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Unbelievable?

Sir Roger Penrose and William Lane Craig – Debating God and the Universe

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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πŸ—“οΈ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

The Universe: How did it get here and why are we part of it? Celebrated cosmologist Sir Roger Penrose talks to renowned Christian philosopher William Lane Craig about God and the Universe in the 2nd episode of the 2019 season of The Big Conversation. They discuss Penrose's '3 realms' view of reality and his Conformal Cyclical Cosmology. Could the fundamental nature of reality, the Big Bang and the fine-tuning of the Universe point towards a creator God? For William Lane Craig https://www.reasonablefaith.org/ For Sir Roger Penrose https://penroseinstitute.com/ For Unbelievable? Live in LA on 11 & 12 Oct: www.unbelievable.live For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-the-Book 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

Hello and welcome to Unbelievably and Episode 2 of our new big conversation series.

0:20.4

I'm Justin Briley, so glad you're here and looking forward to bringing you a very long

0:24.2

anticipated conversation between Sir Roger Penrose and William Lane Craig on God and the

0:29.9

universe today.

0:30.9

Today's episode is available on video, of course.

0:33.9

You can watch it over at thebigconversation.show and see all the other episodes from this season

0:39.4

and our first season.

0:41.2

These high quality video debates between leading atheist and Christian thinkers on some of

0:45.8

the biggest questions in life.

0:48.2

Opening conversation for this season was Brett Weinstein and Alistair McGrath.

0:52.3

With videos of that proving popular too and if you'd like a special bonus video from

0:56.8

today's show that you won't find anywhere else of Sir Roger Penrose telling me and Bill

1:02.1

about his groundbreaking work with Stephen Hawking on Big Bang Singularity Theorums, then

1:06.8

do sign up to our newsletter too.

1:09.2

Again, that's available at thebigconversation.show.

1:13.6

Well before we get into today's show, a reminder that the big conversation is coming to the

1:17.2

west coast of the USA very soon.

1:19.6

In fact, it's just one week away at the time of the release of this podcast.

1:23.6

On Friday, the 11th of October in the evening, I'll be in Costa Mesa, California and be joined

1:28.9

on stage by Professor John Lennox and Dave Rubin to leading cultural thinkers.

1:33.6

As we ask, is God dead?

1:35.6

It's going to be a conversation on faith, culture and the modern world.

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