Why Doesn't God Stop Suffering? Stephen Woodford vs Sharon Dirckx Debate Hosted by Ruth Jackson

Unbelievable?

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Get ready for an electrifying round two on Unbelievable? Podcast. ⚡️ We’re thrilled to welcome back two dynamic debaters 🤩 Dr. Sharon Dirckx, a brain imaging scientist and author of several books on suffering, including Why? Looking at God, Evil, and Personal Suffering, and Stephen Woodford, better known as Rationality Rules, a prominent atheist YouTuber with a focus on debunking religious claims. Now, they’re back to challenge our thinking once more in a debate that took place earlier this summer at Aylesbury High School with Aylesbury Youth For Christ. What are your thoughts on the debate? Are there additional questions you want us to tackle? Get in touch at www.premierunbelievable.com For Sharon Dirckx: https://www.dirckx.org/ and her book on natural evil is available https://amzn.to/3T0k06S For Stephen Woodford: http://www.youtube.com/@rationalityrules • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0	Mercy Ships brings you Hamadu Story.
0:03.2	Every three minutes a baby is born with a cleft lip or palate.
0:07.5	Tragically, children born with a cleft lip in Sub-Saharan Africa have little access to medical care.
0:14.0	Children like Hamidu.
0:15.7	Hamidu had difficulty swallowing and eating
0:18.6	and was shunned by his community.
0:20.8	He had no friends.
0:22.2	When he was four, his mom, Hoa, took him to mercy ships.
0:25.0	She was so happy to hear he could have free surgery on board the floating hospital.
0:31.0	Volunteers performed a simple operation.
0:34.0	A few weeks later, Hamadu was able to smile like never before, make friends, and go to school
0:40.6	with nothing holding him back.
0:42.6	Thanks to you, children like Hamadu can find healing
0:46.4	and enjoy a childhood full of hopes and dreams.
0:50.2	Give today to bring hope to another family who urgently needs medical care at
0:55.5	Mercyships.org. UK slash premier.
0:59.2	I need a framework that helps you make sense of my emotional response to suffering as well as my intellectual response to it.
1:08.0	You have to say that the reason that God allows for evil is because it comes to a greater good in the end.
1:15.1	It's like spending money to make money.
1:17.2	And the reason you can say that is because the Christians tell you, they say that God is all
1:20.9	loving.
1:21.9	So he's all powerful and all loving. So any evil that we see in the world,
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