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Why? The Purpose of the Universe with Philip Goff

Why? The Purpose of the Universe with Philip Goff

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My guest today is Philip Goff. Philip is a philosophy professor at Durham University. He's the author of Galileo's Error and Why the Purpose of the Universe.

Philip believes that science gives us objective reasons to believe that there's value in the universe and he comes at this from a very different angle than say Sam Harris, who reaches the same conclusion for different reasons in his book, The Moral Landscape. Philip relies heavily on the so-called fine tuning argument. So we talk a lot about that in this podcast. We also talk about Philip's theory of panagentialism and much more.
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I was really enjoying this podcast, as I have the 2 before it but I was a bit dumbfounded to hear your take on God. it seems to me that is something neither of you have any personal experience on. while very insightful and intelligent in your respective fields I can see woeful lack in understanding of the God reality. Please allow me to remind you of the simple reality that God in his benevolence has bequeathed the earth and it's entire realm to our care. It is our choices which predominately determine our destinies. Choice, free will, is our birth right and what we do with it sits squarely on our shoulders. God is a not definable by human standards. God is outside time, space, physics etc. please don't shortchange yourselves by relagating your understanding to a comprehensible possible understanding of God. Or at least if you choose to do so don't "cut off your own feet" by ascribing all the woes of this world solely to God. We have been at the helm of this craft since the dawn of time. it's like this- in it's simplest form: God is the breath of Life. the Spirit within you, if you will -but you decide to live a life based on your body, your mind, your will and your choice. God is like the silent passenger in the backseat of your life, occasionally being able to break through your psyche and guide you or intervene supernaturally on your behalf (through whatever divine allowance is granted) but say you continually make the choices to damage, destroy and undermine the very breath of Life and Spirit by which you live ie. drug abuse, cheating colleagues, overeating or whatever distasteful other path you might choose (and I have been down all of those, so I speak from experience). Is it then logical to blame God? You were the one in control of your ship. you were given the ship in good faith to navigate, and be not fooled- every choose your own adventure author knows all the possible outcomes before the reader ever begins any journey, But is it then logical to say "how stupid or sadistic of you to give me such an opportunity you should have known the outcome would be disastrous" what then is the alternative you would prefer? that life not be? that experience not be? that God not be? we are still working out our understanding of God and our relationship with God, to be certain, but be not fooled by the belief that we can define and therefore judge the creator by the parameters by which we have been created for God is not limited by them. God is as much outside of them as in them. what really should be discussed is our woeful lack of understanding about God, the source of all Life. Blessings on your journey fellow travelers.

I'm shocked to here so much intelligence take suck a sharp turn.

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