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The bible can be very accurate. Especially when thrown at short distances.
Yep 🤣
The bible is also a light in the darkness when it’s used as kindling to start a campfire.
Put a rubber band around it and you can double the range.
😂 😂 😂 Love it!
You sir win the comment section today 🙌
@@timg7627 so you like to burn books OK got it
This caller demonstrated genuine intellectual honesty. I hope he finds his way out of the lies of religion. 🤞
If he has genuine intellectual honesty then he doesn’t need to “find his way out” of anything now does he?
@@rosamorales729Indoctrination is a helluva drug. Sometimes finding your way out is harder to do than you would think, especially when you're outside looking in. It can be easier if you're younger but the older a person gets, the harder that becomes. These people are taught ways to bend the words in the bible to not only make sense but make it seem perfectly reasonable. They become Olympic level experts in mental gymnastics.
@@matthew6427 unindoctrinate yourself then. Try thinking for yourself for once.
@@rosamorales729 how do you think I'm not? That's quite a claim from a complete stranger.
@@rosamorales729their thinking got them in there in the first place
This was always one of my favorite calls. Really goes to show you how productive the show can be when the caller genuinely listens and wants to know the truth. It brings out the best in everybody present.
except it isn't spicy, thus boring :)
@@murali-aliveall the spiciness you need is in the comments with some of these theists practically frothing at the mouth
@@Krawnbundungle you are right
I wish all callers were this honest. Amazing how productive dialogue occurs between two earnest parties.
No. Sorry, but there's a very good reason why your asinine, lost & clueless cult of atheism is INFAMOUS the world over for having "ZERO ANSWERS." Just like these pathetic hosts that have ZERO ANSWERS. The best that they can do is throw rocks at the truth. Quite pathetic to those of us that's IN THE KNOW. Here, take this w/ you:
There is ZERO POSSIBILITY that this world is GODLESS.
We CLEARLY OBSERVE that there is no part of basic nature that can produce the human being or anything else (e.g. star dust, moist rocks, mud puddles, hot rocks, moon dirt, warm ponds, gravity, oceans, primordial soup, nothing).
KNOWING THIS, the atheists SCREAM IN DESPERATION:
“But what if we jolted some rock soup w/ 1.21 gigawatts!?!”
“What if we heat some rock soup to right degree?!?”
“What if we place moon dirt under magnets!?!”
I LAUGH at you atheists! LOL! You’re beat! SLAUGHTERED by the IRREFUTABLE FACTS that prove all your Godless desperation is not only WRONG, but IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Your PROVENLY asinine, lost & clueless atheist cult just got annihilated :)
The funeral is next Tuesday. Wear black.
Afterwards, atheism’s short life will be celebrated. Ok, j/k :)
I’m curious what the caller said that struck you as remarkably honest.
@@rosamorales729the fact he answered questions honestly, didn’t try to dodge or play word games, and he actually was having a conversation with the hosts instead of just trying to preach a script
“To someone with faith, no explanation is necessary. To someone without faith, no explanation is possible.”
-- Thomas Aquinas.
(Translation: If you’re gullible, you’ll believe it. If you require evidence, too bad, there isn’t any.)
Sounds like the perfect thing to say to believers in transgenderism. 😂
Wow. Thank you. I forgot about this quote. It is such an accurate belief and yet it proves the case against theism. Aquinas is supposed to be a doctor of Catholicism, yet everything he said was either wrong or proves his opposition.
Even at 5 years old I had a problem with the Bible
The Sunday school teachers ( bless them ) tried their best to answer my awkward questions , like how can you survive for 3 days in a whales stomach with no air and surrounded by stomach acid that is dissolving you ?
Answer was always the same
God can do anything even the impossible!
I accepted it at the time
I was 5 , it didn't cross my mind that a " teacher " would lie , perhaps lie is a little harsh , but presenting something unproven as fact is certainly dishonest
When I was only a few years older and understood more , it was clear deception
And Magic isn't real
Nothing supernatural
The can be nothing impossible that isn't also impossible to God
( Can God make a rock that is so heavy that he can't lift it 😅
I Quit religion completely at 10 yrs
And it was as simple as that
The Bible stories had to be false as they fly in the face of everything we know now
The BS that God can do the impossible is easily proven false
Everything we do know has a natural explanation, we have never found a super natural explanation for anything
I don't understand how any adult can believe the Bible is totally valid
It's wilful ignorance and mental gymnastics
And there is no escaping that
Religious people are dishonest and deliberately so
Religion is a dangerous social contagion
And people are dumb
People are honestly d.u.m.b asf but then when you think about it, we are literally born on a rock hurtling through space and not many people know much of anything. You can convince most humans anything tbh, it’s only a select few that have the intelligence to take the human race to where it is now and without those people we would all still probably live in caves and worship the sun.
wow Scott! I also spent my early childhood in sunday school thinking what a load of crap this is and my dear late mother eventually gave up on me. I had a brief foray into church in my early teens but was more there for the girls...
65 years old now and still struggle to believe people are so gullible.
@@user-wl9wq7xj7i
It's shocking just how many gullible people there are
They don't think
They don't question
In fact to the majority of the planet you and me are the weirdos
We are abnormal
We are the freaks that don't accept anything we are told without question
As a child I felt like the boy in the story " the Emperors new clothes"
I have to point at the Emperor and declare there is no such thing as invisible clothes, the Emperor is naked "
No one ever listens
They are convinced the Emperors invisible clothes are the finest they have ever seen and a glory to behold
That fairy tale is religion
Same here! I was given a children’s Bible in primary school, it had all of the sex and most of the violence removed. Because I was an avid reader, I read it and realised it was all impossible nonsense. I was an atheist before I went to secondary school. I am 76 years old now and, a couple of years ago, I decided to read the Bible all the way through. I would read out the more ridiculous and misogynistic parts to my wife.She was brought up as a Roman Catholic and, of course, only knew the bits that her priests and teachers had told her. It really is hard to understand how people can accept the utter lunacy of religion.
@@thomaswigfield7623
Well apart from the indoctrination from birth and the desire to conform
I think people believe there has to be a reason for everything or everything is meaningless
God can be an answer for everything
Also the promise of eternity in heaven with all your loved ones after you die
I have stood on mountain tops and gazed into the distance, just marveling at the beauty and the adrenaline floods my system and I overcome with the joy of just being alive
I felt the same thing when I first held each of my 4 children
Religious people I know claim that their love for Jesus or God gives them that exact feeling
For me it's just an adrenaline rush , chemicals in my bloodstream
But for the religious it's a full blown actual contact with God through your soul
You can get that euphoria from anything that overwhelms you with joy
So it follows that being in church with your loved ones and community you could easily become euphoric
It is proof of God to them
These are the main reasons I see
I can understand why some believe
It's serious brain washing
Religions are just death cults
With promises of rewards in the afterlife
The greatest madness of man is the endless warfare and bloodshed over who has the correct God
The SciFi Don was referring to might have been Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ “ ‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ “ ‘Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"The Salmon of Doubt", recovered from Douglas's notes and hard drives and published posthumously, contains several interviews and discussions on the concept of religion. Audiobook read by Arthur Dent.
I was thinking it could be Terry Pratchett, but I wouldn't rule out Douglas Adams. The Pratchett book I had in mind I think, was "Small Gods", where the power of many gods was entirely related to the number of believers. If they are down to their last, very mortal, believer then they fear for themselves.
@@kingspeechless1607I wonder if that's the same book that has this brilliant Pratchett quote:
In the beginning was nothing, and god said, "Let there be light" and there was still nothing, but you could see it.
😂😂😂
@@FakingANerve I don't recall it's the same book although it is a long time since I read it.
Something similar to your quote is ""In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Douglas Adams
@@kingspeechless1607 Another fantastic quote! Cheers!
As a child of 5-6 years,
"Teacher, WHO saw 'Jonah' walk into the fish's mouth?"
"Did that person watch the fish for three days?"
"Did the fish stay on shore for three days?"
"If the fish was on shore for three days why didn't it die?"
"Is the person who saw 'Jonah' walk out of the fish's mouth
the same guy who saw 'Jonah' walk into the fish's mouth?"
"Mrs. Jerry's mom, he's disruptive in class!"
Mrs. Jerry's mom, "What did he do?"
Teacher, "He asks too many questions."
Change the subject and the questions never stopped and
there was N E V E R an answer to the question other than,
"Mind your manners and SIT DOWN!"
Faith is indistinguishable from stupidity and a licence for liars and charlatans to fleece and exploit the vulnerable and gullible...
I would say gullibility rather than stupidity, but yes. Absolutely
So according to you, confidence is the same as stupidity and justifies dishonesty and quackery. How so?
@@walterclarke6996 Gullibility is the first, stupidity comes after indoctrination. 😀
@@redacted428 Do you understand at least something? 😀So far you presented just your idi* ocy and ignorance.
curiously though,one of the doctors of the church St.Augustine ,famously said:I believe,because it is unintelligible ;what was he up to ?
I'm an atheist and would like to thank Fred for his reasonable approach to this discussion. A theist with intelligence. Who would have seen that coming?
"INTELLIGENCE!" Screams the lost and clueless atheist f00l that thinks star dust, moist rocks and mud puddles have the INTELLIGENCE, POWER, PURPOSE, RESOURCES AND MEANS to create/design LIFE, INTELLIGENCE, LOVE, CONSCIOUSNESS, MORALITY, the human being and ALL the co-existent bodily systems (circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, pulmonic, digestive, skeletal, muscular, nervous, body (skin), etc., etc.) intertwined in co-dependent order in the human body :) Atheism is pure idiocy.
The religious cult of atheism is INFAMOUS the world over for having ZERO ANSWERS. That's because atheism RUNS from "reality." I would add that as an atheist, you're bankrupt of RATIONAL/POSSIBLE causes for life, intelligence, consciousness, morality and ALL the co-existent bodily systems (circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, pulmonic, digestive, skeletal, muscular, nervous, body (skin), etc., etc.) intertwined in co-dependent order in the human body.
Atheism has no RATIONAL/POSSIBLE, step by step atheist explanation for reality. That’s because there isn’t one. THINK ABOUT what you’re getting into w/ the cult of atheism. GET OUT NOW. I’ll help you find truth. Atheism has none.
@@brantsonoverton1367 Repeat after me: in the beginning man created god in his own image. That's why god is not perfect but has human attributes like anvy, jealoucy, violence, misogyny, regrets, or urges.
@@brantsonoverton1367 Repeat after me: there is no such thing as god in reality. Clear evidence shows us that every isolated society created their own version of gods, their own verion of LOCAL FLOOD, their own version of Earth and universe. There are no mutually isolated two places in the world where people have the same gods, that clearly proves that EVERY IDEA OF EVERY GOD IS MAN MADE.
@@brantsonoverton1367 Repeat after me: abiogenesis and evolution can explain existence of life and speciation as we know it. Evolution is one of the most proven scientific theory in the history, abiogenesis was proven as viable and totally possible origin of life on early Earth. We have REAL POSSIBLE WAY HOW LIFE EMERGED ON EARTH COMPLETELY NATURALLY.
@@brantsonoverton1367 👈 and there's the opposite end of the scale.
“Faith is the ultimate test.” Test of what? You can believe in anything based on faith. Faith is for fools.
It's the ultimate test of gullibility. It says that you don't need evidence to believe things.
Funny how you have faith that your comment has some value (hence the fact that you posted it).
Nice hypocrisy! 😅
@@redacted428 Explain Pi to us again Professor, then delete it right away.
@@redacted428 Funny how you think you know what other people think.
Nice arrogancy! 😅
@@redacted428 "Funny how you have faith"
But does he....
Many of us post without worrying about the value of our posts.... Just like you seem to....
Iron Age goat herders wrote down their musings a committee commissioned by an emperor gathered these writings voted on them and those selected were collated into a single book at the behest of the emperor commissioning the endeavor. So everything in the book is literally true and accurate and this claim is buttressed by the fact from the writing to the commissioning to the voting it was all divinely inspired. We know it was divinely inspired in its entirety because Christian apologists tell us it was and they are the bedrock of honesty and integrity! 🙄
I really like how the show has changed in the past year and a half or so. It seems like there is a focus on respecting people who call in now and not just ridiculing them and tearing them apart. Good job hosts.
The bible gave me a lot of comfort during Covid. It made great toilet paper.
Gonna have to call you out on that.
It makes terrible toilet paper.
Works a little better for rolling papers but the ink ruins the flavor.
@jayrose8638 The Bible often leaves a bad taste in the mouth
Well if the word *atheism* is defined as a lack of belief then not just toilet paper, but also toilets are atheist since these things lack belief. 😅😅😅
@@redacted428Cute, but In truth, the term 'atheist' is only applied to things/people that can be expected to have belief states regarding such matters. As far as I am aware, toilets and toilet paper have no belief positions at all.
@@amtlpaul yep which makes them atheists according to your lacktheist definition of atheism.
For a refreshing change, a thinking caller. Good for him 😊
Religion is the permission slip to set aside rational thought.
Solid candor and reasoning from all three- thanks for sharing.
Is 'Lord of the Rings' evidence that Bilbo Baggins exists?
Well he is also in "The Hobbit" so that's twice as much evidence.
hobbits are real and live in Indonesia
No. But creation is evidence of an intelligent designer, as it's written: Romans 1:19-22
[19] since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. [20] For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. [21] For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. [22] Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
It takes a good fool to deny the obvious.
Yes.
@@georgeaguilar6996 What do you call some one who believes made up shit as fact, a thiest
It's fascinating to hear people struggling with the "God" thing. I grew up without the slightest reason for believing, and simply dismissed it as a human invention.
I just want to take a moment and warmly commend Dr. Powers THE GREAT for his surgical nuclear strikes on stupidity (atheism). This man does NOT play around. He cuts off foolish losers (atheists) at the ankles, when he points out that NOTHING of their Godless cult has ever been observed, as he contrasts NATURE that is OBSERVED (1) vs NATURE that’s NEVER OBSERVED (2) vs All basic NATURE that can’t produce the human or anything else (3) vs The NEVER OBSERVED lies of the cult of atheism (4):
(1) Flower bloom, reproduction, photosynthesis, digestion, respiration, top down production, gravity, sunshine.
(2) Big bang, abiogenesis, mistakes (mutations) gaining in complexity/new information, evolution.
(3) Star dust, moist rocks, mud puddles, hot rocks, moon dirt, warm ponds, gravity, oceans, primordial soup, nothing).
(4) Big bang, abiogenesis, mistakes (mutations) gaining in complexity/new information, evolution, gain of complexity/gain of new information/new anatomy.
AGAIN, I thank Dr. Powers for being BY FAR the best teacher of true reality PROBABLY ON EARTH and I look forward to the questions of the lost & clueless newbies (atheists) that come to these threads to pick his brain, as Dr. Powers continues to enlighten us with his vast knowledge that dwarfs all of ours combined.
I think it is a fascinating insight into how the human mind works. It explains other human behaviour as well (such as the tendency of people to believe conspiracy theories).
Terry Pratchett's books have gods who cease to exist if they lose all followers.
You mean, like all gods?
@@Chris-hx3om precisely. 🙂
@@Chris-hx3om Yes. Exactly like that.
Are you a heretic unto Nuggen?!?
If I remember correctly Harry Turtledove's "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump" has a similar plot line and the government pays people to worship gods in danger of extinction.
I don't believe in god for the same reason people don't believe in Dracula...
Dracula was an actual person called Vlad the Impaler. Nice fail 😂
We call Dracula the democrats
@@user-vy3qh1xw2t good one! They are blood suckers! 😅
@@user-vy3qh1xw2t FYI you misspelled demokkkrats 😉
@@redacted428 Vlad Tepes was not Dracula, Dracula was only BASED on him. Nice fail. 😂
Great caller!
Blessed are those that answer the questions asked, for they shall actually make intellectual progress
The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
(Douglas Adams, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
The "science fiction stories that are like that" are actually medieval fantasy books. It's the Disc World series that posits a god whose power comes from how many people believe in him.
The idea of a god who needs us to believe in him/her/it or they won't exist reminds me of The NeverEnding Story.
God is like Tinkerbell.
@@queceehow so?
@@PvZplayer5 I can answer you if enough people in the audience will clap to show that they believe god.
@@quecee fair
I know which fantasy I'd refer to exist. Would love to have a luck dragon!
Fred has a chance.
Very good phone call
Believe means not know. To suppose, and that is also not know. The truth needs evidence and ultimately proof.
One of the very few epic call ins by a theist.
The bible has changed a great deal over time. We also lack original copies so there is no possibility of verifying original text or meaning. In certain parts of the bible there are hints of pagan belief which, although dismissed by most Christians, show that these gods were still in peoples minds even the Jesus characters. I see the bible as a malaise of contradictions and certainly not something I would commit my life to.
makes a totally valid door stop.
I think the SF novel briefly mentiioned is probably Terry Prachet - Small Gods?
Pratchett
@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr I stand corrected :)
12:54 The science fiction book he's talking about is American Gods, unsure if any others use this same premise.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchit
Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett. My favourite author and was a very nice person.
Who?
@@rosamorales729 is reading a difficult thing for you?
@@rosamorales729 🤦♂
Wholesome
Totally!
It's only the most revised and amended religious book...
Even the voice (pope) has a hard time keeping up with reality
Wow, good on Fred. There is still hope among theists after all.
The concept of superposition is based on the Copenhagen interpretation which may be an incorrect interpretation.
Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett.
I only just commented on the video I watched before this one asking if there was ever a reasonable caller. Then this one pops up. Maybe there is a god after all? A god of CZcams.
As I saw someone neatly put it, when you consider the size of the visible universe (which is only the parts of the universe we're physically capable of ever seeing) and how far we've explored into it, this is like someone taking a glass to all the oceans of the world, scooping up some sea water and concluding "no fish".
In fact, worse than that, as comparing taking a glass of water from all the oceans of the world would be an overly generous appraisal of how much this gargantuan universe we've ever actually looked at.
I'm a believer in the statistical argument. Our own galaxy has some 300 to 400 billion stars in it - with probably about the same, or more, planets orbiting them all - and there's hundreds of billions of galaxies that we know about.
Even if the event that caused life to blossom here was freakishly unlikely, in a universe of such insane scale, it's almost certainly happened more than once. So this argues that there's almost certainly alien life out there.
BUT the problem with this statistical argument is that it's also telling you that such life is so incredibly sparse, in a universe so gargantuan.
Like, even if we KNEW that there were aliens in the Andromeda galaxy and the aliens in the Andromeda galaxy KNEW that we were here, and both civilisations developed FTL ships that could go 10 times the speed of light and both headed towards each other to meet in the middle...
...then that's 2.5 million lightyears to Andromeda. 1.25 million lightyears to meet halfway. At 10 times the speed of light, that's still 125,000 years.
Even if your spaceship could go 100 times lightspeed, then you've still got over a 12,000 year journey - and that's with me trying to take away all impediments to have both civilisations heading directly towards each other, to meet in the middle, even using super-fast "100 times lightspeed" FTL technology to get there.
So I believe that there's almost certainly alien life out there. But the odds that any two instances of life in the universe are anywhere remotely near each other to actually meet is so infinitesimally small, might as well consider it "impossible".
There are little green men out there, surely. Possibly many, many different species, dotted all around the universe. But, statistically, we'll simply never know them and they'll never know us.
(By the way, for completeness, we DON'T KNOW how likely or unlikely life is in the universe. No actual number for that. Maybe it's actually super freaking common and the above appraisal need not be quite so bleak - but, even there, it probably will take FTL technology and still take a long time to get anywhere, as the universe is just so insanely huge.
But, like, I'm just addressing the "Fermi paradox". Which isn't really a paradox at all. It's more a failure of comprehension of just how stupidly, insanely big the universe is.
For example, as I was saying, there's 300 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Let's say there's a "space empire" that spans a thousand stars. Like, a civilisation spanning a thousand stars is not small. And we'll say that this civilisation lasts a million years - which is also supremely generous.
What is a thousand stars out of 300 to 400 billion? What's a million years out of 13.6 billion?
I'm going to be even more generous. Let's have a thousand civilisations of a thousand stars, all lasting a million years.
What's the odds that any of these needles overlap in a haystack so large? Effectively, nigh-on nil.
Space is big.
Space is so mind-bogglingly big, you could hide a thousand civilisations that span a thousand stars each, all lasting for a generous million years, in just this one galaxy alone... and the odds are that they'd never ever know about each other. Not even once.
Like, that's just the numbers. Do the numbers, from the facts we do know, and, unfortunately, yeah, the conclusion has to be... we're never meeting aliens. But they are almost certainly out there.
Space is so big that the conclusion has to be that, even if we're not alone, we might as well be alone. Because "first contact" ain't ever happening, not even by radio waves at the speed of light. There will, by the odds, be no meeting of alien minds ever.
Or, put another way, is there alien life out there? Actually, most probably, yes.
But this fact is of absolutely no consequence to anything whatsoever, as we're never meeting or trading notes at any point, so we're still effectively all alone, even if we're not all alone.
We all read all of that. Honest.
Does anybody know which sci-fi stories Don was talking about at the end?
One thing I will admit is that as far as books go the bible is one of them.
Not one capable of providing any convincing reason to believe in the existence of any god, gods or other divine or supernatural beings but that book doesn’t seem to exist.
I think you mean does at the end
I annilated stupidity (atheism) 50 yrs ago, kid. Where ya been? LOL
Man, this Dr. Powers is all business; some sort of expert Christian/theologian w/ 50 yrs experience of totally annihilating every facet of the asinine, lost & clueless cult of stupidity (atheism) - proving the tenets of it's faith not only WRONG, but IMPOSSIBLE to exist (e.g. big bang, abiogenesis, mistakes (mutations) gaining in complexity/new information, evolution).
I notice that this guy just mows over any atheist that comes to these threads, because on these threads the loser (atheist fool) can't employ the tactics of interrupting, muting and hanging up on Dr. Powers when he's slaughtering their weak & debunked Godless ideas. THEN DUE TO EMBARRASSMENT THEY BURN THE TAPE AFTERWARDS! LOL!
I notice that all these pathetic hosts have ZERO ANSWERS and their cult of atheism is INFAMOUS the world over for also having ZERO ANSWERS. And the face of their Godless cult is Goth man Aron Ra LOL. OMG. Do these people ever understand that you can't sell anything with a Ugly Goth face, such as that of this dude Ra? Ew.
And these hosts aren't even in the game. All they can do is throw rocks at the truth from the sidelines. YET they insinuate that they have all the answers. But guess what? It's me that has all the answers and has BY FAR the best cognitive grasp of true reality or I wouldn't be here teaching those concepts. Take this for free:
There is ZERO POSSIBILITY that this world is GODLESS.
We CLEARLY OBSERVE that there is no part of basic nature that can produce the human being or anything else (e.g. star dust, moist rocks, mud puddles, hot rocks, moon dirt, warm ponds, gravity, oceans, primordial soup, nothing).
KNOWING THIS, the atheists SCREAM IN DESPERATION:
“But what if we jolted some rock soup w/ 1.21 gigawatts!?!”
“What if we heat some rock soup to right degree?!?”
“What if we place moon dirt under magnets!?!”
I LAUGH at you atheists! LOL! You’re beat! SLAUGHTERED by the IRREFUTABLE FACTS that prove all your Godless desperation is not only WRONG, but IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Your PROVENLY asinine, lost & clueless atheist cult just got annihilated :)
The funeral is next Tuesday. Wear black.
Afterwards, atheism’s short life will be celebrated. Ok, j/k :)
@@brantsonoverton1367
Prove you exist.
Years old ridiculous copy pasted bullshite, thanks NEP.
Then
Great guy, Fred is! He had an open mind to hear, accept the fragility of the Bible as a proof of God.
Come on for old time sake please Don
fred is dope
Wasn't that Douglas Adams? The author who wrote a scientific story about Gods competing with each other over the faith of humans? Gods that had a lot of followers grew bigger, and those who had fewer would disappear.
The Bible is as good evidence that God exists as the Harry Potter books are that Lord Voldemort exists. Or, to hoot my microscopic horn a little, that my Chronicles of Grimm Dragonblaster novels are evidence that the demon Starmor exists. I just wish my books sold even half as well as Jo Rowling's books do.
First we have two story collections a jewish acripture and greek-roman literature about a dead preacher named Iesous (Jesus). The Idsous story telling uses jewish udeas and greek ideas. We find here topoi and elements from Homer, Euripides, Vergil and grerk philosophy. This works for a greek audience of the second century to sell them a jewish-grerk-roman new religion. We fine a lot of these at the time.
what other book with talking animals do you hold to be true and valid?
I rather like The Little Prince myself.
I'm fond of The Just So Stories.
'Archie the Friendly Spider' - I know he's real as he has stuff up on the web.
Charlotte’s Web.
How about Animal Farm? A legendary book by George Orwell that was an allegory about the tyranny of atheist dictatorship like the USSR
Of course the Bible is real, and valid.
I was 2 inches too short to change a lightbulb and fortunately by standing on a REAL bible I was able to reach it. So, yes, real and valid. What it ISN'T is TRUE.
I wonder what became of Fred?
Long story short dears if you have a proposition then you have to support it with a strong & sufficient evidence as strong as your claim, this evidance must be subjective evidence and must not fall into logical fallacies.
If things only existed because we observe them then nothing could exist
Since it's impossible to observe non-existent things, like gods
The 5 senses are less-than-worthless tools to discern the full spectrum of true reality. Don't let me see you spewing such stupidity again.
Talking snakes & donkeys case closed. 😂
where title come from
"Jesus walked on water" is anathema to Spinoza's God, and to the God of Thomas Paine, because both of them hold that the nature of Nature was defined by God, and one of the most insistent things about Nature is gravity, which says that a human body can not be supported by water so fluid that it is being ruffled by the wind. The entire Book of Genesis also casts very serious doubt upon the proposition that the Bible is "the word of God".
Jesus probably knew where the stepping stones were... 😅
Never read the bible books in their entirety as I bored quickly at the begatting part: He begat her, and she begat that, he begat him.....
On and on and on 😮
Wgich Im guessing why they made church buildings so you could go and sit down and listen to someone else read it 😊
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The Bible is totally squalid, more like.
A rare based Christian
It all started with a Hebrew god who always existed and moves on to a man made of dirt, a woman made from a bone and a talking snake.
It's all true.
Darn it Fred. Every theist caller always says something so stupid that it gives me a good belly laugh. And then you come along and ruin it.
Thank you though. I'd much rather listen a reasonable theist who respects non theists than all the belly laughs from really dumb theists. Thanks for calling in.
@DonBaker The premise of a deity getting weaker or stronger based on the number of people believing in them as the subject of fictional books (which you could'nt recall a specific title) is a theme from a book called "Broken Stone." Though, as you mentioned, there are probably more titles sharing that story premise.
A number of people have mentioned 'Small Gods' by Terry Pratchett. I'd throw 'Godkiller' by Hannah Kaner into the ring too.
It's the serpent's fault! Why are we being punished?
If we are to assume we live in a creation, the only being responsible for the state of said creation would be the one who created it
The word is Nachash. It means The Shining one. It's not a snake.
@@gmswhackos2652 So why were the snakes cursed to crawl on earth forever (let's ignore for a moment all the arboreal and marine snakes, I doubt you even know they exist).
Valid fiction.
Bible is good....for lighting a fire. And Jesuis may have walked on water since he had webbed feet like a duck. 😂
And if he was really, really fast...and very skinny. Maybe he ran on water like a Jesus Christ lizard.
If the bible is valid, then so are other holy texts too. Either they all are true just because these holy texts say so or none of them are, including the bible.
But it’s hilarious when you ask each individual theist from their respective religions about the others and they are so quick to point out all the flaws in them… but never theirs…. 🤔🤣🥴
@@itsaboutthattime4425 Yes, the others are wrong and only their god exists because a holy text says so. Oh wait, that's religion in a nutshell.
Yep, as it stands, there is as much reason to believe every other holy text as their is the Bible. If someone wants me to take one seriously over the others, they have to give a good reason.
I can't understand people who assume if there is a god it must be the Christian one they mite wrong the all is lost
After being saved mid life. I really feel sad & choked up for the folks who go all out to run this channel. GOD mandates that we pray for these guys❤
We are still waiting for you to provide some good verifiable evidence that you are right about your g0d and that one billion Hindus are wrong about theirs.
What's the hold up?
And who told you that you were saved?
@rickll458 .why on earth would anyone accept as fact the anonymous stories told by fearful uneducated superstitious misogynistic bronze age desert tribesmen in the most backward part of the middle east that have no basis in fact whatsoever.there have been 7,000 plus gods that have been proposed by humans over time in hundreds of different languages and in hundreds of different countries.there is not and never has been the slightest evidence that any of them are real.the rational position to take is to withhold belief until a God is ever proven to be true.
*sin* noun: _A "disease" invented for the purpose of selling you the "cure"._
Synonyms: _scam, fraud, swindle, con, con trick, flimflam, hustle_
Saved from what?
There's truth, good instruction and some accurate history in the Bible, but most of it is a load of rubbish and worthless.
And it's hard to tell the good bits from.the bad bits unless you already have reliable evidence one way or another from some independent source.
It's not as if the Bible has flagged the factual and fictional passages in any reliable way, unlike contemporaneous works by the Greek philosophers whose arguments can be evaluated for factual and logical correctness.
What truth and what good instructions?
At the very least I can agree that there is some solid advice in the words attributed to Jesus, they're just often ignored or twisted into whatever people want them to be/mean
There may be some truth, good instruction and accurate instruction hidden in there somewhere but as the whole thing's so convoluted, inconsistent and cryptic, I guess we'll never know.
This theist is cut from a different cloth
"A different cloth!" Screams the lost and clueless atheist f00l that thinks star dust, moist rocks and mud puddles have the INTELLIGENCE, POWER, PURPOSE, RESOURCES AND MEANS to create/design LIFE, INTELLIGENCE, LOVE, CONSCIOUSNESS, MORALITY, the human being and ALL the co-existent bodily systems (circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, pulmonic, digestive, skeletal, muscular, nervous, body (skin), etc., etc.) intertwined in co-dependent order in the human body :) Atheism is pure idiocy.
The religious cult of atheism is INFAMOUS the world over for having ZERO ANSWERS. That's because atheism RUNS from "reality." I would add that as an atheist, you're bankrupt of RATIONAL/POSSIBLE causes for life, intelligence, consciousness, morality and ALL the co-existent bodily systems (circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, pulmonic, digestive, skeletal, muscular, nervous, body (skin), etc., etc.) intertwined in co-dependent order in the human body.
Atheism has no RATIONAL/POSSIBLE, step by step atheist explanation for reality. That’s because there isn’t one. THINK ABOUT what you’re getting into w/ the cult of atheism. GET OUT NOW. I’ll help you find truth. Atheism has none.
I just want to take a moment and warmly commend Dr. Powers THE GREAT for his surgical nuclear strikes on stupidity (atheism). This man does NOT play around. He cuts off foolish losers (atheists) at the ankles, when he points out that NOTHING of their Godless cult has ever been observed, as he contrasts NATURE that is OBSERVED (1) vs NATURE that’s NEVER OBSERVED (2) vs All basic NATURE that can’t produce the human or anything else (3) vs The NEVER OBSERVED lies of the cult of atheism (4):
(1) Flower bloom, reproduction, photosynthesis, digestion, respiration, top down production, gravity, sunshine.
(2) Big bang, abiogenesis, mistakes (mutations) gaining in complexity/new information, evolution.
(3) Star dust, moist rocks, mud puddles, hot rocks, moon dirt, warm ponds, gravity, oceans, primordial soup, nothing).
(4) Big bang, abiogenesis, mistakes (mutations) gaining in complexity/new information, evolution, gain of complexity/gain of new information/new anatomy.
AGAIN, I thank Dr. Powers for being BY FAR the best teacher of true reality PROBABLY ON EARTH and I look forward to the questions of the lost & clueless newbies (atheists) that come to these threads to pick his brain, as Dr. Powers continues to enlighten us with his vast knowledge that dwarfs all of ours combined.
Not sure what you mean
@@rosamorales729 theists are fundamentally irrationally people. So they tend to say and think irrationally.
@@rosamorales729 I mean he's different from a lot of theists that has called on the show
Because I lack understanding in Mathematics, I believe out of faith that quantum tunneling is something happening in nature.
To some sort of degree, most of us have faith in something.
You don't need to have faith in quantum tunneling if there's evidence to support it. The difference here is that if you wanted to you could find the evidence for quantum tunneling, but you can't do the same for god.
That's not "faith", that's tentative trust
You've presented a tired old Fallacy of Equivocation combined with an odd variation of Argument from Ignorance.
Your mathematical inability doesn't warrant that you "believe in" quantum tunnelling. It would be more honest for you to say "I've heard of something called quantum tunnelling, but I don't understand what it is or how it works, so I'll withhold comment. But it seems like an interesting concept, so I'll keep my eyes open for some form of explanation that I can understand."
That's not a statement of faith, but of honest curiosity.
Good replies. As for myself, because I lack understanding, I believe in quantum tunneling out of faith of Science Academia's claims.
Sure, Science Academia can show me the Maths for quantum tunneling....but my ignorance in Math keeps me from understanding the proof.
The point I am making is that Theists believe things out of Faith, because they lack understanding.
Someone can say, "the wind is invisible, therefor a god, or GOD"
Ancient Greeks said this. They didn't understand that the wind is a result of the Sun heating the Earth.
Quantum tunneling has been proven in experiments, no faith necessary. Try again.
Totally valid is right. What part is not valid?
When you said valid, what do you mean? Again, this to make sure you're understood before going forward.
@@jonclark8252 Well, it contains a lot truth that most deny.
@@georgeaguilar6996😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@georgeaguilar6996such as?.
Genesis, exodus the gossips
Does the Bible tell us about us?
Why yes...yes it does.
Can people make their points directly without having to post cryptic questions and then get mad if they don't get the answers that they expect?
I couldn't fail to not disagree with you less.
It doesn't tell me anything about me but it certainly ought to be a warning about how others can behave.
Nothing about me in the bible
But it does have a few things to say about you
If god is all knowing, and makes no mistakes, and he created man with hair on his head, and hair on his face, for a reason. Why do so many Christian men cut their hair, and facial hair, or shave both off completely? Shouldn’t these Christian men have long hair, and long beards/moustaches?
Better example for that is why he creates men with foreskins and wants them to cut them off. What the ****? 😂😂😂😂
@@itsaboutthattime4425 To be fair, though, do they really need all four?
@@SundaeExpress oh look, my comment got deleted again. 🙄 Getting really sick and tired of CZcams.
Me too. I should be able to express myself clearly. @@itsaboutthattime4425
"Valid" - as in THE only directions to know God's love and promise found in John 3 16 and to enter His everlasting Kingdom, set free from the Law of Sin and Death? There is only ONE way to the Father - and that is spelled out pretty clearly in His Word - for those who are interested in such things.
Thanks for your support for the channel. Theists like you do more benefit for atheism than harm
All and good, but it belongs in the fiction section.
I've only ever been told something was "his word" by other humans.
Should I just take their word for it?
@drewdrake9130 no, No one can Know God for you or that the Bible is God's Word, but you. I implemented the teachings and character of Jesus into my daily life and tested His promises which are contained within His many Names - Provider, Healer, Deliverer, Help in Times of Trouble, Peace in impossible Chaos, etc. and found that as I prayed, as I drew close to Him, as i stood upon those Name/Promises, I could see, time after time they were to be trusted in my life. I can't say when exactly I began to see the wisdom, the truth, the amazing difference His Word made in my life as God's Word, but it became like no 'regular human advice or self-help tapes - I began to read about the things Jesus did in the Biblical accounts and wonder if they could be true and I began to see many of them - healings and deliverances in my own life and family, amazing provision etc. Some prayers were answered exactly as I prayed; others in completely different ways; and some I'm still confident will be answered at some point. All I can suggest, if you are serious, that you humbly begin to seek Him through His Word, particularly through the NT where you can 'meet” Jesus, God in flesh. I wish you well.
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Should I just take your word for it?
You keep referencing "his word" , but is there any way you can show it actually is the word of a God?
( your changed life doesn't do this, nor does your belief that your prayers were answered )
The end-of-the-line atheism stuff doesn’t disprove the Bible
See, the thing about the bible is... it doesn't need to be disproven.
It needs to be proven. And after nearly two thousand years... that hasn't happened yet.
@@Diviance No, buckle up because I'm going to thoroughly and totally annihilate your stupidity (atheism): The Bible exists and is proven by facts inside the Bible, Fulfilled prophecy inside the Bible and content of the Bible for which no goat herder of 3,500 yrs ago could know. Let me expound: 66 books are in the Bible that are written by God who used mankind to pen it. We know God wrote it, due to the 2500 prophecies Jesus fulfilled and the 500 left for him to fulfill during the rest of this church age and the 1,000 yr Reign. ALSO AS I SAID by the content of the Bible, which no goat herder of 3,500 yrs ago could know, such as effect of a nuke on the human body, the 2nd law, the fact that God created time/space/matter/energy, that circumcision is done on the 8th day, just like doctors do today. The earth is round and the fact that the Universe is expanding:
”He alone STRETCHES OUT the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.” Job 9:8.
Here's a freebie to pile on top of the annihilation I've already dropped on your stupidity (atheism):
There is ZERO POSSIBILITY that this world is GODLESS.
We CLEARLY OBSERVE that there is no part of basic nature that can produce the human being or anything else (e.g. star dust, moist rocks, mud puddles, hot rocks, moon dirt, warm ponds, gravity, oceans, primordial soup, nothing).
KNOWING THIS, the atheists SCREAM IN DESPERATION:
“But what if we jolted some rock soup w/ 1.21 gigawatts!?!”
“What if we heat some rock soup to right degree?!?”
“What if we place moon dirt under magnets!?!”
I LAUGH at you atheists! LOL! You’re beat! SLAUGHTERED by the IRREFUTABLE FACTS that prove all your Godless desperation is not only WRONG, but IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Your PROVENLY asinine, lost & clueless atheist cult just got annihilated :)
The funeral is next Tuesday. Wear black.
Afterwards, atheism’s short life will be celebrated. Ok, j/k :)
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Prove you exist.
@@brantsonoverton1367 NEPPY... I could be persuaded to believe what you believe but there is one really big barrier in my way. In order to get on my knees and worship your g0d I would first need to come to believe that it is morally acceptable to slaughter children to punish their parents. I have thought about it long and hard, but I just can't get there. I guess it must be the fault of my parents and the way I was raised as a child.
Maybe you can help me with this? How did you do it? Or were you brought up by your parents to believe those kinds of evil acts are morally acceptable?
End of the line Christian stuff doesn't prove the bible is true
Pi is an irrational number; religion is an irrational belief. Being irrational doesn't mean it isn't factual.
Pi has sufficient evidence to support its existence as a number, while supernatural religious beliefs don't have sufficient evidence to support the existence of anything supernatural.
FACTS can be proven to be true. And the only time to believe something is true is AFTER it's been proven true.
polysemous
I get what you're saying but what a terrible analogy. Irrationality in numbers means it cannot be represented as a RATIO (irRATIOnal). In fact, there's a larger set of Numbers that contains pi called reals.
You’re using two different meaning of the word "irrational"
The Bible is 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. The Bible is not 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛
No, the bible is the claim.
The bible is evidence that the whole story is fake...
Hollow Babble is an ancient fairy tale, not even original...
Evidence of what?
The bible is only evidence the bible exists
Jesus Christ is coming back😢 please let's all repent from our ways and let Christ deliver us from the chains of the earthly world so we can come closer and have a relationship with our father, Our God and Lord 🙏❤️😊✝️✝️☦️☦️
(IF YOU DONT WANT TO ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR IT IS OK)
You people thought the rapture was coming this monday. You ate shit spectacularly.
Maybe it's time for you to just bite the bullet and accept you might be betting on the wrong horse. Just sayin'
"let Christ deliver us from the chains of the earthly world"... by making us all slaves to his dad.
Er... no thanks 👎
Nothing to repent for, no one to repent to
Lmao the last bit (it is ok…) but is it really tho? Last I remember if I don’t accept I’ll be thrown into a lake of fire. 🤔🤔🤔
If God is just, I have nothing to fear.
Ludzie po prostu wierzą w to w co chcą wierzyć, a wiara z kolei nie jest wiedzą.
Ja osobiście w swoim światopoglądzie opieram się na wiedzy rzeczywistej, która dała ludzkości szeroko rozumiana nauka, poza nauką kreowaną na bazie wierzeń religijnych, bo dla mnie jest to pseudonauka, jako taka niereformowalna, nie podlegająca ( jak nauka rzeczywista) zmianom pod wpływem nowych odkryć czy dowodów, a co czyni ją samą w sobie piękną.
Fred I spare you!
Wciąż trudno mi uwierzyć, że tylu ludzi, nie mając absolutnie żadnych dowodów potwierdzających "życie po życiu" ( tzw. " życie wieczne") i nie mając nawet konkretnego wyobrażenia jak coś takiego mogłoby "wyglądać", wciąż w to wierzy.
Myślę, że "super magnesem" jest tu sama idea "życia wiecznego" i to ona powoduje, że religia czy religie "życie wieczne" obiecujące, przetrwały próbę czasu.
Nie "cuda", nie jakieś tam "zmartwychwstanie" Jezusa trzymają ludzi przy tej religii, lecz właśnie perspektywa "życia wiecznego", która mnie osobiście po prostu przeraża. Nie wiem czy w ogóle jest ktoś, kto jest w stanie ogarnąć umysłem i wyobraźnią "życie nieskończone", w dodatku w postaci "duchowej", nie fizycznej, co by to nie znaczyło i jakby nie "wyglądało"
I have a bible I keep in the bathroom. When I run out of Toilet Paper I use it to wipe my ass. It works great !!!
If atheism is defined as lack of belief then both your toilet and your toilet paper are atheist.
Nice definition, it works great !!! 😂😂😂
@@redacted428well, they are certainly not Christian!
Yeah, it's a very absorbing read, isn't it 💩🙏
@@redacted428 No, because it requires the individual to have the ability to believe. You also say that as if its supposed to mean something. Is this like that stupid thing Creationists like to do when they say that evolution means that we are related to slugs and worms? Because its just as childish as that. Worms are incredibly useful for the environment and have you seen some seaslugs? Sea bunnies look like fuzzy little puff balls are are downright adorable.