You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 290 and I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right got a really cool episode for you today.

Here's the thing this is again one of those that I was actually going to do two parts and then I got incredibly

sensitive to the fact that you guys are really supportive. I value your time a lot and I thought the second part would have been a little

little too repetitive and so I bailed on that idea I'm giving it to you all at once

this is a cost to me because I have to adjust things and make sure

the schedule works out so I can provide great episodes for you on a two episode per week basis.

It's not easy, but I just wanted to let you guys know that I really, really do value your

listenership and I wanted to make sure that you wouldn't have felt at all, I don't know, maybe unsatisfied with the part two.

That being said, taken in a whole, I really like this episode a ton of the first part we go through

the, so the first half we go through the so the first half we go through the simulation argument. It's great. I love the argument. It's fascinating really cool topic and in part two which well was going to be part two, in the second half, we try to, I have a, what I think is an issue with the argument, I try to voice that and Phil tries to get back at me a little bit with that and we go back and forth.

So with that being said, let's get to a nice long episode with Phil Torres on the simulation argument. So interesting to me. Joining me right now back for what I think is the third time. I think that's right.

All right third time the three-pete guest Phil Torres how you doing good how are you doing I'm doing great

excellent the first time you're here to talk about your book the end what science and religion

tell us about the apocalypse and then you were back to talk about your skeptic article about the

future of terrorism and now I am really excited to talk to you about the

simulation argument I saw you post something about it and it gave me an indication

that you have a more technical knowledge of it than I do and I'm excited because I've been wanting

to talk to somebody about this. So really excited, but before we do that, why

don't you take a minute and tell new listeners who maybe weren't back with us before,

who you, a little bit about who you are and what you're doing.

Sure, yeah, so what you're doing.

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