Atheists Have NO Answer For This 'Tough' Question

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  • Cliffe from 'give me an answer' posted a video recently called If there is no god, everything came from nothing. I thought the video would be more about where 'stuff' came from, but it turns out Cliffe can't really have an honest conversation... but what else would you expect from a street preacher?
    So did everything come from nothing? or did something come from something? Plus other random things about god that this maybe atheist doesn't agree with.
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  • @condorboss3339
    @condorboss3339 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    A Christian died and went to Heaven to meet with God.
    Christian: " _Lord, I stayed faithful my whole life, but I always wondered how you created the Universe_ "
    God: " _Actually, I didn't. I just waited for a macroscopic fluctuation in the quantum field and swooped in and claimed credit for it_ "
    Christian (troubled): " _That doesn't sound ethical_ "
    God (sighing): " _You really DIDN'T read the Bible, did you_ ?"

    • @stylesrj
      @stylesrj ปีที่แล้ว +37

      The Christian then demands that the façade be lifted and the hellfire and brimstone brought out since they think they're obviously in Hell and they're talking to Satan.
      God is later on sighing and talking to Satan about how that's like the billionth Christian this eternity to demand punishment instead of enjoying the pool and the buffet he laid out for everyone.

    • @unoriginal2552
      @unoriginal2552 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If God is warmth, then shouldn't Hell be cold?
      Like fire and brimstone makes sense for eternal torment, but being really really hot kinda defeats the purpose of God being warmth.

    • @scragar
      @scragar ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's weird, hell is a fairly recent concept. Before that purgatory was a thing, sinners would got somewhere to atone until they were worthy of heaven.
      Of course that doesn't scare kids into religion hard enough, so hell was stolen from the Norse: a place of infinite darkness and loneliness. Gnashing teeth mentioned in the visions of hell used to be referring to the cold caused shivering.
      Then of course that doesn't inspire the same horror as pain so it changed again. Instead of cold it was fire, instead of loneliness it was demons torturing people, instead of darkness it's horrible sights.

    • @RiiDii
      @RiiDii ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. The Bible seems to support worshiping Satan more than God.
      God kills millions of people. Satan killed ten people... with God's permission!
      God intentionally set up Adam and Eve to commit original sin with a lie and a temptation. The serpent just told the truth.

    • @t0k3verse
      @t0k3verse ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@scragarI always thought Christianity stole the concept because too many of them were just killing themselves to be closer to god. So Hell was introduced to stop suicides basically.. in my head

  • @russbeers9613
    @russbeers9613 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    Kudos to the young person for doing a very good job of challenging the street preacher. Usually the preachers don't let these challenges show up in their videos...

    • @fantomx11
      @fantomx11 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That was exactly what I was thinking

    • @sfamerken12
      @sfamerken12 ปีที่แล้ว

      Best way: You believe everything in the bible is true? If affirmed, then you are okay with incest, are you? Good to know, i'll walk away now. If denied, then why would i care about it's contents? I'll be on my way now.

    • @necrojoe
      @necrojoe ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Right? A commendable job, at an impromptu encounter, against someone with decades of scripted practice.

    • @poppin_freshgaming4334
      @poppin_freshgaming4334 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That's because Cliff thinks this was hit over the wall for a slam dunk for him and his camp.

    • @RolfStones
      @RolfStones ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The preacher doesn't realise how good this young person debunked his fallacies.

  • @quadrewplex6782
    @quadrewplex6782 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    Glad to know apologists will never change their script of fallacious talking points.

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Always the same

    • @FakingANerve
      @FakingANerve ปีที่แล้ว +23

      For whatever reason, this reminds me of a famously idiotic quote from Bill O'Reilly in a conversation with a scientist (I think?)...
      "Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that."
      😂

    • @BlasterMaster80
      @BlasterMaster80 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@FakingANerve He was talking to David Silverman, (a name we shall not name) at the time, not a scientist.

    • @sfamerken12
      @sfamerken12 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@BlasterMaster80 You don't have to be a scientist to be able to explain the tides. Just not a flerf.

    • @LisaTheRainbowGiraffe
      @LisaTheRainbowGiraffe ปีที่แล้ว +11

      unlike their god their arguments are never changing

  • @clukinvar
    @clukinvar ปีที่แล้ว +172

    I can't believe he posted this as though he had a point, that kid absolutely schooled him on every point.

    • @MrCanis4
      @MrCanis4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      This kid shows me that America is better off than I thought.

    • @jameshall1300
      @jameshall1300 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      ​@@MrCanis4there's some bright kids out there. It's just that the old fogies hanging onto their mythology are so much louder and visible.

    • @QuintarFarenor
      @QuintarFarenor ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jameshall1300 Don't worry though, they only "hang" to it, because it gives them some leverage against minorities they don't like. I don't think they truly beliefe it ether, they just use it to rally those who (kind of) do belief into their camp.

    • @Revanbzn
      @Revanbzn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They do when they think they won.

    • @Revanbzn
      @Revanbzn ปีที่แล้ว

      Or maybe he thinks his will say that he is such an intelligent child if only he was not an atheist

  • @feedingravens
    @feedingravens ปีที่แล้ว +62

    A kid being able to crush a professional apologist - that means something.

    • @GameTimeWhy
      @GameTimeWhy ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't know what that means but it definitely means something.

    • @feedingravens
      @feedingravens ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@GameTimeWhy I know you joke, but it means that the "arguments" of a professional apologist are so weak and the inventory is so small, just a handful of slogans repeated again and again,
      that even 16-year-olds (that have usually other interests) have the fitting counterarguments available.
      That is NOT trivial, as the whole is practically completely a game with semantics and rhethorics, appeals to emotions, appealing to hidden fears.
      To go against that is tricky, because you have to quickly identify the trick that is used and call that out explicitly.

    • @GameTimeWhy
      @GameTimeWhy ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@feedingravens yeah it was joking. The apologist should feel bad about wasting his entire life.

  • @tomsenior7405
    @tomsenior7405 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    When Cliffe said "The more I study science...", I fell of my chair laughing.

    • @MrCanis4
      @MrCanis4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I spilled coffee there.

  • @heiyuall
    @heiyuall ปีที่แล้ว +32

    “Before the Big Bang there was a singularity that came from somewhere.”
    “Aaaaaa. Nope. Can’t hear you. Aaaaaa. There was nothing. Nyah nyah.”
    That moment is proof he’s a conman.

  • @philjay88
    @philjay88 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Imagine a clown talking to you in a condescending tone and you've got Cliffe

    • @hail_satan
      @hail_satan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He sounds like Dr Josh Bowen doing a Kent hovind impression

  • @beardedbronco
    @beardedbronco ปีที่แล้ว +186

    I'm still waiting for a Christian to explain to me what materials god used to create the universe if something can't be created out of nothing

    • @youtubestudiosucks978
      @youtubestudiosucks978 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm betting on shit because everything is shitty and everybody is acting shitty 😂

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      They never do, they never will, they have no answer.

    • @thefuzzman
      @thefuzzman ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Oh, it's OK for their God to poof things into existence, just no one else can claim that.

    • @rickn8or
      @rickn8or ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@thefuzzman, who/what poofed god into existence?

    • @thefuzzman
      @thefuzzman ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@rickn8or The Almighty God-Poofer! Praise our God-Poofer dammit!! Or he'll smite you with wet noodles!!

  • @meme2287
    @meme2287 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    At 12:32, after the young guy said that translating into other languages leads to differences between bibles, so none can be relied on as an accurate source, the religious guy said something like:
    'Yes, and in the early days, there were over 25,000 copies of the bible, in multiple languages, with EACH AGREEING TO AN INFINTESIMAL DEGREE'.
    This is exactly the opposite to what the young guy said, but the religious guy replied as if the young guy's statement confirms the accuracy of the bible.
    Watching it on video, where we can pause and replay, means it's relatively easy to pick up on illogical things like this, but it's much harder when the speaker is doing a live patter, and moving on before you have an opportunity to interject.

    • @jursamaj
      @jursamaj ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You fell for his trick. He didn't say thousands of *bibles,* rather thousands of manuscripts. Many "manuscripts" are fragments the size of a postage stamp. Most are less than a full page. There's only a handful of "complete" bibles (which don't even all have the same set of books in them).

    • @rickn8or
      @rickn8or ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Pretty slack-ass deity that would let something like that happen to their divinely-inspired-literal-and-inerrant operating manual.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rickn8or It would have to be a blithering idiot of a deity to allow anything like the torah, bible, qur'an, etc, be put out in its name, unless it simply didn't care, or was simply curious as to see what bullshit humans would eat up.

    • @Kualinar
      @Kualinar ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He have a shaky grasp of the words that he use. «EACH AGREEING TO AN INFINITESIMAL DEGREE» actually mean virtually NO agreement.

    • @Kualinar
      @Kualinar ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jursamaj In particular when they often looks like :
      ISTRICKHEDIDNTSAYTHOUSANDSOFBIBLESRATHERTHOUSANDSOFMANUSCRIPTSMANYMANUSCRIPTSAREFRAGMENTSTHESIZEOFAPOSTAGESTAMOMOSTARELE
      Then, some of the words may contain spelling errors, some may have seen their spelling change, add changes in the grammar...

  • @roccondil5
    @roccondil5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I love how he keeps talking about slapping the kid, because I bet that's what he absolutely wanted to do at that exact moment because the kid was absolutely destroying him 😂

  • @fepeerreview3150
    @fepeerreview3150 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    1:28 Our street preacher looks rather ape-like in the way he moves around and gesticulates with that little group. This isn't meant as a put down. There's nothing wrong with appearing ape-like, given that we are apes. I'm just enjoying the irony of it.

    • @youtubestudiosucks978
      @youtubestudiosucks978 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isnt he blatantly treathening those kids with violence in the name of his god?
      I thought that was wrong, why is nobody stopping him?

    • @jursamaj
      @jursamaj ปีที่แล้ว

      @@youtubestudiosucks978 Something something free will something…

    • @lidbass
      @lidbass ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair, it’s a hypothetical. Still a bit of a dick move though.

    • @GameTimeWhy
      @GameTimeWhy ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@youtubestudiosucks978it's hypothetical violence. A metaphor or parable, if you will.

    • @youtubestudiosucks978
      @youtubestudiosucks978 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GameTimeWhy kids minds dont operate under hypothical examples and see whatever said as an absolute to what could happen.
      Dont you got a nephew to talk with or something? Ask them and see how they'll react

  • @melanyebaggins
    @melanyebaggins ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Jeeze, talking to christians is so exhausting! This is exactly why I don't engage, because I'd get way too frustrated by their circular logic and bad faith arguments. These people have so much strength to be able to argue this for that long and I'm in awe of anyone who can.

  • @mattpeters4700
    @mattpeters4700 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I love how almost all Cliffe or Stuart do is gish gallop dip and dodge like they shared a surname with a fake dino dr.

    • @andrewjones6693
      @andrewjones6693 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also toss some word salad and jump to the next topic before you can collect your wits.

  • @davidmendes1279
    @davidmendes1279 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I'm surprised that he didn't edit the kid's arguments as apologists usually do

    • @turboguppy3748
      @turboguppy3748 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I honestly don't think he understands what happened. He thought he was on point with strong arguments, not getting completely wrecked.

  • @chickenpants
    @chickenpants ปีที่แล้ว +41

    This charming guy is full of thought stoppers, non sequiturs, and outright falsehoods. Wow, he's also added unbelievable amounts of condescension and passive aggression. His offsider is even worse. The lies and obfuscation from Stuart were staggeringly awful. Stuart's just the worst.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Stuart's just the worst."
      I don't know, sadly he's got a lot of competition.

  • @georgem2334
    @georgem2334 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I just ignore these street apologists. I've heard all this before, and it's been debunked so many times. Why do they bother?

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Because they always think they have something new

    • @rembrandt972ify
      @rembrandt972ify ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They are in pursuit of pieces of paper with the drawings of dead people on them.

    • @debraperry6091
      @debraperry6091 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Because there are people who are uninformed and easily influenced.

    • @evilbob840
      @evilbob840 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You (and I, and others in these comments) are the kind of person who watches skeptics going up against preachers, so we've heard all this before. But, others who haven't thought much about it could be suckered in by what seems reasonable on the surface.

    • @vestafreyja
      @vestafreyja ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Honestly with a well informed Atheist these street apologists are going to have much better luck converting a pickle back into a cucumber than an Atheist, mean while they do provide a almost endless stream of content for Atheist content creators.

  • @jenna2431
    @jenna2431 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Someone needs to tell that clown that there are people who hear colors. It's called synesthesia.

    • @Wolf-ln1ml
      @Wolf-ln1ml ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There isn't even a need for that. It's a matter of representation - a colour is a frequency, and we _can_ simply shift that into the audible spectrum if we want. It's easier to see tones for example (just the wave function), but sight and sound can very easily be translated into each other (I guess touch for example would be a bit harder and less intuitive, but I'm sure I could come up with something even for that...)
      But yeah, synethesia is such an interesting and weird thing... And a lot of good artists apparently had/have _some_ form of it, especially poets ☺

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can actually see Middle C, on a frequency graph

  • @emcameron
    @emcameron ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Q:"Is it more reasonable to believe (a) or to believe (b)?"
    A:"It is entirely unreasonable to believe either (a) or (b) in the absence of sufficient evidence, the reasonable response would be "I don't know."
    The corollary, of course, is "I don't know, therefore I will not accept your claims at face value."
    This is the basis of Agnostic Atheism, which is , in my humble opinion, the only "reasonable" response to the question of god(s).

  • @mocurio
    @mocurio ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Everyone, be as these few kids who are questioning & challenging campus & street "God" preachers!

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The more they do it, the less these folks will preach (hopefully)

  • @FalconStorm
    @FalconStorm ปีที่แล้ว +17

    “Let’s look at India” *remembers Mother Theresa* “Or erm, The AIDS epidemic in Africa.” You could feel the backpedal in the middle of that sentence.

    • @cy-one
      @cy-one ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I haven't reached that part yet, but... uhm... That's not a good backpedaling considering the hand Christianity has in that epidemic :D

  • @michaelhawk6847
    @michaelhawk6847 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I am proud of that kid.

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me too. Now we need to find this kid!

  • @deansoto8377
    @deansoto8377 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The apologist thought he had an easy target. Kudos to the young man.

  • @juan0808
    @juan0808 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    With that amount of deflective power he could be a professional tennis player.

  • @aldebaran4154
    @aldebaran4154 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great questions then the dodging begins. You know the apologist dodger was destroyed when only about twenty questions was thrown at him but he was hit 50 times. 🤣

  • @capercaillieskye
    @capercaillieskye ปีที่แล้ว +49

    So there's no assumptions here as long as we all start by assuming god exists. Got it XD

    • @stylis666
      @stylis666 ปีที่แล้ว

      And that the universe had a beginning before the big bang and outside of our knowledge. But other than that no assumptions.
      Oh, and god created the universe. But that's it. Nothing more.
      He died for our sins though, but that's all the assumptions. It's minimal really.
      He loves you? Not really an assumption if you count all the times he didn't give children cancer. And gaslighting us into being shit and deserving everything bad in the world is loving too right. Otherwise we can just assume that. WHat's one more assumption at this point. At least the god will seem slighlty less abusive this way.
      Did I miss any assumptions? No, I'll be off then.
      &^*&#^%*!?! For f%*^$ing f%^*@^&'s Sh$^&^*$ck! What the?!?!?! I nearly broke my neck! ON A LIST! It doesn't end... I'll go look for the end. I'll be back when I find it.

    • @GameTimeWhy
      @GameTimeWhy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Presuppositions are a hell of a drug.

    • @Fabian46544
      @Fabian46544 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GameTimeWhy Let me explain to these people why they are wrong: TOAST 😂

    • @GameTimeWhy
      @GameTimeWhy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Fabian46544 I love toast.

  • @niemand7811
    @niemand7811 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    We atheists kept answering their weird questions like forever. Yet they never learn or ignore our answers on purpose. Even worse that they do not dare asking a scientist about science stuff. Why am I as an atheist a specific target for science related questions?

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And that's part of the problem. When they ask us, we try to explain things, even though we all well know that they aren't really listening or trying to understand. They are just waiting for trigger words, that makes them think "i got you now", then start parroting a BS Response they learned from other religious.
      They are the ones making a claim. We should be the ones asking them questions. "Who created God", and don't let them off the hook until they explain it.

    • @gdmathguy
      @gdmathguy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Scientists are smart enough to ignore such people. We are not

  • @strangerx8606
    @strangerx8606 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Bro you’re supposed to be a college kid to debate against Cliffe. Otherwise it wouldn’t be fair.

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That’s funny!

    • @zinobi
      @zinobi ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm not quite sure at what age college starts and I'm to lazy to check, again. But I'm quite certain that about half of my friends would have given this goof a run for his money in the 8th grade (that's about 15 years old).

    • @rembrandt972ify
      @rembrandt972ify ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@zinobi In the States, most people start the 8th grade at age 13 and college at age 18.

  • @BruceCarroll
    @BruceCarroll ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Cliffe squats as if he is about to pinch a loaf on the sidewalk.

    • @jasonsabbath6996
      @jasonsabbath6996 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, 🐃💩 comes out of his mouth so,.........why not the other end?

    • @keithwickham8558
      @keithwickham8558 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking if he keeps spreading his legs and stooping like that,he was going to let out a rip snorter of a trouser cough. (if only)!!! my fingers were crossed

  • @TheLithp
    @TheLithp ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This guy is either really bad at answering questions or really good at politicians' answers, depending on how you look at it.

  • @idapimpudahoe5039
    @idapimpudahoe5039 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I like that kid. He has good questions and comebacks

  • @TheTruthKiwi
    @TheTruthKiwi ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "I don't know how the universe and life could've originated naturally therefore gods" 🙄🙄🙄

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's not what he said. He says "therefore my personal god"

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@maythesciencebewithyou True but either way it's ignorance and delusion

  • @AnnoyingNewsletters
    @AnnoyingNewsletters ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The initial question is so close to how we got gods and religion in the first place.
    _Missed it by that much._ 👌

  • @acutedementia
    @acutedementia ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This kid gives me hope.

  • @RiiDii
    @RiiDii ปีที่แล้ว +16

    For the free will argument, the question is, "Will there be free will in heaven?" If heaven has no free will, then that is either horrible because we lose what these theists claim is a valuable gift, or free will isn't necessary. If heaven has free will, then what's the point? There are some murderers and rapists that I am sure have genuinely repented, but if they retain their free will for all of eternity, they almost certainly try to murder or rape in heaven. That's not exactly the paradise they're trying to sell.

    • @LOL-bs1hg
      @LOL-bs1hg ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I always imagined if a heavenly sort of afterlife is real, then it wouldn't really get rid of our 'bad' emotions, it would just amp up all the Serotonin, Dopamine, Endorphins and Oxytocin in the air, making you less likely to feel those emotions, but still able to feel them

    • @RiiDii
      @RiiDii ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@LOL-bs1hg Yeah. I've tried imagining all sorts of possibilities for this "afterlife," and no interpretation works well.
      The first and foremost problem is "eternity." Anything that goes on for that long is bound to have problems - mainly because there is an infinite amount of time for those problems to occur.
      Next, a component of the argument to support why evil exists in the world is that you cannot have good without evil. If we grant that assumption, then heaven cannot always be all good. Eventually, all concepts of evil as we know it will fade from existence. As it does, different gradients of "good" will start to be classified as evil under this "no good without evil" framework.
      It seems that in heaven, happiness would be forced on us. I cannot wrap my mind around eternally praising even the most wonderful divine creator in all of existance. We don't want to eat, play video games, or enjoy any of the other things that make life wonderful because we don't get to choose what makes us happy. We just are happy - forced to be happy - like automotons? No thanks!
      I could keep going, but - yeah - none of it makes much sense, even as we grant many assumptions.

    • @LOL-bs1hg
      @LOL-bs1hg ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RiiDii I agree with you all the way to the max, its just sometimes I imagine it

    • @mallninja9805
      @mallninja9805 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have you read Revelations chapter 4? Heaven is terrifying 🤣

    • @LOL-bs1hg
      @LOL-bs1hg ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mallninja9805 Reading Revelation is terrifying, it's the biggest trip I've ever seen

  • @Unpeturbed
    @Unpeturbed ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This nut bar must be Dr. Who to ‘know’ that the Omnipotent Fallacy lives out of time. OK Doofus, Prove it!
    Just a note, I passed beer through my nose when you said he was just naming fonts. Thanks for that 😂. I figure that’s some sort of miracle.

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Haha. Well that’s a win in my book.

  • @user-fj6kk1vo8n
    @user-fj6kk1vo8n ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "I'm sure he's just naming fonts now" 😂

  • @nupetball31
    @nupetball31 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This guy tiptoed around each question that was thrown at him. So typical and sad. This is absolutely one of my most favorite channels to follow. Terribly entertaining every single time! Love you, man!

  • @therealkakitron
    @therealkakitron ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If god is outside of time, then it literally can't exist. Existence IS bound to time, otherwise something can't "be". Being is a verb, an action, that can only happen within time.
    These guys don't think about what they say.

  • @FrikInCasualMode
    @FrikInCasualMode ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've never seen an apologist using 'Watchmaker argument" using as an example something 'not'-created by humans.
    "Look at this shell! It's so precisely spiral, it must have been made by intelligent creator!"
    "Look at this snowflake! It's so intricate, it had to be created by a creator!"
    "Look at this rock! It looks like an elephant! An intelligent creator must have made it the way it is."
    Weird, that.

  • @koihoshi
    @koihoshi ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That young person did a fantastic job putting him in his place, all the guy did was deflect with no good answers to his challenges. He really just made himself look like a babbling fool.

  • @curtisharrison424
    @curtisharrison424 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I wouldn't be comfortable having a rational conversation with a grown man who uses weird squats and pelvic thrusts for emphasis while talking...

    • @DaveB-hg7el
      @DaveB-hg7el 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, you have to wonder what is going through his mind, and worry about it. Peace 💚

  • @someguyinahole5952
    @someguyinahole5952 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's confusing to me how egotistical and self hating Christianity is as a religion
    One moment it's "You're a sinner by nature! Jesus died and it's your fault!"
    And the next minute it's "You were made in his image (Definitely not the other way around!), You have intrinsic value as his creation! As a human you are a certified main character of the world!"

  • @Drakonis.Imperial
    @Drakonis.Imperial ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm going to stick to one point ... @12:40 ... I'm tired of hearing about "25000 manuscripts". I've been to the Vatican and several museums and the vast majority of these "manuscripts" are fragments about the size of a postage stamp with, on average, one or two characters on each. Another thing is that many of these stamp sized scraps of parchment are too degraded to read or are in languages that nobody can translate because they've died out from lack of use.

    • @lidbass
      @lidbass ปีที่แล้ว

      There are hundreds of thousands of copies of The Eyre Affair, the first Thursday Next novel, and yet I possess a copy which contains mistakes.

  • @stevewebber707
    @stevewebber707 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We don't know that something can't come from nothing.
    We don't know that there was a state of nothingness.
    We don't know that everything had a beginning.
    Oh, and we don't need to know how the universe began to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. And claiming God done it, isn't really adding anything significant to anyone's state of understanding.

  • @ralphineharris2008
    @ralphineharris2008 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This person in the doc martens is awesome! They make so many awesome points, with good humour and respect.
    My internet hero of today!!!! ❤

  • @_Omega_Weapon
    @_Omega_Weapon ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Matt Dillahunty destroyed all the "points" Cliffe brought up here in his recent debate with him. I see he is incapable of learning actual science or addressing the actual refutations.

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also incapable of intellectual honesty. He's just another liar for Jesus, morals and integrity be damned.

  • @phoenixkingtheo
    @phoenixkingtheo ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Man, I've never seen a theist post this much of an ass kicking on the internet. Maybe there is hope for the future if these young kids are prepared to go against indoctrination and dogma.

  • @dragonhealer7588
    @dragonhealer7588 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Now he pulls out vicarious redemption, so much for moral values 😢

  • @oliviawilliams6204
    @oliviawilliams6204 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That kid arguing with the apologist is pretty good. Considering he probably didn’t know he would argue with an apologist live that day and so didn’t prepare for it,

  • @originalhazelgreene
    @originalhazelgreene ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact that young people are interested in these conversations and capable of holding their own, almost restores some hope for humanity

  • @CTCTraining1
    @CTCTraining1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That got feisty... very enjoyable to watch the teen running rings round the old guy. Hopefully there is more content like that to explore. 😀👍

  • @mbrown7361
    @mbrown7361 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dude in the Baroness shirt came ready. Those were some responses

    • @johngavin1175
      @johngavin1175 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Leave it to the Metalhead to have good questions. I have heard Baroness a couple of times on the Sirius Liquid Metal Channel. They are pretty good.

  • @dragonhealer7588
    @dragonhealer7588 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    He's completely ignoring that different bibles have a different number of books!

    • @lidbass
      @lidbass ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And the fact that ALL of them have footnotes explaining either how there are different possible translations, or how the translations have changed with time.

  • @Kevin_Williamson
    @Kevin_Williamson ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When this preacher begins a list of things that are impossible for God, he's admitting that God is subject to laws greater than God. Just like when apologists say God can only do things logically possible (laws of logic being man-made based on our limited perception and experience of this Universe). So God is also bound by logic. I wonder who or what was responsible for those boundaries that limit God?
    I noticed the preacher often ignored points and sidestepped the questions posed by that intelligent member of the audience.

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "I wonder who or what was responsible for those boundaries that limit God?"
      Theologians who realised that promoting or defending the three omnis made them look really stupid.

  • @Soapy-chan
    @Soapy-chan ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's crazy that there are still people saying "He died for you so that he could forgive you"

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou ปีที่แล้ว

      And they say he's omnipotent and infallible. Funny how he could not come up with a better plan. I will never understand how people can be so dumb to believe in such bullshit. And it's not just the fundamentalists. This is the core stupidity of Christianity that moderats also believe in.

  • @jenna2431
    @jenna2431 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It's so cute how think they have an actual argument every time.

  • @Oxus21
    @Oxus21 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Needless to say, “nothing” is not something that has ever been observed or recorded by science and is not something that science suggests has ever existed.

  • @thefuzzman
    @thefuzzman ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm liking the lunch analogy for "free will". If I know you're having a peanut butter sandwich for lunch tomorrow, how does free will fit in. I know what you're having and you can't change what I know. Your "decision" had already been made and you're just following along with that "destiny". And since God is all-knowing, knowing the past, present, and future, your "destiny" had already been made for you. So, no free will available.

  • @jackabalas
    @jackabalas ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He’s the best street preacher I’ve ever seen on the internet… that’s how low the bar is

  • @nicolasandre9886
    @nicolasandre9886 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how a question points out we can't have free will if god exists, and the answer is basically "because I am subject to time, I can't understand it, let's talk about something else now".

  • @chibinyra
    @chibinyra ปีที่แล้ว +5

    20:46
    Did Cliffe just tap out and then stand there grinning like a fool as if they had just landed a killing blow and new guy gets to mop up the mess?

  • @cliveadams7629
    @cliveadams7629 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Woah! Tag team! Old guy getting beaten up, pulls the new guy in and jumps out of the ring.

  • @fantomx11
    @fantomx11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is anyone going to talk about how weird his posture and motions are? It reminds me of an animatronic

  • @cloutgodgaming2073
    @cloutgodgaming2073 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That guy knew she was bringing up the child abuse in the church and he tried to cut her off so fast 😂

  • @dannolte5384
    @dannolte5384 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That kid was way more aware of the world and religion than I was at that age.

  • @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514
    @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It makes me sad, that I never run into one of these street preachers. They would hate my answers.

    • @aaronstanley474
      @aaronstanley474 ปีที่แล้ว

      @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514
      Okay im not on a street but does a recliner work ?
      I’m not sure how this works though, see I’ve got all the answers I need in the Bible, so I don’t have any questions lol
      But I won’t hate your questions, if you ask, I can’t promise you will love my answers though.
      I’ll tell you GOD is real I can’t scientifically prove it, but the evidence is pretty clear, currently we have more technology and comforts than we have ever had in the US but yet with all of that we are devolving as a society, and it’s been fairly gradual but like dominos everything is falling one after another, the reason ? We keep removing the teachings of the Bible from our lives you can point to any issue and the rca can be traced back to that, so if the power of the word of GOD can create and sustain a civilization, then I can only believe that the GOD is all powerful and all knowing and real.
      If the best minds coming out of schools can’t even determine what the Bible and Biology have consensus on to be fact, then how the hell could a man or group of men devise a writing that can set-up civilizations and sustain ? We have to smarter we have knowledge they lack but yet there literature contains knowledge that surpasses ours how ?
      Keep in mind dead see scrolls contain all of the biblical books and predate Christ by a estimated 250 years so it’s a very old book and are virtually the same as what we have today minus the addition of the New Testament.

    • @aaronstanley474
      @aaronstanley474 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ll also piggy back off the last statement, it’s very old but has remained intact, despite numerous civilizations and the Dead Sea scrolls aren’t even the oldest the silver scrolls are 600bc and contain the book of numbers, so the fact a text that was orally passed and then written has remained pretty much the same is a testament to his word, in of itself .

    • @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514
      @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aaronstanley474 it is simply if all correct a testament that someone's words may be intact.

    • @aaronstanley474
      @aaronstanley474 ปีที่แล้ว

      @kingalexandersgodshapedhole
      Yeah but look out how many times our constitution has been amended in the last 250 years, the Old Testament is 10 times older and only been updated within the first 100 years of the AD, and that was when the New Testament was added. Not only was the words still intact but most of the common laws we have today and abide are rooted in the mosaic laws and the teachings of Christ, without it you would have Darwinism and eugenics as your only guide and that’s assuming we made it that far and didn’t kill each other off lol 😂
      What would even be the purpose of lying, it’s not like the Roman and Greeks who worshipped completely different gods were going to be thrilled so if mass population control was the goal, the inventer had a very unobtainable goal in his lifetime. So maybe they were crazy ? Except it doesn’t sound crazy, and the insane typically don’t sustain a following for long. Also the teachings are of peace, even in judgment you are specifically told your battle is with principalities and powers not with flesh and blood.

    • @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514
      @kingalexandersgodshapedhol7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aaronstanley474 did I say lies? However you do speak as if this is somehow special. Since you bring it up. Take a look at the dead sea scrolls again. There is much more there than just the gnostic books in the bible but also many gnostic writings that are not in this contrived list of books in the bible.

  • @berriekollau
    @berriekollau ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If I had to define Nothing I would say it has the following characteristics: timeless, spaceless and immaterial.

  • @Marniwheeler
    @Marniwheeler ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The student owned that guy. What a joker.

    • @TheSkepTick
      @TheSkepTick  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wish the student watched this!

  • @bunnykiller
    @bunnykiller ปีที่แล้ว +2

    another point that needs to be confronted, "life" after phyisical death, how does one retain their memories, personal traits when the thing that holds them is rotting in a grave or burned to a powder during cremation... what form of energy maintains the capacity to retain these traits and memories and what allows new info to be retained, how does one see without eyes, how does one hear without ears, we precieve the world thru physical sensors and without the sensors we precieve nothing... when the brain dies so does the "person", there is no afterlife to go on to, there is no heaven or hell, there is nothing to look forward to.

  • @Dloin
    @Dloin ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Okay, what about people that dont have hands? Do they have less free will because they cant slap? And if they dont have less free will, then why cant God not put us all in a condition that doesnt allow for slapping people?
    Edit: That Person has a really great Music Taste. Baroness is a great band.

  • @manic5150
    @manic5150 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Imagine running around in circles preaching what you have no idea what you're talking about. 😅

  • @SumNutOnU2b
    @SumNutOnU2b ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He says "what does middle C look like"
    Me: "Dude… You are SO high right now!"

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 ปีที่แล้ว

      It can be easily shown as a frequency of 256 Hz on an oscilloscope

  • @clemstevenson
    @clemstevenson ปีที่แล้ว +7

    People make NDE claims. These claims are unverifiable, and appear to depend upon the beliefs of those who claim to have had them. Cliffe has no supporting evidence for his own “god did it” assertion, and he has to admit that he can’t prove anything. Nothing that Cliffe claims is supported by evidence, yet he is still willing to fabricate reasons why his claims must be true. Christianity also imposes restrictions to free will, by asserting that there will be a punishment for making the wrong choices.

    • @darkfalcon7856
      @darkfalcon7856 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Even more interesting: NDEs also have more of a cultural interpretation. i.e. A Christian will usually see something different from a Buddhist.

    • @clemstevenson
      @clemstevenson ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@darkfalcon7856 That would appear to be the case, with people 'seeing' what they expect to see according to their culture.

  • @cannablissdreams
    @cannablissdreams ปีที่แล้ว +7

    your vids are always entertaining and enlightening.. they've helped me unravel and unpack some residual indoctrination.. thanks skep✅️
    all praise be to Lisa.. the Rainbow Giraffe.. leaf be upon her.. more hen.. 🎉

  • @Lance_Thorpe_Esq.
    @Lance_Thorpe_Esq. ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Answering g unanswerable questions encourages dishonest people to follow suit.
    When he asked the young man what HIS ALTERNATIVE was...He should have stuck to his epistemological guns and said "I don't guess at things for which there is no evidence".

    • @martinconnelly1473
      @martinconnelly1473 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, this theist was clearly unable to admit that the human race does not know everything. Theist feel the need to fill these gaps with "god did it", he's just preaching for a god of the gaps.

  • @d.o.m.494
    @d.o.m.494 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The universe has to come not only from a god but my specific version of a god.

  • @ferretfather2000
    @ferretfather2000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love it when they cant answer without special pleading
    This preacher is so unself-aware. Seriously one of the most annoying apologist out there. If he was political in some way Id accept his willful ignorance but hes just spittin' ignorance with every word for no other reason than to prove just how ignorant he is

  • @goofusmaximus1482
    @goofusmaximus1482 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Apologists will NEVER entertain the possibility their views are wrong. The price their sense of self would pay is intolerably hogh.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou ปีที่แล้ว

      Especially not these preacher types whose income depends on it

  • @flrnc.s
    @flrnc.s ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I JUST GRADUATED FROM THERE OMG

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also known as 'I got out of there just in time!'

  • @yesitsme8702
    @yesitsme8702 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That youngster ate that man's breakfast, lunch, and dinner 😂

  • @kairazor9703
    @kairazor9703 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's impossible for a all powerful God to exist and not exist at the same time... then God is not all powerful, all knowing and omnipotetent, the dude just disproved god himself, but keeps on blathering on about why you should believe in him

  • @kandyjo
    @kandyjo ปีที่แล้ว

    Literally playing a nun in a production of Sister Act The Musical (opened this weekend!) so your Sister Act comment startled me.

  • @danielhoward9729
    @danielhoward9729 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No true scotsman as a rebuttal to "why aren't people being healed by their faith?"

  • @BlackburnBigdragon
    @BlackburnBigdragon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh gosh. I just saw where this guy's church is with the address that pops up in the video and it's really near to where I live. I live way too close to this guy for comfort.

  • @jimchernishenko798
    @jimchernishenko798 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This young person had the free will to expose all the bullshit , well done👍

  • @TheJimtanker
    @TheJimtanker ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how this kid destroyed dishonest Kinectly's "arguments".

  • @shldnfr
    @shldnfr ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That guy was walking around like he had a full diaper.

  • @stanleyhyde8529
    @stanleyhyde8529 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Props to that person. It's nice to see street preachers up against minds ready to refute their crap. Mostly really good questions and a couple good verbal slaps got some amateur level question dodging. Great find skep✔️

  • @jhonone484
    @jhonone484 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This lad is so right 😂

  • @andrewcummerson1529
    @andrewcummerson1529 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't realise how much outside space there is in a lunatic asylum.

  • @dieseljester3466
    @dieseljester3466 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Theists: "You can't get something out of nothing!"
    Also Theists: "God created everything out of nothing!"

  • @gabriel199714
    @gabriel199714 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cliffe says in summary "We have humans rights cause of christianity" when the UN, the organism that made the international bill of human rights and its enforcer, is a secular organization, not to mention the document is also secular, as one of your human rights is freedom of religion, the right to practice any religion on the face of the earth as well as refuse to do so

  • @Color-Painter-Blue
    @Color-Painter-Blue ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those street Preachers annoyed me with their constant dodging the Questions and then still putting up a smug face pretending that they somehow made a Point.
    Also as they at one Moment counted all Christians together to say "..Look how much there are.." to then contradict themself later when they put up the *No-True-Scottsman* Fallacy as they tried to say "..Those Evil stuff done, those was by People who where not true christians!.." But when it comes to atheist, they do the reverse to blame every Atheist for everything the Christian Apologist/Preacher does not like.
    So applaus for the Audience that where standing there to listening to those Guys, cause i would have totally shook my head and walked away.

  • @dany_fg
    @dany_fg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    space has always existed, because the word 'always' describes time.
    from what I know it seems like time itself 'begun' while space and matter where already there.
    saying there was time before time is like saying yesterday and tomorrow are the same day, it doesn't follow any chronological logic (and eternal means 'always existed' which describes time).

  • @SINTD_666
    @SINTD_666 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This kid is really good. It’s a shame he said matter can’t be created or destroyed. That slightly incorrect. It’s energy that can’t be created or destroyed. Matter is a form that energy can take but when you change the state of that matter it becomes energy of some kind. I may be wrong but that’s the way I think I was thought it.

  • @AdhdSuperpower
    @AdhdSuperpower ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whenever I hear someone claiming something like ”We know that a building has a creator, therefore the universe must have a creator, therefore God”, I always think: why ONE god?
    I you argue like that, then you also know that the more complex the thing being created is, the more creators was involved creating it, and not one of those creators, even one in charge, know every litle detail of how it’s created. A large building for example.
    So if you use that (false) analogy, you should also come to the conclusion that the universe has many, many creators working together and not one of those entities is all knowing.

    • @stylesrj
      @stylesrj ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't remember who said it but it was something like "The Watchmaker Analogy isn't proof of the existence of a god, it's more proof of the existence of a pantheon"

  • @janbuyck1
    @janbuyck1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We evolved to a species with a hardwired brain to seek answers for questions and riddles. It makes us itchy and excited. Some of us go look for an answer and are fine with never finding it, but the majority prefers in last case with inventing a fake answer or taking one over from others.
    So how did a universe come from nothing? We don’t know!!! Let’s go find out!

    • @azbz9075
      @azbz9075 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      …or lets just pretend we already know.

    • @janbuyck1
      @janbuyck1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@azbz9075 if you read my post, you would have seen that I address those who pretend to know.

  • @unpleasedwitch2235
    @unpleasedwitch2235 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    he didn't even answer many of their questions. Just dodging and manipulating.

  • @Phylaetra
    @Phylaetra ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really like that young person who really had him on the ropes.
    around 12:30 - "25,000 early manuscripts" - he implies 'of the bible, as though these are all the entire corpus of text - but most of those are _fragments_ sometimes only a couple of partial words.