55:30 Weinstein starts to get into it with Peterson on whether or not people should really be dabbling in the Biblical stories, why and why not.
Peterson (57:37) “I believe that the Bible is the documentation of the emergence of the idea of the divine individual. That’s essentially what it is. We have a very uneasy relationship with that collection of texts now because we read them as if they’re making claims about the objective nature of the world and those claims seem to be false from a scientific perspective. I don’t believe that those are the claims that were made to begin with so it’s a non-starter. I’ve been trying to lecture about the stories in Genesis in a manner that makes them accessible to atheists and many many atheists have been responding very positively to them. I have people in my YouTube comments that are calling themselves Christian atheists. They understand this idea that has emerged in the West that consciousness is the mediator between chaos and order and the phenomena that generates experience and that you can think of that as a divine category of existence and I’ve been trying to delineate how the Biblical stories lay out the pathway by which the divine individual should manifest him or herself in time because that is what it is. ”
