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| #105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God | 22 May 2025 | 01:44:10 | |
John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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| #104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental? | 04 May 2025 | 01:33:17 | |
Annaka Harris is an American writer. Her work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.
Get Annaka Harris’ documentary Lights On here.
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| #95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man | 31 Jan 2025 | 01:24:32 | |
James Frank McGrath is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. He is the author of two books on John the Baptist: "John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptiser", and "Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist".
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| #5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian | 12 Jun 2019 | 01:48:47 | |
Justin Brierley is the host of the popular radio show 'Unbelievable?' which platforms debates between Christians and non-Christians. He is the author of 'Unbelievable: Why, After Ten Years of Talking With Atheists, I’m Still a Christian'. He speaks to Alex about his reasons for retaining his faith, and the nature of reason.
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| #94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion? | 27 Jan 2025 | 01:20:41 | |
Dan McClellan is an American public scholar of the Bible and religion. His forthcoming book, "The Bible Says So", is available here.
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| #93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language | 21 Jan 2025 | 01:10:24 | |
Adam Aleksic is a linguist known online as "The Etymology Nerd". His educational videos are watched regularly by millions. His forthcoming book "Algospeak" is currently available for preorder.
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| #92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas | 20 Dec 2024 | 01:02:01 | |
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link).
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| #91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience | 13 Dec 2024 | 01:24:47 | |
Filip Holm is the creator and host of "Lets Talk Religion", a YouTube channel which aims to educate on the subject of religion from an academic perspective.
He joins the show to discuss Sufism, which can broadly be defined as the mystical tradition within Islam.
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| #90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion | 06 Dec 2024 | 01:37:58 | |
Rainn Wilson is the actor and comedian best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the The Office (US), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
He is also the host of Soul Boom, a podcast discussing spirituality, and authored a book of the same name exploring how we can use spiritual tools to help solve some of life's problems.
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| #89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art | 28 Nov 2024 | 01:02:27 | |
Sheehan Quirke is the Cultural Tutor, a writer with 1.7 million followers on X. His work on art, history, and architecture is some of the most widely-enjoyed in the world. He writes a newsletter called the Areopagus.
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| #88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity | 22 Nov 2024 | 01:03:22 | |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. Once an advocate for the new atheist movement, she last year announced her conversion to Christianity.
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| #87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin | 13 Nov 2024 | 02:47:02 | |
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle run the extremely popular online Christian ministry 'Give Me an Answer'. In this episode they discuss troubling passages in the Old Testament, New Testament sexism, Job, doubting Thomas, the unforgivable sin (blaspheming the Holy Spirit), and more.
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| #86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID | 31 Oct 2024 | 01:38:52 | |
Steven Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American live streamer and political commentator. He joins me to talk about Trump, Kamala, Biden, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Mark Zuckerberg, Voter ID, immigration, demographic change, and who to vote for in the upcoming election.
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| #103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity | 20 Apr 2025 | 01:53:43 | |
Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning along side Link Neal; their award-winning weekly podcast The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality.
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| #85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis | 28 Oct 2024 | 01:37:21 | |
Magnify is a YouTube channel of mostly short-form content, covering interesting details across history, linguistics, and religion.
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| #84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs | 22 Sep 2024 | 00:59:39 | |
David Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He was the UK Government's chief advisor on drug policy. He was fired in 2009 after criticising the Government's approach to drug harms.
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| #83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge | 15 Sep 2024 | 01:50:35 | |
Justin Sledge is currently a part-time professor of philosophy and religion at several institutions in the Metro-Detroit area and a popular local educator. His YouTube channel is "Esoterica".
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| #82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer | 09 Sep 2024 | 02:30:44 | |
oe Folley runs the YouTube channel Unsolicited Advice. he graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.
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| #81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe | 01 Sep 2024 | 01:02:41 | |
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, and superintelligence risks. His recent book, Deep Utopia, explores what might happen if we get AI development right.
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| #80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA | 25 Aug 2024 | 00:53:14 | |
Thank you for 850,000 subscribers!
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| #79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan | 11 Aug 2024 | 01:09:26 | |
Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
Buy "The Origin of Satan" by Elaine Pagels here.
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| #78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical | 29 Jul 2024 | 01:49:32 | |
Rory Sutherland is a British advertising executive, and vice chairman of the Ogilvy & Mather group of companies. His book, Alchemy, is available here.
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| #77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas? | 21 Jul 2024 | 01:51:23 | |
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He was one of the first people in the world to see the rediscovered manuscript of the Gospel of Judas, when he was asked by National Geographic to join a small team of experts who verified its authenticity.
Study Bart Ehrman's courses and support the show at https://www.bartehrman.com/alex
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| #76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve | 16 Jul 2024 | 01:59:46 | |
Jonathan Pageau is a French-Canadian icon carver, YouTuber and public speaker on symbolism, religion and the Orthodox faith.
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| #102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman | 07 Apr 2025 | 01:56:13 | |
David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia)
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| #75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles | 07 Jul 2024 | 02:26:49 | |
Steven Bonnell II is a popular American political streamer known online as Destiny.
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| #74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism? | 30 Jun 2024 | 01:20:10 | |
David Wolpe is an American rabbi, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. He was named the most influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek in 2012.
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| #73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid! | 23 Jun 2024 | 02:36:40 | |
Joe Schmid is a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2022. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of time, and the author of books including "Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs". He runs the YouTube channel, "Majesty of Reason".
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| #72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like? | 16 Jun 2024 | 01:05:17 | |
John Nelson holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from the University of Edinburgh. His thesis is the first book-length study of Jesus' physical appearance in the Gospels. He runs a weekly Substack called "Behind the Gospels" which aims to make Biblical studies accessible to all.
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| #71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism | 09 Jun 2024 | 01:20:35 | |
Joe Folley is the creator of the YouTube channel "Unsolicited Advice" which creates short, digestible philosophical videos on a wide range of topics. He joins me today to discuss nihilism: its history, its meaning, and its significance in philosophy.
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| #70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy | 02 Jun 2024 | 01:19:57 | |
Steven West is the host of "Philosophize This!" one of the world's most popular philosophy podcasts. Listen to it here.
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| #69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine | 26 May 2024 | 01:41:13 | |
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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| #68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas? | 19 May 2024 | 01:24:41 | |
Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religious studies. His research focus is early Christianity and late Roman religion. He earned his PhD at Boston University. His YouTube channel is "Religion for Breakfast".
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| #67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels? | 13 May 2024 | 01:09:52 | |
Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
See me speak at Level Up in Atlanta this June: http://levelupconferences.org/
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| #66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics? | 05 May 2024 | 01:00:04 | |
Coleman Hughes is an American writer and podcast host. He is the author of "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America".
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| #101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design | 02 Apr 2025 | 01:21:13 | |
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe”, which turns 25 this year.
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| #65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh | 28 Apr 2024 | 01:45:15 | |
Justin Sledge is currently a part-time professor of philosophy and religion at several institutions in the Metro-Detroit area and a popular local educator. His YouTube channel is "Esoterica".
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| #64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis | 21 Apr 2024 | 01:10:04 | |
Rory Stewart is a former UK Government minister, MP, and deputy governor in Iraq following the western invasion. He walked on foot for two years across Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal in 2002. He was a private tutor to both Prince William and Prince Harry. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics with Alastair Campbell, one of the UK's most popular shows.
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| #63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon? | 14 Apr 2024 | 01:03:28 | |
A.C. Grayling is a British philosopher and author. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Buy "Who Owns the Moon?" here.
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| #62 750,000 Subscriber QnA | 07 Apr 2024 | 00:35:29 | |
Thank you all for 750,000 subscribers on YouTube!
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| #61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values? | 31 Mar 2024 | 02:56:41 | |
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of Making Sense, and creator of Waking Up.
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| #60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think | 24 Mar 2024 | 01:04:43 | |
Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is known mainly for his contributions to research in the field of quantum gravity. He is the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and White Holes, amongst other works.
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| #59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical? | 17 Mar 2024 | 01:06:45 | |
William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher and public speaker, who today makes his third appearance on Within Reason. We discuss why Richard Dawkins refuses to debate him, and whether Old Testament slaughter can be justified.
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| #58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation? | 10 Mar 2024 | 01:24:57 | |
Michael Knowles is an American conservative Catholic political commentator and media host. He has worked for the Daily Wire since 2016.
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| #57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real | 05 Mar 2024 | 01:36:25 | |
David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia.)
Buy David Deutsch's book, The Beginning of Infinity
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| #56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke | 18 Feb 2024 | 00:53:41 | |
Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She is the author of "Left is Not Woke", available here.
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| #100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley) | 23 Mar 2025 | 03:09:31 | |
For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice", to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.
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| #55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What? | 11 Feb 2024 | 00:57:40 | |
Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University.
He is the author of "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will", which you can purchase here.
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| #54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly? | 05 Feb 2024 | 01:50:21 | |
Sheehan Quirke is known online as the Cultural Tutor. With over 1.6 million followers on X, he writes daily threads about art, architecture, and history.
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| #53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy | 28 Jan 2024 | 00:58:31 | |
Jason Brennan is an American philosopher and business professo at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Brennan writes about democratic theory, the ethics of voting, competence and power, freedom, and the moral foundations of commercial society. (Wikipedia.) He speaks in this episode about the faults and flaws of democracy, and why people are often not as good as voting as they think they are.
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