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When believers argue that God exists, what mistakes do they make? What are their errors in logic as well as in fact? Whoever wants to believe in God must not use arguments...

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Fallacies in Arguing for God?

Episode 10

Season 16

26:48

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How on earth could God be reconciled with massive, monstrous Evil? If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is the creator, wouldn’t God be responsible for evil?

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Is God Responsible for Evil?

Episode 02

Season 14

26:47

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The more I want God to exist, the more I must question proofs of God’s existence. “Bad arguments for God” scare me. Maybe all the “God...

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Fallacies in Proving God Exists

Episode 01

Season 09

26:46

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If I seek God and avoid “the problem of evil,” I fool myself. If there is a God, evil is God’s hardest problem. If there is no God, evil is No-God’s...

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Can God Face Up Evil?

Episode 09

Season 10

26:46

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Arguments for God, and against God, each call the universe as witness, each count the universe as evidence. God believers invoke the universe’s apparent fine-tuning....

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Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?

Episode 08

Season 06

26:45

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Agnostics claim that they do not know whether or not God exists. Theists surmise they’re reprobates. Atheists suppose they’re cowards. Are there different kinds...

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Arguing for Agnosticism?

Episode 10

Season 06

26:45

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Theologians have no tougher task than explaining evil, its enormity even more than its existence. Give the clergy their due: they’ve devised clever, even profound,...

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Does Evil Disprove God?

Episode 08

Season 02

26:46

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Turn the tables on whether God exists. Atheists take their best shots at disproving God; theists deflect the arguments, defending God. Atheists come harder still; theists...

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Arguments for Atheism?

Episode 11

Season 02

26:46

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All who affirm that God does exist should examine the strong attacks of those who conclude that God does not exist, and then assess the sharp counterattacks of scholarly...

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Arguments Against God?

Episode 05

Season 04

26:45

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Whether extra-terrestrial intelligences exist has profound implications for human religion. We are either alone or not alone in the universe, but no matter the ultimate...

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Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?

Episode 07

Season 04

26:46

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Believers in God should be appalled when poor arguments are offered to ‘prove’ the existence of God. These arguments can be so bad that one might think the...

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Fallacies in Arguing for God?

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1:23:16

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The more we want God to exist, the more we must question so-called ‘proofs’ of God’s existence. God likely appreciates skeptics, those who genuinely seek...

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Fallacies in Proving God Exists?

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1:43

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Theists must consider arguments against God. They should assess both the strong attacks of atheists and the counterattacks of scholarly believers who try to rebut...

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Arguments Against God?

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45:31

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Arguments that seek to show God does not exist are incredibly important. Why? Because God is not a game. Believing in the existence of God is a massive conclusion about...

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Arguments Contra God?

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1:08:46

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Turn the tables on God’s existence. Start with atheism, not with theism. Atheists take their best shots at disproving God; theists in turn defend God, deflecting...

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Arguments for Atheism?

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1:28:59

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Atheism fields two kinds of arguments denying the existence of God: arguments that refute so-called ‘proofs’ of God’s existence and arguments that...

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Atheism’s Best Arguments? (Part 1)

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57:25

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Atheism fields two kinds of arguments denying the existence of God: arguments that refute so-called ‘proofs’ of God’s existence and arguments that...

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Atheism's Best Arguments? (Part 2)

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56:56

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Let’s understand the arguments of atheism. Let’s examine both kinds of anti-God arguments: those that refute the existence of God and those that promote the...

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Atheism's Arguments Against God

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1:27:02

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Is atheism a belief system, a new ‘faith’ as it were, in the same way that atheists claim that theism is a belief system? Atheists reject this attack asserting...

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Is Atheism a New Faith?

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56:07

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Agnostics do not know whether or not God exists. Theists surmise they’re reprobates. Atheists suppose they’re cowards. Are there different kinds of agnostics? Can...

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Arguments for Agnosticism?

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59:56

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The Problem of Evil troubles believers, and well it should. The moral evil of human acts. The natural evil of nature. How could God be both all powerful and all good?...

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Does Evil Disprove God? (Part II)

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1:07:45

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The problem of evil troubles believers and well it should. How to explain the moral evil of human acts and the natural evil of nature? How could God be both all-powerful and...

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Does Evil Disprove God? (Part I)

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1:08:56

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Evil is a high hurdle for theists. Given the savagery of moral evil (what humans do to humans) and the horrors of natural evil (earthquakes, tsunamis, disease), how could an...

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Does Evil Refute God's Existence?

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The burden must be on the theist to explain monstrous evils. How could God be a personal God, who cares about every human being, indeed every creature, and yet who allows...

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Does Evil Abolish God?

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47:32

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Theists who believe in God and avoid the problem of evil delude themselves. If there is a God, evil is God’s hardest problem to explain. If there is no God, evil is the...

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Can God Face Up To Evil?

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48:18

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Whether alien intelligences exist has profound implications for religion. We are either alone or not alone in the universe, but no matter the ultimate answer, theists and...

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Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?

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38:28

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The Judeo-Christian religion teaches that human beings are special in God’s sight, the core of God’s purpose for creating the universe. What then if intelligent...

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Would Sentient Aliens Demoralize Religion?

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40:42

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Contributors

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Denis Alexander

Emeritus Director, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge

Michael Almeida

Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, San Antonio

Peter Atkins

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Francisco Ayala

Former University Professor, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

Nick Bostrom

Professor; Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Kutter Callaway

The William K. Brehm Chair of Worship, Theology, and the Arts; Associate Dean of the Center for Advanced Theological Studies; Associate Professor of Theology and Culture, Fuller University