Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast.

I'm your host, John Carroll.

And like many of the guests here on Mindscape, I am fortunate enough to have a Wikipedia page

about myself.

I mean, it's not that I have it because I didn't make it or edit it, but it's there.

You can go to Wikipedia.

And for some reason, recently I did go to it.

I don't even visit it that often.

And I don't edit it myself.

So I was interested to see that most of my Wikipedia page is about religion and atheism.

Not all of it, it does talk about my research a little bit, but a lot of it is about my

philosophical religious views, the debates that I've had about religion and things like that,

which is interesting to me because in my self conception, it's perfectly fair.

I am an atheist.

I've talked about it a lot, no question about that.

But it's still a small part, relatively speaking of who I am and what I do.

But it speaks to the fact that people are interested, right?

That these are issues that matter to people.

The physics is there, but the religion, or the atheism, that's what's really important.

And it's not wrong to be interested in these issues.

The nature of the universe includes the question of whether or not it is mostly a naturalistic

universe or some kind of theistic or spiritual or beyond naturalistic universe in some sense.

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