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“The Baha’i Faith & Atheism”: A Talk by Dr. Steven Phelps
November 5, 2016, in Audio > Talks, by Sonjel VreelandThanks to the Baha’i Publishing Trust of Sweden, we’re happy to share with everyone a great talk given by Dr. Steven Phelps called “The Baha’i Faith & Atheism (Part 1 of 2)”.
You can also listen to and download Part 2 of this talk here:
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This talk was given by Dr. Steven Phelps at the Swedish Baha’i Summer School in July, 2009.
Dr. Steven Phelps is an American Baha’i physicist, philosopher and translator who currently lives in Oregon, USA. If you’re interested in learning more about him, he was interviewed by Rainn Wilson in this episode of the Baha’i Blogcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-545312385/bahai-blogcast-steven-and-rainn
We’d really like to thank Dr. Steven Phelps for giving us permission to publish this wonderful talk, and to the Baha’i Publishing Trust of Sweden for organising the recording of the talk, and for giving us permission to publish it as well.
Happy listening!
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Sonjel Vreeland
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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