Hey, I'm going on a tour of the United Kingdom. If you've ever been interested in that big question of God's existence, or try to make sense of religion in the 21st century, or consciousness, or anything philosophical, then join me on stage as I try to work out some of these topics with you.

I'll be in conversation with a good friend, but also bring questions because there will be an extensive Q&A and maybe even an opportunity to hear and rate some of your

philosophical hot takes. The tour dates are on screen. The link to buy tickets is in the description,

and I hope to see you there. Joe Schmidt, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me.

How are you doing, man? We haven't done this in a fair amount of time

now, but we were just talking about how popular these episodes seem to be. People like

overviews. They like lists. They like comparisons. They like sort of, I don't know. I don't know

what it is about these videos, but people seem to really like them. So I'm glad to have you back

today. I'm glad to be back. I mean, I think it is about these videos, but people seem to really like them. So I'm glad to have you back today.

I'm glad to be back. I mean, I think it's just because I'm like overwhelmingly sexy.

That's the only explanation. That the woman are just like swooning. Even the guys are swooning. The straight guys are swooning, in fact. That's what happens every time I'm going. I'm sure that people in the comments will let us know.

And now, since we said this, there will inevitably be TikTok edits of these comments.

So, you know, edit away.

We're here today to discuss

some of the most popular atheist or like counter-religion, counter-apologetic slogans.

And this was your idea, because I wanted to do another episode with you. And you said,

hey, how about this? I don't know about you, but all the time on the internet, not just like in comment sections and stuff, but I see like videos.

It's either like people making videos on social media or it's like clips of someone like Ricky Jervais and they've got these kinds of like one liners.

And you're seeing people say like, oh, well,

I just believe them one God less than you do. Or it's like the, the Ricky Jervase thing went viral kind of recently, right? Of like, you know, if all the books were burned in the world, the science ones would come back and the religion ones wouldn't come back. And it sort of, they turn into these like slogans that atheists use all the time. Now look, I don't believe in God. I think

you don't believe in God, at least the last time I checked you didn't. And I think some of these slogans work, some of them don't. So today, let's go through as many as we can do in a reasonable amount of time and see if we should keep using them. How's it sound?

Sounds good to me. Yeah, I mean, these are often used as like thought terminating cliches, but, uh, or, you know, like mic drop moments. So we'll see if we have any mic drop moments, uh, in defense of them or maybe in responding to them. We'll see. I'm sure we'll have them. Yes, sir. Okay, well, let's start with a claim, which is it Carl Sagan who first said this? It was someone like that. I think it might have been Sagan, who said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That's claim one. And I think it's because, you know, a lot of the religious claims that people make are pretty sort of out there, you know, people rising from the dead, supernatural interventions into the world, and people like to say, well, we've got evidence for these things. But for a lot of atheists, it's maybe you can't say, oh, well, you don't have any, like any evidence at all for this kind of stuff, but it isn't really doing it for me. And this is supposed to capture that kind of feeling, I suppose?

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