"the bible has withstood the test of time" Obviously, he hasn't read the Bible. It has NOT withstood the test of time. Bats are not birds. Rabbits don't chew cud. Sheep do not inherit their coloring by mating in front of striped sticks. Donkeys and snakes do not talk. Killing children for hitting their parents is not morally right. Owning another person is not morally acceptable. And the list goes on for miles.
More important than the Bible is Bible scholarship (e.g. textual analysis). While the contradictions in the Bible are damning enough for a document supposedly written by an omnipotent being, the origins of the Bible are generally a more compelling reason to reject Christianity.
Paul T Sjordal I would disagree from the standpoint that each person rejects it for what THEY find untenable. It MAY be this or that. For me, it was the flood account. There was no way the earth was totally covered with water. No way all animals could fit into a boat that size and survive in total darkness for a year. etc. I would claim that the origins of the Bible would not be knowledge easily accessible to a Christian or even one already doubting. They can easily believe men wrote it and even made mistakes or they crept in over time due to our fallen nature. :) I think contradictions and story silliness are good starting points for doubt. Trying to get a Christian to understand the multi-document theory of the OT... not so much, I think.
Noah837 How many apologists does it take to explain away a light bulb? That every living animal (1 and 7 pair) were in a boat for a year without any light or adequate ventilation in quarters so cramped as to not be able to run or walk, is a contradiction of common sense. No apologist can explain that away.
Noah837 Too many thousands to list them all here. Google "skeptic's annotated Bible". By the way, if you do go to that web site, it's also a great resource for you, as they also have a "skeptic's annotated Quran" and a "skeptic's annotated Book of Mormon". The most obvious one is that the Genesis account lists the order of creation two different ways in two different places. So was the Bible wrong when it said that man was made before animals, or was it wrong when it said man was made after animals? You can't have it both ways no matter how much spinning you try to do.
I remember being 7 years old seeing people pray and wondering, who the heck are they talking to. Praying people were crazy people to me then, actually praying people are still crazy people to me. LOL.
I had OCD about my nightly prayers. What if I forgot to ask god to bless someone and they died? I'd be responsible. Then, one night as I was praying, I had an epiphany: What if no one is listening to this? I later learned that this was the normal development of the capacity for abstract reasoning in the 12-year-old human being. Some people never develop it.
I love how this guy keeps trying to "explain" the bible to Matt by bringing up popular movies and tv-shows, as if he's talking to a teenager. And everytime he does it, there's that condescending little chuckle. Kudos to Matt for staying calm, polite and respectful.
You can tell by the way he repeats Matt's final question about determining that God is the good one and Satan is the bad one, that he's never considered that question before. Never even occurred to him. Hopefully he went away and actually considered the question.
This is the most vague, indirect-speaking person I have ever seen. He spent about 50 words for every single one that was required to construct a simple question. I couldn't understand what he was trying to say most of the time because he was doing these figure eights around the points he really wanted to make.
Pretty sure Jonathan was just a bored atheist trolling, the part I laughed at most was when he brought up the 'Higgs Boson Supposedly Particle', then said the hosts probably never heard of it and then went on to say science is baffled by it....they're trying to apply it to a scientific model but are stumped. It's funny to me imagining all the scientists in lab coats all standing around scratching their heads going 'Wait, WHAT the fuck??' :D
"It always cracks me up when Christians say things like "why don't you study the Bible more indepthly?" I always answer, that it's the same thing with heroine, which I don't have to take to know that it's bad.
Heroin is bad for you not because of how pure it is, but it gives you a reward in your brain you didn't really earn. A very high potential for dependency, a lot like religion actually.
MrLogo73 Besides, if I don't ascribe to that religion why would I bother wasting hours on end closely studying the text? When someone comes at me with that kind of argument one of my go-tos is to ask them why they don't take the time to study the Koran/Torah/the Eddas/etc.
6:20 until Jonathan actually starts his argument. It never fails to amaze me how many callers, intelligent or not, go into the discussion trying to bait or trick the host into saying something, while hiding their true intent. If you have an argument, state it, attempt to back it up, and then discuss. I can imagine that Matt would pay good money to have a "fast-forward caller" button.
Yep -- every theistic argument requires some kind of smoke screen, misdirection, invalid premise, or faulty connecting of dots. You know it's coming...just a matter of time. I remember a recent sequence with Russel Glasser where, in his polite manner, gently interrupted a rambling caller to summarize their First Cause argument BETTER than the called would have been able to do it! I'll try to find and put up that short segment. In the meantime, the other AE video I posted shows a great example of the misdirection technique: From Atheist Experience #841: All you need is LOVE (aka God)
They did introduce a format in later years that gave callers an allocated time of 60 seconds to ask their question, it was a good way to filter down some of the lead up chat that usually takes up time. Not sure if they still follow that format or not nowadays, the crew has had some big lineup changes in the last few years
If God had put the equation for the electro-magnetic force constant, or the answer to the unified field theorem in the Bible, there would be no doubting it's divine origin. If there is a God, he's a twat.
The bible isn't talking about those things and I'm sure science textbooks in the future will have more information than the science books today. Also, people are not necessarily putting the bible above science as if it's against science. There are many Christian scientists...
He has a loose collection of thoughts that he hasn't really mapped out well. There are so many people who have a thought, and believe it to be true simply because 'they' had it. Its very difficult to discuss things with people who have already decided they're always right and think they're much smarter than they actually are.
@@whollypotatoes This is what I got from the first couple of minutes into his part of the dialogue. He offers ideas like "So you use the scientific method to determine if something is rational or irrational." It must be tough to have to handle these concepts while making a determined effort not to think too carefully about them, in case some dangerous heresy rubs off. The only way to be safe is to treat them as cryptic symbols defined in terms of other cryptic symbols. But interestingly, one can do that. All formal axiomatic systems do it, and very usefully too, because they are both internally coherent and also produce a wealth of nontrivial results. Science uses mathematics and logic all the time. But science isn't principally interested in the power of concepts for their own sake. It's interested in the reality which appears to exist all around us, and indeed within us. So science, utterly unlike math or logic, must be grounded in evidence. I think that distinctions of this kind may be lost on many people. We've failed somehow to include the basics of epistemology in mainstream education. It's such a basic subject! It touches everything. I feel for this caller somewhat in the way I would feel for any random person. Say that an innocent space alien comes to this planet and begins to ask some random person on the street about, I don't know, the basics of medicine, or power generation, or how jet turbines work, or economic theory, or why there are so many different breakfast cereals on store shelves in the US but hardly any in Europe. The poor guy in the street has to say, dude, I have no idea about this stuff. It's not part of my daily life. Nobody told me that I should know any of this. And the poor alien is like, but who can I ask? How can you not at least be curious? I don't mean PRETENDING to be curious, but genuinely curious, ready to revise your understanding? So I kinda feel sorry for the alien too, getting such a bad impression of humans when in fact we have so much potential.
That was a fantastic video!! You handled the caller in a respectful, calm and collected manner, and answered all of his questions with logic, facts and common sense.
Plus, the called seems to accept the fact that he may be wrong and maybe even try to inform and think more about his belief. I agree, that was a pretty good one.
One of my favourites! A theist listening an argument, not taking any time to understand what actually was said, and picking a keyword to make a fallacious reply.
You dont have the right context... I've spent 20 minutes trying to find a verse that I could use and pretend to be a apologist but I dont want my IQ to decrease.
You don`t say, what about air-planes and other technology, sure there must be some "user manual" how to drive a car, or something ...............................
I find that most of these conversations on the Atheist Experience mirror a similar experience we can all relate to. have you ever been on a bus or a train and struck up a conversation with a stranger... nice polite conversation to start with then they say something weird or inappropriate... its only then that you glance down and see that this person is wearing a full business suit but is wearing flip-flops and they have a barbie doll peeping out of their inside pocket. ... you realise you have just had a conversation with a full blown pidgeon licker
Love it! Woman walks in and engages me in conversation, eventually turning somehow to god. She says she believes in the Word of God. I asked which word of god? And started to name off various holy texts. Woman stares at me as if I'm the crazy one and slowly walks away.
Who gave us modern electricity? And was it a boy pigeon or a girl pigeon? Did they have kids? Were they formally married? Inquiring minds want to know.
Free will is very mysterious😂😂 you have free will, but you'll be punished if you wear mixed fabrics, but not if you buy and sell humans. Very mysterious indeed.
Correct. It was predicted by theory. Science didn't have to "refit" anything. In fact, if that particle had NOT been found, the theory would have been in deep do-do.
Hey everyone, I posted Matt D's bible rant from this video at Best 200 seconds of Bible ranting ever! There were audio and video problems in the live episode, but there I cleaned and enhanced the footage (sound from both speakers now!)
As soon as someone mentions The Matrix in any philosophical or scientific conversation, my solipsist alarm goes off and I start to see visions of brains in jars. Then I take the gun out of my mouth, release the hostages, and remind myself that people are silly.
One thing the fundamentalist theists need to understand is that in science, we throw out all preconceptions first, then we observe/analyse, and connect the dots. We don't go out looking for evidence and connect it to a god or not. Scientific method allows us to see something like gravity, without knowing anything about it, then observe it and it's effects, and follow the evidence to a logical conclusion. You can't just add a god on top of that because you want to.
A logical conclusion like dark matter, right? Galaxies don't move as we would expect so there must be something we can't see. It couldn't possibly be something wrong with our observations. It must be dark matter! I won't bother with dark energy, but it's the same thing. Conclusions before the evidence seems problematic in science as well.
@@jimlovesgina I don't understand how you can have a problem with assigning a name like "dark matter" to an observation that the orbital mechanics of galaxies is consistent with more mass than we have been able to detect by other means. It's not a "conclusion," it's just a convenient label for what, for now at least, is an interesting open question. Open questions are what drive science. Is this concept somehow foreign to you?
I think this guy has already made up his mind. He has a presupposed position and is trying to rationalize his beliefs based on that position. I think this caller is not interested in new ideas.
Isn't that the whole idea. Indoctrinate asap in early childhood: "God is good, this is true, and NEVER EVER doubt this, OR ELSE!" Someone who agrees to something being true and OK out of fear for eternal retribution of the most horrible kind, has little incentive to even consider an alternative, but rather a pretty strong motivation to stick to the existing story, no matter what. One will have to really risk eternal damnation (or, at least: feeling it this way; accepting it as a real possibility) for having the audacity of fully commiting to truth via intellectual honesty (instead of via Jahweh; one can't have both commitments at the same time. Think of it as a compass) in order to be really free to (potentially) get to the bottom, and out, of it. One can't even reason oneself out of this prison without consciously choosing to follow reason and accepting the consequences whatever they may be, so let alone BE reasoned out of it.
ray salmon did you even watch the video? Because you are so far off the point. First of all that comment was 4 years ago. Second of all can you prove that Jesus is the “truth”
ray salmon you didn’t answer my question. And I have no burden of proof. You asserted that Jesus is the truth. I want to to know how you came to that assertion.
This guy said something when talking about free will that is typical of theists when trying to justify many subjects regarding the bible when he said "it's a very mysterious subject" and he doesn't think we can "wrap our minds around that process". Because so much of it is counter-intuitive, so what really should be straight forward ends up forcing people into some bizarre feat of mental gymnastics to make it seem moral.
Good! That point aligns perfectly with the "ancient text" theme of this upload. Because stories about these alleged miracle events were told such a long time ago, it adds to the fog which enables the theist to more easily detach fantasy from reality. For example, imagine if a newly published book claimed that some guy in the middle east just waved his arms and made the Black Sea literally part in two. Undoubtedly, those same believers would suddenly apply skeptical thinking! Why aren't they applying that to the Biblical claims? -- the laws of physics haven't changed since then.
But it is so mysterious... uh nah. Free will is an illusion. It's a chain of infinite events as I see it. People find it hard to understand how thinking works. You make your own decisions, but quite like a computer, a calculation takes place (effected by: hormones, distractions, mental capacity, memory etc) and the out come takes place.
LeggoMyLamb A common example I was thinking of today related to this fog effect is necklaces with crosses. I think society in general is sort of detached from what the cross is. If Jesus died for the sins of all humanity 10 years ago, just imagine the number of people walking around with necklaces and bracelets decorated with electric chairs. All those crosses on churches and at car accident sites? Electric chairs.
I think that those who do mental gymnastics to justify the otherwise unjustifiable actually have a horrible character flaw. They are basically lying to themselves.
EarlMalmsteen Haha, it bears to mind that the religious token of Thor was the hammer-necklace (which later morphed more and more into the shape of a cross, used by the secretive heathen). The hammer is a weapon of war, which isn't contextually much different from wearing a torture/execution device either. But I guess there are quite a lot of people who wear necklaces with AK's or revolvers even today, though without any religious significance. Come to think of it, that's kind of how most people wear crosses too.
Wow! That's probably the calmest responses from Matt yet. I would recommend this video to all Christians as it would clear up their misconceptions as to what atheism, world view and scientific method mean quite concisely. Kudos to Jonathon for not trying to beat Matt over the head with dogma (never poke the bear) and to Matt for giving for allowing him the time to reason.
'We discovered the Higgs Boson Supposedly Particle, but we don't really understand it, therefore there's 'something on the outside looking in' and that's 'bible God' ...utter rubbish.
He WAS fundamentally dishonest though. A master at tap dancing and attempting to build a word salad. Whenever they begin by telling you what you believe from a strawman blueprint and end sentences with "...correct?" You get a solid hint they're working from an apologetics script trying to herd you through their silly maze of fallacious breadcrumbs. He did keep on sounding polite though.
One thing I noticed in this video that this Jonathan NEVER even considered, or would admit, that he himself might be in error. He just knew, or pretended to assume that obviously Mat was the one, who was wrong. Ha, ha.
One thing I have noticed about Atheist videos is that they leave the comments open for open debate. . There are soooo many creationist videos that attempt to challenge Atheists and Evolutionists that block comments and prevent open debate. Just sayin!
Almost none of the religious apologist videos allow comments, they know they can't stand up to any criticism at all....bunch of bigmouth cowards is what they are.
davids11131113 Exactly. They run a video with some ridiculous story. But close the comments to prevent it being challenged. Sadly, that is a real head in sand attitude. We, as humans, only learn by challenging. Thats how we know the earth "isnt" flat and that Thor doesnt make thunder.
The newest of the atheist experience vids on youtube have disabled the comment section. They do explain why and they have a tread open where you can discuss the video instead.
It is all they can do, as they are living a lie based on nonsense, they are for most part preaching to the choir anyway, exposing of falsehoods, lies or long debunked crap will often get you blocked. They don't like it and certainly don't want any one else to see or check it out. Just see how many became atheists by researching the evidence provided to them or by critical analysis of the bible. So like little children they want to appear to win (partly an ego problem based on lack of self identity) so they will change the rules as they simply declare they won and avoid thinking or rational discussion and logical thought. It is they only way to maintain belief against the reality.
I was cracking up so bad at this. Matt gives quite possibly the greatest Bible rant I'd ever heard, and then the guy STILL tries finding a way to get Matt to understand by making an absolutely horrible Walking Dead reference about Hershel and the barn. Spoiler: Hershel realizes he was wrong.
I thought that Matt was very patient with Jonathan. I could not understand Jonathan's question or point if that was what Jonathan was trying to make. Yet, Matt engaged him calmly for nearly one-half hour of what I thought was complete incoherence by the caller. Matt remained calm when the caller denied the Bible promoted slavery.
I have just listened to this clip again. One of Matt's many best. Matt trashed and eviscerated Jonathan. If this was current I'm pretty sure Matt would have to told him to just f.... k off, and deservedly so once it got to the slave and father topics. Matt you have no idea just how grateful I am to you for teaching me to use logic and reason. Thank you.
'slavery is inconsistent with who god is' not only did bible god tell them who to own and enslave (as well as how badly they could be beaten) he also dictates how much you should demand when you sell your own children into slavery
+GodsArePeopleToo Hey you.... ha ha!! Too true! What I've noticed in watching these types of videos and the videos of Kent Hovind and his son (and other young earth creationists etc) is that they use the same techniques in debating. They try to get someone to answer questions to follow a logical path. (or what they think is logical) But what I've noticed is that when asked a question, young earth creationists tend to not answer the question right away with a YES OR NO and try to side step the logic because they feel they may be led in to a path of logic. But I've noticed that Eric Hovind uses this same technique and many times the atheist, won't answer either yes or no either. Also Dillihunty is sometimes doesn't give a yes or no answer right away... Just an odd observation that both sides do the same thing... At any rate, this one was a good one by Dillihunty. It's hard to beat pure logic. The way he broke down the bible quickly in a timeline with quick logical explanations is pretty hard to deny :) I'd have to say this was his best use of logic and common sense so far that I've seen. Showing how the model used in the bible negates free will anyways, has no consistency and is actually absurd, is a great way to show the scientific method at work. YOU SAID "he also dictates how much you should demand when you sell your own children into slavery" The easiest way to believe the bible, is .... not to read the whole thing! :)
I think what he had in mind (but failled to realize) was that slavery seems inconsistent with the god that christians have popularized; a god of good and love. But again, their god always seems to have the same biases they do (i wonder why) and is often cruel and opressive and discriminatory... so, on second thought, it fits like a glove after all.
I'm amazed how calm Dillahunty stays throughout, and how he barely ever interjects to destroy things such as the blatant pascal's wager. Must have been tired that day.
It's amusing when the caller says that people look to the Bible for a rationalization about their world. That's surely not what he meant to say, but he accidentally spoke some big truth there.
Matt gives a overview of how the bible story is just absurd....Johnathan replies by saying Matt can understand it by watching 'The Walking Dead'......what?
davids11131113 Comic books turned TV series do often have better moral stories that the Bible does, but I think John was trying to say that God is right for encouraging people to lock up tings that may harm them, missing the point that biblical slavery had nothing to do with safety or judicial punishments.
Right, and even in his example, locking up some friends and relatives in the barn, it was just misguided. The guy thought maybe he could end up curing them but he couldn't....it was just pointless.
This was absolutely awesome! I wish he could of went further into "how do you know god's the good one and satan's the bad one?" I wish this show was longer! Great points!
I know 3 things 100% for sure. Thats about it. 1. I was born. 2. I live. 3. I will die at some point in time. And thats still 3 things more than jonathan will ever know
We needn't look to anything as complicated as quantum mechanics and field theory or even Standard Model physics to spot the gaps in the Buybull. If one looks through those bits which describe the nature of the world and its geography; there is not one mention of Antarctica, Japan, Australia, the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia, or the entire western hemisphere. Every mention of geography is consistent with what a Bronze Age inhabitant of the Mideast would know from their own travels, and the few travelers they would meet, with absolutely no hint of knowledge from anywhere else in the world. Zero. Not one word about more than half the globe much less any hint of recognition that the world is, in fact, a globe. (NOTE: It's actually an oblate spheroid rather than a true globe but what's a little physical distortion among friends?) If someone finds a genuine ancient text that talks about the "vast land west of the Western Sea that stretches from the snows of the north to the bitter seas of the south" then I might begin to consider there might be some information in the Moldy Book that would pass as science but, until then, I will continue to point and laugh at anyone who claims there's anything valid or reliable in the Buybull. In other words. The Buybull has been stood up to the test of truth since the time it was discovered and has utterly failed every meaningful test.
When the guy mentioned that scientists should look no further than the Bible to understand where particles, in this case, the Higgs Boson, came from, I really wish Matt said something along the lines of "Oh really? So what does the Bible tell us about fundamental particles? That they were created by God? Alright, what does that tell us/what can we learn/how does that further our understanding?" Explanations from the Bible have a bad habit of dead-ending like that.
Jonathan, despite being schooled every few minutes by Matt, moves from point to point with no sign of understanding or incorporating what he has just been told. Along the way, Jonathan exhibits a breathless and stunning demonstation of a theist who is completely impervious to reason.
We use the principles of Spherical Trigonometry rather than Plane Trigonometry for Maritime and Aircraft Navigation. The distance between points X and Y on the Earth is the length of the great-circle arc between them. This length can be expressed essentially as an angle through the convention that 1 nautical mile is 1 minute (1') of arc (i.e. 1/60 of one degree) along a great circle. For example, the distance from the North Pole to a point on the Equator is 1/4 of a great circle: 90o or 90x60=5400' which gives 5400 nautical miles. The radius of the Earth is built into the conversion factor between nautical miles and kilometers: 1 nautical mile = 1.852 km. The upshot is that calculating the distance between two points amounts to calculating the central angle they determine on the great circle that passes through both of them. This is where spherical trigonometry becomes useful.
New Argument: The Old Faithful (the geyser) Clock. If you were to build a clock that functioned on Old Faithful's eruptions, then your clock would be ever-so-slightly off with each eruption. Given time, your clock would be very wrong. Yet, the word says the geyser erupts faithfully. Therefore, the clock isn't wrong, then it follows Nature must be wrong. Moral: A concrete statement made on an observation that lacks credible and diligent consideration is an opinion and will necessarily be inaccurate - regardless of the amount of time it takes to become outright wrong. The gods end here.
As soon as the caller suggested god’s character was inconsistent with owning people, he got an excellent explanation for why god’s behavior is petty, childish, and vindictive.
I love the AE but some of these callers make me want to reach through the screen and beat them even more senseless. Kudos to Matt and the gang for all their patience. I'd explode at some of these people.
All you would have to do is find a verse like James 5: 13-17 claiming that when you are sick call the elders together and anoint you with oil and pray with the laying of hands and you will be healed..........well try that for a burst appendix verses going to the emergency room at the hospital..............end of story. If they got that so wrong what else did they get wrong...............in science you throw out or revise anything that doesn't result in a working model of consistency and predictability within reality until you find a model that works. I rest my case..............
In what area of study would an ancient book have more accurate information than a modern one? While it can be used to examine historical references, it has little modern value. Assuming we now know that women are equal, genocide is bad, slavery is immoral, etc.
Every time he says, "Cause or create" it irks the hell out of me. "Higgs Boson Supposed Particle" does as well. When people use such specific language, they're clearly working their way to a point that called in to make in the first place. This kind of discussion always comes across as dishonest. He should have just started with the question he wanted to ask or the point he wanted to make.
I have never heard an actual argument that truly focuses on why the God in the bible is real as opposed to atheism. It's always an argument about the possibility of a God. OK, yes, maybe, but considering that the notion itself was sparked by human's and their wonder of the world and not actual events or evidence, the debate is mute.
ur2c8 Thirty seconds. As you age it becomes more and more obvious how intelligent people speak and the tones they use. This guy is not very intelligent. But like the Russell quote, he is damn sure he is right despite having no foundation or facts for any of his beliefs.
"the bible has withstood the test of time"
Obviously, he hasn't read the Bible. It has NOT withstood the test of time. Bats are not birds. Rabbits don't chew cud. Sheep do not inherit their coloring by mating in front of striped sticks. Donkeys and snakes do not talk. Killing children for hitting their parents is not morally right. Owning another person is not morally acceptable. And the list goes on for miles.
More important than the Bible is Bible scholarship (e.g. textual analysis).
While the contradictions in the Bible are damning enough for a document supposedly written by an omnipotent being, the origins of the Bible are generally a more compelling reason to reject Christianity.
Paul T Sjordal What contradictions? Care to point them out? How many biblical commentaries have you read for a fair and accurate biblical exegesis?
Paul T Sjordal I would disagree from the standpoint that each person rejects it for what THEY find untenable. It MAY be this or that. For me, it was the flood account. There was no way the earth was totally covered with water. No way all animals could fit into a boat that size and survive in total darkness for a year. etc.
I would claim that the origins of the Bible would not be knowledge easily accessible to a Christian or even one already doubting. They can easily believe men wrote it and even made mistakes or they crept in over time due to our fallen nature. :) I think contradictions and story silliness are good starting points for doubt. Trying to get a Christian to understand the multi-document theory of the OT... not so much, I think.
Noah837 How many apologists does it take to explain away a light bulb?
That every living animal (1 and 7 pair) were in a boat for a year without any light or adequate ventilation in quarters so cramped as to not be able to run or walk, is a contradiction of common sense. No apologist can explain that away.
Noah837 Too many thousands to list them all here. Google "skeptic's annotated Bible".
By the way, if you do go to that web site, it's also a great resource for you, as they also have a "skeptic's annotated Quran" and a "skeptic's annotated Book of Mormon".
The most obvious one is that the Genesis account lists the order of creation two different ways in two different places. So was the Bible wrong when it said that man was made before animals, or was it wrong when it said man was made after animals? You can't have it both ways no matter how much spinning you try to do.
Matt: answers a question
Jonathan: moves goalposts another mile back
Step 1: Bring up the topic of slavery in the Bible.
Step 2: Watch 'em tap dance; musical accompaniment is optional.
But muh context tho!!!
You’re now listening to In The Mood by Glenn Miller!
I remember being 10 years old, sitting in church and thinking....." this is a bunch of bullshit" 🙂
I remember being 7 years old seeing people pray and wondering, who the heck are they talking to. Praying people were crazy people to me then, actually praying people are still crazy people to me. LOL.
It’s pretty sad that a 10 and seven-year-old can figure out that there’s something wrong with this but full grown adults. Well there Batshit crazy
I had OCD about my nightly prayers. What if I forgot to ask god to bless someone and they died? I'd be responsible. Then, one night as I was praying, I had an epiphany: What if no one is listening to this? I later learned that this was the normal development of the capacity for abstract reasoning in the 12-year-old human being. Some people never develop it.
The devil made you his biatch at an early age
@@kosys5338the advent of bluetooth headphones is masking all the crazy people that walk around talking to themselves.
I love how this guy keeps trying to "explain" the bible to Matt by bringing up popular movies and tv-shows, as if he's talking to a teenager. And everytime he does it, there's that condescending little chuckle. Kudos to Matt for staying calm, polite and respectful.
15 years later, and we hear the same exact conversations
You can tell by the way he repeats Matt's final question about determining that God is the good one and Satan is the bad one, that he's never considered that question before. Never even occurred to him. Hopefully he went away and actually considered the question.
My right ear enjoyed the argument.
ilikebiskits deaf in your right ear?
I thot I earphone went deaf
Fuck both of your ears.
GeuwgleSuxBallz intelligent point
Matt sure gave that guy an earful
Matt was devastating here. He has it all at his fingertips and the theist is like a dazed bunny in the headlights.
Devastating? Common sense is always devastating to irrational positions.
@@crypastesomemore8348yes Christians have no common sense and the caller is the typical Christian
This is the most vague, indirect-speaking person I have ever seen. He spent about 50 words for every single one that was required to construct a simple question. I couldn't understand what he was trying to say most of the time because he was doing these figure eights around the points he really wanted to make.
Pretty sure Jonathan was just a bored atheist trolling, the part I laughed at most was when he brought up the 'Higgs Boson Supposedly Particle', then said the hosts probably never heard of it and then went on to say science is baffled by it....they're trying to apply it to a scientific model but are stumped. It's funny to me imagining all the scientists in lab coats all standing around scratching their heads going 'Wait, WHAT the fuck??' :D
You must not have seen many AE call ins!!
Jonathan always want to leave a back door to wriggle out of.
"It always cracks me up when Christians say things like "why don't you study the Bible more indepthly?"
I always answer, that it's the same thing with heroine, which I don't have to take to know that it's bad.
for a book written by a superbeing - the bible takes a lots of "contextualising" and studying to "understand it properly"
If Christians actually read their Bible indepthly there would be WAY less Christians
Heroin is bad for you not because of how pure it is, but it gives you a reward in your brain you didn't really earn. A very high potential for dependency, a lot like religion actually.
that's pretty much my stance on Justin Bleeper
MrLogo73 Besides, if I don't ascribe to that religion why would I bother wasting hours on end closely studying the text?
When someone comes at me with that kind of argument one of my go-tos is to ask them why they don't take the time to study the Koran/Torah/the Eddas/etc.
6:20 until Jonathan actually starts his argument.
It never fails to amaze me how many callers, intelligent or not, go into the discussion trying to bait or trick the host into saying something, while hiding their true intent. If you have an argument, state it, attempt to back it up, and then discuss. I can imagine that Matt would pay good money to have a "fast-forward caller" button.
Yep -- every theistic argument requires some kind of smoke screen, misdirection, invalid premise, or faulty connecting of dots. You know it's coming...just a matter of time. I remember a recent sequence with Russel Glasser where, in his polite manner, gently interrupted a rambling caller to summarize their First Cause argument BETTER than the called would have been able to do it! I'll try to find and put up that short segment.
In the meantime, the other AE video I posted shows a great example of the misdirection technique:
From Atheist Experience #841: All you need is LOVE (aka God)
They did introduce a format in later years that gave callers an allocated time of 60 seconds to ask their question, it was a good way to filter down some of the lead up chat that usually takes up time. Not sure if they still follow that format or not nowadays, the crew has had some big lineup changes in the last few years
9:21 "The Higgs Boson supposedly particle or whatever". Matt went easy on this dude.
The bible only served to supplement my atheism towards the Christian God.
The christain god is just as fictional as the rest
good man
Listening to Matt Dillahunty speak is always such a logical treat for my brain
Matt is the most logical man on the planet. In five years of watching him I've never seen anybody get one up on him.
man.... the bible does not even know what an atom, electricity, calories vitamins, red cells are, and people still want to bring it above science.
If God had put the equation for the electro-magnetic force constant, or the answer to the unified field theorem in the Bible, there would be no doubting it's divine origin.
If there is a God, he's a twat.
jay jayjay hahahaha
jay jayjay On what basis?
Jay jayjay was just a butthurt troll obviously xd he delete his comment
The bible isn't talking about those things and I'm sure science textbooks in the future will have more information than the science books today. Also, people are not necessarily putting the bible above science as if it's against science. There are many Christian scientists...
Matt's rant at the end has to be one of his best. Just amazing.
..."I personally haven't looked into those scriptures"...tale as old as time...song as old as rhyme...
And then he tries to justify the passages he admits he “hasn’t looked into”.
The fact that the guy still tried to make excuses after Matt's tirade is absolutely ridiculous.
He has a loose collection of thoughts that he hasn't really mapped out well. There are so many people who have a thought, and believe it to be true simply because 'they' had it. Its very difficult to discuss things with people who have already decided they're always right and think they're much smarter than they actually are.
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This is what I got from the first couple of minutes into his part of the dialogue. He offers ideas like "So you use the scientific method to determine if something is rational or irrational."
It must be tough to have to handle these concepts while making a determined effort not to think too carefully about them, in case some dangerous heresy rubs off. The only way to be safe is to treat them as cryptic symbols defined in terms of other cryptic symbols.
But interestingly, one can do that. All formal axiomatic systems do it, and very usefully too, because they are both internally coherent and also produce a wealth of nontrivial results.
Science uses mathematics and logic all the time. But science isn't principally interested in the power of concepts for their own sake. It's interested in the reality which appears to exist all around us, and indeed within us. So science, utterly unlike math or logic, must be grounded in evidence.
I think that distinctions of this kind may be lost on many people. We've failed somehow to include the basics of epistemology in mainstream education. It's such a basic subject! It touches everything.
I feel for this caller somewhat in the way I would feel for any random person. Say that an innocent space alien comes to this planet and begins to ask some random person on the street about, I don't know, the basics of medicine, or power generation, or how jet turbines work, or economic theory, or why there are so many different breakfast cereals on store shelves in the US but hardly any in Europe.
The poor guy in the street has to say, dude, I have no idea about this stuff. It's not part of my daily life. Nobody told me that I should know any of this.
And the poor alien is like, but who can I ask? How can you not at least be curious? I don't mean PRETENDING to be curious, but genuinely curious, ready to revise your understanding?
So I kinda feel sorry for the alien too, getting such a bad impression of humans when in fact we have so much potential.
Matt took the caller (and the audience) to school hard core. Learned a bunch from this, impeccable logic Matt :)
That was a fantastic video!! You handled the caller in a respectful, calm and collected manner, and answered all of his questions with logic, facts and common sense.
Plus, the called seems to accept the fact that he may be wrong and maybe even try to inform and think more about his belief.
I agree, that was a pretty good one.
totally agree, i believe this is due to the caller being considerate and allowing them to fully explain themselves
One of my favourites! A theist listening an argument, not taking any time to understand what actually was said, and picking a keyword to make a fallacious reply.
this is matt dillahunty at his best. not getting too angry, not hanging up on the caller, calmly making his arguments. wish he was always like this
i do like every matt. he hangs up on the stupid, ignorant and overtalking. rightfully so.
If this is the best you got theists then please just stop already.
Oh no, it gets worse.
It is logically absurd. Matt hit the nail on the head. It's ludicrous.
I looked up "elementary particles" in the Bible and didn't find any references.
You dont have the right context... I've spent 20 minutes trying to find a verse that I could use and pretend to be a apologist but I dont want my IQ to decrease.
You don`t say, what about air-planes and other technology, sure there must be some "user manual" how to drive a car, or something ...............................
@@ralfhaggstrom9862 wasn't there an apologist who compared the bible and a car manual
@@lisahenry20 Yep, hilarious .............
This break down of the Bible is by far, the most underrated monologue in history
One of Matt's best rants ever in the last ten minutes.
I think the caller is wrestling with his religion. Hopefully he makes the right call.
I find that most of these conversations on the Atheist Experience mirror a similar experience we can all relate to. have you ever been on a bus or a train and struck up a conversation with a stranger... nice polite conversation to start with then they say something weird or inappropriate... its only then that you glance down and see that this person is wearing a full business suit but is wearing flip-flops and they have a barbie doll peeping out of their inside pocket. ... you realise you have just had a conversation with a full blown pidgeon licker
Love it!
Woman walks in and engages me in conversation, eventually turning somehow to god. She says she believes in the Word of God. I asked which word of god? And started to name off various holy texts. Woman stares at me as if I'm the crazy one and slowly walks away.
"full blown pigeon licker" I've got to steal that!
Hey, the man who gave us modern electricity was in love with a pigeon!!!
Andy Rains: yeah, she probably spotted your Barbie. Just kidding. You were lucky she walked away.
Who gave us modern electricity? And was it a boy pigeon or a girl pigeon? Did they have kids? Were they formally married? Inquiring minds want to know.
Free will is very mysterious😂😂 you have free will, but you'll be punished if you wear mixed fabrics, but not if you buy and sell humans. Very mysterious indeed.
The Higgs Boson particle was predicted, and that prediction came true. It's a miracle from God! lol
Please refer to it by its proper title which according to this geezer is, "The Higgs Boson, supposed particle or whatnot".
Correct. It was predicted by theory. Science didn't have to "refit" anything. In fact, if that particle had NOT been found, the theory would have been in deep do-do.
I think he thinks, bc we called it the "god" particle, that there is something to this...lmao!
That’s true, it’s proper technical name is ‘The Higgs Boson Supposedly Whatnot Particle’
Hey everyone, I posted Matt D's bible rant from this video at
Best 200 seconds of Bible ranting ever!
There were audio and video problems in the live episode, but there I cleaned and enhanced the footage (sound from both speakers now!)
Starting about 24:40 in I believe is what he means.
Good job my man.
As soon as someone mentions The Matrix in any philosophical or scientific conversation, my solipsist alarm goes off and I start to see visions of brains in jars. Then I take the gun out of my mouth, release the hostages, and remind myself that people are silly.
And the walking dead
That's bc you're not too bright.
Jonathan doesn't know what goes on in the bible, yet he special pleads his god
One thing the fundamentalist theists need to understand is that in science, we throw out all preconceptions first, then we observe/analyse, and connect the dots. We don't go out looking for evidence and connect it to a god or not. Scientific method allows us to see something like gravity, without knowing anything about it, then observe it and it's effects, and follow the evidence to a logical conclusion. You can't just add a god on top of that because you want to.
A logical conclusion like dark matter, right? Galaxies don't move as we would expect so there must be something we can't see. It couldn't possibly be something wrong with our observations. It must be dark matter! I won't bother with dark energy, but it's the same thing. Conclusions before the evidence seems problematic in science as well.
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I don't understand how you can have a problem with assigning a name like "dark matter" to an observation that the orbital mechanics of galaxies is consistent with more mass than we have been able to detect by other means.
It's not a "conclusion," it's just a convenient label for what, for now at least, is an interesting open question.
Open questions are what drive science. Is this concept somehow foreign to you?
"But that doesn't sound like the god found in scripture! ... the scripture I haven't actually read."
"I haven't looked at those scriptures.. but I definitely know what they say and exactly what they mean!"
27:30 - Matt goes thru the *entire* comedy of errors from beginning to end.
Caller: "To help you understand..." 😵
"To help you undestand"
Then that god failed once again. Add that to the long, long list of failures.
I think this guy has already made up his mind. He has a presupposed position and is trying to rationalize his beliefs based on that position. I think this caller is not interested in new ideas.
People are more interested in what they think is more beneficial to them. We need to somehow make them see why being skeptical is good for them.
Isn't that the whole idea. Indoctrinate asap in early childhood: "God is good, this is true, and NEVER EVER doubt this, OR ELSE!" Someone who agrees to something being true and OK out of fear for eternal retribution of the most horrible kind, has little incentive to even consider an alternative, but rather a pretty strong motivation to stick to the existing story, no matter what. One will have to really risk eternal damnation (or, at least: feeling it this way; accepting it as a real possibility) for having the audacity of fully commiting to truth via intellectual honesty (instead of via Jahweh; one can't have both commitments at the same time. Think of it as a compass) in order to be really free to (potentially) get to the bottom, and out, of it.
One can't even reason oneself out of this prison without consciously choosing to follow reason and accepting the consequences whatever they may be, so let alone BE reasoned out of it.
Theists always do that.
Matt bottled up till the last 5 minutes, then he unloads complete Bible destruction.
+adam2aces" It's a good thing."
Wow, that was the best summary of the bible I've ever heard
when you break free from religion; you set your mind free. Everything becomes real.
Depends
If you ignore Jesus
You won't know the truth
ray salmon did you even watch the video? Because you are so far off the point. First of all that comment was 4 years ago. Second of all can you prove that Jesus is the “truth”
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On what basis are you seeking the truth
ray salmon you didn’t answer my question. And I have no burden of proof. You asserted that Jesus is the truth. I want to to know how you came to that assertion.
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No it is not an assertion
Jesus fulfilled all of the some 300+ messianic prophesies
that can't be done by liars
27:44 Talk about walking dead. When you get peppered with logic bullets and still drudge on without a light bulb moment you must be walking dead
he can be "walking dead" as much as he wants for what I care ... but does he have to be "talking dead", as well?
This guy said something when talking about free will that is typical of theists when trying to justify many subjects regarding the bible when he said "it's a very mysterious subject" and he doesn't think we can "wrap our minds around that process". Because so much of it is counter-intuitive, so what really should be straight forward ends up forcing people into some bizarre feat of mental gymnastics to make it seem moral.
Good! That point aligns perfectly with the "ancient text" theme of this upload. Because stories about these alleged miracle events were told such a long time ago, it adds to the fog which enables the theist to more easily detach fantasy from reality.
For example, imagine if a newly published book claimed that some guy in the middle east just waved his arms and made the Black Sea literally part in two. Undoubtedly, those same believers would suddenly apply skeptical thinking! Why aren't they applying that to the Biblical claims? -- the laws of physics haven't changed since then.
But it is so mysterious... uh nah.
Free will is an illusion. It's a chain of infinite events as I see it. People find it hard to understand how thinking works. You make your own decisions, but quite like a computer, a calculation takes place (effected by: hormones, distractions, mental capacity, memory etc) and the out come takes place.
LeggoMyLamb
A common example I was thinking of today related to this fog effect is necklaces with crosses. I think society in general is sort of detached from what the cross is. If Jesus died for the sins of all humanity 10 years ago, just imagine the number of people walking around with necklaces and bracelets decorated with electric chairs. All those crosses on churches and at car accident sites? Electric chairs.
I think that those who do mental gymnastics to justify the otherwise unjustifiable actually have a horrible character flaw. They are basically lying to themselves.
EarlMalmsteen Haha, it bears to mind that the religious token of Thor was the hammer-necklace (which later morphed more and more into the shape of a cross, used by the secretive heathen). The hammer is a weapon of war, which isn't contextually much different from wearing a torture/execution device either. But I guess there are quite a lot of people who wear necklaces with AK's or revolvers even today, though without any religious significance. Come to think of it, that's kind of how most people wear crosses too.
Wow! That's probably the calmest responses from Matt yet. I would recommend this video to all Christians as it would clear up their misconceptions as to what atheism, world view and scientific method mean quite concisely. Kudos to Jonathon for not trying to beat Matt over the head with dogma (never poke the bear) and to Matt for giving for allowing him the time to reason.
Best walk through of Bible history ever! Absolutely love Matt's rant from Adam and Eve to Christ.
This was awesome, especially towards then end when Matt got tired of answering stupid questions and just took over.
What a nice guy. This turned out to be a good conversation.
'We discovered the Higgs Boson Supposedly Particle, but we don't really understand it, therefore there's 'something on the outside looking in' and that's 'bible God' ...utter rubbish.
OK this guy was not that bad. He tried, he's not right but at least he was not rude or angry ?
At least he didnt come to the show and murder the host. So he's not that bad.
plekkchand I didn't mind him. At least it was a discussion and not some moron saying I believe and I'm right
He WAS fundamentally dishonest though. A master at tap dancing and attempting to build a word salad.
Whenever they begin by telling you what you believe from a strawman blueprint and end sentences with "...correct?" You get a solid hint they're working from an apologetics script trying to herd you through their silly maze of fallacious breadcrumbs.
He did keep on sounding polite though.
I was impressed with his ability to brush off Matt's rant about the absurdness of the OT and jesus so quickly. This obviously wasn't his first rodeo.
The caller was hardwired as a child to believe blindly in a book he clearly STILL HAS NOT READ.
It's actually more entertaining watching Matt's expressions change while Johnathan builds his next attack!
One thing I noticed in this video that this Jonathan NEVER even considered, or would admit, that he himself might be in error. He just knew, or pretended to assume that obviously Mat was the one, who was wrong. Ha, ha.
Ivar Lavins Reminded me of listening to Breitbart hosts and callers.
One thing I have noticed about Atheist videos is that they leave the comments open for open debate. . There are soooo many creationist videos that attempt to challenge Atheists and Evolutionists that block comments and prevent open debate. Just sayin!
Almost none of the religious apologist videos allow comments, they know they can't stand up to any criticism at all....bunch of bigmouth cowards is what they are.
davids11131113 Exactly. They run a video with some ridiculous story. But close the comments to prevent it being challenged. Sadly, that is a real head in sand attitude. We, as humans, only learn by challenging. Thats how we know the earth "isnt" flat and that Thor doesnt make thunder.
The newest of the atheist experience vids on youtube have disabled the comment section. They do explain why and they have a tread open where you can discuss the video instead.
It is all they can do, as they are living a lie based on nonsense, they are for most part preaching to the choir anyway, exposing of falsehoods, lies or long debunked crap will often get you blocked. They don't like it and certainly don't want any one else to see or check it out. Just see how many became atheists by researching the evidence provided to them or by critical analysis of the bible. So like little children they want to appear to win (partly an ego problem based on lack of self identity) so they will change the rules as they simply declare they won and avoid thinking or rational discussion and logical thought. It is they only way to maintain belief against the reality.
Jack Sluyters Show me some evidence to stop me being an atheist. Show me some evidence that jesus existed and turn me into a believer
Matt you are right there is no god, but you still have the patience of Job ;}
I love it everytime when Matt gives a timeline of the scripture. He's the fucking 🐐!!!!!
I was cracking up so bad at this. Matt gives quite possibly the greatest Bible rant I'd ever heard, and then the guy STILL tries finding a way to get Matt to understand by making an absolutely horrible Walking Dead reference about Hershel and the barn. Spoiler: Hershel realizes he was wrong.
I thought that Matt was very patient with Jonathan. I could not understand Jonathan's question or point if that was what Jonathan was trying to make. Yet, Matt engaged him calmly for nearly one-half hour of what I thought was complete incoherence by the caller. Matt remained calm when the caller denied the Bible promoted slavery.
The "god particle" was just called that to mock the creation concept
I like how they just put the credits up when they want Matt to stop talking.
I have just listened to this clip again. One of Matt's many best. Matt trashed and eviscerated Jonathan. If this was current I'm pretty sure Matt would have to told him to just f.... k off, and deservedly so once it got to the slave and father topics. Matt you have no idea just how grateful I am to you for teaching me to use logic and reason. Thank you.
"You will have a new life, in Christ."
In Christ??? Do we become gut bacteria? Do I really want to spend eternity inside of someone?
...and here is the entire Jonathan call re-posted with audio enhancement:
From AE # 835: call with Jonathan - AUDIO ENHANCED
***** LOL... Hathaway must have deleted his idiotic comment.
'slavery is inconsistent with who god is'
not only did bible god tell them who to own and enslave (as well as how badly they could be beaten) he also dictates how much you should demand when you sell your own children into slavery
+GodsArePeopleToo Hey you.... ha ha!! Too true! What I've noticed in watching these types of videos and the videos of Kent Hovind and his son (and other young earth creationists etc) is that they use the same techniques in debating.
They try to get someone to answer questions to follow a logical path. (or what they think is logical)
But what I've noticed is that when asked a question, young earth creationists tend to not answer the question right away with a YES OR NO and try to side step the logic because they feel they may be led in to a path of logic.
But I've noticed that Eric Hovind uses this same technique and many times the atheist, won't answer either yes or no either. Also Dillihunty is sometimes doesn't give a yes or no answer right away...
Just an odd observation that both sides do the same thing...
At any rate, this one was a good one by Dillihunty. It's hard to beat pure logic. The way he broke down the bible quickly in a timeline with quick logical explanations is pretty hard to deny :)
I'd have to say this was his best use of logic and common sense so far that I've seen.
Showing how the model used in the bible negates free will anyways, has no consistency and is actually absurd, is a great way to show the scientific method at work.
YOU SAID "he also dictates how much you should demand when you sell your own children into slavery"
The easiest way to believe the bible, is .... not to read the whole thing! :)
+Robert C. Christian Yeah, because they tend to follow a script.
Duane Locsin I've been watching a bit about the Scientologists lately... they seem to have the same script, it's just about Xenu instead of god...
I think what he had in mind (but failled to realize) was that slavery seems inconsistent with the god that christians have popularized; a god of good and love. But again, their god always seems to have the same biases they do (i wonder why) and is often cruel and opressive and discriminatory... so, on second thought, it fits like a glove after all.
Do you know what is true slavery, that you are in when you are away from Christ.
I'm amazed how calm Dillahunty stays throughout, and how he barely ever interjects to destroy things such as the blatant pascal's wager. Must have been tired that day.
It's amusing when the caller says that people look to the Bible for a rationalization about their world. That's surely not what he meant to say, but he accidentally spoke some big truth there.
Freewill is the excuse christians give to justify that god has no fault for all the wrongs he's done.
I love where he says, "this guy can't do anything right..."
Change is good. If something was wrong, I want to be able to amend it to make it better, not to bend over backwards what I know to fit a narrative.
Props to the respectful caller though.
Matt gives a overview of how the bible story is just absurd....Johnathan replies by saying Matt can understand it by watching 'The Walking Dead'......what?
davids11131113 Comic books turned TV series do often have better moral stories that the Bible does, but I think John was trying to say that God is right for encouraging people to lock up tings that may harm them, missing the point that biblical slavery had nothing to do with safety or judicial punishments.
Right, and even in his example, locking up some friends and relatives in the barn, it was just misguided. The guy thought maybe he could end up curing them but he couldn't....it was just pointless.
Walking Dead as model for the Hebrew martyrs all rising from the grave to chill with their family for a day?
This was absolutely awesome! I wish he could of went further into "how do you know god's the good one and satan's the bad one?" I wish this show was longer! Great points!
I enjoyed that there was a civil conversation. I came away with a little something from the caller and Matt. Well done.
I know 3 things 100% for sure.
Thats about it.
1. I was born.
2. I live.
3. I will die at some point in time.
And thats still 3 things more than jonathan will ever know
A full dose of Dillahunty.
My new bands name.
nice
Double Dose of Dillahunty?
We needn't look to anything as complicated as quantum mechanics and field theory or even Standard Model physics to spot the gaps in the Buybull. If one looks through those bits which describe the nature of the world and its geography; there is not one mention of Antarctica, Japan, Australia, the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia, or the entire western hemisphere. Every mention of geography is consistent with what a Bronze Age inhabitant of the Mideast would know from their own travels, and the few travelers they would meet, with absolutely no hint of knowledge from anywhere else in the world. Zero. Not one word about more than half the globe much less any hint of recognition that the world is, in fact, a globe. (NOTE: It's actually an oblate spheroid rather than a true globe but what's a little physical distortion among friends?)
If someone finds a genuine ancient text that talks about the "vast land west of the Western Sea that stretches from the snows of the north to the bitter seas of the south" then I might begin to consider there might be some information in the Moldy Book that would pass as science but, until then, I will continue to point and laugh at anyone who claims there's anything valid or reliable in the Buybull. In other words. The Buybull has been stood up to the test of truth since the time it was discovered and has utterly failed every meaningful test.
When the guy mentioned that scientists should look no further than the Bible to understand where particles, in this case, the Higgs Boson, came from, I really wish Matt said something along the lines of "Oh really? So what does the Bible tell us about fundamental particles? That they were created by God? Alright, what does that tell us/what can we learn/how does that further our understanding?" Explanations from the Bible have a bad habit of dead-ending like that.
Jonathan, despite being schooled every few minutes by Matt, moves from point to point with no sign of understanding or incorporating what he has just been told. Along the way, Jonathan exhibits a breathless and stunning demonstation of a theist who is completely impervious to reason.
We use the principles of Spherical Trigonometry rather than Plane Trigonometry for Maritime and Aircraft Navigation.
The distance between points X and Y on the Earth is the length of the great-circle arc between them. This length can be expressed essentially as an angle through the convention that 1 nautical mile is 1 minute (1') of arc (i.e. 1/60 of one degree) along a great circle.
For example, the distance from the North Pole to a point on the Equator is 1/4 of a great circle: 90o or 90x60=5400' which gives 5400 nautical miles. The radius of the Earth is built into the conversion factor between nautical miles and kilometers: 1 nautical mile = 1.852 km.
The upshot is that calculating the distance between two points amounts to calculating the central angle they determine on the great circle that passes through both of them. This is where spherical trigonometry becomes useful.
the MATT , one man atheist factory
New Argument: The Old Faithful (the geyser) Clock.
If you were to build a clock that functioned on Old Faithful's eruptions, then your clock would be ever-so-slightly off with each eruption. Given time, your clock would be very wrong. Yet, the word says the geyser erupts faithfully. Therefore, the clock isn't wrong, then it follows Nature must be wrong.
Moral: A concrete statement made on an observation that lacks credible and diligent consideration is an opinion and will necessarily be inaccurate - regardless of the amount of time it takes to become outright wrong. The gods end here.
May just be me, but the caller's background ambiance was very distracting.
Sometime you notice that they do not listen and only want to get their idea across. He at least listens.
As soon as the caller suggested god’s character was inconsistent with owning people, he got an excellent explanation for why god’s behavior is petty, childish, and vindictive.
I love the AE but some of these callers make me want to reach through the screen and beat them even more senseless. Kudos to Matt and the gang for all their patience. I'd explode at some of these people.
My left ear is jealous
All you would have to do is find a verse like James 5: 13-17 claiming that when you are sick call the elders together and anoint you with oil and pray with the laying of hands and you will be healed..........well try that for a burst appendix verses going to the emergency room at the hospital..............end of story.
If they got that so wrong what else did they get wrong...............in science you throw out or revise anything that doesn't result in a working model of consistency and predictability within reality until you find a model that works.
I rest my case..............
In what area of study would an ancient book have more accurate information than a modern one? While it can be used to examine historical references, it has little modern value. Assuming we now know that women are equal, genocide is bad, slavery is immoral, etc.
The Xtian is so flustered he reaches for an example from The Walking Dead?
seriously wtf is this guy's point?
Science is unreliable? The Bible is just as reliable as the scientific method? The Bible is more reliable than the scientific method?
He just wanted to be on TV apparently.
Interesting call. The caller seemed to have nothing at all to say. Just sort of some basic pro God platitudes.
Every time he says, "Cause or create" it irks the hell out of me. "Higgs Boson Supposed Particle" does as well. When people use such specific language, they're clearly working their way to a point that called in to make in the first place. This kind of discussion always comes across as dishonest.
He should have just started with the question he wanted to ask or the point he wanted to make.
Ancient texts stood the test of time because billions of people are credulous.
this man's knowledge of physics is amazing
I have never heard an actual argument that truly focuses on why the God in the bible is real as opposed to atheism. It's always an argument about the possibility of a God. OK, yes, maybe, but considering that the notion itself was sparked by human's and their wonder of the world and not actual events or evidence, the debate is mute.
How long did it take you to realise that the caller was never going to get to the point and was incapable of making a coherent argument?
ur2c8 Thirty seconds. As you age it becomes more and more obvious how intelligent people speak and the tones they use. This guy is not very intelligent. But like the Russell quote, he is damn sure he is right despite having no foundation or facts for any of his beliefs.
To put it bluntly, is it not better to know nothing than to think you know things that are not true?
The bible....the best tap dancing instruction available ever...
"you ever seen the walking dead"..... LMAO