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Brian Klaas Tells Me Where I’m Wrong on Chance


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Every day is full of small decisions, and rarely do we think of them as having great consequences. But if you ask today’s guest, Brian Klaas, they very well might.

On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Moore invites Klass—a political scientist, contributing writer at The Atlantic, and associate professor—to tell him where he is wrong on the nature of the universe. Klaas explains why he is a determinist and how that belief system has both similarities and differences to believing in a personal God. The two discuss the high level of pop culture interest in science fiction and the concept of a multiverse. Their conversation covers politics and power, physics and free will, and what reforming broken systems may look like.

Resources mentioned in this episode include: 

  • Brian Klaas
  • Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
  • Power Corrupts 
  • Peter Kreeft
  • Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
  • Dark Matter
  • Frederick Buechner
  • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas


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