The Atheist Experience 26.32 08-07-2022 with Matt Dillahunty and Kenneth

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Kenneth!

Our first caller today is Michael from MI who believes that mathematical imaginary numbers can prove the existence of well– their definition of God at least.

Denver from VA wants advice on how to introduce skepticism to their very unskeptical girlfriend who believes in significant amounts of woo including astrology and alternative “natural” medicine. While the caller doesn’t want to interfere with their right to do these medical procedures on their own body, they are concerned about the future if they happen to have a kid.

Ralph from FL is calling to demonstrate the existence of a God but claims that you must accept it first then look for evidence. Alright then, the initial singularity that the big bang originated from was actually a hot dog, just accept it. I don’t know what goes into modern hot dogs, maybe this one contained all of the matter in the universe, trust me.

Tyler from MD asserts that because we can’t know everything or have evidence for every claim, that faith is somehow a viable alternative.

Khan from India is calling to make a case that Atheists have a faith-based position because they claim to know no gods exist. No, we don't.

Eric from NY is calling to present an argument from complexity and modified watchmakers analogy, but with atoms and smartphones and beavers so it's cooler.

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1:29.6	I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, why do we take for you to start opening your eyes? I wonder.
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1:50.0	90 million years old. I'm Matt Dulley, joining me this week. Kenneth Leonard, how are you, sir?
1:54.0	I'm good. I only feel about 80 million years old, so yeah. We're hanging.
1:57.9	The good news is that according to some Christians, the earth is only about 6 to 10,000 years old,
2:02.2	so we clearly cannot be millions of years old. Maybe somebody will call in and defend that.
2:07.6	I hope so. I'm interested. Do you know the ratio where people will say that saying the earth is
2:13.9	6,000 years old is like saying like the United States of America is only a matter of feet wide
2:18.6	when we think about the scale of cosmic time. That's all I think about every time I hear that.
2:23.2	Yeah, I remember. Dawkins gave an example once where he stood up and he's like, if you measure
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