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The Counsel of Trent

#574 – DIALOGUE: Does the Kalam argument work? (with Alex Malpass)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent sits down with Alex Malpass, one of the foremost critics of the kalam cosmological argument, to discuss objections Trent raised in his previous rebuttals of SkyDivePhil’s documentary on the argument.

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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.

0:12.4

I'm your host, Cathergantz's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:15.9

So recently I've been talking a lot about the Kalam Cosmological argument, and I'm excited

0:21.0

for the guests I'm going to dialogue with today because he's written a lot about the

0:25.3

argument. He's a critic of it, but a very thoughtful one.

0:29.0

And I think our exchange will be helpful to see things that we might agree about when

0:33.8

it comes to the argument where we disagree about and help people to explore this very popular

0:39.6

argument that's very multifaceted, if you will.

0:44.0

So well, further ado, my guest today is Alex Malpass.

0:47.1

He is a philosopher.

0:48.6

I want to say I should have your bio printed out.

0:51.0

University of Bristol.

0:52.8

Well, no, I'm well, I did my PhD there.

0:55.5

I worked there for a little bit.

0:56.8

I don't currently work there.

0:58.8

Okay, but I did connect.

1:01.0

I was like, he has something with University of Bristol.

1:04.0

But you're a philosopher.

1:06.4

You've published several papers on this on another issues.

1:09.3

But yeah, feel free to tell people a little bit more about yourself.

1:13.6

Well, that is probably enough.

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