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There's literally everything to talk about and just under an hour to talk about it. I'm going to be. Hello and this week we're delving back into the archives to bring you a discussion on the question.

Get the gray matter thinking today. Is our mind more than matter?

Let's jump in on today's discussion.

Well that first of all a warm welcome to you Keith.

It's been a long time since we had you on the program.

I think the last time talking about things like

theistic evolution and that sort of thing.

That's some time back. But you're back with us today and we're talking about the area of philosophy of mind.

Is the mind more than matter?

But tell us a little bit of your background.

You're a Christian philosopher and you've pretty much been in this area all of your academic life really haven't you?

Yes I have. I was a philosopher before I was a Christian I should say. I started off as somebody who was

agnostic I think would be the right word to put it and

came to think on philosophical grounds that it was plausible I find it than plausible to see that mind or spirit was more fundamental than matter.

And so given that view I got interested in religion and that went on and I got involved in a church and I became a Christian.

Right. I mean it's interesting obviously one can imagine a form of philosophy persuading someone for a form of theism,

but it's quite a step further to go to Christianity per se and the claims that that makes. Well that is true and a lot of people say that.

But on the other hand, straightforwardly, Christianity is just the most obvious thing around in

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