Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point

from The Theory of Anything · host Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen

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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