GREAT Conversations with Calvin Smith
8 Seasons
Join Calvin Smith (Executive Director and Speaker with AiG Canada) and his guests as they have G.R.E.A.T. (Gospel, Relevance, Evangelism, Apologetics, Training) Conversations relating to church and culture today. Discover how Answers in Genesis resources impact lives in gospel outreach.
Answers in Genesis, Canada (AiG CA) equips thousands of Canadians and millions worldwide to defend their faith and proclaim the gospel more frequently and effectively through our powerful video content.
From 60-second shorts to our multi-episode Answers Originals, AiG CA produces a wide variety of high-impact media content guaranteed to invigorate the faith of believers and challenge skeptics to consider the truth claims of God’s word from the very first verse!
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16:01Episode 1
S8E1 State-run Schools Teach Religion
Episode 1
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how despite what many parents believe, state-run schools are not neutral at all, and they do teach a religion- the religion of humanism.
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S8E2 Flat Earth the mother of all conspiracies
Episode 2
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses the Flat Earth controversy- the mother of all conspiracies.
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S8E3 Does being offended trump the truth?
Episode 3
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses whether being offended trumps the truth?
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10:00Episode 4
S8E4 Monsters of Evolution?
Episode 4
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses different theories of how the story of evolution supposedly occurred- including the ‘hopeful monster’ argument which later became called ‘punctuated equilibrium’.
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20:14Episode 5
S8E5 The dilemma of theodicy
Episode 5
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses Christianity’s greatest challenge- the dilemma of theodicy.
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13:03Episode 6
S8E6 Belief in 'unintelligent design'
Episode 6
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how although dismissing the idea of intelligent design, atheists embrace the absurd belief in ‘unintelligent design’.
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S8E7 Denying creation dehumanizes people
Episode 7
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses one of Christianity’s most challenging topics- the dilemma of theodicy- by asking How can evil exist if God didn’t make it?
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S8E8 How can evil exist if God didn’t make it?
Episode 8
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses one of Christianity’s most challenging topics- the dilemma of theodicy- by asking How can evil exist if God didn’t make it?
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07:09Episode 9
S8E9 How many animals were on the Ark?
Episode 9
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses one of the most asked questions regarding Noah’s Ark and the key point in how to answer it. The biblical concept of animal ‘kinds’.
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19:07Episode 10
S8E10 Canada condones death
Episode 10
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how Canada is at the forefront of offering what’s called medical assistance in dying, which is really just promoting a euthanasia platform that is being continuously expanded to...
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S8E11 Christendom's Biggest Challenge - The Lack of Biblical Authority in Church
Episode 11
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how the undermining of Genesis 1-11 has caused a crisis in church and culture
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06:17Episode 12
S8E12 Western World Missionaries
Episode 12
Western world missionaries need to be equipped with biblical creation apologetics training
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16:22Episode 13
S8E13 Christians Casting Compromised Nets
Episode 13
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how the most corrosive and damaging ideology affecting gospel witness has been the story of evolution, by tearing holes in the sin and grace aspects of the gospel presentation t...
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15:13Episode 14
S8E14 Evolution = No God
Episode 14
Evolution = No God. At its most basic level, this is what the world has taught.
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S8E15 Evolution of the gaps in modern science
Episode 15
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how atheists often argue that God should never be attributed as the cause of anything in nature—even if we don’t understand something fully—because eventually science will figur...
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S8E16 Why haven’t we found human and dinosaur fossils together?
Episode 16
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses a very popular question- Why haven’t we found human and dinosaur fossils together?- and shows how it’s more of a headache for evolutionists than biblical creationists!
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S8E17 Interpreting Scripture Through a Scientific Lens Part 1
Episode 17
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how interpreting scripture through a supposed scientific lens of long ages dismantled biblical history.
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S8E18 Interpreting Scripture Through a Scientific Lens Part 2
Episode 18
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how modern geologists have began recognizing that many facts found in the geologic record seemed to support rapid catastrophic processes having occurred in the past.
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S8E19 Interpreting Scripture Through a Scientific Lens Part 3
Episode 19
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how the secular geological concept of neo-catastrophism, although closer to the truth of what the Genesis Flood would produce, fails to explain the physical evidence of the rock...
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S8E20 Interpreting Scripture Through a Scientific Lens Part 4
Episode 20
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses the true motivations behind the rise of uniformitarian geology and reveals the ideological underpinnings driving the scientific conclusions.
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S8E21 Jesus wasn’t a ‘New Testament Christian’- He quoted the Old Testament
Episode 21
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses how the idea that Christians can somehow untether their faith from the Old Testament is not only wrong, it conflicts with Jesus’ teachings.
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S8E22 Why are dinosaurs extinct but not the other animals from Noah’s ark?
Episode 22
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) discusses the topic of animal extinction and particularly dinosaurs in relation to the Flood account of Genesis 6-9.
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S8E23 GREAT Conversations with special guest Larry Pierce
Episode 23
In this episode of the GREAT Conversations Podcast, host Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA), interviews Larry Pierce—who’s behind the Online Bible software, the translation of James Ussher’s The Annals of the World into modern English and has also translated Isaac Newton’s histo...
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S8E24 Why the battle for biblical authority is a matter of its historicity
Episode 24
Why the battle for biblical authority is a matter of its historicity. The ‘heavenly things’ the Bible teaches are based on the ‘earthly things’ that are the result of real events that took place in earth history.