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04:30 What God isn't
14:19 We can't use evidence to prove God...
17:20 Divine Intelligence
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Haitham Talaat ?
@@houdamaraoui2833
He is a great professor, he always criticizes Arab atheists in all his videos, and I am one of his followers
The existence of God or creator does not depend on evidence, but rather on the obvious that his existence is inevitably (axiomatic), that is, his existence is necessary.
To be honest, atheism didn't exist in human history (historically proven
), it only first appeared in the twentieth century (actually for sentimental reasons).
atheism is a sick thought, why is it a disease? Because if you look more closely into the history, you will notice that atheism appeared with the First World War and increased in prominence after the Second World War. This is why you will notice that Europe is the continent with the most atheists and the same thing with China because of the civil war and the Japanese invasion and a lot of suffering so atheism emerged in it, truly, atheism is a sick thought resulting from suffering, and this is historically proven. You go and verify the correctness of my words if you want.
@@houdamaraoui2833
Hmmm difficult, Who is she to criticize him, maybe someone else.
He has a beautiful book that I advise you to read "Islam and Atheism face to face", in which he explains the existence of God and criticizes atheistic philosophy
Philosophical atheists started appearing in the 3rd/4th century.
"atheism is a sick thought" buddy do you know how many died and suffered, how much of the world's knowledge was lost thanks to religion?
Everyone talks of freedom of religion, but not enough people talk of freedom FROM religion.
Come on man, is it really that much of an issue, at least in first world countries? I don't think so and probably neither do you.
@@poorknightofthehollowhills8489 Yea it is, a bunch of Christian Nationalists were fighting with police in my home province last week thinking they were "soldiers of Christ" and people got hurt.
@@otakunthevegan4206 That's a shame, but who exactly in that scenario was unfree? The freedom to cause bodily harm is still a freedom after all, just as the freedom to defend oneself.
@@poorknightofthehollowhills8489 Oh boy you should have picked your words better on that one son.
@@poorknightofthehollowhills8489 when fundamentalists are actively taking over and implementing theocratic rule, then yes it is very relevant.
This is the most detailed and intricate version of the “look at the trees” argument I’ve ever seen. That’s the entire thing. One big argument from incredulity.
"PragerU gets debunked all the time, yes,
but why is no Leftist, to my Knowledge, doing the
same easy-to-digest Format? Tbh, the Left have an Infrastructure-Problem'.
-Second Thought in his video 'Resurgance of Left-Media'.
I was once told by a religious person that they couldn't imagine a Universe without god. My reply was "Well then, it's a good thing that the Universe isn't limited by your lack of imagination"...
Consider the lilies!
Smells like Hovind or Matt Powell it's so awful.
When I was a child, I prayed and prayed for a bike, bit none ever appeared, but then the penny dropped: I stole one and asked for forgiveness. Thanks God!
Now that’s a good Christian !
Thats an old joke.
Still funny.lol@@Diablo_Himself
But great logic@@Diablo_Himself
Maybe God helps those who help themselves,
I'm joking of course,
Thank you for not going easier on Islam. Western viewers usually don't talk as harsh about it in fear of coming off as a racist and it can be frustrating to watch as an atheist girl living in a Muslim country.
It’s frustrating. There’s definitely a lot of racism in many of the “critiques” which need to be shut down, but the honest critiques are caught in the mess as well.
I think what might’ve happened is a lot of misguided allie’s came in swinging their axes of justice and assumed everyone griping about the issues in Islam was doing so because they’re racist. The extremists immediately took advantage of that.
@@KristiChan1 Here in Turkey, the right wing conservative party(which has been in power for 20 years) uses the word "islamopohibia" to push their narrative that Islam is under attack. They do this while saying LGBTQ+ is a terrorist organization and when pride paraded are illegal here. Muslim people are neither a minority nor powerless here yet this party adapted the lingo of the west to get even more power. It's disgusting.
I hope you've managed to find a community that supports you ❤ It must be tough out there!
@@cdo...49283 Thank you so much for your wishes!
@@denizkaragullu6239 Oh that's at least very good news! I hope you manage to find friends in the same situation too. Good luck with everything :)
The "stages" argument must be my favorite so far, simply because most events divided into "stages" are a human way of dividing and categorizing those same events in order to make them more comprehensible, when in reality nature tends more to fluidity and spectrums. We don't grow in stages, we are not fucking Pokémon that simply evolve into a new form. We grow slowly and changes happen constantly and subtly. And it is like that with most things. Humans are the ones who divide everything into stages in order to make it easier to talk about and understand.
What would be really miraculous, and perhaps proof of a higher power, if not a god, if we didn't grow up in stages, but were directly fully grown... maybe even skip all those 'stages' in the womb, just a kiss and *poof*.
@@eefaaf why do you feel you deserve that? Its strange you can assert your current stages growth mentality on to what god should or shouldn't do. You are and will remain but a child until you die with respect to creation. We dont let children drive cars yet most of you here are throwing tantrums because you are not allowed to.
lol nature doesn't follow stages smh...then you go on to say we dont grow in stages(part of nature) but directly contradict yourself when you state we change slowly and constantly, hate to break it to you but that's called stages. just because you think timeframes between one evolution and the next are the deciding factors in terminology, doesn't change the fact order plays the role and not chaos....and its like that with all things
Exactly. It is us humans who brought up the idea of species. The true nature of life is that there is a subtle "grading" within what we call a species which mutates according to its environment until it can no longer mate with every other of their own species and produce fertile young, and we call that a different species. I'm not saying that the idea of species has no value, but that the idea of spontaneous evolution into another species that religion keeps trying to say debunks evolution is itself bunkum!
@@daemonsw77 These aren't stages, though. It's a slow transition from two states. You can say those two states are stages, but even nature sometimes skips a state. Like you don't have to go from solid to gas through liquid, or from larva to adult insect through pupa...
"Plentiful resources... bitch they're running out!"
TOP TIER TAKE
The resources aren't even running out, just the ones we insist on using and fail to effectively recycle are running out.
The sooner the hydrocarbon fuels run out, the better.
@@Andrew-pr9xv Surely then, that is one resource that IS running out. However, in the far distant future, that one could replenish itself.
The main reason I can't believe in existing gods because I can't understand why a superior being have the need to be aknowledged by us.
It's funny how the first passage about what god isn't paints a very clear picture of the god they believe in: It's a god that is not detectable, not observable, not involved in our human lives in any shape or form. This god is honestly quite hard to distinguish from one that doesn't exist.
Imagine having a few pets, and you put them in this dangerous non optimal enclosure. At some point they start to get sick, they fight with each other, they don't have enough food and they have to live in their own waste because it's just piling up. And you do absolutely nothing about it. That would be animal abuse right?
This reminds of the short story "Waiting For Joe". A pair of hamsters named Doughnut and Danish are hungry waiting for their owner to come home and feed them and the two start arguing about whether or not Joe is a god. It's in a book of shorts called "Beware of God" by Shalom Auslander
But but but "mYsTeRiOuS wAys!1!"
without struggle there is no growth
And then, at some point, you decide that too many of them don't behave satisfactorily. So, you drown almost all of them and cram the remaining ones into a box to endure impossibly inhumane conditions for a year or so.
You make the Schrödinger's cat experiment and add more animals as an actual experiment?
Yes, a closed room with animals inside without care would be animal abuse.
What's your point here, is it an analogy of humans and God or something else?
Same situation but in a cave and the entrance has been blocked due to natural causes.
Then there's no sentient entity's fault that the animals are caught there.
It could still be a horrible situation for the animals, but it's no longer animal abuse because there's no perpetrator.
So, again, was your example an analogy of a world with a God and my example without a God?
Without proof of the sentient, perhaps supernatural being, what's different in how things are now?
Nevermind the world not being created, I would love to see him apply the painting analogy to other creations:
" If an architect enters the building, then it will be a building and no longer be an architect"
" If a chef eats the meal he made, then he will become the food and no longer be a chef"
" If a youtuber appears in their own video, then they will become the video and no longer be a youtuber"
Seriously, what the fuck is this person on about?
Emma is a video now.
I mean, technically, the chef was always edible. TIME TO EAT GOD.
I just cooked and ate some linguine for breakfast, does that mean i'm linguine now?
@@denverarnold6210 That is a part of Christianity! Try the Jesus. It's sacrilicious!
@@definitelynotanscp7273 ...........................user name suspicious......................
Super Mario Brothers is divided into stages. Therefore God.
You gotta love how I had to spend 28 minutes of my life just to learn this entire presentation was just about an acronym.
That guy could of just gone. "Evidence for God: I believe in him." For The same result.
*"could have just"
@@Buriaku Thanks. Now I know.
No, THAT would have been honest and made sense. That is not what religion is about.
I am sorry I couldn't stay all the way through!!!!!it was giving me a headache (not your)
These moron's are so thick that nothing new ever gets through
No matter what religion you believe ,,,,,just one Mary was a vergin mohamed mother a light came out when he was born
And that would be the ultimate argument. If that's what you believe and it's how you want to live your life I have no argument against it unless it affects other people.
Part one: Evidence for God cannot exist.
Part two: Here's some evidence for God.
Let not those who disbelieve think they will escape. Indeed, they will not cause failure [to Allah]. And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged. Quran 8:59-60
@@moholah3745 cool story bro
@@moholah3745 No one cares
@@moholah3745 Nonsense!
@Healing Misogynist What do you mean that "there are certain kinds of evidences that cannot exist"? No!..."evidences that cannot exist" are not evidence at all. Of course certain kinds of evidence do exist, but none of that valid evidence has ever validated the existence of a God..Any God...Ever.
I love that you can tell they're just pulling the acronym out of their ass because the M changed from "Mighty Power" to "Magnificent Power" at the end. I'm just picturing them editing and going "Aw fuck, what was the M one? I can't remember. Whatever, I'll just go with magnificent."
Actually, it was 'magnificiant'. So that proves God, actually. Checkmate, infidel.
I was not ready for the mental image of a god pegging mountains this morning, but here we are.
Emma; The first and so far best evidence for god I've heard was "weather therefore god". I was not convinced and my teacher slapped me. This was back in the 1970:th when It was more or less mandatory to believe without evidence in god. I guess I was not compatible with god belief.
Yikes on bikes, I'm sorry that happened to you.
When I tell people that your experience was a daily event in CofE Schools, they can not easily believe this. I know from friends that Catholic Schools were similarly quick to punish. I was a child of the 1960s and my first lesson about god was "Believe or be punished"!. And punishment came fast. Belief did not follow. Maybe this is why barely 20% of Brits call themselves Christian today? My sympathy for your experiences.
@@tomsenior7405 I was lucky, I went to a CofE school, we sang hymns and did a prayer in assembly, I think because it was mandatory, though after that, no mention of god, it was cool, it was the same in secondary school also. this was about 50yrs ago in a village in the Lake District. I also got packed off to sunday school at about 8yrs old. My parents were secular, and after less than a year of this, I said I was bored with it and wanted to play with friends on Sunday, so my folks said "fine", end of religion for me, I took the bible as another fairy tale story, which essentially it is.
@@briannewton3535 Thank you for sharing your wonderful experiences. Beautiful. I recall morning assembly and the Lord's Prayer, followed by the same old Hymns. I too learned very quickly that Sunday School wasn't for me. Fair Play to those who like that sort of thing. By the time I was 9 or 10, we learned to ignore the Bible Lessons and focus on our actual studies. Somehow, Maths, History, Biology and Science seemed more useful than being told about "A Great Fludd" and "Demons".
@@tomsenior7405 I didn't know what "CofE Schools" meant when I read your comment (I do know, though), read it as "Coffee Schools" and immediately thought "sounds like _my_ kind of school, sign me up!" 😆😆
This video is another great example for why religion is basically nothing but
tratitional maitenance of ignorance.
An excuse, one of many, for the maintenance of ignorance I would think. People in general think that ignorance is necessary for hope and advocate it and defend silly beliefs for it, and so on and so forth. They're all wrong, hope without reason is a main cause for depression and loss of livelihood or life because of the stagnation of progress, but they do it anyway because knowledge is scary - what if they're right?
Much more healthy is a pursuit for knowledge and a hope for things that are evidently possible based on the actual reality we experience and can independently verify, because then it doesn't matter if I stop believing it or if it will work out for me the way I hoped. It can still work out for someone else or in another way I and other people can use as a foundation to grow on.
If that wasn't true I'd be lonnnng dead, because a lot of things don't work out for me and it's okay, what I learn on the way is still useful for other people and to improve the quality of my life, because what I learn is still based in a reality that works the same for me as it does for you, so if it doesn't do what I hoped it would do I still learned a lot. Religion is completely useless in that regard. Having a fictional comfy blanket won't benefit someone else. Benefiting from having integrity and a social complex brain sets a useful example, even if it doesn't make me able to work, earn my own money, etc.
Knowledge is freedom, and religion shows people's fear of it. After all, if I know the emperor is naked, how long before other people start realizing the same thing? Ignorance requires a lot of maintenance and dishonesty. Religion is a very helpful tool to convince people of the value of ignorance, but as soon as people realize that their hopes and belief in people and reality are based on experiences rather than wishful thinking and that wishful thinking leads away from growth, it all perishes. Good thing for religions then that people aren't smart enough for that.
@@stylis666 Every word of what you've just said is wrong. Religion is NOT a "God of the gaps". My religion, Zoroastrianism, teaches that the universe is governed according to physical laws, evolves, and states that no one holds up the sky, for example. It also orders the seeking out of knowledge, and using wisdom to determine reality. Ahura Mazda means "Lord of Wisdom".
@@TheMilitantMazdakite even if that is the case, the question still begs, why do you need a god?
One of my favourite theories about why people created gods in the first place was not to explain who created the universe, but to ascribe different behaviours and stories to different phenomena, to understand patterns and create predictability, which everyone can use because who doesn't love a good story? We have to tools of science today to describe these things more precisely, but our predecessors used stories. It was with the shift to monotheism, and saying that god is a separate omnipotent entity, that the rift between religion and science grew. What science could benefit from, though, is using a more palatable and story-like language to make it more approachable for everyday people, and there's a rise in academic papers using more layman's terms, in the abstract at least, so that the rest of us have a jumping off point.
@@TheMilitantMazdakite...sounds like 'god of the gaps' to me...😂
If a painting says "I want to see the artist", you've taken just the right amount of mushrooms.
If Superman stopped all the suffering in the world…DC Comics would be proper fucked.
Even bad artists sign their pictures, so that there is no mistake about who created it. No guessing and arguing about the creator.
Exactly! That's how we know hurricanes and tornadoes are created by Allah and Yahweh. They're signed with shit and junk and death, just like their prophets and holy books.
I don't sign my work because I feel that would mar my pieces but also I feel that my style is distinctive enough that my work itself is my signature
Nobody is a bad artist. If you are truly a bad artist, you are no artist. Just a liar for money.
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Ah, the folly of youth, I’m in my 8th decade, I am from a WASP background, however I grew up in a community equally populated by Catholics. I remember the rank superstition, idolatry and ignorance that was peddled by the Christian religion in my youth. In that era, we were compelled to say prayers each morning in school, compelled to sing the National Anthem, compelled to Pledge Allegiance and compelled to March around the school playground for hours each week. Children were routinely beaten with a cane for such terrible sins as rudeness or messy work or even “not trying hard enough”. At the same time, no one interfered with a marriage when the wife had black eyes or the children presented to the hospital with injuries from “falling over”. The Police “understood” when a “good old boy” crashed his car after drinking in a bar for 6 hours.
Yes, as a child, I too had the love of God beaten into me
I'd love to see him try that fresh start each day argument with credit card companies / banks / legal systems
...or somebody with a terminal illness.
I’m reading Terry Pratchett’s novel Small Gods at the moment. It has such great insights into how religions work.
This “presentation” feels like it’s an essay written by a 8 year old who hasn’t learned about logic and causality yet. It’s a prime example of how religion stunts people’s intellectual growth.
And how no god is so powerful, they can stop believers losing their belief and causing the god to die.
That was one reason why some pastors refused to close their churches during the pandemic. They knew once people got out of the habit of going to church on Sunday, they might lose them altogether.
Exactly what it struck me as- reads like an 8 year old without a developed sense of logic making guesses while trying to write a school report about something that's way over their head, but still hoping it sounds impressive.
Hi Emma. I'm a 65-year-old agnostic/atheist and have been one for over forty years. Your channel is a breath of fresh air. Thank you. I'll check out your other videos. Hugs from Canada dear.
Aren’t we all agnostics? Both Theists and atheists, it’s just divided between those who acknowledge that they can’t absolutely know, those that pretend they know and those who have convinced themselves ( falsely) that they absolutely know.
@@marklester1711 I think so.
I'm an atheist as far as the god that current religions worship - I KNOW he doesn't exist, but I'm an agnostic if someone postulates a god that isn't an impossibiity.
@@chrisantoniou4366 Everyone is an agnostic about the god questions, it’s just split into people who know they can’t know absolutely and those who think they know but in reality can’t absolutely know. That’s different from belief, when you either believe a god exists and are a theist, or don’t ( currently) believe any god postulated ( so far) exists, and therefore you’re an atheist.
@@marklester1711 just semantics. it is all crap. religion is the problem and never the solution
I grew up in a religious community, and my education from first grade to second year of college was all religious, and I find that I never bought it, or got it. I don't know why it's enough for some people - and it's a lot of people.
These videos are a valuable way to brighten my day. Emma is fun to watch!
I once took a taxi with a Muslim driver. He was very polite and friendly, we got chatting and he asked me where I was going. I explained that I was going to deliver a lecture on Astronomy and he said he loved how the heavens declared the existence of god, and came up with a load of this sort of stuff, how the power of god kept the planets moving and the sun in sky, how the moon was there to give us light at night and so on. He got quite distressed when I contradicted some of the things he said. It was obvious that he sincerely believed all that because that was what he had been taught, moreover he had been taught that was all 'true science' and anything else was of the devil!
Odd, early and middle ages Muslims would have thought that taxi driver was ignorant.
The MOST influential Arab Muslim scientist (and perhaps most influential scientist at all!) was Ibn al-Haytham who wrote:
"I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge."
If you want to know God/Allah, then you must explore his creations through science.
And as for al-Haytham's research in Astronomy ... it's a lot (25 publications).
Yeah those types are far, far too gone to convince of anything. Change the topic if you don’t want to waste your breath.
Its science only if it supports their fantasy.
It aint true science if they dont like what they hear.
When he says to you by the power of God, that is, he means the laws of God that he set for his creatures (The universe and what is in it)
@@mouhamedayoubsamhoud6799 You have to demonstrate your god exists. There’s a reason Muslims and other theists are forever having to defend their ideas and claims. Ascribing physical laws to a god doesn’t make the god real.
I love the evidence of “a fresh start every day”. Can’t wait to go tell all the people who lost their homes in the world that they’ll wake up in their house tomorrow
Emma, thanks for taking this on for us, I could never be this patient.
That ad that you did for the VPN was pretty awesome I'm really impressed of your talent
"A God confined to the limitations of the eye is no God"
Sounds to me like the limitation that has actually been placed on a supposedly all-powerful being is the inability to display themselves in whatever form they desire.
Visible light is a tiny bit of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light itself isn't confined to the limitations of our eyes.
This video has some of the worst argumentation I've seen in a while.
and what if that form they desired is us and all reality...
Would you want them to stop and give you a shout out? Seems easier on the structure of reality to just wait for you to die, don't ya think
Reminds me of a number of Christians who have tried to convert (or sometimes just shame) me at work. One of them was insisting I say "Jesus is my lord" (to which I initially replied, "Jesus is your lord"), and then preached at me. Not understanding why I don't believe, he actually asked. I told him there isn't good evidence. He replied, "No evidence???" then looked like he was going to say something, then looked like he realized he had no idea what to say, then left the store.
That's almost as good as the one who was talking about God, and having noticed my long hair said, "I used to have long hair, but you know what happened?"
Me: "God cut it off?"
Him: "I found out God didn't like long hair."
Me: "I wonder if he told Jesus or Sampson that."
Him: ".......I wouldn't ever sleep with a man."
Me: "......" (thinking: are you preaching at me or trying to come out? I'm cis straight but find your homophobia highly offensive.)
After I de-converted and came out online as atheist, all the Christians trying to reconvert me only succeeded in making me wonder why I hadn't woken up sooner. Nothing but horrible arguments which, when exposed as hollow, always ended in the equivalent of, "I still believe," or, "you just have to have faith," or, "you'll find out after you die." Made me even more resentful of the fact I absolutely believed all of it was undeniably and obviously true for 40+ years.
Him: "I found out God didn't like long hair."
Me: "I wonder if he told Jesus or Sampson that."
Him: ".......I wouldn't ever sleep with a man."
I love this turn of events. It made me burst out laughing. Cheers!
@@HystericalSejyeah that's a major self report from that guy right there
Didn't Jesus himself have long hair?
Well done you for de-converting.
@@svenleeuwen Yes, that is the joke 🙄
I am bingeing your videos tonight. I love how you get 'spicy' as you say and call these people out. So many people are willing to let their shit slide and go without ridicule. You are a very intelligent and well-worded individual, and as a gay man in the states I appreciate it. I'm afraid our rights are starting to disappear, and you are an excellent example of how to call these idiots out and serve them some crow.
I’m so glad I clicked on this one. I needed a chuckle :)
We need a god that doesn't do anything, a god that does things would be too suspicious 🧐
Luckily, that's what we've got.
I mean there is no way to identify god or disproof god but I mean... if I would be a believer yelling to the sky for tousands of years it would be nice if at least something appeared that claims it is the creator of everything. And it would be nice if it explain some stuff in his book... but maybe god is ashamed of how he messed that devine plan up by false instructions?
A god that does things and takes credit for it would be too much like aliens or maybe even just people. You wouldn't want to worship aliens or people would you??
@@winterburden I worship nobody - what would the point of worshiping god or your creator - but the point of creating is doing some things.
He must be ashamed of... or tired or lazy but why would the creator of everything hide? Cause now it is more advanced to believe and every human religion can come up with their own god and gods?
Make this any sense?
Even God appearing and give some comments about his Bible/Torah/Quran would be enough.
There was a thing, appearing out of thin air that gave an interview on camera about how he think about abortion, being gay, slavery and some other stuff.
What is the problem about that?
Reality is the point and if we are constructed by god or aliens - where no evidence points to and there are even no things that claims they are these aliens or gods - I could accept that this would become more likely.
That is the thing about nonbelievers. They are interested in truth and seek for the best way to gain the most so is it enough to read in a Harry Potter fantasy book about invisible platform 9 3/4 and now believe it is real but maybe you cannot entered it cause your a Muggle?
To quote the god from Futurama:
If you do something right, nobody will be sure you've done anything at all.
"If the artist enters the painting, then it would turn into a painting and no longer be the artist"
That makes some kind of sense, in that an artist can't literally enter the reality depicted in their painting.
But God is supposedly *_omnipotent_* (an aspect that believers all-too-easily seem to forget), so could *_easily_* enter our reality and demonstrate his existence.
Islam typically describes god as being everywhere, in all things, so it's _already_ in our reality, but seemingly hiding by pretending to be natural systems.
Bit weird really. You'd think if it really wanted us to worship and praise and all that there'd be like permanently flaming letters in the sky, or some other obvious sign.
I was informed very recently that God hides himself because we sin. I suggested that was a very convenient excuse for his apparent non existence and would they please stop insulting my intelligence.
@@grahvis I doubt they could quote chapter and verse to directly support their claim.
Also, seems a little bit out of character. Wage genocidal war or annihilate everything on the planet seems to be the usual response to sin, rather than hiding away.
Came for the subject matter. And my day was brightened by the advertising spot for the vpn I laughed so hard . thank you
You are such a beautiful person and as sharp as obsidian. I know your partner, friends and subscribers are so glad to have You in their lives. Thank You for the wisdom You share to all that are open-minded.
"But a God CONFINED to the limitations of the eyes is no god"
I think the explanation of "Flatland" that Carl Sagan did in Cosmos is a great example that something could be visible without being limited to the capabilities of our own vision.
I've seen Cosmos several times, and as it happens I'm just in the process of re-watching for the googolth time. The flatland analogy and the way he demonstrated it in the series is really informative, but some people are blind and deaf to that kind of information.
The sun itself is very real-life example of a thing that is visible but not limited to the capabilities of our eyes as it emits radiation in a much broader spectrum than we can detect with our eyes. (Also, in light of the behavior of certain past twice-impeached US presidents, there's no harm in reminding people that one should NOT look directly into the sun!)
All that said, this "argument" is piss-poor anyway. This claim ("something confined to the limitations of our eyes is no god") made without even the attempt of a justification. It's basically an axiom for this religious apologist.
Like most of the characteristics of a god presented in this video, it seems to be a reserve-engineered argument: the producer of the video starts with the supposed characteristics of God according to Islam and then takes these characteristics and claims that a god needs to have them. And thereby proves that the god we are looking for is the God of Islam - quelle surprise!
I know my sophistication is at 90's comedian level here but what I find funny about the "God doesn't need to prove his existence to us, he just wants us to believe" is how come he was so forgiving of early humans who would believe anything - he basically, in one way or another, showed and proved himself all the time. Jesus was constantly proving things, now for some reason I'm supposed to have no doubt about 2000 year old hearsay
Quite so, there is much we are unaware of which is as real as the things we ARE aware of, however, we can still exclude certain attributes for unknown things like they can't be both all-knowing AND all-powerful for instance.
Existence is only evidence of itself, if you’re claiming a creator you need to provide demonstrable, repeatable and verifiable evidence.
If a theist were to do that, what do they do with "Faith in Action"
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for." Hebrews 11:1-2
So if here is evidence of god, that will leave nothing to hope for, and if there is nothing to hope for then they cannot have faith, if they cant have faith. With evidence rather than faith, they cannot have assurance about what they don't see, as they will actually see the evidence, again, faith smashed on the rocks.
Christians must avoid having evidence as then they are unable to have faith. Those ancients were such smart cookies, I can see why they were commended 😆
@@briannewton3535 Yeah that’s a simple one. Just tell a theist you built a soup kitchen to feed the homeless, an orphanage, a lab to cure disease, and a habitat organization to build houses for the poor. Then ask them to attempt build any of those without REAL MONEY, REAL MANPOWER, REAL MATERIALS, and REAL ENERGY. If they spout off about what they are “hoping for”, just call them the useless turd that they are say you’ve got real salvation and helping of your fellow man to get done.
YES
@@briannewton3535 That's all true and all, but isn't the subject of the video Muslim?
@@denverarnold6210 Judaism, Christianity, and Muslims all draw from the same monotheistic amalgam of older religions, which is hilarious and tragic.
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That was the most entertaining ad plug I've seen in a while!
Well gee, it's good to know that the power of God keeps an object millions of miles away from falling out of the sky as if it was a damn theater light.
They are partially right that people reject concepts of God that are incoherent, or unsupported by evidence.
Aren't they supposed to follow that up with an example of God that is coherent and evidenced?
That painting metaphor was an incoherent, unintuitive mess. So perhaps it was a good metaphor for their video.
lol the painting metaphor sounded like someone was trying to explain the watchmaker's argument with negative braincells
He meant to say that a painting requires a painter, but messed up even that analogy.
@@classicsciencefictionhorro1665 Yeah. Oddly enough, we can talk to painters, watch them create, learn their process and recreate their craft. As soon as we can do that with a supposed supernatural being, they’ll have an argument. Don’t hold your breath.
@@classicsciencefictionhorro1665 bruh lol
@@nift36 I was expecting the watchmaker argument so hard. If the painter can't interact with the painting without also becoming the painting, how did they paint it in the first place?
Reminds me of my cathecysm (is that how you spell it in English?) teacher back when I was 12. She had very similar "arguments". I must be grateful to her, though: it's because of her "flowers are pretty therfore god" nonsense that I became an atheist.
@7:33 clearly they dont know that one of the best Superman stories was about how even Superman could not solve world hunger by himself.
It's typical religious logic...
"Hey, look, the world is so beautiful, how could it have possibly been created in any way other than by a creator!"
All the while ignoring all the fails that you have mentioned, like the anatomy of humans and other species, which seems to make no sense...
Isn't it amazing how god keeps nuclear energy in atoms?
You know, with it leaking out all over the place and being hazardous to be around, completely undetectable and useless to us without human technology. Uranium sure a wonderful gift isn't it?
If you can accept the flaws of the world you live in then it actually supports the "artistic" argument. In art you're taught that contrast, or shifts in value, are the only means by which to depict coherent images. A canvas loaded with the darkest black will look as empty as an unpainted white canvas, and you're often taught that the more value steps you have, or the more means of contrast you have (for example, clarity of detail) the more appealing your painting naturally is to the eye and the more sophisticated you are as an artist. If you aplly this same Yin and Yang "the light cannot exist without the dark" philosophy to a monotheistic god it would not be hard to see how ugly horrible things are essential to turn the focus to beauty
On a slightly less banal note, think of your favorite pieces of art. Unless you are an extremely boring person it's unlikely that you are thinking only of things that are conventionally beautiful and unthreatening across the board. If there is no beauty to be found in the horrific then why is so much art of horrifying things considered beautiful?
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But "shifts in value" and "contrasts" in art aren't mistakes. Mistakes would be corrected for by the artist.
The religious argument says that the entire universe was created for humans, and that it's perfect for humans. Yet our source of energy - the Sun - causes cancer and burns in humans. And literally everywhere we can see thus far, that isn't our own planet, is deadly to us. The universe is huge, and all of it, other than our planet, is deadly and uninhabitable.
So, is that just an "artistic flaw" made by a supposed perfect and INFALLIBLE god? Yeah, he just put all those random flaws there for the giggles right? Including all those deadly plants which can easily kill us.
But no, the universe is still divinely created with our single species in mind, everything that goes against us is just an "artistic flaw" and we should appreciate it. Including the poor design of our bodies.
Lmaoooo that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
@@alextheskater It's amazing how immediately your assumptions and ego get in the way of you understanding the metaphor and turn you into a petty small-minded spiteful little man. You can't see past your preconceptions for a second to see a single perspective other than your own.
@@futurestoryteller
Yeah, sure, keep offending me, since it seems you're out of arguments. Not that your "suffering is beautiful" argument was much of one anyway to begin with, since it contradicts the premise that the universe is designed with humans in mind.
You want to make a better case other than "suffering is beautiful and that's why the ALL LOVING & ALL POWERFUL god put the flaws there" argument?
I'll wait.
"He wants god to be a cleaner who cleans up human mess." Someone should tell him about the flood.
“Whoops, spilled the mop bucket”
@@bloop6111 those damn space cats, always knocking things over
I had a theist say to me that "who gave me permission to breathe this morning? That was god." All I said was prove it. The only thing that woke me up that morning was my phone.
That ad is freaking hysterical! You are the best Em!
The word "belief" dictates the lack of evidence. When there is any kind of evidence or at least an indication people don't "believe", they "comprehend".
Yup, I remember something in sunday school decades ago where they said that if there were evidence, it wouldn't be belief, and belief was better than evidence. Had something to do with accepting a god for which you have no evidence being better praise of that god than saying "Well, yeah, he's standing right there, it would be silly not to accept that he exists."
I am pretty sure I have seen scientific articles with "we believe" in the summary to point to other fields of study that might be interesting in the future. Belief isn't by definition a lack of evidence. It can(!!!) be the humility to understand that we don't know everything a 100%.
You can build your believes (and we all have believes) on as much data as possible and we should. If it were possible to live without any believes you would have at least a couple of people who agree on everything 100% and they can back up every single statement with a shitload of evidence.
@@joachimschoder "Belief" in religion and "belief" in science has not the same meaning, the conceptual framework is different.
@@joachimschoder P.S. See also "theory". A theory in science is not meant as the colloquial "I have a sofa theory about my strange neighbor".
@@joachimschoder Just to be clear, I'm not saying that this was my interpretation, this is practically a quote. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was a statement that you can only have belief when you lack evidence.
EDIT: I think the lesson itself was on why God didn't provide proof that he existed. If God provided undeniable evidence, obviously everyone would worship him, both the good and the bad. So he has to not provide evidence so that belief in him can act as a filter to separate out the good people from the bad people. Not in those exact words, obviously.
I've had the worst week and not gotten much sleep. So I started the video on my TV, sat down in my recliner to watch it, then promptly dozed off. It's not Emma's fault. I am just exhausted. So the video played while I slept.
I woke up around 25 minutes into the video after having a quick but extremely strange dream about me and Captain Planet (I assume that's from 21:53, sun wind & water) fighting a peacock (24:19).. What the hell is going on in this video that Emma is critiquing? Lol. Time to restart it and figure that out.
I once fell asleep listening to AXP. I had a dream that me and Matt Dillahunty were on some sort of mission to fix something or sort out bad guys, I laughed when I remembered what I fell asleep listening to.
The sponsor add was coming up, and I was all ready to skip it. Too adorable. I ended up sitting through it. Good job.
🤣 One of the funniest & best sponsor bits I've ever seen on youtube. Glad I didn't skip it!
I don't know what this says about me as a person but, after you mentioned god was a unicorn and how you could fade into a beautiful picture of a unicorn, there was a very dark part of my sense of humor that triggered me hoping you'd throw in a still or a quick clip of the unicorn dead on the ground from the first Harry Potter movie
Also the comments you made about the "loving power" triggered a memory I haven't thought about in years. I was either in my late teens or early 20s when this conversation happened with a man I've known since I was around 12. I was walking outside by him leaving church one day and he started talking to me. Somehow the conversation turned to him trying to explain to me that he thought Satan created cancers, diseases and etc because he just couldn't see how it was possible for God to do something so bad. Granted this was years before I really gave into my own deconversion but I came back with how God created everything, as I was taught, and he got angry at me over it which I now find hilarious.
God couldn't do something so bad? I would refer him to the bible passage where god makes a bet that this one guy would stay faithful to him even with his suffering, then caused the man to be diseased and lose everything/one he loved. Jeb? Jed? I think it was a j name.
If not that, I'd point to passages where god introduced suffering, such as the flood (not a good way to go when the omnipotent being could have just Thanos snapped them), the flaming snakes, waiting thousands of years before having jesus heal only a few people with ailments....
Or how god hardened the pharaoh's heart so he could send plagues and kill first born sons rather than, I dunno, not doing that.
Or literally the fall. That seems pretty bad to me.
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So I can't tell if it was a typo or you were trying to quote something I never said. I'm going to assume typo, especially since there are a lot of random capitals throughout your reply.
Perhaps, and you may not have thought of this yourself, the more easy and childish way you present something, the less you'll learn from it?
Like, when I was young (and I've heard this from many children even now), I thought the indicator for a girl was eyelashes. If you go back and watch old cartoons, visible eyelashes tended to be a major indicator whether someone was male or female. Recently I was at a parade and I overheard some kids talking about the "girl" donkey in one of the floats and how they knew it had to be a girl because it had eyelashes. They happened to be "right" in this case, but that's because the people making the donkey didn't want to make it anatomically male.
Prager U is like watching that barnyard movie where the bulls also have udders and they're somehow bigger than the cows' udders. Their message would be "see how all cows have udders" whereas the "leftists" with more knowledge would say "cows have udders, bulls do not, and you're more likely to see more female cows since most cow farms are dairy farms and thus need female cows who produce milk and not male cows who are only necessary for breeding". But the other side can't make a similar movie but show anatomically correct bull peni because of the pearl clutching that would follow.
I hope this helps.
@@catelynh1020 It was a quote from Second-Thought and the coment itself literally says its a Quote from Second Thought.
@@loturzelrestaurant
I'll have to take your word for it since it's not here and it wasn't even here when I responded the first time. But the way it was worded, lacked double quotes after the very first character, and with the capitals everywhere, I had to assume it wasn't a quote.
Not only does your channel help me exhale, your add reads are so creative & adorable that I couldn't think to skip them.
Thank you, Emma 💜
Well I don't like it. I use an apk that skips all ads automatically but she found a way to trick the algorithm. Let me enjoy my piracy, EMMA 🤣
Holy crap, yes! Thanks for being the only channel I don’t wish there were a skip button on your ad section!
@2:14 "Five Billion Dollar Pounds" got me. 🤣
Just catching up on a few of these videos from Emma. She's terrific!
Can I just say Emma, your content is awesome. Been bingeing through your back catalogue and it just seems to get better and better. Thank you for all your hard work to keep us plebs entertained and informed.
Gotta love it when the person you're critizing spells out the rules to debunk their own ideas.
Awesome! Stumbled across this from an Aron Ra vid! Love your style! You've got yourself a new fan/subscriber!
OMG, was this some sort of PowerPoint presentation made into a website? Loved your presentation.
This did not convince me of God but it did convince me that peacocks hold the sun in the sky. That, alone, left me hot and delirious. I love your content, I slam poetry, thank you Emma ❤
See you next time!!
That would be a sight. Like finding Atlas hold up Earth
All hail our feathery solar providers!
I mean, big colorful cocks get a lot of people hot. I get it.
@@sherlockwho5714 But Atlas does it physically, whereas peacocks hold the sun magically in the sky by erecting their … tail? Feathers? Or are they doing it by turning them into a (half-)wheel? ThG would explain why the sun rolls around in the sky …
You know the Quran says that the moon 🌕 was split in two halves in the 7th century? And that the prophet Muhammad rode on a flying winged donkey 🐴🕊️ named Buraq
10:10 this is actually very interesting, because their is a name which is used for this phenomenon "the god of the gaps." which would normally be used as a proof god doesn't exist, it's almost like this person has heard about it but didn't understand it.
Speaking of design, I've always been particularly flummoxed by owning an amusement park situated next to a sewage disposal system.
Brilliantly well done as usual, Emma! Big smile on my face! Thank you 🙂
It's something we find over and over, isn't it? We see a group doing a bad job with endorsing their idea of God, and then some other group comes in and says, "Those guys are doing a bad job because their faith is flawed. We've got the true faith. Look at our arguments." And then their arguments are just as bad. And then someone else swoops in and says, "Yeah, they're not very good examples of our religion. That's why they're doing such a bad job. Our arguments are the good ones. Look at this." And it just goes on forever. Everyone thinks their group is the right one with the right arguments, everyone sees a bunch of other groups as foolish even though those groups are equally confident about their claims, and none of the groups actually have good arguments.
But then when you go over to science, you get evidence: the kind of evidence that actually IS evidence. Not the kind of evidence that hard-won lessons have told us you can't trust. You get people who know what they're talking about. You get consensus. You get testable, repeatable, independently verifiable truths.
Not every religion can be true, but if it's one person's truth and it helps them survive, I think that's OK. As long as no one is getting hurt. Live and let live, although I don't follow an organised religion
@@lesleythornton1811 The existence of a God cannot be subjectively true. It is objectively either true or false, for everyone and regardless of whether human beings even exist. And the problem is that it DOES hurt people. Religion is dangerous. When you believe in the false claim that God exists, you never stop there. Always, unless in extremely rare cases, you swallow claims about what this supposed God wants. And frequently, you come to believe that what this God wants is more important than what people want, and if the two conflict, you must harm real people in order to please your imaginary friend.
Some people want to say, "Well, I don't want to offend anyone, so I'm going to say that religion isn't the problem." But religion IS the problem. Belief in unproven claims about something as important as a world-controlling deity is the foundation for everything that follows this premise, including all the harm that is done to people. The God claim is inherently dangerous, and when people claim it as a virtue, they allow it to spread and harm others.
If you take away religion, the structure collapses. People have to re-evaluate what is good and bad: if it's not simply what some deity wants, then what IS it? This opens the door for some obvious conclusions: My feelings matter to me. Other people have feelings that matter to them. Pain hurts, anger burns, joy is elating, etc. By the fact that these feelings matter to those experiencing them, they form the basis for morality.
The God claim hijacks this process and sabotages human happiness. The sooner we get rid of it, the better.
@@lesleythornton1811 "As long as no one is getting hurt."
Self delusion is harmful.
There are, at present, some 4000 religions in the World all claiming to be the 'one truth'. Which religion your are born with, or adopt, depends mainly upon your environment and conditioning therein. Personal religions are a matter for the individuals, they may be beneficial or not. My wife and I don't follow any religion, our son does. We do not try to dissuade him. It acts as a crutch for his other problems - so is beneficial.
You are a wonderful human being! Your sense of humour, your wisdom and your "french", love it all! Hugs from Norway.
She...doesn't speak french what do you mean I'm confused 🥲 /gen
I think she has a British accent, aka “english”.
Love you and what you do Emma! Keep it going!
geez, even in english their arguments never change. i'm so used to hearing them in malay because i live in southeast asia, but they just keep getting away with fallacious arguments like those. i've been putting off this video since it premiered because i don't want to facepalm and wince so hard my face hurts, but i'm glad i was in a better mood
Stupidity transcends language, sadly.
As an ex Muslim I feel like I can shed some light to this nonsense. In islam allah governs everything everywhere at any moment. Because he is everywhere doing everything, anything you point to becomes a "proof" for him (and islam for some reason). Islamic apologetics are the worst when it comes to logic and reasoning since al-gazali.
And also about the pegged mountains, there is a verse about mountains stopping earthquakes because the roots are pegged to the ground like a wooden stake.
How do they conceptualize Allah? Is he a bearded seated on a throne, is he like a spirit, is he all prevading spaciousness, or none of that. How Muslims conceptualize allah
What Muhammad did was take from pagan Arabs to come up with his own religion. To establish it as an Abrahamic religion and himself as the prophet
Religion is a very insidious thing my friend and I’m happy for you that you freed yourself from that
This is really useful. Explains much of the thinking
@@shawnhall3849 You know what happens when someone tries to draw muhammad or allah. Any kind of imagery or statues are forbidden to prevent idolatry for both muslims and other pagan belief of the time. Beside, islam eradicates those beliefs later on so no competition.
Muhammed was a trader and he learned things from all sorts of people. I don't remember the exacts but he had a Cristian religion man as a teacher at some point. He claims Quran is the next book that the same God sent (torah-bible-quran). So he is heavily influenced by jews, local beliefs and a little bit from christianity.
5:00 So we can conclude that a plush duck has more abilities than God.
Therefore I propose we start worshipping plush ducks.
Friendship ended with homophobic dog. Plush duck is my new god.
All hail!
Why would an all powerful God need to be worshipped. That is a human failing. Because God was created in the image of Man!
My husband is a salmon fisherman in Washington State. I played him the part where you said it is illegal to hold a salmon under suspicious circumstances. He got quite a kick out of it and then he asked me to ask you if you had an example of a suspicious circumstance. LOL
The part about stages... Stages are an arbitrary human designation.
To be fair to these creators it is by definition impossible to make a rational argument for a irrational idea so anything they are going to come up with is going to seem ridiculous because the underlying idea of their god is ridiculous
The only acceptable stance on the existence of God is that of the agnostic
Even the most reasoned argument for their God, relies on special pleading to make it their particular God and not just any other creator god.
I could listen too Emma cackelling for hours. It's so wholesome
Hi Emma. Just chanced upon your videos ( for want of a better description ) I find you so very watchable. I think you have a great media future ahead of you and I would not be surprised if , in a few years time you were extremely famous. Keep them " vidoes " commin' - Regards
I had the purest giggle I've had in a long time at the butter bit.
Hmmm, an elderly person forced to use modern technology to lecture children, while having the intellect of a toddler ... Kent Hovind?
they ( islam world) is not close to any contradiction. they are forbidden to think/use the fruits of "khuffar civilisation". srtill they do this and brag that a whole part of modern ideas /science/technology is closely tied to islam .. That s when your ideology happen so poorly that you have to combine arrogance with ignorance to make your bed in the course of civilization and developpement. Aside from internal dishonesty and hypocrisy ( which and when it is professed inside the Quaran itself ).
Or Ken Ham...
That video made my brain physically hurt with its complete absence of thought and reason. 🤕
Thank you again Emma for taking the time to explore this lunacy. 👍
Mate, the colours and hues and patterns are all we know!!! Our existence could be bland and boring and we'd still think it's beautiful because it's all we know. You don't even need evidence to see that's bollocks, just self reflection.
Your SurfShark bit reminds me of Stephen Toast. It's great!
28:37 Hey, now. You can't just make up an acronym. The very fact that this acronym exists is "evidence" for Islam due to its linguistic perfection.
it's even better
it's a linguistic perfection on a language not native to any country with a islamic majority
You can make up an acronym and decide what it stands for later. It's called a backronym.
They talk about "opening your eyes" and simultaneously show a maximum dilated pupil as if people were drugged.
IMHO, the reason Emma might find it difficult to imagine how one goes from Abstract God to Specific God, is that none of the people who believe in a Specific God travelled that path. They STARTED from a Specific God (usually the one of their parents), but then ending up arguing for an Abstract God when debating atheists, because an Abstract God is easier to defend as it's so vague as to be undisprovable.
The Bible is the set of claims related to the Christian God, I can fairly easily show contradictions that show it makes no sense. Most sensible Christians will just declare inconvenient passages to be metaphor or poetry until the book is so heavily redacted that it's really no longer The Bible. I can't do that with a God who's entire claim set is 'all-powerful, and uses his power to keep from being detected.'
You had me at "grandpa" and "toddler" I'm intrigued. 🤣
Hi Emma! Stumbled across your channel today. Based on content I regularly watch I presume. Watched 3 of your vids today. Thank you for your hard work and effort in making this content. I enjoy your soothing voice. You are so pleasant, smart, funny and adorable. Subscribed!
I was a Christian into my late 20s / early 30s. I liked the music and the community; the beliefs made intuitive sense (many of them, at least) and I was quite convinced it was The Truth (TM). So, when I decided to look for evidence that might convince my atheist friends, I was fairly certain it was out there.
I was quite disappointed to find that most arguments for god were, like these ones, utter shite. And the slam-dunk proofs I thought would be there to be uncovered... the blind seeing, the dead being raised... all conveniently seemed to only happen in the distant past or in places far, far away, where the people had oddly poor standards of record-keeping. I'd hear stories such as a woman with AIDS, whose unborn baby had died in the womb - the appointment with the hospital to remove the dead fetus scheduled - but she decided to attend a service with a visiting evangelist and, during the sermon, the baby came back to life and the woman was cured of AIDS. Of course, everyone hearing the story would be doing cartwheels in the aisles and yelling hallelujah... no-one ever thought to get a copy of the medical records, which would be pretty cool evidence to convince pesky atheists. Then there were instances where televangelists were maybe be a little too specific with their stories and it would turn out, with a bit of digging, that someone had actually followed up and checked with the location where the story had ostensibly taken place. Utter BS every time. Most believers, in my experience, have this filter which immediately shakes a magic 8-ball of excuses... "false prophet", "mix-up in the facts" etc.. which allows them to disregard the contrary evidence.
I, with my devil's advocate hat on, was finding each bit of evidence increasingly less than convincing, and eventually decided to read the other side's books: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Jay Gould. The attempt to convince others of the truth of Christianity backfired and ended up deconverting me, and for going on 15 years I've been a happy atheist. Still open to being proven wrong about it all 🤣
Maybe it's a cop out but I think a lot of the more intellectual religious people would argue that religion is not meant to be argued. - The fact is when I think of religious people I still often think of people like Martin Luther King Jr. or Rod Serling - people I have substantially more respect for than Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. So I think it's a shame that something that _can_ have such a humanitarian influence on some people was stamped out in you by academics who seem not to believe in a higher power because that would impede their ego above all else.
@@futurestoryteller Nonsense! You don't need a god to be a humanitarian, all you need to be is humane! In fact the atheist who performs a good deed because it's the right thing to do is a far better person than someone who does the same deed because they expect a reward in the afterlife or fear eternal suffering in hell if they don't.
@@chrisantoniou4366 Congratulations, that has almost literally nothing to do with what I just said.
@@futurestoryteller What you said was complete nonsense.
@@chrisantoniou4366 I can see why the deficient would think so
OK, so the SurfShark ad gave me a massive Armstrong & Miller vibe :D
A few years ago some of those suit wearing evangelicals wandered up my driveway and asked if they could talk to me about God. I said sure if they would give me equal time to listen respectfully while I explained how we evolved from the australopithecines. No takers.
That commercial was great.
Always interesting and fun videos.
On the subject of evil, I say that we adaptable humans adapt to conditions. We would say there was evil in the world if the only problem we had was that our unicorn baristas occasionally messed up the art on our foamy drinks. I mean, the world could have been infested with hordes of cannibal zombies with portal guns and outrageous tastes in snuff porn.
This is yet another example of someone claiming to know the unknown. Indeed, this person is demanding that god is an unknown that cannot be known, yet, at the very same time, he demands that he knows what it is. He cannot know that his own claims are factual, yet he demands that everyone else is mistaken. This is why I state that religious beliefs don’t even constitute a valid intellectual stance.
Emma is the funniest atheist on TH-cam. She also has the best dress sense (especially her earrings). 👌
When it comes to answering prayers if god is all knowing then they shouldn't need to wait for people to pray.
This was hilarious!
The reasoning reminded me of a guy who called into the Atheist Experience.
Also: love the way the green shirt goes with the earrings.
Shame that none of these "proof" videos pose a challenging question that wasn't already answered before any of us was born.
@JZ's BFF buddhism...ohh you meant just that one religion...got it
@JZ's BFF explains a lot about ya, GL with all that
I still have a void in my life... I need to know what systematic power is???