Caller Tries To Defend Miracles | The Atheist Experience: Throwback

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[joshsheridan]

Honestly if presups didn't have double standards
they'd have no standards at all.

[SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

The theist caller gets torched and yet never smells his assertions going up in smoke.

[ARoll]

"I believe that every other worldview becomes contradictory, " he said as he contradicted himself, Christianity is contradictory my dude

[Mr_Porter]

I'm surprised this call lasted as long as it did. The caller with his smugness and condescending attitude made this painful to sit through. He has a black belt in deflecting.

[sabrina]

Moses' snake is such a terrible example because the Pharaoh's sorcerers did the same exact magic lmao.

[ARoll]

Wow, what a dishonest person, "it being a contradiction, depends on your worldview", seriously?, once he said that nonsense they should have hung up because he is clearly dishonest

[melodygarrison]

I’m 63 years old and I have no memory of ever believing nonsense. So I just can’t wrap my head around grown a$$ people believing in gods and miracles and any of the ridiculous stuff that comes from the many bibles

[sanjeevgig]

EVERY Presup: MY presuppositions are TRUE just by my asserting them.
SAME Presup: YOUR presuppositions are FALSE by my not accepting them.
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LOLZ

[bobbybecker]

"God can do anything that's consistent with his nature"
Like turning a wooden staff into a snake, got it

[AXKfUNm]

Miracles only exist to the stupid. When you lack wisdom, miracles are everywhere.

[wooddoug]

Oh! You lead him down the path so skillfully and watched him step in the pile. And he crawls out, stomps his boots clean, and never acknowledges the smell.

[thejamesguide]

Imagine trying to navigate through life with this mindset. Must be rough.

[LOwens-xfyo]

0:50 Bad example. Pharaoh’s mystics were able to duplicate the staff-to-snake illusion immediately after, showing it’s wasn’t an impossible miracle, but a common parlor trick.

[Enaccul]

Caller: I don't have to prove my worldview, I'm gonna assume it's true and only point out how you cant prove it wrong.

Hosts: Here is a worldview we assume is true that you can't prove false. Why don't you accept it?

Caller: Okay I can't prove it false, but why would I assume it's true, you can't even prove it.

These guys literally use different logic for their faith, than they do for everything else, and also don't seem to get why that's a problem or what the problem is, or even notice they do it. He clearly gets it when applied to a different concept, but for his faith, he just doesn't see the problem.

[dieseljester]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke

[aarrgghh]

every presup argument, in just two words:

"i'm right."

[buddahluvaz]

At the end the woman (sorry I don’t know her name) made up a story about time travelling and creating the world in order to challenge him to prove her wrong. That was a brilliant move!

[slimjim]

Arthur C. Clarke is famously known for the quote:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

It also goes without saying that to any gullible audience a magic trick can be passed off as a miracle!

[ZaiDrizzleDrop]

9:08 Did he seriously say that? "All of it falls to scrutiny unless its the christian worldview." Is he serious?!?

[gerrye]

The best part of his Moses miracle example is that the Egyptian sorcerers, who worship different gods, did the exact same thing in that story