The Atheist Experience 767 with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris
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- The Atheist Experience 767 for June 24, 2012 with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris.
SHOW TIME-STAMPS
00:46- Intro & Announcements - Matt Dillahunty
01:24- Tracie Harris on “insidious baggage”
10:07- Trevor (theist): bio-chemical challenges for evolution, has reasons to doubt every point of evolution
20:13- Charles (theist, possible prank caller): proving the existence of God with science and the Bible
35:30- Paul (atheist): asks how the hosts' lifestyle changed when they became atheists
43:40- William: asks if Buddhism a religion
49:05- John (atheism): encountering hostility towards atheism in the military, atheism being beneficial in combat
You can read more about this episode on the official Atheist Experience blog:
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Lean why evolution is not "just" a theory in two minutes:
► www.notjustatheory.com
Related video: The Non-Prophets Radio Show 11.8 (on Matt's channel):
► • The Non-Prophets 11.8
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"When you're on the phone with somebody who's basically telling you 'how do you know there wasn't a talking snake that enticed a woman to eat a magic apple'... Uhm, I'm sorry, but we've gotta move on."
LMAO! Tracie is amazing!
I fully believe someone saw a snake that spoke to them. I just want to smoke whatever they did.
@@borninjordan7448 :
They were smoking cardboard.
@@borninjordan7448
Tripping hard on creosote bush.
And such forth
@@mathdesm9306 I'm not familiar with this particular strain, but it sounds interesting. Pot is legal in Michigan now and we can grow up to 12 plants and carry no more than 2 ounces at a time and concealed from easy access. Medical marijuana is stronger than what we can buy without a Dr approval, but we can grow the best if we have the right lighting, CO2, and the like.
Religion preys on people more than it prays for them.
chris worth yeah you're right, and the second part doesn't even work.
chris worth "IN -GOD- GOLD WE TRUST"
Andrea Avatar only if it's in my teeth!
P= PS the same lust for gold is the same lust that now moves Feminism, they want money and government power, to become a legal thought police, Fuck SJWs and Feminists.
When you actually understand what feminism is (not some of the isolated misandrists that make a lot of noise) and why there is a need for people to propagate social justice, and stop conflating it with whatever Fox News or Hannity promulgates, you might be able to have a constructive discussion instead of spewing hate.
Why is it so difficult to believe God sacrificed himself to himself to appease himself so that mankind might be saved from his hate through his love? It's so plausible and based on such sound historical evidence!
Good! You have done well my apprentice.
+sauniz1 cause there isint enough evidence!
nice one
sauniz1 WHAT???
WTF??!?
Trevor: Doubts abiogenesis.
Also Trevor: Believes man was made from dust.
Caller: I believe in a portion of evolution but not all of it.
Me: Laughing my ass off at him.
Host: Calls him an idiot.
Me: Still laughing my ass off.
I love these dumb people. They are so entertaining it really makes me smile and makes my day lol.
Micro and Macro evolution are the same thing. The only difference is TIME. The ignorance needs to stop.
firstname lastname i always ask if they believe in walking, and then ask them if they believe in running a marathon (macro walking)
Lee Noyes writes: "Micro and Macro evolution are the same thing. The only difference is TIME. The ignorance needs to stop."
Indeed, the ignorance does need to stop. How about you stop it first by reconsidering your assertion? If there is a DIFFERENCE between micro and macro evolution then they are NOT THE SAME THING, are they?
Micro could be lots of individual micro increments that built on each other to produce a macro result. It may have been a macro from the start as in a gross gene mutation in a small, isolated population due to disease, something strange in their diet or a burst of radioactivity penetrating to Earth through a temporary breach in the atmosphere Yes , 99% of these mutations may be harmful, but over a period of at least half a billion years some will prove to be not harmful and some may confer considerable benefit on the organism affected. In a group those traits will have a tendency to be passed on to the progeny.
Micro and macro evolution do not necessarily arise from the same source and may not necessarily follow the same paths. The one factor that remains unchanged is the influence of natural selection or change over time. The processes by which natural selection occurs can be quite varied and contain many micro-factors themselves. Scientists agree that research in this field must necessarily be slow and painstaking. Evolution is a factor that is intrinsic to every living thing that has inhabited Earth, so it is an ancient and implacable force of nature. It resists our intrusion into its secrets. It owes us nothing. Humans have become something of a parasitical member of nature's vast family. And while all parasites have a place in nature [they cannot NOT have a place], there may come a time when forces we very poorly understand begin to act against us in the process of natural selection. As far as nature is concerned, it has no respect for karma, luck, justice, innocence, empathy, compassion, mercy and the like. Nature's single identifying property is..........to endure, to perpetuate.
Most humans have found this scenario too bleak and millennia ago invented forces that were more sympathetic and caring and most now place their ultimate fate in the hands of a deity that is portrayed in their image. Their intellectual choice has thus limited their choices for survival. They are victims of their own hubris.
And while the Universe that surrounds our tiny Ark may be hostile to us and deadly in some aspects, it need not be frightening. On the contrary it is filled with wonders and a beauty beside which, Earth's wonders and beauty pale by comparison.
Warren: You haven't studied evolution. You have no credentials. Nobody in the field of biology speaks in this nonsense about 'micro' and 'macro' evolution. Evolution is the change in gene frequency. FREQUENCY. The more time that is allowed, the more those changes in FREQUENCY stack up. It really is just that simple. Go educate yourself in a real university, rather than rotting your intellect and cognitive abilities through the reading of fallacious apologetics.
Shane Johns, It might profit us all if Lee Noyes expressed himself unequivocally, beginning perhaps:
"The terms 'micro' and 'macro', in evolutionary science are not regarded as valid. Changes in gene frequency over time and natural selection acting on those changes.........."
I'm not a scientist but have an abiding interest in natural history, in fact ALL history. If my understanding of some aspects of science has suffered because of my inclination toward human history then sometimes
one suffers a hard lesson. But I raise a well-attested and valid protest against your accusation of my having a penchant for "reading fallacious apologetics". I thank you for the correction but fling down the gauntlet at your allegation re apologetics.
You're critiquing syntax on a 3-year-old comment. I bet you're fun to be around.
If your spouse goes so fundamentalist batshit that they're willing to do something as unethical as abandon your family... you're better off not having your kids around them, or being around them yourself. They're a bad, dangerous person, and you're better off without them in your lives.
fundamentalist in Christianity or atheism?
RedSee
what exactly would be a fundamentalist atheist?
didnt know they had any sort of dogma....
sabin97 they? aren't you an atheist? but, it's really short, it goes like this...there is no god, because we don't know him
RedSee Yeaaaah? So?
Sparten7F4 there is a God because I know Him...when you look at the day, and all of nature, cant you see God? what are you blind? I really believe that atheists don't want to see God...
Trevor said... "I'm not stupid"... well after listening to what he says I find that highly debatable
Most people who feel the need to claim that, are kidding themselves. It is always painfully obvious once they open their mouths.
Oh and that smug little laugh.. I want to reach through time and space and smack him. He remindsme of that Stephanie chick, I think her name was.
The one that refused to admit that she was wrong about something to do with Iron Chariot and kept saying she proved Matt wrong and saying Matt was distancing himself from Iron Chariot, all with that same superfluous chuckle.
@@labella9291 Florida Stephanie XD Oh that was fucking harmful XD
@@CronoXpono You know, I try to not hate people.. BUT THAT SMUG LITTLE CHUCKLE... And you know she was doing the head bobble at the same time, with a snide smirk on her face..
UGH!!!!
She living rent free in my head every time I'm reminded of her.
She makes me want to choose violence. I know why though. I had an abusive social studies teacher. Mrs Spiegle at Conwell Middle School in Philly. Stephanie reminds me of her, and how she would talk down to me, and the same sneering tone to her voice.
She made me sit in her class when I was sick with chicken pox. We didn't know, but I was itching and popping blisters by scratching and she wouldn't let me go to the nurse. This was pre vaccine so between me and the person I got them from we probably infected half our grade.
Yeah, I'm calling her out by name. I wouldn't be surprised if Mrs. Spiegle's first name was Stephane and that this was her in real life.
True. Stupid people never know how stupid they are.
The story Tracey related first up, happened to me exactly. My ex-husband had a brain fade based upon some guilt he felt and became a Born Again. Within 12 months his new church had convinced him that our marriage of 12 years (and two children) was not okay with God. Then they supported him to marry a divorced woman, that their own doctrine rejected, but because she was a Christian, she was better than me a lowly Atheist.
I'm an atheist but my religious friend of many years married the woman he thought god wanted him to have. After 20 years and 2 kids that marriage went to hell. My friend is married again today and says his ex is like the green witch in the film Wizard of Oz. He doesn't care if she is alive or dead. That was real Christian of him. Today he is happily married again and says he finally got the woman god wanted him to have. I've heard his story but can't figure out why god couldn't make up his mind. You never know about god. He works in hysterical ways.
"...works in hysterical ways." -- LOL!
Mirrorgirl my ex husband went all catholic and he tried to annul our 13 year marriage. Of course that was going to cost him a few thousand to to the diocese. So being cheap, he decided to not get remarried in the church (we were married by a justice of the peace). He was divorced again in a few years but he’s still singing in the choir. And I’m still a better catholic as an atheist than he is as a theist. LoL I remarried a fellow atheist and we have a great life with so much happiness and so much less stress. We aren’t praying and hoping, we are DOING and HELPING and have achieved a real “heaven” right here, right now with the one life we have! 👍🏼⭐️
@@trishayamada807 Good for you! :)
I didn't want to thumbs up your comment as it felt disrespectful of your past pain.
I truly hope you are doing well now.
Using the Bible to prove the existence of that god is like using a Superman comic book to prove the existence of Superman.
Blasphemy! Spiderman is the one true book!
Never thought of it that way!
... and worship Lex Luther as outcome.
?
@@_Somsnosa_ Blasphemy! Superman would kick Spiderman's ass any day of the week.
Caller : "And there are creation scientists"
Production Staff : "HAHAHAHAHA"
I rewound that so many times 😂
Tracie is so smart, her arguments are always concise and she always get to the very heart of the matter. She's also beautiful as well, what a woman.
I could not have said it better!
Yes I like Tracie's thoughts on matters most interesting.
@@chadfleming3590 bro....
@@chadfleming3590 ok i bet you are half the age of her even after 4 years
She used to be really great. Now she runs on and on and on
We almost got divorced for the same thing. I had stopped believing and by orthodox Jewish law he wasn't supposed to stay married to me. I'm really lucky he chose me over doctrine. And after awhile he deconverted as well and we've been the happiest and healthiest we've ever been 💜
Good. Jettison the nonsense!
I've been balling my eyes out listening to some of the religious call ins on the show. It breaks my heart how damaging beliefs are to the mental ability of common good people. It destroys the chance to become educated, and like you said it can tear apart families. Countless families ruined in front of my eyes during my life, while consoling my friends, and it's most, not the few. I'm warmed by your comment here, and I hope you can help others during your time on the planet. Gr8! Peace ☮💜
"Stone Soup!" Good shot, Tracie!
"You used to be correct," -- Good shot, Matt!
Evolution is a FACT.
Even more, it has reliable proofs.
well, almost, it's called a theory but that means it's the best we have until something better, even scientists aren't going to say "this is totally undeniable" because the job of science is to look for truth, not justifications. evolution is a theory, all scientific claims are theories, but "theory" in science means "we might as well accept this as true".
You are kind of correct Harry, but you still appear to be labouring under some misconceptions.
Science makes NO pronouncements on TRUTH. Truth, or rather the concept of truth is addressed through Philosophy and need parsing out in depth.
Science merely makes hypotheses, and then tests them with experimentation and observation, makes the absolute best theories and models of how we observe things and that they appear to be.
Speaking of truth is only reasonable in the colloquial sense. When speaking about science it merely confuses the issue.
The term truth has been coopted by the religious to pretend they have an ultimate answer. It really only muddies the waters and serves to confuse.
@@HarryNicNicholas Evolution is both a theory and a fact.
@@lloydchristmas4547
"Evolution" is a fact.
Evolution, as a single word, is not a theory. People don't understand that the "Theory of Evolution Through Natural Selection" is an entire sentence.
Evolution, alone, is a fact and not a theory.
Thank God I am an atheist...
ElijahBailey2000 Thank God I'm an EX-atheist!
***** You were never an atheist to begin with. Now you're just backing a fantasy
ex-atheists tend to be pretty bad at critical thinking and logic in the first place. it prettymuch insane to revert to faith once you used logic to dissect religion.
ElijahBailey2000 If I say, I'm an ex-atheist then I'm an ex-atheist, no matter what you say.
You're lost without JESUS Christ.
yes you are but i still cant take you seriously nomatter what. a person that claims to be a critical thinker but fails at such simple things as rejecting godclaims cant be that good of a critical and logical thinker in the first place.
man Im glad I was born and live in Portugal. Portugal is a catholic country but its a NOT-practicing catholic country and that makes so easy to became and come out as an atheist, And things like social gatherings from the church dont really exist, Social gatherings exist because they are made by the people for the people. And much more but my english is kinda limited to express myself right about this kind of question
Reminds me of my Mom, who used to identify as Catholic, but never went to Church and questioned the divinity of Jesus. Now she’s openly an Atheist. She still likes the Pope, though.
Yes, how do you know there wasn't a talking snake? When I see them in my yard I follow them and challenge them to talk to me. "Come on, snake. I know you can talk." They seem to try and get away from me very quickly.
Snakes don't have the morphology to make any sort of vocal sound. Biology says NO!!! Snakes can't talk!!!!
louis tournas o yeah? But tbe Bible
Says they CAN talk ! Which one do you believe ? Gods word , or biology?
TIBOR Purzsas biology... that which is evident to us
Dennis Pennington haha that was funny, chase them snakes!
Matt B how ridicules! Belive in logic and biology over God's world....as if
On the guy who was claiming that he had proof against evolution, despite repeatedly being told that it was irrelevant...Winston Churchill once said, "A fanatic is someone who won't change their mind, and won't change the subject."
"I know all about evolution."
Brings up "microevolution" as if it's a real thing.
I get a kick out of pointing out (as an astronomer), that no, in the beginning there was not light. Not in the sense that light as we know it (or electromagnetic radiation, for that matter) existed. And even if you could "see" the ambient radiation field, it would still appear pitch black and dark b/c the densities were too high. In the beginning, it was dark :)
(Not that it matters, if you're the type to interpret whatever you want to mean whatever you want, have at it.)
@ezeeckiel The big bang would have produced a lot of radiation, that much is certain. But it wasn't in the form of visible light, of the sort that we can see. The basic reason for this is that visible light is produced by energy emission from quantum jumps of electrons within either atoms or molecules, with the colour of the light corresponding to the size of the jump. This was impossible shortly after the big bang, because there were no molecules, no atoms, and not even any electrons. There was plenty of energy and matter, but even the basic subatomic particles (protons, electrons and neutrons) had not yet condensed out, since the newborn universe was still too hot for that to happen. So there was nothing to produce any visible light, and even if there was, the amorphous soup of primitive matter would have been too dense and too opaque for light to travel any distance.
Two years and i'm still in love with Tracie. Nothing is better than an intelligent women.
"I'm not CITING it as a fucking AUTHORITY" is one of my favourite Dillahunty moments ever.
"You need to actually provide evidence for your claim". Succinct, and get's right to the heart of the matter. Matt's razor.
Hitchens razor already kind of does that:
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence"
Love Tracie & Matt episodes. Not to take anything away from the other hosts, but these two are the perfect pairing. They complement each other well.
"I don't take it for toilet paper" HAHAHAHAHAHA
I love how Tracie demolishes claims with a smile. lol. Gorgeous
Toward the 40 minute mark, Tracie starts talking about how she realized that SHE was responsible for her life, and that really struck a chord with me. I've been an atheist for about 2 years now, and realizing that the person I really need to talk to was me -- not some god in the sky -- was one of the most revolutionary and insightful aspects of my journey.
Trevor: "I'm not stupid"
Matt: Shrugs
23:55 I think one of the best parts of watching this is when someone says something so stupid, the TV crew in the background burst out laughing
~ Thank you, Matt & Tracie, seven years later!! Really appreciate your new, AND aged videos. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
Great point.
Religion isn't good. People are good.
People aren't "good" or "not good". They do things...that, by various standards, are judged "good", "bad/evil", etc.
"Correct me if I'm wrong."
"I am."
I like the way Sam Harris puts it: "The problem with religion is that it blends truth with the venom of unreason".
I prefer this format, two people sat together, rather than the modern day split screen thing. This episode is a classic btw! No caller stood a chance against the dream team of M n T! 👍
Tracie's wink at 9.44.... is it just me....
I think Traci is brilliant. She´s always right on the spot.
32:16 Tracie Harris a Beautiful Woman Laughing and saying "It's not that Hard..." is something that can stick in a mans mind at just the wrong moment..
I used to have an indifferent attitude about people who wanted to believe in a god, thinking "let them believe what they want to believe as long as they don't try to convince me to believe it too"! But I have gotten increasingly angry and intolerant with religion/religious people in the past year. Religion is everywhere - even in places it should not be - like our government. Whenever I hear the president or another government official say things like, "God bless America" I feel myself tense up. And another one that REALLY pushes my buttons is, "We have to help children to reach their god-given potential".
WHY oh WHY do even some of the most intelligent and successful people feel the need to 'thank god' or to ask a god to bless us and our country? And why is god given credit for the potential in children? Why do people have such a difficult time attributing anything good to human beings? Why not say "we need to help children achieve the potential they were born with"?
And so many people - like athletes who are successful - will always thank god for what they accomplished saying "I give all the credit and the glory to god"! I mean, the least they could give themselves credit for is all the work they did to get/stay in shape and the time they spent practicing. But all that hard work they did had nothing to do with their success. It was god who gets the credit for that success!
Shit! The way I am rambling so much, it is becoming apparent to me that I would really benefit from having an atheist group in my town. I looked for one but there aren't any. The place I live is a very conservative Montana town/small city. It is chock full of all kinds of churches of different denominations - but one single atheist group? No such luck!
'All good points. l think the big sky tends to overwhelm people and make a god seem more realistic much like being in the dessert thousands of years ago looking up at the stars wondering "who" put them there. l bet there are closet atheists near you but someone has to stick there neck out risking ridicule. ln the bible belt this can be self destructive.
mrannen1958 - Thanks for the validation!
BTW - Montana is not in the bible belt, It is in the North and it borders Canada.
Kay Omholt-Montagu asks: "Why do people have such a difficult time attributing anything good to human beings?"
By the time children are 7=8 years of age their personality traits are all but fixed. Indoctrinating them around this age [or earlier] fixes the christian god in their subconscious. Intellectual reliance on an omnipotent parent figure that transcends the biological aspect ensures compliance. This compliance plus the guilt instilled by the concept of original sin culminates in an intellect that is incapable [in most cases] of self-reliance and independent thought. All cerebral activity within the mind of a theist is accompanied by subservience to an omnipotent parent figure and by the self-doubt arising from the guilt of being born in sin.
Attributing all one's worth, one's achievements and successes to the benevolence of an omnipotent invisible parent figure serves to reinforce the propensity for a "groveling imperative" that theists find so satisfying.
Kay, they grovel because they have been imbued with the conviction that subservience [guilt from original sin] and unquestioning obedience [to the omnipotent parent figure] will be richly rewarded, if not in this life, then in the next one. In the vast majority of cases, they have traded their deepest independent individuality for an empty promise.
Hence Johnathan Swift's prescient observation.....
"You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into."
I hasten to add that this "analysis" is of my own making and is informed by 70-odd years of experience and observation. Well reasoned and respectful disagreement will be treated equally if a reply is called for.
Even the atheists from Montana believe in a god.
@@richardgates7479 then they are not atheists. Hard to tell if you were being serious or making a joke, like "they are so religious in Montana, even atheists believe in god". :)
The order of creation in Genesis is complicated by two versions, Genesis 1 is completely different and incompatible with Genesis 2
You would think that would be the one fucking story god could get straight in the second telling.
Joe Coolioness if there was a God to give them guidance he would have told them both stories are wrong. I say that ignoring the Bible that God is The Great Deceiver.
Charles is definitely a prank caller. No one is not that stupid. LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Really? You'd be surprised. 🤣🩲
😂😂😂😂 you have yet to see worst 😂😂
Trevor in Washington, "I'm. not stupid."
Me, "Are you sure?"
“There was a talking snake who enticed a woman to eat a magic apple” 😂😂
Hearing these callers from over 10 years ago, suddenly the current situation in Texas makes sense. Very sad
I love you Tracie
I really enjoyed this episode
"I was so much into evolution"
Doesn't understand the difference between a-bio genesis and natural selection
thank you so much for adding the time codes, Justin! u rock!
Aww man. I wanted to hear what his super secret info that disproves evolution was.
He was going to argue that abiogenesis is impossible, thinking he could put up a straw man that "disproves" all of evolution. Even if it could be shown that abiogenesis is impossible, that still does not disprove the fact that evolutionary change occurs and that common ancestry is a demonstrable fact.
I just love Tracie Harris. Just love everything about her.
Love all of your episodes. Especially in love with the opening music!
Thank you Tracie. Thank you Matt.
Watching your show is like getting a big breath of fresh air.
I wish I could give you both a big hug.
You are awesome and courageous and kind.
Lots of love from the netherlands
These two hosts were a straight-up tag-team.
"A theory never becomes a law. In fact, if there was a hierarchy of science, theories would be higher than laws. There is nothing higher, or better, than a theory. Laws describe things, theories explain them." - notjustatheory com
Tracie looks like she's auditioning for an Alien sequel lol
"I understand evolution."
No you fucking don't.
I'm an atheist, and so are my mom and dad, but I was still taught to say "Bless you," and when I was younger, I thought it was because it sounded similar to the sound one makes when one sneezes. I also celebrate Christmas and Easter since my grandparents are religious, but for the longest time, I didn't really know the religious side of those holidays. I was only told about the fun aspects of them (Santa and the Easter Bunny).
You where shown the fun pagan rituals to Christmas,and Easter.
I’m raising my children without religion. They are every bit as kind and generous and moral (perhaps more so) as anyone raised in the church. It makes me feel proud when my children’s friends tell them horror stories about hell and they listen politely then later come to me & say “Mom, I feel so bad for so&so! He thinks god will throw him into a lake of fire if he questions whether he’s real, but he won’t just come out & prove he’s real! It’s so sad!” A child can see the absurdity of it as long as it hasn’t been beaten into his head from birth!
I do find it funny how our language is influenced by religion. I still say “Bless you” when someone sneezes. I still say “Thank God” when something good happens. I have a hard time breaking these habits.
You're gonna use a WEBSITE with FACTUAL INFORMATION??
Thanks Trevor! When you said "I believe there is some....mi..cro....evolution, anyone can see that, I'm not stupid" I spat out my coffee. It was good coffee too, and you owe me a keyboard, and a coffee.
I love the laughs behind the camera
But Matt, we were just about to get the top secret truth, God dammit.
Funny how they never start with their best stuff. Is it because their best stuff is torn apart so they keep changing what their best stuff is?
Thank you for these shows. It's amazing how the programmable thoughts of the christians calling in are like zombies with their thoughts of their teachers, and they can't see another way.
the bit with Charles was comedy gold, thanks for a good laugh, all three of you
Hey Charles,
I can prove the existence of Ironman or Thor with the Avengers Movie.
More evidence for them than jebus or god.
Tracie has awesome hair.
Besides that, I miss her already.
i love sigourney weaver!
Telly Savalas is handsome too?
Sihorny . Haha
15:16 - The quote "I've done the research myself" should be a meme.
Evolution is the process of change in plants and animals over time brought about by mutation, natural selection, and adaptation. Boom. Done. 10 seconds, tops.
It’s best to specify that it’s a change in POPULATIONS of plants and animals, because if you don’t, they might think you’re talking about individuals morphing into a different species.
@@onewholovesvenison5335 Yes, thanks.
Tracie looks a bit like young Ripley :-)
I love this show
Whenever somebody coughs or sneezes, I just say "Don't die on me!"
Tracie... a life changer!!! love ya!!! from Houston Tx!!!
~52:00. Caller was the "impossible" atheist in a foxhole. Beyond what they discussed about the "religious folks are praying when shooting (or whatever) would be more productive"... His CO challenged his ability to lead. But who's gonna take more care to keep his troops alive...the officer who is convinced that once they're dead, they get another eternal life...or one who is convinced that this one life is all those troops have?
Yeah, I'd hate to be with theists while under fire.
I'm liking Tracie more and more
If any of the women I've seen were half as smart as her I'd be married.
Noquarter Atall What makes you think that an intelligent woman would want to marry you?
Vertical Horizon I have no idea what women see in me but apparently there is something. I wonder what it says about you that you thought I'd be so bothered by your comment.
15:00 "I'm not stupid!" ..... Matt tries to hide a smirk.
First caller was the prime example of the Dunning Kruiger effect
The caller is partly right; the discovery of evolution probably has served to weaken general belief in religion. But, evolution is just a part of a broader scientific view of the universe which has contributed to this decline. That is why 95% of scientists in the Royal Society (Britain's most prestigious scientific society), 150 years ago, were Christians, but now about the same number are atheist, including physicists, biologists, geologists et al.
I agree. When the hosts insist that evolution is tangential to atheism, they are making a contrived case. In reality, the theory of evolution has had a profound effect culturally, and there's a reason why highly religious people find it threatening.
jsfec when a Christian is born again of the spirit it means that believer has a new spiritual nature...John 3:5/7
the reason for spiritual nature is that God is a spirit and desires spiritual worship...John 4:24
when God created Adam/Eve they were sinless and God came to visit them in the Garden, after the sin God no longer came because man's nature had changed to sin
God loves man and wants to have a relationship with man but God is sinless and sin can not enter into God's presence...
many people pass through the doors of churches all over the world...many go through the spiritual birth and many don't...but that is the main reason why many Christian don't stay Christians...
it's not because of science or evolution or etc...though our current Gov't is a anti Christ liberal progressive program, and our educational facility is stocked with liberal minded professors, Hollywood is a Socialist program, our news medias also liberal anti Christ...
though America is 60% Christian...the global liberal progressive movement has taken over the American Politics, is forcefully pushing an antichrist agenda
Phelan i'm feeding you children:)
RedSee Come to the Dark Side... we have cookies...
Kevin Nuttall been there in the very dark, it aint cookies that you're eating, it's devil dung:(
I spent almost four decades in the infantry and experienced combat. I have never witnessed anyone praying during a contact or under any sort of fire. My own memory of it is that your brain is in sort of a shocked state during the intial stage and then develops a kind of semi-shut down/semi-hightened awareness, one being protective in a hunker-down sense and the other in an adrenalin pumped need for action. As a battle progresses then one might find himself/herself being more focussed on winning rather than immediate self-protection (the duck and cover thing): you are trained to do a job and that takes precedence. If anyone had stopped to pray during the times I was in combat they would probably have been dead in seconds, or they would have caused perha[ps someone else to die by their inaction. I never saw any gods on battlefields. I could imagine what would happen to anyone who stopped to pray when they should have been doing something, like their job, at the hands of their compatriots. The other thjing about combat - if there was an all-powerful caring and loving god or gods then there would be no combat. When Christians (I was one) tell me to look around and I will see the work of God, then I say stand on a battlefield and look around. Just prior to the end of my service career I discovered that there was actually a kind of Catholic mafia (a strong term but I like it) operating in the military. After such a long time of being close to padres of all relgions in the service for a good part of my career, I was shocked and appalled - I had been so close to the 'fire' that I didn't see it. My nationality is not American.
Wow that's heavy ! ..... They just try and respond with God is ....He is the god of war , which is actually the only part of the bible that's true . The rest of it may as well be hogwash.
"GODZILLA!!" and "Hail, Sneezer!" are my two favorites.
I do feel quite fortunate to be living in the time of 'Dillahunty Awakening'.
I once got to shake his hand at a wedding.
These old shows are great.
"Science expresses the universe in four elements: time, space, matter and energy."
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That's two elements, space-time and energy.
What, doing good just for the sake of doing good?
What are you, an atheist?
The man at the end was spot on. While i wasnt an atheist while i was still in active duty, looking back i still see that conforming to the ideology and thinking of those around you was almost required to insure survival. You dont want the people watching your back to quietly think your not one of “them” because you are “different.”
OMG (to coin a phrase) 55:00 ... Matt wants to have a scientific evaluation of prayer in combat. That was funny and he almost smiled.
“I’m not stupid”
I would argue otherwise
This was a great comment. I recently had a long discussion with my roommate (who comes from a Buddhist family) about Buddhism and he said much of the same thing. He feels that what many people believe is Buddhism today is not based on the original teachings of Buddha as it is used as a coping mechanism for inevitable death (i.e. "well at least I'll be reincarnated") which is against the point of removing yourself from the cycle. I'd love to hear what you have to say on this.
I love Matt's restraint at 15:00 when the caller says ",I'm not stupid."
Good episode!
Tracie has a beautiful smile
Matt is awesome.
:)
Tracy's grin during Charles call is absolutely priceless.
Nice guys...you re doing a great service to humanity. .love from Greece
I love tracies opening statements. She lights my fire so hard. 🔥❤️🔥
Do you need to borrow a fire extinguisher?
Why can't just one of them understand attacking evolution is NOT attacking Atheism!!!!! Yet another video!! Two super massive asteroids from deep space colliding and creating life in this universe is one from a billion id choose before the ridiculous notion of a creator!
Tracie Harris, I read this years ago. I don’t profess to the accuracy or validity of it, but I think it’s great. And this is why I continue (in my cheeky sense of humour) to say god bless you.
During a plague, in the 6th century maybe, once people started to get sick and got into the coughing and sneezing, they were just expected to have started a slow and excruciatingly painful death. The “god bless you” was used to sort of say, may death find you quickly. So every time I say it now people act like, ahh what a nice guy. And I giggle under my breath.
Just for fun, whenever I stay in a hotel room, I find the Gideon Bible, I go to Genesis 1, and I cross out “In the beginning” and write “Once upon a time.”
Tracie's awesome.
"Charles, are you an idiot?"
*pffffftttttttttt...*
And now there's tea everywhere.
Thanks guys.
28:10 "When you're on the phone with somebody who's basically telling you 'how do you know there wasn't a talking snake that enticed a woman to eat a magic apple'... Uhm, I'm sorry, but we've gotta move on." (timeframed it for WhatUpHufflepuff)
The wisdom and maturity of Tracey Harris turns me on.