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Unbelievable?

The Atheist Prayer Experiment Show 2 - Unbelievable?

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Were the concentration camps of the Holocaust absolutely evil, or simply something that goes against people's tastes today?  Canon Angus Ritchie is the author of "From Morality to Metaphysics" in which he argues that God is the best explanation of moral realism (that there are objective moral facts). Kile Jones is an atheist studying for a PhD.  He argues that God is an unecessary entity when it comes to explaining why there may be a realm of objective morality. For Angus Ritchie www.theology-centre.org.uk For Kile Jones http://claremontlincoln.academia.edu/KileJones For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the MP3 podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 13 Jun 2009 The Moral Argument for God The Moral Argument For God - Atheist Paul Orton & Christian David Robertson Unbelievable? 16 Oct 2010 - The Moral argument for God Philosophers Arif Ahmed and Glenn People debate Join the conversation: http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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0:00.0

When we put prayers to end extreme poverty into practice, there's no going back.

0:05.0

Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.

0:08.0

You see when...

0:09.0

When we are trained in new skills, we can provide for ourselves.

0:12.0

Can I carry on? We can grow our own

0:14.9

vegetables, send our children to school, build our own homes. Do you want to do the

0:19.6

whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your your prayers into practice, so there's no going back to extreme poverty.

0:27.0

To donate, search for Tier Fund No Going Back.

0:30.0

Well, hello and welcome along to the show. I'm Justin Briley, your host for the next hour and a half, here on Unbelievable.

0:37.0

It's the show that aims to get you thinking every Saturday afternoon.

0:41.0

And we've got the second in two shows that we've been concentrating

0:44.8

on something we did recently. Bit of a crazy idea I had once while walking into

0:49.4

work and not long after I picked up the phone to a chap called Tim Morrison and said

0:54.2

how about we do something called the atheist prayer experiment?

0:58.0

What was that all about? Let me tell you now.

1:00.4

You're unbelievable. Yes this is the show that aims to get you thinking and the way we've been trying to do that is by inviting atheists recently to to pray to God to reveal himself to them.

1:13.0

Pretty unusual experiments, and we talked last week about whether it even deserves to be given the name experiment.

1:19.5

But certainly a lot of people did end up getting involved. Some 70 or so atheists signed up, some

1:26.1

with varying degrees of success as to how long they lasted through the 40 days, but the

1:30.2

mass majority did at least give it a good try for the majority of the time

1:34.0

and well the vast majority of results that have come back in

1:38.0

that we haven't had all the results in at this point that we're recording this show

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