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The Counsel of Trent

#509 – Why atheists should bet on God (with Liz Jackson)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent sits down with philosopher Liz Jackson to discuss Pascal’s wager and how one could make a “prudential argument” for the existence of God.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:10.4

Welcome everyone to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.4

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:15.2

I am with Dr. Liz Jackson, Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto.

0:23.5

Now, I knew I'm figured it's philosophy because you have a specialty in epistemology, how

0:28.8

we know what we know, right?

0:30.4

Yep, exactly.

0:31.6

So my dissertation actually kind of focused on belief and like rational belief, but then

0:36.6

I'm also really interested in, you know, knowledge and most people think rational belief

0:40.1

is a part of knowledge.

0:41.2

So, so all of that stuff I'm really interested in and then kind of applying that to philosophy

0:45.6

religion as well.

0:46.6

Well, I'm super excited because we are here also recording live at the capturing Christianity

0:51.9

conference.

0:52.9

So you're a speaker at the conference.

0:55.0

I'm one of the speakers and it's just fun to meet other people, especially professors

1:00.8

who are interested in providing sound reasons for Christian belief because there's not a

1:07.4

lot of them out there, but it's nice to meet them.

1:09.8

Yeah, yeah, it's actually kind of interesting within philosophy as a whole.

1:13.1

I think it's less than 20% that are theus.

1:15.8

But then when you look at the philosophers of religion, I think like 70% plus percent

1:20.3

are theus.

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