{"id":71226,"date":"2023-10-17T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=71226"},"modified":"2023-10-17T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:43:25","slug":"dr-jeffrey-tripp-on-the-failure-of-undesigned-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/dr-jeffrey-tripp-on-the-failure-of-undesigned-coincidences\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jeffrey Tripp on the failure of undesigned coincidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeffrey Tripp has a PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity. He is also the author of a text titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Internal-Quotation-Wissenschaftliche-Untersuchungen-Testament\/dp\/3161559568\">Direct Internal Quotation in the Gospel of John<\/a>. His academic publications can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/rockvalleycollege.academia.edu\/JeffreyTripp\">here<\/a>. In this interview with Derek Lambert of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MythVisionPodcast\">Mythvision<\/a>, Dr. Tripp critiques the <strong>argument from undesigned coincidences<\/strong> developed by Christian apologist Dr. Lydia McGrew in her book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-Plain-View-Undesigned-Coincidences\/dp\/1936341905\">Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts<\/a>. I have to say that Dr. Tripp&#8217;s rebuttal of Dr. McGrew&#8217;s argument is about the best I&#8217;ve seen yet: it&#8217;s fair, thorough, courteous and scholarly. What do viewers think?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The FAILURE of &quot;unDESIGNED Coincidences&quot; | Christian Apologists Are Wrong\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oFoM1wtNow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeffrey Tripp has a PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity. He is also the author of a text titled, Direct Internal Quotation in the Gospel of John. His academic publications can be found here. In this interview with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/dr-jeffrey-tripp-on-the-failure-of-undesigned-coincidences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}