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The Mystery of Existence: Why is there something rather than nothing? Part 1 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The Problem With Causal Explanations

Even within the natural sciences, many of the explanations that are in place are non-causal. I think if we try to give a causal answer almost necessarily, we're going to run into some kind of conflict between science and religion. And only when we give a causal answers to this question, these two get into conflict. So I just mentioned that science should always have priority. That's also one of the things I assume.

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