Ep 51: God & the Cosmic Host with Lincoln Cannon

Lincoln Cannon explains why Nick Bostrom has "found God," why it's getting harder to be an atheist, argues that Christ is inviting all of us to be Christ, and why you can't be genuine friends with someone who's incapable of being your enemy.

Lincoln Cannon is a technologist and philosopher, co-founder of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, and a leading voice of Mormon Transhumanism — author of the New God Argument, a logical argument for faith in God grounded in humanity's compassionate, superintelligent potential. An atheist for almost a decade after his father's death, he was brought back to belief by a philosophical reading of the apostle Paul, William James, Nietzsche — and transhumanism.

• Nick Bostrom, "AI Creation and the Cosmic Host" — the paper that frames the conversation
• The New God Argument — Lincoln Cannon
• Lincoln Cannon's website
• The Mormon Transhumanist Association
• Read You Are Gods — David Bentley Hart
• Read The Weight of Glory — C.S. Lewis
• Watch on YouTube