{"podcast":{"title":"Recovering Evangelicals","slug":"recovering-evangelicals-947295","podcast_index_feed_id":947295,"rss_url":"https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/category/recovering-evangelicals/feed/","website_url":"https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com","image_url":"https://i0.wp.com/lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/podcast1b.jpg?fit=3000%2C3000&ssl=1","author":"Luke Jeffrey Janssen","episode_count":200,"summary":"A podcast for people who were once very comfortable in their Christian faith … until the 21st century intruded and made it very hard to keep on believing. And for those who are intrigued by science, philosophy, world history, and even world religions …. and want to rationalize that with their Christian theology. And for those who found that’s just not possible … and yet there’s still a small part of them that … … won’t let it go.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295"},"episode":{"title":"#202 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 1)","slug":"202-the-evolution-of-religious-belief-and-atheism-part-1","published_at":"2026-02-27T06:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295/202-the-evolution-of-religious-belief-and-atheism-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295","url":"https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/202-the-evolution-of-religious-belief-and-atheism-part-1/","audio_url":"https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/v2/sites/74252917/podcast-play/10851.mp3","summary":"It took billions of years and billions of life forms, but religion eventually emerged in one species, and filled the globe; and yet disbelief persists? Today’s guest — Dr. Will Gervais (Brunel University, London UK) — has recently published an exceptional book: Disbelief: origins of atheism in a religious species. In it, he addresses two […]","meta_description":"It took billions of years and billions of life forms, but religion eventually emerged in one species, and filled the globe; and yet disbelief persists? To…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4052,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recovering-evangelicals-947295/episodes/202-the-evolution-of-religious-belief-and-atheism-part-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295/202-the-evolution-of-religious-belief-and-atheism-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}