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Why Evil Matters: How Science and Religion Fumbled a Big One with Author and Podcaster Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko. (2021)

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Why Evil Matters: How Science and Religion Fumbled a Big One with Author and Podcaster Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko. (2021)

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0:00.0

All right, 321.

0:02.0

Hi, this is William Ramsey.

0:03.0

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight show.

0:05.0

I'm a very special guest.

0:06.0

His name is Alex Securus, T-S-A-K-I-R-S.

0:10.0

He's just published a book.

0:12.0

The title of that book is Why Evil Matters, How Science and Religion Fumbled the Big One. And he's also had a very long-running podcast titled Skeptico, S-K-E-P-T-S-E-L I was on there last year,

0:25.7

and also has written another book, which is why science is wrong about almost everything.

0:31.0

And his line of inquires very fascinating to me.

0:34.3

He's looked into a lot of things like near-death experiences and kind of consciousness

0:41.3

outside of the body. So definitely some overlapping things of people who've interviewed me definitely

0:47.4

is very similar. But this book, Why Evil Matters, feature I'm into one chapter, so our interview, but really a fascinating book.

0:58.1

It covers a lot of his knowledge, extensive knowledge, about, you know, this kind of

1:04.7

different non-scientific, non-materialistic worldview.

1:09.3

So we're going to talk about that in detail. So,

1:11.2

Alex, are you there? I am. Awesome. Well, thanks for agreeing to the interview. For people who may not

1:16.2

have heard of your podcast or you, can you talk a little bit about your entry into the early

1:21.2

years of podcasting and what led you through that to put some of that information into this book, Why Evil Matters.

1:30.2

Sure. You know, first off, like we said, you know, very excited to be here. Big fan of your show.

1:36.8

Listen to, I've listened to, you know, just tons and tons of them. So very cool, and it was great to have you on Skeptico.

1:43.3

So cool to be here. And I hope we can have,

1:46.1

you know, this kind of back and forth dialogue like we did last time. Because to me, you know,

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