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Alex O'Connor hosts the Within Reason podcast. He joins us for this week's show.The Peter Hitchens interview: https://youtu.be/VyMhZhwe3gc?si=a9yQaW957SiYFubyThe Ben Shapiro discussion: https://youtu.be/yspPYcJHI3k?si=4Jt2dDU7iN-1ZTWyVIDEO of this conversation: https://youtu.be/u3rbY6y6J9c

Upcoming atheist YouTuber  @CosmicSkeptic  (Alex O'Connor) has been making the rounds the last couple years, giving philosophical attacks against Christianity and theism as a whole. Is this new material, or does it expose his own hypocrisy? Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foundcausepodcast Podbean (download episodes): http://foundcause.podbean.com/ @ Us On Twitter: @found_cause

 @CosmicSkeptic  Religion Is Still Evil - Richard Dawkins https://youtu.be/gaRVzooavRI?si=z06IV0B3tzjmTdtJ  @SpeakLifeMedia  Alex O'Connor Exposes The Weaknesses of Richard Dawkins. Glen Scrivener REACTS.   @ChrisWillx  Why Do So Many People Not Want To Have Children? - Malcolm Collins | Modern Wisdom 640 https://youtu.be/EwIeDuHwXJY?si=z86SF4n6XBIl75C2  @JordanBPeterson  Lecture and Q&A with Jordan Peterson (The Mill Series at Lafayette College) https://youtu.be/V32WHDuy-Do?si=95SwAeX6aV_FUWh7  Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg Bridges of Meaning Discord https://discord.gg/hMe26gkn https://www.meetup.com/sacramento-estuary/ My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/ There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333  If you need the RSS feed for your podcast player https://paulvanderklay.podbean.com/feed/  All Amazon links here are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program. Amazon pays me a small commission at no additional cost to you if you buy through one of the product links here. This is is one (free to you) way to support my videos.  https://paypal.me/paulvanderklay Blockchain backup on Lbry https://odysee.com/@paulvanderklay https://www.patreon.com/paulvanderklay Paul's Church Content at Living Stones Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh7bdktIALZ9Nq41oVCvW-A To support Paul's work by supporting his church give here. https://tithe.ly/give?c=2160640  

Do theists have any good arguments at all? Not according to Richard Dawkins. He was recently interviewed by Alex O'Connor, aka the Cosmic Skeptic. When asked what good arguments he had encountered, Dawkins replied that theists (including Christians) have no good arguments. Zero. Zilch. Zip. If that seems like a pretty bold statement, you are not alone. Andy, Steve, and Wes came together this week to offer their reactions to both O'Connor and Dawkins, and to hash out some of the implications of such an extreme statement.

Join me in a new conversation with Alex O'Connor as we discuss a range of topics, including Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's journey into Christianity, my bafflement at how Alex could stand three years of studying the non-subject of theology, the fear of death, and other things.

In this episode I play a clip from a recent interview Alex O'Connor did with Richard Dawkins and offer my commentary.  As always...thanks for listening/watching!   https://www.patreon.com/theweekindoubt http://palbertelli.podbean.com http://www.facebook.com/TheWeekInDoubtPodcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-week-in-doubt-podcast/id510160837 www.audibletrial.com/theweekindoubt Twitter: @theweekindoubt Also available on Stitcher

Alex O'Connor is incredible in this episode as he explains the unholy alliance of Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson (New Atheists & Religious Conservatives). He also looks into conspiracy theories, sloganeering of facile political views, transgender ideology, Palestine and the afterlife. #heretics #genderidentity #antiwoke  Alex O'Connor is one of my favourite YouTubers. Subscribe to his brilliant channel: www.youtube.com/@CosmicSkeptic Listen to his audio pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/within-reason/id1458675168 Get our bonus segment on: http://andrewgold.locals.com Who is Alex?: Alex J. O'Connor is founder of the “Cosmic Skeptic” (now just his name) YouTube channel, podcast and blog, platforms dedicated to the publication of philosophical ideas and debates in an accessible format. A graduate of philosophy and theology from St. John's College, Oxford University, Alex is an international public speaker and debater, having delivered addresses across multiple continents at conferences, universities, and local drinking groups, as well as debated ethics, religion, and politics with a number of high-profile opponents before college audiences, on radio talk shows and on national television. Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Shapiro recently had a clip of his conversation with atheist, Alex O'Connor also called the cosmic skeptic. They discussed free will. I'll be commenting on that discussion in this episode.

 @Tammy-Peterson  Faith in Suffering | Queenie Yu | EP55 https://youtu.be/I_6Wj-nZXxI?si=rXWGDN4LUSeotWyK Tammy Peterson Rosary Testimony Tammy https://youtu.be/e4uWemSfpwk?si=JcATI7QM7oNC32Tu  @ChrisWillx  Are People Becoming Less Moral? - Alex O'Connor (4K) https://youtu.be/bSJhaTWZxQs?si=dCg3-c66snNvKXPc Thomas Steininger on Interbeing, Dialogos as Next Stage of the Sacred in the MetaModern West https://youtu.be/8XSdo9uBma8  @PremierUnbelievable  Is religion good for society? Ben Shapiro vs Alex O'Connor https://youtu.be/yspPYcJHI3k?si=GvnthXPgH-HN8voz What Really Happens When America Stops going to church https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/christianity-religion-america-church-polarization/675215/ https://github.com/huggingbeard/papers/blob/7ab2e7bdffc9a2c7f35c90934b2752caa3d8d437/Shallow_C.pdf  @gospelinlife  Does God Control Everything? – Timothy Keller [Sermon] https://youtu.be/MDbKCZodtZI?si=KSPuLhsMT3mDIOJf   Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg Bridges of Meaning Discord https://discord.gg/eex6RuVC https://www.meetup.com/sacramento-estuary/ My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/ There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333  If you need the RSS feed for your podcast player https://paulvanderklay.podbean.com/feed/  All Amazon links here are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program. Amazon pays me a small commission at no additional cost to you if you buy through one of the product links here. This is is one (free to you) way to support my videos.  https://paypal.me/paulvanderklay Blockchain backup on Lbry https://odysee.com/@paulvanderklay https://www.patreon.com/paulvanderklay Paul's Church Content at Living Stones Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh7bdktIALZ9Nq41oVCvW-A To support Paul's work by supporting his church give here. https://tithe.ly/give?c=2160640

Alex O'Connor is a YouTuber, writer and a podcaster. Grappling with difficult moral questions is a part of human life, but in the age of Wikipedia and ChatGPT, are we now outsourcing our morality? Are people becoming less moral over time? Expect to learn why Peter Hitchens really does not like Alex, whether ChatGPT can be convinced of the existence of God, what the non-identity problem is, if Nihilism will make a comeback, the impact of the debate around free will, how much we can trust the historical accuracy of the bible and much more... Sponsors: Join Gymshark66 at gym.sh/modernwisdom66 Get $150 discount on Plunge's amazing sauna or cold plunge at https://plunge.com (use code MW150) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me as I have a conversation with @CosmicSkeptic about free will, and whether or not free will is dependent on the existence of God.

This week on Unbelievable we return to the topic of free will. Following the debate between Ben Shapiro and Alex O'Connor, Christian apologist Tim Stratton got in touch to say he took issue with some of Alex's arguments against free will. Indeed Tim noted that Alex agreed with Ben Shapiro that if there is no God, then there is no free will. Tim Stratton develops the argument in a spirited debate with atheist philosopher Alex Malpass, hosted by Andy Kind. Alex Malpass has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Bristol, and these days specialises in philosophy of religion, but also metaphysics and logic more generally. He runs a podcast called Thoughtology and an infrequently updated blog called the Use of Reason. Alex Malpass has published in various philosophical journals including the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. For Alex Malpass's book: History of Philosophical and Formal Logic: From Aristotle to Tarski go here Tim Stratton holds a graduate degree in Christian Apologetics from Biola University and a PhD in theology from North-West University. He is a professor at Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary and the author of Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism. He has also recently contributed a chapter to a book entitled, Faith Examined: New Arguments for Persistent Questions, Essays in Honor of Dr. Frank Turek. Stratton has coauthored multiple academic journal articles (most notably with J.P. Moreland) related to the topics of libertarian freedom, the problems of evil, and also responding to the Hiddenness Argument. To find Stratton's popular level work, find his videos on YouTube at FreeThinking Ministries and his blogs at FreeThinking Ministries.com or FreeThinkInc.org. His X handle is @TSXpress. For more on Tim Stratton's paper authored with JP Moreland read: An Explanation and Defense of the Free-thinking argument • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/indiethinkerA bet in the past comes back to haunt climate experts; Activists try to encourage their followers for the holiday season; Alex O'Connor and Ben Shapiro discuss slavery in the Bible; progressive Christians continue to baselessly attack Christian nationalism.

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In this episode, Trent reviews the debate that recently took place between Ben Shapiro and Alex O'Connor on the question: Is religion good or bad for society?

The Big Conversation is a unique video series from Unbelievable? the flagship apologetics and theology discussion show from Premierunbelievable.com  In this bonus episode of The Big Conversation' formidable Daily Wire host and renowned political thinker Ben Shapiro goes head-to-head with Oxford graduate of philosophy and theology, now international public speaker and debater, Alex O'Connor. Hosted by Andy Kind, Shapiro and O'Connor debate Is religion good or bad for society? What is the concept of free will? Does it even exist? What about the idea of the self, and the foundations of morality in society, and do we all have to agree on them? Ben Shapiro is a distinguished figure in the realm of political discussion, recognised for his bold opinions and remarkable debating skills. Ever-innovative in thought and influential in culture, Shapiro brings a fresh and compelling perspective to this philosophical conversation.   Atheist Alex O'Connor, the YouTuber formerly known as the Cosmic Sceptic, and host of the Within Reason podcast brings thoughtful philosophical rigour and insight to provoke deliberation on varying timeless faith-science-philosophy topics. Religion's effects in the evolution of consciousness, Nihilism's counter to the concept of free will and, ultimately, the basis of varying worldviews serve as crucial discussion points in this thought-provoking exchange.      This debate wraps up this season on a captivating note, leaving audiences across the belief spectrum increasingly inquisitive of the ever-disputed questions among various worldviews and intricacies in the crossover realms of science, faith, philosophy and culture.      • For bonus content, updates and more shows sign up at: http://www.thebigconversation.show The Big Conversation is a video series from Premier Unbelievable? featuring world-class thinkers across the religious and non-religious community. Exploring science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human. The Big Conversation is produced by Premier Unbelievable? in partnership with John Templeton Foundation. • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

This week, we look at the Russian spy thriller show ALLEGIANCE, often overshadowed by the more critically acclaimed show The Americans, Allegiance follows young Alex O'Connor as he navigates working for the CIA whilst his family are playing Double Agents with the Russian SVR. Starring Hope Davis, Scott Cohen, Gavin Stenhouse, Margarita, Morgan Spector, Alexandra, and Kenneth Choi. Thi week we talk to one of the show's Editors, Phillip Fowler about his experiences making the show!Allegiance on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581654/Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXY4DuyjZo0Shane https://twitter.com/ShaneM_Anderson https://bsky.app/profile/shaneanderson.bsky.socialFollows One Season Wonders on Social Media! https://twitter.com/OneSeasonPod https://www.instagram.com/oneseasonpod/ https://bsky.app/profile/oneseasonpod.bsky.socialEmail us at oneseasonpod@gmail.com we'd love to hear from you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A bonus episode of full conversation with popular atheist YouTuber Alex O Connor (aka Cosmic Skeptic). He talks to Justin about his own changing relationship with new atheism, and why he is rethinking some of his early takes on Christianity. The documentary format resumes next week. More info, book & newsletter: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/ Support via Patreon for early access to new episodes: https://www.patreon.com/justinbrierley/membership Support via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/brierleyjustin Support via Tax-deductible (USA): https://defendersmedia.com/portfolio/justin-brierley/ Buy the book or get a signed copy: https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/ Ep 4 show notes: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/episode-4-alex-oconnor-losing-faith-in-new-atheism-the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god-podcast/ The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God is a production of Think Faith in partnership with Genexis, and support from The Jerusalem Trust & the Christian Evidence Society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gavin Ortlund responds to @CosmicSkeptic Alex O'Connor on the argument from divine hiddenness. See Alex's dialogue with Lukas Ruegger from "Deflate" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vc1AiY_0Ts See Alex's debate speech from his debate with Jonathan McLatchie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2hvtR5-5M Truth Unites exists to promote gospel assurance through theological depth. Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai. SUPPORT: Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/truthunites One time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/truthunites FOLLOW: Twitter: https://twitter.com/gavinortlund Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TruthUnitesPage/ Website: https://gavinortlund.com/

Can you be a serious scientist and believe in God, and even believe in miracles?   Tom Rudelius never thought much about God until his brother, a new convert to Christianity, challenged him to explore faith. Tom, now a rising young theoretical physicist based at Durham University in the UK made a journey to unexpected faith, through subsequent doubt and anxiety, and ultimately to a firmer, life-transforming allegiance to Jesus. Phil and Tom wrestle with creation and cosmic origins, the problem of evil and suffering, the compatibility of miracles with science and the plausibility of Jesus' resurrection. Phil Halper is an atheist, and Youtuber who's interviewed leading physicists from Stephen Hawking, Sir Roger Penrose to Alan Guth for his YouTube series Before the Big Bang. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and published several papers in peer reviewed journals on the Problem of Animal Suffering and has a new film on the subject which features other leading atheists such as Peter Singer and Alex O'Connor.   Taking on Phil is Tom Rudelius author of 'Chasing proof, finding science'. Fresh from post doctoral research at UC Berkeley Tom is now Assistant Professor, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics at Durham University, UK. Tom completed his undergraduate work at Cornell, earned a doctorate in physics at Harvard, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His research focuses on string theory, quantum field theory, and early universe cosmology.   Phil Halper https://www.youtube.com/@skydivephil Tom Rudelius Website | Twitter | Instagram  • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

The Irish Blood Transfusion service is calling on the people of Clare to make urgent life saving donations in Shannon today. It comes as the group will be holding clinics at the Treacy's Oakwood Arms Hotel between 4pm and 7pm where they will be particularly seeking stocks of type 0 Negative blood. There are currently just 3.7 days of the stock available in the country , which is used to treat patients in emergency situations. IBTS Recruitment Executive and Broadford native Alex O'Connor says all donations will provide help to those who need it most.

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In the second part of their discussion based on the book Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, theologian Alister McGrath and YouTuber Alex O'Connor discuss where we may be heading in regards to religion and atheism. Faith or Atheism: what's next? Recorded on 9/11, 22 years after the tragic events at New York's World Trade Centre, which in many ways provided a catalyst for the New Atheist movement, they discuss why New Atheism has lost its appeal, what some of the new concerns and questions are and whether anything will replace it. Alister shares the evidence that compelled him to move from atheism to Christianity and Alex contemplates what it might take to convince him that God exists. Your host on Unbelievable? for this riveting debate is Ruth Jackson. For Alex O'Connor: https://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoconnor For Alister McGrath: http://alistermcgrath.weebly.com/    Buy the book, Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Faith-Through-Dawkins-Christianity/dp/0825448220 Missed Part One? Catch up here: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/unbelievable/unbelievable-coming-to-faith-through-dawkins-part-1-has-new-atheism-failed-alister-mcgrath-and-alex-oconnor/16243.article • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

Unbelievable? delves back into history and asks Did new atheism fail? with one the world's best-known theologians Alister McGrath debating Oxford-educated philosopher and wildly successful YouTuber Alex O'Connor. Prompted by a new book Coming to Faith Through Dawkins which published on 29th August 2023, the book edited by Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gathered other intelligent minds from around the world Australia, S. Africa, Egypt, USA, and the UK to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity.  Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Atheists. But each became disillusioned by the arguments and conclusions of Dawkins, causing them to look deeper and with more objectivity at religious faith. The fallacies of Christianity Dawkins warns of simply don't exist. "This is a novel book: real-life stories of people who have actually come to faith, not in spite of but through Richard Dawkins. It must be his own worst nightmare!" - William Lane Craig   Alister McGrath is a former atheist who discovered Christianity while studying the natural sciences at Oxford University. He has held a number of senior appointments during his career, including Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford, before taking up the Andreas Idreos Professorship of Science and Religion at Oxford, from which he retired last year. He also served as President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. McGrath is one of the world's best-known theologians and apologists, and is the author of the internationally acclaimed textbook Christian Theology: An Introduction, which has been translated into twenty languages. With his wife, he wrote a critique of Richard Dawkins's God Delusion which became an international bestseller. Later this year, he will publish a new textbook entitled Christian Apologetics: An Introduction. McGrath has three earned doctorates from Oxford University, in the natural sciences, theology, and intellectual history. Alex O'Connor is a YouTuber and host of the Within Reason Podcast, a philosophy platform designed to present philosophical discussions in an accessible format. A graduate of philosophy and theology from St. John's College, Oxford University, he is also an international public speaker and debater, having defended his philosophical convictions against a wide range of experts across multiple continents, whose online video material has been viewed more than seventy million times. Alex O'Connor: https://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoconnor Alister McGrath: http://alistermcgrath.weebly.com/    Buy the book, Coming to Faith through Dawkins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Faith-Through-Dawkins-Christianity/dp/0825448220 • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

Unbelievable? delves back into history and asks Did new atheism fail? with one the world's best-known theologians Alister McGrath debating Oxford-educated philosopher and wildly successful YouTuber Alex O'Connor. Prompted by a new book Coming to Faith Through Dawkins which published on 29th August 2023, the book edited by Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gathered other intelligent minds from around the world Australia, S. Africa, Egypt, USA, and the UK to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity.  Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Atheists. But each became disillusioned by the arguments and conclusions of Dawkins, causing them to look deeper and with more objectivity at religious faith. The fallacies of Christianity Dawkins warns of simply don't exist. "This is a novel book: real-life stories of people who have actually come to faith, not in spite of but through Richard Dawkins. It must be his own worst nightmare!" --William Lane Craig"   Alister McGrath is a former atheist who discovered Christianity while studying the natural sciences at Oxford University. He has held a number of senior appointments during his career, including Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford, before taking up the Andreas Idreos Professorship of Science and Religion at Oxford, from which he retired last year. He also served as President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. McGrath is one of the world's best-known theologians and apologists, and is the author of the internationally acclaimed textbook Christian Theology: An Introduction, which has been translated into twenty languages. With his wife, he wrote a critique of Richard Dawkins's God Delusion which became an international bestseller. Later this year, he will publish a new textbook entitled Christian Apologetics: An Introduction. McGrath has three earned doctorates from Oxford University, in the natural sciences, theology, and intellectual history. Alex O'Connor is a YouTuber and host of the Within Reason Podcast, a philosophy platform designed to present philosophical discussions in an accessible format. A graduate of philosophy and theology from St. John's College, Oxford University, he is also an international public speaker and debater, having defended his philosophical convictions against a wide range of experts across multiple continents, whose online video material has been viewed more than seventy million times.   Buy the book, Coming to Faith through Dawkins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Faith-Through-Dawkins-Christianity/dp/0825448220 • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is issuing an urgent call for people in Clare to participate in donation clinics on the outskirts of Ennis. The service needs to collect an extra 400 donations per week for the month of June, as it currently has provisions for just 3 days of blood supply, which is well below it's intended stockpile of seven days. IBTS last month issued a Pre-Amber Alert, meaning hospitals are being encouraged to conserve blood supplies amidst an immediate national shortage. A clinic will take place in St. Josephs GAA Doora Barefield this afternoon and Thursday at 4:50pm until 8:10pm and Broadford native & IBTS Rectruitment & Retention Executive, Alex O'Connor says that they need new donors more than ever.

On Tipp M's evening news, The 5.45: Blood stocks in Ireland are getting critically low - while we are not at an amber warning just yet, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has issued a Pre Amber Alert. But what does that mean - and what is the impact? Sometimes it is easy to hear this and get on with your day but what if you are one of the people in need of a surgery that could be cancelled due to low supply. Alex O'Connor is the Donor Recruitment and Retention Executive for our region and he started by outlining to Sheila Naughton the current situation:

Christopher Hitchens was an Anglo-American writer, journalist, literary critic and essayist. Not a thinker who one can characterise easily, the one thing linking all Hitchens' writing and his utterances- he was a formidable debater- was his opposition to totalitarian thought. This often sparked controversy- especially his views on Islam and his support for the War in Iraq- but for all the descriptions of him as a shallow contrarian, the authenticity of his opposition to totalitarian ideologies cannot be denied. My guest today is Alex O'Connor. Alex is the founder of the Cosmic Skeptic YouTube channel and associated blog and podcast, where discusses issues principally related to ethics and religion. As well as Hitchens' life and work, we discuss the future of religion in Britain and the wider Western World. The Realists UncensoredHey future listeners, it's Checkers and MJ here and we are two American men that are...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has issued a pre-amber alert ahad of an urgent Blood Donation Clinic in Clare this afternoon. The alert means hospitals are being encouraged to conserve blood supplies amidst an immediate national shortage. A clinic will be held at Treacy's West County Hotel in Ennis from 4:50 this evening until 8:10 tonight. One in four Irish people will require a blood transfusion at some point and IBTS Donor Recruitment Executive & Broadford Native, Alex O'Connor says all donations have the power to save lives.

Does science have anything to say about our freedom of choice?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesA famed experiment, by Libet in the 1980s, led many scientists and philosophers to argue that free will was an illusion. Despite the experiment being challenged at the time and in recent studies, its legacy persists. Many materialists still contend that free will has been shown to be illusory, supporting their belief that humans are merely biological machines. We often imagine that experiment settles the matter, but should we instead conclude that our interpretation of experiment is a function of our desire to believe its outcome? Or can empiricism really determine the existence or non-existence of free will?Prolific British writer, philosopher and co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine, Julian Baggini, renowned Australian philosopher of science, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and leading British neuroscientist and UCL professor, Sarah Garfinkel, argue about empiricism and its role in determining the existence of free will. Alex O'Connor hosts.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/podcast-offers?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes&utm_campaign=the-future-of-freedomSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alex O'Connor—researcher and ML manager—on the latest trends of generative AI. Language and image models, prompt engineering, the latent space, fine-tuning, tokenization, textual inversion, adversarial attacks, and more. Alex O'Connor got his PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a postdoctoral researcher and funded investigator for the ADAPT Centre for digital content, at both TCD and later DCU. In 2017, he joined Pivotus, a Fintech startup, as Director of Research. Alex has been Sr Manager for Data Science & Machine Learning at Autodesk for the past few years, leading a team that delivers machine learning for e-commerce, including personalization and natural language processing. Favorite quotes “None of these models can read.” “Art in the future may not be good, but it will be prompt.” Mastodon Books Machine Learning Systems Design by Chip Huyen Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron Papers The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar Attention Is All You Need by Google Brain Transformers: a Primer by Justin Seonyong Lee Links Alex in Mastodon ★ Training Dream Booth Multimodal Art on HuggingFace by @akhaliq NeurIPS arxiv.org: Where most papers get published Nono's Discord Suggestive Drawing: Nono's master's thesis Crungus is a fictional character from Stable Diffusion's latent space Machine learning models Stable Diffusion Arcane Style Stable Diffusion fine-tuned model ★ Imagen DALL-E CLIP GPT and ChatGPT BERT, ALBERT & RoBERTa Bloom word2vec Mupert.ai and Google's MusicLM t-SNE and UMAP: Dimensionality reduction techniques char-rnn Sites TensorFlow Hub HuggingFace Spaces ★ DreamBooth Jasper AI Midjourney Distill.pub ★ Concepts High-performance computing (HPC) Transformers and Attention Sequence transformers Quadratic growth Super resolution Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) Long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) Gated recurrent units (GRUs) Bayesian classifiers Machine translation Encoder-decoder Gradio Tokenization ★ Embeddings ★ Latent space The distributional hypothesis Textual inversion ★ Pretrained models Zero-shot learning Mercator projection People mentioned Ted Underwood UIUC Chip Huyen Aurélien Géron Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:40 · Machine learning 02:36 · Spam and scams 15:57 · Adversarial attacks 20:50 · Deep learning revolution 23:06 · Transformers 31:23 · Language models 37:09 · Zero-shot learning 42:16 · Prompt engineering 43:45 · Training costs and hardware 47:56 · Open contributions 51:26 · BERT and Stable Diffusion 54:42 · Tokenization 59:36 · Latent space 01:05:33 · Ethics 01:10:39 · Fine-tuning and pretrained models 01:18:43 · Textual inversion 01:22:46 · Dimensionality reduction 01:25:21 · Mission 01:27:34 · Advice for beginners 01:30:15 · Books and papers 01:34:17 · The lab notebook 01:44:57 · Thanks I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Thanks to Andrea Villalón Paredes for editing this interview. Sleep and A Loop to Kill For songs by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

The Unbelievable? show has been broadcasting for over 17 years. Justin Brierley and Ruth Jackson take a retrospective tour through highlights from the show from day one to some of the most significant debates that have been hosted, before being joined by Dr. Vince Vitale for a special announcement by Justin.   Links to the full shows featured in this episode, if you'd like to explore more: • Bart Ehrman vs Peter J Williams (2009): https://unbelievable.podbean.com/mf/play/8u2gvn/unbelievable_replay_bart_ehrman_vs_peter_j_williams.mp3 • Bart Ehrman vs Peter J Williams Big Conversation debate (2019): https://www.thebigconversation.show/videos/season-2/episode-3-the-story-of-jesus-can-we-trust-the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels/ • Bart Ehrman vs Justin Bass Big Conversation debate (2023): https://www.thebigconversation.show/videos/season-5/episode-1/ • Rob Bell vs Adrian Warnock: https://youtu.be/Fk75oxo2094 • Mark Driscoll interview: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ypaeb4/UNBEL_Classic_Replay_Mark_Driscoll_Interview_AD_36-24b0kmt.mp3 • Dr. Stephen Law vs Dr. William Lane Craig: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-b9ubc-1144291 • Peter Byrom's story: https://youtu.be/3lxD2avzABs • Dr. Jordan Peterson vs Dr. Susan Blackmore: https://www.thebigconversation.show/videos/season-1/episode-1-the-psychology-of-belief-do-we-need-god-to-make-sense-of-life/ • Dr. Sharon Dirckx & Alom Shaha: https://youtu.be/PTchYDTRtcs • NT Wright & Tom Holland: https://youtu.be/nlf_ULB26cU • Dave Rubin & Dr. John Lennox: https://www.thebigconversation.show/videos/season-2/episode-4-part-1-is-god-dead-a-conversation-on-faith-culture-and-the-modern-world/ • Alex O'Connor vs Bishop Robert Barron: https://www.thebigconversation.show/videos/season-3/episode-1-atheism-or-christianity-which-makes-best-sense-of-who-we-are/ • Dr. Vince Vitale vs Julian Baggini: https://youtu.be/GgCiEftlNy4   • 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/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion specialising in early Christianity and the religions of the late Roman Empire. He is also the host of "Religion for Breakfast", a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers producing informative videos on a variety of topics related to religion. Dr. Henry joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss a number of questions: what is religion? Where does it come from? Why is it so ubiquitous? To support Within Reason, please consider signing up at support.withinreasonpodcast.com

Friends, one major theme appearing throughout the teachings of Pope Francis is the danger of technocracy. In his 2015 encyclical, Laudato si', he coined the term “technocratic paradigm,” using the term five times in the encyclical. Should we be concerned about our technocratic society, one dominated by tech and science and which, in turn, aims to dominates nature? That's what I discuss with Brandon Vogt today on “The Word on Fire Show.” A listener asks, what's the difference between the Protestant and Catholic understandings of the Church? Links Word on Fire Liturgy of the Hours (Founder's Discount ends 3/31) Bishop Barron at The Heritage Foundation Bishop Barron w/ Brett McKay on “Art of Manliness” Bishop Barron w/ Alex O'Connor on “Within Reason” Laudato si' by Pope Francis Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race by Romano Guardini After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man by Michael Ward

William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher, author, and debater. He speaks to host Alex O'Connor about secularism in the US and UK, argument vs emotion in coming to faith in God, and the historical case for the resurrection of Jesus.

Konstantin Kisin is a satirist, comedian, journalist, and co-host of the Triggernometry Podcast. He recently went viral for a speech delivered at the Oxford Union arguing that "wokeness has gone too far", which has since been viewed over 100,000,000 times across various social media platforms. Konstantin talks to host Alex O'Connor about the limits of free speech, whether he considers himself to be a conservative or right-wing, and whether there can be a sensible case made for reparations for historical injustices such as slavery.

Bishop Robert Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His website, WordOnFire.org, reaches millions of people each year, and he is one of the world's most followed Catholics on social media. Bishop Barron joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss the "crisis of meaning" we might be living through, the reducibility of purpose to evolutionary drives, the conditions for salvation on Christianity, and whether God can be accurately described as analogous to a tyrannical dictator.

In this episode, I sit down, in-person, with Alex O'Connor from @CosmicSkeptic to analyze 10 different slogans that atheists have put forward over the years. Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1VrBKTza8 Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

✨🎙️Episodio 74 del podcast VEGANISMO Y SOSTENIBILIDAD de Infovegana✨🎙️ 🔥En este episodio hablamos de: ►Comentamos el caso de Alex O'Connor, conocido en redes sociales como Cosmicskeptic, un filósofo que tras 3 años siendo vegano ha decidido volver a comer productos de origen animal al no estar seguro de que la acción individual sea la más apropiada a nivel estratégico y a sus dudas sobre si una dieta 100% vegetal es saludable a largo plazo. ►Reflexionamos sobre el especismo en el mundo de los videojuegos con el ejemplo de Hogwarts Legacy y a cómo nos sentimos las personas veganas cuando debemos realizar acciones especistas para avanzar en la historia de un juego. ►En las "Vegan Bites" de esta semana os explicamos en formato breve 3 noticias: el cambio de estrategia en Barcelona para controlar la población de palomas, la lasaña plant-based que ha incorporado a su menú una aerolínea y los avances de Ikea para que el 50% de su restaurante y el 80% de su tienda sea 100% vegetal en 2025. ►Repasamos las conclusiones de un estudio sobre las mejores estrategias de activismo para propiciar la transición a una dieta 100% vegetal. ►Y como siempre, recomendaciones, repaso de la semana, anécdotas y mucho más ;) 💥CADA DOMINGO UN NUEVO EPISODIO DEL PODCAST (disponible en Ivoox, Spotify, Apple Podcast y Youtube) 💙Nuevo formato, más relajado, donde charlamos tranquilamente sobre anécdotas, comentamos noticias, os planteamos dilemas morales y compartimos recomendaciones. Todo relacionado con el antiespecismo, el veganismo y la sostenibilidad. ★Si te apetece, puedes ver nuestro contenido de otras RRSS★ 👉IG: https://www.instagram.com/info_vegana/ 👉TW: @infovegana 👉WEB: https://infovegana.com/ 👉CONTACTO: hola@infovegana.com

Christian Dr. Jonathan McLatchie joined me to discuss his debate with Alex O'Connor. In this video, we take a look at Alex's opening statement. Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is a Christian writer, international speaker, debater, assistant professor at Sattler College, Boston, and fellow of the Discovery Institute. Check out Talk About Doubts: https://talkaboutdoubts.com/ The Debate: The Debate: https://youtu.be/rnIQFI1pYLM  -------------------------------- GIVING -------------------------------- Please consider becoming a Patron! Patreon (Thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/AdherentApologetics YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8jj_CQwrRRwwwXBndo6nQ/join

An interview with CosmisSkepticLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWhat is scepticism? How do we deal with our own coginitive dissonance? Can veganism ever be justified purely by reason? These are just some of the questions that Alex O'Connor, AKA CosmicSkeptic, has been grappling with on his youtube channel, viewed by over 40 million people, for the past few years. In this interview, Alex O'Connor sits down with the Institute of Art and Ideas to discuss his positions on scepticism, David Hume, veganism, Peter Singer and religion.Alex O'Connor, also known by his YouTube alias ‘CosmicSkeptic', is a prolific philosopher, youtuber, public speaker and animal welfare activist. His youtube channel has amassed over 450 000 subscribers and discusses issues relating to free speech, free will, animal rights and the philosophical arguments against religion.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/podcast-offers?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes&utm_campaign=where-sceptics-failSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alex J. O'Connor is the founder of the Cosmic Skeptic YouTube channel, podcast and blog, platforms dedicated to the publication of philosophical ideas and debates in an accessible format. A recent graduate of philosophy and theology from St. John's College, Oxford University, Alex is an international public speaker and debater, having delivered addresses across multiple continents at conferences, universities, and local drinking groups, as well as debated ethics, religion, and politics with a number of high-profile opponents before college audiences, on radio talk shows and on national television.

Blink-182 announced Tuesday they are heading out next year on their biggest tour ever – and it includes five concerts in Canada. Lizzo appeared to clap back at Ye's comments about her appearance while on stage Friday night in Toronto. “The weight of oppression is off of me,” the singer told the crowd inside the Scotiabank Arena during the first of her two Canadian stops on The Special Tour. (She plays Vancouver on Nov. 7.) Singer Rex Orange County has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in London earlier this year. The 24-year-old, whose real name is Alex O'Connor, appeared in court on Monday to plead not guilty to six counts of sexual assault. Original Articles by John R. Kennedy: Blink-182 Announces New Music, Tour Lizzo Appears To Clap Back At Ye During Toronto Show Singer Rex Orange County Accused Of Sex Assaults 

In this episode Trent examines Alex O'Connor's (aka “the Cosmic Skeptic”) objections to the argument from change for the existence of God.

✨🎙️Episodio 55 del podcast VEGANISMO Y SOSTENIBILIDAD de Infovegana✨🎙️ 🔥En este episodio hablamos de: ►Debatimos sobre los límites del veganismo comentando los podcasts de Seb Alex, Alex O'Connor y Earthling Ed. ►Realizamos ruta gastronómica vegana por Madrid. ►Y como siempre, recomendaciones, repaso de la semana, anécdotas y mucho más ;) 💥CADA DOMINGO UN NUEVO EPISODIO DEL PODCAST (disponible en Ivoox, Spotify, Apple Podcast y Youtube) 💙Nuevo formato, más relajado, donde charlamos tranquilamente sobre anécdotas, comentamos noticias, os planteamos dilemas morales y compartimos recomendaciones. Todo relacionado con el antiespecismo, el veganismo y la sostenibilidad. ★Si te apetece, puedes ver nuestro contenido de otras RRSS★ 👉IG: https://www.instagram.com/info_vegana/ 👉TW: @infovegana 👉WEB: https://infovegana.com/ 👉CONTACTO: hola@infovegana.com

In this episode Trent sits down atheist Alex O'Connor (aka The Cosmic Skeptic) to discuss the ethics of killing animals and human beings. They discuss issues like factory farming, euthanasia, abortion, and whether only God explains human value.

Why doesn't God seem to reveal himself to people who are open and seeking him?   Recorded at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, atheist Alex O'Connor (aka Cosmic Skeptic) and Christian apologist Lukas Ruegger join Justin discuss the hiddeness of God. OCCA tutor Max Baker-Hytch also joins the discussion for a post-script commentary.   For OCCA: https://www.theocca.org/ For Wycliffe Hall: https://www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/ For Cosmic Skeptic: https://www.youtube.com/c/CosmicSkeptic For Lukas Ruegger: https://www.youtube.com/c/Deflate2020   • 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/training-and-events • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

In this episode, I sat down to talk with Alex O'Connor, the founder of the Cosmic Skeptic YouTube channel. Alex is an international public speaker and debater, speaking on topics like ethics, religion, and politics.  Alex is also a passionate animal rights advocate, and in this episode, we discussed a more inclusive definition of veganism, lab grown meat, the lack of data on long term effects of veganism and the carnivore diet, regenerative farming, and much more. Thanks for tuning in.  If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to subscribe!  —Links— Follow Alex O'Connor On Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmicskeptic Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmicskeptic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicskeptic His Website: https://cosmicskeptic.com/about/ Follow Me On All Platforms: https://linktr.ee/mikhailapeterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/mikhailapete​rson Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikhailaFuller  Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikhailapeterson Telegram: https://t.me/mikhailapeterson​​ Books Mentioned The Sacred Cow, by Diana Rogers Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer

Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is the founder of a very interesting and new apologetics ministry called Talk About Doubts. They have an entire faculty read to engage over phone/zoom/in-person to discuss doubts people have. This can supplement churches and just help those that have no one else to ask. Dr. McLatchie also has a PhD in Biology and does debates with atheists on the evidence for God. We discuss his recent debate with Alex O'Connor (aka Cosmicskeptic), irreducible complexity, non-resistant non-believers, evidentialism, presuppositionalism, and a Q&A session at the end since this was recorded live.

Rebecca O'Connor Rebecca works through some rebellious years while wrestling with her faith. Hear her journey to make her faith her own. Rebecca is the wife of Alex O'Connor who is on staff at Generations Church. She also serves in the worship ministry at church. Find out more at https://generations-church-podcast.pinecast.co

In this episode Trent shares a conversation he took part in with atheist Alex O'Connor, agnostic Joe Schmid, and Protestant Cameron Bertuzzi on the problem of evil.

Alex O'Connor pt. 2 Alex came to faith as a student out of a very challenging beginning. He also found music and production, and grafted them into being a part of his faith. Alex is on staff at Generations Church in the Worship Arts Department, and is a great new addition to our team. Notes go here Find out more at https://generations-church-podcast.pinecast.co

Alex O'Connor is a philosopher, podcaster & a YouTuber. Philosophy is hard. Ethics are hard. Working out what is moral is hard. Today we get to put our mental muscles to the test with some of the most challenging thought experiments in moral philosophy. Expect to learn why brain tumours might be a good way to learn what is actually moral, whether ethics is just an expression of emotion, whether we can kill someone to stop them nuking a city, why it might be best to just not have any more children, whether an expensive education is cheating, what it means to say that someone is morally responsible for their actions, why Alex wore a suit to a boat party and much more... Sponsors: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ Get 15% discount on the amazing 6 Minute Diary at https://bit.ly/diarywisdom (use code MW15) (USA - search Amazon and use 15MINUTES) Get 10% discount on your first month from BetterHelp at https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 30% discount on your at-home testosterone test at https://trylgc.com/modernwisdom (use code: MODERN30) Extra Stuff: Watch Alex on YouTube - https://youtu.be/gcVR2OVxPYw Subscribe to Alex on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/CosmicSkeptic To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ 

Episode 53– Show NotesWe start with an argument from our series on 50 Arguments for God's Existence. This time“The Argument from Degrees of Perfection” by Catholic philosopher Peter Freeft. The following link gives a summary.https://peterkreeft.com/topics-more/20_arguments-gods-existence.htm#4We try our best to do the argument justice while discussing how it doesn't work for us.Somehow we drifted into mentioning the recent debate “Theism vs Atheism” between Jonathan McLatchie and Alex O'Connor. Here's the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnIQFI1pYLM This idea of God's Perfection led us on to this pair of questions:1) Would a perfect God create a perfect world?2) Is this world perfect? It opened up what the Bible says on God being perfect, which is not just Jesus's words in Matthew 5v48 “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” The Old Testament Yahweh doesn't come across as perfect. We enjoyed the anger management in Exodus 33v3The classic Christian response to why our world isn't perfect while God is perfect is the Fall and Adam and Eve. We go back there again (sorry). Doubts Aloud Links:Please leave us a review on iTunes and we will respond to any question asked there with the review. Or give feedback and ask questions using : doubtsaloud@gmail.com Join the Facebook Group discussions:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1023280847835278/ Meet us all in person (after Covid19) at the monthly “Unbelievable Christian and Skeptic Discussion Group” in central London, see:https://www.meetup.com/Unbelievable-Christian-and-Skeptic-Discussion-Group-London

TW: Discussion of sexual assault, druggings, and other personal safety issues. As young college students, it is crucial to make your safety a priority, and understand the resources and protection available to you. Ilayna and Allison are joined by special guest, Alex O'Connor, a junior criminal justice major interning with the URI police department. Alex shares some of the standards of violence prevention, and protection resources available to all URI students in order to keep our campus safe.

I respond to Alex O'Connor's arguments against compatibilism, the view that there is no real conflict between determinism and free will. Is free will skepticism the better view, as Alex claims? Will the British ever learn their lesson? CosmicSkeptic - Compatibilism Debunked Subscribe on YouTube here Listen to our sister show Counter Apologetics here Consider supporting Walden Pod on Patreon here or Counter Apologetics here  Follow on Twitter @waldenpod and @OnPanpsychism  linktr.ee/emersongreen

@Capturing Christianity, @Majesty of Reason, @Deflate, and @CosmicSkeptic join forces to discuss Christianity, their personal journeys, and other fun stuff. Capturing Christianity Exchange 2022 is an in-person event on May 21, 2022 featuring an exchange of ideas between Cameron Bertuzzi, Alex O'Connor, Lukas Rueegger, and Joe Schmid. Event attendees will have an opportunity to witness first-hand a fresh exchange of ideas between many popular philosophy of religion YouTubers. To buy tickets to CC Exchange 2022: https://capturingchristianity.com/events/cc-exchange-2022/ Link to the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTtSJZTUQWI Our Website: www.capturingchristianity.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/capturingchristianity

I had another opportunity to visit Premier Christian Radio (link to full show below) and debate popular Christian apologist Frank Turek on the moral argument for God's existence. The camera on Justin (the host) cut out around half way through the video, and so there is only one angle from there on out.

In today's show, I chat with Alex O'Connor of Sussex Drone Surveys. Alex shares how his desire for a lifestyle change led him to reassess his career journey. Sussex Drone Surveys was created about 3 months ago, following 12 years in leasehold management. Alex combined his experience within the building management sector with his growing interest in flying drones - which he'd done whilst on holiday, creating amazing videos. Alex explains how domestic home-owners or management companies can benefit from his services as part of planned preventative maintenance on blocks of flats. This episode is another fascinating insight into people, passionate about property! October 2021

I don't try to explain why Mr. Alex O'connor's conclusion that free will does not exist is wrong but that his definition of "free will" is wrong. Alex O'connor's youtube videos on free will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwaXqep-bpk&list=PLJUxzp7C2P_aTfK-vfbtqgoqa9_QOMn8e My youtube video: https://youtu.be/BgN42fk-j2Y --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-aranda/support

Today, Josh Yen joins me to respond to Alex O'Connor on the resurrection. Full Video: https://youtu.be/3vum_NMB28Q Apologetics for All: http://bit.ly/2L2SXbi Responses to Skeptics: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj8S949x_pmRcc8uxrO4diaE_13h47EwH -------------------------------- GIVING -------------------------------- Please consider becoming a Patron! I am a full-time student, so your support helps make our content better and provides me Ramen money. Patreon (Thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/AdherentApologetics YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8jj_CQwrRRwwwXBndo6nQ/join

In this week's rebuttal video Trent responds to a critique Joe Schmid offered of the case Trent made in his previous debate on the existence of God with Alex O'Connor.

On tonight's programme we reply to internet YouTuber and atheist Alex O'Connor. He is also know as -Cosmic Skeptic- on YouTube. He appeared with Bishop Robert Brown on the Unbelievable- Radio show with Justin Brierley. This is following on last week's critique of Robert Barron himself.

On tonight's programme we reply to internet YouTuber and atheist Alex O'Connor. He is also know as “Cosmic Skeptic” on YouTube. He appeared with Bishop Robert Brown on the Unbelievable? Radio show with Justin Brierley. This is following on last week's critique of Robert Barron himself.

On today's episode, Brandon Vogt and I discuss my recent conversation with Alex O'Connor (aka @CosmicSkeptic), one of the most popular atheists in the world. We replay and unpack some of the most important clips from the dialogue. (Watch the full dialogue here.) A listener who was raised Christian, but became atheist for many years, asks advice on re-engaging with Christianity.

On today's episode, Brandon Vogt and I discuss my recent conversation with Alex O'Connor (aka @CosmicSkeptic), one of the most popular atheists in the world. We replay and unpack some of the most important clips from the dialogue. (Watch the full dialogue here.) A listener who was raised Christian, but became atheist for many years, asks advice on re-engaging with Christianity. NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

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All uploads on this channel are for promotional purposes only! The music has been converted before uploading to prevent ripping and to protect the artist(s) and label(s). If you don't want your content here (that goes for audio or images) please contact me immediately via email: unpluggedtube@outlook.it and I WILL REMOVE THE EPISODE OR ARTWORK IMMEDIATELY! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen Rex Orange County play "Loving Is Easy", "Pluto Projector", "Always" and "Sunflower" at the Tiny Desk. --- Rex Orange County, the low-key British pop star born Alex O'Connor, frames his emotions and struggles in a way that appears simple and linear at first. It's only after a few listens that you realize that most of us are incapable of the courage he demonstrates behind the microphone. The crowd of millennial and Gen Z staffers that gathered early for Rex's soundcheck at the Tiny Desk certainly appreciated that fact. There was a palpable connection between the 21-year-old singer and his fans that I don't see often at this stage in a musician's career. My guess is that they see themselves in him: introverted and shy, with the audacity to write and sing about his innermost thoughts. --- Team UNPLUGGED.

Rex Orange County is the music making name of 20-year old Alex O'Connor. Yadana Saw speaks to the British artist who's duetted with Randy Newman, worked with Tyler, the Creator and is heading to Laneway Festival 2019.