronomy and PhD did not strike your fancy, we will travel back in time to look at the myth of whether or not sugar makes kids hyper. Hanna then will take the show off the rails by proposing tha

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/10001486 #59: The Slow Revolution On this episode of Cellar Door Skeptics, Chris Squared attempt to tackle rapid fire segments that range the spectrum of politics to science speckled with a smatter of entertainment. First on the circuit, they tackle the evolution of whales legs and elephants without tusks. A quick jaunt over to look at the new appointee for City Council in Wyoming Michigan and the secular oath she took. They move on to cove

Are the presidential rallies getting too violent and losing sight of what they were supposed to be for? Chris and Christopher weigh in on the hypocrisy rampant on BOTH sides lately. After that Daniel Batcheldor stops by to explain to us how astronomy can save the world and plug his amazing upcoming book! To close out the show, some bunk arguments against GMO foods were crushed and Christopher got Chris a bit ripped, leading to his first rant about teaching the controversy. Yo

International Women’s Day Theme: Pledge For Parity Definition: noun the state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay. #PledgeForParity Links http://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme ***All the information has come from the International Women’s Day website.  I have consolidated it for the purpose of my notes on the podcast.  Chris Hanna and Myself felt that it would be a benefit to everyone to have all the links in one place along with the flow.  P

I know the title is confusing so no, Pascal never made such a wager, but we all know his stance on gambling with God.  The ultimate bluff over eternity one might say. God is, or God is not. Reason cannot decide between the two alternatives. A Game is being played… where heads or tails will turn up. You must wager (it is not optional). Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose

Listen Here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/17-debate-presup This week is a first us here at Cellar Door Skeptics, a formal debate on the topic “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God?” Chris Hanna will be taking the moderator position in an effort to quell the fire and the flames between his co-host Christopher Tanner and our guest, Aaron Furlong. Aaron will be taking the positive with a strong background in presuppositional Christian apologetics

Cellar Door Skeptics Promotional Video Well here it is in all its “glory”.  The first public commercial created to help everyone understand who Cellar Door Skeptics is and how you can find all our content. Cellar Door Skeptics is a podcast based out of Grand Rapids Michigan featuring hosts Christopher Tanner & Chris Hanna. This podcast will include some video as we build up our show. We will be tackling science, skepticism, atheism, humanism, politics and entertainment. We ar

Once again we are visited by our good friend David Goza who lights our way regularly from the dark pits of YouTube A weekend of collecting, sorting and cleaning Ordovician-Period marine fossils from the Arbuckle Mountains has got me thinking once again about one of the strangest beliefs held by fundamentalist Christians: that about 4,400 or so years ago, the deity who had created the universe a couple of millennia earlier got all pissed off and wiped out almost everything in

David Goza stops by to lay down the smack. This one’s for Jonny B., who’s been on my mind. A visit to the Museum of Osteology can precipitate quite a train of thought, provided one is open to that pleasure. I’m fortunate to live a mere 20 miles away, and pay it a visit now and then. I always spend a good deal of time tracing limbed vertebrate evolution through various ancient and modern skeletons on display, admiring especially the universal template shared by amphibians, rep

© Deafilosophy An argument made consistently for the existence of God, and consequently against the scientific, agnostic, or atheistic position, is that evolution is a false theory.  I have heard noodly logic and word soup at every level of this claim from “It is completely impossible,”  to, “There is no evidence,” to, “There has been microevolution but not macro evolution,” and finally, “There are no transitional fossils.” (Coincidentally, this particular claim frequently co

Some of the great scientific discoveries have been syntheses that emerged more or less organically from the systematic crunching of a compendium of data accumulated over time. Plate tectonics furnishes an illustrative example: the Grand Unified Theory of Geology was made possible by a great many observations made over the course of a couple of centuries, some of them serendipitous (e.g. the discovery of deep-ocean trenches and mid-ocean ranges during the submarine era). Put e

Read more from David HERE What are we to make of human nature? The answer depends on which story of birth is believed. Birthing stories are about identifying those attributes that continue on from the mother-figure or simply that which comes before (Turner, 1996). This is a relation of cause/effect, where something comes from having causal connections to what it becomes and manifests in the world. Whether we speak of “coming out of” or “emerging,” as in “his actions came out