Welcome to the podcast Think Vivically, conversations about faith and culture.

I'm your host Sean McDowell Professor of Christian Apologetics at

Taubet School of Theology viola University. Today we have a special bonus

release so to speak based on a recent conversation that I had with Hemmett Meta who's known as the

Friendly Atheist he's a popular blogger podcaster a youtuber and has become a recognizable voice in the atheist community.

And this is a public conversation we had in Portland as a part of the radio show Unbelievable hosted by Justin Briarley. and each of us came up with two

misconceptions we think the other side has about our position and then we simply

discuss these misconceptions I think you'll find it interesting, enlightening, and

encouraging, both in terms of the content, but also in terms of the tone in which the dialogue

took place. So enjoy, and as as always if you find it beneficial

consider sharing with a friend.

Tonight we're simply titling the discussion a friendly atheist and a friendly

Christian have a dialogue on faith it's pretty open-ended to be honest but

it's great to have these two who are already

friends I can see from the fist bump.

Let me introduce them first of all though.

A big thank you first of all to Sean for coming in and

and being our Christian representative on the show today. Sean you've been

with me on the program a few times before. I'll give you your formal introduction though.

Sean McDowell is a Christian writer and Bible scholar,

associate professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University,

and regularly engages in dialogues with skeptics and atheists he's the author of

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