1535: Atheism Meets Theism: A Respectful Conversation - Randy Bell and Allan Mount
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 166 minutes
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Summary
After two amazing episodes exploring Randy Bell’s journey from Mormonism to Progressive Christianity, we invited the host of Marriage on a Tightrope podcast and outspoken atheist Allan Mount on for a respectful discussion about epistemology, anti-theism, death, and much more!
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Show Notes:
- "What God, Quantum Mechanics, and Consciousness Have in Common," by John Horgan, Scientific American, August 14, 2021
- The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins
- How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian
- "Bridging the Divide: A Scientist's Search for Faith and Truth," Up First by NPR, January 23, 2021
- The Science of Near-Death Experiences by John C. Hagan
- Allan Mount TikTok
- Allan Mount Instagram
- Marriage on a Tightrope with Allan and Kattie Mount
- Marriage on a Tightrope Facebook Community
- Find an LGBTQ+-Affirming Church
- Randy Bell's research papers referenced in the episode:
- "The Scientific Method and the Valuation Process," The Bureau of National Affairs, 2016
- "Real Estate Research Methods," The Appraisal Journal, 2015
- "Where Art Meets Science Statistics," Valuation Strategies, 2016
- "Junk Science Versus the Scientific Method," Bloomberg BNA, 2017
- "Basic Due Diligence," Environmental Claims Journal, 2001
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmestores podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:04.3 | John DeLin. It is January 18th, 2022. We are on part three of an epic interview with Dr. |
| 0:12.0 | Randy Bell. Hey, Randy Bell. Hey, Dr. John DeLin. Welcome back. It's great to be back. |
| 0:17.4 | Thank you. Yeah. We did six hours with Randy Bell. The first three hours were about his |
| 0:23.1 | Orange County Mormon story. And it's just another one of those classic long form, really |
| 0:28.9 | interesting journeys where Randy was raised as a Mormon in Orange County, did all the Mormon stuff, |
| 0:35.3 | had a faith crisis and came out a little bit destabilized. And then part two of our interview was |
| 0:41.8 | Randy talking about how he investigated atheism, agnosticism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. |
| 0:51.0 | And how he settled into Christianity as an identity as a belief system, as a form of spiritual |
| 0:58.8 | morality and as approach to life. And I would say the type of Christianity is kind of like relaxed, |
| 1:07.1 | low key, non-judgmental, compassionate, flexible, non-literal necessarily at times, but still |
| 1:15.0 | believing in faithful Christianity. And that's what parts one and two were. Randy, anything else |
| 1:20.0 | you want to add to that? I would just say non-dogmatic. I'm anti-dogma. Anti-dogma Christian. Yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | And so what we thought would be super cool would be to have a hardcore, vicious, |
| 1:34.8 | severe, just, just mean-spirited atheists on the name of Alan Mount. |
| 1:42.8 | Dr. Dr. I have a bachelor's degree in economics. I want you both to know. |
| 1:47.5 | And I've never used it once. Alan Mounts in the House. Alan Mount is co-host of the |
| 1:55.4 | Marigian Ataj Robe podcast with his dear wife, Katie, who's actually smarter than Alan, which is |
| 2:01.6 | not easy. It's true. She opted not to come today. And that was that is clear evidence of her intellect. |
| 2:10.9 | Now happy to be here. Thanks for having me. It's good to have you on. And Alan is not only |
| 2:15.8 | co-host of Marigian Ataj Robe. He's also a hardcore TikToker. You've got like 200,000 followers |
| 2:22.7 | on TikTok. Is that right? I'm not counting, but it's 179.9. But who's counting? Who's counting? |
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