The Atheist Experience 28.07 with Forrest Valkai, Armin Navabi and Seth Andrews
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 171 minutes
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Summary
Adam in England wants to talk about the relationship between information and design where the information needs a mind to exist and therefore the mind must be god. How is this different from the argument that says DNA is so perfect we must need a designer? Why do people have different understandings of words like “mind” and “freewill”? Where do we draw the line for what has a mind? Being too inclusive with how these words are defined cause them to lose their utility. What is one example of something that was chosen by god to be the way it is? Why add dead weight to the universe to try and explain it?
RJ in CO asks why spiders have not developed wings if evolution is real? If you are such a hard worker, why are you not blowing glass yet? Spiders have some terrifying ways of traveling through the air and there is just no reason to develop wings, just like not having a reason to blow glass. What are the benefits and cons of spiders having wings? Why would the wing mutations have any advantage over what spiders are now? Why would god create a spider to cause its prey to die so horribly? If your god is real, he is evil. Why would god punish a child that he designed for things a child does not understand?
Mikael in GA asks why atheists feel that Jesus is an apocalyptic preacher, when he presented himself as a peaceful Messiah. Why can’t Jesus be both? How do you reconcile the verses that suggest the second coming would happen within the lifetime of his followers? Was it right or wrong for god to forcibly impregnate a young girl?
Thank you for tuning in this week! Question of the week is: It is a bad idea to (blank) at church.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome to the Atheist experience. |
| 0:03.0 | After last week's major copyrighted football American game, |
| 0:10.0 | the large plate, God that's dumb. After this game a lot of people have been talking about a |
| 0:16.4 | commercial that was aired during the halftime show I believe, or around it, from an organization called He Gets Us. |
| 0:24.7 | The commercial showed what looked to be AI-ish generated images of people washing feet, |
| 0:31.6 | people who, I guess for the context of this commercial were supposed to be historic |
| 0:36.6 | enemies. We saw a priest and what was supposed to represent a gay man. We saw |
| 0:42.4 | environmental activists and a Native American |
| 0:46.0 | having his feet washed by a cowboy and a woman at a family planning clinic having her feet |
| 0:51.8 | washed by a protester. On the surface, this shows what was supposed |
| 0:57.4 | to be a good message. Jesus didn't spread hate. He washed feet. It taught humility, it taught forgiveness, it taught love. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm sure that that was what was going through the minds of the advertisers when they put it on screen. |
| 1:10.0 | But when you look just a little bit under that surface you see something |
| 1:14.4 | quite a bit darker first and foremost being that this advertising campaign was |
| 1:19.9 | over a hundred millions dollars that this ad itself cost tens of millions of dollars to run |
| 1:27.2 | during this event how much more good would that money have done if they had used it to lead by example and to actually |
| 1:35.7 | support charitable organizations and to actually go out and do some of the good work that they |
| 1:40.9 | think Jesus would have done in the world rather than |
| 1:43.4 | prostulatizing, preaching the new version of Jesus that they're finally ready |
| 1:48.1 | to accept. And when I say that, I mean that this organization he gets us LLC used to be owned by the Servant |
| 1:56.2 | Foundation which was an anti-LgBT an anti-choice organization and a major |
| 2:01.4 | donor to the Alliance defending freedom which is a prominent |
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