I’m interviewed by Fuad Abdullah Harahap (@fubilosophy) about my deconversion, the sad state of Christian apologetics, my issues with the skeptic community, free will, the afterlife, agnosticism, and a few other topics. Fubilosophy Linktree

CA131 What would convince you?

Mar 4th, 2024 16m 37s

What would convince you of God’s existence? Specifically, the Christian God. What would change your mind and cause you to convert? I name three things: Christian aliens, miracles, and religious experience. That’s not an exhaustive list, but tho

CA130 Am I Agnostic?

Feb 24th, 2024 25m 10s

The world is religiously ambiguous: It can be interpreted in various incompatible ways, and the interpreters are not necessarily violating any standards of rationality in doing so. As for me, I don’t feel any position being forced on me by the

CA129 Universalism Debate: John Buck vs. Emerson Green

Jan 28th, 2024 1h 47m

Returning guest John Buck joins me to debate universalism, eternal conscious torment, and other topics related to hell and the afterlife. My Playlist on Hell Linktree

CA128 No, math does not prove God

Jan 14th, 2024 35m 6s

I respond to the wildly popular Redeemed Zoomer video about proving God’s existence with math. To see the open hangout that took place afterwards, you can watch the original livestream (unedited with no postscript) on YouTube Linktree

CA127 What’s wrong with the moral argument?

Dec 27th, 2023 22m 16s

We wrap up our series on the moral argument for theism, summarize several problems with the argument famously associated with William Lane Craig, and discuss two other moral arguments for God that are not abysmal failures like the standard mora

CA126 Euthyphro’s Revenge

Dec 24th, 2023 57m 38s

Today, we continue our series on the moral argument for theism. We discuss the Euthyphro dilemma, Hume’s Law, and explore a back-and-forth between William Lane Craig and Michael Huemer on the question, “Why obey God?” Common Mistakes about the

CA125 The Moral Argument for God

Dec 19th, 2023 40m 23s

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And morality. The standard moral argument popularized by William Lane Craig and others goes as follows: (1) If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist. (2) Objective mora

CA124 Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Conversion to Christianity

Nov 21st, 2023 21m 34s

Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently announced her conversion to Christianity. But has she only adopted a form of cultural Christianity? I examine her reasons for becoming a Christian and draw some parallels between Ayaan and another political convert: And

AMA

Nov 19th, 2023 3h 22m

I recently asked for your questions, and I posted my responses on YouTube here. We touch on compatibilism, NDEs, aliens, euthanasia, abortion, death anxiety as an atheist, idealism, incest, Islam, Mormonism, subjectivism, psychophysical harmony

CA123 Christian Universalism w/ Andrew Hronich

Oct 14th, 2023

I’m joined by Andrew Hronich, author of Once Loved, Always Loved: The Logic of Apokatastasis. We discuss universal reconciliation, eternal conscious torment, annihilationism, and much else! Watch the interview here Linktree

Where New Atheist Epistemology Goes (Very) Wrong – Interview on Adherent Apologetics

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 9m

Here’s my appearance on Adherent Apologetics to talk about the recent series of Counter Apologetics episodes on epistemology. Where New Atheist Epistemology Goes (Very) Wrong | @EmersonGreen | Ep. #259 5 Mistakes Atheists Make About Epistemolo

Debate: Is God Finite?

Sep 5th, 2023 2h 19m

Alex Strasser (Protestant) and John Buck (Catholic) debate the merits of finite theism, the view that God is limited in power. Theistic finitism is less vulnerable to the problem of evil than perfect being theism, but are there other trade-offs

CA122 Substance Dualism w/ Michael Huemer

Aug 28th, 2023 1h 37m

Dr. Michael Huemer joins me to defend interactionist substance dualism, the view that the mind and body are composed of different substances and can exert causal influence over each other. Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Gu

CA121 Encountering Mystery w/ Dale Allison

Aug 13th, 2023 1h 8m

Today I’m speaking with Dr. Dale Allison, historian and author of many books, including The Resurrection of Jesus, The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus, and our subject today, Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular A

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

Jun 28th, 2023 6m 6s

Today, I defend the controversial idea that ordinary and extraordinary claims don’t require the same evidence. Linktree

CA120 Debate: Limited vs. Unlimited God

Jun 28th, 2023 1h 39m

LDS Philosophy and Dry Apologist join me for a debate on the nature of God. We compare the virtues of a limited model of God versus a model on which God is unlimited in power, as well as simple, impassible, etc. Are the classical models of God

CA119 Intuition, Lacktheism, & Charity

Jun 20th, 2023 16m 24s

We close out our series on atheism and epistemology with the epistemic value of intuition, the issue of lacktheism, and whether or not I’ve been charitable to my fellow atheists throughout these episodes. Linktree

CA118 Testimonial Evidence

Jun 19th, 2023 16m 2s

Can we really trust the testimony of others? Does testimony provide any evidence or justification for a claim? I defend the idea that we should trust testimony, and that the epistemic value of testimonial evidence is supported by induction, the

CA117 Is Theism Unfalsifiable?

Jun 11th, 2023 13m 51s

This is part two of a five-part series. For even more on epistemology, check out Walden Pod for a completely different epistemology series. Understanding Knowledge – Michael Huemer Linktree

CA116 Mistakes Atheists Make About Epistemology: “There is no evidence for God.”

Jun 8th, 2023 16m 52s

There are a number of slogans one hears in the online atheist community, some of them purporting to be epistemic principles or rules of thumb. Unfortunately, many of them are only correct if we interpret them very narrowly and often not in the

CA115 Post-Debate Interview w/ Justin Schieber of Real Atheology

May 10th, 2023 1h 16m

Justin Schieber joins me for a lighthearted breakdown of his debate with Eric Hernandez on the existence of God. We critique the arguments put forward by Eric, discuss the evidence presented by Justin, and talk about a few of our favorite momen

CA114 Animal Suffering is Evidence Against God

Apr 30th, 2023 11m 10s

Is the kind, degree, and distribution of animal suffering evidence against theism? We discuss why teleological evil, the scale of suffering in evolutionary history, and the moral randomness of animal pain is strong evidence against the existenc

Debate: Is Animal Suffering Evidence That God Does Not Exist? w/ Perspective Philosophy

Apr 19th, 2023 1h 47m

Perspective Philosophy and I recently had a friendly debate about the problem of evil, metaethics, the contingency argument, and how he maintains his worldview as a catholic and vegan. The Conversation Post-debate debrief – Patreon Linktree

Unknown Arguments For & Against God

Apr 12th, 2023 1h 44m

Two Catholics (Dry Apologist & John Buck) and two atheists (Emerson Green & Chris Rhodes) talk about lesser-known arguments for theism and against theism. Chris joins us a little later, but he makes it in time to rack up several casualties on t