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Welcome back everybody to the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast.

Today I am joined by Joe Schmidt of the Majesty of Reason and we're going to be doing something a little bit different.

We're going to be taking popular arguments for the existence of God and putting them into a tear list.

Now I'm sure someone's done this before.

Once again, it seems I am shamelessly ripping off one of genetically modified skeptics ideas.

But one has to follow suit now that he is the most subscribed channel in our little niche.

Congratulations I guess.

So we're going to change the steel that idea and have a conversation about which arguments are good, which arguments are bad.

And why? And joining me to do so as I say is Joe Schmidt, Joe, why don't you tell the people about yourself?

Yeah, so like you said, I'm Joe. I have a channel called The Majesty of Reason where I have philosophers come on my channel to have discussions

and I also make lecture videos of my own on various topics pertaining to philosophy religion, apologetics, counter-apologetics, things like that.

And I also do scholarly work in philosophy. So I publish books in papers and so on.

Actually on various of these arguments. So for instance the column, I've got a lot of papers under review right now and I've also published on it.

So yeah, Joe has been cropping up kind of all over the place in the kind of YouTube philosophy sphere and you should definitely be watching his channel.

If you have the time because of course you just uploaded a 12 hour long video discussing a hundred arguments at the existence of God.

150 and responding to them systematically with like actual scholarly content.

12 hours long. So if you have the time and effort and interest to then do go and check out Joe's channel, they're not all 12 hours.

So it's definitely worth checking out. But let's jump into things. So why don't we begin Joe with an all time favorite of mine, which is the contingency argument.

Now I've never done a tier list before, but I understand we have an S tier and an A, B, C, D, E, F. And what does S stand for?

It's either superb or superlative. It's one of the two like super or something like the sublime.

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