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Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
Season 1 Episode 56
Special guest, Lulie Tanett, asked me if she could come on my podcast and interview me about religion. Lulie and Peter ask me numerous religion-related questions such as:
- How is the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (i.e. Mormon church) similar and different from Deutsch's Four Strands worldview?
- What might the Deutsch Four Strands worldview learn from religion?
- In a modern world, what (if anything) can religion still teach us?
- Is religion an ally or a foe of a rational worldview?
- For what matter, what is the most widely accepted rational worldview?
- What about supernatural truth claims of religion? Can they be reconciled with a rational worldview?
- How was the Omega Point theory (from the final chapter of Fabric of Reality) informed by religion?
- What is the Omega Point theory? Why did Deutsch abandon it (in Beginning of Infinity)? What did he replace it with?
- Is Frank Tipler (creator of the Omega Point theory) a nutter or a mad genius?
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