Dan and Ryan talk about Dan's latest book which is about why Dan left the Christian faith over a decade ago. They also talk about a couple of Christian apologists who had a lot to say in response to Dan's first book.

Politely Rejecting Jesus is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in both paperback and ebook form. The audio book will be available soon!

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Picking up where the last episode left off, Dan continues his discussion of cosmological arguments for atheism. In this episode he talks about an argument from Quentin Smith which accepts the Kalam Cosmological Argument for a cause of the universe, but which attempts to show that the universe is its own cause.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Cambridge Companion to Atheism edited by Michael Martin
  • ch. 11, "Kalam Cosmological Arguments for Atheism" by Quentin Smith

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Ryan is currently on a quest to rescue the New Year Baby with the help of Caveman and Ben Franklin, so Dan tackles a couple of philosophical arguments for atheism. The first is a version of (or response to) the Kalam Cosmological Argument which suggests that the universe can't possibly have a cause.

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