One of Irish comedian Dave Allen's jokes-- Minister--"...and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Elderly lady in congregation--"What if you don't have any teeth?" Minister in strong voice--"Teeth will be provided."
Great show, i just wish that the newer episodes had comments enabled. For me that's half the fun right there, reading and writing comments in response to the phone calls.
+1991stratplus I agree. So long as we have to make our comments on a moderated site there will always be claims that anti-science arguments are being silenced. After all, deleting critical comments is very common on creationist sites and creationist YT videos. Non-theists don't need to be so dishonest, we have facts and evidence on our side. AE undermines our case by disabling comments, I don't care what their reason is.
I agree. I think I saw where you can go to one of the websites he states and still post on new episodes. I don't know why RUclips now disabled the newer ones?
byron2521 It isn't RUclips that disables them. If you read the blurb under the videos that have comments disabled, The AE says they disable them because of insulting comments. Understandable, but still, blocking comments is what creationists do, not atheists.
When I was still a christian, I would have very vivid dreams about the rapture! They scared the living shit out of me!! I could hear the trumpets and the clouds will roll back like a stage curtain. I am happy to report that since my transition from lies to truth, I have never had another rapture dream! I use to have a lot of religious dreams, some that really freaked me out!
I was raised Mormon or Latter Day Saints. Meaning we are in the latter days. I was told when I was very young (by my parents) Jesus's second coming may be in their lifetime, but would definitely be in my lifetime. They're in their 70's now & I'm in my 40's. Doesn't really matter anyways... 200 years ago when Joseph Smith founded the church, they believed they were in the last days as well. Hence calling themselves LDS.
It's crazy! Right? He was a convicted con man & there is record of his conviction. His cons were near identical to the one he used when he founded the Mormon religion. Treasure hunter... golden plates. I don't understand how there are millions of LDS members (my parents included) considering this is all public information.
I like don's failures of christianity but I feel like the 2 problems I have with it is that they tend to ramble a bit, and also they are a little too general to ever bring up as a debate topic. I would like a really concise and focused set of these lectures that really hones in on the point and can be used against apologists. Just my take on it. Great job on the show you guys, the atheist experience is amazing!
Great show guys, I think that most of you (I haven't seen everything that you published) are sharp and you answer questions with great precision and speed. I don't believe in god for the same reason, I don't want to devote myself into an unproven fact. So I believe in the human mind and what it can accomplish. Keep up the teaching of lost (in religion) people!
The answer to the last question really puts it all into perspective in enjoying and valuing our lives today ...and not squandering that time waiting for a 2nd coming that will never come.
I like how Don begins the discussion by proposing hope that people begin to question their beliefs. As Don has done, I think it is important to distinguish between getting someone to question what they believe and trying to get them to believe what you believe.
Chylene, the major difference is a glaringly simple one: each of these deal with (a) the natural world, and (b) falsifiable hypothesis. When creationists try to argue "scientists have faith" TO a scientist (this is my profession), I get a kick out of it. "Faith" is believing things WITHOUT evidence -- and in the creationists' worldview, despite 'contrary' evidence. Just see William Lane Craig's default position (if science > scripture, scripture wins still.) Science is more brutally honest.
I hate this "something from nothing" discussion with non-scientists. Not because it is difficult to explain, but because it is often used as a red herring. (about 31 minutes in) "You can't explain it ..so God..." goes nowhere. It is more of the same "If you can't explain it God did it" What a colossal argument from ignorance. This same argument was used since mankind could see something he couldn't understand: hurricanes, plagues, volcanoes, tsunamis... the Sun, Moon, tides, sickness, eclipses.. name it. To say "God (or Satan, demons, ghosts,angles, fairies, etc.) did it is a non answer. Why do we have to keep saying this? Now we who inform our live with reason and evidence find ourselves in the strange position of having uneducated faith believers trying to disprove what those with a lifetime of education at the top of their fields are working to understand.
The opening song is by a local band in Austin that made it for the show. They mention the name of the song and band at one point, but I can't remember which episode.
I have watched my grandson open his presents and sent videos to all family memebers, and his mom has collected him. I've sent e-mails and calls to all my family, chatted with my grandchildren. Now i am relaxing. apparently, you have no rebuttal, so I will wish you a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
you seem to have gotten along fine up to now with your eyes closed ,or are you avoiding those parasites daddy invented that burrow into the eyes blinding adults and children alike -way to go god ,nice the world really needed that to top off your creation fuckin a.
Theists A&B: Why is there anything? Something can't come from nothing, therefore god. (Implied: before there was something, there was "absolute" nothing.) Skeptic: Then where did god come from? Theist A: God has always existed. Skeptic: That negates the argument that "absolute" nothing was the starting point. Theist B: God created herself. Skeptic: That negates the argument that something can't come from nothing.
I watched Kennedy face down Kruschev during the Cuban Missle Crisis, and I cried as I watched his funeral on TV. As a kid, I crouched under my desk for air raid drills, and saw commercils on TV for bomb shelters. We prayed in school, and no one thought a thing of it. In High School, kids would sneer and say, "How many babies has your borther killed today?" and when he came home, I had to listen to him scream in his sleep. I saw the first PC's come in, and learned Basic and Cobol.
The people who say, "You don't know that there is no God," are often the ones claiming that they can communicate with him through prayer, that he talks to them, gives them morals, rules, and commands, and so on. If this is the case, then they can show us definitively that he exists. If you can interact with someone physically (as by hearing them speak, etc.) then that someone has a physical existence that we can all experience.
I prefer the odd/even analogy. You have to count to know for sure. Only the person claiming knowledge of either has the burden of showing how he knows.
These were the words of Paul. They weren't an endorsement of slavery, but part of a discourse to new Christians on how to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. It ends with,"..because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free." Paul, a product of his times, was grieved by slavery, and freed them whenever he was able, but it was an economic neccisity of the times and the world took it for granted.
Richard Carrier and Robert M. Price. I read some of their stuff and was blown away that there was such a bunch of different interperetations of the bible among secular scholars and theist scholars(who sometimes disagree with each other) and amongst the secular scholars, some think the bible is just a tribal mythology mostly, like Dr. Carrier.
The freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult. You also don't have a freedom to NOT be insulted. While direct threats of harm are not accepted, it's not a breach of the freedom of speech to insult someone. Saying that the freedom of speech ends there is hypocritical, since I'm sure that you've insulted someone in the past.
And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 Translation: If you want to believe in something, you`ll find a way to convince yourself. It is a well demonstrated fact that humans make almost all their decisions based on "feelings", and then construct reasons to defend their choices. "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons." - Michael Shermer -
When he was Saul of Tarsus, the Pharisee. When he was dramtically converted by Jesus himself, he became Christianities greatest advocate. It is a lesson showing God's great Grace, and the power of repentance and forgiveness. God said, "Though your sins are as scarlet, I shall make them white as snow."
I'm tired of callers not getting this issue. You either agree, or you don't. You can disagree because you haven't been convinced, or because you've been convinced otherwise. Simple.
I rewatched the first few minutes and I still didn't catch him citing a source. He says that he's doing a series of talks, does that mean he wrote it? He mentions C.S. Lewis, but that's just part of it. I feel silly for asking again, but it sounds like you're saying he does explain his source, could you (or someone else) fill me in? Thanks.
@rsgirl10 It's called Quantum Mechanics, the gist of which is if you look at a small enough space over a short enough time period, you will see particle-antiparticle pairs appearing and disappearing all the time. If there happens to be enough energy present when the pair appears to compensate for the mass of the pair, they don't disappear. Hence the "something from nothing" argument. Look it up.
Tomás de Torquemada, (born 1420, Valladolid, Castile [Spain]-died September 16, 1498, Ávila, Castile), first grand inquisitor in Spain, whose name has become synonymous with the Christian Inquisition’s horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism. (I think that's what your trying to say right)
@willemcrowe Sources? I can't seem to find any that show "supernatural-like events do occur" nor can I find any supporting your reason for you question "Could quantum entanglment occur in such a way to allow one to read a persons mind".
@SwineNahNah Yeah. A great example is the population of Sweden. As we first started keeping registers, the current king was shocked as it turned out to be 1/10 of what was previously estimated. And this was in the 17th century 'Swedish Empire', not in some desert village at year 0.
There's a striking similarity between argumentum ad populum and democracy . .. comment section doesn't allow me to fully explain what I was trying to imply, but I was mistaken in thinking that you would probably get what I was talking about . .. anyway, at some point you would have to figure "trust" and "intuition" along with logic and rhetoric if you want to reach the truth .. . IF you want to reach the truth . ..
We need to educate our kids and next generation a lot better then we did, i was top in my class when i was younger, i had a better understanding of things compared to most of the kids in my grade. I didn't need someone to argue with me for me to become an atheist, i did my own research. I'm glad this show is running to help others realize how wrong they've been thinking, but these people should be finding this out themselves!
Dad got an exemption from serving WWII-he helped design nd build the lnding craft for Normandy. He worked for the same company 55 years, ws late once, and missed three days because he had pnumonia. He was the un official bantam weight boxing champion in the state he lived in when he was a younger man. He was an irascable old curmudgeon, but I never knew him to tell a lie, cheat anyone, or ever turn down someone in need. He was a better man than you'll ever hope to be.
I'm by no means a cruel person, but whenever I think about when a Christian dies and they realize, or the lack of realization, that there is no Heaven, I feel a tiny tingle of.... being right or triumph. Strange, I know, but I can't help what I feel :P
I really want Jesus to come back. I want to see him arriving on TV, with his army of angels. I want to see him walking into the Vatican to meet the Pope, the head of the Church of Rome. And see him walking into Buckingham Palace, to meet the Queen, the head of the Church of England. What must they do to be saved ? What will Jesus tell them to do, immediately ?
He'll come with his list of who's naughty and nice, santa has been keeping it up to date for him. We'll all line up to get sent either up or down. "Do you believe in me?" He'll ask. "You're standing in front of me... so yes" "Good, good... I see here your wife wasn't a virgin when you got married, why didn't you drag her out to the gates of your village and stone her to death with all the men, you casting the first stone?" ".....uh........can I just choose hell?" *(ends up in hell and it's actually awesome! Lucifer is a really nice guy and everyone is having a great time) That is how I imagine it all going down.
Yes, absolutely! At the White Throne judgement, the sea will give up all her dead, and they all will be judged according to their actions on earth, whether good or bad.
Actually, they did, at a very well known hospital--John Hopkins, I believe--and the ones that were prayed for, though they didn't know it, showed significantly higher recovery than those who didn't.
An embryo is a batch of cells which can grow into many people. If you split the batch in half, then two people will form. The cells will continue to divide, and you can split the batches again to make four people. You can also combine two embryo batches to create one human. You can't assign a singular human identity to an embryo, until consciousness forms. I understand how people can get attached to them as people, emotionally, but they are not people anymore than you skin cells are people.
"Cause and effect" is a concept that only makes sense at the macro level. At the micro level, events occur all the time with no causes at all. Electrons wiz around the nucleus and never slow down. It's just the way they behave without any reason or purpose.
is the uncaused caused or is it the cause of the cause because the clause that the one guy gnaws and gnaws until at the cause until it draws me to applause when he finally pauses, oh gawd.
If you look at human history, we are a tenuous chain of success and survival, and if you loose a friend in tragedy, then see how stark that one moment's contrast is with their whole life. When you see how consistent they were in reproducing love that others had displayed to them, think about how many others, including you, have replicated that love to more people and how their death caused more people to find greater value in the love they can put forth. A.G.
Would you recommend clinical depression? I've been there. It's futile. I prefer positive actions to ineffective wringing of hands and denial of reality.
Damascus--he had to be led, he had been temporarily blinded--and from thereon, he became a devout evangelist for Christ, changing his name to Paul. He started several churches, traveled extensively spreading the gospel, was shipwrecked twice, beaten, flogged, stoned, encited several riots, was imprisoned several times, all for the sake of the gospel. Being as he was raised a Pharisee, he couldn't resist over-intellectualising every bit of the gospel. Few common people understood him.
I wonder who writes the speeches that Don sometimes gives at the beginning. I don't get the impression that he's reading something he wrote himself. Sometimes it seems like he didn't even read it beforehand.
@chinngis83 The CO2 following temperature increases is due to a positive feedback loop. Increased CO2 -> warmer -> more CO2 release from various sources such as wildfires, thawing permafrost etc. -> warmer -> repeat.
So, according to your footnotes, "generation" might mean what we all know it means, or it could refer to some cryptic meaning that in no way fits with the context of the passage.
@baldurus1 I have to disagree with you on one point, I believe you are misinterpreting the physics definition of vacuum. It doesn't need to be devoid of energy, it is generally referred to when we mean a lack of atmosphere in an environment, or more specifically a lack of air resistance. The vacuum of space is indeed such because it lacks an atmosphere and is largely empty with the exception of some free-floating hydrogen and other light elements. This is what is meant by vacuum.
So you pick and choose what parts of the bible to believe, and by what basis do you figure these things out? It's obvious that you choose to believe in transcription errors when something is demonstrably wrong(as in this case), and accurate translations when you find something you disagree with.
You are quite right. They are "curled up" in a space -10 to the 33rd cm. Oddly, a man called Diomedes figured that out in 1263 from studying Genesis 1, and the creation.
In short, the problem with dictionary definitions of atheism is that they are designed to reflect the common understanding of the word. Well, if the common view "assumes" the existence of God, then the word 'atheist' will always be defined as not believing in something that exists. It's a linguistic problem, not a failure of atheists to accept the 'true definition' or "define a word any way they want".
I'm listening to Emanual (at 23:16) talk about the necessity of a cause for the universe. As humans we feel the need to assign cause to everything, because we live in a macroscopic world of action-reaction Hence we invent fallacious requirements. Cause-effect does not exist at the ultimate quantum level. What causes a radioactive particle to randomly decay after a billion years? Or an electron to jump down an energy level? The Bang was such a quantum event.
Wish the first call was much shorter....it was one of those that doesn't even come close to answering or accomplishing anything interesting and could have been stated in like 30 seconds.
Dude, bringing up the other 3 synoptic gospels does not help your case, because each one says "This generation shall[certainly] not pass". You're doing some amazing mental gymnastics here.
It's still a (relatively) new field so no "Standard Model" exists. There are ideas abound and things are being worked on. It in no way invalidates abiogenesis or evolution as it (to me) embodies science. As there is little to work with at the moment means that just about everything currently known about evolution is tested to the limits until the limits are raised with the increased knowledge from experimentation.
In regards to the first caller, I have no problem saying nothing cannot exist. Energy has always been. Energy is the constant. It didn't come from anywhere. This is at least what I understand from physics, and what many physicists have said (in more educated explanations). Can we say for 100% certainty? Not currently, but it fits many models of our understanding of the universe. Makes me impatient for M-Theory to be confirmed.
Matt: 13v14; And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT"
For he is Dovah'Kin!
I was an atheist like you until I took an arrow to the knee.
Fus Roh DAH
One of Irish comedian Dave Allen's jokes--
Minister--"...and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Elderly lady in congregation--"What if you don't have any teeth?"
Minister in strong voice--"Teeth will be provided."
Great show, i just wish that the newer episodes had comments enabled. For me that's half the fun right there, reading and writing comments in response to the phone calls.
+1991stratplus I agree. So long as we have to make our comments on a moderated site there will always be claims that anti-science arguments are being silenced. After all, deleting critical comments is very common on creationist sites and creationist YT videos. Non-theists don't need to be so dishonest, we have facts and evidence on our side. AE undermines our case by disabling comments, I don't care what their reason is.
Eve Again agreed
I agree. I think I saw where you can go to one of the websites he states and still post on new episodes. I don't know why RUclips now disabled the newer ones?
byron2521
It isn't RUclips that disables them. If you read the blurb under the videos that have comments disabled, The AE says they disable them because of insulting comments. Understandable, but still, blocking comments is what creationists do, not atheists.
Your prayers have been answered.
It’s so much fun to watch these older shows. I miss Don’s failure series.
Why do people insist on asking the same question over and over and over and expect a different answer each time? It's exhausting.
Thats why Matt Dillahunty has become so short tempered over the years
When I was still a christian, I would have very vivid dreams about the rapture! They scared the living shit out of me!! I could hear the trumpets and the clouds will roll back like a stage curtain. I am happy to report that since my transition from lies to truth, I have never had another rapture dream! I use to have a lot of religious dreams, some that really freaked me out!
I was raised Mormon or Latter Day Saints. Meaning we are in the latter days. I was told when I was very young (by my parents) Jesus's second coming may be in their lifetime, but would definitely be in my lifetime. They're in their 70's now & I'm in my 40's. Doesn't really matter anyways... 200 years ago when Joseph Smith founded the church, they believed they were in the last days as well. Hence calling themselves LDS.
James Schaefer Lucky for us, Joseph Smith turned out to be a false prophet. Also known during his time as a con man.
It's crazy! Right? He was a convicted con man & there is record of his conviction. His cons were near identical to the one he used when he founded the Mormon religion. Treasure hunter... golden plates. I don't understand how there are millions of LDS members (my parents included) considering this is all public information.
+James Schaefer
LDS = Limp Dilatory Sinners?
Patrick Saxon thats what every religious groups think.
EVERY OTHER religion got it wrong, ONLY you got it right.
Funny, that you ALL think like that.
***** Or maybe you are going to hell as you don't believe in krishna.
i miss christopher hitchens, rest in peace, great show gents, really appreciate your efforts in sharing these videos, cheers from san diego
I like don's failures of christianity but I feel like the 2 problems I have with it is that they tend to ramble a bit, and also they are a little too general to ever bring up as a debate topic. I would like a really concise and focused set of these lectures that really hones in on the point and can be used against apologists. Just my take on it. Great job on the show you guys, the atheist experience is amazing!
Yep you are correct, their silly notions as arguments are too Micky mouse, they haven't got a clue at all.
Hey, I got to see this one in the studio! It was awesome to meet Russell, Don, Jen and the rest of the team.
I am a believer but I like listening to you guys
Gratification is only skin deep you better find a good one it will be with you for the rest of your life
even when she isn't
cheers :)
Lord Iga ...I feel sorry for you.
Believer?
Which one were you steered towards believing?
Do you think you would have gone with a different one if you were born in Iran, or China?
Great show guys, I think that most of you (I haven't seen everything that you published) are sharp and you answer questions with great precision and speed.
I don't believe in god for the same reason, I don't want to devote myself into an unproven fact. So I believe in the human mind and what it can accomplish.
Keep up the teaching of lost (in religion) people!
I love the FSM on the desk lol
The answer to the last question really puts it all into perspective in enjoying and valuing our lives today ...and not squandering that time waiting for a 2nd coming that will never come.
I like Russell a lot
I like how Don begins the discussion by proposing hope that people begin to question their beliefs. As Don has done, I think it is important to distinguish between getting someone to question what they believe and trying to get them to believe what you believe.
Caller: "[...]various stages of banging and collapsing[...]"
:D
sounds, um, fun
Chylene, the major difference is a glaringly simple one: each of these deal with (a) the natural world, and (b) falsifiable hypothesis.
When creationists try to argue "scientists have faith" TO a scientist (this is my profession), I get a kick out of it. "Faith" is believing things WITHOUT evidence -- and in the creationists' worldview, despite 'contrary' evidence. Just see William Lane Craig's default position (if science > scripture, scripture wins still.)
Science is more brutally honest.
I hate this "something from nothing" discussion with non-scientists. Not because it is difficult to explain, but because it is often used as a red herring. (about 31 minutes in) "You can't explain it ..so God..." goes nowhere. It is more of the same "If you can't explain it God did it" What a colossal argument from ignorance.
This same argument was used since mankind could see something he couldn't understand: hurricanes, plagues, volcanoes, tsunamis... the Sun, Moon, tides, sickness, eclipses.. name it. To say "God (or Satan, demons, ghosts,angles, fairies, etc.) did it is a non answer. Why do we have to keep saying this?
Now we who inform our live with reason and evidence find ourselves in the strange position of having uneducated faith believers trying to disprove what those with a lifetime of education at the top of their fields are working to understand.
I kind of wish someone would make a video just of that intro alone. It really fits and is well done.
Russel and Don seem to do well together but 1 Russel + 1 Don < 1 Matt.
Also, 1R + 1D < 1Tracie
They look like and are a pair of ignorant dopes and unqualified to even speak on the subject.
@@annemac8175 Everybody is qualified to speak on the subject of the non-existence of an invisible magical friend.
The opening song is by a local band in Austin that made it for the show.
They mention the name of the song and band at one point, but I can't remember which episode.
Beautiful remarks at the end. Thank you guys.
I have watched my grandson open his presents and sent videos to all family memebers, and his mom has collected him. I've sent e-mails and calls to all my family, chatted with my grandchildren. Now i am relaxing. apparently, you have no rebuttal, so I will wish you a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
I've just had a thought that nobody else has ever had.
I'm not telling you my thought, because you would have it too.
I want it to remain unique.
I will be happy to listen to reason and open my eyes when I see something worthwhile on these shows.
you seem to have gotten along fine up to now with your eyes closed ,or are you avoiding those parasites daddy invented that burrow into the eyes blinding adults and children alike -way to go god ,nice the world really needed that to top off your creation fuckin a.
Theists A&B: Why is there anything? Something can't come from nothing, therefore god. (Implied: before there was something, there was "absolute" nothing.)
Skeptic: Then where did god come from?
Theist A: God has always existed.
Skeptic: That negates the argument that "absolute" nothing was the starting point.
Theist B: God created herself.
Skeptic: That negates the argument that something can't come from nothing.
I watched Kennedy face down Kruschev during the Cuban Missle Crisis, and I cried as I watched his funeral on TV. As a kid, I crouched under my desk for air raid drills, and saw commercils on TV for bomb shelters. We prayed in school, and no one thought a thing of it. In High School, kids would sneer and say, "How many babies has your borther killed today?" and when he came home, I had to listen to him scream in his sleep. I saw the first PC's come in, and learned Basic and Cobol.
Thank you for your failures of Christianity series. I really enjoy your program.
No offense to anyone else in the Atheist Experience show, but Don Baker and Russell Glasser are my two favorites.
About the 'oscillating universe'... most physicists abandoned that theory as we measured that the expansion of our universe is accelerating.
The people who say, "You don't know that there is no God," are often the ones claiming that they can communicate with him through prayer, that he talks to them, gives them morals, rules, and commands, and so on. If this is the case, then they can show us definitively that he exists. If you can interact with someone physically (as by hearing them speak, etc.) then that someone has a physical existence that we can all experience.
I prefer the odd/even analogy. You have to count to know for sure. Only the person claiming knowledge of either has the burden of showing how he knows.
These were the words of Paul. They weren't an endorsement of slavery, but part of a discourse to new Christians on how to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. It ends with,"..because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free." Paul, a product of his times, was grieved by slavery, and freed them whenever he was able, but it was an economic neccisity of the times and the world took it for granted.
Was anybody reminded of the Frasier theme song when they got to the topic of scrambled eggs?
LOL!!! Quantum effects were mentioned at 34:30 just after I posted this. Good job guys ;)
I'm curious if anyone knows whey there are no more shows being broadcast here... whats up with that?
Richard Carrier and Robert M. Price. I read some of their stuff and was blown away that there was such a bunch of different interperetations of the bible among secular scholars and theist scholars(who sometimes disagree with each other) and amongst the secular scholars, some think the bible is just a tribal mythology mostly, like Dr. Carrier.
The freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult. You also don't have a freedom to NOT be insulted.
While direct threats of harm are not accepted, it's not a breach of the freedom of speech to insult someone. Saying that the freedom of speech ends there is hypocritical, since I'm sure that you've insulted someone in the past.
This was the best theme song ever! Still listen to it daily!
The first caller is one of the best theist callers I have heard on this show. Usually they can hardly string two sentences together.
I loved that speech about the failure of christianity
And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
Translation: If you want to believe in something, you`ll find a way to convince yourself. It is a well demonstrated fact that humans make almost all their decisions based on "feelings", and then construct reasons to defend their choices.
"Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons." - Michael Shermer -
When he was Saul of Tarsus, the Pharisee. When he was dramtically converted by Jesus himself, he became Christianities greatest advocate. It is a lesson showing God's great Grace, and the power of repentance and forgiveness. God said, "Though your sins are as scarlet, I shall make them white as snow."
The opening does a great job at demonstrating the superiority of preterism.
I'm tired of callers not getting this issue.
You either agree, or you don't.
You can disagree because you haven't been convinced, or because you've been convinced otherwise.
Simple.
You can say the same about Socrates, but he sure has impressed a lot of people, and no one doubts HE exists.
I rewatched the first few minutes and I still didn't catch him citing a source. He says that he's doing a series of talks, does that mean he wrote it? He mentions C.S. Lewis, but that's just part of it. I feel silly for asking again, but it sounds like you're saying he does explain his source, could you (or someone else) fill me in? Thanks.
@rsgirl10 It's called Quantum Mechanics, the gist of which is if you look at a small enough space over a short enough time period, you will see particle-antiparticle pairs appearing and disappearing all the time. If there happens to be enough energy present when the pair appears to compensate for the mass of the pair, they don't disappear. Hence the "something from nothing" argument. Look it up.
Tomás de Torquemada, (born 1420, Valladolid, Castile [Spain]-died September 16, 1498, Ávila, Castile), first grand inquisitor in Spain, whose name has become synonymous with the Christian Inquisition’s horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism. (I think that's what your trying to say right)
@baldurus1 Can you point me to your sources on this? Because what you state goes contrary to my understanding of the theory (the "our time" part).
@willemcrowe Sources? I can't seem to find any that show "supernatural-like events do occur" nor can I find any supporting your reason for you question "Could quantum entanglment occur in such a way to allow one to read a persons mind".
where are all of the full episodes?
@SwineNahNah Yeah. A great example is the population of Sweden. As we first started keeping registers, the current king was shocked as it turned out to be 1/10 of what was previously estimated. And this was in the 17th century 'Swedish Empire', not in some desert village at year 0.
There's a striking similarity between argumentum ad populum and democracy . .. comment section doesn't allow me to fully explain what I was trying to imply, but I was mistaken in thinking that you would probably get what I was talking about . .. anyway, at some point you would have to figure "trust" and "intuition" along with logic and rhetoric if you want to reach the truth .. . IF you want to reach the truth . ..
@chinngis83 Interesting. Have you published your musings in a peer reviewed journal on climatology?
We need to educate our kids and next generation a lot better then we did, i was top in my class when i was younger, i had a better understanding of things compared to most of the kids in my grade. I didn't need someone to argue with me for me to become an atheist, i did my own research. I'm glad this show is running to help others realize how wrong they've been thinking, but these people should be finding this out themselves!
why did I read the name on the list as Dan Barker and Muscles Glasses.
whenever russell is the host he generally takes like 2 calls for 20 minutes each even when it goes absolutely nowhere
Dad got an exemption from serving WWII-he helped design nd build the lnding craft for Normandy. He worked for the same company 55 years, ws late once, and missed three days because he had pnumonia. He was the un official bantam weight boxing champion in the state he lived in when he was a younger man. He was an irascable old curmudgeon, but I never knew him to tell a lie, cheat anyone, or ever turn down someone in need. He was a better man than you'll ever hope to be.
I'm by no means a cruel person, but whenever I think about when a Christian dies and they realize, or the lack of realization, that there is no Heaven, I feel a tiny tingle of.... being right or triumph. Strange, I know, but I can't help what I feel :P
I really want Jesus to come back. I want to see him arriving on TV, with his army of angels.
I want to see him walking into the Vatican to meet the Pope, the head of the Church of Rome.
And see him walking into Buckingham Palace, to meet the Queen, the head of the Church of England.
What must they do to be saved ? What will Jesus tell them to do, immediately ?
He'll come with his list of who's naughty and nice, santa has been keeping it up to date for him. We'll all line up to get sent either up or down.
"Do you believe in me?" He'll ask.
"You're standing in front of me... so yes"
"Good, good... I see here your wife wasn't a virgin when you got married, why didn't you drag her out to the gates of your village and stone her to death with all the men, you casting the first stone?"
".....uh........can I just choose hell?"
*(ends up in hell and it's actually awesome! Lucifer is a really nice guy and everyone is having a great time)
That is how I imagine it all going down.
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Very clever and funny.
tedgrant2, thank you hahah. I see your comments sprinkled throughout the many atheist oriented videos here on youtube - you have a great mind friend.
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You mean brain, surely ?
tedgrant2, hahahahaha!! That was a bold assertion on my part, yes brain ;D
Yes, absolutely! At the White Throne judgement, the sea will give up all her dead, and they all will be judged according to their actions on earth, whether good or bad.
Actually, they did, at a very well known hospital--John Hopkins, I believe--and the ones that were prayed for, though they didn't know it, showed significantly higher recovery than those who didn't.
You can hear the gears grinding in the caller's head ^_^
I would like to know what bible you use?
a very strange one with a lot of made up adding and deleting i guess.
So if a day is like 1,000 years and 1,000 years is like a day then the second comming is still over 2 million years away ...
An embryo is a batch of cells which can grow into many people. If you split the batch in half, then two people will form. The cells will continue to divide, and you can split the batches again to make four people. You can also combine two embryo batches to create one human. You can't assign a singular human identity to an embryo, until consciousness forms. I understand how people can get attached to them as people, emotionally, but they are not people anymore than you skin cells are people.
"Cause and effect" is a concept that only makes sense at the macro level.
At the micro level, events occur all the time with no causes at all.
Electrons wiz around the nucleus and never slow down.
It's just the way they behave without any reason or purpose.
is the uncaused caused or is it the cause of the cause because the clause that the one guy gnaws and gnaws until at the cause until it draws me to applause when he finally pauses, oh gawd.
If you look at human history, we are a tenuous chain of success and survival, and if you loose a friend in tragedy, then see how stark that one moment's contrast is with their whole life. When you see how consistent they were in reproducing love that others had displayed to them, think about how many others, including you, have replicated that love to more people and how their death caused more people to find greater value in the love they can put forth.
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Would you recommend clinical depression? I've been there. It's futile. I prefer positive actions to ineffective wringing of hands and denial of reality.
Damascus--he had to be led, he had been temporarily blinded--and from thereon, he became a devout evangelist for Christ, changing his name to Paul. He started several churches, traveled extensively spreading the gospel, was shipwrecked twice, beaten, flogged, stoned, encited several riots, was imprisoned several times, all for the sake of the gospel. Being as he was raised a Pharisee, he couldn't resist over-intellectualising every bit of the gospel. Few common people understood him.
I wonder who writes the speeches that Don sometimes gives at the beginning. I don't get the impression that he's reading something he wrote himself. Sometimes it seems like he didn't even read it beforehand.
@chinngis83 The CO2 following temperature increases is due to a positive feedback loop. Increased CO2 -> warmer -> more CO2 release from various sources such as wildfires, thawing permafrost etc. -> warmer -> repeat.
So, according to your footnotes, "generation" might mean what we all know it means, or it could refer to some cryptic meaning that in no way fits with the context of the passage.
@baldurus1 I have to disagree with you on one point, I believe you are misinterpreting the physics definition of vacuum. It doesn't need to be devoid of energy, it is generally referred to when we mean a lack of atmosphere in an environment, or more specifically a lack of air resistance. The vacuum of space is indeed such because it lacks an atmosphere and is largely empty with the exception of some free-floating hydrogen and other light elements. This is what is meant by vacuum.
Does Emanual and his contexts sound familiar to anyone else?
i dont think you choose your beliefs any more than you choose your favorite foods
So you pick and choose what parts of the bible to believe, and by what basis do you figure these things out? It's obvious that you choose to believe in transcription errors when something is demonstrably wrong(as in this case), and accurate translations when you find something you disagree with.
Again, who are these scholars you are referring to?
Also, I love how you think tacking on even more insanity cobbled from other books in the Bible somehow ADDS to your credibility.
7 years later, its only gotten worse.
In Acts 1:11, it says that the men of Galilee will see Jesus come back in the same way that he went.
But he didn't.
You are quite right. They are "curled up" in a space -10 to the 33rd cm. Oddly, a man called Diomedes figured that out in 1263 from studying Genesis 1, and the creation.
In short, the problem with dictionary definitions of atheism is that they are designed to reflect the common understanding of the word. Well, if the common view "assumes" the existence of God, then the word 'atheist' will always be defined as not believing in something that exists. It's a linguistic problem, not a failure of atheists to accept the 'true definition' or "define a word any way they want".
so many of the callers trying to use big words to make them sound smarter than they are and it just becomes pure RAMBLING.
I'm listening to Emanual (at 23:16) talk about the necessity of a cause for the universe. As humans we feel the need to assign cause to everything, because we live in a macroscopic world of action-reaction Hence we invent fallacious requirements. Cause-effect does not exist at the ultimate quantum level. What causes a radioactive particle to randomly decay after a billion years? Or an electron to jump down an energy level? The Bang was such a quantum event.
So where does that leave those found wanting?
Wish the first call was much shorter....it was one of those that doesn't even come close to answering or accomplishing anything interesting and could have been stated in like 30 seconds.
Like zeus in Indian belief the king of all gods Indira and his primary weapon is Vajra weapon. And when he use vajra it fires lightning...
Dude, bringing up the other 3 synoptic gospels does not help your case, because each one says "This generation shall[certainly] not pass". You're doing some amazing mental gymnastics here.
"Master vibration". What is vibrating?
It's still a (relatively) new field so no "Standard Model" exists. There are ideas abound and things are being worked on. It in no way invalidates abiogenesis or evolution as it (to me) embodies science. As there is little to work with at the moment means that just about everything currently known about evolution is tested to the limits until the limits are raised with the increased knowledge from experimentation.
In regards to the first caller, I have no problem saying nothing cannot exist. Energy has always been. Energy is the constant. It didn't come from anywhere. This is at least what I understand from physics, and what many physicists have said (in more educated explanations). Can we say for 100% certainty? Not currently, but it fits many models of our understanding of the universe. Makes me impatient for M-Theory to be confirmed.
love your shows!
Matt: 13v14; And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive
If he has nothing to hide, why do we have to search?
too bad i live to far to come to your dinners... the invitations always sound very alluring ;-))