My guest today is Eric Mataxus, New York Times best-selling author and general, try to describe me because I'll take notes.

You're material. You're material.

You're material.

I, uh, mercurial?

No, no, no, no, no.

I would take issue with that. I hope I'm not really mercurial, but whatever I am, I'm your friend and I'm always excited to be here. Thank you.

We are honored to have you back in Middle Tennessee.

I want to start, you have a new book.

Is atheism dead?

And you answer that very well

spoiler alert

you at least think it's on life support

oh my gosh

it's

you know

i don't i never know where to start with this because it's so crazy

first of all i have to make clear the

reason the book is title is atheism dead is because in 1966 there was a famous or infamous

time magazine cover article that said is God dead.

Kind of you know asking the question is science pushing God and religion out.

You know this was kind of a secular elites decided to dump their depressing theory in the middle of America's living rooms in Time magazine, right?

And so the theory, the thesis of this book is that since then the evidence from science for God has become so strong that it's it's ironic and it's hilarious that science itself the very

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