Review: The Atheist Delusion (TTA Podcast 301) 

Isn't it though? I find the NZ accent pretty hard to imitate successfully but he pulls it off.

SilortheBlade Douglas Adams, eh?

SilortheBlade Ooh! Ooh! My turn! *New Zealand Accent* You see how these roots anchor the plant and suck up water like a straw? That HAS to be the work of a creator.

Every argument for ID works something like that.

I use that twist for homosexuality... look at this sample. how irs perfectly crafted for a cock? see the prostate right there? how else could there be sex in the ass how else could these things fit perfectly without a creator ?

*SILORTHEBLADE:* One could not be as stupid as you pretend to be without a great deal of effort! [smh] *MANJIT TOOR:* But hey, ooh, ooh! My turn! Have you ever seen how an uncaused explosion of nothing, nowhere, can generate all time, space, and matter, and then how that matter can come to life, and then how that life can become all life, and then how some of that life can claim to know things that there is zero evidence for and only evidence against? Me neither, but that doesn't stop the atheists from believing and being proud of their faith! [face-palm] *THE AMAZIN' ZEDD:* And you have a better explanation that is in agreement with all that we do know, observe, and experience - or do you just have blind faith? *JAMES CROW:* For sure, no reason for reason or logic when one is defending self-destructive behaviors, right? Oh, of course not! Just course jesting and reveling in idiocy! No IQ necessary! LOL

That's basically what I've said to other people except I didn't use the eye as my example. I used the throat. The throat and esophagus are stupidly designed for obvious reasons. A person could choke on their food and die.

Because Satan of course. Everything good comes from God and bad from Satan. Now stop asking questions. You're making people unkomfortable

“The human body is a perfect creation!” says Ken Hamm, wearing glasses and a hearing aid. And why is it that humans are the only animals that have to wipe themselves after defecating?

Yes, indeed! Check out the Scathing Atheists sometime (his guests here). They're great! They have three podcasts: Scathing Atheists, God Awful Movies, and the Skepticrat.

Eli is absolutely hysterical.

I would hate to be stuck in a lift with those guys...the incessant cackling at how awesome they obviously think they are. I couldn't watch this.

He is from New Zealand

@@mkely9032 That makes it even weirder.

@@mkely9032 I’m pretty sure that doesn’t matter because he does most of his his preaching in AUSTRALIA. Thanks for your interesting little bit of “who gives a crap”, I’m sure that proves his point. 🙄

... Just read YOUR comment and did the same thing ! ...

I laughed, but one must remember, Ray is from New Zealand ...

stay safe....

geoffrey royan Thanks

Echo the sentiment. Stay safe over there, Paul.

It's the old communism argument - religious people still don't understand that correlation is not the same as causation.

***** Actually, if Stalin believed in leprechauns then he would've tried to take their pot of gold and redistribute it; And he'd never have had time to become an oppressive dictator. But yeah, the rest of the things you mentioned has nothing to do with him!

Never trust an atheist with your teenage daughter. This from the man who's BFF is Josh Duggar.

Jud If you don't have anything intelligent or nice to say don't say it...

@@luisocasrio3796 Then he wouild probably never speak.

pretty much

Don't expect logic from indoctrinated people. It's like expecting a snail to solve a complicated math problem.

uncleanunicorn Well he tries explaining that with "people trying to explain the order they see around them".

2 eggs overlight, toast and home fries. Thanx

I burst into flames last Monday. Natalie scooped up the ashes and poured them in my studio chair, which is how these got done. ;) Thanks! -Seth

+TheThinkingAtheist Ray is not an Aussie. Ken Ham was, but was to crazy so he's yours now.

We don't want him. You can have him back....but we keep Claudia Black.

" the past few years I've been living in Kentucky " My condolences.

BoskMaster Hear Hear....well said that man!

BoskMaster we don't blame you for Ken Ham. Every country has there kooks unfortunately here in America we elect ours president

We blame you for New Zealand, too. :D

BoskMaster dude, for an american its not bad as far as that type of accent. gimme a break. NZ has more sheep than people and Americans are supposed to study that horrible accent. no thx.

lol well im south african and i think the australians and americans should worry less about accents and rather aspire to out immense polititians who surely are the world standard in ethical and honest behavior ;)

Azirahael it's ok mate we all have people have were all ashamed of. Hell we here in have given the world Donald Trump

Peter Rivera I think mike pence is worse he makes SHillary look almost presentable then you add Tim Kane and that sunk that ship

Peter Rivera Well, it ain't your fault. Unless you voted for him >(

No taurus excretus There were no good choices in this election. Stuck between corrupt and crazy. Think the system needs an overhaul.

Azirahael no I didn't I have a brain

Troy Evitt actually it was an LGBT sketch comedy show

And sorry guys. Your accents were not convincing to a native speaker.

Templetonq No kidding! It's not even convincing to me, and I'm an American. It's about on par with Mike Myers' Scottish affectation when he was playing Fat Bastard.

Evhan the Infidel actually both accents u r referring to are pretty good. The kiwi accent isn't quite right but it's not bad for an american and Mike Myers does a pretty good Scottish accent (though exagerated). his parents were from northern England so he has an ear for British stuff.

raleighman3000 He's not bad on SNL or as Shrek, but Fat Bastard is way exaggerated, not just a little. It's like TV Irish versus the various Irish accents that exist in real life. I imagine there's some variation between regions in New Zealand, but I can hear a distinct difference between actual Kiwis I've talked to and listened to and Eli's affectation. Eli's also used almost the exact same voice for Ken Ham before, and he's Australian. That suggests to me that he can't tell the difference.

They believe that everyone worships something because they assume everyone does. They can't wrap their heads around people not viewing something or someone as infallible.

I think that it is because it threatens their image of what an atheist is like. Så they have to demonize him to make him fit into their expectant conception.

MrMetalover666. they can't get past us having no leaders. they can't imagine any group that doesn't have a leader or that atheists worship nothing.

Jennifer IsaacsHi Jennifer , nothing people do is that black & white, not forgetting these folks sincerely believe with all their hearts that it really helps, as delusional as it may be.

I agree VideoAudioDisco09​. Peter Foote​ yes all isn't just black and white , but I was talking about con artists where those that just do it for power and money. Not all believe the exact same things about every sect of religion. Though some don't believe really at all, but rather just to stay on the band wagon of whatever theism for other reasons.

Jennifer Isaacs it always was about power. how else could a dumb nobody make a name for himself even in " biblical times"

Rory Tennes​​​​​​ lol Ray lived from the start of " biblical times"? I guess people could worship Ray and other con artists as a god of past lives. Many people worship cult leaders all the time as messiahs, gods, or demigods. Ever see "Monty Python's Life of Brian"? "Brian Called Brian: You don't need to follow me! You don't need to follow anybody! You got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals! You're all different! Man: I'm not..." If you feel cons are dumb I guess you think the gullible and indoctrinated are even more foolish? Snake oil advertising and propaganda comes in variations of trickery.

Paula G Whyte How did inorganic material become organic material? If you don't know, then you are just another cult member of the Evolutionary church.

Watcher: That is so ironic you saying that I belong to a cult. Lol. No, I don't know the complete answer, but I'm learning and that's what makes you and I so different. I have an open mind and I love science, you know, the best method for finding out the truth? And we will know how life began. You just plug, "God did it" in when you don't know the answer and join a church when you don't have a clue like most sheep.

Nomeno Djinova Unfortunately, they didn't really destroy it. It was mostly a ton of comedy. Not complaining, but it wasn't the video I was expecting. :/

Go find the actual god awful movies pod cast it's on audoboom...all of Rays "movies" have the G.A.M. treatment For free.

So you're saying that a non-bird produced an egg first... So what came first then, the creature that laid the egg... or the egg? Well, you say, "EGG!" So something else was alive and had the capability of producing offspring... which begs the question. _Are you really this simple minded or are you honestly so stupid that you miss the entire point?_

@@jessebryant9233TL;DR at bottom. In the beginning there was no life in the universe. Over time various chemicals, temperature fluctuations, and environmental instabilities allowed for elements, to form molecules, which then went on to form basic proteins. These proteins would be shifted and moved around; sometimes they'd be broken back down before anything special could happen, but other times they'd manage to link together with another protein that was lucky enough to be shaped correctly. Lather, rinse, repeat for an unknown amount of time, and these combinations would link together into linger chains until the most basic single-celled "lifeforms" came to be. They were barely above complex chemicals, just reacting to the environment in predisposed means: wet? float. dry? break. too acidic? energize a bit and move away. (basic _potential_ examples that could come about through chemical reactions). Over time means of self replication would be acquired through chance (proteins arrange in such a way that they gather new ones to start building a new chain), and because it improves the number of this same "cell" it continues to be created. More and more of these "cells" are being made, so more of this simple "life" continues to spread into new areas. In these new areas, different kinds of proteins could be found. Some may even have partial shape similarity to the old ones, allowing them to be brought into the production line. Here we have random mutations. Different but similar proteins are brought into the mix, causing new reactions to external stimulus. The "cells" become more complex, causing them to advance more rapidly into new territories and gaining more mutations. Millions of years of this, the types "cells" dying off, sometimes permanently sometimes because they changed too much to be considered the same thing. They get longer, more complex chains, causing them to get bigger and have more parts that have different functions. Eventually, they gain code that lets them work together- multi-cellular organisms. These are larger, much more complex, and better at surviving. However they still need to go about gathering energy and slowly changing. Eventually we have ancient fish, plants, lizards, amphibians, etc... Most of the mutations in life are caused during the newly produced "sexual reproduction." Since the new lifeforms aren't built by a single lifeform they don't have as rapid of extreme changes, so they're more stable but also slower to adapt as a species. For the animal-based life, producing a protected egg that contains the basic necessities for producing a new life becomes much more useful. In fact you could argue that seeds are just "plant eggs" (excluding the normal terminology for sexual reproduction cells). So, "egg" but not a "chicken egg." Millions of years go by, eventually we acquired birds in our menagerie. Slow mutations change one species until a "non-chicken" lays a chicken egg. Out hatches the first "chicken." ------------------------------------------- *TL;DR* -If they want the answer to "What came first? The chicken, or the chicken's egg" The answer is the egg. *(non chicken laid first chicken egg)* -If they want the answer to "What came first? The chicken, or any kind of egg" The answer is still obviously the egg. *(eggs have existed in various forms long before chickens did)* -If they want the answer to your version "What came first? This creature that laid an egg, or the egg laid by this creature?" _That_ creature that laid _that_ specific egg... *(it's freaking obvious that the chicken that laid the egg you're holding, came about before the egg **_it_** laid)* -If they want the answer to "What came first, *life,* or an egg?" The answer is going to be *life.* But no one ever specifies _life_ it's always "chicken." They ask "Which came first, this creature that hatches from these eggs, or the eggs that it lays?" Some other type of creature will have come before it, whether the first version of this current species is in any form similar to to now, is irrelevant. It's a direct ancestor, without that prehistoric non-egg-laying semi-lifeform, we wouldn't have the now egg-laying version. It may be a question intended to make you think in circles over "how can something be created before the thing that created it" but that's not the game everyone wants to play. However you phrase it, there is an answer. But if the asker just wants to confuse the other person and not listen to the answer, who's the real fool?

@@DraconicDuelist Wow, the king of blather! Thanks for sharing what you believe... purely by blind faith. It was a cute story that contained... almost no science... and completely missed the point while ignoring empirical science (what we actually do know and observe)! Nice! (Proverbs 1:22, 14:7) Who is the real fool? The one who believes the anti-science fairy-story you just told. Talk about easy-believism. The Bible says, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..."

Unfortunately, the same can't be said about Ken Ham.

comrade harps yep. 😒

LachyM8!!!!!! same thing

LachyM8!!!!!! Ray cumfart the Aussies can have him

No taurus excretus well we wouldn't take him seriously here anyway, we're not American.