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  • @daBeastest18

    I used to take computers to the knee like you but then I took an arrow to the knee.

  • @thenofxer I looked for that comment also, until I took a computer to the knee...

  • I'm looking for the arrow to the knee comment to no avail...

  • 3.15 Ultimate God??? Looks more like a fish to me.. :S

  • @charlieking100 Its a 'fish' with Boeing wings. Its a play on the use of the Jesus ΙΧΘΥΣ fish.

  • What I don't get is why something as beautiful as evolution couldn't have been God's design.

    Is there some reason that primitive life couldn't exist without evolution ?

  • Where did the records come from on Euclid? Man god, or God? Can you trust the source 100% as to bet your life on it? You say you have yet to see any evidence on God. Really? Where is the evidence that there is no God? How do you know without a doubt that what you read or see is true? It was 90 degrees here today. How do I prove that without a shadow of a doubt to those in the future 2-3,00 years from now? Read the news or turn on a television. Everyday events are changed, distorted, & lied about

  • If God himself came down today and proved himself for all the world to see, would there be anything anyone could do to prove it to those who will doubt his existence 2,000 years in the future?

  • @squeak111974 We have records of math problems being solved by Euclid, about 2500 years ago. If God would appear, we would know, don't worry. Since we have yet to see any evidence at all, we'll just assume he doesnt not exist. Now the question goes back to you. If another god was to descend and show himself, would you believe in it, knowing that you had been wrong your whole life? Being atheist, I would change my mind.

  • @HateFieldLies -you've already got sufficient proof to believe. Israel must be a nation in the end or the Bible is false. It wasn't a nation for over 2,000 years. Today it is one. Jerusalem must be divided in the end, or the Bible's wrong. It's divided into Christian, Jewish, Muslim quarters. People don't believe because they don't want to.

  • @Mossinator5000Deluxe Or because it makes no fucking sense.

  • #OMG the most #SWAG #BASED vid on youtube search : i swag by yasha swag.

  • @Drecon84 If you were to die and say "God, you hid yourself", he might say,"Ever heard of the Jesus?" he could also mention that in order to know if the New Testament is based in fact, you would need for Israel to become a nation, Jerusalem to be divided, the world to lack faith in God, crazy weather, and all in close proximety. Then he can say,"oh yeah, it all lined up at the same period of history, hid myself? No not really." seek and u shall find. Atheists don't wanna seek.

  • @Mossinator5000Deluxe Atheists look for proof. Good provides no proof. Simple as that.

  • @Drecon84 We don't know God's judgement of anyone. We can't judge him for something we know nothing about. We don't even know what Hell is literally, nor do we know who goes there. For all we know this is Hell. We have no idea. It's all speculation. To judge God on this issue is like accusing your wife of cheating when she hasn't, but saying "you were going to and I know it."

  • @Drecon84 You say evidence elsewhere. Well you've got three predominate spreading religions as of now. Islam, which came long after Christ and preaches specifically against Christ actually fulfilling Biblical prophecy of a false prophet and false religion in the end. Christ centered beliefs, love your enemy, do unto others, etc. And finally Atheism which fulfills Biblical prophecy of men turning from faith in God in the end. It actually all sets up nicely with what the Bible describes.

  • @iworkforme God created science much like a programmer designs the rules of a video game. From the Christian perspective, there's nothing scary about science.

  • Did you know that the banana is perfectly shaped to fit into the hand of a crockaduck? You can't explain that!!

  • he is the ultimate 747.

    that sentence is just plain awsome

  • Sir Richard. You have taught me how to think. For that I am grateful. I have had the fortune, with my uneducated attempt at reasoning, to watch christian's running away from me. I hope it's because I suggested that their "science based" rebuttals require more than the answer I could offer and that if i did consult with an actual scientist that they must be prepared to debate fact much further. They all become poopy lipped and resentful quite quickly.

  • @BlackHalo28 -the Sims can't prove you do or do not exist. It's circular reasoning to say God does or doesn't exist. I think God sets life and death before people, and says, "you choose. I'm not going to force myself on you but here I am." Dawkins throws science around as a reason to reject God. Science has actually helped my faith. There are many possibilities that differ from Atheism. I offered alternate theories. Abiogenesis is a theory. Simulated reality is a theory.

  • Dawkins believes in the big bang and abiogenesis but gives no thought on what's outside the universe. He also gives no regard to the theory that there could be someone outside the universe that knows something that we do not.

  • @Mossinator5000Deluxe Even if you would be right, then this must be a real cruel god to spread evidence for other theories everywhere. He hides himself really well and then tortures anyone that cannot find him for eternity. Not the kind of god that I could ever believe in.

  • If this were like the matrix, those in the matrix know nothing about what's outside the matrix. They would be ignorant to how things were outside the matrix, and if they said they weren't in a matrix reality, they would be wrong. Their laws of physics and science would be programmed and would apply nowhere outside of the matrix.

  • @Mossinator5000Deluxe Ergo? What's the point here? He is wrong because he cannot prove something that cannot be tested?

  • It has a name Dawkins. Its callled an argument from ignorance.

  • Its safer to suppose that there are aliens then to suppose that there are not aliens. The universe is so big that rare things can happen all the time. So to be nice and entertain the idea of intelligent design, it is better to use aliens as the intelligent agent because they are more statistically probable than gods. As far as we know, complex things can't just be there by default and a beings mere will has no way of conjuring matter from nothing. God then, is an extra leap in logic.

  • @CorndogMaker sure. but saying with absolutely certainty that there is a god, is not logical at all.

    it's better to say "since i do not know enough about the universe, i will suspend judgement on whether there is or isn't a god."

    after all, humanity doesn't know shit about what's out there. we are just starting to find out.

  • A twitchy idiot who believes in aliens worshipped by twitchy idiots who believe in aliens!

  • @guydecervens you are either a troll or completely missed the point

  • @WolfOfAtheism No other possibility eh, like Dawkins admits to believing life on earth may have started by aliens seeding it here?

  • @guydecervens like i said missed the point. he said he could conceive the possibility of that. not that he thinks that has any likely hood. What Dawkins is saying there, is that while how ever unlikely it is a better explanation than the "god theory". He clearly displays an understanding in his books and other speeches of the formation of life on this planet and his "alien" reference here is nothing more than satire.

  • @WolfOfAtheism Ok, Dawkins could 'conceive of' aliens have seeded life on earth. Well then I conceive of Dawkins being a moron. Has he ever seen an alien? Has he ever had any communication from an alien? Has he any proof they exist? But he is willing to 'conceive of' them having seeded life on earth!!! And yet he arrogantly derides those who 'conceive of' some sort of intelligent design? Sounds a bit weasel froggish to me.

  • @guydecervens Well the main point is that it is natural and not supernatural. also he really was remarking on the psychology of the ease in which humans want to assign a creator then he gave a slightly sarcastic alternative to the supernatural with a possible but not supported natural answer. its not that he believes it but that he was remarking on the fact that if space aliens are more probable than a god really makes gods silly. like i said, it was satire

  • If you go to conservapedia, it says, "According to atheistic biologist Richard Dawkins, the joints of the Lesser Spotted Weasel Frog continue to present a challenge to the Theory of Evolution insofar as their origin cannot be explained by gradual degrees."

    lol! !!

  • @ChaseKittens You just gotta love the stupid!!!!

  • I dont like the all or nothing, combination lock analogy because at least with a lock someone knows, with certitude, the combination and therefore gets the "jackpot". God is nowhere near this certitude. RD is a biologist. They are not the most qualified people to be speaking about theology or philosophy. How did he ever get famous on this subject, I'll never know. I don't like him.

  • dawkins couldn't imagine his way out of a paper bag... he's a zoologist with no credentials to apply to mind sciences, but he sure does like to hear himself act like he does...dork x10

  • @romney27 have you read his book? lol

  • @SuperMrAtheist I'm familiar with his work and think he's an idiot. he's a blowhard

  • @romney27 So I take it that means no.lol

  • @SuperMrAtheist whats to read that he doesn't already talk about? I think it would be to painful to read his multi universe analogy where he has a "green bread" in another universe( he supposes).... I find that hilarious that he wants to invoke "reason" and "logic" when he employs such goofy rebuttals.... it is funny I agree.

    I get more out of lectures given by behavioral biologist and neurobiologist than a snarky evolutionary theorist. but thanks for the concern.

  • @romney27 You have no idea what he talks about. You are assuming you know but you don't. To call someone names before you even know his work is ignorant. It must be too big of a book for you. Maybe if it had pop-up pictures.lol

  • @SuperMrAtheist "You have no idea what he talks about."...lo assumptions? classic. I suppose all the videos about what he "talks" about has no relation to what he "writes" about? If you think that's true, then calling you "ignorant" would be an understatment! Why not just get to the meat of your argument? you beat a vague drum.

    it's not rocket science, "free will" covers beliefs in gods and religions. I could draw you a Venn digram, but I think "balls" are over your head.(get it!?) lol

  • You know what I think is funny... Even if Life on Earth WAS a Jackpot hit... it's STILL not improbable due to the sheer size of the universe.

    Out of millions of lottery participants SOMEONE needs to win the jackpot. That it is one specific person is improbable, but that it's just SOMEONE... well that has a 100% chance.

    So even if it WAS a Jackpot situation with Life on Earth, which it isn't.,it'd still be perfectly plausible without the need for gods, actually.

  • @Shavarnarak No, you're wrong. If you could say the laws of physics ONLY apply to the earth, then you would be right. But, the laws of physics apply to the whole Universe. The Universe being created from nothing would be like hitting the Power Ball Lotto 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0­00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0­00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0­00 times in a row.

  • @YesYou123333 Dude, nobody ever said anything about the universe being "created from nothing". The only people who say that are creationists trying to make scientists look stupid. In effect they only make themselves look stupid. The truth is, we simply don't know exactly how the universe started, other than the fact that there was a massive, rapid expansion of matter. And where did you get that ridiculous number? That which we do not know (and cannot happen) cannot quantified, silly.

  • @sillymonkey829 What do you mean "nobody ever said anything about the universe being 'created from nothing'"? That's exactly what they're saying. So, if you "don't know" then IT IS possible a God caused it, correct?

  • @YesYou123333 What reputable scientist has ever said that? It is faintly possible that a god did it, however I think that natural causes are much more likely. And where did this god, who must be much more complex than the universe it created come from? It just sets the question back a step. Matter and energy have always existed, constantly changing in shape and form. We just don't know exactly how it got the way it is today. That doesn't mean god did it, that's simply an argument from ignorance.

  • @sillymonkey829 God doesn't need a creator because He transcends all space and time. The Universe, on the other hand, does not transcend space and time so it DOES need a creator. Do you need to know where the architect of a building came from in order to know an architect designed it?

  • @YesYou123333 The question then would be how do you know he transcends all space and time? No work has been done to prove this! It comes off as a excuse from ignorance. Like "We can't find any proof of god at all, so this proves he is outside the borders of reality" This doesn't compute. The building/watchmaker idea is silly. Architects have dads, architects don't build from nothing, buildings can't make baby buildings. (bown chicka wha wha) So the comparison makes no sense.

  • @TheEVILutionist If time had a beginning then whoever created it MUST transcend space and time. It's not ignorance it's science. You guys love science, don't you?

  • @YesYou123333 Why is it who and not what? bias is not science

  • @TheEVILutionist How about both? How about everything?

  • @YesYou123333 `What` makes more sense since there in no evdience a who exists.

  • @YesYou123333 time isnt a "creation" its a product of movement. if nothing moved, would you say that there was time? Probably not. time dosen't exist. get your head out of the clouds.. or should i say.. gods ass.

  • So really, can someone explain with to me how the elbow joint of the weasel frog evolved? I couldn't find it on search engines! A thank you in advance.

  • @FFree Thinker

    Did you use cyberlink powermedia video editor to make this video? The part at the end with the flames looked familiar...

  • Love it. Dawkins explaining something so elegantly and with a sense of humour.

  • Does anyone know where I can get an ultimate 747 fish for my car?

  • You are all going to Hell !!!!

    I'll wait for you there with beer and women =P

  • Just make sure they're hot and cold the right way round.

  • @IcedPhoenix666 don't be stingy and bring some men for me ;q

  • @edgemasterrobin Very easy. By insisting that the burden of poof is always with the one making the claim for existence.

    Do you have proof that there are no leprechauns in Ireland? No. And you don't have to have such proof.

    @gjen55 Oh yeah, he makes so much money. I bet all those megachurch televangelist pastors look like peasants next to him.

  • My god Thor has a hammer, the Christian god was nailed to a cross.

    Any questions?

  • and my god can wank himself nonstop. Any questions

  • Yes, does he use some kind of super lube?

    How does he keep his penis from chafing?

  • he is god, remember ? he is OMNIPOTENT muahahaha

    :) funny I feel like dumb christian. They always find stupid answer lol

  • Omnipotent you say, does that mean he gets turned on by everything. god is a sexual deviant. :)

  • @Plinkington sexual deviant? hmmm remember that hee sees not only kinky sex acts but he see how people kill. He sees how one person slowly cuts off head of other person which is concious. He must be fucked up if he is real lol of course he is myth so that is relief. Hawing so fucked up god would be sick :]

  • Interesting point... Since creationists see themselves as "perfect creations" in god's image, I can understand why they would argue that our existence is an uncrackable bank vault.

    Why do we have an appendix again? Oh yeah... little flaws... life is not perfect, but it learns from its mistakes.

  • i fucking killed god with a big hammer in the woods....he screamed like a little bitch

  • what? That is rather confusing.... :S

  • What was that @ 2:35 onwards.

    Prof Dawkins saying that the late great Sir Francis Crick speculated that life on earth originated from another planet.

    Is'nt that what that weird non-senseicle cult of $cientology is about.

    In all seriousness is that what some Biologists suspect?

  • No, Crick believed in panspermia.

  • orly?

  • He talked of it as possibility, but he didn't believe it.

  • Ah the Schadenfreude of Christianity. At its heart joy at being able to witness the torture of others who don't think like you do.

  • You are right. The more I look at my own words the more I realize that it was a very "un-Christian" thing to say. I guess it is his dismissive and sarcastic tone that made me mad. I spoke out of anger. my hope is that none will suffer in hell. It was a pretty awful thing to say. In the end being a Christian does not override my being human. But thats what Christianity is all about. Trying to be like Christ and realizing your bankruptcy and therefore your great need for his help and compassion.

  • "Im hoping im there to see Dawkins face when he stands before an omnipotent being." Yeah I can understand your point of view, too bad its not gonna happen though. Have a good day.

  • How about you give me definite proof that he exists since he's so real and I'm so wrong.

  • Give me 7 days.

  • Stand the test of time ? Ahah how about stand the test of EDUCATION. Doesnt it concern you that the most hardcore religious people in the world be they Christians or Muslims or whatever are either really dumb or uneducated. You make it sound as if you have any kind of evidence besides a book written that is contradictory all the way through of the existence of an omnipotent being. You dont.

  • " most hardcore religious people in the world be they Christians or Muslims or whatever are either really dumb or uneducated.".....WOW! That, my friend, may be the most UNEDUCATED statement I have ever read. Show me a man wiser than Salomon, more insightful than C.S. Lewis or more imaginative than J.R.R. Tolkien. The list goes on and on. No EDUCATED atheist worth his salt would ever make such a ridiculous claim, Including Dawkins.Contradictory? No doubt, to you, it would seem so.

  • Einstein was a pretty smart guy right... Wasn't he an Atheist

  • im pretty sure like most smart ppl he had his ideas but in the end he understood he didtn know...

  • Yeah, einstein was an atheist. But when has the truth ever convinced a theist?

  • @TheSouthernorycle

    - you SIR have sullied the good name of the church of the flying spaghetti monster!

    How DARE you spout your bullshit about your great sky-god! there is only one true GOD! and he is NOODLY!

    Praise be thy Noodly Master

    RAmen

  • @HypnoPants yo man, you have the baddest comments I've ever read... awesome dude! noodly... hahaha, that oughta get on their nerves...

  • @champjklccmk

    - tee hee hee :)

    I attempted to spread the spaghetti gospel at an evangelist christian concert (my girlfriend was forced to go via her parents, I tagged along for her sake... glad I did, she was REALLY depressed from it all)

    anyways... I tried texting a 'see your txt on-screen!' message, to see the reactions of the crowd... but they were apparently checked before they appeared on-screen >.<

    ... it was terrifying... so many crazy, sky-daddy worshipers!

    R'Amen

  • @HypnoPants how dare you blaspheme against the giant pot noodle in the sky, you shall drown in a fiery lake of beef and tomato sauce

  • @HypnoPants TROLLED! Lol xD

  • @TheSouthernorycle

    I think (certainly not sure) that he means people of this time. In other words, that are still alive.

  • @TheSouthernorycle

    - do YOU have any proof that the almighty flying spaghetti monster does not exist? No? Didn't think so!

    Go preach to your false God!

    I hope you spend an eternity in molten pasta sauce!

    RAmen

  • @HypnoPants all heil the spaghetti monster.

  • @gulbirk

    - R'Amen indeed :P

  • @HypnoPants After reading your comments, I'm hungry!!

  • If your invisible sky-daddy is the creaor and omnipotent he created me as an atheist therefore, via my atheism, I'm living my life by his will so I can't be punished for it. Either your god is an omnipotent creaor or not, make your mind up.

  • Do you always have to add the clip at the beginning where Dawkins thanks for the applause, in every single clip you post of him? ^^ It's getting repetitive.

  • Why are they called 'combination' locks?  Clearly, they're _permutation_ locks. That is, you can use the same number more than once, and it REALLY matters what order they're in

  • Failure of imagination is exactly EXACTLY what happened to the series of finale of Battlestar Galacita. stupid RJ Moore and hist "lolgoddidit" finale.

  • Thanks you Dawkins for keeping the religious nuts out of the way so the other scientists can do their research and advance the world.

  • Either God exists or He doesn't.

    Both possibilities are scary.

  • @KFkrymz

    Why would it be scary if he does not?

  • meh, dawkings rarely makes any SOLID points.

    Maybe hes too advanced for me and i cant curl my hands around what he's trying conclude.

  • Perhaps, yes.

  • I much prefer Dawkins talking about evolution and creationism/neo-creationism ("Intelligent Design") than religion and philosophy, where I think he is really rather poor.

  • "I much prefer Dawkins talking about evolution and creationism/neo-creationism ("Intelligent Design") than religion and philosophy, where I think he is really rather poor"

    If that's what you think then may I suggest that you read his excellent book "The God Delusion" and then comment on his knowledge of religion.

  • I've read some of it, and it's not very impressive at all. For example, he spends three pages on the cosmological arguments for the existence of God, and all he does is insult St. Thomas Aquinas and attack a straw man. He doesn't even mention Gottfired Leibniz and the principle of sufficient reason, Aquinas' argument from necessity and contingency etc.

    As I said, he should really stick to science.

  • "As I said, he should really stick to science".

    As you are totally unimpressed with his book and obviously intellectually superior to the uninformed professor may I suggest you write your own book telling him where he has gone wrong in his long and indistinguished career.

    Now what was idiom about pride and a fall?

  • Aquinas' argument from necessity is so incredibly poor, it's amazing that people still pull it out.

  • I agree with you that Aquinas' Third Way does not succeed in proving the existence of God (although I don't think it to be "incredibly poor"; indeed, I find it rather interesting.) However, I simply feel that Dawkins is extremely lightweight and narrow-minded when it comes to philosophy of religion and theology.

    By the way, I am an atheist, only I prefer David Hume and Jean-Paul Sartre.

  • Fair enough. I think he is, at the very least, an excellent communicator of the basics to a mass audience.

  • @VanDoodah

    Dawkins narrowminded? Really? Care to ellaborate on that? :)

  • @VanDoodah

    Some of it really doesn't count.

    It's like saying: I read the first chapter of LOTR and the story obviously sucks.

  • Why am I interested in this subject? I am looking for a reason for life. So if GOD created me then he made a mistake.

  • the fundamental flaw all christians have is the inability to say "i was wrong." real revelation is impossible for these people as it puts them in the uncomfortable position of admitting past ignorance.

  • it's a waste of time to try and argue with christians -- they are by their very nature too ignorant for self-reflection. Let the lemmings topple into the sea. Who cares? We are better off without them and their stupefyingly ignorant views.

  • Religion, unfortunately, is not a harmless pursuit which we can merely watch and laugh at. It is a dangerous, divisive force in the world. There's a positively excellent video here on YouTube entitled "Why Atheists Care about your Religion" or something of that nature, by GoGreen18. I highly encourage you and everyone else to watch it.

  • You're wrong.

    There's thousands of extremely intelligent christians.

    That's what's both sad and scary.

  • Not until his parole hearing

  • Haha, nice one daichi

  • Kent Hovind would avoid ANY scientific debate at all costs.

  • Set it up. I would love to see that debate.

    But since Mr. Hovind is unable to make personal appearances at this time perhaps, if he can get phone privileges at his "government housing" he could call the Atheist Experience at 512-477-2288 between 4:30-6:00 Central Standard Time and take his best shot.

    Set that up, will you and tell Dr. Hovind hi for me.

  • blooms125,

    Hovind thought dinosaurs and humans lived together... This man wrote several book while your man watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

  • To bad Hovind can't debate in jail.

  • theM3dic

    You make a fantastical statement that I must ask you to support. You said,"God does exist..." and I would love you to help myself and other YTers and tell us what sort of evidence you might have for your wild claim. Thanks, in advance.

  • please, can you share your evidence for a god with us petty nonbelievers? if it is rational, i will convert on the spot.

  • The most hated argument people use against me boils down to this: it's complicated, so god did it!!

    Love the analogy.

  • only islam can answer all your questions richard! But you should be punished for redicule islam you bastard!

  • oh common now - you know that you got a chuckle out of that one right before you did the whole stoic "you shall be punished!" line...

  • I reckon my dog can give better answers than you and your god.

  • hahaha islam sucks

  • Too bad infinite isn't a number.

  • them3dic,

    The flaw in your logic is that you fail to realise that each of those numbers on which the gravitational constant can fall have equal chances of being chosen. If we take your dartboard analogy, each random throw of a dart has the equal chance to hit the bulls-eye. Another example is winning a competition in which millions of people entered. The odds are extremely high, yet everyone has the same chance of winning, and someone has to win. Improbable doesn't mean impossible.

  • my problem with that approach is that you can not show that god even exists, that god has the ability to control gravitational forces, where god came from, how YOU are able to know all these things about god...

    it seems that you just took "I don't know" and slapped a face/name on it...

  • I don't mean to appear to support religion, so sorry if it appears as though I'm baiting. I'm just tossing out an idea.

  • Dawkins says that he can imagine "God like beings", but that they would not be gods since they are a product of the universe, not the creator of it.

    In a very limited and primitive sense, we can already create universes via simulation. Would a simulated intelligence in a simulated environment be able to figure out that it was a simulation? Would the man or team who created the simulation, be considered it's god?

    Is it easier for an atheist to imagine the concept of god in those terms?

  • you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. please leave, and come back with some education.

  • You don't know shit. All christians don't know shit. You do realize that your whole religion is probably only 20% of what true christianity is (i mean like the instant the religion started). If you want to talk about misinterpreting things to please yourself, then i advice you to stop. You are the last person who should say something like that. i would bet you money that most atheists are more moral than christians, and it is simply because we are smart enough to decide on our own what is right.

  • you are so incredibly ridicules that i cant answer you, except to look at you and wonder how you made it this far in life , do you remember the movie dum and dumer , well they where brain surgeons compared too you .

  • "Atheists don't like God because they love to be self destructive and/or prideful and God has things to say about both of those"

    What a galactically ignorant, naive, dogmatic, foolish, pious, sanctimonious and downright stupid thing to say. Loving Jesus doesn't give you any awareness of reality, does it theM3dic?

  • Yes, i'm atheist because i love doing self destructive things. Thats why 2 weeks ago i changed an elderly womans tire in -10 degree weather and told her to keep her money.

    You're an ignorant asshole. you're the type of christian i hate the most. The type that nit picks the bible so all you read are things like, love thy neighbor, honor they father. Not..Kill your son if he speaks against you, or stone a person for having mixed threads in their clothing.

  • all hail the weasel frog!!!!

  • Do 747s reproduce with genetic variation, you stupid son of a bitch?