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Oct 7, 2026
Philip Swenson: The Philosopher's Case for Giving to the Global Poor #26
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1:48JDHOST
What are your best arguments for believing in God?
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1:51Philip SwensonGUEST
Okay, so the argument I like the best, I call it the extraordinary world argument.
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2:00Philip SwensonGUEST
But the basic idea is like, think about all the ways that the world could be, right? So philosophers would call that, think about modal space.
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2:08Philip SwensonGUEST
Like that's just all the different possibilities, all the different possible worlds or ways things could be, ways the world could be.
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2:14Philip SwensonGUEST
And I think most of them are lacking in a lot of the good and cool stuff we have in this world.
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9:29JDHOST
theodicy in a second but yeah give me some more crazy news that you have yeah