You're The Bill. Bill, this dialogue with this young man, came to a crescendo, almost like it was scripted by, yeah, by getting to the bottom line, are you willing

to pay this kind of a price to have this.

Kevin, I thought that was...

Oh, that's great because for me I felt that happening in the conversation and it wasn't scripted and I think the

takeaway here is that this is a lesson for all Christian apologists who engage in the defense of the faith.

The goal of apologetics is not to give a knock-down argument to your conversation partner that forces him to change his view.

Rather, the goal of Christian apologetics is to raise the intellectual price tag that the

unbeliever has to pay in order to resist the premises of your argument. For any argument you give, you can always avoid the conclusion if you're willing to deny one of those premises.

But what we want to do is to simply raise the intellectual price tag

as high as we can in the hope that our conversation partner will say to himself,

it's not worth it.

Being skeptical of this premise has far too high a price tag such as denying my own existence to pay and therefore

I'm going to accept the premise. Yeah.

You have chosen, Bill, one of the questions of the week,

as a result of, that we received as a result of,

this dialogue with the Cosmic Skeptic and let's talk about that for just a little bit.

Go over here's let me read the question and then we'll go over. This dialogue with Alex is remarkable in its reach.

The last time I looked, it had received nearly 170,000 views just on cosmic skeptics own channel, not to speak of

on the reasonable faith channel and as you say a couple of Muslims

have responded to it I've gotten numerous emails from people talking about it it

really has generated a lot of interest,

including, as you say, this question of the week

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