Episode 129: Is Faith Rational?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2015

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Gilmour (Christian Humanist podcast) and Rob Dyer (God Complex Radio) join Mark and Wes for to discuss the reasonableness of religious belief reading Antony Flew's "The Presumption of Atheism," Norwood Russell Hanson's "The Agnostic's Dilemma," Steven Cahn's "The Irrelevance of Proof to Religion," Alvin Plantinga's "Is Belief in God Properly Basic?" Merold Westphal's "Sin and Reason," Basil Mitchell's "Faith and Criticism," Peter van Inwagen's "Clifford's Principle," William Alston's "Experience in Religious Belief," Richard Swinburne's "The Voluntariness of Faith" and "The World and Its Order," and Paul Helm's "Faith and Merit." Read synopses of all these at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

End song: "Let Us Meet" by Mark Lint, setting an old poem by Kim Casey Linsenmayer.

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0:30.0	You're listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys,
0:36.2	who are at one point, said on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.
0:40.4	Our question for episode 129 is something like, is religious faith irrational?
0:44.9	We read a bunch of snippets of articles presented in the final chapter of Paul Helms 1999,
0:49.8	Oxford Reader, Faith and Reason, which includes selections by Anthony Flew, Alvin Plantica, Richard
0:55.5	Swinburn, William Alston, Peter Van Inwagen, and others.
0:59.3	You can join the discussion, get the text, and lots more information at partiallyexaminalife.com.
1:04.0	This is Mark Linson Mayer, broadcasting from the atheist hermeneutic circle in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:09.2	This is Wes Alman in Godless Boston, Massachusetts.
1:14.5	This is Nathan Gilmore, both a sinner and fine-ity in Athens, Georgia.
1:19.3	And this is Rob Dyer, an evidentially beautiful Belville, Illinois.
1:23.7	Alright, so this is a groundbreaking episode for us in that we have two guests that don't know each other.
1:30.2	From different things, we've seldom had two guests, and those guys were in the same band.
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