I had a woman who said she had a "new argument" for Christianity and it was a Ken Ham speech from at least the 90s. So I said fossils are not billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the Earth. She looked at me horrified and I said "Demonic knowledge, I am literally Satan" clearly joking but I think it triggered too much cognitive dissonance as she just walked away.
I love the fact that Aron Ra just keeps at it, day after day. I think it's urgently necessary to keep fighting ignorance every single day, afresh, and not rely on old statements. You could rest on your many brilliant statements and arguments, but you understand that you need to take this ignorance on in real time, every day You are appreciated for your efforts and intelligence, every day and for each moment you design to share them with us. Thanks, Aron.
I do think the person has left the faith to a degree at least, they just actively want not to be an atheist. They are not rhetorical tricks they are inherently dishonest rhetorical tricks, and they are thought-stopping techniques. They are there to make you stop learning.
I agree, doesn't Ra understand this or does he like to hear himself Blather? His cosmology is terrible as his thermodynamics. For evolution their is plenty of scientific evidence, but for anything at or before the big bang there is NO scientific evidence, all these conjectures about what the big bang was or what existed before it is pure philosophy, sorry. Ask your "cosmologist friends" this, they will tell you their is no evidence for their conjectures about before the big-bang. And holy sh**, your answer about the anthropic principle is ridiculous.Forget about human beings, that any life exists in a random manifestation of a universe is astronomically rare. Here you must resort to a multi-universe conjecture. If you need any help writing your responses just ask.
If you look at them closely, most of the "questions" were just variations on the same question regarding the idea of "the universe coming from nothing." How many times does Aron have to explain it before these people finally get it?
Literally try sitting out in the sun for two days straight. “Humans are perfect. We can take on all. Nothing is impossible.” Yet we need sunscreen. The very thing that gives us life would kill us if we didn’t know better.
I think I know why they keep asking these questions. They aren’t sincere questions. Rather, they are preaching and evangelizing. I can almost guarantee they never listen to your responses to the questions, hence they never learn.
I agree. Even the way the questions are asked, after as “wouldn’t you agree” or “doesn’t it follow that” as though they expect that their points are undisputed. Rather than giving definitive statements and arguments. Most callers saying they have proof, start with questions. That’s not how one demonstrates anything in science or a court of law.
Well I’m watching this and can see how dumb certain arguments are I once thought were pretty concrete lmao. But unfortunately I believe most Christians don’t take the time to look into the very things they don’t agree with 🤦♂️
Thank you Aron for answering this question again and again. Believe it or not I enjoy listening to your answers. When I speak with believers the hundreds of times, you told me the answers to this a residual in my brain. You give me answers to share with them. Your words are well constructed.
A post on Threads asked if an atheist could explain why a grapefruit doesn't taste like chocolate, like it's a gotcha. Well, I am an atheist but also hold a university degree in food science, so my reply was that they have different chemical compositions, which is science and nothing to do with atheism. I didn't have sufficient remaining characters to explain how those different chemicals react with receptors in the nose and mouth to send signals to the brain that are interpreted as the sensation of taste.
My brother is a scientist and also has a business that deals with flavoring agents. Once he started describing the molecular composition of the compounds he was buying and how sometimes there’s just few carbon atoms differently placed in the molecular chain between, say, vanilla and mint. I don’t remember the exact example but the point was that it wasn’t just different composition, it was a tiny difference that our senses interpret as a completely different flavor.
Gotcha questions like that expose the ignorance and insincerity of the asker. If you answer the first question it can lead to a string of How abouts and What ifs that eventually lead to the beginning of time or abiogenesis. You have an expertise. So they'll usually get a legit answer in your field then jump to something you can't answer authoritatively . Kent 'Dr Dino' Hovind is a master of this. And any We don't know = their god. Ai Caramba. I've been led down rat holes like that a few times about the theory of evolution. Ended up at the beginning of time and abiogenesis.
I'm sitting here trying to figure out why that person would even ask such a weird question. But yeah, if you don't understand that taste is your sensory organs detecting chemicals, then I suppose even the flavor of grapefruit and chocolate is something of a mystery. Weird.
I rather like Sagan's reply to the first cause argument. If you claim the universe requires a cause, and you nominate a deity to do that, an honest enquirer will then ask what caused the deity to exist? If you want to claim a deity doesn't require a cause then why does the universe require a cause? It's special pleading.
The disciption of this video said Young Believer. A kid didn't write those questions. These came straight from something like an apologist's "10 guestions Atheists can't answer". "Would you agree that your negative premise disagrees with the positive claim that god does not exist"? Said no kid ever.
@Duchess_Van_Hoof I like that theory, because it needn't be intentional. Cults evolve, and they probably evolved that trait for exactly the advantage you describe.
i never knew humans could run faster than cars, fly like planes and do math faster than any computer, we clearly created things that ar "more" that we are
@@RichWoods23 Nuclear chain reactions & avalanches were the first things that came to my mind. I went with dominoes in the end because if this really is from a young individual I thought it would be easier to explain. I'd expect a rebuttal along the lines of, "What of the cause of setting up all the dominoes?" Which is just a red herring and/or an implicit admission that numerous small causes can have huge effects.
If it makes you feel better, there are a few of us who have changed our position due to the evidence. I’ve actually started seeing a therapist while I process that I genuinely used to think the earth was 6,000 years old.
That’s why Aron keeps doing it. There’s always people in the comments thanking him for his help in leaving superstition behind. Welcome to the realm of facts, reasons and logic. I know some people struggle to adapt but to me freedom felt great from day one. Take care and all the best. 💕
Thanks Aron, the need to keep explaining to folk who ask the same questions over and over proves beyond a doubt, they are neither intelligent or designed.
Hey Aron! I became an atheist almost a decade ago and one of the first videos I saw on the topic was your video "Why does anyone believe in the Bible?", which helped me raise questions that will months later help me become atheist. So I do believe answering these questions help other people see the truth, no matter how repetite they may sound!
I don't know how you do it, time after time after time, and I SO admire your dedication, but it does get old. Seems you're always attracting the attention of brand-new followers who are questioning, bringing their misinformation to you for clarification, having just found you, unaware of your past video's. Reminds me of my elementary school teachers from long ago and far away, constantly and patiently going over our lesson's day in and day out, for months, repeating, repeating, trying to get them to sink in and we both know so many have finally found truth from your unending patience & guidance. That's what it takes.
Yes, totally agree. Educators necessarily answer the same questions over and over and be happy refining their techniques of presenting the same materials. I’m glad there are those like Aron who are willing to patiently -most of the time- answer the same questions from new people who can’t possibly know they aren’t the first to ask them.
I love their fine tuned for life argument, meanwhile good luck leaving earth...How do they not see the contradiction? We literally live in a goldilock zone, all other next door planets are hostile environments, not to mention, trying to travel 4 light years to nearest star system. Yup, really intelligent design and just incredibly fine tuned for life...
@@kimsland999even areas that are habitable would kill you given the chance. Wild animals, weather elements, plants, etc., etc., everything is waiting for that opportunity to off you.
even on earth, most of it is really impractical to near impossible for creationists to survive. Like in the 70% of the surface covered in salt water. Which you can't even drink.
@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece Even for adaptable humans most of the earth is not inhabitable. Or not sustainably with our technology. Not too close to the poles. Not too high or low altitude (below sea level) and not to wet or too dry.
Excellent, clear and concise answers to ridiculous questions, clearly intended, by a poorly educted Christian, to be mic drops. Keep doing what you Aron. We need you. No surprise that Christians repeat the same old questions when their preachers and apologists do the same. Every social media apologist has had their nonsense refuted countless times, often face to face and often by you but they still spew them out and lie to their audience.
How many times has Frank Turek debated many Atheists, including Hitch, yet somehow continues to preach and apparently believe the bullshit he preaches?!?
Sheeples believe in the ridiculous belief of Darwinist evolution . They don't even question it , as there has never even been a shred of evidence for it in more than 150 years . Charles Dumbo was a Jagoff .
14:00 According to Sir Terry Pratchett, the universe is actually infinite. -But only on the inside! (It's light blue on the outside). And he must know, after all, he asked Death about it! Explaining a mystery by appealing to a bigger mystery is not an explanation! :D
The apologists call atheists with "bad" arguments Reddit-tier atheists. Meanwhile they all peddle the coloring book-tier apologetic trash seen in this video.
Quite literally! I'm 50, and as a child, I remember 'Highlights' magazine was thrown everywhere a child could find them... every waiting room or lobby, doctors, dentist, to library and laundry. It was a comic book version of highly 'interpreted' passages of evangelical scripture. It's not at all surprising, that so many people in my generation, even typically nonreligious individuals, hold these mostly paradoxical, if not totally nonsensical notions concerning reality.
Considering the pre-fabricated, simplistic and modular nature of many creationist objections, I've always considered apologetics to be the 3-and-up level of debate which I've always summed up as "Duplo-mode." It doesn't even reach the Lego level.
You saved me the effort of writing exactly the same thing. Some kid struggling with his belief...my Aunt Fanny. This is some third-rate apologist at best, who's never read a single counter to any of this tripe.
Man, they didn't even try to keep up the lie that they're on their way out of religion. Nothing quite like a believer lying to score points. Could've sworn there was something in the bible about bearing false witness...
This is literally just the number one google hit when searching “questions for atheists”, that has been spammed to you. It’s existed long enough for there to be a response option that I answered that they … oddly enough … have deleted since then.
Hi Aron! I'm also annoyed with that stupid question! Well, most theists are immune to reason! Best thing is to never stop educating and protecting the youth from religion. Nergal from Behemoth was interviewed by Elliott from Little Punk People on YT and was asked, "if you could rid the world of one thing, what would you pick?" Nergal's reply, "Stupidity. Overwhelming stupidity. I face it like on a daily basis." 🖤🤘 Always love your work, Aron! Big Hugs!🤘🥰🤘
Second comment, to address a pattern I've detected: This list attempts in several of its questions to treat causality-as-we-understand-it as something that precedes reality-as-we-understand-it, an assumption resolutely _not_ in evidence.
As a Christian myself I do find these sort "questions" dishonest, loaded with gotcha intentions and very deceitful. I believe because I believe, and I thank the atheists out there for respecting that as much as I respect theirs; but to go and have the pretense that Christians know all the answers and present questions with the intention that atheists are stupid is just downright conceited. No-one has all the answers and the honest position has always been the "I don't know" standpoint. People like this is what makes us believers look dishonest, stupid and malicious (and yes there are some out there, just reading the comments from so-called Christians), and for that I do apologize. Have a great day everyone!
I've seen you on the Athiest Experience but my first time here. Thank you for explaining things so calmly, despite how frustrating it would be to answer the same question over and over again for soooo long. Thank you also for your strong stance that we Athiests don't believe something came from nothing. If I understand a believer correctly, it is they who believe God appeared from nothing. So just thank you.
I have been listening to you, Forrest, Erika, Matt and Jimmy for the last few weeks while I have been working on my novel. Thank you for helping me put out 178,712 words and just under 1.1M characters in a little over 7 weeks.
@@kimsland999 Science Fiction, alternate history, not complete yet, but close. I just broke the 400pg barrier in hardcover format size. Based on current progress, about a week to two and I will have it completed. Then submitting it to a couple publishers and hoping. If they pass, then Amazon here I come lol.
That being said I am not trying to advertise, just thank a person whose videos on taxonomy and herpetology allowed for me to not get a migraine during certain conceptualizations.
@@jakkanadarpainting6031 I like time-travel science fiction stuff, but only in movies. I didn't read the 100's of books of Dune, but the movie was excellent ;)
You're so logical and eloquent. You also have an economy of words when answering what appear to be complex questions by the standards of almost everyone in our society, and yet you convey the message perfectly. Watching and listening to you is a delight, thanks for making these videos. I find you to be an inspiration :)
It is mystifying. Why don't they realise that adding a creator doesn't even simplify the question of how the first thing came into existence? What created the creator? This problem is blindingly obvious. Even a 4 year old child can understand that the creator explains nothing.
They’ll either refuse to answer “what/who created their creator” or they’ll make a special pleading fallacy and contradict their own argument. Every single time.
@@lifeinthe80s It's not a contradiction; you're assuming there can only ever be one creator, which isn't true. For example, my parents created me and my grandparents created my parents.
@@pjj.1318 Don’t copy and paste propaganda. I’ve read that question from scientifically illiterate rednecks countless times before. You could actually learn from this channel.
@@lifeinthe80s it's not anyone's responsibility to educate you. Listen to the questions and listen to Aron's answers. Then do some research on the evidence and proof that supports his answers.
@@lifeinthe80s "I know what words mean thanks." If that were true then you'd know that truth is the noun applied to something factually accurate. If you think someone only believes something to be the truth when it has not been shown to be so, then say why it's a belief and not the truth. Fail to do that and you give the impression that you think there can be two opposing truths but no means of distinction. Do you want to be classed with the rhetoricians, the propagandists and the liars?
Those are not questions. That’s a compilation of the greatest hits of apologetics gotcha. Nobody with serious questions preface all their “questions” with: “wouldn’t you agree?”.
Some "evangelists" from a local church showed up at my doorstep one time trying the same rhetoric. The moment they tried the "You 'Atheists' believe the universe came from nothing" claim, I shut them down with the basic "No, we don't." and said basically what Aron has said on the subject.
@@lifeinthe80s Those questions came from the one that sent the email. Not Aron. Presupposition and special pleading are falicies. And fundamentally dishonest. And obviously you care because you're here asking stupid questions
You’ve answered these questions so many times and yet they still ask…..oh lord. The questions are so convoluted and conceptual, they’re not even based anywhere near reality. Why do believers even ask these questions? Do they question why they believe to begin with? If they didn’t grow up around other believers would they even ask these questions?
These are'nt even natural speech patterns. He intentionally injected this smug delivery. I often take this as an attempt to come off as sophisticated and nuanced. I don't buy it.
I’m SO grateful for your answers every single time. Your answers help me explain these concepts to my precocious 1st grader. Deep in the Bible Belt, he’s been inundated with religious references and has lots of questions.
The fact that we have an immune system is proof of the lack of an overarching all-wise, perfect, intelligent designer. A perfect intelligent designer would not create a world where one set of living organisms threaten the lives of others, requiring that the others be patched with a system to fight off the others. He would just design them both in such a way that they don't threaten each other. Thus the existence of the immune system is proof that there was lack of perfect intelligent forethought in the development of life.
See this is cool and empathetic man. This is why you're awesome. Because even though you're honest about your annoyance with the matter, and though it may be a scam, you treat it with seriousness and sincerity and do your best to help those who reach out to you. 10/10 human.
Oh my! 😳 😂 I’m entranced by the narrative voice of “Young Believer!” It sounds so smug and condescending, but I can’t decide if it’s from an original audio or video production by an actual “Young Believer” or if it’s a voice actor (or AI) enlisted to perform the “Young Believer” role in Aron’s original production. The cadence is so weirdly captivating but I find myself waffling between stunned at the arrogant condescension and amused by the performative mocking of young believers in general. 😬 😮 😂 😆
Sure a law needs a law giver, that’s why the laws were written by men and many of them were so barbaric and stupid you’d be thrown in prison if you followed them today. Seems like an all knowing god would not need a law that tells you to murder your child if they are disobedient I don’t know why they use this argument
All too many conversations with theists feel like their questions are trying to set up a logical trap. As if theist saying "Ha ha, your words have made you wrong." Would have an atheist say "Well you got me, I am a secret believer and now I'll preach with you."
This was a troll email. Anyone who would consider these "questions" profound would not have the capacity to walk and breathe at the same time. This is literally a less verbose list of Bill Craig's schtick.
@@lifeinthe80s wait do you realize there lying? that’s why he does that. Would he do that to a nice reasonable person that he disagrees on some things. no he would not. would he do that to someone who lies to children teenagers and adults about what happens when you die? Yes. you believe what you want but don’t force people to believe what you believe aka priests, apologists and Christians
@@lifeinthe80s what the hell are you even talking about when you die your heart stops and your brain dead what do you mean at least physically when you die you die
This is why i couldnt deal with talking to these people anymore. After almost 2 decades it just gets exhausting answering the same questions over and over. And sometimes from the same people. I admire your dedication.
Jeez, that theist sounded like Low-Bar Bill, aka WLC. His speech cadence. In addition it sounded like he was either rattling off a premade list of excusigist arguments or compiled a list of arguments previously made by excusigists, a la William Lane Craig.
Video description said questions from a young believer. No way a kid thought up and wrote those questions. Those were straight from an apologist's "10 questions atheists can't answer".
I thank you for your willingness and patience to put up with the same stupid, tired, Dunning-Kruger-I'm-so-smrt questions over and over. I couldn't do it. You are a far better, more understanding, and patient man than I, and I admire your perseverence. Thank you.
The fine tuning argument is the one that I always found most BS from believers. If I, designer, want to reach a certain goal, I would set up a system so that my goal would be a common occurrence in that system. Yet life in the universe is very very very rare and it needs that an incredible number of things to go right for it to happen. We are the only intelligent spieces of our solar system and there are no other on sights. Very simple life MIGHT exists in the depths of the oceans of Europa and Enceladus, but we're not sure. There are far far more common events in the Universe (like Supernovae, for example), so why not saying that the universe is fine-tuned for those? If there really is this intelligent being and humanity was its goal, then why are we so incredibly rare? If this "deity" couldn't do differently because of consmologic constants, it means there's something that holds a higher "hierarchical position" than him, then why not worshiping those constants instead of the deity that's below them? If this deity didn't have to abide by the constants and just chose the Universe to be this way, why creating this system that not only is needlessly convoluted, but also makes things so this "goal" is an improbable occurrence? Either we were not the goal of this deity, or, more likely, there's no such thing as a deity, no fine-tuning either, and our existence is just one consequence, among many others that don't hold more nor less value than us, of the fact that the Universe is the way it is. We are a byproduct of the Universe's laws, not a cause of it. the Fine tuning argument sounds just baseless antropocentrism to me.
If the universe is fine-tuned for anything, it's for the production of black holes and their eventual dispersion into an increasingly empty and flat space-time. Maybe God designed our universe as a laboratory experiment with which he could investigate proton decay, and we're nothing but a transitory initial perturbation in the experiment that can be safely ignored due to us having no appreciable effect on the outcome.
About the only thing I’m certain of, is that if a divine creator exists, anyone who believes they can define him, her, it, or otherwise is serving nothing more than their ego…
If Musk could buy up all the SMTP servers and rights to all the SMTP/POP3/IMAP software in the world, and take those protocols out of the hands of the IETF, you can be sure that he'd change the name of email to FreezePeach or something and then block anyone saying something he didn't like.
Seriously just the first minute of this video hit home. Being asked the same questions and never changing what they see or think whatsoever after I give them actual facts. I always think giving them a dose of reality would bring them closer to it but they don't want reality, they want their words to come out of your mouth.
I assume that this person's pastor gave them these "questions for athiests" in the hopes of keeping them from leaving the flock, and that the terrible education (I'm guessing homeschool) that they recieved makes them think they are making good points. It is all terribly sad.
Once again you've nailed it Aron. You've done the work, you've put the hard miles in. You've made it easier for me to counter the rubbish I hear when spouted by idiots. And I thank you for that. Keep nailing it brother, nail it to that effing cross!
If God didn't exist then why would Moses give his Priests baths, put Curious Girdles and Bonnets on them, so that they could properly perform Animal Blood Guilt Cult Sacrifices like waving Goat Legs up to Gord if he didn't exist 🤣
The “something from nothing” literally hurts my head every single time. Creationists are so ridiculously dishonest. They are the ones who make that claim every time and somehow try and dump it on non believers. 🙄 The whole “nothing” doesn’t even make any sense.
Can tell from the guy's tone that he lied about walking away from faith and thinks he's gonna "logic" Aron into believing using "never-before-heard arguments" i.e. entry-level fallacies. The church really is a wood chipper for the mind.
I remember these questions being asked 20 years ago and receiving these exact answers. It's like these people simply refuse to learn, no matter how many times you teach them.
So patient. But wouldn't it be easier to make fun of theist beliefs? As the saying goes, you are preaching to the choir. The theists aren't interested in facts.
with his epistomology he should belief in all kinds of made up things. you cant see unicorns you cant disproof unicorns. then why would he belief in God but not unicorns. as the same reasons he beliefs in God can be used for any crazy claim. but they only use it for this one claim. probably be ause they feel save doing it because so many others do it too.
@@lifeinthe80s Every ideology is worthy of scrutiny. It's believers who have to be gatekeepers because their ideology will not hold up. That's why they invented blasphemy, because they are the ultimate snowflakes.
This was one of the channels that helped reinforce my breaking away of Christianity. Since I’ve broken away, I’ve become much more interested in the beginnings of our universe, where we came from, the different eras our earth went through before we came along, and so much more that I never even gave a thought to while I was a believer. I’ve also reinforced my faith in myself. I used to question whether anything I did was my own doing or out of fear of God. Now I can assure myself that every action I take, every time I help others, that’s me choosing to help others, not me being obedient to avoid punishment. So I do thank you for taking so much time to debunk these absurd gotcha questions in the hope that even just one person can finally accept the truth, because some time ago, I was that one person
2-4BILLION☆Stars/MilkyWay galaxy 1 of 2TRILLION☆galaxies that can be seen. All created in a solar day by an unknown guy who rides into a small city 2000yrs ago on an ass.
TWO asses. 😂 Recently there’s been videos on the channels about biblical scholarship on whether Jesus rode two donkeys (at the same time) on Matthew’s gospel and why. Not even that is a settled fact.
I've been hooked on the Gibbon, the Forrest, and sometimes that 'mean German lady' as well..:) Just subbed to your channel.. please, for the love of all things scientific and rational, keep up the great work!
God could settle this argument once and for all if there were a god to settle this argument. If there were a god, what kind of god would sit back and watch argument after argument about whether or not it exists. One unworthy of worship.
@@lifeinthe80sOf course. We are *all* the arbiters of what *we* find makes sense. The christian god, as it has been described to me, makes absolutely no logical sense if one considers reality to be as reality is. For lockedonlaw, the issue is "Divine Hiddeness". For me it's the "Problem of Evil." They're both issues of "God, as described, is logically contradictive."
@@lifeinthe80s *"But if there was a God, what makes you think as a human you would be able to understand him?"* If God truly wants me to have a relationship with him, me being able to understand *who* I'm going to have a relationship with is the bare minimum required for me to make the first step. Otherwise, it would be like me telling you "The Great Flergleblarg wants to have a relationship with you. The Great Flergleblarg is an all-loving square circle that hates you." That description probably makes no sense to you. Which will be a major hurdle in you believing the Great Flergleblarg exists. And if you do not believe the Great Flergleblarg exists, you will not be able to even attempt to form a relationship with it.
@@lifeinthe80s That's a deistic position. Which also means that kinda god is utterly irrelevant to me, even if it exists - which can't be proven anyway. If you're wanting to propose a god along the lines of "we can't know if it exists, and even if it exists, it has no influence on our live and reality as it is", be my guest. That's as important to me as wondering what someone called "Lin" ate in Bejing yesterday at around 14:53 +/- 10 minutes local time. That, however, is not the Christian god. And most of the times when god is brought up, it's that one - because we're in a sphere that's influenced by Christianity the most.
“Science has proven to be faulty time and time again.” This is true. That’s why we use term, “true science.” ….. This is based on the observable, repeatable, demonstrable, evidences and testing.
@@lifeinthe80s And I'm sick of the wilful ignorance and gullibility of so many believers. I'll happily give those poor people who were indoctrinated into it from childhood a second chance, but an adult should know better and understand their limits when it comes to the validity of claiming the certainty of something that they can't demonstrate the truth of.
@@lifeinthe80s Do you deliberately choose not to address your replies, and not quote what part of a comment you're responding to when it isn't obvious? Do you think it gets you off the hook somehow? It doesn't. It makes you look frustrated and thoughtless.
Stunning. The tone of every question exuded the kind of haughty smugness that I would associate with a top lawyer delivering a slam-dunk argument that settles the case beyond all doubt ... and yet every question was as feeble as someone picking up a fir cone and saying "Would you not agree that a great artist must have sculpted every one of these exquisite baubles with love?"
It's a bit concerning that they truly believe that these are great arguments.
ie Pathetic of them
Well, when they're kept sheltered from any other form of argumentation they probably don't have any experience with anything better.
Everything is a good argument if you are a school dropout.
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I had a woman who said she had a "new argument" for Christianity and it was a Ken Ham speech from at least the 90s. So I said fossils are not billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the Earth.
She looked at me horrified and I said "Demonic knowledge, I am literally Satan" clearly joking but I think it triggered too much cognitive dissonance as she just walked away.
I love the fact that Aron Ra just keeps at it, day after day.
I think it's urgently necessary to keep fighting ignorance every single day, afresh, and not rely on old statements.
You could rest on your many brilliant statements and arguments, but you understand that you need to take this ignorance on in real time, every day
You are appreciated for your efforts and intelligence, every day and for each moment you design to share them with us.
Thanks, Aron.
These questions aren't about curiosity or inquiry. They're rhetorical tricks.
Agreed, Christians don't want to know the truth.
I do think the person has left the faith to a degree at least, they just actively want not to be an atheist. They are not rhetorical tricks they are inherently dishonest rhetorical tricks, and they are thought-stopping techniques. They are there to make you stop learning.
I agree, doesn't Ra understand this or does he like to hear himself Blather? His cosmology is terrible as his thermodynamics. For evolution their is plenty of scientific evidence, but for anything at or before the big bang there is NO scientific evidence, all these conjectures about what the big bang was or what existed before it is pure philosophy, sorry. Ask your "cosmologist friends" this, they will tell you their is no evidence for their conjectures about before the big-bang.
And holy sh**, your answer about the anthropic principle is ridiculous.Forget about human beings, that any life exists in a random manifestation of a universe is astronomically rare. Here you must resort to a multi-universe conjecture. If you need any help writing your responses just ask.
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If you look at them closely, most of the "questions" were just variations on the same question regarding the idea of "the universe coming from nothing." How many times does Aron have to explain it before these people finally get it?
Yes, we are surrounded by instant death, not to mention this planet tries to kill us every chance it gets.
Life always has a trick/is suddenly dead. A penny rocket?
One planet to another one: "I have Homo sapiens."
2nd planet: "Don't worry. That will pass."
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So fine-tuned that the lava ball we orbit around will engulf us relatively shortly.
Literally try sitting out in the sun for two days straight. “Humans are perfect. We can take on all. Nothing is impossible.” Yet we need sunscreen. The very thing that gives us life would kill us if we didn’t know better.
I think I know why they keep asking these questions. They aren’t sincere questions. Rather, they are preaching and evangelizing. I can almost guarantee they never listen to your responses to the questions, hence they never learn.
What gave it away? The first question that was completely irrelevant and was only there to manipulatively setup an absent possibility?
I agree. Even the way the questions are asked, after as “wouldn’t you agree” or “doesn’t it follow that” as though they expect that their points are undisputed. Rather than giving definitive statements and arguments. Most callers saying they have proof, start with questions. That’s not how one demonstrates anything in science or a court of law.
Well I’m watching this and can see how dumb certain arguments are I once thought were pretty concrete lmao. But unfortunately I believe most Christians don’t take the time to look into the very things they don’t agree with 🤦♂️
They always ignore a) there are more deities than theirs and b) believing isn't worshipping and the guy from the buybull isn't worth admiration.
Their own deity says "Love me more than the other deities."
@@lifeinthe80s All hail Thor!
@@lifeinthe80sJesus doesn't exist.
@@lifeinthe80s Prove it
@@lifeinthe80s Do you have evidence he ever existed?
You know, he supposedly said, "Gotta hate everyone if you want to suck my dong!"
Thank you Aron for answering this question again and again. Believe it or not I enjoy listening to your answers. When I speak with believers the hundreds of times, you told me the answers to this a residual in my brain. You give me answers to share with them. Your words are well constructed.
A post on Threads asked if an atheist could explain why a grapefruit doesn't taste like chocolate, like it's a gotcha. Well, I am an atheist but also hold a university degree in food science, so my reply was that they have different chemical compositions, which is science and nothing to do with atheism.
I didn't have sufficient remaining characters to explain how those different chemicals react with receptors in the nose and mouth to send signals to the brain that are interpreted as the sensation of taste.
My brother is a scientist and also has a business that deals with flavoring agents. Once he started describing the molecular composition of the compounds he was buying and how sometimes there’s just few carbon atoms differently placed in the molecular chain between, say, vanilla and mint. I don’t remember the exact example but the point was that it wasn’t just different composition, it was a tiny difference that our senses interpret as a completely different flavor.
Gotcha questions like that expose the ignorance and insincerity of the asker.
If you answer the first question it can lead to a string of How abouts and What ifs that eventually lead to the beginning of time or abiogenesis.
You have an expertise. So they'll usually get a legit answer in your field then jump to something you can't answer authoritatively .
Kent 'Dr Dino' Hovind is a master of this.
And any We don't know = their god.
Ai Caramba. I've been led down rat holes like that a few times about the theory of evolution.
Ended up at the beginning of time and abiogenesis.
I'm sitting here trying to figure out why that person would even ask such a weird question. But yeah, if you don't understand that taste is your sensory organs detecting chemicals, then I suppose even the flavor of grapefruit and chocolate is something of a mystery. Weird.
So you're telling me a militant christian on a right wing platform reveals that they have the palate of a 6 year old? Color me shocked.
@@pansepot1490 Thunderf00t did a video on heavy water because it tasted sweet.
I rather like Sagan's reply to the first cause argument. If you claim the universe requires a cause, and you nominate a deity to do that, an honest enquirer will then ask what caused the deity to exist? If you want to claim a deity doesn't require a cause then why does the universe require a cause? It's special pleading.
But gods are obviously excempt from special pleading😂
@@AllHailDiskordia Except for the gods who were created by Titans. They're pretty pissed off that they're nothing special and just a passing fad.
The earth rests on the backs of a giant turtle.
What's that turtle standing on?
It's turtles all the way down.
@@AllHailDiskordia Imaginary entities don't have to be logical, they can be anything you imagine them to be.
@@bobs182 Which is exactly why arguing with these people is useless.
I didn't realize they actually practiced at sounding obnoxious. I guess it's an important part of apologetics.
Hubris.
Its a feature. If the target gets irritated or offended, it reinforces the believers alianation from society and keeps them within the sect.
It's self-righteous smugness.
The disciption of this video said Young Believer.
A kid didn't write those questions.
These came straight from something like an apologist's "10 guestions Atheists can't answer".
"Would you agree that your negative premise disagrees with the positive claim that god does not exist"?
Said no kid ever.
@Duchess_Van_Hoof I like that theory, because it needn't be intentional. Cults evolve, and they probably evolved that trait for exactly the advantage you describe.
"If an effect cannot be greater than its cause...."
Happens all the time. Knock down a single domino, and the entire chain falls down.
i never knew humans could run faster than cars, fly like planes and do math faster than any computer, we clearly created things that ar "more" that we are
True. My example was a 5V electrical signal triggering a thermonuclear bomb.
@@RichWoods23
Nuclear chain reactions & avalanches were the first things that came to my mind. I went with dominoes in the end because if this really is from a young individual I thought it would be easier to explain.
I'd expect a rebuttal along the lines of, "What of the cause of setting up all the dominoes?" Which is just a red herring and/or an implicit admission that numerous small causes can have huge effects.
A spark creates an explosion. Is that spark more powerful than the explosion?
Whoever coined that saying never saw a snowball roll down a hill.
If it makes you feel better, there are a few of us who have changed our position due to the evidence. I’ve actually started seeing a therapist while I process that I genuinely used to think the earth was 6,000 years old.
That’s why Aron keeps doing it. There’s always people in the comments thanking him for his help in leaving superstition behind.
Welcome to the realm of facts, reasons and logic. I know some people struggle to adapt but to me freedom felt great from day one.
Take care and all the best. 💕
@@lifeinthe80s what are you even on about?
@rhewin ...glad you made it out and back to reality. Well done on your intellectual honesty and pursuit of truth.
@@lifeinthe80s they are high on huffing each others intellectual pee and poop. It’s a spiritual sort of jenkem.
Thanks Aron, the need to keep explaining to folk who ask the same questions over and over proves beyond a doubt, they are neither intelligent or designed.
Aron's playing a constant game of whack a mole/apologist.
Good one
Hey Aron! I became an atheist almost a decade ago and one of the first videos I saw on the topic was your video "Why does anyone believe in the Bible?", which helped me raise questions that will months later help me become atheist. So I do believe answering these questions help other people see the truth, no matter how repetite they may sound!
I don't know how you do it, time after time after time, and I SO admire your dedication, but it does get old.
Seems you're always attracting the attention of brand-new followers who are questioning, bringing their misinformation to you for clarification, having just found you, unaware of your past video's.
Reminds me of my elementary school teachers from long ago and far away, constantly and patiently going over our lesson's day in and day out, for months, repeating, repeating, trying to get them to sink in and we both know so many have finally found truth from your unending patience & guidance.
That's what it takes.
Yes, totally agree. Educators necessarily answer the same questions over and over and be happy refining their techniques of presenting the same materials. I’m glad there are those like Aron who are willing to patiently -most of the time- answer the same questions from new people who can’t possibly know they aren’t the first to ask them.
I love their fine tuned for life argument, meanwhile good luck leaving earth...How do they not see the contradiction? We literally live in a goldilock zone, all other next door planets are hostile environments, not to mention, trying to travel 4 light years to nearest star system. Yup, really intelligent design and just incredibly fine tuned for life...
And that zone is a lot bigger than they want to admit.
Is your question: How much of Earth is incompatible for human life?
Um, nearly all of it, especially without shelter.
@@kimsland999even areas that are habitable would kill you given the chance.
Wild animals, weather elements, plants, etc., etc., everything is waiting for that opportunity to off you.
even on earth, most of it is really impractical to near impossible for creationists to survive. Like in the 70% of the surface covered in salt water. Which you can't even drink.
@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece
Even for adaptable humans most of the earth is not inhabitable. Or not sustainably with our technology.
Not too close to the poles. Not too high or low altitude (below sea level) and not to wet or too dry.
Excellent, clear and concise answers to ridiculous questions, clearly intended, by a poorly educted Christian, to be mic drops. Keep doing what you Aron. We need you.
No surprise that Christians repeat the same old questions when their preachers and apologists do the same. Every social media apologist has had their nonsense refuted countless times, often face to face and often by you but they still spew them out and lie to their audience.
How many times has Frank Turek debated many Atheists, including Hitch, yet somehow continues to preach and apparently believe the bullshit he preaches?!?
@@lifeinthe80s Who is Jesus and why does he love me?
@@lifeinthe80s What is John 3:16 and why should anyone care?
@@lifeinthe80s There are thousands of other books anyone could read. So why should anyone read the Bible?
@@lifeinthe80s Why does God so love, and so hate, the world so much?!?
Your dedication to this topic and audiences is truly commendable.
The voice-over was very appropriate.
Yes, great choice of a voice. As obnoxious as the real person probably is.
I am in awe at your stamina. The requirement to deal with the same crap each and every day would grind me down in mere months.
Indeed!
money
Aron has been playing a game of whack a mole/apologists for decades
"Sheeple is as sheeple does"
As a sheeple, I have been informed that I am offended by your comment. 🐑
I just adopted a Sheeple Dog
It's been very awkward so far.
@@BaronVonQuiply Woof
Sheeples believe in the ridiculous belief of Darwinist evolution .
They don't even question it , as there has never even been a shred of evidence for it in more than 150 years .
Charles Dumbo was a Jagoff .
14:00 According to Sir Terry Pratchett, the universe is actually infinite. -But only on the inside! (It's light blue on the outside). And he must know, after all, he asked Death about it! Explaining a mystery by appealing to a bigger mystery is not an explanation! :D
Testimonial evidence is the lowest form of evidence. But I get your point, yes that is funny.
@@kimsland999Pratchett's books are not only funny, they are scathing mirrors held up to what we laughingly call "the real world". Recommend!
The apologists call atheists with "bad" arguments Reddit-tier atheists. Meanwhile they all peddle the coloring book-tier apologetic trash seen in this video.
Quite literally! I'm 50, and as a child, I remember 'Highlights' magazine was thrown everywhere a child could find them... every waiting room or lobby, doctors, dentist, to library and laundry. It was a comic book version of highly 'interpreted' passages of evangelical scripture. It's not at all surprising, that so many people in my generation, even typically nonreligious individuals, hold these mostly paradoxical, if not totally nonsensical notions concerning reality.
It's hard to come up with a good argument for a bad hypothesis with no evidence. 🤷
What's funny is that they call atheists if they don't shit about science instead of actually learning or reaching out to a scientist
Considering the pre-fabricated, simplistic and modular nature of many creationist objections, I've always considered apologetics to be the 3-and-up level of debate which I've always summed up as "Duplo-mode."
It doesn't even reach the Lego level.
These smell like standard theological "gotcha" questions to me.
Lots of question-begging in the questions as formulated. That's a "tell" for those kinds of questions.
You saved me the effort of writing exactly the same thing. Some kid struggling with his belief...my Aunt Fanny. This is some third-rate apologist at best, who's never read a single counter to any of this tripe.
Agreed. My thoughts exactly.
You can tell by his pretentious tone of deluded sense of intelligence.
That's because they are.
I will never get tired of these stupid questions when Aron answers them for me
And yet again ...
"Faith, like a jackal, feeds amongst the tombs."
---- H. Melville
Reading the believer's arguments in William Lane Craig tone seems appropriate.
Man, they didn't even try to keep up the lie that they're on their way out of religion. Nothing quite like a believer lying to score points. Could've sworn there was something in the bible about bearing false witness...
This is literally just the number one google hit when searching “questions for atheists”, that has been spammed to you. It’s existed long enough for there to be a response option that I answered that they … oddly enough … have deleted since then.
Hi Aron! I'm also annoyed with that stupid question! Well, most theists are immune to reason! Best thing is to never stop educating and protecting the youth from religion.
Nergal from Behemoth was interviewed by Elliott from Little Punk People on YT and was asked, "if you could rid the world of one thing, what would you pick?" Nergal's reply, "Stupidity. Overwhelming stupidity. I face it like on a daily basis." 🖤🤘
Always love your work, Aron!
Big Hugs!🤘🥰🤘
Second comment, to address a pattern I've detected: This list attempts in several of its questions to treat causality-as-we-understand-it as something that precedes reality-as-we-understand-it, an assumption resolutely _not_ in evidence.
- Thank you for having the patience to go through this again. Maybe some will hear you this time. (I am not holding my breath)
I somehow doubt the kid who asked these questions will thank him.
Many have heard him and changed for the better.
@@campfireaddict6417✌️☮️🖤
@@lifeinthe80s We don't believe in childish things like messiahs, that's your specialty.
As a Christian myself I do find these sort "questions" dishonest, loaded with gotcha intentions and very deceitful. I believe because I believe, and I thank the atheists out there for respecting that as much as I respect theirs; but to go and have the pretense that Christians know all the answers and present questions with the intention that atheists are stupid is just downright conceited. No-one has all the answers and the honest position has always been the "I don't know" standpoint. People like this is what makes us believers look dishonest, stupid and malicious (and yes there are some out there, just reading the comments from so-called Christians), and for that I do apologize. Have a great day everyone!
I've seen you on the Athiest Experience but my first time here. Thank you for explaining things so calmly, despite how frustrating it would be to answer the same question over and over again for soooo long.
Thank you also for your strong stance that we Athiests don't believe something came from nothing. If I understand a believer correctly, it is they who believe God appeared from nothing.
So just thank you.
I have been listening to you, Forrest, Erika, Matt and Jimmy for the last few weeks while I have been working on my novel. Thank you for helping me put out 178,712 words and just under 1.1M characters in a little over 7 weeks.
Fiction? Possibly Bible trilogy? Any questions, or is it complete now?
@@kimsland999 Science Fiction, alternate history, not complete yet, but close. I just broke the 400pg barrier in hardcover format size. Based on current progress, about a week to two and I will have it completed. Then submitting it to a couple publishers and hoping. If they pass, then Amazon here I come lol.
That being said I am not trying to advertise, just thank a person whose videos on taxonomy and herpetology allowed for me to not get a migraine during certain conceptualizations.
@@jakkanadarpainting6031 I like time-travel science fiction stuff, but only in movies. I didn't read the 100's of books of Dune, but the movie was excellent ;)
Wow, those are impressive numbers. I usually top out somewhere between two and three thousand words a day.
You're so logical and eloquent. You also have an economy of words when answering what appear to be complex questions by the standards of almost everyone in our society, and yet you convey the message perfectly. Watching and listening to you is a delight, thanks for making these videos. I find you to be an inspiration :)
It is mystifying. Why don't they realise that adding a creator doesn't even simplify the question of how the first thing came into existence?
What created the creator?
This problem is blindingly obvious. Even a 4 year old child can understand that the creator explains nothing.
They’ll either refuse to answer “what/who created their creator” or they’ll make a special pleading fallacy and contradict their own argument. Every single time.
@@lifeinthe80s It's not a contradiction; you're assuming there can only ever be one creator, which isn't true. For example, my parents created me and my grandparents created my parents.
@@lifeinthe80s You're saying that "everything" doesn't include a god? I agree.
@@lifeinthe80s Including itself?
@@lifeinthe80s special pleading fallacy. Every time. 🤣
There are still people who reject science. There are still superstitious people. There are still people asking these dumb questions!
They’re is Pseudoscience, and False science, and True science. Which science are you speaking about?
@@pjj.1318 I’m talking about science.
@@uriituw But, is the science you’re talking about, observable, demonstrable, and repeatable, as a scientific experiment?
@@pjj.1318 Don’t copy and paste propaganda. I’ve read that question from scientifically illiterate rednecks countless times before.
You could actually learn from this channel.
@@pjj.1318 There is just science everything else is not science.
The more you study biology, the less designed it seems. And the more motivated reasoning you need to be any kind of creationist.
Kudos for finding an actor with extremely punchable manners of speech to read the believers questions
Thank you Aron, for speaking truth
@@lifeinthe80s You don't know what words mean. Are you by any chance a fan of Kelly Anne Conway?
@@lifeinthe80s Yes, we know that you prefer nonsensical BS.
@@lifeinthe80s it's not anyone's responsibility to educate you.
Listen to the questions and listen to Aron's answers. Then do some research on the evidence and proof that supports his answers.
@@lifeinthe80s
"Thatsan assumption, prove it"
You prove it yourself, every time you post your nonesense.
@@lifeinthe80s "I know what words mean thanks."
If that were true then you'd know that truth is the noun applied to something factually accurate. If you think someone only believes something to be the truth when it has not been shown to be so, then say why it's a belief and not the truth. Fail to do that and you give the impression that you think there can be two opposing truths but no means of distinction. Do you want to be classed with the rhetoricians, the propagandists and the liars?
Aron really has so much patience with these topics. He should simply put up the word “IBID” on the screen.
Much appreciated.
Those were questions that were NOT seriously considered before sending OR the sender was pathologically obtuse.
Likely the sender is a liar
Those are not questions. That’s a compilation of the greatest hits of apologetics gotcha.
Nobody with serious questions preface all their “questions” with: “wouldn’t you agree?”.
Love your solo videos. Much appreciated. Helped me. Im ex SDA who was been disfellowshiped from my family for three years now. Healing journey.
You've had a lot of practice answering these questions and it shows. It's always entertaining to hear you do it again.
The way the question asker sounds is the first half of the Dunning Kruger chart, personified 😮💨
Does he ask why there are still monkeys?
Edit: no, It’s existential philosophy questions
Naval gazing and word salad.
_"Kent Hovind told me it rained one day and humans poofed out of rocks. So why are there still rocks? Aphids Owened!"_
The obsession with something from nothing is mind numbing. They always ask it with an air of "gotcha" as well that makes me physically ill.
Some "evangelists" from a local church showed up at my doorstep one time trying the same rhetoric. The moment they tried the "You 'Atheists' believe the universe came from nothing" claim, I shut them down with the basic "No, we don't." and said basically what Aron has said on the subject.
@@lifeinthe80s You obviously care. You've polluted the comment section with ridiculous and condescending comments.
@@lifeinthe80s
Where would I find this god thing ?
@@lifeinthe80s So all you needed was a lobotomy 😂
@@lifeinthe80s
Those questions came from the one that sent the email. Not Aron.
Presupposition and special pleading are falicies. And fundamentally dishonest. And obviously you care because you're here asking stupid questions
You’ve answered these questions so many times and yet they still ask…..oh lord. The questions are so convoluted and conceptual, they’re not even based anywhere near reality. Why do believers even ask these questions? Do they question why they believe to begin with? If they didn’t grow up around other believers would they even ask these questions?
How am I only now subscribing to the myth, the legend that is Aron Ra...
Did the questioner have the smuggest voice you’ve ever heard?
Yup. He sounded like a mimic of excusigist Low-Bar Bill.
He's thinking "slam dunk", because he won't listen to the answers to his riddles
I think its a funny voice over meant to be smug, read by Arons son or maybe someone else?
@@satyasyasatyasya5746👹👈😩Found the troll!
These are'nt even natural speech patterns. He intentionally injected this smug delivery. I often take this as an attempt to come off as sophisticated and nuanced. I don't buy it.
I’m SO grateful for your answers every single time. Your answers help me explain these concepts to my precocious 1st grader. Deep in the Bible Belt, he’s been inundated with religious references and has lots of questions.
The fact that we have an immune system is proof of the lack of an overarching all-wise, perfect, intelligent designer. A perfect intelligent designer would not create a world where one set of living organisms threaten the lives of others, requiring that the others be patched with a system to fight off the others. He would just design them both in such a way that they don't threaten each other. Thus the existence of the immune system is proof that there was lack of perfect intelligent forethought in the development of life.
See this is cool and empathetic man. This is why you're awesome. Because even though you're honest about your annoyance with the matter, and though it may be a scam, you treat it with seriousness and sincerity and do your best to help those who reach out to you. 10/10 human.
Oh my! 😳 😂
I’m entranced by the narrative voice of “Young Believer!” It sounds so smug and condescending, but I can’t decide if it’s from an original audio or video production by an actual “Young Believer” or if it’s a voice actor (or AI) enlisted to perform the “Young Believer” role in Aron’s original production.
The cadence is so weirdly captivating but I find myself waffling between stunned at the arrogant condescension and amused by the performative mocking of young believers in general. 😬 😮 😂 😆
Sure a law needs a law giver, that’s why the laws were written by men and many of them were so barbaric and stupid you’d be thrown in prison if you followed them today.
Seems like an all knowing god would not need a law that tells you to murder your child if they are disobedient
I don’t know why they use this argument
Physical laws of the universe were scientifically discovered. They are descriptions, not 'laws' that we create.
@@kimsland999Apologists love to equivocate on the word "law", treating descriptive physical laws as though they were prescriptive legislative laws.
Aron, we need more of you. Huge fan. I'm Ian and keep rocking on Aron!
You can presuppose anything. That does not mean it comports to reality.
All too many conversations with theists feel like their questions are trying to set up a logical trap.
As if theist saying "Ha ha, your words have made you wrong." Would have an atheist say "Well you got me, I am a secret believer and now I'll preach with you."
This was a troll email. Anyone who would consider these "questions" profound would not have the capacity to walk and breathe at the same time. This is literally a less verbose list of Bill Craig's schtick.
You don't believe that kids can be conned into religious garbage?
12:21... I love how you answered this one 😃👌 Big ups!
Aron, you have the patience of a saint. 😅
@@lifeinthe80s And your god wipes out populations of innocent people
@@lifeinthe80s wait do you realize there lying? that’s why he does that. Would he do that to a nice reasonable person that he disagrees on some things. no he would not. would he do that to someone who lies to children teenagers and adults about what happens when you die? Yes. you believe what you want but don’t force people to believe what you believe aka priests, apologists and Christians
@@lifeinthe80s what the hell are you even talking about when you die your heart stops and your brain dead what do you mean at least physically when you die you die
@@lifeinthe80s
" The way you all force your atheism on others " 🤣😂
The ultimate projection from little dickie.
@@lifeinthe80s
"I'm on drugs"
No
I think you are off your drugs and should seek help.
This is why i couldnt deal with talking to these people anymore. After almost 2 decades it just gets exhausting answering the same questions over and over. And sometimes from the same people. I admire your dedication.
Jeez, that theist sounded like Low-Bar Bill, aka WLC. His speech cadence. In addition it sounded like he was either rattling off a premade list of excusigist arguments or compiled a list of arguments previously made by excusigists, a la William Lane Craig.
ie A liar
Video description said questions from a young believer.
No way a kid thought up and wrote those questions.
Those were straight from an apologist's "10 questions atheists can't answer".
I thank you for your willingness and patience to put up with the same stupid, tired, Dunning-Kruger-I'm-so-smrt questions over and over. I couldn't do it. You are a far better, more understanding, and patient man than I, and I admire your perseverence. Thank you.
The fine tuning argument is the one that I always found most BS from believers.
If I, designer, want to reach a certain goal, I would set up a system so that my goal would be a common occurrence in that system. Yet life in the universe is very very very rare and it needs that an incredible number of things to go right for it to happen. We are the only intelligent spieces of our solar system and there are no other on sights. Very simple life MIGHT exists in the depths of the oceans of Europa and Enceladus, but we're not sure. There are far far more common events in the Universe (like Supernovae, for example), so why not saying that the universe is fine-tuned for those?
If there really is this intelligent being and humanity was its goal, then why are we so incredibly rare? If this "deity" couldn't do differently because of consmologic constants, it means there's something that holds a higher "hierarchical position" than him, then why not worshiping those constants instead of the deity that's below them?
If this deity didn't have to abide by the constants and just chose the Universe to be this way, why creating this system that not only is needlessly convoluted, but also makes things so this "goal" is an improbable occurrence?
Either we were not the goal of this deity, or, more likely, there's no such thing as a deity, no fine-tuning either, and our existence is just one consequence, among many others that don't hold more nor less value than us, of the fact that the Universe is the way it is.
We are a byproduct of the Universe's laws, not a cause of it. the Fine tuning argument sounds just baseless antropocentrism to me.
If the universe is fine-tuned for anything, it's for the production of black holes and their eventual dispersion into an increasingly empty and flat space-time. Maybe God designed our universe as a laboratory experiment with which he could investigate proton decay, and we're nothing but a transitory initial perturbation in the experiment that can be safely ignored due to us having no appreciable effect on the outcome.
About the only thing I’m certain of, is that if a divine creator exists, anyone who believes they can define him, her, it, or otherwise is serving nothing more than their ego…
The only thing we've ever found behind nature, is more nature.
No
The "or on email, until they chang the name of that into something stupid " part really makes me laughing
If Musk could buy up all the SMTP servers and rights to all the SMTP/POP3/IMAP software in the world, and take those protocols out of the hands of the IETF, you can be sure that he'd change the name of email to FreezePeach or something and then block anyone saying something he didn't like.
Thanks for putting up with this shit, Aron. Edit: I wonder if the asking the same stuff is deliberate. So-as to aggravate.
I'd agree. I've had Christians say _bless you_ using this as a threat to me.
They are extremely discriminative and highly immoral.
Thank you Aron, I truly admire you and Lilandra🥰🙌🏽
Every inflection in this guy’s voice is dripping with passive aggressive condescension 😢
The only reason I agree with everything Aron says is because ,"He's fuckin right".
A mighty oak coming out of a tiny seed is magical!
Hello 👋 puppies 🐶 🐱 kittens & coiled things 🐍 !
Hi😺
Seriously just the first minute of this video hit home. Being asked the same questions and never changing what they see or think whatsoever after I give them actual facts. I always think giving them a dose of reality would bring them closer to it but they don't want reality, they want their words to come out of your mouth.
Nice set of answers but can you get an elephant from a banana tree mr. Nelson?
Just kidding, i love your channel
Spectacular Aron, one of your best!
I assume that this person's pastor gave them these "questions for athiests" in the hopes of keeping them from leaving the flock, and that the terrible education (I'm guessing homeschool) that they recieved makes them think they are making good points. It is all terribly sad.
Agreed, no way a "Young Believer" came up with those questions.
Once again you've nailed it Aron. You've done the work, you've put the hard miles in. You've made it easier for me to counter the rubbish I hear when spouted by idiots. And I thank you for that. Keep nailing it brother, nail it to that effing cross!
@@lifeinthe80s A man is idolized, and compared to a god? What is a god to you? Were the backstreet boys also gods?
@@lifeinthe80s
Why does your god fiddle with kiddies?
If God didn't exist then why would Moses give his Priests baths, put Curious Girdles and Bonnets on them, so that they could properly perform Animal Blood Guilt Cult Sacrifices like waving Goat Legs up to Gord if he didn't exist 🤣
Checkmate, atheists
Thank you for the laughing emoji, because there's people who would say that with total conviction.
@quietone2674 Been There, Big Time. Text is confusing enough. The Authors of Confusion who wrote the Holey Script-Yourz proove that🌠✋️😎
And where is Jesus's donkey??
Moses was a fictional character created by the Hebrews and is based of king Akhenaten. Learn proven history instead of myths
The “something from nothing” literally hurts my head every single time. Creationists are so ridiculously dishonest. They are the ones who make that claim every time and somehow try and dump it on non believers. 🙄 The whole “nothing” doesn’t even make any sense.
Definitely not a person who has moved away from religion. Just another puppet who thinks he has a "gotcha" in his list of stupid questions.
I think someone else provided the "questions" and the poor kid just isn't educated enough to see what terrible arguments they are
Love your work Aron! I had a tough time listening to that guys voice...
Can tell from the guy's tone that he lied about walking away from faith and thinks he's gonna "logic" Aron into believing using "never-before-heard arguments" i.e. entry-level fallacies. The church really is a wood chipper for the mind.
I remember these questions being asked 20 years ago and receiving these exact answers. It's like these people simply refuse to learn, no matter how many times you teach them.
So patient. But wouldn't it be easier to make fun of theist beliefs?
As the saying goes, you are preaching to the choir. The theists aren't interested in facts.
Darn Aron, you have much more patience with these ppl than i do😊 i admire your efforts
with his epistomology he should belief in all kinds of made up things. you cant see unicorns you cant disproof unicorns. then why would he belief in God but not unicorns. as the same reasons he beliefs in God can be used for any crazy claim. but they only use it for this one claim. probably be ause they feel save doing it because so many others do it too.
Or they're scared. Like scardy cats. Yes theists are that pathetic.
@@lifeinthe80s Every ideology is worthy of scrutiny. It's believers who have to be gatekeepers because their ideology will not hold up. That's why they invented blasphemy, because they are the ultimate snowflakes.
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"People who put down others"
And yet that is all you do on here, go outside and give yourself a good shake.
This was one of the channels that helped reinforce my breaking away of Christianity. Since I’ve broken away, I’ve become much more interested in the beginnings of our universe, where we came from, the different eras our earth went through before we came along, and so much more that I never even gave a thought to while I was a believer. I’ve also reinforced my faith in myself. I used to question whether anything I did was my own doing or out of fear of God. Now I can assure myself that every action I take, every time I help others, that’s me choosing to help others, not me being obedient to avoid punishment. So I do thank you for taking so much time to debunk these absurd gotcha questions in the hope that even just one person can finally accept the truth, because some time ago, I was that one person
He has such a smug, smart-ass voice 😩
It’s an email. I thought it was a voice actor. A good one. 😅
@pansepot1490 It's the sort of voice you really want to slap in the face.
@@pansepot1490 My son recorded the voice over.
@@AronRaYour son did it so well!
Asking Aron the same questions over and over again only sharpen his answers over time.
2-4BILLION☆Stars/MilkyWay galaxy 1 of 2TRILLION☆galaxies that can be seen. All created in a solar day by an unknown guy who rides into a small city 2000yrs ago on an ass.
TWO asses. 😂
Recently there’s been videos on the channels about biblical scholarship on whether Jesus rode two donkeys (at the same time) on Matthew’s gospel and why.
Not even that is a settled fact.
There are between 100 and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
I've been hooked on the Gibbon, the Forrest, and sometimes that 'mean German lady' as well..:)
Just subbed to your channel.. please, for the love of all things scientific and rational, keep up the great work!
God could settle this argument once and for all if there were a god to settle this argument. If there were a god, what kind of god would sit back and watch argument after argument about whether or not it exists. One unworthy of worship.
@@lifeinthe80sOf course. We are *all* the arbiters of what *we* find makes sense.
The christian god, as it has been described to me, makes absolutely no logical sense if one considers reality to be as reality is.
For lockedonlaw, the issue is "Divine Hiddeness".
For me it's the "Problem of Evil."
They're both issues of "God, as described, is logically contradictive."
@@lifeinthe80s *"But if there was a God, what makes you think as a human you would be able to understand him?"*
If God truly wants me to have a relationship with him, me being able to understand *who* I'm going to have a relationship with is the bare minimum required for me to make the first step.
Otherwise, it would be like me telling you "The Great Flergleblarg wants to have a relationship with you. The Great Flergleblarg is an all-loving square circle that hates you."
That description probably makes no sense to you. Which will be a major hurdle in you believing the Great Flergleblarg exists. And if you do not believe the Great Flergleblarg exists, you will not be able to even attempt to form a relationship with it.
@@lifeinthe80s That's a deistic position. Which also means that kinda god is utterly irrelevant to me, even if it exists - which can't be proven anyway.
If you're wanting to propose a god along the lines of "we can't know if it exists, and even if it exists, it has no influence on our live and reality as it is", be my guest. That's as important to me as wondering what someone called "Lin" ate in Bejing yesterday at around 14:53 +/- 10 minutes local time.
That, however, is not the Christian god.
And most of the times when god is brought up, it's that one - because we're in a sphere that's influenced by Christianity the most.
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Waiting for evidence, not word salad and assertions.
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Still waiting, but I won't hold my breath.
All I get is more worthless assertions
“Science has proven to be faulty time and time again.” This is true. That’s why we use term, “true science.” ….. This is based on the observable, repeatable, demonstrable, evidences and testing.
My cell phone was intelligently designed. Living things were not.
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A mobile phone doesnt reproduce and we have evidence it was designed.
I am waiting for evidence of your invisible friend.
@@lifeinthe80s Science has provided mountains of evidence, but you're free to ignore reality and stick with ignorance, if you prefer.
@@lifeinthe80s What would you accept as proof?
I think I read these exact questions on a blog post years ago.
Thank you for your elaboration on these.
I am so sick at hearing that "create something out of nothing, or someone creating something".. It's so fucking dumb..
@@lifeinthe80s And I'm sick of the wilful ignorance and gullibility of so many believers. I'll happily give those poor people who were indoctrinated into it from childhood a second chance, but an adult should know better and understand their limits when it comes to the validity of claiming the certainty of something that they can't demonstrate the truth of.
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Why are you here making false accusations.
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Who are you talking to with your irrelevant rubbish.
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Why are you hiding your replies ?
Silly me, I know the answer, because you are a lying, gutless, religious troll.
@@lifeinthe80s Do you deliberately choose not to address your replies, and not quote what part of a comment you're responding to when it isn't obvious? Do you think it gets you off the hook somehow? It doesn't. It makes you look frustrated and thoughtless.
Human beings created god.
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You are atheist.
@@lifeinthe80s All ideas humans have been exposed to have been created by humans, including nonsensical ones like that of a god.
@@lifeinthe80sget some basic education, troll
@@lifeinthe80sIf only everyone believed in magic and fairy tales.
@@lifeinthe80s humans created alepraconism: the lack of belief in Lepracons
Stunning. The tone of every question exuded the kind of haughty smugness that I would associate with a top lawyer delivering a slam-dunk argument that settles the case beyond all doubt ... and yet every question was as feeble as someone picking up a fir cone and saying "Would you not agree that a great artist must have sculpted every one of these exquisite baubles with love?"