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NFL quarterback isn’t sure America landed on the Moon · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning and welcome to the daily article podcast from Denison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Thursday, October 8th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is an automated reading of today's daily article, authored by Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's article is titled NFL quarterback isn't sure America landed on the moon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Drake May is one of the most accomplished young quarterbacks in the NFL.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He led the New England Patriots to last year's Super Bowl, where they lost to the Seattle Seahawks, and was nearly named the most valuable player in the league.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now he's in the news for a rather different reason.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a recent podcast interview, May was asked if there is a conspiracy theory he secretly believes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His response.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's, I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mass we went there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm not really sure 200% if we went there or not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say I am leaning one way or the other.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just know I am a little bit skeptical.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And quote, the hosts then said they had their own moon landing theory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of them said, there's so much literature out there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He claimed to have read all of it and said, I absolutely believe we didn't land on
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it's not just the 1969 moon landing that conspiracy theorists must explain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the other five successful NASA landings on the moon, involving a total of 12 American astronauts and the lunar samples that were returned to Earth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is also estimated that 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program, with the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of people to deceive or to keep the deception a secret.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nonetheless, moon deniers are perhaps more common than you might think.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I had two great aunts named Daisy and Clella.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I remember a childhood conversation with them in which they insisted that humans never went to the moon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What about the TV coverage we saw?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I asked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They insisted the whole thing was staged on sand dunes in Arizona.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What about moon rocks?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I then asked, mentioning that I had seen some in a museum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They replied,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like astronauts walking on the moon, the Christian claim that Jesus of Nazareth walked on our planet died on a cross for our sins and rose from the grave can seem far-fetched.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Over the centuries, a number of conspiracy theories have been proposed, among them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One, Jesus was a figure of myth rather than history.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, ancient non-biblical records prove the opposite.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There are clear references to Jesus and early worship of Him as God in the writings of Tacitus, Marabar Seraphion, Svetonius, Pliny the Younger and Josephus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The last is especially interesting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A religious study's professor has just published a study of the Jewish historian's statements regarding Jesus, demonstrating their authenticity as evidence for his historicity and divinity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two, Jesus didn't die on the cross, but faked his death and then his resurrection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, a spear was thrust into his side, piercing the pericardial sack around his heart, thus blood and water came forth, which would have killed him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So would the airtight, mummified shroud in which he was buried.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if he survived all that, he would have to push aside the stone covering his grave, overpower the guards, appear through locked doors to the disciples, and perform the greatest
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 3.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The women and the disciples went to the wrong tomb, but the authorities knew the location of the correct tomb as did its owner.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The moment Jesus' followers pronounced him risen from the dead, their opponents would have produced his crucified corpse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 4.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Early Christians hallucinated the resurrection as a kind of wish fulfillment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the disciples did not expect Jesus to rise from the dead, and 500 met the risen Christ, far too many to share precisely the same hallucination.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For much more, see my website article, Y. Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At the end of the day, there is no plausible explanation for the changed lives of the disciples after Easter.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For so many to keep their conspiracy a secret, and then die for their lie is beyond credulity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, all such argumentation is insufficient
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In our post-truth culture, many skeptics will hear all of that and say, that's just your truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May it be so.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If the resurrection is truly our truth, we will make the living Lord Jesus the King of our lives every moment of every day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We will submit to His Spirit and ask Him to continue His earthly ministry through us as His body.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We will experience His omnipotence as we do all things through Christ, who strengthens us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Since what is impossible with man is possible with God, and none can stay his hand, we can pray with Jesus, Abba, Father, all things are possible for you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then, as Jesus does in and through us all that His omnipotence chooses, our dark and fallen culture will see His light in our lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The darker the room, the more obvious, powerful, and compelling the light.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The historian Jaroslav Pelican noted,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and if Christ is not risen, nothing else matters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The German Theologian Wolfhart Panaberg was right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First, it is a very unusual event.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you believe it happened?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a worldview of which it is the basis.
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