Graham Oppy & Guillaume Bignon • Rationality, Religious Experience and the Case for God

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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The Big Conversation - Episode 4 | Season 4 Why do people convert to belief in God? Is it rational do so? Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, Australia and a well-known atheist thinker and author. He engages with Guillaume Bignon a Christian philosopher from France whose book ‘Confessions of a French Atheist’ tells the story of his adult conversion to Christianity. For bonus content e-book, updates and more shows sign up at http://www.thebigconversation.show Take our survey! https://survey-star.net/oppy For Graham Oppy: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/graham-oppy For Guillaume Bignon: https://www.tyndale.com/p/confessions-of-a-french-atheist/9781496443021 The Big Conversation is a video series from Unbelievable? featuring world-class thinkers across the religious and non-religious community. Exploring science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human. The Big Conversation is produced by Premier in partnership with John Templeton Foundation. • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training-and-events • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0	I think that some elements in my story speak of providential design in ways that are a little
0:13.9	bit more expected if Christianity is true than they are if atheism is true.
0:18.6	There are lots of things in life that happen that really are merely coincidental.
0:22.0	I went online and ordered Gramps' book, Is There A God?
0:26.4	And 26 minutes later, I had an invitation in my mailbox to debate Gramape on the existence
0:32.6	of God and related questions.
0:34.0	Graham, there you go.
0:35.5	God using your book to prove his existence.
0:39.2	You're listening to Unbelievably with Justin Briley.
0:47.4	Hello and welcome to what is the fourth episode of our fourth season of the Big Conversation
0:52.3	here on Premiere Unbelievably.
0:53.9	I'm Justin Briley and today joined by atheist philosopher Graham Opie and Christian philosopher
0:59.2	and convert Guillaume Bignon.
1:01.4	And as usual, I would love to know what you think of their dialogue.
1:04.9	We've got a brief survey you can fill out, it's multi-choice and really quick.
1:09.6	It's available with today's show.
1:11.4	We've also got a bonus e-book to send you.
1:14.4	You might remember that in the last season of the Big Conversation, Bishop Robert Barron
1:17.7	and Cosmic Skeptic Alex O'Connor sat down to debate God and atheism.
1:22.2	So we've got a special e-book of their show and of all the essays and pieces that we
1:27.1	produced around that.
1:28.4	You'll receive that when you register for our newsletter.
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