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Bill Trent Horn is a Catholic philosopher and aologist who defended you and the column

against the Skydive Phil videos to which you also responded by the way.

Trent has a podcast called Council of Trent and in it he says your name and he says that

you're and James Sinclair's work on the column and the black well companion to natural theology

is one of the best ever. However, he does offer what he thinks strengthens the column

in a recent video and he also cites Andrew Locke's work on the column. So Bill before we watch

these video seconds let me ask. Did any of these suggestions of Trent Horn catch you by surprise?

Not really Kevin these are fairly familiar objections in the literature and I have

responded to them. The only one that was new to me was near the end that paper passing

paradox which bears all the messages of Alexander Bruce very very clever and I enjoyed

what he had to say about that. We'll show that to our viewers later on but I appreciate his

support. My only correction would be that he continues to perpetrate this baffling misunderstanding

that I'm arguing that the existence of an actually infinite number of things is logically

contradictory which is not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that it's metaphysically impossible

but not that there is some sort of a strict logical contradiction in the notion of an actually

infinite number of things. We're going to skip some of the introductory remarks in the video but

Trent does mention that the view of time you often refer to he called it presentism is not as

popular as other current views of time and is therefore a potential weakness in the calum.

Any thoughts on that? Well in fact philosophers are fairly evenly divided Kevin on the nature

of time. The question is whether time is tensed or tenseless and the key factor here would be

whether you believe that temporal becoming is an objective feature of reality or merely a

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