Unbelievable? 17 Dec 2011 Believing Bulls**t - Is Christianity an intellectual blackhole?

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Stephen Law is an atheist and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College and director of the Centre for Inquiry UK. His latest book "Believing Bulls**t: how not to get sucked into an intellectual black hole" looks at the reasons people are persuaded into believing irrational things. Jame Orr is a Christian convert studying for a Doctorate in philosophy at Cambridge University. He engages Stephen on whether the criteria for recognising "intellectual black holes" applies to the claims of Christianity, including The Resurrection. For Stephen Law http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/ Get the Book http://amzn.to/vNX92y 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 If you enjoyed this progamme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 5 Feb 2011 - Alister McGrath & Stephen Law - Why Won't God Go Away? Unbelievable? 13 Nov 2010 - The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism Alvin Plantinga vs Stephen Law Join the conversation at http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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0:30.6	Well hello and welcome to Unbelievable with me Justin Briley, your host for the next hour and a half as we have another discussion between a Christian and a non-Christian on the show that aims to get Christians and non-Christians talking.
0:42.8	I'm going to introduce my guess in just a moment's time.
0:45.8	But today you may be aware that in the last couple of days
0:49.3	we have the sad news of Christopher Hitchins passing away,
0:52.2	a well-known atheist, often a point of talk on this program.
0:56.2	Well, listening a little bit later in today's program for how we'll be marking that and we'll be interested in getting your feedback on that as well.
1:05.0	So that's a little later on in today's program.
1:07.0	Right now, it's time to welcome back someone we had on last week
1:11.0	as we look at their latest book.
1:13.0	Well it's a great pleasure to be joined today by Stephen Law again from last week's
1:19.8	interaction, lively interaction with Glenn Peoples.
1:23.0	Back this week though to talk about his latest book
1:25.8	and James Orr, who's new to this program.
1:28.3	And so good to introduce an up-and-coming young philosopher in our midst.
1:34.0	So let's introduce you both gentlemen.
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