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I had a woman who said she had a "new argument" for Christianity and it was a Ken Ham speech from at least the 90s. So I said fossils are not billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the Earth. She looked at me horrified and I said "Demonic knowledge, I am literally Satan" clearly joking but I think it triggered too much cognitive dissonance as she just walked away.
I do think the person has left the faith to a degree at least, they just actively want not to be an atheist. They are not rhetorical tricks they are inherently dishonest rhetorical tricks, and they are thought-stopping techniques. They are there to make you stop learning.
I agree, doesn't Ra understand this or does he like to hear himself Blather? His cosmology is terrible as his thermodynamics. For evolution their is plenty of scientific evidence, but for anything at or before the big bang there is NO scientific evidence, all these conjectures about what the big bang was or what existed before it is pure philosophy, sorry. Ask your "cosmologist friends" this, they will tell you their is no evidence for their conjectures about before the big-bang. And holy sh**, your answer about the anthropic principle is ridiculous.Forget about human beings, that any life exists in a random manifestation of a universe is astronomically rare. Here you must resort to a multi-universe conjecture. If you need any help writing your responses just ask.
If you look at them closely, most of the "questions" were just variations on the same question regarding the idea of "the universe coming from nothing." How many times does Aron have to explain it before these people finally get it?
Literally try sitting out in the sun for two days straight. “Humans are perfect. We can take on all. Nothing is impossible.” Yet we need sunscreen. The very thing that gives us life would kill us if we didn’t know better.
You saved me the effort of writing exactly the same thing. Some kid struggling with his belief...my Aunt Fanny. This is some third-rate apologist at best, who's never read a single counter to any of this tripe.
I think I know why they keep asking these questions. They aren’t sincere questions. Rather, they are preaching and evangelizing. I can almost guarantee they never listen to your responses to the questions, hence they never learn.
I agree. Even the way the questions are asked, after as “wouldn’t you agree” or “doesn’t it follow that” as though they expect that their points are undisputed. Rather than giving definitive statements and arguments. Most callers saying they have proof, start with questions. That’s not how one demonstrates anything in science or a court of law.
I love the fact that Aron Ra just keeps at it, day after day. I think it's urgently necessary to keep fighting ignorance every single day, afresh, and not rely on old statements. You could rest on your many brilliant statements and arguments, but you understand that you need to take this ignorance on in real time, every day You are appreciated for your efforts and intelligence, every day and for each moment you design to share them with us. Thanks, Aron.
I rather like Sagan's reply to the first cause argument. If you claim the universe requires a cause, and you nominate a deity to do that, an honest enquirer will then ask what caused the deity to exist? If you want to claim a deity doesn't require a cause then why does the universe require a cause? It's special pleading.
The disciption of this video said Young Believer. A kid didn't write those questions. These came straight from something like an apologist's "10 guestions Atheists can't answer". "Would you agree that your negative premise disagrees with the positive claim that god does not exist"? Said no kid ever.
@Duchess_Van_Hoof I like that theory, because it needn't be intentional. Cults evolve, and they probably evolved that trait for exactly the advantage you describe.
A post on Threads asked if an atheist could explain why a grapefruit doesn't taste like chocolate, like it's a gotcha. Well, I am an atheist but also hold a university degree in food science, so my reply was that they have different chemical compositions, which is science and nothing to do with atheism. I didn't have sufficient remaining characters to explain how those different chemicals react with receptors in the nose and mouth to send signals to the brain that are interpreted as the sensation of taste.
My brother is a scientist and also has a business that deals with flavoring agents. Once he started describing the molecular composition of the compounds he was buying and how sometimes there’s just few carbon atoms differently placed in the molecular chain between, say, vanilla and mint. I don’t remember the exact example but the point was that it wasn’t just different composition, it was a tiny difference that our senses interpret as a completely different flavor.
Gotcha questions like that expose the ignorance and insincerity of the asker. If you answer the first question it can lead to a string of How abouts and What ifs that eventually lead to the beginning of time or abiogenesis. You have an expertise. So they'll usually get a legit answer in your field then jump to something you can't answer authoritatively . Kent 'Dr Dino' Hovind is a master of this. And any We don't know = their god. Ai Caramba. I've been led down rat holes like that a few times about the theory of evolution. Ended up at the beginning of time and abiogenesis.
I'm sitting here trying to figure out why that person would even ask such a weird question. But yeah, if you don't understand that taste is your sensory organs detecting chemicals, then I suppose even the flavor of grapefruit and chocolate is something of a mystery. Weird.
If it makes you feel better, there are a few of us who have changed our position due to the evidence. I’ve actually started seeing a therapist while I process that I genuinely used to think the earth was 6,000 years old.
That’s why Aron keeps doing it. There’s always people in the comments thanking him for his help in leaving superstition behind. Welcome to the realm of facts, reasons and logic. I know some people struggle to adapt but to me freedom felt great from day one. Take care and all the best. 💕
i never knew humans could run faster than cars, fly like planes and do math faster than any computer, we clearly created things that ar "more" that we are
@@RichWoods23 Nuclear chain reactions & avalanches were the first things that came to my mind. I went with dominoes in the end because if this really is from a young individual I thought it would be easier to explain. I'd expect a rebuttal along the lines of, "What of the cause of setting up all the dominoes?" Which is just a red herring and/or an implicit admission that numerous small causes can have huge effects.
Sheeples believe in the ridiculous belief of Darwinist evolution . They don't even question it , as there has never even been a shred of evidence for it in more than 150 years . Charles Dumbo was a Jagoff .
I love their fine tuned for life argument, meanwhile good luck leaving earth...How do they not see the contradiction? We literally live in a goldilock zone, all other next door planets are hostile environments, not to mention, trying to travel 4 light years to nearest star system. Yup, really intelligent design and just incredibly fine tuned for life...
@@kimsland999even areas that are habitable would kill you given the chance. Wild animals, weather elements, plants, etc., etc., everything is waiting for that opportunity to off you.
even on earth, most of it is really impractical to near impossible for creationists to survive. Like in the 70% of the surface covered in salt water. Which you can't even drink.
@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece Even for adaptable humans most of the earth is not inhabitable. Or not sustainably with our technology. Not too close to the poles. Not too high or low altitude (below sea level) and not to wet or too dry.
Thanks Aron, the need to keep explaining to folk who ask the same questions over and over proves beyond a doubt, they are neither intelligent or designed.
The apologists call atheists with "bad" arguments Reddit-tier atheists. Meanwhile they all peddle the coloring book-tier apologetic trash seen in this video.
Quite literally! I'm 50, and as a child, I remember 'Highlights' magazine was thrown everywhere a child could find them... every waiting room or lobby, doctors, dentist, to library and laundry. It was a comic book version of highly 'interpreted' passages of evangelical scripture. It's not at all surprising, that so many people in my generation, even typically nonreligious individuals, hold these mostly paradoxical, if not totally nonsensical notions concerning reality.
Considering the pre-fabricated, simplistic and modular nature of many creationist objections, I've always considered apologetics to be the 3-and-up level of debate which I've always summed up as "Duplo-mode." It doesn't even reach the Lego level.
Excellent, clear and concise answers to ridiculous questions, clearly intended, by a poorly educted Christian, to be mic drops. Keep doing what you Aron. We need you. No surprise that Christians repeat the same old questions when their preachers and apologists do the same. Every social media apologist has had their nonsense refuted countless times, often face to face and often by you but they still spew them out and lie to their audience.
How many times has Frank Turek debated many Atheists, including Hitch, yet somehow continues to preach and apparently believe the bullshit he preaches?!?
Hey Aron! I became an atheist almost a decade ago and one of the first videos I saw on the topic was your video "Why does anyone believe in the Bible?", which helped me raise questions that will months later help me become atheist. So I do believe answering these questions help other people see the truth, no matter how repetite they may sound!
Thank you Aron for answering this question again and again. Believe it or not I enjoy listening to your answers. When I speak with believers the hundreds of times, you told me the answers to this a residual in my brain. You give me answers to share with them. Your words are well constructed.
Man, they didn't even try to keep up the lie that they're on their way out of religion. Nothing quite like a believer lying to score points. Could've sworn there was something in the bible about bearing false witness...
I don't know how you do it, time after time after time, and I SO admire your dedication, but it does get old. Seems you're always attracting the attention of brand-new followers who are questioning, bringing their misinformation to you for clarification, having just found you, unaware of your past video's. Reminds me of my elementary school teachers from long ago and far away, constantly and patiently going over our lesson's day in and day out, for months, repeating, repeating, trying to get them to sink in and we both know so many have finally found truth from your unending patience & guidance. That's what it takes.
Yes, totally agree. Educators necessarily answer the same questions over and over and be happy refining their techniques of presenting the same materials. I’m glad there are those like Aron who are willing to patiently -most of the time- answer the same questions from new people who can’t possibly know they aren’t the first to ask them.
As a Christian myself I do find these sort "questions" dishonest, loaded with gotcha intentions and very deceitful. I believe because I believe, and I thank the atheists out there for respecting that as much as I respect theirs; but to go and have the pretense that Christians know all the answers and present questions with the intention that atheists are stupid is just downright conceited. No-one has all the answers and the honest position has always been the "I don't know" standpoint. People like this is what makes us believers look dishonest, stupid and malicious (and yes there are some out there, just reading the comments from so-called Christians), and for that I do apologize. Have a great day everyone!
14:00 According to Sir Terry Pratchett, the universe is actually infinite. -But only on the inside! (It's light blue on the outside). And he must know, after all, he asked Death about it! Explaining a mystery by appealing to a bigger mystery is not an explanation! :D
This is literally just the number one google hit when searching “questions for atheists”, that has been spammed to you. It’s existed long enough for there to be a response option that I answered that they … oddly enough … have deleted since then.
Second comment, to address a pattern I've detected: This list attempts in several of its questions to treat causality-as-we-understand-it as something that precedes reality-as-we-understand-it, an assumption resolutely _not_ in evidence.
@@pjj.1318 Don’t copy and paste propaganda. I’ve read that question from scientifically illiterate rednecks countless times before. You could actually learn from this channel.
It is mystifying. Why don't they realise that adding a creator doesn't even simplify the question of how the first thing came into existence? What created the creator? This problem is blindingly obvious. Even a 4 year old child can understand that the creator explains nothing.
They’ll either refuse to answer “what/who created their creator” or they’ll make a special pleading fallacy and contradict their own argument. Every single time.
@@lifeinthe80s It's not a contradiction; you're assuming there can only ever be one creator, which isn't true. For example, my parents created me and my grandparents created my parents.
Hi Aron! I'm also annoyed with that stupid question! Well, most theists are immune to reason! Best thing is to never stop educating and protecting the youth from religion. Nergal from Behemoth was interviewed by Elliott from Little Punk People on YT and was asked, "if you could rid the world of one thing, what would you pick?" Nergal's reply, "Stupidity. Overwhelming stupidity. I face it like on a daily basis." 🖤🤘 Always love your work, Aron! Big Hugs!🤘🥰🤘
I've seen you on the Athiest Experience but my first time here. Thank you for explaining things so calmly, despite how frustrating it would be to answer the same question over and over again for soooo long. Thank you also for your strong stance that we Athiests don't believe something came from nothing. If I understand a believer correctly, it is they who believe God appeared from nothing. So just thank you.
Some "evangelists" from a local church showed up at my doorstep one time trying the same rhetoric. The moment they tried the "You 'Atheists' believe the universe came from nothing" claim, I shut them down with the basic "No, we don't." and said basically what Aron has said on the subject.
@@lifeinthe80s Those questions came from the one that sent the email. Not Aron. Presupposition and special pleading are falicies. And fundamentally dishonest. And obviously you care because you're here asking stupid questions
Those are not questions. That’s a compilation of the greatest hits of apologetics gotcha. Nobody with serious questions preface all their “questions” with: “wouldn’t you agree?”.
I have been listening to you, Forrest, Erika, Matt and Jimmy for the last few weeks while I have been working on my novel. Thank you for helping me put out 178,712 words and just under 1.1M characters in a little over 7 weeks.
@@kimsland999 Science Fiction, alternate history, not complete yet, but close. I just broke the 400pg barrier in hardcover format size. Based on current progress, about a week to two and I will have it completed. Then submitting it to a couple publishers and hoping. If they pass, then Amazon here I come lol.
That being said I am not trying to advertise, just thank a person whose videos on taxonomy and herpetology allowed for me to not get a migraine during certain conceptualizations.
@@jakkanadarpainting6031 I like time-travel science fiction stuff, but only in movies. I didn't read the 100's of books of Dune, but the movie was excellent ;)
You're so logical and eloquent. You also have an economy of words when answering what appear to be complex questions by the standards of almost everyone in our society, and yet you convey the message perfectly. Watching and listening to you is a delight, thanks for making these videos. I find you to be an inspiration :)
Sure a law needs a law giver, that’s why the laws were written by men and many of them were so barbaric and stupid you’d be thrown in prison if you followed them today. Seems like an all knowing god would not need a law that tells you to murder your child if they are disobedient I don’t know why they use this argument
The fact that we have an immune system is proof of the lack of an overarching all-wise, perfect, intelligent designer. A perfect intelligent designer would not create a world where one set of living organisms threaten the lives of others, requiring that the others be patched with a system to fight off the others. He would just design them both in such a way that they don't threaten each other. Thus the existence of the immune system is proof that there was lack of perfect intelligent forethought in the development of life.
These are'nt even natural speech patterns. He intentionally injected this smug delivery. I often take this as an attempt to come off as sophisticated and nuanced. I don't buy it.
You’ve answered these questions so many times and yet they still ask…..oh lord. The questions are so convoluted and conceptual, they’re not even based anywhere near reality. Why do believers even ask these questions? Do they question why they believe to begin with? If they didn’t grow up around other believers would they even ask these questions?
About the only thing I’m certain of, is that if a divine creator exists, anyone who believes they can define him, her, it, or otherwise is serving nothing more than their ego…
@@lifeinthe80s it's not anyone's responsibility to educate you. Listen to the questions and listen to Aron's answers. Then do some research on the evidence and proof that supports his answers.
@@lifeinthe80s "I know what words mean thanks." If that were true then you'd know that truth is the noun applied to something factually accurate. If you think someone only believes something to be the truth when it has not been shown to be so, then say why it's a belief and not the truth. Fail to do that and you give the impression that you think there can be two opposing truths but no means of distinction. Do you want to be classed with the rhetoricians, the propagandists and the liars?
See this is cool and empathetic man. This is why you're awesome. Because even though you're honest about your annoyance with the matter, and though it may be a scam, you treat it with seriousness and sincerity and do your best to help those who reach out to you. 10/10 human.
All too many conversations with theists feel like their questions are trying to set up a logical trap. As if theist saying "Ha ha, your words have made you wrong." Would have an atheist say "Well you got me, I am a secret believer and now I'll preach with you."
The fine tuning argument is the one that I always found most BS from believers. If I, designer, want to reach a certain goal, I would set up a system so that my goal would be a common occurrence in that system. Yet life in the universe is very very very rare and it needs that an incredible number of things to go right for it to happen. We are the only intelligent spieces of our solar system and there are no other on sights. Very simple life MIGHT exists in the depths of the oceans of Europa and Enceladus, but we're not sure. There are far far more common events in the Universe (like Supernovae, for example), so why not saying that the universe is fine-tuned for those? If there really is this intelligent being and humanity was its goal, then why are we so incredibly rare? If this "deity" couldn't do differently because of consmologic constants, it means there's something that holds a higher "hierarchical position" than him, then why not worshiping those constants instead of the deity that's below them? If this deity didn't have to abide by the constants and just chose the Universe to be this way, why creating this system that not only is needlessly convoluted, but also makes things so this "goal" is an improbable occurrence? Either we were not the goal of this deity, or, more likely, there's no such thing as a deity, no fine-tuning either, and our existence is just one consequence, among many others that don't hold more nor less value than us, of the fact that the Universe is the way it is. We are a byproduct of the Universe's laws, not a cause of it. the Fine tuning argument sounds just baseless antropocentrism to me.
If the universe is fine-tuned for anything, it's for the production of black holes and their eventual dispersion into an increasingly empty and flat space-time. Maybe God designed our universe as a laboratory experiment with which he could investigate proton decay, and we're nothing but a transitory initial perturbation in the experiment that can be safely ignored due to us having no appreciable effect on the outcome.
Watching these videos is like watching a 5 yr. old trying to trip up a University prof. in his chosen field of study, with ridiculous "gotcha" questions. Keep on keepin' on brother!
Oh my! 😳 😂 I’m entranced by the narrative voice of “Young Believer!” It sounds so smug and condescending, but I can’t decide if it’s from an original audio or video production by an actual “Young Believer” or if it’s a voice actor (or AI) enlisted to perform the “Young Believer” role in Aron’s original production. The cadence is so weirdly captivating but I find myself waffling between stunned at the arrogant condescension and amused by the performative mocking of young believers in general. 😬 😮 😂 😆
If God didn't exist then why would Moses give his Priests baths, put Curious Girdles and Bonnets on them, so that they could properly perform Animal Blood Guilt Cult Sacrifices like waving Goat Legs up to Gord if he didn't exist 🤣
This is why i couldnt deal with talking to these people anymore. After almost 2 decades it just gets exhausting answering the same questions over and over. And sometimes from the same people. I admire your dedication.
I thank you for your willingness and patience to put up with the same stupid, tired, Dunning-Kruger-I'm-so-smrt questions over and over. I couldn't do it. You are a far better, more understanding, and patient man than I, and I admire your perseverence. Thank you.
I remember these questions being asked 20 years ago and receiving these exact answers. It's like these people simply refuse to learn, no matter how many times you teach them.
Can tell from the guy's tone that he lied about walking away from faith and thinks he's gonna "logic" Aron into believing using "never-before-heard arguments" i.e. entry-level fallacies. The church really is a wood chipper for the mind.
Jeez, that theist sounded like Low-Bar Bill, aka WLC. His speech cadence. In addition it sounded like he was either rattling off a premade list of excusigist arguments or compiled a list of arguments previously made by excusigists, a la William Lane Craig.
Video description said questions from a young believer. No way a kid thought up and wrote those questions. Those were straight from an apologist's "10 questions atheists can't answer".
I’m SO grateful for your answers every single time. Your answers help me explain these concepts to my precocious 1st grader. Deep in the Bible Belt, he’s been inundated with religious references and has lots of questions.
Seriously just the first minute of this video hit home. Being asked the same questions and never changing what they see or think whatsoever after I give them actual facts. I always think giving them a dose of reality would bring them closer to it but they don't want reality, they want their words to come out of your mouth.
@@lifeinthe80s wait do you realize there lying? that’s why he does that. Would he do that to a nice reasonable person that he disagrees on some things. no he would not. would he do that to someone who lies to children teenagers and adults about what happens when you die? Yes. you believe what you want but don’t force people to believe what you believe aka priests, apologists and Christians
@@lifeinthe80s what the hell are you even talking about when you die your heart stops and your brain dead what do you mean at least physically when you die you die
This was a troll email. Anyone who would consider these "questions" profound would not have the capacity to walk and breathe at the same time. This is literally a less verbose list of Bill Craig's schtick.
The “something from nothing” literally hurts my head every single time. Creationists are so ridiculously dishonest. They are the ones who make that claim every time and somehow try and dump it on non believers. 🙄 The whole “nothing” doesn’t even make any sense.
I assume that this person's pastor gave them these "questions for athiests" in the hopes of keeping them from leaving the flock, and that the terrible education (I'm guessing homeschool) that they recieved makes them think they are making good points. It is all terribly sad.
2-4BILLION☆Stars/MilkyWay galaxy 1 of 2TRILLION☆galaxies that can be seen. All created in a solar day by an unknown guy who rides into a small city 2000yrs ago on an ass.
TWO asses. 😂 Recently there’s been videos on the channels about biblical scholarship on whether Jesus rode two donkeys (at the same time) on Matthew’s gospel and why. Not even that is a settled fact.
with his epistomology he should belief in all kinds of made up things. you cant see unicorns you cant disproof unicorns. then why would he belief in God but not unicorns. as the same reasons he beliefs in God can be used for any crazy claim. but they only use it for this one claim. probably be ause they feel save doing it because so many others do it too.
@@lifeinthe80s Every ideology is worthy of scrutiny. It's believers who have to be gatekeepers because their ideology will not hold up. That's why they invented blasphemy, because they are the ultimate snowflakes.
So patient. But wouldn't it be easier to make fun of theist beliefs? As the saying goes, you are preaching to the choir. The theists aren't interested in facts.
“Science has proven to be faulty time and time again.” This is true. That’s why we use term, “true science.” ….. This is based on the observable, repeatable, demonstrable, evidences and testing.
@@ryngrd1 A flat earth was once a 'foundation'; you're the epitome of what happens to humanity when it refuses to grow. Your point stands only in your mind.
@@user-vh7eu5bt4i you are wrong. Victim of brainwash. Good vs evil isn't going anywhere. Your flat earth comparison falls flat. Point stands as factual truth
1000 encyclopedias in "the first one-celled animal", he says... had he read just one, he'd know animals are multicellular by definition. and that on a gradient, you don't get a "first".
@@lifeinthe80s And I'm sick of the wilful ignorance and gullibility of so many believers. I'll happily give those poor people who were indoctrinated into it from childhood a second chance, but an adult should know better and understand their limits when it comes to the validity of claiming the certainty of something that they can't demonstrate the truth of.
@@lifeinthe80s Do you deliberately choose not to address your replies, and not quote what part of a comment you're responding to when it isn't obvious? Do you think it gets you off the hook somehow? It doesn't. It makes you look frustrated and thoughtless.
Once again you've nailed it Aron. You've done the work, you've put the hard miles in. You've made it easier for me to counter the rubbish I hear when spouted by idiots. And I thank you for that. Keep nailing it brother, nail it to that effing cross!
God could settle this argument once and for all if there were a god to settle this argument. If there were a god, what kind of god would sit back and watch argument after argument about whether or not it exists. One unworthy of worship.
@@lifeinthe80sOf course. We are *all* the arbiters of what *we* find makes sense. The christian god, as it has been described to me, makes absolutely no logical sense if one considers reality to be as reality is. For lockedonlaw, the issue is "Divine Hiddeness". For me it's the "Problem of Evil." They're both issues of "God, as described, is logically contradictive."
@@lifeinthe80s *"But if there was a God, what makes you think as a human you would be able to understand him?"* If God truly wants me to have a relationship with him, me being able to understand *who* I'm going to have a relationship with is the bare minimum required for me to make the first step. Otherwise, it would be like me telling you "The Great Flergleblarg wants to have a relationship with you. The Great Flergleblarg is an all-loving square circle that hates you." That description probably makes no sense to you. Which will be a major hurdle in you believing the Great Flergleblarg exists. And if you do not believe the Great Flergleblarg exists, you will not be able to even attempt to form a relationship with it.
@@lifeinthe80s That's a deistic position. Which also means that kinda god is utterly irrelevant to me, even if it exists - which can't be proven anyway. If you're wanting to propose a god along the lines of "we can't know if it exists, and even if it exists, it has no influence on our live and reality as it is", be my guest. That's as important to me as wondering what someone called "Lin" ate in Bejing yesterday at around 14:53 +/- 10 minutes local time. That, however, is not the Christian god. And most of the times when god is brought up, it's that one - because we're in a sphere that's influenced by Christianity the most.
It wouldn't have been complete without at least one quotemine. "Even renowned atheist (Fill in name here) says something I'm going to pretend means something other than what it does". Who believes one of these questions was created by a person, and not a 'lying for jesus' think tank?
