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off of today. We're looking at a popular apologetic argument for God this week but later

on in the program after I've finished my debate between the two guests, you'll be hearing

me sit down with Andrew Sims, author of the new book Mad or God Jesus the Healthiest Mind.

Look out for that at the end of today's program right now though, it's time to get into today's

show.

Well today we're debating the Column Cosmological Argument. In the second of two philosophical

deep dive shows on cosmological arguments we're debating what has effectively become one

of the most popular arguments in Christian apologetics in recent years. The Column Cosmological

Argument posits that everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to

exist. The universe has a cause and that cause is God or we'll be diving a lot deeper into

those premises and seeing how my guests actually formulate them in the course of today's show.

But this is an argument that was actually first developed by medieval Islamic scholars

and it's enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years thanks to leading Christian

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