Does God Exist? w/ Alex Plato 

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an actual plilosopher named Plato? Does not get any better than that

Any video with this in the title always brings out the most "interesting" people in the comments, pretty much instantly too. I find it fascinating how consistent the types of things you see said are as well. Always enjoy these talks with Dr. Plato though.

I cannot stress enough how much I loved the section about "volition dependent evidence", and the idea of a "devotional experiment". In a few words you managed to summarize *precisely* the stage in which I find myself. I started trying to swallow the feeling of ridiculousness at praying the rosary and begin to do that, and I have made a concerted effort to go with my girlfriend to Mass when I can (she's a confirmed Catholic and is in the Choir). I feel like I've gotten to the point where the depth of the Philosophical arguments that have been raging for some millenia now have only grown in sophistication and I am looking for that thing that others on this show have said, that experience of something that (in their mind at least) could only be God. I know some atheists would discount any personal experience as evidence (Hume argued that the odds of an experience being supernatural is, by definition, less likely than it being natural), and at certain points (and in certain moods) I might agree, but at this point I'd take what I can get, hypocrisy be damned. I'm not saying 1 profound experience would have be jumping in the baptismal font the same day; but i'm after literally anything that just makes me go "wow..what was that feeling?!", if that makes sense.

Great video as always lads

Matt: "Does God exist?" Dr. Plato: "Yes." *Star Wars Theme Plays* WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY GEORGE LUCAS

This is worth a rewatch

Bring this man back again, Matt!

Great Episode. I’m at a point in my life where I am at the point mentioned where Pascal’s wager is usually brought up - I find when looking at the evidence no way that sways me. I’m open to the idea but lack the belief. In other words I have an absence of belief, not a belief in absence. The core issue I have with Pascal’s wager is that I’m not sure it’s possible to make yourself believe. I’m open to belief but I don’t know how to make myself believe. To engage in things like prayer or go to church feels fraudulent and I can’t shake that feeling so that path does not seem to help. All I can do is remain open, continue to engage with podcasts like this, authors like Lewis and Chesterton and maybe one day I’ll get there.

My favorite of all your guests

Really good video

Thanks for this, guys 😊 Question: Is the Hallow deal still valid? If I follow the link in the description, I get a 404 page.

This guy needs to be on Joe Rogan...

What is the book Dr. Plato keeps referring to?

You have once again chosen violence with that lime button up

Make a clip channel. Can't stand all the waste on my yt front page and then I have to dig around your channel to try find the latest podcasts

What was the name of the book that Plato was getting the three levels of evidence from?

Yea

Can you get Cliffe Knechtle from Give Me An Answer on the show? He’s not catholic but he speaks to real young people outside of universities and has some really great thought provoking conversation. I love listening to him speak to people.

If anyone knows the name of the book that Dr. Plato is drawing from, please provide the title. Thanks!

Anybody know any books which provide good historical and cultural context for the bible?

I am not against natural theology nor it’s use in apologetics. But it seems to me that it needs to be used in a presuppositional manner. One thing I dislike about classical or evidential apologetics is it begins as an argument for a generic theism rather than arguing that the triune God of the Bible is necessary for even the beginning of knowledge.

35:00 Pascal's wager

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A person won't believe in God until he or she meets God.

What's he book Alex keeps mentioning? I missed it and he continues referring to a "he/him" but doesn't say his name

STOP SAYING RIGHT

What is "God"? And is our modern idea of it the same thing as what the ancient authors of the Bible had in mind? I ask rhetorically, because consider how much of the universe's explanation was previously the sole domain of this "God" thing, but now is sufficiently explained by naturalism. How much does the gap shrink before what little remains of this "God" idea stops being the same "God" that was written about? 🤔

At 9:49 , Dr Plato says that, and I am paraphrasing, that "the nature of reality as we understand it is dependent". This is not a settled view, and, as far as I can tell, the majority of scientists are determinists, meaning that they would reject the idea that there are multiple modes of being. They would rather say that there is only one mode of being. at 19:41 , Dr Plato makes the claim that "A mind can put order out", and I am not really sure what Dr Plato means by that. As far as I can tell, non-minds can make order as well. Consider a planet cooling down, that planet becomes more ordered as liquids freeze and as gasses liquidize. Additionally, the phrase that "minds make order" seems only somewhat true? In a closed system, this appears to be possible, but in a closed system without a mind, this is likewise possible? But in the universe, this is not possible, with or without minds.

Great episode. Really apreciated the discussion on cumulative cases and abductive reasoning when it comes to making the case for Theism. Would love Dr. Plato's thoughts on the some of the strong abductive cases for Atheism made by people like Paul Draper, Graham Oppy, J.H. Sobel, and many others.

From contingency argument, I'm pretty sure " God " exists.... The idea that your messiah was also God and he was resurrected ,is quite challenging. Edit: threatening hellfire isn't an argument

Interesting conversation but I am a Lutheran and resist proving or objectifying God, as all proof is a vain attempt to poses the define. God needs no proof but the Kerygma alone from the mouth of a preacher. Natural theology is a theology of glory not a theology of the cross.