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Talk Heathen 04.43 10-18-2020 with Vi La Bianca and Dr. Darrel Ray

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

Society & Culture

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Greetings Heathens! Hope you all are doing well, please continue to be safe out there. In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, Vi La Bianca is joined today by Dr. Darrel Ray. It’s going to be a great show!

Let’s get to calls! Caitlin in Nebraska is studying psychology and has some specific questions for Dr. Ray regarding happiness. Who as a group are the most happy, is it the religious, is it the spiritual? Dr. Ray responds, folks within a community seem to be the most happy.

RJ in Colorado is up next, claims that if you look at manmade structures, the oldest tree, and human demographics, all point to a young earth and not evolution. Why do we care and how does this prove theism is real? And he doesn’t think carbon dating is an acceptable way to gauge age. And doesn’t think it's necessary to cite sources. This is a fun call.

Jamie in Wisconsin, is curious about DNA and how it can be encoded or programs our brain development. Dr. Ray attempts to set him straight with facts!

Jacob in California wants to clear up a couple things from his previous call and wanted to call about the Atheist confirmation bias. He is just as condescending as before… but take a listen and make your own conclusions.

Amanda in the Netherlands, is wondering about the fear of hell after deconverting and experiencing some NDEs. She is hopeful we can help her with this fear and how to work through it.

Michael in Maryland would like to talk about being an anti-theist and how he is trying to not incite anger with his stance on religion. Vi breaks it down for him on how to proceed and be an ally in secular humanism to folks within religion.

That’s our show for this week, please continue to be safe in your area, wear your mask, and VOTE! The world is better with you in it. See you next week!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Neither of those people are us.

0:20.0

How are you doing today, Daryl?

0:24.4

I'm doing super.

0:27.6

I'm so glad to be here.

0:30.2

I'm excited to be here.

0:31.9

All right, let's go.

0:34.6

Take the last time I was on.

0:37.3

Hello, and welcome to Talk Heathen.

0:40.3

Today is October 25th, 2020, season 4, episode 43.

0:45.3

I'm Vila Bianca and with me today,

0:47.3

Darryl.

0:48.3

Hello, Darrell, welcome to the show.

0:51.3

Well, thanks for having me.

0:53.3

It's been too long, too long.

0:55.1

It has.

0:56.2

January or February.

0:57.6

I was actually in the studio before COVID hit.

1:00.0

Yes, I remember.

1:01.6

I miss the studio.

1:03.2

I do too, especially the food.

1:05.6

Yes.

1:06.2

Oh, yeah.

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