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The Atheist Experience

The Atheist Experience 27.10 03-12-2023 with Forrest Valkai and JMike

The Atheist Experience

The Atheist Community of Austin

Religion & Spirituality, Non-profit, Business

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai is joined by Jmike!

Frank from the USA claims that if you don’t believe in God, your life is meaningless. The first premise of this fallacious “argument” is the existence of objective morality. Here’s my advice, slow down and think this through.

Chris from SC wants clarification on the difference between sex and gender.

Cliff from Canada wants to ask, eventually, why we ought to worship God assuming it is real.

Mr. Warlight is calling in with an argument for the supernatural that our hosts just CAN’T HANDLE.

Abhishek from India wants to know why it’s so important to question religious beliefs and focus on its problems when it does have benefits.

Andrew from Canada’s argument for God is the same processes science textbooks go through when they are updated. Why revamp the bible? If it’s outdated in terms of its conclusions about reality, why would it be useful to go back and rewrite it with our current scientifical findings integrated when the bible has nothing to do with modern science? Instead of having a story with inaccurate claims about reality, you now have a story with some inaccurate carry-overs, because they have to be there for the bible to still be the bible, with some modern scientific understandings sprinkled in.

Chuck from HI believes that matter, space, stars, and Earth are all eternal. Oxygen is as eternal as everyone’s excitement about Marvel’s Eternals. I would add more, but anything I say would detract from whatever just happened.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to the Atheist Experience.

0:03.0

We are currently in our 27th season of this show, and we have yet to be convinced that any

0:08.8

gods exist.

0:10.1

If you think that you have the argument or the evidence that we've been looking for

0:13.2

for all these many, many years, then get ready to call in, because the show starts right

0:17.2

now.

0:18.2

Welcome to the Atheist Experience.

0:25.3

I'm your host, Boris Valkay, and I'm joined today by the incomparable and mighty Jay

0:29.4

Mike.

0:30.4

How are you doing today?

0:31.4

I am great.

0:32.4

I'm having a really good day, actually, so I'm excited.

0:34.4

I'm glad to hear that, man.

0:35.6

That's excellent.

0:36.6

I'm super stoked to get started, because we have a tremendous amount of great callers

0:40.9

on the line.

0:42.4

Usually the last couple of things that I've been doing.

0:44.5

We've had Atheist kind of reluctant to call, but right now we actually have packed lines

0:49.0

with really cool things I want to talk about.

0:51.2

So just so everybody else knows, today is March the 12th, 2023.

0:57.0

The Atheist Experience is a product of the Atheist community of Austin, which is a 501C3

1:00.9

nonprofit organization, dedicated to the promotion of Atheism, Critical Thinking, Secular Humanism,

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