In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity and Johnny P. Angel contemplate how numerology proves everything (in specific situations)

Moses in FL goes right into a classic…how do you prove love is real. Secular Rarity gives us some examples like past relationships and medical technology can scan your brain to see brain activity during these love feelings. Sure, the bible says god is love but it also contradicts that fact by wrathful acts. What's loving about eternal damnation? Moses then moves onto proving god is everything we experience is god's love, for example The White House is in between Virginia and Maryland so mash those names together and you get Virgin Mary. So what if there are weird coincidences James in MI needs more evidence to not believe in god because god exists in maths and grammar. He claims Christ Jesus revealed himself in numbers, for example April 17, 4 was the day Jesus was conceived. You can find examples of patterns giving different messages but it's useless if it only works on the english translation. This is just remembering the hits and ignoring the misses. The message should be universal and not just a very cherry picked pattern.

Zatoichi444 in MI claims that our world is made by a lesser god, one reason is that everything can be mathematically plotted and explained and a real god would do better. DMT, a powerful hallucinogen, is not a way to find truth. Why won’t you accept that different people have contradictory experiences on DMT so it can’t be a good methodology for finding truth. We don’t doubt you had this experience or that you came away with this belief.

Mike in NY says that god existing is a moot point as he can’t be discovered in the natural world. We should stop wasting time arguing about religion. There are real people affected by these ideologies and their actions matter in the real world.

Steve in Nebraska introduces us to the WOW signal of terrestrial genetic code, a study claiming to prove intelligent design in our genetic codes. Steve dives into some numerology to prove a pattern in the genetic code. The paper is based on the WOW signal SETI discovered in 1977, they compare that signal to our genetic code and fudge some numbers and voila, intelligent design. The WOW signal is very interesting but you should research more into the comparisons of that pattern and try debunking your numerology, it doesn’t seem to hold up to scrutiny.

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