Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ philosophy interviews • consciousness, mind, brain, self • metaphysics: materialism, idealism, panpsychism, existence • religion and atheism debates • Christianity and Bible scholarship • ethics, meaning, spirituality • AI and existential risk • physics, cosmology, time, quantum mechanics • language change and social media slang
This podcast is a long-form interview series focused on philosophy, broadly construed, and it frequently draws on adjacent fields such as physics, neuroscience, psychology, theology, linguistics, history, and politics. Conversations tend to centre on big-picture questions about what exists, what consciousness is, how the mind relates to the brain, and whether materialism can account for subjective experience. Several discussions examine altered or minimal forms of experience, meditation and “spiritual” practice outside traditional theism, and debates over whether consciousness might be fundamental.
A recurring theme is philosophy of religion and the intellectual case for and against God. The show regularly treats classical arguments (first cause, fine-tuning, ontological arguments), questions about evidence and belief, and critiques of common apologetic or atheist talking points. It also explores religious traditions and texts from a scholarly angle, including Hindu philosophy (especially non-dualism), early Christianity, Biblical interpretation and translation, and historical claims about Jesus and the early church. Alongside doctrinal questions, guests often address how faith, doubt, and ethics intersect with modern science and contemporary culture.
Another strand covers science and its limits: cosmology and the origins of the universe, quantum theory and determinism, the nature of time, and what scientific explanation can and cannot provide. The podcast also engages with present-day issues such as artificial intelligence and existential risk, social media’s influence on language and attention, political developments, and the psychology of belief and persuasion, including cult dynamics. Occasional episodes adopt a more informal format, using puzzles and audience questions to clarify philosophical concepts and reasoning.
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Episodes:
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#150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson
2026-Apr-08
57 minutes
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#149 My Problem With C.S. Lewis - Philip Pullman
2026-Apr-02
87 minutes
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#149 Blaise Pascal: Philosopher, Mathematician, Genius - Graham Tomlin
2026-Mar-25
94 minutes
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#147 What is PURE Consciousness? - Thomas Metzinger
2026-Mar-18
123 minutes
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#146 The Most Complicated Thing in the Universe: What is the Brain?
2026-Mar-08
144 minutes
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#145 The Algorithm is God Now - The Etymology Nerd
2026-Mar-04
75 minutes
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#144 Sam Harris - Spirituality for Atheists.
2026-Feb-25
112 minutes
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#143 Hinduism, Consciousness and Advaita Vedanta - Swami Sarvapriyananda
2026-Feb-16
115 minutes
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Atheist Slogans You Should Stop Using - Joe Schmid
2026-Feb-08
175 minutes
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#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars
2026-Feb-03
101 minutes
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#140 Sean Carroll - The Limits of Scientific Explanation
2026-Jan-26
79 minutes
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#139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods
2026-Jan-18
109 minutes
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#138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians
2026-Jan-11
95 minutes
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#137 Debunking Arguments for God - Graham Oppy
2026-Jan-04
100 minutes
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#136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton
2025-Dec-26
59 minutes
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#135 Christmas Isn't What You Think - John Nelson
2025-Dec-20
79 minutes
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1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle
2025-Dec-19
62 minutes
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#133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness
2025-Dec-07
132 minutes
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#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?
2025-Nov-30
94 minutes
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#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?
2025-Nov-27
61 minutes
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#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian
2025-Nov-16
78 minutes
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#129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence
2025-Nov-09
79 minutes
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#128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense
2025-Nov-02
114 minutes
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#127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller
2025-Oct-26
61 minutes
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#126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast
2025-Oct-19
71 minutes
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#125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is?
2025-Oct-12
62 minutes
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#124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis
2025-Oct-05
91 minutes
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#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?
2025-Sep-28
81 minutes
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#122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain
2025-Sep-21
83 minutes
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#121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes
2025-Sep-16
100 minutes
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#120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God
2025-Sep-10
119 minutes
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#119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics
2025-Sep-01
65 minutes
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#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic
2025-Aug-24
93 minutes
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#117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God
2025-Aug-17
88 minutes
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#116 Peter Godfrey Smith - Animal Consciousness: What Can We Know?
2025-Aug-10
116 minutes
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#115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang?
2025-Aug-04
120 minutes
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#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?
2025-Jul-28
81 minutes
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#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?
2025-Jul-21
60 minutes
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#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?
2025-Jul-13
114 minutes
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#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus
2025-Jul-06
85 minutes
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#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It
2025-Jul-01
76 minutes
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#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America
2025-Jun-22
68 minutes
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#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?
2025-Jun-16
66 minutes
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#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
2025-Jun-12
87 minutes
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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History
2025-May-29
58 minutes
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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God
2025-May-22
102 minutes
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#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?
2025-May-04
92 minutes
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#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity
2025-Apr-20
112 minutes
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#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
2025-Apr-07
115 minutes
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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
2025-Apr-02
80 minutes
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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
2025-Mar-23
188 minutes
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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
2025-Mar-17
116 minutes
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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
2025-Mar-10
141 minutes
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#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
2025-Mar-02
135 minutes
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#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
2025-Mar-01
61 minutes
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#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
2025-Jan-31
83 minutes
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#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
2025-Jan-27
79 minutes
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#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
2025-Jan-21
69 minutes
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#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
2024-Dec-20
61 minutes
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#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience
2024-Dec-13
84 minutes
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#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion
2024-Dec-06
97 minutes
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#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art
2024-Nov-28
61 minutes
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#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity
2024-Nov-22
62 minutes
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#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin
2024-Nov-13
166 minutes
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#86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID
2024-Oct-31
98 minutes
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#85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis
2024-Oct-28
96 minutes
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#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs
2024-Sep-22
58 minutes
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#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge
2024-Sep-15
109 minutes
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#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer
2024-Sep-09
149 minutes
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#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe
2024-Sep-01
61 minutes
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#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA
2024-Aug-25
52 minutes
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#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan
2024-Aug-11
68 minutes
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#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical
2024-Jul-29
108 minutes
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#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?
2024-Jul-21
110 minutes
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#76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve
2024-Jul-16
119 minutes
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#75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles
2024-Jul-07
146 minutes
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#74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism?
2024-Jun-30
79 minutes
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#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid!
2024-Jun-23
155 minutes
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#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like?
2024-Jun-16
64 minutes
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#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism
2024-Jun-09
79 minutes
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#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy
2024-Jun-02
79 minutes
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#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine
2024-May-26
100 minutes
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#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?
2024-May-19
83 minutes
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#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?
2024-May-13
69 minutes
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#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?
2024-May-05
59 minutes
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#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh
2024-Apr-28
104 minutes
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#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis
2024-Apr-21
69 minutes
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#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?
2024-Apr-14
62 minutes
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#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA
2024-Apr-07
34 minutes
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#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?
2024-Mar-31
175 minutes
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#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think
2024-Mar-24
63 minutes
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#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?
2024-Mar-17
66 minutes
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#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?
2024-Mar-10
84 minutes
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#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real
2024-Mar-05
95 minutes
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#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke
2024-Feb-18
52 minutes
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#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?
2024-Feb-11
56 minutes
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#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?
2024-Feb-05
109 minutes
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#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy
2024-Jan-28
57 minutes
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#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture
2024-Jan-20
58 minutes
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#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling
2024-Jan-15
64 minutes
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#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere
2024-Jan-07
88 minutes
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#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?
2023-Dec-23
63 minutes
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#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God
2023-Dec-16
93 minutes
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#47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem?
2023-Dec-09
92 minutes
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#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis
2023-Dec-04
92 minutes
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#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too
2023-Nov-06
77 minutes
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#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?
2023-Oct-19
64 minutes
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#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview
2023-Oct-16
59 minutes
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#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback
2023-Oct-04
61 minutes
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#41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
2023-Sep-24
76 minutes
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#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism
2023-Sep-08
108 minutes
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#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans
2023-Aug-20
88 minutes
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#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?
2023-Jul-30
67 minutes
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#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?
2023-Jul-24
65 minutes
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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy
2023-Jun-25
115 minutes
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#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?
2023-Jun-19
90 minutes
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#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness
2023-Jun-07
100 minutes
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#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell?
2023-May-29
69 minutes
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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics
2023-May-22
135 minutes
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#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism
2023-May-14
63 minutes
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#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery
2023-May-07
98 minutes
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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil
2023-Apr-30
58 minutes
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#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat?
2023-Apr-23
46 minutes
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#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?
2023-Apr-18
126 minutes
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#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists
2023-Apr-09
66 minutes
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#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?
2023-Apr-02
71 minutes
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#24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?
2023-Mar-26
63 minutes
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#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations
2023-Mar-19
63 minutes
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#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?
2023-Mar-12
67 minutes
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#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil
2023-Mar-12
73 minutes
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#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List
2022-Jun-17
114 minutes
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#19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion?
2022-Jun-07
62 minutes
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#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered
2022-Apr-21
76 minutes
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#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
2022-Apr-21
85 minutes
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#16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust
2020-Nov-20
64 minutes
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#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
2020-Sep-09
54 minutes
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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument
2020-Jun-21
75 minutes
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#13 — Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up?
2020-May-24
65 minutes
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#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children?
2020-Apr-26
87 minutes
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#11 — Douglas Murray | Gender and Activism
2019-Nov-25
83 minutes
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#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God
2019-Sep-19
44 minutes
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#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated
2019-Sep-13
115 minutes
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#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism?
2019-Aug-28
72 minutes
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#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds
2019-Aug-09
52 minutes
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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
2019-Jul-21
90 minutes
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#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian
2019-Jun-12
108 minutes
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