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all day.

First of all, thank you for being here. Appreciate it is thanks for being here.

Appreciate it.

It is great to be here, Joe.

Thanks for having.

I've really enjoyed watching some of your videos online and listening to these arguments.

This idea of intelligent design, my question to you, like right off the

bat was, is this an idea that you, did you have a pre, did you have a notion in your mind already that you were trying to prove or was this something

that you sort of started to believe upon the preponderance of evidence? of philosophical framework that made me open to it. I had a long protracted religious

conversion from late high school all the way through college. It took it was the

last thing from a Damascus road experience.

And how did it happen?

It was a process of philosophical deliberation.

It was not really based on science initially.

I started having weird existential questions when I was 14 years old after I'd broken my leg in a skiing accident.

And questions like, well, what's it going to matter in a hundred years?

There's this great quote from Bertrand Russell where he says you know that all the

noonday genius of human achievement is destined for extinction in the vast heat death of the solar

system. I had never encountered Birch and Russell as a 14 year old but I later

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