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#64 Stephen Law | What If God Is Evil?
Stephen Law, professor of philosophy at Oxford, discusses his "evil god challenge" to theists: prove that God is not perfectly evil. That challenge, we will see, is surprisingly difficult to meet.…
#63 Graham Oppy vs. Brian Cutter | Does Mind-Brain Harmony Point to God?
Graham Oppy and Brian Cutter join me to debate philosophy's newest argument for God: the argument from psychophysical harmony. We talk about epistemic probability versus metaphysical possibility, the…
#62 Mhairi Tait | Would You Still Love Me if I Was a Worm?
Mhairi Tait, my friend and fellow DPhil student at Oxford, sits down with me to discuss whether Ted Bundy's mother was right to stand by her son, whether you could ever love the same person forever,…
#61 David Enoch | Why This Oxford Professor Thinks Morality is Objective
Dr. David Enoch, author of "Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism," joins me to discuss moral realism versus anti-realism, objections from the moral error theorist, and my personal…
#60 Dan Linford | Defending Einstein from Philosophers of Religion
Dr. Dan Linford breaks down Einstein's theory of special relativity, its consequences for our understanding of time, and whether there are any ways to reconcile relativity with the view that past…
#59 Christian Smith | Is Religion Over?
Sociologist and professor Dr. Christian Smith discusses his recent book, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America". We discuss the reasons for the decline of faith in a…
#58 Afshordi and Halper | What Happened Before The Big Bang?
Astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi and science communicator Phil Halper return to the channel to discuss their new book, Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins. We discuss…
#57 Dan Linford | Everything that Begins to Exist Has a Cause?
Dr. Dan Linford and I discuss the causal principle, that everything that begins to exist has a cause. We look at William Lane Craig's oft-repeated three reasons for affirming the premise: something…
What Is a Woman? | #56 Dr. Tomas Bogardus
Dr. Tomas Bogardus discusses contemporary philosophical analysis of sex and gender, defending a traditional understanding of these terms.To support the channel, do please oh please consider donating…
Morality Doesn't Exist | #55 Dr. Matt Lutz
Dr. Matt Lutz defends moral error theory, the two-part thesis that (i) our moral claims are capable of being true or false, but (ii) because there is no objective morality, all of them are…
Debating God, the Universe, and Everything | #54 Joe Folley
Joe Folley and I discuss our philosophical differences regarding fine-tuning, the problem of evil, skeptical theism, pragmatic justification for God, apatheism, and much else besides.Check out Joe's…
Science Doesn't Prove God | #53 Dr. Tim Maudlin
Dr. Tim Maudlin returns to the channel to discuss the fine-tuning of the universe, the beginning of the universe, and whether these facts might be reasonably suggest that a creator God exists.To…
What Christian Apologists Keep Missing | #52 Dr. Randal Rauser
Dr. Randal Rauser, himself a Christian apologist, joins me to critically examine some of the mistakes and excesses of Christian apologetics as it is commonly practiced - on YouTube and within broader…
#51 Dr. Michael Huemer | It's Simple - Stop Eating Meat
Dr. Michael Huemer and I discuss the evils of factory farming, the strengths and possible drawbacks of a vegan and vegetarian diet, whether animals have rights, if humans are the pinnacle of…
God is Time. Literally | #50 Dr. RT Mullins
Dr. RT Mullins discusses his view that God is literally identical to time. We also discuss and critique William Lane Craig's proposal that God is, in a sense, both temporal and timeless.To support…
How to Make a Universe Without God | #49 Dr. Daniel Rubio
Dr. Daniel Rubio graciously agreed to come on the channel to discuss and critique a paper I wrote examining four lesser-discussed hypotheses that lie somewhere between theism and atheism: the…
Some Contradictions Are True. Deal With It. | #48 Dr. Graham Priest
Dr. Graham Priest explains his views on dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are true, while also discussing the relationship between Buddhism and modern science, the cosmological and…
The Multiverse Supports Belief in God | #47 Dr. Klaas Kraay
Dr. Klaas Kraay explains that the multiverse, rather than serving as an alternative to God, actually supports belief in God by undermining two atheistic arguments: the problem of evil and the problem…
More Than One Christianity in the Ancient World | #46 Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh
Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh, professor of New Testament at the University of Miami, explains the gnostic gospels, their significance, and their relationship to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke,…
The Universe Designed Itself - No God Needed | #45 Dr. Philip Goff
Philip Goff joins me to discuss panpsychism, cosmopsychism, and how these theories of consciousness have the potential to explain one of the most striking discoveries of modern science: the…
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