The Atheist Experience 28.10 with Forrest Valkai and @EmmaThorneVideos
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
Our first call is from Richard in Arizona who wants to talk to Forrest and Ema who is trying to reconcile the worry of AI. . Now, we can have sympathy for Richard here as AI is a concern, but when we start doom spiraling with our fear, we will come to all kinds of disastrous outcomes. Eventually both Ema and Forrest point out there is no point to worry about it till we have something to worry about. That managing that anxiety and not allow our minds when faced with the unknown to fall into all the negative outcomes.
Josh calls next from Texas to discuss that he is still a theist, but is working through his deconstruction, reconciling conflicting ideas, science as the thing that brought him out of dogmatic belief, and working to find community.
Number three we got Tyler from Colorado, who claims there is science in the bible, esp. In regards to evolution. Now, Forrest is a evolutionary scientist, wanna guess how well this went? Yeah, not great. Please enjoy!
Our last caller is Hayden also from Arizona, who wanted to talk Ema and Forrest about the science of abortion and reproductive rights.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Proverbs, chapter 3, versus 5 and 6, read, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, |
| 0:46.7 | in all your ways, acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths. |
| 0:51.6 | That's what Proverbs says. What I say is that if anybody ever tells you not to think about something, that's the thing that you need to be thinking about the most, and that's the person that you need to be trusting the least. |
| 1:05.2 | You see, thinking isn't just a fun buzzword. |
| 1:08.7 | It actually is a really important thing that everybody should be doing about pretty much everything all the time. |
| 1:15.6 | And if somebody's going to tell you, you're too dumb to understand this, just don't think about it. |
| 1:21.7 | That's very different than saying, |
| 1:23.5 | listen, this is something that's a little bit out of your area of expertise. |
| 1:26.6 | You're not familiar with you're ignorant about. So leave it to the experts. |
| 1:30.3 | These are very, very different things. that verse is deliberately telling you not to use your brain and that is |
| 1:37.6 | Seriously scary but if you think that I'm misinterpreting this or or miss reading it or maybe I'm just not |
| 1:45.0 | understanding the bigger picture the bigger message or maybe you have some |
| 1:48.5 | access to some divine knowledge that I don't have access to if you think that I'm being unfair with this verse |
| 1:54.8 | then call in because the show starts right now. |
| 1:57.0 | Greetings! welcome to the atheist experience. Today is March 10th, 2024, and we've got a great show for you tonight. |
| 2:12.0 | I'm joined today by Emma |
| 2:13.7 | Thorn, Emma Thorn everybody. You and I've wanted to work with you for a little while. |
| 2:17.8 | I've heard so many great things and guys we've been chatting before the show. |
| 2:20.7 | I'm just loving everything I'm learning about you so I'm super |
| 2:24.5 | stoop for today before we get started I got to let everybody know that the |
| 2:28.1 | atheist experience is a product of the atheist community of Austin which is a |
| 2:30.8 | 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of |
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