Does the Evidence Actually Support Belief in God?

Evaluating Evidence for Religious Belief: Different religious claims require different forms of justification.

Are we using the right kind of evidence to answer the biggest questions about existence?

From the cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments to the historicity of Jesus and the reliability of the Gospels, Tom examines how people justify their religious beliefs. His approach emphasises matching the evidence to the claim: empirical claims need empirical evidence, while conceptual and metaphysical claims require appropriate forms of justification.

Why book him: This gives hosts several engaging avenues for discussion, from the philosophy of religion to specific arguments that audiences can test for themselves.

About Tom Jump

Tom Jump, podcast guest

Atheist Philosopher, Debater & Author

Tom Jump is an atheist philosopher, debater and author whose YouTube channel, TJump, has 32,000 subscribers. He tackles some of the biggest questions at the intersection of religion, reason and ethics, engaging with Christian theologians, philosophers and other thinkers on the existence of God and the foundations of morality.

What sets Tom apart is his distinctive approach to debate: rather than relying solely on familiar atheist objections, he evaluates religious arguments from the perspective of the people who make them. His work challenges the assumption that objective morality requires belief in God and explores how people distinguish sound evidence from flawed reasoning.

Tom is the co-author of Objective Morality Without God? and founder of the Church of the Best Possible World, a secular initiative built around his model of morality. He is especially suited to podcasts that welcome rigorous but accessible conversations about atheism, Christianity, evidence, objective morality, the meaning of life and whether belief in God is reasonable.

Podcast hosts can expect a guest who is comfortable with disagreement and direct debate. Tom is particularly interested in speaking with Christian or religious audiences and discussing questions such as whether there is evidence for God, what morality is, how moral claims can be grounded without a deity and how competing worldviews should be evaluated.

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