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Commentary by Zia H Shah MD

Each speaker seems to be opining on the belief system of theists more than others but in the process they also reveal their own personal belief system.

The first speaker Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is showing here almost unshakeable belief in God of Spinoza and Einstein and perhaps pantheism. Her views help us understand other pantheists as well. Paul Davies is a famous cosmologist and a prolific writer and I have often shared his videos, but he is sometimes hard to understand, when approached from a theistic perspective, and begins to make easier sense when put in a pantheistic paradigm.

To effectively talk to atheists one needs this deeper psychological or philosophic understanding. With this in place let us talk some more:

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