(Atheist Answers) 10 Theist Questions

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Today, we're answering questions. Likely fundamentalist Christian apologist Trinity Radio asks, we answer. I like this set of questions and they were fun to answer, honestly. It's definitely a lot higher quality than you will get some of the time. Naturally, I have thoughts. #religion #skeptic #reason #logic #response #science #bigbang #evolution #philosophy #theology

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@aztraeuz 7 месяцев назад

It's nice to see an atheist that has always been so. I often feel like an outcast in the atheist community due to never having belief. I don't have a conversion or de-conversion story. I've just literally never believed. I've never understood why other people believe. It is a complete mystery to me.

@danger.snakes 7 месяцев назад

I at least have the experience of being from a highly fundamentalist family whose every attempt to convert me failed miserably, so I relate to that experience, but otherwise, I am the same as you: relentlessly skeptical from the start

@pvnvliet 7 месяцев назад

Like you, I've never been a theist. Neither were my parents and grandparents. Religions were just something weird I didn't get. Still don't. Regards, A Dutch gnostic unbeliever, aged 52.

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

I sort of tacitly accepted Christianity as true because that's what everyone around me seemed to think, and as a child I was unaware of any reason to doubt them. But as I grew up and started to actually investigate the claims of the religion, it was a pretty natural and easy slide from, "Okay, I guess there's a god," to "no, there probably isn't one," to "okay, now I'm pretty much certain THIS god is bullshit."

@wintermute740 7 месяцев назад

I'm not certain I ever really believed, despite being raised in a Christian cult. My de-conversation story was simply coming to terms with not believing what everyone around me did, even though my beliefs themselves didn't really change much.

@mr.zafner8295 7 месяцев назад

Hey, we should go bowling or something. Start a club I mean technically I was a believer when I was a little kid, because my parents took me to church and told me it was true. But my deconversion wasn't traumatizing or a big deal. I just got to be about 12 or 13 and my brain started working like a grown-up's and I just realized it was obviously made up. I have been trying for decades to understand why anybody is religious at all. That's why I listen to people like this guy, and Paulogia, and Shannon Q, all investigating and engaging with these people. If I just listen to the religion it just sounds like noise but when people break it down and point out obvious issues that I have noticed also I feel like I get a lot more out of it. I come closer to understanding, anyway

@fordan_gamsy3521 7 месяцев назад

"Christianity explains the existence of other religions and supernatural events in those religions" yeah, not really, "Satan is tricking them" or "they have a mere shadow of OUR TRUTH" doesn't explain much. archaeology and psychology probably go a lot farther and don't have to sort any one religion out for special pleading purposes.

@Hesguilty 7 месяцев назад

My father is a conservative and an openly racist POS. I was raised by my mom since I was nine because that's when Mr. Conservative dumped his wife and three kids to marry a friend of the family who was also married and left her kids and husband just like my dad. She turned out to be cool and I instantly gained four new step brothers. My dad was intimidating to look at, he's 6'6" 250 lbs. with a huge wingspan. He could slap you in the head from the kitchen and hit you sitting in the living room watching TV, you'd be like where did that even come from 😅. I assume his size and appearance got him out of getting his ass kicked by black men and women and just about anyone that wasn't white too. He moved to Florida from Jersey where we were, oh and they took her youngest son to live with them. He is one year younger than me which really hurt me. I became an atheist at twelve and a Democrat at birth jk, but I always was on their side since Reagan and Mondale in 84. I remember swinging on the swing set and chanting "Mondale" and all the kids who's parents were for Reagan would chant back "Reagan". Real gripping stuff. What do you want I was in the third grade.😂

@trafficjon400 7 месяцев назад

Freaking creepy! My father wasn't so racist but would thrash us if we didn't agree or just look at him wrong . Why Mentally ill are locked in Prisons today is because Reagan Closing down the nations state Hospitals with uncountable mentally ill suffering and dying . he knew what he did and why I became more democratic with these republicans using God who doesn't answer only when feeling like it? Scriptures seemingly out of context full of flaws and contradiction buttered up by dishonest apologetic hypocrites.

@whoviating 7 месяцев назад

Setting the scene: I am what used to be called a "hard" atheist. I do believe that gods do not exist. I also believe, however, that the question of the existence of gods is unresolvable, that is, not subject to definitive proof one way or the other. Whatever we believe, it is based on a combination of evidence, logic, and philosophy, not absolute proof. That said, when our friend here said that the notion that the universe is eternal is "impossible," I had to laugh. He believes in a being that is not only eternal but conscious, self-aware, willful, and possessed of the power of personal creation ex nihilo. I don't think he has the standing to declare anything impossible."

@MarkSheeres 7 месяцев назад

He thinks that the ability to explain everything is a feature, but it’s actually a bug.

@Julian0101 7 месяцев назад

You are giving to much credit, is not the ability to explain everything, but the ability to account for eveything.

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

Considering the Christian "explanation" to everything is "because God wanted it that way," I question the utility of "accounting" for something by basically saying "I don't know, it's magic, I guess."

@MarkSheeres 7 месяцев назад

@@Julian0101That’s not a distinction I was making in my head, but now that you’ve pointed it out, it’s a useful distinction. Thanks.

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

It's easier to spell 'god,' than 'insufficient data.'

@JGM0JGM 7 месяцев назад

That's some grade A arguments, right here... My theistic worldview is better because it can explain more facts about reality, like ghosts and angels... sigh.

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

God is omniwealthy. Any 'offering' or 'sacrifice' he requires _(or accepts)_ from us is infinitely meaningless to him. This means the 'offering' or 'sacrifices' are *_solely intended to cost us, to hurt us._* That's a pretty sh¡tty thing for an "omni-" god to do.

@PassiveSmoking 7 месяцев назад

"Which arguments for god do you find most interesting?" Honestly? None of them, because I'm not interested in arguments, I'm interested in evidence. You can't logic a god into or out of existence (unless you stumble upon a Babel fish and are named Oolon Colluphid), but if you present hard evidence of an actual physical nature of an actual god then you'd win me over. And if there is an absence of evidence then I have to take the logically simplest explanation for such a lack of evidence to mean there is no god to leave any evidence. Everything else is nothing more than an act of philosophical self-pleasure. "And lets take experimental reproducible evidence off the table" No, let's not, because that's the standard of evidence I demand.

@charlesyates8228 7 месяцев назад

On question 9: 27:40 , i dont need to study fashion or fabric design to know the emperor has no clothes.

@aposterioriunum4782 7 месяцев назад

Actually the Kalam doesn't even go that far. It states: 1)Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2)The Universe began to exist. 3)Therefore: the Universe had a cause. Granting both premises and accepting the conclusion you would only deduce that the Universe had a cause. It says nothing about what that cause is. Unfortunately, for the kalam, we don't know that everything everything that begins to exist needs a cause or that the universe did indeed begin to exist. We suspect the latter, but we definitely don't know the former. Nothing about this suggests any god. Certainly not the Christian god.

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

Also, the first premise is vague about what it means to "begin to exist." If it means "a novel arrangement of preexisting substance," then the second premise is an equivocation, because they're clearly not talking about a "beginning" in the same sense when referring to the universe. If it means "begins" as in creation ex nihilo, then it's consistent with the second premise, but then the intuitive force of the argument dies, because nobody has ever observed nothing to determine whether anything can come from it. It's just an unfalsifiable assertion at that point. It also commits a fallacy of composition, in that it assumes that because every member of a set (things in the universe) share a property, that the set itself (the universe) must share this property. To illustrate why this is wrong, consider that all prime numbers are counting numbers, but the set of all prime numbers is NOT a counting number.

@martin2289 7 месяцев назад

Usually by the time the apologist is ready to make the ridiculous leap of faith required to connect the triune God of Christianity, the frustrated atheist has been browbeaten by some specious ontological claptrap seeking to undermine their whole epistemology, so that part goes relatively unnoticed.

@aposterioriunum4782 7 месяцев назад

@@chameleonx9253 Correct.

@MarcoKrieger 7 месяцев назад

The conversation was over, the moment he started trying to shift the burden of prove towards Atheists. He's rambling about an atheistic world view and how it's inconsistent with reality, but that's completely beside the point. He believes in a specific God and it's his duty to come up with compelling evidence to convince other people. If he can't do that, then the time frame of attention for his case is close.

@AbhijeetMishra 7 месяцев назад

As a Hindu, though nonpracticing, it's what infuriates me most about monotheistic religions. This need to believe their God or messiah is the one true God or messiah. It's clear that every religion offers some good tips on life, and instead of taking those tips from wherever they can, they sit and fight about which God is the one everyone needs to believe in. It also seems like they literally believe that the supernatural stuff in the Bible or Quran actually happened instead of just being embellishments or entirely made up. Same for the people mentioned in these religious texts. I mean, Achilles might have been some real person who was an amazing warrior, but his invincibility is clearly an embellishment to make him seem more mythological and amazing.

@MarcoKrieger 7 месяцев назад

@@AbhijeetMishra yes, exactly! This "my God is the only true God" syndrome is so toxic it has killed billions of people and ended empires. That's not the way we humans can move forward anymore.

@ChaoThing 7 месяцев назад

Part of me wishes I wasn't ever indoctrinated as a street preaching evangelical Christian for 20 years, but knowing the Christian language and how to disrupt its dogmas from within is beyond fun.

@Zero-ei8jn 7 месяцев назад

🤣

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

You spelled "its" correctly. Are you _sure_ you were ever a Christian???

@trafficjon400 7 месяцев назад

you spelled "its" correctly. does this mean Christians know the Bible better than atheist? @@Dr_Wrong

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

7:52 What Christians really need to try and understand is that people who don't subscribe to their religion don't have any reason to assume that it's their God or no god. When we say we lack a belief in God, it means any general concept of a god. That doesn't mean we can't contend that a specific god (like YHWH) does NOT exist, while still remaining agnostic about other gods. For example, I would make the positive claim that the God of the bible doesn't exist. However, I can't conclusively say that no gods exist categorically, because that would be impossible to demonstrate, whereas I believe I can demonstrate that YHWH can't exist given the facts in evidence.

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

_"I can't conclusively say that no gods exist categorically, because that would be impossible to demonstrate"_ Maybe it's not.. What do we know about god(s) from _most all_ writings regarding them? 1. They have agency. 2. They are significantly more powerful than us humans. 3. They mess around with humans for some reason. _(or mess with other beings, which - in turn - affects humans)_ 3a. Gods that have absolutely zero impact on humans aren't really ever talked about, probably because it makes a boring campfire story. 3b. Who prays for a god's help *_knowing_* it gives zero fkks about anything they have to say or offer? No one, that's who. 😂 *God : A being significantly more powerful than us, who is also significantly interested in us.* _(note the term "us," rather than 'humans.' This def of god could be used by any terrestrial or non-terrestrial 'species.' To a hamster, humans are gods.)_ Q. Is Thor a god? A. Yes, he is presented - by Marvel _(for example)_ - as "significantly more powerful than us" and occasionally as "significantly interested in us." _(some of us anyway)_ Q. Is Thor real? A. No. The Marvel movies are fiction and Thor is clearly offered as a fictional character. Q. Is Spiderman a god? A. No. Spiderman is only barely "more powerful" in specific ways, and generally speaking not really at all. Q. Is Spiderman real? A. Irrelevant; we're discussing falsifiability of god(s). Q. Are galactically-remote super-tech Aliens god(s). A. No. While they are defined here as "significantly more powerful than us," they have demonstrated no interest in us. _(Except in fiction where in they are not presented as god(s).)_ Q. Are galactically-remote super-tech Aliens real? A. Statistically, yes. Q. Is Yahweh a god? A. Yes. Q. Is Yahweh real? A. No. We know who, where, and when Yahweh was invented.

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

@@Dr_Wrong You basically demonstrated my point. By your definition, some people might consider Spiderman to be a god, because "significantly powerful" is subjective, and different people are going to have different standards. I, for instance, think Spiderman is incredibly powerful when he gets serious. Not only is he physically strong enough to go toe-to-toe with many of Marvel's most dangerous characters, but he's also highly intelligent and creative, which can give him an edge over those who rely on brute strength. That said, the larger problem is that your definition is just that. YOUR definition. The reason I said it's impossible to categorically falsify the general concept of a god is because that concept is nebulous, ill-defined, and almost entirely subjective. Everyone is going to mean something slightly different when they say "god," because without a referent there's nothing to anchor the concept to a specific set of defined properties that can be evaluated objectively. Some people think the universe itself is God, others claim existence is God, or that God is love, or the prime mover, or the uncaused cause, or some undefined "higher power," or a deistic god that merely set the gears in motion and then backed away, etc. That's why you can't just say "there are no gods," because someone could just define a god as something that obviously exists, like a salad fork, or the Sun. All you can really say definitively is that "I don't have any good reason to think there are any gods."

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

@@chameleonx9253 Okay, forget I mentioned it.

@juanbonilla1006 7 месяцев назад

Austin Powers is right

@nightshade7240 7 месяцев назад

The Kalam does not belong to Billious Lame Craig, it's an Islamic idea and Billious simply appropriated it, you know, the way xtianity appropriates and twists...well, pretty much everything.

@DoctorZisIN 7 месяцев назад

-Christianity doesn't explain jack shit. It's just a story. -It's not disingenuous to say we're not convinced. Reasonable people don't deal in absolutes. -Your morality is based on "god says so". Ours is based on our empathy for others. -I don't know how the universe started and I don't care that much. -What would convince me? Easy! Ask god to tell you what number I'm thinking of. -What made me an atheist: Reading the bible. -I know I'm getting the best of theist arguments because you and others do nothing but parrot them. -3 non sequiturs in a row. Knowing that something is real is not worshiping it or believing every word hitherto written about it.

@ziploc2000 7 месяцев назад

Everything I have ever experienced in life has a natural explanation. I don't need to appeal to the supernatural, and gods are supernatural by definition. I don't know exactly how our universe started, but I'm confident it happened naturally. Brandon's supernatural explanation is no more appealing or convincing to me than any other creation myth, and my goodness there's a lot of them. Had I lived 500, 1,000 or 2,000 years ago I would probably have been convinced of gods and supernatural causes, because so much of what I experienced would be beyond the understanding of the society I lived in. But I live in the 21st Century CE, in a 1st world country (sorta, the USA is slipping) where we have natural explanations for the weather, diseases, birth defects, hallucinogenic drugs, successful harvests etc. . Sacrificing my child or a lamb to the gods for a good harvest is no longer seen as a useful enterprise. There is no degree to which Brandon can dilute any part of his bullshit that will make me find it palatable.

@ianchisholm5756 7 месяцев назад

Take the key factor out of your explanation and replace it with anything else. If the change has zero effect on your results, you don't have an explanation. You could replace Braxton's God with Lisa the Rainbow Giraffe or Roland the Closet Goblin and *nothing* about reality would change.

@MosaidDeath 7 месяцев назад

One of his question was a good one: “Are you listening to the best arguments from the other side?” Both sides should ask this question, BUT from what I’ve seen theists are the WORST at listening. The worst at considering they may be wrong about something. The worst at objectively considering evidence.

@Diviance 7 месяцев назад

Things my worldview accounts for but Christianity doesn't? Everything. My entire worldview. Because to account for something, there must be evidence to support it and Christianity, like all religions, is stuck at the first gate because they cannot demonstrate that a deity existing is possible.

@SolitaryCore-mj2mr 7 месяцев назад

"do you really get the best? ... Does Braxton now copies father Casey or does that question is somewhat older in theist apologetic Toolkit? ...

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

Question Theists cant answer : If god is everywhere and stopped being invisible, how could we see him? He'd be piled over everything like burying us in infinitely deep god-sand.

@briannyob7799 7 месяцев назад

The entire accounting for something idea doesn't make sense. I can make up a wrong answer to explain something. I don’t have an answer to a question. I just say I don't know.

@torontocitizen6802 7 месяцев назад

I have one question that “no theist can answer!!!” “Can you demonstrate with empirical evidence that any god exists?”

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

How would I believe in god? The same way I would believe anything you're trying to sell me. You know, like if you want to sell me a car, or a house, or a cow. Show me the thing, and proof you've the right to sell it.

@rolandwatts3218 7 месяцев назад

"Account for". Whenever I hear a religious fundamentalist accuse other world views of not being able to "account for" some thing, I think they are accusing those world views of not being able to explain that some thing. Which is odd given that I think their "accounting for" is little more than a set of assertions plucked from the bible.

@davidsteer1941 7 месяцев назад

The issue of repentance is interesting to me. I am also an atheist, probably closer to 100% belief that God doesn't exist than you. My partner is a Christian and I had a discussion with one of her very good friends the other day. I said that I repent of my misdeeds earlier in my life, and I wish I had a time machine machine and could go back in time and talk to the stupid young man who did some very silly things, but I can't. So I have repentance, but I still won't get into the kingdom of heaven, because I don't have belief in an invisible being, but I see no evidence for.she talked about Gods perfect justice, I said, where is the justice in that?

@somersetcace1 7 месяцев назад

I'm not an atheist because some specific religion doesn't answer some specific question. I'm an atheist because I don't believe in gods. As for my worldview, it answers what it can and I concede that's not much, but so what? Is the suggestion I should adopt a religion I don't believe because it fills in blanks with arbitrary answers? Not too rational.

@Nocturnalux 7 месяцев назад

17:28 No, it does not “destabilize me” one bit. What a weird thing to even say. I also agree, the Kalam may come closest to at least make a possible case for the existence of god, flawed though it is. It is probably better than “the bible says”, “wouldn’t you like to have ultimate justice” and “look at the trees” or “god spoke to me”.

@oliviawilliams6204 7 месяцев назад

Anthony Fewkes, yes it was both he was getting dementia and was manipulated it’s well documented by his family.

@partyrock4144 7 месяцев назад

Pretty sure he managed to answer his own question wrong. Without specific examples and in the examples he gives the answer is no because of that “we both agree are real” stipulation. I don’t believe in morality, truth, evil, or even suffering as anything beyond a concept. Things can suffer but there is no suffering floating around the universe

@mikeyhau 6 месяцев назад

I don't believe in Santa and I don't believe in any gods. I think the probability that some god (not necessarily your god) exists is higher than the probability that Santa exists, but only a little bit higher.

@Mr.PeabodyTheSkeptic 7 месяцев назад

Yep. It's my fault theists don't have evidence for the existence of a god. Maybe that's true in the multiverse?

@turboguppy3748 7 месяцев назад

Really? The Kalam is almost as bad as Pascal's Wager. It's a terrible argument, even and especially Low Bar Bill's Great Big Non-sequitur version.

@Phylaetra 7 месяцев назад

I notice he starts asking us about an explanation for "facts we agree on" - but how can we answer such a question not knowing what facts we agree are true? I would also ask how the Christian worldview explains the existence of other religions? Excellent point about the difference between claims and facts.

@roqsteady5290 7 месяцев назад

Well obviously, if there is a something that can do anything, then it can account for everything. A slate fell off your roof? A something that can do anything could have done it.

@kennylex 7 месяцев назад

Why do atheists need to answer those questions, most of them was not about atheism at all, it was philosofy, astronomy and so on, there are few atheists that have expertise to answer all those questions. I for an example have a worldview that do not include the psychology of a dying mind and atheism is not my "worldview" and over all the years I lived on this Earth my view on things have changed but my "atheism" have not been altered and I still do not believe in unicorns, gnomes or the Simalian Exuinorium.

@wishlist011 7 месяцев назад

I think the reason Braxton is asking about explanations for beliefs held in common between us and him is because that offers some anchored point of comparison. If you or I offer what we consider a better explanation than God for something that he doesn't believe in then I imagine that being less likely to reveal anything to him about how we think.

@john211murphy 7 месяцев назад

The "Evidence" for Santa is far more abundant than Jesus. After all, children get Presents every Christmas.

@righty-o3585 7 месяцев назад

And Santa is based on a few real people who actually lived at different points. St. Nicholas was a real person.

@kalords5967 7 месяцев назад

Santa Claus comes more often than Jesus 😂😂😂

@oldbatwit5102 3 месяца назад

'Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that' Santa is back, with prezzies.

@MarkSheeres 7 месяцев назад

Re: his first question: I’ve read that the universe is at least 250 times larger than the observable universe. The vast majority of the universe has never been seen by, nor can ever be seen by, us humans. I’d like to know how the Christian world view accounts for that. (Other than, you know, that’s just the way God wanted it to be for reasons of his own.)

@left_handed_jedi 7 месяцев назад

Have gawd transmute a common material into something that isn't on the periodic table would be a good start for proof.

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

Or have him spontaneously heal a burn victim or have someone who was born without legs grow them with magic, and then leave behind a bit of scar tissue in the shape of the Hebrew tetragrammaton.

@jasonjacoby 7 месяцев назад

Getting his believers to stop attacking each other and making everyone miserable would be a nice start. 😉

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

@@jasonjacoby Yeah, especially since Jesus asked God (himself) to make sure his church remained unified so people would know he wasn't lying. Weird then, how his church immediately splintered into an ever-increasing number of sects than all disagree with one another... Almost like he was lying...

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

Atheism cannot claim gods don't exist until "god" is first defined.

@omarvasquez6851 7 месяцев назад

I like your title given to the invisible sky dictator “sky Hitler”

@justaname109 7 месяцев назад

I actually just had a conversation with someone earlier in the week about the creation of the universe. They are a fundamentalist Christian and it’s almost like they watched the same Christian video. I was asked how I can be satisfied with not knowing or an “impossible infinite existence” of the cosmos. My answer was simply, I’m not satisfied, however, you must be inherently be satisfied with an infinite existence model because you believe god has always existed. That’s when the conversation ended 😂

@chameleonx9253 7 месяцев назад

Just because you're not satisfied with not knowing the answer, that doesn't give you license to just make up an answer that you like and claim it's true without any evidence to back it up.

@justaname109 7 месяцев назад

@@chameleonx9253 well, I made that point earlier in our conversation, but I think he was focused on canned talking points that he had as responses but wasn’t prepared to answer the very same problem he posed to me. The cognitive dissonance with fundamentalist is sometimes a perfect example of what could be used in a basic psychology curriculum

@weirdwilliam8500 7 месяцев назад

It’s a very Christian idea, that the emotional satisfaction an idea gives us is evidence that the idea is actually true. That’s exactly where the 2020 election deniers came from.

@justaname109 7 месяцев назад

@@weirdwilliam8500 I have to disagree, cognitive bias definitely predates christianity. Actually it would be an example of psychology that would be tied much later to evolution than Christianity. Also don’t forget, we had many election deniers in 2016…it’s definitely not a Christian or republican thing. Its a human thing

@weirdwilliam8500 7 месяцев назад

@@justaname109 I agree christianity didn’t originate the fallacy of motivated reasoning, but it built its entire theology on the idea that you should believe what makes you feel good. I’m saying the bad Christian epistemology is leaking out everywhere in the rest of their lives, from their politics to their medical decisions to all sorts of things. I reject your “both sides do it” nonsense. Hillary conceded the morning after election night. There was no movement to seat her as president based on intentional lies and illegal interference with vote certification. Even though she won the popular vote, democrats accepted the rule of law. Lately, democrats are the only ones who do, apparently. (Democrats aren’t threatening violence and revolution, even though a Republican presidential candidate has only won the popular vote once in the last 40 years.)

@graymain 7 месяцев назад

If you want purpose and meaning look inside your own head. Please :p

@biostemm 7 месяцев назад

Accounting for something is far different than actually explaining/proving it.

@martin2289 7 месяцев назад

Couldn't take my eye of that sign in the background of this guy's room that says "CULTS" - which is precisely what Christianity and all religions are.

@joeely6817 7 месяцев назад

It should be pretty easy for a theist to demonstrate God. All you need is faith the size of a mustard seed and you can move a mountain. There has to be at least one theist with that amount of faith. I tried it quite a fee times when I fully believed. Nothing moved.

@MarkSheeres 7 месяцев назад

I remember being a very small child, maybe 4 or 5, and hearing that verse and laughing. Move a mountain? It was so silly. Then I was shamed for laughing at God’s word.

@martin2289 7 месяцев назад

Well, of course they didn't move, silly. That's because "God" fixed them in place to act as "stabilizers" for the earth, at least according to the Quran. 😜

@MarkSheeres 7 месяцев назад

@@martin2289 Sounds like I need to brush up on my Quran.

@tonydarcy1606 7 месяцев назад

Next week's sports results published in the sky might make me reconsider !

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

Or omnipresent god could try to stop being majikally invisible for a bit.. mebbe say, Hi..

@arimatter8975 2 месяца назад

ABIOGENESIS will have to be OVERHAULED SINCE THE DISCOVERY OF MEGAVIRUSES. Where do megaviruses end and PROTOKARYOTES begin???

@guldrev 7 месяцев назад

Why were the animals thrown out of the garden of eden?

@steveOCalley 3 месяца назад

So that lions didn’t have to eat shrubs anymore.

@karnobot9814 7 месяцев назад

Christians, How many books about Hinduism, Taoism, homer, heracles, epic of gilgamesh, romulus and rhemus?

@MosaidDeath 7 месяцев назад

I love the question: “Why is there something instead of nothing?” It’s the most mind-twisting face-melting question of them all. (Anyone suggest any good books on the subject?) To me the question itself suggests we don’t understand the true nature of time and space and matter and energy. Which is kind of awesome. “God” seems like the least likely answer.

@Finckelstein 7 месяцев назад

My answer would be "Because for all we know, "nothing" is impossible. Quite literally, I don't think that true nothingness can even be a thing.

@rogerkearns8094 7 месяцев назад

@@Finckelstein Yes, literal _nothing_ seems to imply no conservation laws either, so what's to stop _something from nothing?_ Answer: nothing? ;)

@rogerkearns8094 7 месяцев назад

I don't know about a book - something by Brian Greene, perhaps? - but I always think of the _Why something not nothing?_ question in statistical terms, i.e, there's only one (at most!) possible _nothing,_ but an essentially infinitude of possible _somethings,_ so I know which I'd have put my money on.

@Dr_Wrong 7 месяцев назад

@@rogerkearns8094 Which nothing?

@trafficjon400 7 месяцев назад

Ya, the day we invented nothing? what was it like before 0 was invented? some one said they are 0 apples on my table . I reply I don't see anything on my table are you ok? lol@@rogerkearns8094

@aussierob7177 7 месяцев назад

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

@Jaywilbs 4 месяца назад

So there are lots of things that bother me in this video, but the worst part are the numbers. Holy shit, give those numbers room to breathe! And why are they SO big? My ADD design brain can’t not see cringe design.

@LifesNotHereToSatisfyYou 3 месяца назад

The Old Testament test convince more people in god then preaching his words so you’d think god would acknowledge which is more efficient but nope dude picked the worst way

@l0nedrow427 7 месяцев назад

A couple of things... what exactly is your issue with sex work? I agree that if it is exploitative, forced, or out of desperation then it is not good. If someone is consenting and enjoys it then you cant possibly have an objection. You said so yourself when you pointed out that most of the theist objections to other things like queer rights and such have no basis without their doctrine. I dont see how sex work is any different. Also, in regards to what would satisfy your requirements for proof of God.. doing the Moses/Aaron staff to a snake or a lightning strike... how would you rule out some non-divine magic or advanced technology? I just think that those examples cant possibly prove a God. The communing example would be the better example, IMO.

@danger.snakes 7 месяцев назад

ultimately, I don't have an issue with people doing what they need to in order to survive, so sex work is a-ok with me. I do think most people are in it just to survive and that's every bit as exploitative as wage slavery. Think about it like this: if someone is having sex for money, is that sex they want to be having? Most likely not. What is sex you don't want to be having normally called? Rape.

@AXKfUN9m 7 месяцев назад

@@danger.snakes Rape is non consensual, sex work is a consensual act actively performed in exchange for financial reward. Slavery is nonconsensual work, a job is consensual no matter how much I don't want to go, I get paid and can quit whenever.

@l0nedrow427 7 месяцев назад

@@danger.snakes Some people enjoy their job. This includes sex-workers. I'm not saying they all do, and if anyone is being forced into it that is horribly wrong. Rape has much more to do with consent. In many cases, sex-workers are consenting to have sex to get paid. Big difference. I was wondering if you could reply to what I said to your "proofs for God" if you have time? I enjoy the content, btw. Subscribed and all that. I am not coming at you here, just enjoy debating these things.

@karnobot9814 7 месяцев назад

What world view that Christians have that cannot be answered in different way by other gods? Existence? beginning of universe is answered better in Hinduism. They are way closer than Christian view in the age of universe. In the billions of years old.

@sergiovelasquezzeballos3855 7 месяцев назад

It's fun to see you. Could you talk a little about mystic God? It's kind of Existence itself

@joeandpaulacorsi3693 7 месяцев назад

I think you answered his questions quite well. As for reading books about imaginary heros, I would prefer my imaginary hero, Mitch Rapp in Vince Flynn novels. He at least takes care of business. Keep up the good work.

@zar3434 7 месяцев назад

17:18 No. Because I am comfortable saying "I don't know. No one KNOWS." If having an answer is more important than the correctness of the answer, ask your preacher about religion, it might be right for you.

@juniusluriuscatalus6606 5 месяцев назад

I've seen this guy's questions -video before and bloody hell I find it hilarious how he starts the number three with "when atheism becomes part of someone's worldview" ignoring us never believers. But it isn't us they try to convince, it's those who left, because they have the scars, if not open wounds they can exploit. It's actually sad, but it shows clearly how deceptive religion is. It needs to be drilled in the youth or when under extreme mental pressure to actually work. Get critical thinking skills without religious dogmas? Religions lose. And how atheist? (#4) 99.99% Queer issue? I grew up in a homophobic hell decades ago, but both me and this society has grown up a lot. Still issues, but far better than back then. But why would anyone have to read academic books from theists? I have, but their core claims are common knowledge nowadays and we can easily check them over the internet. Hell, guys like this have YT channels to spread the message and they fail each and every time. Their explanations smell badly. Oh, and this "be honest"... oh please...

@steveOCalley 3 месяца назад

Perhaps the smell is because “underwear” is unbiblical and part of the atheist worldview. Except Mormons. Their underwear rocks. They smell good.

@geraldmeehan8942 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for the video!

@miko67 7 месяцев назад

‘Anything that can be proven is entirely in the realm of natural’. 1. This claim can’t be proven through the natural. 2. It’s a circular argument since you operate from methodological naturalism which presupposes that only the natural world exists. Many of the other points are really targeted at Christianity so I have to ignore them. On the issue of the ‘shared (be)longing’ for something greater then yourself you presupposed the idea that it’s explained by the fact that humans are social creatures which is simply begging the question. The idea of God accounts better for this because it makes sense that an intelligent being implanted this longing, rather then it being the result of natural processes.

@steveOCalley 3 месяца назад

1) No. what is the effect of a cause, is COMPLETELY the effect of a cause. “And a sprinkle of magic…” is not needed. Invocation of the supernatural is not needed when something is proven by natural understanding. Only something naturally inexplicable is open to supernatural possibilities.

@miko67 3 месяца назад

@@steveOCalley not exactly sure what you tried to say is properly dealing with my points respectfully. But to reiterate my point, not everything can be proven through the natural. Mathematics for example is a metaphysical concept yet we fully believe it exists in reality without any direct traces of it (we don’t see numbers, equations etc flying around in space). Same goes for gravity, a concept we cannot observe yet know it exists through its effects. The problem with proving the natural through the natural is that it requires metaphysics (propositions) which doesn’t have a physicality to it.

@cenedra2143 7 месяцев назад

I hope you're feeling better 💓

@maxxam3590 7 месяцев назад

12:57 Your biological dad seems based.

@danger.snakes 7 месяцев назад

he's actually terrible lol

@maxxam3590 7 месяцев назад

@@danger.snakes Well, if you say so... I mean, you would know better than I do. I'm just saying, he sounds kinda based.

@danger.snakes 7 месяцев назад

@@maxxam3590 unfortunate that you hate gay people but that's a you problem

@maxxam3590 7 месяцев назад

@@danger.snakes I don't hate gay people. If I happen to have something in favor or against a gay person, it's never because they're gay.

@0spacecakes-hi4ji 7 месяцев назад

speaking of matt dillahunty remember when he hosted that transphobe on the AXP and then all the other hosts quit and because of matt the whole show was ruined. thanks matt