The Bastas Project podcast is where Alfred Basta, professor, author and musician, talks about the books, the evidence behind them, and the questions readers keep asking: Is the Bible reliable? What do the fossils really show? How does a family resist the quiet pressures that pull it apart? Every episode below plays right here on the page, and the full show is on Spotify.
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Demonic Tactics in Parenting: Insights from The Malgrave Letters
What if the greatest threats to a family are not the obvious sins but the small compromises that quietly become normal? Drawing on The Malgrave Letters About Parenting, this episode listens in as a senior tempter coaches his apprentice on overwork, distraction, pride, and emotional absence, and shows parents how to recognize the strategy before it takes root at home.
Unmasking Marital Sabotage: The Malgrave Letters
Marriages rarely collapse in a single blow. They are worn down by avoided conversations, kept score, and love that slowly turns into a transaction. This episode opens The Malgrave Letters About Couples and exposes the tempter’s playbook against husbands and wives, so that couples can name the tactics and answer them with honesty, forgiveness, and commitment.
What Fossils Really Tell Us: Faith, Science, and the Fossil Record
The fossil record is often presented as the final word on origins. In this longer conversation, Alfred Basta walks through what the rocks actually show, what Darwin himself expected to find, where the famous transitional forms stand today, and why rapid burial fits the evidence better than the slow story in the textbooks. A clear, calm case for taking Genesis seriously as history.
Challenging Scientific Authority with Biblical Truth (Dr. Basta’s Radio Interview)
From a Christian radio interview: the difference between evidence and the conclusions people draw from it. Alfred Basta explains why the phrase “science says” so often means “a worldview says,” how dating methods depend on assumptions that are never measured, and why a believer can be both rigorous and unafraid of the data.
The Double Standard in Ancient Document Reliability
Historians accept Caesar’s Gallic Wars on a handful of manuscripts copied centuries after the fact, yet the New Testament, with thousands of early manuscripts, is held to a different rule. This episode applies the same bibliographic test to every ancient book and shows which one wins when the rules stop changing.
Human Babies Have Always Been Human Babies
Researchers examined more than 1,500 skulls looking for the flattening that develops when an infant is too weak to lift its own head, and found it in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. Their conclusion was that helpless infancy reaches deep into the past. In under five minutes, Alfred Basta takes the study apart and draws the distinction most coverage missed: the data establishes antiquity, not origin. Along the way he asks why a small-brained skull can carry full humanity, and why the oldest surviving evidence of human love may be a flat spot on the back of a baby’s head.
Author Interview: The Malgrave Letters
An interview about the idea behind The Malgrave Letters: correspondence from a senior tempter to the apprentices assigned to a modern family. Alfred Basta talks about why satire can say what a sermon cannot, how the letters were written, and what he hopes couples, parents, and young adults will carry away from them.
The Cross Examination Series
The year is 2040. Under a strict Science Reform Act, a professor is put on trial for teaching Genesis as history, and two days in, the prosecution puts the whole Bible in the dock. A short introduction to the fourteen-book courtroom series in which every line of evidence, from the cell to the empty tomb, is argued on the stand.
Foundations of Creation: An Encyclopedia Examining the Scientific Case for Biblical Accuracy
A brief introduction to Foundations of Creation, a multi-volume encyclopedia that gathers the scientific, historical, and archaeological evidence for the accuracy of Scripture in one place, written for believers who want reasons and skeptics who want a fair hearing.
The Malgrave Letters Series
An overview of the series that began with three volumes, About Couples, About Parenting, and About Young Adults, and has grown into a full library of letters from a senior tempter to his apprentices. Know the strategy, and you can resist it.
Interview with the Author of The Cross Examination Series
Alfred Basta on writing fiction that argues: why he chose a courtroom, how real research shaped the testimony of each witness, and what it means to read a trial as a juror rather than a spectator.
Follow The Bastas Project on Spotify to be notified when a new episode is released. Last updated: October 18, 2026.