The Atheist Experience 767 with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris 

I fully believe someone saw a snake that spoke to them. I just want to smoke whatever they did.

@@borninjordan7448 : They were smoking cardboard.

@@borninjordan7448 Tripping hard on creosote bush.

And such forth

@@mathdesm9306 I'm not familiar with this particular strain, but it sounds interesting. Pot is legal in Michigan now and we can grow up to 12 plants and carry no more than 2 ounces at a time and concealed from easy access. Medical marijuana is stronger than what we can buy without a Dr approval, but we can grow the best if we have the right lighting, CO2, and the like.

chris worth yeah you're right, and the second part doesn't even work.

chris worth "IN -GOD- GOLD WE TRUST"

Andrea Avatar only if it's in my teeth!

P= PS the same lust for gold is the same lust that now moves Feminism, they want money and government power, to become a legal thought police, Fuck SJWs and Feminists.

When you actually understand what feminism is (not some of the isolated misandrists that make a lot of noise) and why there is a need for people to propagate social justice, and stop conflating it with whatever Fox News or Hannity promulgates, you might be able to have a constructive discussion instead of spewing hate.

Most people who feel the need to claim that, are kidding themselves. It is always painfully obvious once they open their mouths.

Oh and that smug little laugh.. I want to reach through time and space and smack him. He remindsme of that Stephanie chick, I think her name was. The one that refused to admit that she was wrong about something to do with Iron Chariot and kept saying she proved Matt wrong and saying Matt was distancing himself from Iron Chariot, all with that same superfluous chuckle.

@@labella9291 Florida Stephanie XD Oh that was fucking harmful XD

@@CronoXpono You know, I try to not hate people.. BUT THAT SMUG LITTLE CHUCKLE... And you know she was doing the head bobble at the same time, with a snide smirk on her face.. UGH!!!! She living rent free in my head every time I'm reminded of her. She makes me want to choose violence. I know why though. I had an abusive social studies teacher. Mrs Spiegle at Conwell Middle School in Philly. Stephanie reminds me of her, and how she would talk down to me, and the same sneering tone to her voice. She made me sit in her class when I was sick with chicken pox. We didn't know, but I was itching and popping blisters by scratching and she wouldn't let me go to the nurse. This was pre vaccine so between me and the person I got them from we probably infected half our grade. Yeah, I'm calling her out by name. I wouldn't be surprised if Mrs. Spiegle's first name was Stephane and that this was her in real life.

True. Stupid people never know how stupid they are.

I could not have said it better!

Yes I like Tracie's thoughts on matters most interesting.

@@chadfleming3590 bro....

@@chadfleming3590 ok i bet you are half the age of her even after 4 years

She used to be really great. Now she runs on and on and on

Good! You have done well my apprentice.

+sauniz1 cause there isint enough evidence!

nice one

sauniz1 WHAT???

WTF??!?

I rewound that so many times 😂

Good. Jettison the nonsense!

I've been balling my eyes out listening to some of the religious call ins on the show. It breaks my heart how damaging beliefs are to the mental ability of common good people. It destroys the chance to become educated, and like you said it can tear apart families. Countless families ruined in front of my eyes during my life, while consoling my friends, and it's most, not the few. I'm warmed by your comment here, and I hope you can help others during your time on the planet. Gr8! Peace ☮💜

Reminds me of my Mom, who used to identify as Catholic, but never went to Church and questioned the divinity of Jesus. Now she’s openly an Atheist. She still likes the Pope, though.

firstname lastname i always ask if they believe in walking, and then ask them if they believe in running a marathon (macro walking)

Lee Noyes writes: "Micro and Macro evolution are the same thing. The only difference is TIME. The ignorance needs to stop." Indeed, the ignorance does need to stop. How about you stop it first by reconsidering your assertion? If there is a DIFFERENCE between micro and macro evolution then they are NOT THE SAME THING, are they? Micro could be lots of individual micro increments that built on each other to produce a macro result. It may have been a macro from the start as in a gross gene mutation in a small, isolated population due to disease, something strange in their diet or a burst of radioactivity penetrating to Earth through a temporary breach in the atmosphere Yes , 99% of these mutations may be harmful, but over a period of at least half a billion years some will prove to be not harmful and some may confer considerable benefit on the organism affected. In a group those traits will have a tendency to be passed on to the progeny. Micro and macro evolution do not necessarily arise from the same source and may not necessarily follow the same paths. The one factor that remains unchanged is the influence of natural selection or change over time. The processes by which natural selection occurs can be quite varied and contain many micro-factors themselves. Scientists agree that research in this field must necessarily be slow and painstaking. Evolution is a factor that is intrinsic to every living thing that has inhabited Earth, so it is an ancient and implacable force of nature. It resists our intrusion into its secrets. It owes us nothing. Humans have become something of a parasitical member of nature's vast family. And while all parasites have a place in nature [they cannot NOT have a place], there may come a time when forces we very poorly understand begin to act against us in the process of natural selection. As far as nature is concerned, it has no respect for karma, luck, justice, innocence, empathy, compassion, mercy and the like. Nature's single identifying property is..........to endure, to perpetuate. Most humans have found this scenario too bleak and millennia ago invented forces that were more sympathetic and caring and most now place their ultimate fate in the hands of a deity that is portrayed in their image. Their intellectual choice has thus limited their choices for survival. They are victims of their own hubris. And while the Universe that surrounds our tiny Ark may be hostile to us and deadly in some aspects, it need not be frightening. On the contrary it is filled with wonders and a beauty beside which, Earth's wonders and beauty pale by comparison.

Warren: You haven't studied evolution. You have no credentials. Nobody in the field of biology speaks in this nonsense about 'micro' and 'macro' evolution. Evolution is the change in gene frequency. FREQUENCY. The more time that is allowed, the more those changes in FREQUENCY stack up. It really is just that simple. Go educate yourself in a real university, rather than rotting your intellect and cognitive abilities through the reading of fallacious apologetics.

Shane Johns, It might profit us all if Lee Noyes expressed himself unequivocally, beginning perhaps: "The terms 'micro' and 'macro', in evolutionary science are not regarded as valid. Changes in gene frequency over time and natural selection acting on those changes.........." I'm not a scientist but have an abiding interest in natural history, in fact ALL history. If my understanding of some aspects of science has suffered because of my inclination toward human history then sometimes one suffers a hard lesson. But I raise a well-attested and valid protest against your accusation of my having a penchant for "reading fallacious apologetics". I thank you for the correction but fling down the gauntlet at your allegation re apologetics.

You're critiquing syntax on a 3-year-old comment. I bet you're fun to be around.

fundamentalist in Christianity or atheism?

RedSee what exactly would be a fundamentalist atheist? didnt know they had any sort of dogma....

sabin97 they? aren't you an atheist? but, it's really short, it goes like this...there is no god, because we don't know him

RedSee Yeaaaah? So?

Sparten7F4 there is a God because I know Him...when you look at the day, and all of nature, cant you see God? what are you blind? I really believe that atheists don't want to see God...

Blasphemy! Spiderman is the one true book!

Never thought of it that way!

... and worship Lex Luther as outcome.

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@@_Somsnosa_ Blasphemy! Superman would kick Spiderman's ass any day of the week.

@ezeeckiel The big bang would have produced a lot of radiation, that much is certain. But it wasn't in the form of visible light, of the sort that we can see. The basic reason for this is that visible light is produced by energy emission from quantum jumps of electrons within either atoms or molecules, with the colour of the light corresponding to the size of the jump. This was impossible shortly after the big bang, because there were no molecules, no atoms, and not even any electrons. There was plenty of energy and matter, but even the basic subatomic particles (protons, electrons and neutrons) had not yet condensed out, since the newborn universe was still too hot for that to happen. So there was nothing to produce any visible light, and even if there was, the amorphous soup of primitive matter would have been too dense and too opaque for light to travel any distance.

ElijahBailey2000 Thank God I'm an EX-atheist!

***** You were never an atheist to begin with. Now you're just backing a fantasy

ex-atheists tend to be pretty bad at critical thinking and logic in the first place. it prettymuch insane to revert to faith once you used logic to dissect religion.

ElijahBailey2000 If I say, I'm an ex-atheist then I'm an ex-atheist, no matter what you say. You're lost without JESUS Christ.

yes you are but i still cant take you seriously nomatter what. a person that claims to be a critical thinker but fails at such simple things as rejecting godclaims cant be that good of a critical and logical thinker in the first place.

Even more, it has reliable proofs.

well, almost, it's called a theory but that means it's the best we have until something better, even scientists aren't going to say "this is totally undeniable" because the job of science is to look for truth, not justifications. evolution is a theory, all scientific claims are theories, but "theory" in science means "we might as well accept this as true".

You are kind of correct Harry, but you still appear to be labouring under some misconceptions. Science makes NO pronouncements on TRUTH. Truth, or rather the concept of truth is addressed through Philosophy and need parsing out in depth. Science merely makes hypotheses, and then tests them with experimentation and observation, makes the absolute best theories and models of how we observe things and that they appear to be. Speaking of truth is only reasonable in the colloquial sense. When speaking about science it merely confuses the issue. The term truth has been coopted by the religious to pretend they have an ultimate answer. It really only muddies the waters and serves to confuse.

@@HarryNicNicholas Evolution is both a theory and a fact.

@@lloydchristmas4547 "Evolution" is a fact. Evolution, as a single word, is not a theory. People don't understand that the "Theory of Evolution Through Natural Selection" is an entire sentence. Evolution, alone, is a fact and not a theory.

Snakes don't have the morphology to make any sort of vocal sound. Biology says NO!!! Snakes can't talk!!!!

louis tournas o yeah? But tbe Bible Says they CAN talk ! Which one do you believe ? Gods word , or biology?

TIBOR Purzsas biology... that which is evident to us

Dennis Pennington haha that was funny, chase them snakes!

Matt B how ridicules! Belive in logic and biology over God's world....as if

People aren't "good" or "not good". They do things...that, by various standards, are judged "good", "bad/evil", etc.

Really? You'd be surprised. 🤣🩲

😂😂😂😂 you have yet to see worst 😂😂

I'm an atheist but my religious friend of many years married the woman he thought god wanted him to have. After 20 years and 2 kids that marriage went to hell. My friend is married again today and says his ex is like the green witch in the film Wizard of Oz. He doesn't care if she is alive or dead. That was real Christian of him. Today he is happily married again and says he finally got the woman god wanted him to have. I've heard his story but can't figure out why god couldn't make up his mind. You never know about god. He works in hysterical ways.

"...works in hysterical ways." -- LOL!

Mirrorgirl my ex husband went all catholic and he tried to annul our 13 year marriage. Of course that was going to cost him a few thousand to to the diocese. So being cheap, he decided to not get remarried in the church (we were married by a justice of the peace). He was divorced again in a few years but he’s still singing in the choir. And I’m still a better catholic as an atheist than he is as a theist. LoL I remarried a fellow atheist and we have a great life with so much happiness and so much less stress. We aren’t praying and hoping, we are DOING and HELPING and have achieved a real “heaven” right here, right now with the one life we have! 👍🏼⭐️

@@trishayamada807 Good for you! :)

I didn't want to thumbs up your comment as it felt disrespectful of your past pain. I truly hope you are doing well now.

'All good points. l think the big sky tends to overwhelm people and make a god seem more realistic much like being in the dessert thousands of years ago looking up at the stars wondering "who" put them there. l bet there are closet atheists near you but someone has to stick there neck out risking ridicule. ln the bible belt this can be self destructive.

mrannen1958 - Thanks for the validation! BTW - Montana is not in the bible belt, It is in the North and it borders Canada.

Kay Omholt-Montagu asks: "Why do people have such a difficult time attributing anything good to human beings?" By the time children are 7=8 years of age their personality traits are all but fixed. Indoctrinating them around this age [or earlier] fixes the christian god in their subconscious. Intellectual reliance on an omnipotent parent figure that transcends the biological aspect ensures compliance. This compliance plus the guilt instilled by the concept of original sin culminates in an intellect that is incapable [in most cases] of self-reliance and independent thought. All cerebral activity within the mind of a theist is accompanied by subservience to an omnipotent parent figure and by the self-doubt arising from the guilt of being born in sin. Attributing all one's worth, one's achievements and successes to the benevolence of an omnipotent invisible parent figure serves to reinforce the propensity for a "groveling imperative" that theists find so satisfying. Kay, they grovel because they have been imbued with the conviction that subservience [guilt from original sin] and unquestioning obedience [to the omnipotent parent figure] will be richly rewarded, if not in this life, then in the next one. In the vast majority of cases, they have traded their deepest independent individuality for an empty promise. Hence Johnathan Swift's prescient observation..... "You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into." I hasten to add that this "analysis" is of my own making and is informed by 70-odd years of experience and observation. Well reasoned and respectful disagreement will be treated equally if a reply is called for.

Even the atheists from Montana believe in a god.

@@richardgates7479 then they are not atheists. Hard to tell if you were being serious or making a joke, like "they are so religious in Montana, even atheists believe in god". :)

Yeah, I'd hate to be with theists while under fire.

You would think that would be the one fucking story god could get straight in the second telling.

Joe Coolioness if there was a God to give them guidance he would have told them both stories are wrong. I say that ignoring the Bible that God is The Great Deceiver.

Hitchens razor already kind of does that: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence"

If any of the women I've seen were half as smart as her I'd be married.

Noquarter Atall What makes you think that an intelligent woman would want to marry you?

Vertical Horizon I have no idea what women see in me but apparently there is something. I wonder what it says about you that you thought I'd be so bothered by your comment.

Telly Savalas is handsome too?

Sihorny . Haha

He was going to argue that abiogenesis is impossible, thinking he could put up a straw man that "disproves" all of evolution. Even if it could be shown that abiogenesis is impossible, that still does not disprove the fact that evolutionary change occurs and that common ancestry is a demonstrable fact.

You where shown the fun pagan rituals to Christmas,and Easter.

I’m raising my children without religion. They are every bit as kind and generous and moral (perhaps more so) as anyone raised in the church. It makes me feel proud when my children’s friends tell them horror stories about hell and they listen politely then later come to me & say “Mom, I feel so bad for so&so! He thinks god will throw him into a lake of fire if he questions whether he’s real, but he won’t just come out & prove he’s real! It’s so sad!” A child can see the absurdity of it as long as it hasn’t been beaten into his head from birth! I do find it funny how our language is influenced by religion. I still say “Bless you” when someone sneezes. I still say “Thank God” when something good happens. I have a hard time breaking these habits.

Wow that's heavy ! ..... They just try and respond with God is ....He is the god of war , which is actually the only part of the bible that's true . The rest of it may as well be hogwash.

It’s best to specify that it’s a change in POPULATIONS of plants and animals, because if you don’t, they might think you’re talking about individuals morphing into a different species.

@@onewholovesvenison5335 Yes, thanks.

All I can say is, what the fuck is he waiting for? This shit has been going on as long as man has been around.

Do you need to borrow a fire extinguisher?

More evidence for them than jebus or god.

I agree. When the hosts insist that evolution is tangential to atheism, they are making a contrived case. In reality, the theory of evolution has had a profound effect culturally, and there's a reason why highly religious people find it threatening.

jsfec when a Christian is born again of the spirit it means that believer has a new spiritual nature...John 3:5/7 the reason for spiritual nature is that God is a spirit and desires spiritual worship...John 4:24 when God created Adam/Eve they were sinless and God came to visit them in the Garden, after the sin God no longer came because man's nature had changed to sin God loves man and wants to have a relationship with man but God is sinless and sin can not enter into God's presence... many people pass through the doors of churches all over the world...many go through the spiritual birth and many don't...but that is the main reason why many Christian don't stay Christians... it's not because of science or evolution or etc...though our current Gov't is a anti Christ liberal progressive program, and our educational facility is stocked with liberal minded professors, Hollywood is a Socialist program, our news medias also liberal anti Christ... though America is 60% Christian...the global liberal progressive movement has taken over the American Politics, is forcefully pushing an antichrist agenda

Phelan i'm feeding you children:)

RedSee Come to the Dark Side... we have cookies...

Kevin Nuttall been there in the very dark, it aint cookies that you're eating, it's devil dung:(

Funny how they never start with their best stuff. Is it because their best stuff is torn apart so they keep changing what their best stuff is?

you beat off to her every sunday pervert