#516 – The agnostic case against atheism (with Joe Schmid)

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In this episode Trent sits down with agnostic philosopher Joe Schmid to discuss the arguments against atheism as well as an argument for God that intrigues Joe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Cathering Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:15.0	I'm very excited for today's interview.
0:18.0	The guests who are having on, I think he's done a lot of great work when it comes to the philosophy of religion.
0:24.0	And even though we come to dramatically different conclusions when it comes to the philosophy of religion,
0:29.0	we have a lot in common when it comes to how we should engage this subject matter.
0:34.0	So I'm very excited to introduce him.
0:36.0	Our guest today is Mr. Joe Schmid.
0:38.0	He is a undergrad in philosophy at Purdue University.
0:42.0	He also has a zone YouTube channel, Magistie of Reason, where he takes a,
0:48.0	I would say a higher level approach to engaging arguments for against the existence of God.
0:53.0	And today we're going to talk about the agnostic case against atheism.
0:59.0	What do we mean by that?
1:00.0	Joe will help us learn a bit more about that.
1:02.0	But Joe, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
1:05.0	Thank you for having me.
1:06.0	I'm really excited for this.
1:07.0	And yeah, I definitely see a kind of unity in our approach, which is, it's wonderful.
1:11.0	Yeah, so if anyone's seen the, the previous channel,
1:15.0	Joe has offered some reflections on my previous statements that I've given in my debate
1:21.0	to Alex O'Connor and Ben Watkins.
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