The Atheist Experience 27.12 03-26-2023 with Jim Barrows and Secular Rarity

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this week's episode of The Atheist Experience. Host Jim Barrows is joined by Talk Heathen regular Secular Rarity. It's going to be a great show, so let's get onto the calls.

Unbeliever discusses the difficulties and the benefits of coming out as an atheist in a Muslim family. How do we navigate these conversations and in the long run, is it worth having?

What does an open or closed universal system show there is a God? Our hosts and John debate the flaws in this concept, that solipsism cannot be proven or disproven, and adding assumptions where we don’t have answers doesn’t solve anything.

Caller Roland asks if having faith in a God the more reasonable explanation for everything vs. the skepticism atheists have. Does existence have a purpose?

Romeo is curious, have our hosts heard any “good” arguments for God? Romeo,Jim, & Secular Rarity discuss what is convincing evidence for a God and how does one move from being an atheist into a believer? Are those reasons valid? Ehh, probably not. Also, an evolution argument..again!

Science Time! Eli calls in and asks “where does energy and mass come from?” Jim patiently explains the science and how to avoid the argument from ignorance fallacy. Eli admits to having some doubts as well while our hosts how we become more skeptical.

Ni and the hosts explore what absolute truth is, the standard for it, scientific proof, and what standard of evidence would be sufficient to prove God is real.

Slave of Christ explains what sin is and how it is a “good” standard of immoral acts. Our hosts pushed back against this argument followed with a discussion of ethics, morality, and the areas of gray the bible does not provide answers for. Also biblical slavery defended again—ugh!

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0:18.4	a helping hand to those in need. To support displaced families across the unmarred this Ramadan,
0:24.4	search UK for UNHCR Zuckard today. Hello and welcome to the atheist experience. We're in our
0:31.0	27th season and we've yet to be convinced that any gods exist. Hopefully you've got the argument
0:36.1	or maybe the evidence evidence referable that we've been looking for, then buckle up buttercup
0:40.4	because the show is starting right now.
0:42.4	And today is March 26th, 2023. I am your host Jim Rose and joining me today is
0:53.7	secularity. We're also live at the free thought library and we have a live audience. Wonderful
0:58.8	people joining us. Let's get a look at those very attractive folks. Say hi. Yes, they're alive, not dead.
1:07.7	The lottery for which one we're eating will be happening later today. How so? What to do with you,
1:11.7	secularity? Pretty good. I'm saving room for the sacrifice. Good. Yeah. How to light breakfast this
1:18.4	morning. You know, I, you know, Jim, I was on talk either and we just we didn't have any good
1:24.9	god. I don't know if I wouldn't say that people are scared, right? Because that would be, you know,
1:29.3	that would be rude. I wouldn't say that they recognize that they don't have any good argument.
1:33.5	And that's why they call right? That would be that that's me leaping to conclusions. That would be
1:38.4	yes, exactly. Because there's got to be an argument out there because so many people believe
1:41.6	somebody's got to have a reason. Yeah, because why else would all these people believe they wouldn't
1:45.2	just be believing or bad reasons? Or just because their parents told them to. No, that couldn't
1:49.2	get. No, no, good. I, you know, we're personal experience. I mean, that's always a good one too, right?
1:53.6	Well, thank goodness we've got open lines. Yeah. Because I don't know. Yeah. If you guys think we're
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