I had the privilege yesterday of being interviewed by Sam on his Transfigured podcast. The episode is below. Sam did a great job with the episode. We discuss my opening arguments, and I give some hot takes on the rival views of my co-authors. Here’s the YouTube version; you can get the audio-only version wherever you get your podcasts. It will make the most sense to you if you read the book first, although the episode is also a good teaser for the arguments in it.
Starting at around 27 and half minutes, Sam shares his more mathematical take, as a professional statistician, on my 20 facts argument in my opening chapter in the book. As I mention here, book editor Dr. Chad McIntosh pointed this out some time ago to me, that someone could recast my arguments there into Bayesian form. I think the arguments are more persuasive, at least, to most people, in English the way they are, but I think someone should write a peer-reviewed paper on this. I’m not Bayesian in my own thinking, so I’m not going to take a crack at it.
Be sure to check out the rest of Transfigured episodes; if you like the trinities podcast, you will be interested in many of them.
I hope Sam is able to interview the others who participated in the book; he is always a sharp yet hospitable conversation partner. I know that Dr. Ryan Mullins (who is an editor of the series this book is a part of) will be releasing some interviews with the book authors on his Reluctant Theologian podcast.
