Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Cathagannis Apologist, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about quotes and memes from the New Atheists.

Although by now I feel like they've turned into the Old Atheists.

So I'm talking about Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris.

These were the new atheists that came out in the early 2000s.

I'm grateful now though that a lot of the more popular atheists online, people like Cosmic

Skeptic, Rationality Rules, my friends' real ethyology, they at least want to engage

the arguments for atheism and not just scoff at them.

Like if you read the God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' treatment of the arguments, the existence

of God, it is laughable.

The Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga once said that to call Dawkins' work on God,

and he's a good biologist, but to call Dawkins' work on God, soft morik would be an insult

to sophomores everywhere.

So that's what Plantinga said in regards to Dawkins, but I'm grateful that we have those

now who are willing to take the argument seriously and really engage in good discourse

on that.

I think that moves the conversation forward.

Unfortunately, I still see online these memes and quotes from the so-called new atheists,

the Dawkins type from the early 2000s that have still stuck around.

And what inspired me, the first meme I'll show you, was one that inspired me to do this

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