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Devil’s Advocate Debate - Michael Ruse the theist vs Randal Rauser the atheist

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It’s sometimes said that the best way to understands your opponent’s position is to put yourself in their shoes. Justin hosts an unusual edition of the show, in which his Christian and atheist guests swap roles. Atheist philosopher Michael Ruse defends what he believes are the best arguments for believing in God, while Christian theologian Randal Rauser defends atheism. They discuss the problem of suffering, why there is something rather than nothing, and other evidences for and against Christianity. For Michael Ruse http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/view/full/35805 For Randal Rauser: http://randalrauser.com/ For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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When we put prayers to end extreme poverty into practice, there's no going back.

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Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.

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You see when...

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When we are trained in new skills, we can provide for ourselves.

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Can I carry on? We can grow our own

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vegetables, send our children to school, build our own homes. Do you want to do the

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whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your your prayers into practice, so there's no going back to extreme poverty.

0:27.0

To donate, search for Tier Fund, no going back.

0:30.0

Well, good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievable. I'm Justin B Justin Brile your host for the next hour and a half here on the program as part of faith explored every Saturday on Premier Christian radio that brings different perspectives together for dialogue and debate.

0:44.0

And we're doing something very different on today's program.

0:47.0

I'll explain why we're doing a Devil's Advocate Show in a moment's time and who my guests are. But if you're unfamiliar with

0:54.0

unbelievable why not go and make yourself a bit more familiar by visiting the

0:58.2

webpage premier Christian radio dot com slash unbelievable you can explore past shows loads of different topics and

1:05.0

guests that we've had on over the years you can find the podcast you can find

1:08.7

videos blogs features and much more and don't forget that very soon in February will be adding details of Unbelievable the conference

1:16.3

2016 taking place on the 2nd of July.

1:19.5

Later on on today's programme you'll be hearing some feedback to last week's show.

1:23.0

Fice to debate on whether gay marriage is good or bad for children,

1:27.0

so we'll be hearing what you had to say about that.

1:30.0

And later on today if you're listening to the profile between four and five then you'll

1:33.7

hear Sam Hale speaking to author Amy Bouchapai about being an American settling

1:38.4

down in the UK in experience she describes in her latest book. So lots to look forward to this Saturday

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