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🗓️ 29 September 2022
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Unbelievably with Justin Brielly. |
0:18.2 | Hello welcome back to the show Justin Brielly here with another classic replay from our |
0:22.1 | unbelievable archive and going back this week to a two-parter from November 2012. |
0:28.0 | This was the first of two shows where I was joined by Tim Morsehn, the Oxford philosopher, |
0:33.1 | whose paper, praying to stop being an atheist, inspired something that we called the atheist |
0:38.6 | prayer experiment. |
0:39.6 | This was a really memorable set of shows. |
0:42.2 | It was part of a big project at the time. |
0:44.7 | 71 Atheists and Agnostics signed up to this experiment, committing to pray for God |
0:49.2 | to reveal himself to them over 40 days. |
0:51.8 | Well, did anyone end up believing in God? |
0:54.7 | We'd revealed the results and heard from a variety of people who took part, including Andrew, |
0:59.7 | Kendra, Laura and Frecki, as well as exploring questions that arose. |
1:04.0 | And we confronted questions such as, was this really an experiment? |
1:07.6 | What does an atheist pray anyway? |
1:09.6 | Does it matter which God has been prayed to do the results have any bearing on the question |
1:13.6 | of God's existence? |
1:15.4 | So lots to get stuck into it as we unpack how that prayer experiment went a decade ago. |
1:22.2 | Just before we do a reminder that unbelievable is no longer just this one show. |
1:25.8 | It's the umbrella ministry under which we're bringing you many, many great conversations |
1:30.0 | and resources. |
1:31.0 | We are Premier, Unbelievable, Faith Explored. |
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