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AS30: Debate with Elijiah T, Supreme Court Fail

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Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We begin with part 2 of my debate with Elijiah T! You can find his blog here: http://hashtagapologetics.wordpress.com/ And on Twitter @elijiaht After that I give an analysis of the debate and what I was trying to accomplish.  If anyone knows of other believers who are willing to have a discussion with an atheist, point … Continue reading AS30: Debate with Elijiah T, Supreme Court Fail

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello everyone welcome to episode 30 of atheistically speaking. This is Thomas Smith, your host.

0:36.7

Okay, so I don't want to delay much in playing part two of my debate with Elijah T

0:44.9

Because I know you all have been waiting for it. You've had to wait unless you're on

0:48.4

Patreon of course

0:50.4

So I'm just gonna go ahead and go right into it and then we'll have lots of other stuff after that so here it is

1:00.5

The whole idea that it's outside of the space time and matter as we know it would imply

1:06.8

that this thing exists the conclusion is that whatever this is exists and it is in

1:12.2

fact outside of time space and matter.

1:15.0

And I think any materialistic or I don't want to say atheistic because it's not really a positive

1:19.8

worldview which is kind of like a no God doesn't exist but any kind of a

1:22.6

materialistic or a naturalistic explanation for this doesn't make sense and so

1:27.9

it has to be something what about what I mentioned earlier I mean what about

1:31.4

describing it by analogy of us making a computer simulation?

1:37.1

I mean, why couldn't you say that it was a, you know, it has some naturalistic explanation,

1:41.2

but it's just not part of our nature.

1:43.5

It's part of whatever nature exists in the reality sort of that we don't have access to.

1:48.0

Well, right, and I think this gets into the whole idea of metaphysical necessity.

1:52.2

Is it, let's imagine that you create some kind of a

1:54.0

conscious being in your in your computer simulation right and the computer in the

1:58.0

in your computer simulation there's a very brilliant young little whatever you want to call it little computer dude who who

2:07.4

starts to think about his existence and then he starts to think that oh there are these

2:11.4

certain attributes of this particular world that I live in that makes

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