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168. A Brain Divided | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a God?

A lot of people think that if i say these things, i must be positing an engineering god who sort of tinkers with things and makes things happen according to his purpose. Wello, how do you scotch that? My presuppositions have nothing to do with an already conceived plan that is just being acted out. I mean we haven't divined, we haven't defined what we mean by divine. We're back in the nets of language. If it were known, it would all be some horrible, possibly sadistic, an play by an almighty, al knowing god. That sounds nonsense. But there's a wonderful image called er in indian mythology,

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