This podcast examines, page by page, the ideas proposed by Christian writer Ross Douthat in his book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.
In his book, Ross Douthat claims that religious belief in general, and Christian belief specifically, is the rational choice. Do his arguments hold up to scrutiny?
Why make this podcast? Well, not everyone believes. We want to know why Ross Douthat thinks that’s so terrible, and why he’s using his power as a member of the media elite to try to get everybody in America to believe the same thing.
What Ross Douthat Gets Right And Wrong About Consciousness
Even though consciousness is not a physical object, and is not fully understood, all the existing evidence points strongly toward consciousness as an emergent property of the physical bodies of human beings. No soul is involved.