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Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Noah Lugeons: How to Die Like an Atheist (Seth Andrews, The Thinking Atheist)
Activist and author Noah Lugeons had a big health scare several years ago. In this 30-minute presentation, he talks about his brush with death as a non-believer in God.
Questions We Weren't Supposed to Ask in Church: “What About Noah’s Ark?” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It’s in the Code #204
The story of Noah’s ark is one of the most well-known in the Bible, even among those who are not Christian and have never read the Bible. But what questions come up if we really pay attention to the story?
Does it make any sense?
Could it actually have happened?
What does it mean if it didn’t?
And what justifies God killing all the living things on earth?
These are big questions, questions we weren’t supposed to ask in church. Check out this week’s episode hear Dan’s answers to these and more.
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Friday, August 7, 2026
Atheism Makes More Sense! - Jun 18 (Jon Cohen, Unconvinced on YouTube)
You know it makes sense!
Gods are silly.
Come and discuss!
00:33:03 – Progress of Addiction – Brings up an apologetic video claiming God exists outside space, time, and matter; the hosts argue that a timeless God could not think, act, or create, and the caller ends by appealing to a personal supernatural encounter.
00:39:12 – Ghost – Debates time, gravity, creation, DNA, abiogenesis, and whether humans being unable to fully recreate life would point to God; the hosts and Dr. Digg challenge the science and call it an argument from personal incredulity.
00:49:03 – Dr. Digg – Joins during Ghost’s call to explain that humans can synthesize DNA and that abiogenesis discussions are more complicated than “we cannot create life, therefore God.”
00:54:01 – Isaac – Asks about agnostic versus atheist labels; the hosts explain agnostic atheism as lacking belief in God while remaining open to evidence.
01:02:03 – Silas – Friendly caller is briefly brought in, then redirected to the new after-hours stream because this show is focused on debate.
01:07:49 – Daniel – Recently deconverted caller from Switzerland asks about the apparent size match between the sun and moon and speculates about ancient civilizations; the hosts explain coincidence, scale, and why it is not evidence of design.
01:13:22 – Flash – Christian caller says he cannot empirically prove God but has the testimony of the Holy Ghost; discussion covers salvation, faith, God revealing himself, free will, and whether God is unwilling or unable to establish a relationship with nonbelievers.
01:24:31 – Sinner/Saint – Tries to use Jung, subjectivity, the inner self, Einstein, quantum ideas, and thermodynamics to challenge atheism; the hosts push back on his definitions, claims about atheists, and misuse of Einstein’s God language.
01:53:33 – Various – Physicist is introduced as someone who can help with physics claims, especially thermodynamics, entropy, and early-universe arguments.
01:57:24 – Chris – Friendly caller asks about the new debate-only format versus the upcoming open after-hours format, then agrees to return on a Friday.
02:12:06 – Aaron – Deconstructing caller clarifies Einstein’s Spinoza-style God, then discusses Christianity, personal experiences, a suicide attempt, Bible contradictions, and memories that still keep him emotionally tethered to belief.
02:21:40 – Morgart Studio – Friendly TikTok caller joins by mistake, says she is on the hosts’ side, and is redirected to the after-hours show.
02:23:22 – Reason – Accidental/unclear caller struggles to form a point about energy, karma, yin-yang, and things happening for a reason; the hosts move on when the call does not connect to the topic.
02:26:58 – Matthew Davids – Debates atheism, agnosticism, knowledge, God as a cause outside space and time, infinite regress, and thermodynamics; Dr. Digg/Various is referenced as a better source for physics issues.
02:51:52 – Christopher – Thoughtful Catholic return caller asks what “belief is not a choice” means; discussion covers doxastic involuntarism, hell, free will, God revealing himself, heaven, salvation, and honest nonbelief.
03:28:03 – Rowando – Challenges the claim that belief is not a choice; discussion turns on whether accepting, choosing, and being convinced are the same thing, with the hosts using Superman-style belief tests.
03:45:19 – Nomad – Modern theist asks why atheism makes more sense; discussion covers lack of evidence, probability, belief thresholds, disbelief, and whether God should be treated differently from other unsupported claims.
03:58:56 – Joe – First attempt fails because the microphone/audio is not working; the hosts ask him to reconnect.
04:01:14 – Joe (return 2) – Muslim caller agrees belief is not a choice and explains an Islamic view where people without sufficient evidence receive another test; discussion covers Quranic punishment verses, sincere nonbelief, and why lack of belief means evidence was not sufficient.
04:17:14 – Son of Tarkata – Discusses whether religious belief is an evolutionary byproduct, pattern detection, agency detection, afterlife beliefs, and whether recurring human belief points to truth.
04:42:28 – Brian – Seen in the queue but redirected to the after-hours show rather than brought into the debate stream.
04:43:14 – Richard Beggs – Argues for creationism from consciousness and personal experience; discussion covers brains, animal consciousness, evolution, bipolar experience, and cross-cultural spiritual patterns.
04:56:44 – John Damon – Philosophy-interested caller criticizes “new atheists” as disconnected from philosophy of religion, then softens after discussion of evidence, God claims, and whether the hosts understand the arguments.
05:05:17 – Caleb – Christian caller challenges atheism versus agnosticism, asks for the best argument against the Bible, and debates Jesus, Old Testament violence, the problem of evil, thermodynamics, and the burden of proof.
05:29:58 – A Cadian – Friendly/mod caller requests by mistake, jokes briefly, and is redirected to the after-hours show.
05:30:45 – Rowando (return 2) – Returns to continue the belief-choice argument, but again refuses the “choose to believe the building will collapse” test and is dropped when the discussion repeats.
05:39:49 – Abbe – Shia Muslim caller asks why atheism makes more sense, describes struggling to accept a purely material view, and discusses personal incredulity, origin questions, and why gaps in science are not evidence for God.
05:50:18 – Lavi – Christian caller argues the Christian paradigm best explains reality and asks for the best argument against the Bible; the hosts challenge biblical violence, Christ as God, suffering, and the problem of babies with cancer.
06:07:17 – Lavi (return 2) – Returns after being dropped but still avoids answering why an all-powerful God allows or gives babies cancer, leading to another quick drop.
06:08:13 – Lavi (return 3) – Returns again to challenge the wording of “God gives babies cancer,” but the hosts argue that an all-powerful God is responsible for the state of the universe.
06:12:42 – Gado – Claims he can answer why God gives babies cancer, arguing from obscure Christian teachings that conception at forbidden times gives demons authority over children; the hosts condemn the idea as morally horrific.
06:32:43 – TX Postgrad – Polite Christian caller asks whether believers can be smarter than atheists, then discusses evolution, science, books versus evidence, common ancestry, humility before God, and why many deconverts sincerely sought God and got silence.
07:02:11 – Knowledge Is Power / Joe – Friendly caller agrees with the hosts that religious doctrine can make people justify suffering, then is redirected because the stream is meant for debate.
07:10:59 – Norbz – Theist caller first compliments the hosts, then argues from the Big Bang, Bible belief, and personal answered prayers; discussion covers atheism, gaps in knowledge, Exodus, foreskins, biblical inerrancy, and the call ends by kill switch.
07:41:01 – Wrap-up – After Norbz, the hosts react to his lack of Bible familiarity, read final super chats, joke about the “fruit incident” in Eden and Bacon and Bush’s corrected name, praise the stream’s wild caller lineup, review the call-rating leaderboard with Knowledge Is Power as best conversation and Lavi as worst, announce the next after-hours stream, thank the mods and viewers, mention 124k TikTok likes, and close by thanking Sean.
Interview:
Gods are silly.
Come and discuss!
Timestamps
00:18:22 – Icearic – Argues that a creator makes more sense than the Big Bang, but struggles to explain why God is a better explanation than “I don’t know”; discussion covers atheism, burden of proof, cosmology, and God-of-the-gaps reasoning.00:33:03 – Progress of Addiction – Brings up an apologetic video claiming God exists outside space, time, and matter; the hosts argue that a timeless God could not think, act, or create, and the caller ends by appealing to a personal supernatural encounter.
00:39:12 – Ghost – Debates time, gravity, creation, DNA, abiogenesis, and whether humans being unable to fully recreate life would point to God; the hosts and Dr. Digg challenge the science and call it an argument from personal incredulity.
00:49:03 – Dr. Digg – Joins during Ghost’s call to explain that humans can synthesize DNA and that abiogenesis discussions are more complicated than “we cannot create life, therefore God.”
00:54:01 – Isaac – Asks about agnostic versus atheist labels; the hosts explain agnostic atheism as lacking belief in God while remaining open to evidence.
01:02:03 – Silas – Friendly caller is briefly brought in, then redirected to the new after-hours stream because this show is focused on debate.
01:07:49 – Daniel – Recently deconverted caller from Switzerland asks about the apparent size match between the sun and moon and speculates about ancient civilizations; the hosts explain coincidence, scale, and why it is not evidence of design.
01:13:22 – Flash – Christian caller says he cannot empirically prove God but has the testimony of the Holy Ghost; discussion covers salvation, faith, God revealing himself, free will, and whether God is unwilling or unable to establish a relationship with nonbelievers.
01:24:31 – Sinner/Saint – Tries to use Jung, subjectivity, the inner self, Einstein, quantum ideas, and thermodynamics to challenge atheism; the hosts push back on his definitions, claims about atheists, and misuse of Einstein’s God language.
01:53:33 – Various – Physicist is introduced as someone who can help with physics claims, especially thermodynamics, entropy, and early-universe arguments.
01:57:24 – Chris – Friendly caller asks about the new debate-only format versus the upcoming open after-hours format, then agrees to return on a Friday.
02:12:06 – Aaron – Deconstructing caller clarifies Einstein’s Spinoza-style God, then discusses Christianity, personal experiences, a suicide attempt, Bible contradictions, and memories that still keep him emotionally tethered to belief.
02:21:40 – Morgart Studio – Friendly TikTok caller joins by mistake, says she is on the hosts’ side, and is redirected to the after-hours show.
02:23:22 – Reason – Accidental/unclear caller struggles to form a point about energy, karma, yin-yang, and things happening for a reason; the hosts move on when the call does not connect to the topic.
02:26:58 – Matthew Davids – Debates atheism, agnosticism, knowledge, God as a cause outside space and time, infinite regress, and thermodynamics; Dr. Digg/Various is referenced as a better source for physics issues.
02:51:52 – Christopher – Thoughtful Catholic return caller asks what “belief is not a choice” means; discussion covers doxastic involuntarism, hell, free will, God revealing himself, heaven, salvation, and honest nonbelief.
03:28:03 – Rowando – Challenges the claim that belief is not a choice; discussion turns on whether accepting, choosing, and being convinced are the same thing, with the hosts using Superman-style belief tests.
03:45:19 – Nomad – Modern theist asks why atheism makes more sense; discussion covers lack of evidence, probability, belief thresholds, disbelief, and whether God should be treated differently from other unsupported claims.
03:58:56 – Joe – First attempt fails because the microphone/audio is not working; the hosts ask him to reconnect.
04:01:14 – Joe (return 2) – Muslim caller agrees belief is not a choice and explains an Islamic view where people without sufficient evidence receive another test; discussion covers Quranic punishment verses, sincere nonbelief, and why lack of belief means evidence was not sufficient.
04:17:14 – Son of Tarkata – Discusses whether religious belief is an evolutionary byproduct, pattern detection, agency detection, afterlife beliefs, and whether recurring human belief points to truth.
04:42:28 – Brian – Seen in the queue but redirected to the after-hours show rather than brought into the debate stream.
04:43:14 – Richard Beggs – Argues for creationism from consciousness and personal experience; discussion covers brains, animal consciousness, evolution, bipolar experience, and cross-cultural spiritual patterns.
04:56:44 – John Damon – Philosophy-interested caller criticizes “new atheists” as disconnected from philosophy of religion, then softens after discussion of evidence, God claims, and whether the hosts understand the arguments.
05:05:17 – Caleb – Christian caller challenges atheism versus agnosticism, asks for the best argument against the Bible, and debates Jesus, Old Testament violence, the problem of evil, thermodynamics, and the burden of proof.
05:29:58 – A Cadian – Friendly/mod caller requests by mistake, jokes briefly, and is redirected to the after-hours show.
05:30:45 – Rowando (return 2) – Returns to continue the belief-choice argument, but again refuses the “choose to believe the building will collapse” test and is dropped when the discussion repeats.
05:39:49 – Abbe – Shia Muslim caller asks why atheism makes more sense, describes struggling to accept a purely material view, and discusses personal incredulity, origin questions, and why gaps in science are not evidence for God.
05:50:18 – Lavi – Christian caller argues the Christian paradigm best explains reality and asks for the best argument against the Bible; the hosts challenge biblical violence, Christ as God, suffering, and the problem of babies with cancer.
06:07:17 – Lavi (return 2) – Returns after being dropped but still avoids answering why an all-powerful God allows or gives babies cancer, leading to another quick drop.
06:08:13 – Lavi (return 3) – Returns again to challenge the wording of “God gives babies cancer,” but the hosts argue that an all-powerful God is responsible for the state of the universe.
06:12:42 – Gado – Claims he can answer why God gives babies cancer, arguing from obscure Christian teachings that conception at forbidden times gives demons authority over children; the hosts condemn the idea as morally horrific.
06:32:43 – TX Postgrad – Polite Christian caller asks whether believers can be smarter than atheists, then discusses evolution, science, books versus evidence, common ancestry, humility before God, and why many deconverts sincerely sought God and got silence.
07:02:11 – Knowledge Is Power / Joe – Friendly caller agrees with the hosts that religious doctrine can make people justify suffering, then is redirected because the stream is meant for debate.
07:10:59 – Norbz – Theist caller first compliments the hosts, then argues from the Big Bang, Bible belief, and personal answered prayers; discussion covers atheism, gaps in knowledge, Exodus, foreskins, biblical inerrancy, and the call ends by kill switch.
07:41:01 – Wrap-up – After Norbz, the hosts react to his lack of Bible familiarity, read final super chats, joke about the “fruit incident” in Eden and Bacon and Bush’s corrected name, praise the stream’s wild caller lineup, review the call-rating leaderboard with Knowledge Is Power as best conversation and Lavi as worst, announce the next after-hours stream, thank the mods and viewers, mention 124k TikTok likes, and close by thanking Sean.
Interview:
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Atheism Cannot Be Wrong - June 16 (Jon Cohenl Unconvinced on YouTube)
It can't be morally wrong to fail to be convinced by a claim.
Come and discuss this one!
Timestamps (sorry for the delay, I had technical problems)
00:01:24 – Mister Mister – Agnostic theist caller agrees that atheism as a lack of belief cannot be morally wrong, then discusses definitions of belief, epistemic humility, the Old Testament God, and why belief itself should not be punishable.
00:14:56 – Silly Cat – Shares a difficult family and religious background, being labeled atheist/rebellious, panic around family conflict, and emotional frustration with claims that God or the divine is good.
00:18:58 – Not Your Valentine – Agnostic/deity-believing caller from Nigeria cites rituals, blood sacrifices, and rain-stopping claims as evidence for deities; the hosts challenge anecdotal reasoning, correlation, prayer efficacy, and gullibility.
00:26:30 – Heinrich – Asks about causation, the Big Bang, afterlife, agnostic atheism, double-slit experiments, and simulation theory; the hosts clarify that atheism is lack of belief, not a claim to know no God exists.
00:31:51 – Doberman – Christian caller argues from Jesus, Romans 1, nature, design, the devil, and a “reprobate mind”; the hosts challenge his claim that atheists are refusing God and argue that Romans 1 leaves no room for honest nonbelief.
00:58:31 – VA David – Raises an evolutionary-argument-against-naturalism / presuppositional-style challenge about how atheists can trust reason and sense data; the hosts respond with natural selection, pragmatic assumptions, solipsism, certainty, logic, and TAG-style apologetics.
01:29:42 – Vitor Sarano – Noisy TikTok caller argues that God exists beyond space and time, questions the Big Bang and beginning of time, and claims the greatest minds believe in Jesus; the hosts challenge his cosmology and the claim that “outside time” explains anything.
01:41:32 – Steve – Attempted TikTok call fails when Steve does not respond after being brought in.
01:41:56 – JD Tallproof – Practicing Christian asks about the Big Bang, Genesis, God as explanation, free will, hell, and whether God revealing himself would violate choice; the hosts argue that explanatory power is not evidence and that honest nonbelief should not be punishable.
02:04:04 – Big Vaz – Debates whether “atheism cannot be wrong” is just a word game about belief states, then discusses strong versus weak atheism, Christianity, moral culpability, hell, belief as involuntary, and whether people can choose to reject evidence.
02:36:14 – Snowflake – Briefly agrees with the prompt and says they are atheist toward other people’s gods, but the hosts move on quickly because the stream is focused on debate.
02:37:18 – Fro – Mentioned as waiting on the YouTube side, but the stream ends before they are brought in.
02:37:30 – TrueJoy – Christian caller asks what atheism offers compared with Christianity, then debates worldview replacement, hope, morality, moral obligation, nihilism, divine command theory, and whether God’s commands could justify atrocities.
02:54:40 – Jam-M – Seen waiting in the TikTok queue, but the hosts say they cannot take the call because the stream is ending.
00:01:24 – Mister Mister – Agnostic theist caller agrees that atheism as a lack of belief cannot be morally wrong, then discusses definitions of belief, epistemic humility, the Old Testament God, and why belief itself should not be punishable.
00:14:56 – Silly Cat – Shares a difficult family and religious background, being labeled atheist/rebellious, panic around family conflict, and emotional frustration with claims that God or the divine is good.
00:18:58 – Not Your Valentine – Agnostic/deity-believing caller from Nigeria cites rituals, blood sacrifices, and rain-stopping claims as evidence for deities; the hosts challenge anecdotal reasoning, correlation, prayer efficacy, and gullibility.
00:26:30 – Heinrich – Asks about causation, the Big Bang, afterlife, agnostic atheism, double-slit experiments, and simulation theory; the hosts clarify that atheism is lack of belief, not a claim to know no God exists.
00:31:51 – Doberman – Christian caller argues from Jesus, Romans 1, nature, design, the devil, and a “reprobate mind”; the hosts challenge his claim that atheists are refusing God and argue that Romans 1 leaves no room for honest nonbelief.
00:58:31 – VA David – Raises an evolutionary-argument-against-naturalism / presuppositional-style challenge about how atheists can trust reason and sense data; the hosts respond with natural selection, pragmatic assumptions, solipsism, certainty, logic, and TAG-style apologetics.
01:29:42 – Vitor Sarano – Noisy TikTok caller argues that God exists beyond space and time, questions the Big Bang and beginning of time, and claims the greatest minds believe in Jesus; the hosts challenge his cosmology and the claim that “outside time” explains anything.
01:41:32 – Steve – Attempted TikTok call fails when Steve does not respond after being brought in.
01:41:56 – JD Tallproof – Practicing Christian asks about the Big Bang, Genesis, God as explanation, free will, hell, and whether God revealing himself would violate choice; the hosts argue that explanatory power is not evidence and that honest nonbelief should not be punishable.
02:04:04 – Big Vaz – Debates whether “atheism cannot be wrong” is just a word game about belief states, then discusses strong versus weak atheism, Christianity, moral culpability, hell, belief as involuntary, and whether people can choose to reject evidence.
02:36:14 – Snowflake – Briefly agrees with the prompt and says they are atheist toward other people’s gods, but the hosts move on quickly because the stream is focused on debate.
02:37:18 – Fro – Mentioned as waiting on the YouTube side, but the stream ends before they are brought in.
02:37:30 – TrueJoy – Christian caller asks what atheism offers compared with Christianity, then debates worldview replacement, hope, morality, moral obligation, nihilism, divine command theory, and whether God’s commands could justify atrocities.
02:54:40 – Jam-M – Seen waiting in the TikTok queue, but the hosts say they cannot take the call because the stream is ending.
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Sunday, July 26, 2026
'Intelligent Design' on trial (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
The Trump administration is whitewashing American history in Philadelphia. Federal Judge John E. Jones tells the behind-the-scenes story of the 2005 trial leading to his landmark decision barring “intelligent design” from public school science classes.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
The Bible Verse People Use to End Every Argument (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)
This episode it's Twisted Scripture: Proverbs 3:5–6 — "trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding" — and the way it gets wielded to shut a conversation down.
We dig into the claim that you can only "really" understand the Bible if you read it with the Holy Spirit, why that's textbook special pleading, and how John Lennox's red Ferrari ends up parked in the same garage as Carl Sagan's invisible dragon.
Along the way: intuition versus reflective cognition, why every tradition reports the same spiritual "confirmation," and the difference between private faith and public claims.
Chapters:
Chapters:
0:00 Intro1:15 Twisted Scripture Begins1:50 Proverbs 3:5–63:05 "I Read With the Spirit"4:18 Special Pleading6:18 Slavery as the Test Case7:23 What the Commentary Says8:19 Hidden From the Wise9:19 Whose Spirit Is Right?10:03 Intuition vs. Reflection11:46 The Unreliable Brain14:24 The Problem of Qualia16:22 Lennox's Red Ferrari17:24 Sagan's Garage Dragon19:41 Feelings vs. Evidence20:28 Every Tradition Feels It23:47 The Thought-Stopping Cliché25:01 Private Faith, Public Claims27:10 "The Spirit Told Me"28:41 More Trump-Card Verses29:51 Data Over Dogma
Interview:
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
Axis of Nonsense, Founding Father Myths, and Empathy Debates | The Atheist Experience 30.18
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Godless Engineer and Fish Stark from the American Humanist Association tackle the encroaching tide of Christian nationalism and the hollow promises of deity-focused morality!
They dismantle the "axis of nonsense" between billionaires and bishops, exposing how forced Ten Commandment displays in schools are more about power grabs than historical accuracy.
Can a secular focus on human dignity provide the community we crave without the authoritarian baggage of ancient myths?
From military secularism to the "American Empathy Project," the hosts explore how humanists are building real-world power to protect civil liberties for all.
Interview:
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Why Should We Believe In Your God? - 17 May (Jon Cohen -- Unconvinced on YouTube)
Bring us your best evidence.
All we've heard so far are fallacious arguments.
If you have something better - we'd love to hear it!
Interview:
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Revival of Reason (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
Founder and President of Black Nonbelievers Mandisa Thomas tells us about the June 12–14 “Revival of Reason” in Atlanta, celebrating the lives and views of Black Americans who live without religion. We also talk about Ten Commandments monuments, FFRF victories removing religion from public schools, and public officials discussing “aliens and demons.”
Interview:
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
LIVE DEBATE [God is Imaginary] 1-16-2026 (Justin, DZ Debates live on YouTube)
There is no magic man in the sky.
Caller questions are answered by a team of experts in biology and evolution, as well as Islam and the Bible.
Caller questions are answered by a team of experts in biology and evolution, as well as Islam and the Bible.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Why Christianity Hates Indigenous People (Drew McCoy/Genetically Modified Skeptic on YouTube)
No Piraha has ever been converted to Christianity, despite 242 years of missions.
Join FFRF to protect separation of church and state:
https://ffrf.org/misc-for-landing-pages/join-ffrf-today/
The indigenous critique of Christianity was one of the most influential factors in the development of the European Enlightenment.
Interview:
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
LIVE DEBATE [It's 2026 and god is still fiction!] 1-4-2026
Jesus and Santa Claus are both fictional characters based on a real life person.
TIMESTAMPS
TIMESTAMPS
9:40 DeterminedFate - Atheists have no standard for morality; How does caller feel about the test of the bloody sheet (Deuteronomy 22)? Reply: “God is always right”; War brides were okay back then.
35:55 Ox [Deconstructing] - Genuine discussion; Caller wants some resources for the best arguments for God; Justin recommends Ray Moody and Sam Parnia; What happens when we die? What good evidence do we have for Jesus outside the Bible?
58:00 (Ox) - Archaeology and the Old Testament; What about prophecies? How does the New Testament twist stuff to make Jesus the messiah? Good luck caller!
1:49:00 Jared - What proof do we have that Jesus resurrected? Why believe Jesus resurrected but not Aristeas? Did Jesus lie in the New Testament?
2:15:30 Robert [Jehovah's Witness - Possibly Deconstructing] - How did the universe start? How do people believe in the Trinity? Fear of Hell keeps caller in the religion
3:02:50 Dre - Troll
3:12:50 Todd - Follow up from Todd’s previous call on Daniel 9 and a few errors in the Old Testament; Did Jesus fulfill prophecies to make him the messiah?
3:52:50 Chaco - Caller is writing a research paper; Discussion on the Song of Solomon
3:59:50 Superchats and wrap-up
GGs
Sunday, March 22, 2026
The Atheist Experience 30.07 with The Cross Examiner and Jim Barrows
Believe in God? Call the show on Sundays 4:30pm-6:00pm CT: 1-512-991-9242 or use your computer 💻 http://tiny.cc/callaxp and tell us what you believe and why!
Interview:
Friday, February 6, 2026
A Classic Quranic Cooking With John Ban (DZ Debates on YouTube)
A woman calls in to persuade atheist Justin to become a Muslim, because, she says, its teachings are miraculously perfect and true. Unfortunately for her, "M's" is on the line as a support co-host, and he is a physician and former Muslim, far more educated in the religion and what its scriptures really say.
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Thursday, January 8, 2026
Is Religion A Harmless Fiction? | Sam Harris [Deleted Scene] (YouTube)
Interview:
TRANSCRIPT (auto-generated by YouTube)Imagine your neighbor tells you that he believes that he has a diamond buried in his backyard the size of a refrigerator, right. This is this is the biggest diamond anyone's ever heard of. And every Sunday he digs for it with his family. And you ask him why he believes these things. And he starts saying that it's been prophesied that someone would have a diamond this size in his backyard and he might as well be him, right. Or he, he draws a tremendous amount of meaning from this. Don't you understand how offensive your your doubts and criticism are? In the face of how meaningful this experience is for him and his family every Sunday to dig. They spent long hours digging in the hot sun for this diamond. And shed tears of of solidarity over the project. They've been doing this for years. Don't you understand that the sunk costs they have there? And how offensive it is for you to doubt the wisdom of this behavior.
Or what if he said to you. I wouldn't want to live in a universe where there wasn't a diamond in my backyard that's the size of a refrigerator. These would be the statements of a madman, right. This is a person whose mind you can't trust. Really on any topic at this point. And yet this is precisely what religious people say even moderate religious people, even liberals, even people who who criticize fundamentalism as something that's dangerous and divisive and retrograde. This is the sort of things this sort of thing you hear from religious people rather reliably and yet it's obviously dysfunctional. it's obviously not the way you would think and talk and reason if you wanted your beliefs about the world to reliably map onto the world.
Many people wonder why there's anything wrong with believing consoling fictions or just ceasing to care whether your beliefs map onto reality at all, right. There is nothing wrong with believing whatever you want to believe and all we should be concerned about is human behavior. You know the kinds of things people do in the world the kinds of laws they want to push through. The problem however is that belief is almost never merely private, right. Now if it were if it is truly private, if it doesn't show up in any way, in a person's dealings with other human beings well then then there's there's nothing to worry about really apart from that person maybe not actualizing himself or herself as as much as they might in this life. So whatever price is to be paid for an erroneous belief by that person, if it's truly private is is paid just by the person himself. But far more often, beliefs become engines of behavior and engines of of emotion and they are the basis for a person's reaction to events in the world.
The moment you map some extreme religious commitments onto public behavior it becomes clear how dysfunctional all this is. I mean just imagine a an airline pilot who really believed in the efficacy of prayer, right. Not just you know sort of believed that you know just as a consoling proposition sometimes but really thought that you know it's possible to fly a plane, he knows to be damaged purely on the power of prayer. Because you know God wouldn't want to to strike down a believer like him, right. So a person who is willing to take unconscionable risks not only with his own life but the lives of his passengers because he knows that prayer works, right. Who's going to get on that airplane, willingly? No one. Not even a religious person really at the end of the day.
So it's it's a beliefs insofar as they're really believed become active whenever they're they're put in play by by events in the word. What you what you think about what happens after death; or about the moral order of the cosmos; or whether they're are invisible beings who are watching you and and acting like travel agents and traffic cops and helping you get through your day.
All of this potentially shows up in the world to the degree that you believe any of these things. Of course is true, people pay lip service to certain beliefs that they don't hold to the degree that they claim,right. There's a distance between what people say they believe and what they really really believe. But, if events like September 11th have taught us anything, we now know that certain people really do believe in paradise. And they really do believe in martyrdom as a means of getting there. And this is this isn't or shouldn't be open for debate anymore. Some people really do have the courage of their convictions. And now we just have to deal honestly with the consequences of believing those things at this point in history.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
LIVE DEBATE [Why Should We Believe in Your God?] 11-3-2025 | DZ Debates
TIMESTAMPS
- 8:15 troll
- 10:15 wubbi [Philbro] - Offers up the Contingency Argument for God’s existence; Gets dropped
- 17:10 FC - Are the 10 Commandments unique or were they borrowed?
- 34:38 Dirk - Claims the Sun is alive and conscious
- 44:45 seekgod - Nonstandard Christian beliefs; Look at the trees
- 55:50 Rob [yes, the same Rob from a few days ago] - Fear of hell leading to believing in God; bad Big Bang theory; Gets kicked when Justin realizes this is the same Rob
- 1:11:22 Christopher - Deconstructing
- 1:17:27 Simon [Muslim] - Wants to discuss a medical lie in the Quran; Does the caller want M’s unalived as an apostate? Caller refuses to answer
- 1:36:40 ProMyth - There is a shared Being in everyone; Caller claims that the Bible was created 800 years ago by politicians by taking the truth and wrapping it in propaganda; When asked for proof, caller runs
- 2:01:17 Gg - Objective vs Subjective morals; How do you know God’s commands are good? Why is slavery bad? Pro-baby paste
- 2:29:48 nes240 - How can Justin call God evil if he doesn’t believe God exists?
- 2:37:10 DragonGlasses - Deconstructing; During hard times caller still goes back to his beliefs for comfort, so wants some advice on how to handle it
- 2:48:12 Ameer [Muslim] - Does the Quran mention the expansion of the universe? Other science in the Quran; M’s joins
- 3:12:40 (Ameer) - Musaylima the Liar; Is it possible to produce another book like the Quran? Prophecies in the Quran
- 3:25:45 (Ameer) - Do we have free will? What is the purpose of life? Was the universe created?
- 4:02:20 Superchats and wrap-up
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
CATHOLIC Caller Gets DESTROYED On Basics of Physics and Philosophy | Aron Ra & Aaron Adair
Catholic caller Nick challenges the hosts to explain why he shouldn't believe in Catholicism.
What starts as a cordial conversation about the Kalam Cosmological Argument quickly escalates into contentious territory.
The hosts dismantle Nick's arguments about free will, causation, and the origin of the universe, while Nick struggles to provide concrete evidence for his beliefs.
The discussion takes a particularly heated turn when Aaron addresses the Catholic Church's systematic protection of child abusers, leading to defensive responses from Nick.
Despite repeated corrections about atheist positions on universe origins, Nick continues to misrepresent their views. The call concludes with Nick graciously conceding the hosts' debating superiority while maintaining his faith remains intact.
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Fighting anti-science nonsense and scams: Dave Farina: The Scumbags I've Debunked (The Thinking Atheist podcast)
Science communicator Dave Farina is back to talk about the charlatans and idiots. Buckle up.
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