Atheist Experience 23.48 2019-11-17 with Matt Dillahunty & Don Baker
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
SHOW TIME-STAMPS
00:23:32 Brian - OH - Has proof god exists, it’s Tim Tebow.
00:27:04 Charles - TX - Historical events caused by Jesuits? No.
00:27:53 Joel - AL - Claims to have proof of reincarnation
00:31:23 Patrick - FL - What is sufficient evidence for the existence of god.
00:37:52 Paul - UK - Has definite proof that all the gods don’t exist
00:47:12 Jonathan - AZ - Claims to have found a false argument by Matt
00:58:46 Jeroen - Curaçao - Invited a missionary in to discuss miracles, they deconverted.
01:11:31 CC - Canada - Has evidence for god and he reconverted to Catholicism
01:21:08 Eddie - NY - Believer who has doubts, needs help with understanding.
01:32:20 Rick - Canada - Proof the Big Bang is in the bible and science is in the bible too.
SHOW NOTES
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by one of our favorite co-hosts, Don Baker. Don is back with his list of Christian Failures. This week,
Don continues to talk about souls for the 3rd time. He talks about where the soul goes when you die, spoiler alert: the soul doesn’t exist and it doesn’t go anywhere. If you’re following along and keeping track, this is topic #69.
Let’s get to calls!
The first caller is Brian from Ohio. He claims Tim Tebow is miraculous, it’s also a miracle that he wore 3:16, and everything lined up for a win 7 years ago. Ummmm… No. How do you determine it’s a miracle and how does it translate into proving a god.
Oooh, this one is quick. Charles from Texas lists off historical events and claims it was all caused by the Jesuits. Nope, goodbye!
The following caller named Joel from Alabama has a bald assertion that the soul is reincarnated through universal awareness. Instincts do not relate at ALL to reincarnation. There is also no evidence for this.
The next caller in the queue is Patrick from Florida wanting to discuss why atheists don’t believe that god is the universe. We aren’t trying to redefine the universe as god. What attributes or properties justify putting a god label on the universe? (Answer: it’s not worth it and makes you seem ridiculous.)
Next up, Paul in London, UK has proof that no gods exist. This assertation needs to be under the same scrutiny as the claim that there is a god. The burden of proof is on Paul here due to his claim.
Afterwards we have Jonathan from Arizona. He called in to talk about Matt’s argument that alien abduction is more plausible than god and how that argument is false. It actually is plausible and could happen because it wouldn’t be a supernatural event. You do not get to assert that it is supernatural.
Subsequently, Jeroen in Curaçao feels guilt about deconverting someone who he invited into his home where they discussed and dismantled miracles and other religious ideology.
Next up, Catholic “Clearly” Canadian in Canada definitely has evidence for god. It’s why he reconverted to Catholicism. Where and what is your evidence, eh?
Next caller, Eddie from New York is disgusted with immoral believers and is troubled by what he used to believe. He is having a really tough time, hang in there Eddie, you have community with us here. Please contact the kind folks at Recovering from Religion. They can help: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/
Finally, we have Rick from Canada. Claims the big bang is in the bible along with scientific facts. Sorry, science doesn’t work that way.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So you think that you tell us how to live our lives |
| 0:07.0 | Never questioning the thoughts from which your mind will pour near us |
| 0:14.0 | You think that suffering in part is something planets can devise |
| 0:20.0 | I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:26.0 | And every word will it take for you to start opening your eyes |
| 0:33.0 | I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, hey, welcome |
| 0:41.0 | Today is November 17th, 2019. This is the Atheist's Experience coming to you live from Austin, Texas |
| 0:47.0 | at the Atheist Community of Austin's Freethought Library. I'm your host Matt Dulley joining me this week. Don Baker |
| 0:52.0 | Hey, good to be here. And you have a topic for us. I do. We're talking to you. We're going to go back to the soul. |
| 0:59.0 | Yep. Okay. For the third time. See, you're just trying to make me look bad because I'm on record saying that the soul is the single most obviously dead topic in all of the |
| 1:08.0 | Theology. And now we're making we're going back to beat the dead horse again. Yes. But it'll be fun. Okay. Quick announcements and stuff to get out of the way before we get started. |
| 1:16.0 | We, as I mentioned, are the Atheist Community of Austin's Freethought Library. There are actually people sitting on the other side of the glass here and some on the back porch and other stuff. |
| 1:24.0 | If you are in the Austin area, ever, the buildings open basically seven days a week from 11 to 9. If you ever get here in the buildings not open, there's a number you can call. |
| 1:33.0 | It just means because we're an entirely volunteer run organization. Somebody's wires got crossed or somebody had to work or go to a job interview or stop out and skip out for lunch or whatever else. |
| 1:44.0 | But by and large, we're here and there's something going on on many nights here, including. There's a philosophy group that meets here on Wednesday. |
| 1:52.0 | We record some of our many, many programs at different times or the week on this is Sunday. And so this is the day when most people are going to be here. |
| 1:59.0 | Talk. He then was on from one to three, one to two thirty. And then after talk. He then was over. They hung out in the discord. |
| 2:05.0 | For a while, we're going to be doing the same thing. We're on from 4.30 till roughly six o'clock or so. And then we'll be hanging out in the discord for a short period of time. |
| 2:14.0 | That's the ACA fan discord and they will have the link up somewhere in that vicinity. Any atheist or atheist friendly person is welcome to come down to the building and interact with us whenever they want to. |
| 2:25.0 | But on Sundays after the atheist experiences over with their dinner here and today it's going to be Chinese and it'll be in the back. |
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