HOLY SHIT.. I almost lost my mind @ 5:30 .. "why is the boiling point always at 100c".. Congratulations on your patience and respect in responding these ridiculous claims..
I've had someone make that argument for me before, and it left me speechless for a moment because I was trying to wrap my head around why someone would even think that. Of course once I found out that they were serious, I had to point out that water doesn't always boil at 100c, it depends on altitude and other factors.
Big Woke, Lord of the Order If that was the case (which is not) it still makes no sense. Even if the sea water was not salt it would still be bad for us humans. Nobody would be able to use that water due to, contamination, sea transport, microorganisms, oil leakage etc. Besides that even water from the lakes and rivers isnt safe to drink. Just because im calling you names doesnt mean that im losing the argument, thats a non sequitur fallacy.
Big Woke, Lord of the Order Wrong. And thats still not enough, water from lakes and rivers is not safe, people first need to filtrate and use other techniques in order for water to be safe to drink, like they did in ancient Rome and other places. You cant just go and drink the water from a nearest lake. Pathogens transmitted by contaminated water were a really serious risk for the ancient people, thats why they used to have wells, aqueducts for transport, etc. Both the thot and the theists are wrong.
Does this mean I have to watch his videos to decide? (Ugh!) Actually, if he has common arguments that atheists hear then, yes. If he's asking ridiculous nonsense then, no. Reasonable?
Don't get bogged down with debunking religious nonsense. Your videos on anxiety, gravity, lying, and labels are excellent. I would like to see more of a diversity of topics covering science, religion, and philosophy.
Nah, it is because we are moving towards sun and doing atheist stuff like having fun in the sun. Or maybe on the sun? Is it still cool to claim that Earth is flat?. Gosh, I should start cult or something!
No, life is auto-tuned for the Earth and there are indications of millions of planets in the observable Universe that have similar conditions to those on Earth.
Yes hurricanes, volcanoes, cave bears, stds, earthquakes, ect were all put on earth by a god who put them here on purpose....for our.....survival? And being all powerful and precise made the tree and snake thus inventing sin himself, ghost raped a human which birthed a human form of himself, even though he made us in him image he couldn’t come himself, being all powerful you know. Then killing himself, only to come back and forgive everyone of the sin he created in the first plan? He sounds like a bad creator to me.
The earth goes from 91 million miles to 94.5 million miles away form the Sun through it's yearly orbit. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 3.5 million miles is a bit more than an inch.
I subscribed because I have not seen such a well structured and reasonable breakdown of religion in a long time. Great videos, seriously, they're not dry enough to bore me out of my mind and the face to face interaction (as opposed to just a voice in the video with pictures) really helps keep it feeling like an interesting and personal exchange of ideas instead of a boring lecture. Also, I really like how you refrain from any personal attacks on the people you reply to. Unfortunately, that is a really rare occurrence in the atheist community, especially online, so it's nice to see somebody doing something different. I wish you luck in gaining more subscribers.
On the other hand, the proper response to knuckleheadedness is equivalent (or more) knuckleheadedness. John and Bruce written in the sand, instead of John and Mary. The boiling point of sulfur and brimstone. But yeah the whole sea level thing is clearly magic, because duh. Give me a real thinker on the nature of the Divine, who's not full of treacly platitudes in response to grotesque evils that befall perfectly innocent children, and instead really considers, unflinchingly, what sort of god is behind this unholy business. Alternatively, there's a kind of faith, ironically enough, in the power of reason to illuminate fundamental truth. Is it possible that for all the preponderance of evidence and the confirmation of mathematical laws by experiment and data, that we still don't KNOW what gravity is? Yes we can describe its behavior and its effects on spacetime, and corroborate our calculations blah blah blah but what IS it, beyond a fundamental force - one of the four fundamental forces? How can we know anything at all, unless we have an abundance of faith in the power of reason?
my favourite counter-argument to the teleological argument: God? You mean that guy that could have made unicorns a reality but was like "Nah, Malaria!"?
Malaria is good but you don't understand because God knows better. Otherwise it is made by Satan. But why does God let Satan do these things that look terrible? Because he wants to take people in Heaven sooner. What's the quickest way to take people to Heaven or to Hell? Malaria, decapitation, falling into a waste grinding machine, drowning, cancer, ... but you don't get it because you are humans so stop asking "why".
inox1ck But diseases like malaria and cancer don’t just kill you instantly... they cause a LOT of pan and suffering. Why would your God give people malaria or Cancer to kill them instead of just giving them a quick painless death? Why don’t you go tell the millions of kids in Africa dying of malaria that Gods only doing it so they can go to heaven? When he could obviously do it without torturing them and their families. And you might say, God gives sinful people these diseases to punish them or something like that, so why don’t you go and pay a visit to the millions of children dying of Cancer and tell them that they are suffering because they have sinned and the being who supposedly loves them gave them Cancer as a punishment. Do you even think about your reasoning before you comment?
"The universe is finely tuned." Says the man standing in front of the human uninhabitable oceans that cover >70% of this planet and a dangerous to drink. Finely tuned indeed.
Well, before the flood the Earth was different. Obviously you don't believe in The Bible but it also says that the man was perfect but he sinned and lost his perfection. It led to inherited disease and death. There was a cover of water above the Earth before the flood and it fell. It's possible that much of that water is still here. Anyway these are just assumptions and can't be taught as an absolute truth. But if you read the Bible you can see that the conditions before the flood were quite different from now. So any argument given based on our body or the Earth just like they are right now wouldn't refuse anything.
I am always using a different analogy. I am German and my german mother met my father, an US soldier who was stationed in Germany. If Germany would not have lost the war and had occupation forces then I would never have been born. Would I argue the same way this guy does, then I would have to say that Germany lost the war willfully so I just could be born. But we all know it would be stupid to do so. We are here because the universe is at it is. It is not the other way around. If it was we would not have this discussion.
I can go you one better: I had three uncles who fought in World War II. My father reached the draftable age late in the war, and he went through infantry training getting ready to invade Japan. But they dropped the atomic bomb before it became necessary to invade that island nation. My dad was very likely to be killed in that invasion. So, it is one of the creepy perversities of my life that I owe my existence to the atomic bomb.
I am not arguing anything. I'm not even saying if it was good or bad if I was born. Maybe a toxic life arose because of an horrific event. I don't know where you get this idea that I think the atomic bomb was worth it so I could exist. I am just mentioning a bitter irony about my life. It's like something from Kurt Vonnegut.
I tend to pause these videos as soon as the theistic argument closes on a particular point, just before your own response and personally respond to it out loud before hitting play and listening to your answer. Turns out we have a lot of the same answers to the same questions, which I find comforting because I often consider the possibility that I'm the one who's wrong. With that being said, I want to sincerely thank you because our agreements aside, I've learned a lot from you in this short time I've been aware of your channel. I think it adds to the viewer's critical thinking and because of that I regard your channel as a contribution to intellectual society.
hassi44 that's funny, I have the same strategy! It is so easy to laugh at creationists and their view on reality, but it certainly wouldn't bring you any further as an intellectual human being. Forcing yourself to actually formulate a rational response to these questions and then comparing those to a pretty knowledgable guy like CosmicSceptic is way more interesting. It keeps you on your toes so to speak. Have a nice day!
Hidde Luchtenbelt - Sharpening one's own intellectual arguments is never pointless. We would all benefit from keeping our knowledge up to scratch xD if any reason is necessary then just look at how 'fat and lazy' the 'majority' have become. Their best argument is "Just look around you and read this book!" . . . Shameful really. You'd think with the Pope being God's representative on Earth; he'd have something new to say once and a while
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Just because you agree on an answer doesn't neccessarily mean you're both right. I'm sure that two Catholics would also agree on their answers. Would that make them right?
Point out to me where I said that consensus indicates a correct answer? Because I'm fairly certain I never said that being in agreement with someone means I'm right.
Douglas Adam's example of the puddle of water who thinks the hole he lives in was made for him - is one of the simplest and most succinct descriptions of why their argument is flawed.
For a 17-year old you're incredibly well spoken and your arguments are amazingly well formed and presented. Subscribed. I love hearing kind-mannered debunking of silly arguments every time.
Silly? Maybe someone can help me. Did moon dirt have the required LIFE, INTELLIGENCE, LOVE, CONSCIOUSNESS & MORALITY to give us and the MEANS to give it or is it that GOD DID IT?
Another great video man. Keep in mind that the bigger your channel gets, the more unwanted comments you'll see and other toxic crap. Don't let it get to you and just keep up the quality discussions.
Oh my, it's excruciating to watch people making questions that would be easily answered with a little bit of research and also being smug about what they think it's the answer. Thanks for the pacience, Alex.
Never understood when theists make this argument. It is a pretty obvious conclusion that the reason some things seem finely tuned to us, is because we evolved to fit into specific environments and situations. Great video
Dude you've got close to 300,000 subscribers now! I think you deserve every single one and hope there are 300,000 more to come! Well done! Hitchens and Dawkins would be proud!
I really have to commend you on your patience and your well thought out responses. It always amazes me how seemingly intelligent people just can't (or rather don't want to) come to the logical conclusions themselves... This willful ignorance frustrates me so much i probably couldn't answer as calmly as you. Once again, great video on your part.
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” - Douglas Adams
I think it's great to see that so many atheists had previously been religious (probably introduced via their parents or school etc), but through simple critical thinking and logic they are able to see through religions for what they really are. I had been indoctrinated by my mum who was a Christian, who used a fairly passive aggressive idea of God and Christianity. However, by the time I hit my early teens I had pretty much realised that Christianity and all religions were just man made ideas. I never taught my own children about religion NOR how fallible religion is/was. I wanted them to think for themselves. However, they know I am not religious and I always give them honest answers when asked. I remember when my oldest son had reached an age when he questioned the existence of Santa. Upon letting him know Santa wasn't real, by extension he quickly deduced that neither was the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy, and then neither was God. And that was a 9 year old's logic working it out for themselves. :-)
The thing that most religious people forget about atheism is that you dont have to be indoctrinated to it, you just have to think critically for all of five minutes and you arrive to the conclusion that there is no god
I studied religion, the bible, science and history for 40 years before I came to the conclusion that none of it could possibly be true. Let's dont call me slow and dim-witted, let's call me thorough! lol.
Yeah, the parallels to Santa Claus are a glaring fault. The all-seeing listmaker and dispenser of rewards turns out to be your very fallible parents trying to prolong your feeble innocence. And let's not forget that the boogeyman doesn't exist at all.
Stopped attending church regularly at 8. Discovered substances at 14. Formally renounced my faith at 17. Watching The Power of Myth filled in the details.
Stopped attending church regularly at 8. Discovered substances at 14. Formally renounced my faith at 17. Watching The Power of Myth filled in the details.
It may be 2 years old but this vid still answers more questions than that whole joke of a control mechanism ever did, thanks for the up load from the future lol.
Aww, coming back and watching these older videos again makes me smile. Alex is so giddy over the bump in subs, he likely couldn't even imaging where he would be today. Such a cutie.
This is the result of sin, disobedience to the most high and people who want to scam people into getting more money therefore affecting our environment
Cancer. Cancer very much exists. The simple fact that our cells have the possibility of uncontrollably replicating simply because the DNA in a cell replicated itself incorrectly is, at least to me, a big indication that we were not intelligently designed.
@@largenardge315 When God created the earth it was great but then we wrecked it. This is humanity fault for destroying this world because of our lack of knowledge, constant sin and the desire to get what we want
Why can't we simply accept that we're lucky ? Humans hate that notion. They create explanations for patterns and luck-based events, especially for those they cannot directly comprehend. And I guess evolution favored that.
I really appreciate your work on here. I’m currently an ex-Christian who is still working through my beliefs and figuring all this out, and your explanations and thoughts are super helpful. It all makes a ton of sense. Thank you! :)
I don't understand how you don't have more subscribers I don't think I've seen more rational, civilized, intelligent explanations anywhere, especially not without resorting to personal insults. Amazing.
As someone who has put a lot of personal time into studying, I know how difficult it can be. So having said that, thank you for using your life wisely, thank you for using it to elevate our species. What you're doing is going to make a difference.
I would say yes, but the lesson would have to be isolated to Philosophy classes, not wasting my time in Biology. I do not attend school to hear the "maybe's" of the universe, only the facts. I do not need any more pressure to learn hypothetical mythology.
No that is literally saying god done it don't question how stuff got that way. It's pretty much a desperate move by theists these days because i mean well look at it religion these days are on its hind legs especially here in the U.S.
+Adamziomal And it *IS* a decision of the school, private schools exist everywhere and usually receive better funding than public schools as well. And as for the government, the government has to push for secularism in public schools as to not single out different religious beliefs present at the school, allowing for a conflict-free environment at school and more focus on learning what we *DO* know and not on what we *MAYBE* know. The government isn't forcing anything when it does something to their own schools, you have no obligation to attend them. Now, if you cannot afford alternative education, well, again that is not the government's fault.
Bobbotov or childhood cancers, intestinal parasites, worms that live in eye balls, wasps that turn ants into zombies, pedophiles and a million other really "bad" design faults.
Yep, the Friendly Atheist brought me here the first time all those years ago. Thanks, Hemant; and thanks, Alex, for your videos, I'm not the best at retelling info so need to watch videos, read books, more than once to try to get it to stick, but thanks for helping make it all clearer.
:) probably one of your best videos (and best comments btw.). The genuine answer to the question ‘why is the universe so finely tuned?’ is that we don’t know (yet). But it doesn’t require too much imagination to realize that given the incredible size of the universe [multiverse] of which we can observe only around 4 billion years back or so (and that’s only the _visible_ universe), it’s perfectly reasonable that the so called ‘big bang’ was not a unique event. In fact, given enough time and due to the accelerating expansion of our universe, there will be a time when the night sky will be completely black (and again, I recommend The Elegant Universe written by Brian Greene). Perhaps we should come up with a better name than ‘universe’ or ‘multiverse’.
"We are incredibly lucky to have evolved on a planet with condition perfects for its existence" We're not lucky, and the condition aren't perfect for us, or the existence of anything. Conditions are neutral absolute in that way, in that they don't have to be anything. They don't have to fit anything to make life. Life has to fit them to exist. We are perfect for them. WE are the one who evolved to fit the conditions. If the conditions had been different (colder or warmer for exemple) we would have evolved to be different, to fit those new conditions. And probably still would have people thinking that the environnement was made for them and not that we changed to fit, but that's another debate...
+Satanismydaddy666 So Jedi Mk is an idiot because he can construct a simple sentence correctly? I'd say you're the idiot, given that you *CANNOT* construct a simple sentence correctly, especially while trying to say that someone *CAN'T* construct a simple sentence correctly...
I was looking at the books you have in the background. Outta the ones i could make out i have most as well. love your videos man. I've always wanted to make a couple videos just like yours. maybe one of these days ill have to do that. Anyways great content, and i thoroughly enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
I truly don't understand this type of militant atheism. Calling everyone who uses fallacious arguments idiots. I thought it he sounded very sincere and kind, and was actually looking for an answer, not just throwing a stupid argument at atheists.
A Small Box. You did? I saw him as nothing but combative within the first 5 seconds..I've never seen a UA-cam video where a theist addresses atheism and isn't combative now that I think on it
Asking why water boils at 100 C and why the shoreline is how it is aren't stupid arguments. For one thing, they're questions. Questions which might indicate a degree of intelligence (as well as ignorance). They become stupid arguments when a creatard tells atheists they can't explain why water boils at 100 C, why the shoreline is how it is, and why tides go in and out. So they're sensible questions but stupid arguments when one insists that there are no answers other than "God did it."
An inflexible knee.A too-narrow pelvis. Exposed testicles.Crowded teeth.Meandering arteries.A backward retina.A misrouted nerve.A misplaced voice box. Birth defects, cancer, teeth can’t repair themselves, useless appendix that can become infected and kills several thousand people a year. Our spines and ankles are a complete mess. Our infants are born completely helpless and many women actually die from child birth again due to narrow birth passage. All wonderful traits from an all loving wise god within a barely habitable planet within a mostly dead solar system, destined for heat death. Yeah, some grand, intelligent design alright.
Imagine you walk down the beach and see Zeus love Hera. A god must have written it there... Zeus & Hera: stupid humans, there is more than one of us...
Dam, out of the creationist standing on the rocks and the rocks beneath him I'd have to say that the rocks are not only more intelligent but are also more capable of thinking in an honest and open way lol.
What a darn shame, too! Imagine how intelligent that guy might have become if his parents/ school/ community (or whatever) hadn't stuffed his brain full of nonsense at a young age? Wow, just think of how amazing the world would be if we all stopped trying to live by ancient how-to-live handbooks! Someday... 😊
This guy's professional and decent enough to be answering these simple, nonsense from an ordinary person. But I know he does it TO INFORM US ALL. Keep up the good work, Cosmic Skeptic.
There was and it did. Where do you think oxygen came from in the first place? Cyanobacteria... almost 3 billion years ago, it poisoned the earth's pristine sulpher-methane atmosphere by "breathing" it in and expelling oxygen as a waste product, causing the planet's FIRST Mass Extinction Event. The world was all fine and dandy for the methane breathers until photosynthesis came alone and ruined the party.
i havent seen the whole vid yet, but i just want to say that i feel the reason for the sudden surge in subs is because you make great content. keep up the good work!
Jonathon Gallo I think his phrasing of "conversion to atheism" is telling: it's like "taking up not playing football" which is nonsense, as it suggests that he still thinks atheism is a dogmatic belief system like theism. Also,, rolling out Paley's "watchmaker's analogy" and feeling convinced that it works - along with the infantile "fine-tuning argument" - shows that he's not open to seeing the other side, which has already busted all these arguments ages ago.
He doesn't know much about the reality, which is shown by his question about the boiling point of the water. He's not interesting in how things actually are. Facts seem to be irrelevant to him. He just wants to have his favourite conclusion.
I've been enjoying your content for a little while now and I think that one thing I respect most about you, Alex, is that you share my views but not my ire. You can articulate your points without falling to exasperated groans of frustration or just getting angry at the ludicrous or ignorant questions or the flat out intellectual dishonesty. I respect your calm, collected intellectual arguments. Thank you for intellectually stimulating content.
Actually, Venus had a fair chance at life. The way Venus ended up how it is today is unknown, but with just a little bit of research, we can come to a reasonable conclusion. Venus's rotation. Unlike the rest of the planets in the solar system, Venus rotates clockwise, and its days are longer than its years. Something had to have a large effect on Venus to have this result. It's theorized that another planet hit Venus so hard, it caused Venus to rotate backwards, and ruptured the surface, with volcanoes emerging, spewing out molten rock (lava). In this horrific event, Co2, the same gas that threatens the global climate today, was released in mass quantities, creating a thick atmosphere, and essentially, Global Warming on steroids, trapping all the heat in, making Venus the hottest planet in the solar system, even with Mercury being closest. But we still get your point, I just wanted to point out Venus had the possibility of life.
Isn't Venus at the inner edge of the Goldilocks zone, meaning that even if this fatal event hadn't occured, life conditions would be really harsh on Venus? However, I think it's fascinating that our solar system has 3 planets within the goldilocks zone and therefor 2 candidates for human made terraforming, eventually making them able to live on in a few thousand years or so.
It's likely that if this event didn't happen, it would be much different, still uninhabitable, it's very difficult to make an accurate prediction of what would Venus look like, although it has the possibility to look somewhat the same if the event never happened.
Actually, why is it that it couldn't have been spinning the other way naturally? Spin wouldn't make it crash into other planets like rotational direction would. Why are the other planets all spinning the same way? Even if most of the planets were created from the same cloud of dust, couldn't there have been eddies, so to speak, where the dust spun differently?
The same reason why water vortex' don't have pockets of water spinning the other way round. The whole mass is just dragging anything that isn't sure which direction to go, with it.
Or there was once life there, and they messed it up, and Earth could be next, with the current ignorance about global warming, and powerful countries refusing to stop ruining the world...
Hey I am loving your videos! I am going back and watching them all. Just to add to your argument about the orbital distance, in the Northern hemisphere, the point at which we are closest to the sun... is in the dead of winter.
To be fair, I don’t necessarily think that he was defining “finely-tuned” as “perfect for human habitation.” I think he was saying that the universe is so beautiful and complex that we could never comprehend it all, which is a reflection of the nature of God. Yeah, the ocean is salty, so it isn’t very useful to us (via other comments), but the fact that it’s so immense, so complex, full of life, and that we seem to be making new discoveries in it all the time reflects the nature of God. He’s so much more than something “useful” to us. That’s another debate in itself, but I thought we should at least represent this guy accurately. :)
Considering that beauty is an entirely subjective idea, and how some people can view nature as disgusting whilst many view it as incredible pretty much entirely dismisses the idea that this is what he was referring to with his "finely tuned" argument. He framed it as a teleological argument - easily the weakest of the Christian apologist conversion methods
Sorry I have to correct you, but you said we wouldn't survive a mere 5 seconds in most of the universe. That's incorrect as a human is capable of surviving up to 90 seconds in vacuum, although one would loose consciousness after 5-15 seconds. ;D
I find it funny how creationists/theists always ask atheists the questions like they think they are the experts on everything. I guess they recognize that atheists are smarter than they are, and based on the stupid questions they ask it's not hard to see why.
HOLY SHIT.. I almost lost my mind @ 5:30 .. "why is the boiling point always at 100c"..
Congratulations on your patience and respect in responding these ridiculous claims..
I've had someone make that argument for me before, and it left me speechless for a moment because I was trying to wrap my head around why someone would even think that.
Of course once I found out that they were serious, I had to point out that water doesn't always boil at 100c, it depends on altitude and other factors.
Ramiro Figueiredo yes Ramiro, I almost threw my phone against a wall. Even I know the answer to that question and I'm a pretty big idiot.
+Shawn Marc
"Why can you only see the sun at day and the moon at night"
Cause the bible says so.
Jakob Schulze cuz that's how we describe day and night as humans duh!
They were too stupid to realize the moons light was just reflecting from the sun
God: Make the Earth with 75% water.
Angel: Good plan since the plants and animals all need water to survive.
God: Salinate it so it's undrinkable.
King Nevermore triggered theist who cant take a joke
@@kingnevermore25 aren't you a touchy bad mouthed little child of "God"
Big Woke, Lord of the Order Why would one even argue that the Earth is so finely tuned to us?
Big Woke, Lord of the Order If that was the case (which is not) it still makes no sense. Even if the sea water was not salt it would still be bad for us humans. Nobody would be able to use that water due to, contamination, sea transport, microorganisms, oil leakage etc. Besides that even water from the lakes and rivers isnt safe to drink. Just because im calling you names doesnt mean that im losing the argument, thats a non sequitur fallacy.
Big Woke, Lord of the Order Wrong. And thats still not enough, water from lakes and rivers is not safe, people first need to filtrate and use other techniques in order for water to be safe to drink, like they did in ancient Rome and other places. You cant just go and drink the water from a nearest lake. Pathogens transmitted by contaminated water were a really serious risk for the ancient people, thats why they used to have wells, aqueducts for transport, etc. Both the thot and the theists are wrong.
Would you guys like to see me respond to his other videos? Or would you rather I moved on?
Does this mean I have to watch his videos to decide? (Ugh!) Actually, if he has common arguments that atheists hear then, yes. If he's asking ridiculous nonsense then, no. Reasonable?
I would move on, get a good collection going
I say keep going, see if he actually turns atheist. See if he actually is capable of thinking logically.
Don't get bogged down with debunking religious nonsense. Your videos on anxiety, gravity, lying, and labels are excellent. I would like to see more of a diversity of topics covering science, religion, and philosophy.
I would like to hear more.
Our earth is so finely tuned. That it can murder us at any minute. Yes it's finely tuned alright.
Nah, it is because we are moving towards sun and doing atheist stuff like having fun in the sun. Or maybe on the sun? Is it still cool to claim that Earth is flat?. Gosh, I should start cult or something!
No, life is auto-tuned for the Earth and there are indications of millions of planets in the observable Universe that have similar conditions to those on Earth.
Yes hurricanes, volcanoes, cave bears, stds, earthquakes, ect were all put on earth by a god who put them here on purpose....for our.....survival? And being all powerful and precise made the tree and snake thus inventing sin himself, ghost raped a human which birthed a human form of himself, even though he made us in him image he couldn’t come himself, being all powerful you know. Then killing himself, only to come back and forgive everyone of the sin he created in the first plan? He sounds like a bad creator to me.
Its man who is destroying himself
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Read the gospels instead
As a marine biology student the "why does the sea never go past it's limit" question had me in hysterics
why is the depth of the sea everywhere exactly one stone's throw? It has to be designed!
@@TrueForkbecause it’s complete nonsense and not true. And has no meaning at all.
@@jonasg.bisgaard1086 I’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic
The earth goes from 91 million miles to 94.5 million miles away form the Sun through it's yearly orbit. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 3.5 million miles is a bit more than an inch.
Yes, but... if it was 1 more inch than that we would be on fire?!!! Got 'em...
Another way of saying that is to jump. 'Nuff said.
+Derron Mendel lol
Now that you mention I did get a tan but fell cold...
Show your workings please
It amazes me that theists _still_ think that these questions are a) unanswerable, and b) original.
They also tend to think they will convince someone who doesn't already believe.
David Loewen i find that ironic really. i mean a lot of theists are theist because they think it answers the unanswerable questions.
because the entirety of their information comes from some outdated textbook or something
ignorance is bliss
What makes it worse is that there are far better arguments for it...
I subscribed because I have not seen such a well structured and reasonable breakdown of religion in a long time.
Great videos, seriously, they're not dry enough to bore me out of my mind and the face to face interaction (as opposed to just a voice in the video with pictures) really helps keep it feeling like an interesting and personal exchange of ideas instead of a boring lecture.
Also, I really like how you refrain from any personal attacks on the people you reply to. Unfortunately, that is a really rare occurrence in the atheist community, especially online, so it's nice to see somebody doing something different.
I wish you luck in gaining more subscribers.
On the other hand, the proper response to knuckleheadedness is equivalent (or more) knuckleheadedness. John and Bruce written in the sand, instead of John and Mary. The boiling point of sulfur and brimstone. But yeah the whole sea level thing is clearly magic, because duh.
Give me a real thinker on the nature of the Divine, who's not full of treacly platitudes in response to grotesque evils that befall perfectly innocent children, and instead really considers, unflinchingly, what sort of god is behind this unholy business.
Alternatively, there's a kind of faith, ironically enough, in the power of reason to illuminate fundamental truth. Is it possible that for all the preponderance of evidence and the confirmation of mathematical laws by experiment and data, that we still don't KNOW what gravity is? Yes we can describe its behavior and its effects on spacetime, and corroborate our calculations blah blah blah but what IS it, beyond a fundamental force - one of the four fundamental forces? How can we know anything at all, unless we have an abundance of faith in the power of reason?
Spaztaszticus Rex Gravity is the warping of spacetime by anything with mass
Well, many religious videos contain attacks as well. Not just atheist. But your not wrong.
my favourite counter-argument to the teleological argument: God? You mean that guy that could have made unicorns a reality but was like "Nah, Malaria!"?
mystuff LOVE IT. Not malaria.
That's seriously THE SINGLE BEST COMMENT I'VE EVER SEEN 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm crying
I've had Malaria before. Wasn't a pleasant experience
Malaria is good but you don't understand because God knows better. Otherwise it is made by Satan. But why does God let Satan do these things that look terrible? Because he wants to take people in Heaven sooner. What's the quickest way to take people to Heaven or to Hell? Malaria, decapitation, falling into a waste grinding machine, drowning, cancer, ... but you don't get it because you are humans so stop asking "why".
inox1ck But diseases like malaria and cancer don’t just kill you instantly... they cause a LOT of pan and suffering. Why would your God give people malaria or Cancer to kill them instead of just giving them a quick painless death? Why don’t you go tell the millions of kids in Africa dying of malaria that Gods only doing it so they can go to heaven? When he could obviously do it without torturing them and their families. And you might say, God gives sinful people these diseases to punish them or something like that, so why don’t you go and pay a visit to the millions of children dying of Cancer and tell them that they are suffering because they have sinned and the being who supposedly loves them gave them Cancer as a punishment. Do you even think about your reasoning before you comment?
Me in general: there are no stupid questions.
Me after this video: ok, I was wrong.
Hear, hear.
It's like what Mr Garrison said on South Park, "There's no such thing as stupid questions, just stupid people"
13 amp.
My thoughts too.
But the purpose of "stupid" questions is to learn something.
@Chris Manzi Because of the nature of bias.
"The universe is finely tuned." Says the man standing in front of the human uninhabitable oceans that cover >70% of this planet and a dangerous to drink. Finely tuned indeed.
The tube we use to breathe and eat are the same tube. Thousands of people die each year from choking.
ask him if he floated out on that ocean backdrop would he starve, drown, be sun roasted, or die a horrible death of salt water poisoning !
70% of the surface of the planet not 70% of the planet don't give him something to say "ooh you didn't know this so there for God is real" 😆 😆 lol
Bubba Wantland 😂 wow...
Well, before the flood the Earth was different. Obviously you don't believe in The Bible but it also says that the man was perfect but he sinned and lost his perfection. It led to inherited disease and death. There was a cover of water above the Earth before the flood and it fell. It's possible that much of that water is still here. Anyway these are just assumptions and can't be taught as an absolute truth. But if you read the Bible you can see that the conditions before the flood were quite different from now. So any argument given based on our body or the Earth just like they are right now wouldn't refuse anything.
I am always using a different analogy. I am German and my german mother met my father, an US soldier who was stationed in Germany. If Germany would not have lost the war and had occupation forces then I would never have been born. Would I argue the same way this guy does, then I would have to say that Germany lost the war willfully so I just could be born. But we all know it would be stupid to do so.
We are here because the universe is at it is. It is not the other way around. If it was we would not have this discussion.
Hervorragende Analogie!
I think of it as us being finely tuned for our world and not the other way around, if anything
I can go you one better: I had three uncles who fought in World War II. My father reached the draftable age late in the war, and he went through infantry training getting ready to invade Japan. But they dropped the atomic bomb before it became necessary to invade that island nation. My dad was very likely to be killed in that invasion. So, it is one of the creepy perversities of my life that I owe my existence to the atomic bomb.
Good point. Well said.
I am not arguing anything. I'm not even saying if it was good or bad if I was born. Maybe a toxic life arose because of an horrific event. I don't know where you get this idea that I think the atomic bomb was worth it so I could exist. I am just mentioning a bitter irony about my life. It's like something from Kurt Vonnegut.
I tend to pause these videos as soon as the theistic argument closes on a particular point, just before your own response and personally respond to it out loud before hitting play and listening to your answer. Turns out we have a lot of the same answers to the same questions, which I find comforting because I often consider the possibility that I'm the one who's wrong.
With that being said, I want to sincerely thank you because our agreements aside, I've learned a lot from you in this short time I've been aware of your channel. I think it adds to the viewer's critical thinking and because of that I regard your channel as a contribution to intellectual society.
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
hassi44 that's funny, I have the same strategy! It is so easy to laugh at creationists and their view on reality, but it certainly wouldn't bring you any further as an intellectual human being. Forcing yourself to actually formulate a rational response to these questions and then comparing those to a pretty knowledgable guy like CosmicSceptic is way more interesting. It keeps you on your toes so to speak.
Have a nice day!
Hidde Luchtenbelt - Sharpening one's own intellectual arguments is never pointless. We would all benefit from keeping our knowledge up to scratch xD if any reason is necessary then just look at how 'fat and lazy' the 'majority' have become. Their best argument is "Just look around you and read this book!" . . . Shameful really. You'd think with the Pope being God's representative on Earth; he'd have something new to say once and a while
Just because you agree on an answer doesn't neccessarily mean you're both right. I'm sure that two Catholics would also agree on their answers. Would that make them right?
Point out to me where I said that consensus indicates a correct answer? Because I'm fairly certain I never said that being in agreement with someone means I'm right.
Humans are fine tuned to Earth, not the other way around.
Humans are just invasive to the earth, we aren't even finely tuned.
Not really, most of the surface isn't habitable.
Agree in principle though, we just are where we can be
@@uninspired3583 ha. Then we are finely tuned to the habitable parts of the earth
@@jpapan1 do a Google search for special pleading
We are not fine tuned to earth; when we can freeze to death or die from heat stroke and we can't live under the sea.
"How is it that the boiling point is always 100 °C ?"
I threw my shit...
Douglas Adam's example of the puddle of water who thinks the hole he lives in was made for him - is one of the simplest and most succinct descriptions of why their argument is flawed.
I don't remember that - is it from the Hitchhiker's Guide?
I think Wonko the Sane talks about it in Mostly Harmless, the fifth book of the trilogy.
Wizard Suth nice reference to the “trilogy” nature of the series
Sadly though, it borders on too abstract for many fundie brains...
For a 17-year old you're incredibly well spoken and your arguments are amazingly well formed and presented. Subscribed. I love hearing kind-mannered debunking of silly arguments every time.
Silly? Maybe someone can help me. Did moon dirt have the required LIFE, INTELLIGENCE, LOVE, CONSCIOUSNESS & MORALITY to give us and the MEANS to give it or is it that GOD DID IT?
"I don't understand nature therefore god. Checkmate atheists."
Damn this guy's dense.
"John loves Mary"
*thinks of the new Sherlock episode*
*curls up*
*dies*
Don't get me started
Danae Kolyva *thinks of Supernatural*
*cries*
CosmicSkeptic Hey any predictions for next episode's plot?
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If I saw that writen in the sand, I would assume that John wrote it
I’m a Christian but I subscribe because I like getting into arguments with the pastors
sounds like we would be great friends
So many subscribers in such a short time. A Miracle?
Maxx Kroes ahaha noodly appendages. We should call him cosmicnoodle. That would be hilarious
Hallalu ladies
Hallalu ladies
Coz is fine tuned
The UA-cam God works in mysterious ways
Another great video man. Keep in mind that the bigger your channel gets, the more unwanted comments you'll see and other toxic crap. Don't let it get to you and just keep up the quality discussions.
I've come back 3 years later, and Alex has grown to +290,000 subs. Incredible growth and high quality work!. Thanks and keep it up, Alex.
This is like watching someone trying to teach an adult that 1+1=2.
Oh my, it's excruciating to watch people making questions that would be easily answered with a little bit of research and also being smug about what they think it's the answer.
Thanks for the pacience, Alex.
wow, in less than 9 months, you went from 5000 to 101000 subs! Congratulations!
Never understood when theists make this argument. It is a pretty obvious conclusion that the reason some things seem finely tuned to us, is because we evolved to fit into specific environments and situations. Great video
this kid is so smart and so calm, its amazing how mature you are for your age
Thank you!!! Love love love your videos, I wish there were more people like you, You restore my faith in humanity
Dude you've got close to 300,000 subscribers now! I think you deserve every single one and hope there are 300,000 more to come! Well done! Hitchens and Dawkins would be proud!
Four months later you have over 32,000 subs! Thanks to your thought provoking videos, no doubt. This was an excellent video.
You are well-informed and habe your own ideas and opinions about things. Not a lot of people have auch qualities.
I really have to commend you on your patience and your well thought out responses. It always amazes me how seemingly intelligent people just can't (or rather don't want to) come to the logical conclusions themselves... This willful ignorance frustrates me so much i probably couldn't answer as calmly as you. Once again, great video on your part.
Awesome video. Thanks again. Keep up the great work.
I think this just became my favorite channel
"...to me thats an incredibly spiritual realisation, more so than my years as a Christian"
GOLD
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” - Douglas Adams
I think it's great to see that so many atheists had previously been religious (probably introduced via their parents or school etc), but through simple critical thinking and logic they are able to see through religions for what they really are.
I had been indoctrinated by my mum who was a Christian, who used a fairly passive aggressive idea of God and Christianity. However, by the time I hit my early teens I had pretty much realised that Christianity and all religions were just man made ideas.
I never taught my own children about religion NOR how fallible religion is/was. I wanted them to think for themselves. However, they know I am not religious and I always give them honest answers when asked.
I remember when my oldest son had reached an age when he questioned the existence of Santa. Upon letting him know Santa wasn't real, by extension he quickly deduced that neither was the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy, and then neither was God.
And that was a 9 year old's logic working it out for themselves. :-)
The thing that most religious people forget about atheism is that you dont have to be indoctrinated to it, you just have to think critically for all of five minutes and you arrive to the conclusion that there is no god
I studied religion, the bible, science and history for 40 years before I came to the conclusion that none of it could possibly be true. Let's dont call me slow and dim-witted, let's call me thorough! lol.
Yeah, the parallels to Santa Claus are a glaring fault. The all-seeing listmaker and dispenser of rewards turns out to be your very fallible parents trying to prolong your feeble innocence. And let's not forget that the boogeyman doesn't exist at all.
Stopped attending church regularly at 8. Discovered substances at 14. Formally renounced my faith at 17. Watching The Power of Myth filled in the details.
Stopped attending church regularly at 8. Discovered substances at 14. Formally renounced my faith at 17. Watching The Power of Myth filled in the details.
It may be 2 years old but this vid still answers more questions than that whole joke of a control mechanism ever did, thanks for the up load from the future lol.
Aww, coming back and watching these older videos again makes me smile. Alex is so giddy over the bump in subs, he likely couldn't even imaging where he would be today. Such a cutie.
Theres finally an answer to that question! This used to be one of the harder question to answer (for me anyways)
People : God created the Earth just for us
Earth : Disease, 70% water, deserts, natural disasters, predators, random ice ages...
This is the result of sin, disobedience to the most high and people who want to scam people into getting more money therefore affecting our environment
@@voldibayizitunda2178 🤦🏾♂️
Cancer. Cancer very much exists. The simple fact that our cells have the possibility of uncontrollably replicating simply because the DNA in a cell replicated itself incorrectly is, at least to me, a big indication that we were not intelligently designed.
@@largenardge315 When God created the earth it was great but then we wrecked it. This is humanity fault for destroying this world because of our lack of knowledge, constant sin and the desire to get what we want
@@voldibayizitunda2178 don’t waste your time with these people they choose to believe in science as the answer for everything
You are my spirit animal.
Thanks so much Alex for you exceptionally executed content. Great food for thought. Keep it up
Very sharp and well-spoken. Keep the videos coming!
How is this guy's brain so limited if we're intelligently designed?
ooooooooooooooh kill 'em
Ralph Pickering idk ask god
Ralph Pickering, I assume you're referring to the religious guy?
Peter Unthank yes he was because he is the one arguing for the intelligent design concept in the video
Ralph Pickering Top 10 questions no one can answer.
Abby Road and Dark Side of the Moon? Damn right I subscribed!
Why can't we simply accept that we're lucky ?
Humans hate that notion. They create explanations for patterns and luck-based events, especially for those they cannot directly comprehend. And I guess evolution favored that.
Thank you Alex for another wonderful video 😊
its a bit old tho
I really appreciate your work on here. I’m currently an ex-Christian who is still working through my beliefs and figuring all this out, and your explanations and thoughts are super helpful. It all makes a ton of sense. Thank you! :)
Damn the guys post is now private... I guess he just got tired of being called an idiot..
I thought the guy he was debating was smart until he said "if there is no God, how is the boiling point 100 C" smh
New sub here, love the videos, great job!
I don't understand how you don't have more subscribers
I don't think I've seen more rational, civilized, intelligent explanations anywhere, especially not without resorting to personal insults.
Amazing.
As someone who has put a lot of personal time into studying, I know how difficult it can be. So having said that, thank you for using your life wisely, thank you for using it to elevate our species. What you're doing is going to make a difference.
5,000 subs wow so big man I mean wow. Idk if you'll ever be able to get more than this.
"Therefore God"
- Theists about everything
Discussion: should intelligent design be taught in schools?
I would say yes, but the lesson would have to be isolated to Philosophy classes, not wasting my time in Biology.
I do not attend school to hear the "maybe's" of the universe, only the facts. I do not need any more pressure to learn hypothetical mythology.
It should be a decision of the school, there shouldn't be a government program telling schools that to teach.
No that is literally saying god done it don't question how stuff got that way.
It's pretty much a desperate move by theists these days because i mean well look at it
religion these days are on its hind legs especially here in the U.S.
My name is Jason and I am subscribed to you CosmicSkeptic
+Adamziomal And it *IS* a decision of the school, private schools exist everywhere and usually receive better funding than public schools as well.
And as for the government, the government has to push for secularism in public schools as to not single out different religious beliefs present at the school, allowing for a conflict-free environment at school and more focus on learning what we *DO* know and not on what we *MAYBE* know.
The government isn't forcing anything when it does something to their own schools, you have no obligation to attend them.
Now, if you cannot afford alternative education, well, again that is not the government's fault.
Also, I think people are so civil to oneanother because YOU speak in a calm, relaxing and respectful manner.
Thank you for your time and effort that you put into your videos.
can you guys see the atheist community growing?:):) I'm seeing more and more people who say they don't believe gods
Edwin Myers Thank God
great leaves us more space in heaven
johnny llooddte lol I like your optimism which is not typical of believers you know
Terceiro Ano amen brother
I see Paul McCartney 😂
“If the earth was one inch closer to the sun, we would fry”
So the limit is 0,9 inch
0,9 inch would be slow cooking. So it depends on your preference, really.
So the planes is frying us..? o no...
Sighs **grabs 1 inch ladder**
What's so intelligent about designing schizophrenia?
Bobbotov or childhood cancers, intestinal parasites, worms that live in eye balls, wasps that turn ants into zombies, pedophiles and a million other really "bad" design faults.
@@JulieWallis1963 Yeah, and that's not even considering how what's intelligent for one species (the worm living in the eyeball) is bad for ours.
That is quite intelligent.
Yep, the Friendly Atheist brought me here the first time all those years ago. Thanks, Hemant; and thanks, Alex, for your videos, I'm not the best at retelling info so need to watch videos, read books, more than once to try to get it to stick, but thanks for helping make it all clearer.
:) probably one of your best videos (and best comments btw.). The genuine answer to the question ‘why is the universe so finely tuned?’ is that we don’t know (yet). But it doesn’t require too much imagination to realize that given the incredible size of the universe [multiverse] of which we can observe only around 4 billion years back or so (and that’s only the _visible_ universe), it’s perfectly reasonable that the so called ‘big bang’ was not a unique event. In fact, given enough time and due to the accelerating expansion of our universe, there will be a time when the night sky will be completely black (and again, I recommend The Elegant Universe written by Brian Greene). Perhaps we should come up with a better name than ‘universe’ or ‘multiverse’.
"We are incredibly lucky to have evolved on a planet with condition perfects for its existence"
We're not lucky, and the condition aren't perfect for us, or the existence of anything. Conditions are neutral absolute in that way, in that they don't have to be anything. They don't have to fit anything to make life. Life has to fit them to exist.
We are perfect for them. WE are the one who evolved to fit the conditions. If the conditions had been different (colder or warmer for exemple) we would have evolved to be different, to fit those new conditions.
And probably still would have people thinking that the environnement was made for them and not that we changed to fit, but that's another debate...
I think you should be president of atheism.
I vote Hemant Mehta for his running mate.
Mehta is idiot
Jedi Mk I'd say you're the idiot, given that you can't construct a simple sentence correctly.
+Satanismydaddy666
So Jedi Mk is an idiot because he can construct a simple sentence correctly?
I'd say you're the idiot, given that you *CANNOT* construct a simple sentence correctly, especially while trying to say that someone *CAN'T* construct a simple sentence correctly...
No, that would be a terrible idea, as that would destroy everything atheism stands for by giving it a leader.
5000??? Wrong..................IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!
Gregg Macey Well done, are you happy now?
Ahhh idk u but I love u
well well well
Educated, well reasoned response, bro. Keep it up!
I was looking at the books you have in the background. Outta the ones i could make out i have most as well. love your videos man. I've always wanted to make a couple videos just like yours. maybe one of these days ill have to do that. Anyways great content, and i thoroughly enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
5:10 We are not at the end of an evolutionary chain, we are part of the evolutionary chain and evolution is going further
We are at the CURRENT end of an evolutionary chain. But yes, the chain will keep growing.
Can you find some one else to debate with. Like some one who has some intelligence? And doesn't wear a cabbage on his head.
I truly don't understand this type of militant atheism. Calling everyone who uses fallacious arguments idiots. I thought it he sounded very sincere and kind, and was actually looking for an answer, not just throwing a stupid argument at atheists.
A Small Box. You did? I saw him as nothing but combative within the first 5 seconds..I've never seen a UA-cam video where a theist addresses atheism and isn't combative now that I think on it
Ummmm, you appear to be using a fallacious argument there. I'll let you figure out the rest...
+A Small Box Why water is boiling at 100°C and why the shoreline is how it is, aren't stupid arguments thrown at atheists?
Asking why water boils at 100 C and why the shoreline is how it is aren't stupid arguments. For one thing, they're questions. Questions which might indicate a degree of intelligence (as well as ignorance).
They become stupid arguments when a creatard tells atheists they can't explain why water boils at 100 C, why the shoreline is how it is, and why tides go in and out.
So they're sensible questions but stupid arguments when one insists that there are no answers other than "God did it."
You're my Armored Skeptic replacement since he hasn't had a good video in a year or so.
Thank you so much for these videos!!
6 years ago...5000 sub video and now 512.000. You and Drew are my hope since Hitchens passed
An inflexible knee.A too-narrow pelvis. Exposed testicles.Crowded teeth.Meandering arteries.A backward retina.A misrouted nerve.A misplaced voice box. Birth defects, cancer, teeth can’t repair themselves, useless appendix that can become infected and kills several thousand people a year.
Our spines and ankles are a complete mess. Our infants are born completely helpless and many women actually die from child birth again due to narrow birth passage.
All wonderful traits from an all loving wise god within a barely habitable planet within a mostly dead solar system, destined for heat death.
Yeah, some grand, intelligent design alright.
Imagine you walk down the beach and see Zeus love Hera.
A god must have written it there...
Zeus & Hera: stupid humans, there is more than one of us...
Dam, out of the creationist standing on the rocks and the rocks beneath him I'd have to say that the rocks are not only more intelligent but are also more capable of thinking in an honest and open way lol.
What a darn shame, too! Imagine how intelligent that guy might have become if his parents/ school/ community (or whatever) hadn't stuffed his brain full of nonsense at a young age?
Wow, just think of how amazing the world would be if we all stopped trying to live by ancient how-to-live handbooks! Someday... 😊
Hey Alex, congrats on 5'000 (!!!) subscribers! You've earned it!
This guy's professional and decent enough to be answering these simple, nonsense from an ordinary person. But I know he does it TO INFORM US ALL. Keep up the good work, Cosmic Skeptic.
If there were no oxygen on planet earth, a life form would have probably evolved which doesn't require oxygen.
There was and it did. Where do you think oxygen came from in the first place?
Cyanobacteria... almost 3 billion years ago, it poisoned the earth's pristine sulpher-methane atmosphere by "breathing" it in and expelling oxygen as a waste product, causing the planet's FIRST Mass Extinction Event.
The world was all fine and dandy for the methane breathers until photosynthesis came alone and ruined the party.
this shows me that most of anecdotal spirituality just comes from having no understanding of science in the slightest degree
i havent seen the whole vid yet, but i just want to say that i feel the reason for the sudden surge in subs is because you make great content. keep up the good work!
Love your videos, man, Keep doing what you are doing
Could you consider enabling closed captioning on your videos? Thank you.
yeah normally does but this one hasnt.
Why the hell is it our job to convert him to Atheism? If he's making a video defending religion, he's probably not exactly susceptible.
It may not be our job... but it's our duty
You aren't likely to change that guy's mind, but you might reach others who happen to be watching.
Jonathon Gallo I think his phrasing of "conversion to atheism" is telling: it's like "taking up not playing football" which is nonsense, as it suggests that he still thinks atheism is a dogmatic belief system like theism. Also,, rolling out Paley's "watchmaker's analogy" and feeling convinced that it works - along with the infantile "fine-tuning argument" - shows that he's not open to seeing the other side, which has already busted all these arguments ages ago.
He doesn't know much about the reality, which is shown by his question about the boiling point of the water. He's not interesting in how things actually are. Facts seem to be irrelevant to him. He just wants to have his favourite conclusion.
um with his arguments or you sure we want him?
He missed the pre-cursor to all these 'Why?' questions. "Dad/Mum... Why is it that............?" That's what he sounds like - a 👶 child.
I envy your ability to explain your ideas so succinctly.
I've been enjoying your content for a little while now and I think that one thing I respect most about you, Alex, is that you share my views but not my ire. You can articulate your points without falling to exasperated groans of frustration or just getting angry at the ludicrous or ignorant questions or the flat out intellectual dishonesty. I respect your calm, collected intellectual arguments. Thank you for intellectually stimulating content.
Hehe..."ridiculous expansion"..."before I had my growth"...hehe
Actually, Venus had a fair chance at life. The way Venus ended up how it is today is unknown, but with just a little bit of research, we can come to a reasonable conclusion. Venus's rotation. Unlike the rest of the planets in the solar system, Venus rotates clockwise, and its days are longer than its years. Something had to have a large effect on Venus to have this result. It's theorized that another planet hit Venus so hard, it caused Venus to rotate backwards, and ruptured the surface, with volcanoes emerging, spewing out molten rock (lava). In this horrific event, Co2, the same gas that threatens the global climate today, was released in mass quantities, creating a thick atmosphere, and essentially, Global Warming on steroids, trapping all the heat in, making Venus the hottest planet in the solar system, even with Mercury being closest. But we still get your point, I just wanted to point out Venus had the possibility of life.
Isn't Venus at the inner edge of the Goldilocks zone, meaning that even if this fatal event hadn't occured, life conditions would be really harsh on Venus?
However, I think it's fascinating that our solar system has 3 planets within the goldilocks zone and therefor 2 candidates for human made terraforming, eventually making them able to live on in a few thousand years or so.
It's likely that if this event didn't happen, it would be much different, still uninhabitable, it's very difficult to make an accurate prediction of what would Venus look like, although it has the possibility to look somewhat the same if the event never happened.
Actually, why is it that it couldn't have been spinning the other way naturally? Spin wouldn't make it crash into other planets like rotational direction would. Why are the other planets all spinning the same way? Even if most of the planets were created from the same cloud of dust, couldn't there have been eddies, so to speak, where the dust spun differently?
The same reason why water vortex' don't have pockets of water spinning the other way round. The whole mass is just dragging anything that isn't sure which direction to go, with it.
Or there was once life there, and they messed it up, and Earth could be next, with the current ignorance about global warming, and powerful countries refusing to stop ruining the world...
is this guy serious about the questions with the sun and shoreline?
if yes, you should not lower yourself to his level man.
What does it mean to not lower yourself to his level...?
Just ignoring the question completely...?
Hey I am loving your videos! I am going back and watching them all. Just to add to your argument about the orbital distance, in the Northern hemisphere, the point at which we are closest to the sun... is in the dead of winter.
Alex, you’re doing just fine, my friend. Keep up the great job.
To be fair, I don’t necessarily think that he was defining “finely-tuned” as “perfect for human habitation.” I think he was saying that the universe is so beautiful and complex that we could never comprehend it all, which is a reflection of the nature of God. Yeah, the ocean is salty, so it isn’t very useful to us (via other comments), but the fact that it’s so immense, so complex, full of life, and that we seem to be making new discoveries in it all the time reflects the nature of God. He’s so much more than something “useful” to us. That’s another debate in itself, but I thought we should at least represent this guy accurately. :)
Considering that beauty is an entirely subjective idea, and how some people can view nature as disgusting whilst many view it as incredible pretty much entirely dismisses the idea that this is what he was referring to with his "finely tuned" argument. He framed it as a teleological argument - easily the weakest of the Christian apologist conversion methods
1 INCH!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!
In planes? fried?
Sorry I have to correct you, but you said we wouldn't survive a mere 5 seconds in most of the universe. That's incorrect as a human is capable of surviving up to 90 seconds in vacuum, although one would loose consciousness after 5-15 seconds. ;D
Ah but the temperature
@@stevebennion8601 I could be wrong, I should probably Google it before I respond but I thought outer space has no temperature.
See. In Gods wisdom he saves us from 85 seconds of intense pain.
You just can't argue with a creationist. Lol. Finger's in ears. Lalalala.
@@destinyseeker421 it's around -454.81 Fahrenheit lol! That and the radiation ooooooscaarrryyy.
Fabian it was hyperbole
this is a great rebuttal video. well done.
One of my regrets is that I came across your channel so late. Love your arguments. Keep up the good work.
This video is five years old lmO
@@hex9077 So what?
@@df4250 its just funny lol
@@hex9077 yeah! So hilarious, you'd laugh at anything.
@@df4250 bro I was so high when I commented this 💀
I find it funny how creationists/theists always ask atheists the questions like they think they are the experts on everything. I guess they recognize that atheists are smarter than they are, and based on the stupid questions they ask it's not hard to see why.