Hindi was a language that was created for the common folks by a foreign Christian missionary. The reason? Sanskrit was considered an elite, religious language only to be spoken by the few. The efforts of Christian missionaries in enabling the Indian to communicate and disseminate ideas is overlooked and derided, often in Hindi speeches. Linguistic scholar and researcher Dr Babu K Verghese unpacks the riveting historical contributions made by "Bible people" to uplift Bharat.
Links and citation:
(Video) Is ARARAT the Birthplace of INDO-EUROPEAN Civilisation? https://youtu.be/J9FD5Icq4gk?si=3K4vlzuIn0r2nAxf
(Book) Let There Be India (Capsule Edition) https://www.amazon.in/Let-There-India-Babu-Verghese/dp/B07FMBT6DS/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TVvY1VEEn_ZojTWaNGunHYf2rTNvv40gwCTUgnXNHm94jRRymH0Sp22g7GnyWq2_.JF3dZQp2TNJfyfCLi6DlEJsbM1ghJcqfmu1MtUo6WDU&dib_tag=se&qid=1725647401&refinements=p_27%3ADr+Babu+K+Verghese&s=books&sr=1-1
(Book) The Jewish Background of Indian People: A Historical, Archaeological, Anthropological and Etymological Study of "The Jewish Lost Tribes" https://www.amazon.in/Jewish-Background-Indian-People-Anthropological-ebook/dp/B00S2AOXFI#:~:text=The%20Jewish%20Background%20of%20Indian,%3A%20Amazon.in%3A%20Kindle%20Store
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With the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, the discourse on abortion has increasingly gained prominence world over including in India. However the pro-life movement in India has not garnered the visibility it deserves in comparison to the pro-abortion movement. In this episode we contextualize the abortion issue to India by talking to Johanna and Simon Durairaj, founders of the pro-life organization Life for All. We tackle major misconceptions, talk about Indian ground realities concerning abortion and look at the Indian church’s response to this pressing issue.
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(Social Media) LifeforAll India: https://www.instagram.com/lifeforall.india?igsh=MXBiNjFhN3l1bXY5
(Social Media) Pregnancy Helpline India: https://www.instagram.com/pregnancyhelpline_india_?igsh=MWczZDZzdmltMDA1bw==
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One of the "nastiest evangelists". That's how Rajiv Malhotra tagged William Carey. But is this foreigner the unsung father of modern India and not Raja Ram Mohan Roy? Why did he fight against Sati? Why did he contribute towards linguistic and agricultural leaps? More importantly, why did he do all this while his fellow countrymen looked to merely pillage India? Vishal Mangalwadi joins in on what is an insightful dialogue about a well known man's little known contributions.
Links and citations:
- (Book) The Father of Modern India: William Carey (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLXY1W2B)
- (Book) This Book Changed Everything: The Bible’s Amazing Impact on Our World (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MJ9RV1C/)
- (Book) The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595555455/)
- (Video) India, Europe & Biblical Revolution | Vishal Mangalwadi | EP 257 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvESPeFWLHw)
- (Video) Bharat Ek Khoj | Episode-41 | The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Rammohun Roy (https://youtu.be/IDT8C_lVXk0?t=1516)
- (Website) https://www.revelationmovement.com/
- (Video) God and Eastern Minds: Breaching Cultural Barriers (ft. Jacob Cheriyan) | EP 77 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_IKJrCAQng&list=PLaYfapFz2p2WQMYBIU3HtirR7RbaBCzBh&index=75)
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As if almost out of nowhere, God is making a stunning comeback in the West. New atheism's leading voices have softened their approach to Christianity, spirituality and religion. Some have become Christians too! Secular thinkers are starting to realise that the air they breathe is distinctly Christian. The growing meaning crisis has shown that atheism has nothing to offer. In this dialogue author Justine Brierley unpacks how exactly the West came to realise they need God.
Links and citation:
- (Book) The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why new atheism grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again (https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/)
- (Podcast) The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God (https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/)
- (Video) എന്തുകൊണ്ട് പ്രമുഖ നിരീശ്വരവാദികൾ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികൾ ആകുന്നു? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKqxtYvEi6k)
- (Video) Q&A Panel | Frank Turek | Hugh Ross | Justin Brierley | Day 1 | Areopagus 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVGmfJiK5E)
- (Video) Why Did Justin Start Unbelievable? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfVyRBoKFdI)
- (Video) Ep #21- Unbelievable Big Conversations (ft. Justin Brierley) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiWO8dRbDRs)
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Does Christianity have a warm embrace for those who grapple with doubts and questions regarding the faith? If so how much should one ought to press those questions? What are the pitfalls when wrestling with doubts and questions? And how should the local churches help someone in that journey? Tim Barnett of Red Pen Logic converses on the sweeping trend of deconstructing the Christian faith and how we can best engage it with wisdom and love.
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https://www.moralapologetics.com/wordpress/chapter-2-the-case-for-abduction-of-god-and-cosmos-moral-truth-and-human-meaning
https://www.moralapologetics.com/wordpress/bestargument
https://www.moralapologetics.com/wordpress/dozen
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Ever wondered why we can't find any human who has kept the moral code to the letter? Where do we get the sense of guilt and shame from? And why is it that the most rational thing to do is not the most right thing to do? Wondering how these observations add up? Join us as the world's leading expert on the moral argument walks us through on how to use these realisations about morality to point towards God.
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https://www.moralapologetics.com/wordpress/chapter-2-the-case-for-abduction-of-god-and-cosmos-moral-truth-and-human-meaning
https://www.moralapologetics.com/wordpress/bestargument
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"Do the gods love the pious because they are good or are they good because the gods love them?" This ancient Greek dilemma has implications for the moral argument even today. And what if God commands us to commit an evil? Does it cease to be evil? Or does it remain evil?
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Ep #83 - Denying the UNDENIABLE Just to Deny GOD! https://youtu.be/LEt1_6t8mEk
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Will anyone ever argue that the abhorrent evils around us aren't really evil? Will anyone say sexual assault is wrong for some and right for others? As it turns out, some may, if it means God's existence can be denied. How should one navigate such a dialogue? Tune in to find out.
Watch the entire Podcast at: https://youtu.be/LEt1_6t8mEk
Links and citation:
Michael Ruse, Darwinism Defended (London: Addison-Wesley, 1982)
David O. Brink, “The Autonomy of Ethics,” in The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. Michael Martin, Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Ep #82 - Moral DUTIES: The Great Stumbling BLOCK for Atheism! https://youtu.be/Lg8cpCd8k4I
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It's one thing for you to say 'stealing is bad'. It's yet another thing for you to say that I shouldn't steal. What gives humans and the institutions that we made (police, judiciary, international tribunals etc.) power to mandate moral behaviour over other humans? Where's the overruling authority to base the idea of 'moral duty'? And why can't atheism ever answer this? Tune in to find out!
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Links and citation:
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, “Why Traditional Theism Cannot Provide an Adequate Foundation for Morality,” in God and Ethics.
Alex O'Connor vs Frank Turek: The Moral Argument Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5a3MxIqZOs
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"I don't believe in god but I am still a good person."
"I don't think you need god to be good." Ever wondered what's the response to these? Tag along as we break down why good atheists don't disprove anything, but rather they too point towards a universal moral law giver.
Links and citations:
Richard Taylor, Ethics, Faith, and Reason (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985), 14, 83-84
Paul Kurtz, Forbidden Fruit (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1988), 65, 73.
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A tiger kills but never m*rd*rs. We apply the same nuance to man's close imitators too - the apes. Why is that? What does that distinction tell us about our understanding of right and wrong? Does this point towards a universal law-giver with human interests? Tune in to find out.
Links and citations:
Lewis Wolpert, Six Impossible Things before Breakfast (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 215
Paul Kurtz, The Courage to Become (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997) 5-6
Michael Ruse, “Evolutionary Theory and Christian Ethics,” in The Darwinian Paradigm (London: Routledge, 1989), 262, 268–89
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It may be a good thing to be a doctor, but must therefore we all be doctors? What does this thought experiment tell us about moral value and moral duties? Understanding this distinction will show you why God is only true foundation for morality.
Links and citation:
Lewis Wolpert, Six Impossible Things before Breakfast (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 215
If HEAVEN Is Better, WHY Don't YOU Go There NOW? https://youtu.be/3t8TVpRC0Kg
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Does our apprehension of the moral order point us towards God? What are the different forms of moral argument that thinkers of the past have drawn up? Tag along with us as we begin the 5th Season of SAFT Podcast exploring the Moral Argument.
Links:
If HEAVEN Is Better, WHY Don't YOU Go There NOW? https://youtu.be/3t8TVpRC0Kg
SAFT Podcast Season 4 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYfapFz2p2UHfXJvpSJ6l6XrZlam2NRW
SAFT Encounter: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYfapFz2p2U4iFnuFi5KqNAW3aIUT7H6
Check out www.moralapologetics.com for more in-depth materials on the Moral Argument
Check out William Lane Craig's book 'Reasonable Faith' for a thorough defense of all the major arguments for God's existence.
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Is Christianity a white man's religion? If not, given the extensive depth of theological and philosophical exploration done in the West, how do we present God, Gospel and Christ to the Eastern mind? Is it an attempt that ends up in compromising Biblical truths? Or won't merely preaching the Gospel be enough?! What is the need for these cultural gymnastics?! Jacob Cheriyan has been pioneering the project God and Eastern Minds (GEM) to make culturally substantiated inroads in presenting the Gospel in India. What follows is one of the most fascinating and perspective orienting interactions on SAFT Podcast!
Chapter Markers:
0:00 Intro
1:48 Who is Jacob Cheriyan?
3:08 An AHAA moment to pick apologetics?
6:56 From RZIM India to Life Focus Society
9:18 Cultural impact of board games and Reformation
14:01 What is God and Eastern Minds (GEM)?
17:41 Eastern Jesus Christ vs Gospel Resonating with the East?
23:01 Why don't you present the simple Good News as is?
28:42 Does GEM engage in just the core of the Gospel or the theological depths too?
33:25 How effective is GEM to reach gram's young culture?
37:05 How does GEM help answer a common apologetics question?
42:51 I am interested in GEM! What shall I do?
46:33 This is the Lord's doing!! Marvelous!
47:31 SAFT Updates!
49:07 Outro
Links and citation:
Culture Unraveled: https://cultureunraveled.lifefocus.co.in
GEM Project: https://lifefocus.co.in/gem/
Abdu Murray, More than a White Man's Religion: Why the Gospel Has Never Been Merely White, Male-Centered, or Just Another Religion (https://www.amazon.com/More-than-White-Mans-Religion/dp/B09V39DKYZ)
Ep #39- How To Engage The Global Youth Culture? (ft. Lukas Rueegger) (https://youtu.be/w6LC7gx45Ms)
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Is time travel possible? Well, it depends what we know of time. If B-Theory of time is true then we just need to build the vehicle that can do the job. In fact some claim that if the B-Theory of time is true then the Kalam Cosmological Argument will fail. Is that so? Ashish John, a physics teacher by profession, joins us to help us walk through this quagmire topic of time.
Links and citation:
- William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
- Lee Smolin, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
- William Lane Craig, Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time
- Metcalfe, Curtis John, "A Defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the B-Theory of Time" (2013). Theses. 186. http://irl.umsl.edu/thesis/186
- Wolchover. (2020, April 7). Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math. Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clues-come-from-a-century-old-approach-to-math-20200407/
- Sabine Hossenfelder & Luke Barnes • The fine tuning of the Universe: Was the cosmos made for us? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OoYzcxzvvM)
- Sabine Hossenfelder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
- Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. Christopher Hitchens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYm41hb48o)
- Ep #39- How To Engage The Global Youth Culture? (ft. Lukas Rueegger) (https://youtu.be/w6LC7gx45Ms)
- Abdu Murray, More than a White Man's Religion: Why the Gospel Has Never Been Merely White, Male-Centered, or Just Another Religion
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Does quantum mechanics lend a escape hatch away from the cause of the universe? Just as the axe pre-existed in the form of iron and wood couldn't the universe have pre-existed in some form before the Big Bang? If everything must have a cause why must God be excluded? To answer these many other common objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument Asher John of The Carpenter's Desk join us!
Links and citation:
- William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006), p. 77.)
- Andrew Loke, The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94403-2 (book, free legitimate download available)
- Andrew Loke, God and Ultimate Origins https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-57547-6
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Resources to begin learning Kalam Cosmological Argument and apologetics:
- Reasonable Faith: www.reasonablefaith.org
- William Lane Craig; On Guard (book)
- William Lane Craig; Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition (book)
- Library database https://apologetics315.com/?s=kalam+cosmological+argument
- William Lane Craig, James Sinclair, Chapter 3: The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Pages: 101-201), Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (chapter, book)
- EQUIP, a self-learn apologetics platform by Reasonable Faith https://knowwhyyoubelieve.org/
- Kalam Cosmological Argument Part 1 (animated video; English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0
- Kalam Cosmological Argument Part 2 (animated video; English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vybNvc6mxMo
- The Carpenter's Desk https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarpentersDesk
- Ep #65- Making Sense Of 'CAUSE' And 'NOTHING' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXRQQNae5M
- William Lane Craig and CosmicSkeptic Discuss The Kalam Cosmological Argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfVBqGPwi0
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Alright fine! The universe has something behind it. But you still cannot say it is God who created it or that the force that created the universe is omnipotent or that it is even a personal mind! Why can't it be a force like gravity? Why can't it be the universe itself! Join us to explore the identity of the cause of the universe in this episode.
Links and citation:
- Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
- Daniel Dennett, "Breaking the Spell", pg 244
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One of the biggest scientific discovery of recent past that shook atheist scientists was the expansion of the universe. An unchallenged field of scientific knowledge is that the universe is running out of the limited energy we have. What do these mean for the Christian? It means the evidence for a Creator is overwhelming! Tune in to know more.
Links and citation:
- Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
- John A. Wheeler, “Beyond the Hole,” in Some Strangeness in the Proportion, ed. Harry Woolf (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1980), 354
- Vibert Douglas, “Forty Minutes with Einstein,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 50 (June 1956): 100
- Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time, The Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1996), 20
- A. Borde and A. Vilenkin, “Eternal Inflation and the Initial Singularity,” Physical Review Letters 72 (1994): 3305, 3307
- Hawking, Brief History of Time, 138–39
- Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One, 176.
- Paul Davies, “The Big Bang—and Before,” The Thomas Aquinas College Lecture Series, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, Calif., March 2002
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If you start to count up from 0 to the largest number will you ever finish counting? It would take literally forever! How about starting to count down from the largest number all the way down to 0? Is it even possible to start, let alone asking how long it would take?! This impossibility faces anyone who says the universe never began to exist or has always existed. Join us to learn more about this simplified philosophical argument for why the universe must have had a beginning.
Chapter markers:
0:00- Intro
0:47- What have we covered so far?
01:57- Premise 2
02:30- What is the philosophical argument for Premise 2
04:54- What is infinite regression?
07:48- How long will it take for today to arrive?
08:11- Example to highlight how we can/can't count
11:22- Where do start counting then?
14:26- The book borrowing example
25:00- Outro
Links and citation:
- Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
- Flew, A., & Varghese, R. A., There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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Just because a sheep has a mother it doesn't mean that the herd (collection of sheeps) would have a mother too. So likewise, just because the things within the universe have a cause/creator it doesn't mean that the universe (collection of all things) has a Cause/Creator. Is that a solid objection? Nope, not really (well the sheep and the herd both have a shepherd so....). Join us as we close down on the defense of part one of the argument for God from the universe's existence.
Links and citation:
- Dennett, Daniel; Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking, 2006), 242
- Craig, William Lane; Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
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If you say God always existed, why not say the same for the universe? If you say that God is 'timeless', what does that even mean? If there was no time prior to the Big Bang, how was God's relation to time? Is He still timeless now? In this episode we give you a sneak peek into the interesting area of God, time and eternity and conclude our look at the objections from one of atheism's most prolific thinkers to God creating the universe out of nothing.
Chapter markers:
00:00- Intro and Recap
01:37- 3 objections of Mackie
03:11- Creatio Ex Nihilo
05:54- Response to Objection 1
09:38- Response to Objection 2
12:50- Response to Objection 3 and talking about time
22:43- Outro
Links and citation:
- Stephen Hawking as quoted by John Boslough, “Inside the Mind of a Genius,” Reader’s Digest (February 1984), 120; Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, April 1988), 46.
- Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith : Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
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Hypocrite! Biased! These are descriptions we don't want to hear. We sometimes assume that these don't apply to experts and the best minds out there. But it does apply to all. In continuation of our exploration of the creator behind the universe we take a pit stop to assess what and why one of the best atheist philosophers, J L Mackie, held out his objection against the cause of the universe. You'll be surprised to see how the commoner and the expert are often similar in intellectual inquiry.
Chapter markers:
00:00- Intro
01:42- Recap of EP 68
03:51- Core of Mackie's objection to KCA
07:28- Number of objections by Mackie
08:48- Why talk of a not so well known philosopher as him?
11:29- The 3 objections
14:38- Why doesn't he deny Premise 1 of KCA?
20:45- Outro
Links and citation:
- J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), 94
- J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism, 89
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The question remains: if the universe could really come from nothing, then why can't Beethoven or Bhagat Singh pop out of nowhere? If NOTHING created the universe, if really NO-THING created the universe then why the preference for universe(s) alone? Why can't anything and everything appear out of nowhere, from nowhere, and for no reason? How can the lack-of-anything (nothing) have any preference? What are the three solid reasons to say something cannot come from nothing (or that everything that begins to exist has a cause)? Join us to find out.
Chapter markers:
00:00- Intro
00:19- Recap of EP 67
02:22- Russell's teapot analogy
05:23- Why was the teapot analogy used?
07:28- Mackie's point
08:31- Who is David Hume?
10:34- Mackie and 'Cause and Effect'
13:10- What are the 3 Arguments for Premise 1?
13:30- A1-Metaphysical intuition
17:16- A2-Why doesn't everything/anything come from nothing?
21:36- A3-Our experience
22:49- Outro
Links and citation:
- J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), 89
- William Lane Craig & Alex O'Connor: Why Can't Something Come from Nothing? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUhKnzA_0dM)
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Why does it look like philosophers get stuck in mundane and trivial details blowing it out of proportions? For instance, do you think that if you were to 'imagine/conceive' in your mind Dora the Explorer popping into existence from thin air in your room that she could actually appear out of thin air in your room? No right!? But philosopher J L Mackie thinks so. We look at Mackie's absurd position, miracle-denier philosopher David Hume's point of agreement on the Kalam and more in this latest episode.
Links and citation:
- J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), 94.
- David Hume, The Letters of David Hume, 2 vols., ed. J. Y. T. Greig (Oxford: Clarendon, 1932), 1:187
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‘It’s impossible that you win the lottery’. Or wait; is it ‘it’s improbable that you win the lottery’? Maybe the right way to say is ‘it’s implausible’. What do these words mean? And why is it important that we know the difference to better articulate our points? In this episode Ankit rejoins Jacob to unpack what is meant by the terms possibility, probability and plausibility. Join them as they continue exploring and explaining the Kalam Cosmological Argument in the Natural Theology series.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro
00:06 Catch up
01:28 Recap of last Episode
01:51 What is KCA?
05:20 Possible vs Probable vs Plausible
08:35 Possibility
12:31 Probability
13:36 Plausibility
16:28 Our aim as we defend arguments
19:53 Outro
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