Vic Stenger - The NEW Atheism (Part 01 of 10), Millsaps College, 2009

[skinsmagic]

Skip past intro to 3:38.

[DaReelSituation]

Alma mater dear old Millsaps.

[sirdelrio]

Wow, man, who was playing in the introductory music. fantastic tone and articulation.

[BigDaddyXD]

Who thinks that humans have evolved from "simple" unicellular organisms, hasn't understood heredity at all... and has no idea of how complex unicellular organisms are.

[TheZwede]

@BigDaddyXD Why not? You did.

[ShahidMahmud]

God can create something from nothing. Where did matter come from yes you are right nothing. Big bang where did the energy and matter come from?

[artemus21]

Watching this was a waste of time.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@artemus21 shut up lol

[JGL53]

Meathead36 - at least learn how to spell "atheist". It's not that hard.

As for the "content" of your post - it reads like a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur who is off his meds. Please seek professional help.

[Meathead36]

The "evidence" of God does exist. It is documented by more writings than can be mentioned if you are willing to look. His name was Jesus. The people of the past responsible for bringing you modern science and documenting history have left it out for a reason. It is simple; the only way you can be saved is by Jesus. The nonbelievers of today could see miracles performed in front of their face and still not believe. These are the modern day scribes and pharisees.

[lahatte]

@Meathead36 Sounds like you would like the Q&A near the end of Part 8.

[Meathead36]

@lahatte what if you were to find out that luciferians are running the world? would they be lacking logic too? are they less intelligent than you or I?

[lahatte]

@Meathead36 I don't know what you are talking about.

[Meathead36]

@lahatte The argument that people with spiritual beliefs lack logic or intelligence. Similar to someone that is color blind, an athiest is unable to see the specific forces guiding our world. The people guiding this world are obviously more intelligent than you (I assume you are athiest) and they also have a god. Unknown to you, your lack of a belief system was brought to you by these same people that have ruled our world over the centuries. They have stripped you of your only defense.

[lahatte]

@Meathead36 Ok.

[davidmcaba]

@Meathead36 You are wrong. According to Mark 16:18, believers in Christ can heal the sick and drink poison without dying. I will personally provide you with cyanide and an amputee. If you can ingest the poison without dying within 24 hours or make the amputee's arm grow back, I will follow your God till the end of my life. Just let me know if you are ready to back up your words with action.

[moss824]

@Meathead36 You truly are a "MEATHEAD"!

[SvendsenAtheist]

@Meathead36 ohh im convinced!

[matthewjhaywood]

@Meathead36

Yet those miracles never do seem to happen in front of our faces. They didn't even when I was religious....weird.

[richwfd2002]

@Meathead36 As an atheist, if miracles happened in front of me, I would believe, but they do not happen now, nor did they then. As far as documentation, we have no eyewitness accounts of Jesus' life and the gospel writers never even met him. Buy bull scholars are largely in agreement on this. I tend to trust their research more than the believers who have been conditioned to believe and have a huge emotional investment in maintaining those beliefs in the face of evidence to the contrary.

[Muthsera80]

@TheVirginQueenShane

My English will never be one of perfection, I'll admit.

And no. That is not the position Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett profess.

None of them profess that "# atheism - A belief that there are no gods."

In fact, they all profess that Atheism is the default position. If you have read their books. You cannot have paid much attention because their all very explicit in this.

[Muthsera80]

@TheVirginQueenShane

No Atheist ever claim for a fact that they know god does not exist. What Atheist claims is that there is no reason to believe there is a god. This is a position which is often ascribed to atheists. That their not non believers, but instead somehow believers in the non existence. Which is a ridiculous notion. That goes especially for New Atheists which Stenger here describes. And you would know that if you had read any of them.

[jerryhello100]

Why do they call it "New Atheism". Atheism has been around since the dawn of religion, at this point in time it's as old as it's ever been. It should be called "Old Atheism".

[Muthsera80]

@jerryhello100

Well, in my understanding it had to be been with us before religion. Only very late into the history of "belief" do we find a concept or a word for "without belief". It's only in relation to the fact that belief becomes the norm that non belief becomes the abnormal.

[Durano77]

Great video!

You should also check out the debate between a new atheist (Szabo) and a Lutheran theologian (Gustavsson) at the Faculty of Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia - link:

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[MultiUniv3rsal]

Stenger has 'Henry Kissenger-face syndrome"

[lahatte]

Thanks!

[pobanmanu]

Thanks for the upload mate. Great Video!!