Hello, hello and welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Fred, and I'm super glad to have you here with us today. Today I'll be speaking with Michael Jones, who runs an excellent YouTube channel called Inspiring Philosophy, and we are going to be discussing the Leibnizian contingency argument for God's existence. So this is going to be a fun one. We're going to chat for

about an hour and then we'll start taking questions from super chatters and patrons. Glad you're here. Do us a

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Appreciate it.

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is a little bit about yourself. Let's get underway. Gahdae, Michael. Nice to have you on the show. Yeah, thanks for having me.

Appreciate it. Tell our viewers a little bit about yourself, mate.

Oh, well, my name is Michael Jones. I run Inspiring Philosophy. It's a Christian ministry here on

YouTube. And I don't make videos like this. They're all graphic driven. You never see my face.

So just a lot of documentary style videos.

Yeah, I was telling you before we jumped on the chat today that I remember watching your video about the Leibnizian contingency argument for God's existence about five years ago.

And I remember being really persuaded. You've got a great way, a sort of, a great way of presenting the arguments in a non-emotional, just very logical, here it is kind of way. And I found that very convincing. So thanks for the work that you've done. Thank you. I appreciate that. And then I also understand, like, you do a lot of these graphics on your own, and you've got a video coming out soon on the Book of Exodus. Not on the book of the Exodus. I have a video coming out on a case, an archaeological case for the Exodus.

So it'll be my longest video ever.

It's between 75 and 76 minutes.

And it's going to be a long documentary arguing for the Exodus.

So that'll be live on my channel March 26.

And is the idea that some scholars dispute whether the events recounted in Exodus

happened and you're trying to show that maybe that they did happen?

Oh yeah. Yeah, I'm going to have a lot of evidence. I'm going to go over.

I'm going to be arguing first external evidence, evidence on the ground in Egypt,

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