The Atheist Experience 26.16 04-17-2022 with Jim Barrows and Forrest Valkai
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 17 April 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
First up is Alex from Israel who wants to talk about lucid dreaming and its possible naturalistic explanatory power for out of body & near death experiences.
Next is Nate from CA who identifies as an atheist, but takes a 50/50 confidence stance on the true/false claim that a God exists.
Next is Brett from MO who asks us if Atheism is an objective position or subjective?
Up next is Matthew from SC who doesn’t understand what makes someone biologically transgender, versus someone just “choosing” to identify as a sex they weren’t born as.
Next up is Theodore from PA who reasons that after death, our consciousness continues onward via the consciousness of others. So is consciousness like an organic version of distributed computing?
Next up is Jay from TX who claims to have had a near death experience, and believes it to be evidence of the afterlife.
Finally, Jay from MO is calling in to present the standard “it’s just a theory” gish gallop. The call comes with such great quotes like “Life can’t come from nothing,” and “Where does electricity come from?”
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| 1:43.0 | Hello, I'm Luke. The eighth-year students' grants today is the 17th of April, also known |
| 1:59.7 | as Lich King Day. I am your host Jim Burrows, and joining me today is Forest Valquay. How |
| 2:05.6 | you doing for us? Hello, I'm awesome, man. Thanks for having me. |
| 2:08.6 | We've been looking forward to it for over a month now since we got your schedule. So, |
| 2:13.4 | it's really cool. For everybody who doesn't know who you are, you want to give us a brief |
| 2:16.8 | introduction? Yes, sure. Hi, my name is Forest. I'm a biologist and I teach science on the |
| 2:21.9 | internet. I teach people who love science in themselves. I mainly talk about evolution, |
| 2:26.5 | because that's kind of my specialty. I study evolutionary biology and bioanthropology, |
| 2:29.8 | so I studied the biology of humans and where we came from and all sorts of cool things. |
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