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Unbelievable?

Why be a Christian? Cosmic Skeptic debates Justin on faith, morality and determinism

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast special Justin sits down with atheist Alex O’Connor who runs the popular YouTube channel Cosmic Skeptic. They debate the nature of faith, the moral argument for God and whether Alex’s belief in determinism undercuts his reasons for being an atheist. For the original Cosmic Skeptic video podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIFBFMU32JE 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

Premier Podcasts

0:06.4

Unbelievable with Justin Briely

0:15.2

Hello and welcome to the show. It's Justin Briely bringing you a podcast special of

0:20.2

Unbelievable this weekend and do excuse my rather croaky voice. I caught a rather nasty

0:26.0

cold this last weekend. Well I'm almost recovered from it but it's always my voice. It's the

0:30.4

last thing to go. So if you don't mind me croaking through the introduction to today's

0:35.7

podcast special you'll hear me in better voice once the conversation with Alex O'Connor

0:40.6

begins. That's what I'm broadcasting on this week's edition of the podcast. Alex also known

0:45.0

as the cosmic skeptic online. He's a YouTube atheist. He's got a really popular channel.

0:50.2

And well we met a couple of years ago when he first did a response video to my how a dice can

0:55.6

show that God exists video. So I'll introduce that shortly. Now the reason that the normal radio show

1:01.6

isn't here this weekend is because we've made room on Premier Christian Radio for our urgent

1:06.3

transmission appeal this weekend. That means all our usual programming gets put on hold while we

1:12.9

ask listeners to help us to meet our current financial goals. If you'd like to contribute

1:18.0

do feel free to go over to the website at premierChristianRadio.com and also excitingly we're just

1:25.1

two weeks out from our California event. An unbelievable live in LA we're calling it though it's

1:31.4

really in costumess. I just a little way down from LA. You can be there too on the 11th and 12th

1:36.2

of October. Do go and check out the schedule and the ticket options and all of the information about

1:41.1

the speakers at unbelievable.live. I hope you can join us on the Friday night on the 11th of October

1:47.6

for that special big conversation live between John Lennox and Dave Rubin, Dave Rubin, a well-known

1:53.8

character on YouTube. One of the key people bringing conversations between various people in the

1:59.0

so-called intellectual dark web together. He'll be an interesting person for John to engage with

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