Notable Guests
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Bart Ehrman
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GA
Gender and Activism
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GO
Graham Oppy
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GT
Graham Tomlin
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JS
Joe Schmid
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JN
John Nelson
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JS
John Sellars
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MC
Matthew Cobb
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OG
Outgrowing God
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PP
Philip Pullman
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SA
Secular Architecture
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SW
Stephen Woodford
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SH
Surviving the Holocaust
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TE
Testing Destiny's Ethics
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Recent Episodes
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Philip Pullman critiques C.S. Lewis's perceived falsehoods and their impact.
Philip Pullman
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Graham Tomlin discusses Blaise Pascal's life and multifaceted genius.
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Explores the concept of pure consciousness beyond subjective experience.
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Matthew Cobb discusses the history and understanding of the brain.
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Adam Aleksic, the Etymology Nerd, explores word origins.
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Sam Harris explores spirituality for atheists.
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Swami Sarvapriyananda introduces Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta.
Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Joe Schmid critiques common atheist slogans including 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' and 'There is no evidence for God,' analyzing their philosophical weaknesses
Joe Schmid
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John Sellars explains Stoicism's three historical eras and its foundational figures beyond just later Roman practitioners
John Sellars
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Sean Carroll discusses whether science alone can explain the universe and the principle of sufficient reason's limits
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David Bentley Hart argues against panpsychism and defends a non-materialist view of consciousness and subjectivity
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Rhett McLaughlin argues Christianity needs rethinking, particularly regarding over-reliance on evidence and philosophical arguments
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Graham Oppy systematically debunks major arguments for God including first cause, Kalam cosmological, and fine-tuning arguments
Graham Oppy
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Alain de Botton examines why the modern world has become aesthetically ugly and visually degraded
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John Nelson argues the Christmas birth narratives were likely added later and aren't historical accounts of Jesus' actual birth
John Nelson
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Q&A covering philosophical misconceptions including consciousness emergence, the hard problem, and mereological nihilism
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Hank Green discusses the Fermi Paradox, what makes humans special, and whether the US has lost cultural identity
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Michael Stevens explores metaphysical nihilism and whether anything really exists, examining mereological composition
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Toby Ord identifies existential risks from AI including deception, misalignment, and weaponization threats to humanity
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Philip Goff became religious through panpsychism and the fine-tuning argument, leading to a heretical Christian position