Welcome to the partially examined life preview of episode 270, part 2.

We just had our interview with Stephen Phillips about his book God in the World of

Rangement with Nyaya and Vedantin arguments about philosophy religion about the existence

of God.

So here is at the beginning of that discussion.

Mark tried to frame the problem of what is that issue here.

It's an atheistic conception of the world versus a theistic conception of the world.

And then there are just too many names, too many schools for somebody to try to consume

and understand the spoken.

Even by the way, having read the text, I was not able to follow all of the nuances

and all that.

What I was able to follow was the specific propositions, the explication and the arguments

within it, which were very clear, I thought.

And somewhat interesting variations at points on very, very common and understandable

philosophic themes.

Is there a first cause, first mover?

If the eternal is uncaused, how is it connected to things which are caused?

I mean, there's just a number of different things that are very…

If you're philosophically inclined to study these questions, are very easy to follow and

very clear.

What is this add to our beloved intelligent design discussion, which is who's the guy

with the watch?

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