Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

As the announcer of this show, I sometimes ask myself, to what shall I compare Eric?

Shall I compare him to a summer's day?

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of

May. But not Eric. I'll tell you nothing shakes this guy. And now here he is, wearing green

leotards and a gestures coxcomb, Eric Mataxis. Exiton, stage left. Hey there, folks, welcome to the

Eric Mataxis show. Have I got a show for you? You know how much it means to me to talk about whether we can know

God exists, to ask the big questions. Can we even know? And how can we know? And does he exist?

A lot of people just want to know does he exist? My question is, can we know? Because what if we

couldn't know? What if he existed, but we had no way of knowing? What are the clues that we might

look at? This has fascinated me for years, and I'm thrilled to say that there is a brand new book

that I want to recommend very highly to you. It's by Richard E. Simmons the third, not to be

confused with the exercise guru, whom we've tried to get on this show time and time again,

and he's just refused us. So I said, well, just get me any Richard Simmons. So we got Richard

E. Simmons the third, who happens to have written this wonderful book called Reflections on the existence of God. Richard E. Simmons III, who happens to have written this wonderful book called Reflections

on the Existence of God, Richard E. Simmons, the Third. I am thrilled to have you. Congratulations

on the book. Thank you, Eric. It's a real pleasure for me to be with you. Well, I know we've met,

and I see that you've put some of my books behind you for those watching on video, I've also put some of my books behind me.

It's an important thing to do for everyone when they're on TV to put some of my books behind them.

In all seriousness, your book, it's a little hard to describe, so maybe I'll let you do it.

The title, of course, is Reflections on the Existence of God. But how do you describe this

book when people ask you about it? Well, what I wanted to do was write a very well-researched book

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