The Atheist Experience 29.18 with Justin and Allegedly-Ian 2025-05-04
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
00:00 Intro02:33 Adam-(EN) | Contingency Argument For Necessary Entity
55:41 Mike-SC | What Level Of Natural Disaster Is Okay?
1:37:03 Michael-FL | Dealing With Observable Phenomenon
SHOW NOTESIn today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Justin and Allegedly Ian, take calls ranging from philosophy to phenomena.
Adam in England has a contingency argument for a necessary entity. Why should we believe that there was ever a point in time where things were selected?
Prior to god creating the laws of physics, did god believe that he created the laws of physics? Was there a state that the universe did not exist?
How can something exist and not exist at the same time?
What causes something to be true?
At what point does the universe become god?
If part of god is contingent, then god is not fully necessary. How can god be all benevolent if not all parts of god are good?
Why did god not create a world with no natural disasters? What is god’s intention when making people suffer?
Mike, a theist in SC, wants to know what it would take to make us happy in relation to natural disaster casualties. All good means doing the best thing and that is zero deaths with not one bad thing is to be expected. How can free will exist if god is all knowing?
If something is outside of time, would it have future, present, and past states?
If god is all benevolent, why is he such a misogynist?
Why does this god give instructions on how to own people?
Why would the time period have an affect on the people’s morals?
Profiting on the ownership of other people is bad and not dependent on perception. Why does god justify blood feud?
Michael in FL is deconverting and curious how the hosts deal with phenomena that they can observe. It is always important to ask if there is any peer reviewed evidence showing this is a phenomenon. If god had a belief about a spiritual experience that changed once the experience happened, god can’t exist outside of space and time. Find the tests that can be done to investigate and reproduce this phenomenon. If we are unable to reproduce the results in a controlled environment, then we are looking at a psychological phenomenon.
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| 0:00.0 | Every week, billions of people kneel before invisible gods, reading from ancient books, following traditions that justify everything from genocide to genital mutilation, all while trying to convince the public that God is necessarily good. |
| 0:14.2 | The same people believe that this cosmic magician gets upset if you eat shrimp, cut your sideburns, or love somebody of the same gender. |
| 0:21.5 | And we're here to ask one simple question, why? Why do we follow texts that haven't been updated |
| 0:26.6 | since before leeches were cutting edge medicine technology? Why are we still defending |
| 0:32.2 | ideas that crumble under the weight of freshman philosophy classes? Why do we worship a |
| 0:37.3 | creator that demands our obedience upon the threat of torture while also refusing to reveal itself? |
| 0:43.2 | It's time to reject faith and demand evidence. |
| 0:46.1 | If you've got a belief in God and you think it can survive scrutiny, we'd love to hear about it. |
| 0:50.2 | The lines are open and the show starts now. |
| 1:01.7 | Thank you. about it. The lines are open and the show starts now. Welcome in, everybody. Today is May 4th, |
| 1:07.9 | 2025. I'm your host, Justin. You might know me as Deconstruction Zone. And I'm pleased to introduce my co-host for the first time on AXP, the ruler of rhetoric, the deacon of |
| 1:12.5 | discourse, the emperor of enunciation, the viceroy of reason, and the emissary of inferences, |
| 1:19.0 | allegedly Ian. |
| 1:20.1 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:22.0 | Wow, that's, wow, the glaze is crazy. |
| 1:24.9 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:27.7 | Ian, we're certainly glad to have you with us on the atheist experience. |
| 1:31.3 | And for those just coming in, the atheist experience is a product of the atheist community of Austin, a 501-C3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of atheism, critical thinking, secular humanism, and the separation |
| 1:45.5 | of religion and government. And for anyone who doesn't know, my friend Ian yet, you can find him |
| 1:51.7 | on TikTok and on YouTube at allegedly Ian. And I think you're only one going by that name, right? |
| 1:58.1 | Yeah, hopefully. If I did my branding right, then yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:02.7 | Fantastic. Now, we've got one caller already in the queue, and it sounds to me like he's going to be |
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