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Logos, mind and making sense of the world - Raymond Tallis & David Bentley Hart

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Einstein said: “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible”. In his new book ‘Logos: The mystery of how we make sense of the world’ atheist philosopher Raymond Tallis explores various explanations of why we have minds capable of understanding the universe.  US theologian/philosopher David Bentley Hart author of ‘The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss’ joins the conversation to debate whether God is the ground of consciousness and our sense-making abilities. For ‘Logos’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logos-mystery-make-sense-world/dp/1788210875  For ‘The Experience of God’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Experience-God-Being-Consciousness-Bliss/dp/0300209355   Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk  For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0

Good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievably. I'm Justin Briley. This is the show that

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brings you conversations that matter every week from Premier Christian Radio and via

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podcast as well. So wherever you are, however you're listening, thank you for choosing

0:19.7

Unbelievably. And I've such an interesting debate for you today. By the end of today's

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show, your brain may be aching. Towards the end of the program though, I'm going to give

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you more details on an interesting interview I had with Justin Wellby recently, the Archbishop

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of Canterbury lookout for that. And also details coming up as well about next week's exciting

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show, which will be broadcast live via our YouTube channel as well as John Lennox and Peter

0:42.9

Atkins meet at Southampton University. You can find out more about Unbelievably, past

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episodes, get hold of the podcast, lots of resources, the book, the DVD and much more

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besides at our webpage, premierChristianradio.com slash unbelievable. Well time to get into today's

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show. It's a deep dive into some pretty interesting philosophical waters as we discuss consciousness,

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logos, mind and so on. One of those ones you might even want to if you're listening

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via podcast, rewind and listen again because there's a lot crammed in and having a philosophical

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dictionary nearby might help as well. Let's meet today's guests.

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Well today on the show we're debating logos, god, our ability to make sense of the world,

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some interesting subjects under discussion today. And I think it was Albert Einstein who

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said this or something like this. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that

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it is comprehensible. And in his new book Logos, the mystery of how we make sense of the

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world, philosopher Raymond Talis explores the various explanations for why we humans

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have a mind capable of understanding the universe. It exists in Raymond is himself an atheist.

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Today he's in conversation with US theologian and philosopher David Bentley Hart. Now among David's

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