The Atheist Experience 25.08 02-21-2021 with Matt Dillahunty and ObjectivelyDan
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Up first, Travis in PA recounts a story of a paranormal experience of something flying around in his room. He now feels people can be justified in concluding the supernatural. Why couldn’t it just be a bat flying around? Right now, the best you can say is that you don’t know what it was.
Alex in MO asks why Matt holds the “hard atheist” position, meaning believing there are no gods.. The world doesn't look like the world created by a god. As far as we can tell, people made up every god and only evidence will change our mind. If a god is “hiding” from view, from our perspective it's indistinguishable from a non-existent god.
Heath in SC thinks there is good evidence for god, but not scientific evidence as he is supernatural. Since there is no way to prove the supernatural, how is there good evidence for a god? Faith and reason are not the same thing, faith is the excuse when you don’t have a good reason. Your misunderstanding of the infinite monkey theorem is not a good reason to believe in any god.
Robin in DC claims that you won't have grounds to make any predications without being able to identify what is ultimate. We don't work in ultimates here. Robin claims god is the personal creator of all temporal states of affairs. How do you know that is the property of any god? You can’t prove direct revelation is from a god, tell god to speak to everyone…
Adam in IL asks if there are logical reasons to be an atheist. No one has proved a god, so the default position is disbelief. There is no evidence the bible is the word of god. Hoo boy, the ol’ “building needs a builder so creation needs a creator” argument… Now onto “something from nothing” retort, you don’t understand big bang cosmology.
Harmon in MI claims the concept of the third eye came from DMT released from the pineal gland and the pineal gland has been known since ancient times. Ancient people weren’t idiots, however the age of belief lends no credence to the belief itself. DMT is a natural process in our bodies, the body is a complex organism and we don’t fully understand every process.
Olivia in TX asks why so many eye witnesses died for their religion if their religion is a lie. How do you know if there were any eye witnesses? What we have are stories designed to make you ask that question. The real question is DID it happen?
Lastly, Russ in MO claims theists and atheists have misconceptions, claiming everything in the universe is in a perfect order. We didn't believe that before or after a god belief. Good luck telling us that we believe what we don't believe. I guess you have misconceptions about how to remain a guest on our show...
That’s our show, thanks for tuning in!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience--3254896/support.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | So you think that you tell us how to live our lives |
| 0:07.0 | Never question me the thoughts from which your life will pour |
| 0:13.0 | Dear eyes, you think that suffering is part of some great planet's been devised |
| 0:20.0 | I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:26.0 | I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:36.0 | Alright everybody, welcome. It's Sunday afternoon around 430 Central if you're watching us live |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the Atheist Experience there are some people who thought there wouldn't be a show today |
| 0:46.0 | But we are unstoppable, uncancellable. We are just a force of nature |
| 0:51.0 | And by the way, over the last week folks in the Austin area and in Texas in general went through the worst and most freakish winter storm in history as far as we can tell |
| 1:04.0 | Freezing temperatures for a week, pipes bursting, power outages, just way too much |
| 1:12.0 | And what I want to say is that behind the scenes I couldn't have been more proud and more happy even though I was miserable |
| 1:20.0 | I never lost power at my house and I kept wanting anybody who didn't have power to come over but there was two inches of ice in front of my place and nobody could get out and and |
| 1:30.0 | Dan will have a story about that in just a moment but the people in the Atheist community of Austin got together and we're making sure |
| 1:38.0 | Hey, are you okay? Do you have power? Do you have water? Can we do this? Who's got a vehicle that can get to somebody? Can we get somebody where there's power? |
| 1:46.0 | And while some people were like, you know, Mark Vandenberg I think was out of power for like 55 hours but he was fortunate enough to have a fireplace |
| 1:54.0 | And so I remember him saying he was playing strategic with his brother in the next to the fire. Austin is, I don't know, it's like closing in on 65, 70 degrees, something who knows |
| 2:07.0 | It's warm almost all the snow is gone and yet there's a lot to recover Austin as a city is still on boil water notice because pipes froze there's cross contamination |
| 2:18.0 | And the water that's coming out of your pipes if you have it may not be safe to drink so please if you're in the Austin area |
| 2:24.0 | Continue to do that and check on that if you are elsewhere make sure you check what your city is doing and whether or not you need to be boiling your water or taking care if you're |
| 2:33.0 | You know in the broader Texas and as a reminder we have crossed the line where 500,000 Americans have now died of COVID |
| 2:42.0 | Let's not forget that in addition to having this freak winter storm we are still in the middle of a global pandemic and while the infection rate and death and death rate are dropping |
| 2:54.0 | There's still really high and so keep wearing a mask keep following the guidelines, look into vaccinations in your area |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Atheist Community of Austin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Atheist Community of Austin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.