Within Reason
#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “ The Elegant Universe ”, which turns 25 this year.
2 apr 2025 - 01 ore 20 min 28 sec
#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice" , to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.
23 mar 2025 - 03 ore 08 min 46 sec
#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
Penn Badgley is an actor best known for his roles in Netflix’s You and the popular drama series Gossip Girl. He is less known as a podcaster and member of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion which teaches that there is a historical unity between major world religions and their prophets, having itself developed out of a branch of Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century.
17 mar 2025 - 01 ore 56 min 26 sec
#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
Jacob Hansen is a Mormon YouTuber at the channel Thoughtful Faith .
10 mar 2025 - 02 ore 21 min 53 sec
#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Kipp Davis ( @DrKippDavis ) is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, where he specialises in the assignment and reconstruction of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and their interpretation. (Google Books) The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons, including deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism and extrabiblical books. At the same time, they cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of Rabbinic Judaism. (Wikipedia)
2 mar 2025 - 02 ore 15 min 06 sec
#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
A Q to celebrate hitting 1.25 million subscribers on YouTube.
1 mar 2025 - 01 ore 01 min 46 sec
#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
James Frank McGrath is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. He is the author of two books on John the Baptist: "John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptiser" , and "Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist" .
31 gen 2025 - 01 ore 23 min 47 sec
#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
Dan McClellan is an American public scholar of the Bible and religion. His forthcoming book, "The Bible Says So", is available here .
27 gen 2025 - 01 ore 19 min 56 sec
#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
Adam Aleksic is a linguist known online as "The Etymology Nerd". His educational videos are watched regularly by millions. His forthcoming book " Algospeak " is currently available for preorder.
21 gen 2025 - 01 ore 09 min 39 sec
#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link).
20 dic 2024 - 01 ore 01 min 16 sec