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AS137: David Hume, Of Miracles

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Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Portable Atheist, part 6! Rather than claim I will come back to the Portable Atheist in a month and then wait like 4 months as I have previously, I decided to be proactive and get right to it! This time, it's "Of Miracles" by David Hume,  very important work for skepticism. This will be … Continue reading AS137: David Hume, Of Miracles

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to episode 137 of atheistically speaking with your host Thomas Smith.

0:39.0

Okay, so I always make plans and then God laughs at them according to the old saying.

0:47.7

So here was my plan for this week.

0:50.5

You ready for this one?

0:51.9

This will be, this will be funny. I wanted to do a portable atheist and then I wanted to talk about comments on Christina Hoff-Summers that I promised I would get to.

1:07.0

Well, in going over today's portable atheist, I found that it's actually incredibly long and it may take a while and I don't know that I'll have time for both those things.

1:22.0

So I'm going to see, we'll see, Those are my plans. I'm stating my plans ahead of time.

1:26.9

Maybe you and God will both laugh at them. Maybe life will be what happened to me while I was busy making other plans as someone said and

1:36.9

Or maybe I'm a genius and it'll work out but I'm going to do

1:47.8

of miracles by David Hume from the portable atheist. The reason I'm doing this, you may say, oh, we just did a portable atheist.

1:51.8

Well, kind of, three weeks ago, I think it was.

1:54.0

I had said I wanted to do it once a month, and then what would happen is I would let like two, three, four, five months go by and then not do it. So instead of doing that, I'm going to do the

2:05.5

opposite of that, which is to do it before it's even been a month. I'm going to jump

2:09.7

on this because I really like the portable atheist because it's a chance to do some learning, some book learning.

2:16.2

Speaking of book learning, the atheistically speaking book club is going very strong.

2:22.4

We've got I think 29 members in the book

2:26.7

The Goodreads is the website good reads so go to Goodreads and search atheistically speaking maybe in the groups.

2:35.4

I think that's how it'll work.

2:36.8

Or if you still want to join, there's still time.

2:39.1

We've started our book.

2:41.2

It's pale blue dot. We've started that, but it's still very early on.

2:45.4

So you could join and catch up easily if you want to.

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