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The Atheist Experience

The Atheist Experience 27.17 04-30-2023 with Jim Barrows and Christy Powell

The Atheist Experience

The Atheist Community of Austin

Religion & Spirituality, Non-profit, Business

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Jim Barrows and Christy Powell are live in the studio! They will discover different economic systems through absolute morality before performing a thought experiment with god as the arbiter of morality. This god is responsible for the high level grammar of the Quran and the fine tuning of the universe. We know this because we can’t replicate abiogenesis and the messianic prophecy is all we need for proof of Jesus.

Julia in Florida would like to hear input on other gods that we have in our society such as different systems. Economic systems can be one of these things. Look at what you are willing to do to support what you believe.

Audience Question- Kathy wants to know about absolute morality. Morality is a judgment of behavior. How do you prove that an animal is acting out of forethought and no instinct?

Michael in GA presents a thought experiment. If there was a god, then that god must be the arbiter of all morality. The god of the Bible is not only imaginary but also sounds like a narcist.

Omar in CA presents the Quran as the highest level of grammar and is a sign of the original being preserved. What does the highest level of grammar mean? How is the Quran different from any other book? Before voice recordings, how do you prove the voice vocalizations are the same? Why is the Quran superior?

Frank in NC asks what the hosts would accept as proof for god. We don’t know what that evidence would be exactly. It is frustrating to see people indulging in antidotes that don’t work in place of real life solutions. What is the evidence for the god you believe in? If we talk about probability, there is a problem with sample size and inherent sampling error. The problem with fine tuning is we only have one universe to draw samples from. If you don’t know what something is, how do you know that it is fine tuned?

Mike in WA asks if we have ever been able to replicate abiogenesis. Just because we can’t replicate this, does not mean that it did not happen. Not knowing the answer to something does not prove that something else exists. Over the last 3,000 years, we have no new evidence for the existence of god, and no phenomena has been proven to be supernatural. Are you trying to make the watchmaker argument from design? This will not work for people who think critically.

Anthony in MA brings up the Messianic Prophecy argument. If there are a number of books in a series, and the first book is true, how does that make the other books true? There are a number of stories in the Bible that we know did not happen as written. The people who wrote the gospels knew of the prophecies and they were more interested in theology than they were history.

Thank you for being here everybody! Question of the week is: If god is so powerful, then why hasn’t she___________?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Atheist Experience.

0:03.5

We are in our 27th season and yet we have still yet to receive any proof or evidence of a God or God's

0:11.4

even existing. Do you have what we're looking for? If so, give us a call because the show is coming right now.

0:17.4

All right well today is April 30th, 2023. I am Christy Powell and joining me today is my

0:30.0

co-host Jim Barrow's. We are live from the free thought library in front of a live studio audience

0:35.5

and I'm told we have a special group of rowdy students from UTSA, the secular student alliance.

0:43.9

Let's take a look at all those beautiful people. I thought you said they were rowdy. They're

0:47.5

awfully quiet for rowdy. They're very quiet. Do it all right yeah. Yeah they can't pick up a hint

0:52.9

either because you know when you're normal and say they're not very rowdy though. Yeah all right.

0:56.7

They're yelling and screaming but these guys are doing it. We're not going to do that stuff.

1:00.4

Yeah I thought it must be too much alcohol too much beer. Last night? It was Saturday night.

1:05.4

Yeah 4.30 in the afternoon I mean that takes us heat starting to come in. Yeah it was so

1:10.2

old today. Fair enough. Fair enough. Maybe here. Well as you know the atheist experience is a

1:15.3

product of the atheist community of Austin of 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion

1:20.8

of atheism, critical thinking, secular humanism and the separation of religion and government.

1:27.4

We've got plenty of lines open. We're excited to take your call but before we get started Jim

1:33.7

let's take a moment to answer the question from last week. Last week we asked our audience

1:39.3

name a sin that is so minor that God can't be bothered to punish people for it. So our favorite

1:45.7

answers number three came from Eric Campdow. He said a sin so minor that can't be bothered to

1:50.8

punish people for not returning your shopping cart to the corral. Fair. Yeah deserves deserves but

1:57.6

may not I sure right right now these are still sins. Let's not you know lose that. Mitchell Connor

2:04.8

said a sin God is too lazy to punish us for is not saying God bless you when somebody sneezes which

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