#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity
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Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, along side Link Neal; their award-winning weekly podcast The pair also host a weekly podcast, ; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality.
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#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
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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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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
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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 “”, which turns 25 this year.
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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
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For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel , 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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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
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Penn Badgley is an actor best known for his roles in Netflix’s You and the popular drama series Gossip Girl. He is less known as a podcaster and member of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion which teaches that there is a historical unity between major world religions and their prophets, having itself developed out of a branch of Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century.
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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
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Jacob Hansen is a Mormon YouTuber at the channel .
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#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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Kipp Davis () is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, where he specialises in the assignment and reconstruction of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and their interpretation. (Google Books) The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving...
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#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
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A Q&A to celebrate hitting 1.25 million subscribers on YouTube.
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#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
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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: , and .
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#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
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Dan McClellan is an American public scholar of the Bible and religion. His forthcoming book, "The Bible Says So", is available .
info_outlineBart 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.
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