Greg Koukl

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612 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 29 Sep

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Atheist vs Christian vs Spiritual Thinker: The Paperclip Problem That Exposes Religion! · 29 Sep 2025 podcast

is the ultimate, and that is that friendship with God and being restored in that.

Of course.

We have this hunger.

I have no reason to believe that any naturalistic explanation can explain the consciousness's hunger for meaning and significance because that's all propositional.

It's not molecules in motion.

Naturalistic just means nature and that's all there is basically.

So you have molecules in motion largely governed by natural law.

There is no outside transcendent anything.

There's no immaterial anything, certainly not an immaterial God that has started the process and sustains the process and gives life meaning.

There either is meaning or

objectively or not, okay?

If not, then it's up to us.

The reason the paperclip illustration doesn't match is because it seems to me that you're subtly taking the thing that's conscious that makes paperclips and comparing it to a human being.

And for human beings…

who seem to have a different purpose, I would argue, be consigned to make paperclips, well, that's dehumanizing to them.

But if you have – just to follow your illustration, if you have a creator that makes something for a reason that the creator has in mind, then it's fulfilling its purpose perfectly.

For a human being, that's not going to be satisfying making paperclips.

And a lot of people who are making paperclips are not satisfied with it, OK?

I don't think it's arbitrary if God is making something for a purpose.

If God decides that he wants to make creatures to be in friendship with him because this reflects his loving character and that purpose is to be in friendship with him, I don't see how that is somehow negligible or arbitrary at all.

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