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  • @6:59 "You're just doling out the fallacies like a vending machine."

    Great analogy.

  • 5:10 - 5:23 - Troy showing no shame.

  • Proof of Something coming from nothing:

    No evidence for cause of big bang:

    =

    Big bang was created by Yahweh!!!!

  • Wait, did he just say "that's right"? What a foolish person.

  • This caller is so dense..."If science cant provide the answer then the god of the bible is true". Thats his argument? Really??? LOL!

  • Asking what came before the big bang is like asking what is north from the north pole.

    The big bang is nothing more than the oldest point we can trace that is it just as the north pole is to farthest point north we can trace.

  • i don't like that people like troy assert something can't come from nothing therefore god came from nothing and created everything.

  • @taylan637 I believe carl sagan addressed this, quite eloquently I might add.

  • William Lane Craig is no different from any of the other bible-thumping apologetics, he has just learned the jargon.

  • you dont know what square root of 2 so therefore its 1.4 cause magical unicorn told me to.

  • Billy Preston answered this question nearly 40 years ago at G_DV54ddNHE. He also told us what would happen if we kept arguing about it at 7Xnf1myamMU.

  • Troy from Edmonton is an idiot!

  • He used too many big words in the initial explanation. When you use big words with these people they use that to their advantage to continue to argue from ignorance.

  • What... a.... moron...

  • 45 theists sneezed around 1269 atheists and no one said "bless you".

  • I wanna see these guys debate with a Muslim about God. They would rip that Muslim a new one. And then they would probably get death threats. That's probably why I can't find a video discussing Islam.

  • @firethower99 you're right. If you want to see debates with muslims, check out the TheJinnAndTonicShow channel. The speakers "against" islam tend to hide their identity on the show.

  • @VideoGamePlayerUK Alright.  Thanks.

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  • @baldurus1 infinitude cannot exist in our universe, when you move you make an infinite amount of factional movements(meaning 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/6 cutting down to infinitely halved) sections of movement, therefore movement is impossible :3

  • @1zacster

    Troll.

  • I can't explain why the light goes off in my fridge, so god did it.

    I don't know where the water goes when I drain my tub, so god did it.

    Troy this is what you sound like to me.

  • Another example of a stunning disconnect with reality by a beliver. Such perspectives leave me wondering how such a person manages to live in a rational world. Mind boggling is simply the wrong tense.

  • Ok. if there is no natural answer, than there must be some level of belief to think that it is true. however, what then is the problem with the belief that there is a creator... because by what i have heard you saying i see no difference between the level of belief required to claim either argument.

  • Complete non-argument. Makes no sense logically, and reveals the stupidity of whoever chooses to use it...

  • its a dumb argument. If you believe in god then god is something so therefore cannot come from nothing. yet dumbasses keep using this argument to try to SUPPORT a god existing. stoopid!

  • put the bastard on hold next time so he HAS to listen

  • Of *course* he didn't hear any of the logical fallacies Martin pointed out -- that's because he kept right on talking whenever Martin pointed them out. From watching a bunch of these videos, it's easy to begin forming the Chrissy rules for debate:

    1) never stop talking long enough to let the other person make a point

    2) never acknowledge any points the other person makes

    3) when asked a question (*especially* a "yes or no" question), ramble on to the next topic without responding

  • "Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise." Simon Greenleaf, a Christian Apologist. No part of the Christian meets those criteria. Specifically: There is no chain of evidence (proper repository), and there are in fact reams of evidence of forgery. Read Bart Ehrman.

  • This caller is adicted to a drug called, William Lane Craig. Pathetic.

  • The difference between genius and stupidity is that stupidity has no limit.

  • This is one of the few videos from the Atheist Experience which made me angry but NOT at the caller but at the two hosts! The caller gave them several perfect examples of logical fallacies and constantly talked over them, and instead of putting his ass on hold and THEN giving him a detailed description of his fallacies, they just let this guy continue to interrupt them ...

  • I think it's wonderful how the theists live in their own little "world of magic" and ignore everything around them

  • I love fallacies, they really shine light on those errors we would normally pass off as normal argumentative speech.

  • I didn't realise that people actually think like that, its completely crazy!

  • the uncreated creaTOR

  • No no no no NO!!! Stupid F*#&ing idiot. Infinite regress is bullshit!

    If you have an infinite set of numbers, no beginning and no end. Why would it be impossible to count from let's say the number 13342342341123234253421212334 to1334234234112323425342121233­5??? And don't say that there would be an infinite amount of numbers between them, i swear i will smack you in the head with a science book. Time is the movement of matter and energy, why would the movement stop in an infinite???

  • @baldurus1 Sometimes I get sad, but then I stop being sad and get awesome again.

    True story.

  • "Something cannot come from nothing" Exactly!

    Therefore a god can't exist in nothing and sure as hell can't put a Universe in nothing.

  • doling out the fallacies like a vending machine. lol.

  • We will never escape this circular argument until people can get that not being able to understand something doesn't prove the existence of God and it never will.

  • I find it amusing that these people use the 'nothing comes from nothing' argument to enhance their case.

    Yet they don't consider how 'God' created the universe, from nothing.

    That makes their argument sound like this;

    "Science can't explain the how it happened in practical terms, either can we, but we got magic on our side, so we win !"

    Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  • This is a problem I have with religious moderates and apologists; they try to argue for a bullshit, abstract deity and make a giant leap to the christian god.

  • @SDub817 Exactly! It's just some big argument for Deism....until it totally isn't. But like atheism, I don't think that most of them even know what deism is.

  • wow...what a complete and perfect example of "creationist" "bobbing and weaving". Make the rules as you go,...and apply them when it is convenient to your "god" argument. The level of absolute bullshit is astounding. The default assumptions and assertions are old and tired...same old bullshit...wrapped in different packages......what a joke. People, please wake up and smell the bullshit.....

  • Matt would have torn this guy apart with his little finger.

    Still good video though

  • The "you can't prove it's not real so it's real" argument is getting quite old :p

  • Everybody that's reading this, Think about this, If something cannot come from nothing. That means there was never the term "nothing" to begin with. That means there is no such thing as "nothing" which in science is true because if you take away all radiation and particles you get dark matter. Dark matter has always been there and quantum fluctuations from it caused the big bang producing a universe.

  • @xBlackEditionx The "Nothing" in our universe accounts for 99% of the mass/energy of the universe :P

  • @coolair00 70% dark mass and 30% dark energy. I'm sure is what Lawrence Krauss (physicist), mentioned in his presentation on "something from nothing".

  • @xBlackEditionx what a perfect way to explain it with logical science i am stealing this lol

  • That guy must be VenomFangx's dad.

  • Gentlemen - it's great that you guys are doing what you're doing, and being a strong voice of reason in the US. I commend you.

  • Dear Troy,

    Argument from Ignorance: You basically told them they don't have a better explanation and so your made up answer gets to take 1st place? Sorry, that is NOT how we know something is true lol. If you used your ears even a quarter of the time you have been talking, you'd learn a lot more about why what you're saying makes no sense.

  • Au Contraire my friend, US dollar does! ... The Federal Reserves creates them out of nothing! :)

  • This caller is a joke...typical ignorant christian

  • Just to let everyone know, not everyone from Edmonton (or near Edmonton, AB) is a theist. I'm not. I very much side with Hitchens, but there are to many here that are as deluded as this Parture.

  • troy's lawyer could be god.  ha ha.......

  • Troy needs help! LOL

  • Respect for the patience you guys always have. I was getting extremely annoyed just listening to this guy

  • I got one for the bible thumper's. If there was indeed a God, dont you think we would have found some proof he's out there by now? No proof could also mean no God's.

  • I like how the guy on the phone is getting super pissed off while everyone is laughing at him. xD

  • @DJ100101 And the more he got pissed off the more i laughed, I love the entertainment these Christians give athiests.

  • Is there any debate where William Lane Craig has lost?

  • @Larvemannenz001 Arif Ahmed . Quentin Smith 1996 one of many of Craig's loses. This one is particularly interesting . Craig admits that his cosmological argument is not a logical argument for god creating the universe. It hasn't stopped Craig from using it it's just I haven't seen anyone throw it in his face

  • @emailpobox666 I'll listen to it right away.

  • @Larvemannenz001 Unfortunately the 1996 Quentin Smith vs Craig debate has to read if you google it Quentin smith vs Craig 1996 the first result is the debate. Pay attention to the fifth link it's Craig's rebuttal. The debate with Arif Ahmed is a you tube video .

  • @Larvemannenz001 Has he ever won? I've never seen him do nothing more than ignoring evidence and making stuff up.

  • @Larvemannenz001

    That depends on how you define winning and losing. An atheist argues based on what is true and what is not true, a theist argues on what allows them to preserve some shred of hope that their faith is justified. Winning in that sense depends on the values of the debater. But if you want to see him lose utterly in all senses beyond any possible chance of salvaging the argument, watch his debate with Shelly Kagan.

  • Ur argument is hypocritical if something cannot come from something and where did god come from? NOTHING ur argument works both ways

  • that's what atheist experience every time they talk with religious person

  • @Th0usandMaster True...but thats because God isnt about religion...its about a relationship. Until they realise that, they can't win.

  • @blipperful yeah i agree on the relationship part, social relationship.

    In my country religious people believe in ghost and if you share their belief you're one of them, if you don't you're not, it's that simple.

  • Even if--even IF--some being or entity or force "created" the universe and its laws (and so far I haven't seen any reason to think so), how does it follow that that "creator" ("C") now (some ~14 billion years later) still operates within the universe, occasionally suspending its own laws to grant humans' wishes?

    And how does it follow that a "demigod" former inhabitant of this single planet that circles one of the 100+ sextillion stars in the known universe, happens to be C? What's the logic?

  • next time, just grant them that God created the universe for the sake of the argument. Then, proceed to ask them to prove that it is their God and watch them make a jackass out of themselves.

  • leading people to God? So if an atheists is stumped that's leads me to God? Ok, then if a phycisist is stumped that leads me to alchemy and if a child is stumped that leads me to gravity.

  • This is just sad to think the the only concept can be "God" because you have no other facts or evidence.

  • Can someone explain to me how an infinite regress is impossible?

  • @VeritasLuxMea100 Infinite regress is only problematic when you limit your self to a 4 dimensional reality.Theist try to say that infinite regress proves that there has to be a first cause and that cause is god but they create a problem that their own answer is a logical impassibility. An uncaused cause ( God)

  • @emailpobox666

    "Infinite regress is only problematic when you limit your self to a 4 dimensional reality"

    Dimensions have little to do with causality, so while your answer may sound fancy, it doesn't explain anything.

    "a logical impassibility. An uncaused cause"

    Please prove that not being caused is a logical impossibility. Furthermore, if there was no uncaused cause, this would result in logical absurdities.

  • @THEEVANTHETOON "Dimensions have little to do with causality, " Oh really when the dimension of which I speak is time. Good try there

    Please prove that the universe is caused .You say your god in uncaused why couldn't the universe be uncaused?????

  • @THEEVANTHETOON "Dimensions have little to do with causality, so while your answer may sound fancy, it doesn't explain anything."

    Imagine for a moment that time is a circle. Can you see how the universe can be eternal in that model, while no infinite regress ever occurs? All that's required is that stuff exists and can get rearranged over time. Nothing would ever be created, except in the sense of the stuff getting rearranged.

  • @Gnomefro

    "Imagine for a moment that time is a circle"

    The oscillating universe model? The problem is contracting universes are extremely unstable, and, according to the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorms, space-time cannot pass through a singularity. Furthermore, the chance of a low-entropy state existing after the Big Bang is about 10^10^123. If this low-entropy state did not occur, stable matter would never form, and there would never be enough gravity to cause the universe to contract.

  • @THEEVANTHETOON Such organizations of time would of course make infinite regress on causality nonsense as well. Such possibilities are entirely straight forward and logical. Sure, there's no evidence for them, but they seem infinitely more plausible than gods.

  • @Gnomefro

    "they seem infinitely more plausible than gods"

    Please explain to me how you determine which hypothesis is more plausible.

    Lastly, I would like to mention that the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorms proves that space-time had an absolute beginning. It holds without regards to a quantum theory of gravity, and doesn't even assume that Einstein's general relativity equations are completely correct.

  • @VeritasLuxMea100

    WLC has quite a decent explanation of this here: watch?v=j_q802eboxA

    Furthermore, the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorm requires an absolute beginning (this includes the multiverse, assuming there is one). It hold regardless of a quantum theory of gravity, and does not even assume that Einstein's general relativity equations were correct: /watch?v=Z79FGmh50Xo&feature=g­-all-u&context=G29c000fFAAAAAA­AARAA

  • @THEEVANTHETOON Craig is far from logical. He said he would ignore evidence proving  god's non existence. How disingenuous can he possible be?//

  • @VeritasLuxMea100 watch the Craig Arif Ahmed debate . Craig gets his ass handed to him. Quentin Smith vs Craig in 1996 where Craig admits that discussing god creating the universe to be beyond any definition of causation. But it hasn't stopped craig from still using the arguemnt

  • @emailpobox666

    ...of what some internet blogger says.

    "Quentin Smith vs Craig in 1996 where Craig admits..."

    Please prove this, as I'm guessing your sources are incredibly bias (most information I get about Craig's debates either comes from the debate itself, or commonsenseatheism).

    "why couldn't the universe be uncaused?"

    Because the universe had an absolute beginning, and unless you are willing to admit that things can pop into being out of nothing, the universe had a cause.

  • @emailpobox666 Watched it, I'm dismayed at how ridiculous craig sounds, it's the same tired arguments from all his debates, He even admits to his many logical fallacies!

  • Their argumen didn't make sense. They were saying "The cause isn't necessarily the Christian God". So you believe in God, just not the Christian God? They respond "Maybe someday science will come up with a natural answer", but that is logically impossible. They are saying "Maybe someday we'll figure out how nature (the universe) created the universe (nature)". This isn't an argument from ignorance, as an uncaused cause is the only logical explanation. The only question now regards its nature.

  • @THEEVANTHETOON an uncaused caused is the only logical explanation. What you mean it's the only answer you will accept. The only answer that is compatible with your preconceived belief in the supernatural

  • @emailpobox666

    "it's the only answer you will accept"

    No. If we accept that 1) something cannot come from nothing and 2) an infinite regress is impossible, this logically requires the existence of a beginning (an uncaused cause). Any other answer either goes against our premises, or simply pushes the beginning back a step. This is not an argument from ignorance because an uncaused cause (and i'm not even asserting that this is God) is the only logical explanation.

  • @THEEVANTHETOON The universe did not come from nothing. Infinite regress in the frame work of time existing in one dimension but there are other theories of tie which extend time into multiple dimensions. doesn't your god push it back a step . an uncaused cause (permitted if it's a god but not a universe. Exactly how do you figure that???

  • @THEEVANTHETOON As I said before it's the only explanation you will accept because it preserves your belief in Yahweh.

  • I wish this rapture shit would happen and take these morons off the earth! -

  • I can't believe how stupid this caller is.

  • Theists believe:

    Only God existed before the beginning of the universe

    If only he existed then what materials did he use to create the Universe with?

    Some will say God is the source of all materials but if he is 100% immaterial, that means God is made of “nothing” and out came “something”….Mmmmm Theists you have some explaining to do.

  • Did god create existence? If so, he did it while outside of existence, and the only thing outside of existence is nonexistence (which makes god necessarily nonexistent). If NOT, then existence is independent of god's existence (or god's nonexistence), and god did not create it...

    So we are right back where we started. With no evidence for the god hypothesis, and no need for it. So why bring up this stupid "something from nothing" nonsense? No one is claiming that on either side!!

  • That Christian fellow really limits his horizon. 200 Years ago we could have had the same discussion about lightning. Not so such a long time ago, the idea of a round Earth sounded absurd. So what seems logical now, might actually be absurd. So stop putting a God into every hole where it seems that there has to be one.

  • These Clowns are SO nervous, that somebody might call and give them a challenge, and that's what happened here!! Seriously, what in the world is Martin writing down at 1:24?

    Now at 1:46 Martin just can't take it anymore, so by his nonsensical belief he has to interrupt the caller to stop him from spilling more "Realism" to the world,(and himself) In a genuine atheistic lying brainwashing attempt to bury the truth...

    And it's getting worse, they give us crap for saying God wasn't created

  • @ironman197268 An uncreated creator, is proof of something that exists without having been created. This disproves one of his precepts. The disproof for this religious nutbag's argument is in his "proof".

  • @ironman197268 I say The universe wasn't created you say God wasn't created. the universe exists. Does your god?

  • @emailpobox666 Good point! Haven't we crossed paths before? I like your arguments anyway :)

  • @VeritasLuxMea100 I think we have cross paths before. I try to make an effort advocating logic and reason over superstition. It's an uphill battle considering the Christians gettem young with the brain washing. thanks for the compliment

  • Lol, Caller = unfortunately appears to be lost in his own BS.

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    Christians...why y no come up with (hardly any) new arguments since St. Thomas Aquinas?

  • there can only be one explanation!

    Christian: Non-created biblical god who clearly hates gays

    Muslim: Non-created Allah

    FSM: Non-created pasta

    Ancient Greeks: non-created Uranus

    Aztecs: non-created Quetzacoatl

    Some atheists: quantum fluctuations

  • Actually, something can come from nothing in a flat universe... Lawrence Krauss anyone?

  • @MetalMiIIs No the sum is still nothing, you just got positive and negitve stuff.

  • @ebilly99 Uh, what?

  • On behalf of all canadians, I apologize for this simpleton.

  • @rnalithe00 i wish i could apologize for all the idiotic american theists who call into the show.

  • @SpursWins Gee, I didn't know pointing out someone's flawed logic in an honest manner constituted as being an "ass". In christian circles I've only heard it being referred to as "being possessed by satan".

  • they need matt there

  • Whats the point of getting people to call ur show to and give their beliefs if u guys are just asses on the way u talk to them?

  • As a Canadian I would like to apologize for this Idiot.

  • @ughzean

    Thank you.

  • He was making a jump in logic. He went from a philosophical question which physicists are currently trying to understand straight in Jesus Christ as his lord and saviour. That's like saying you don't know X therefore strawberry ice cream is the best flavour. Complete nonsense and a huge jump in logic.

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  • Unfortunately ignorance is bliss....callers are dim witted, with absolutly no points

  • I don't understand why Christians are bringing physics and science into the discussion as proof of the biblical god. Even if I were to say that the only possible way a universe could come to exist is a god, how do you automatically get a Christian one?! Why can't he be Allah or Brahman or whatever god Hindus believed created the universe?!

  • @florin3k3 "I don't understand why Christians are bringing physics and science into the discussion as proof of the biblical god" Because the more knowledge mankind accumulates the more petty the more ridiculous their superstitions appear. they use twist bend mutilate science to give themselves some credibility

  • @florin3k3 Hindus believe in Brahmin (Brahman) as the only reality. While I believe the universe was created by Vishnu. I'm a bit fuzzy on it since Ionely studied it for one year.

  • @florin3k3 "Even if I were to say that the only possible way a universe could come to exist is a god, how do you automatically get a Christian one?! Why can't he be Allah or Brahma..."

    Absolutely a valid point, but let me point out that Allah IS the Christian "god." "Allah" is simply Arabic for "god" (actually "the god") and is the same alleged Abrahamic "deity" that Jews and Christians worship.

    In fact, there are millions of Christians in Arabic-speaking countries, and they worship...Allah!

  • @lease2coach1 then how do you know it's NOT Krishna, or Zeus, or Odin?

  • @evelsteev "then how do you know it's NOT Krishna, or Zeus, or Odin?" Perfectly reasonable question: if they're just saying "the god," how do we know which one?

    "Allah" by itself doesn't tell us which "god" they're referring to--you're absolutely right!--but if you read their scriptures it's perfectly clear that Islam stems from the Abrahamic traditions. (Of course, it's also clear--to me--that ALL "gods" are fiction!)

    You can look up Ishmael (or Islam, I suppose) on W iki and get more info.

  • @lease2coach1 "Of course, it's also clear--to me--that ALL "gods" are fiction?" Really? OK, prove it.

  • @evelsteev You claim that a god is real? then it is up to you to prove it

  • @emailpobox666 who said I claimed is real? I don't believe in unproven claims.

  • @evelsteev Sorry The comment was meant for lease2coach1 

  • @emailpobox666 no worries, but I agree with you! lol

  • Why the hell didn't they hang up on this ignorant jerkoff after one minute? It's obvious that he is intentionally talking over them. Screw him.

  • sometimes, don't you just want to give theists a good slapping?

  • God does exist

  • @Caybeb Cunt.

  • Nothing can be put into motion with out being put into motion by a being all ready in motion! It's so simple

  • @Caybeb

    so how do you explain Brownian motion?

  • @transtlantic

    Caybeb is right, you are wrong.

  • @Mesdriver

    really? so care to explain Brownian motion?

    just fuck off you ignorant cRetard

  • @transtlantic

    I do not feel the need to explain anything to a moron that is not able to understand the matter.

    Brownian motion is explained in different studies, look them up.

    Religious dummys always refer to a thing THEY do not understand to prove the existance of god.

    Since they hardly understand anything, not too difficult to do.R

    Religious bonehead.

  • @Mesdriver

    Understand? lolol I clearly DO understand the matter, thus my response with the Brownian motion.

    "in different studies"? that just supports my claim that motion can occur with a causative agent. Disproving YOUR claim that you always require an external agent (like say, God)

    god? you dumbshit...i am an atheist. try again.

  • Why are there so many willfully retarded people? I went to the website linked in the video, and saw nothing but complete and utter nonsense. These people are still spewing the same ad hoc rhetoric from decades ago regarding atheism, it literally makes me feel ill knowing after all of this time these believers have yet to make any noticeable progress over the past century.

  • Time is merely an aspect of existence. i.e. The universe was not created on day one, there has to be a universe and something conscious of it to perceive a day one. i.e. It's the eternal context.

    These drones define god as something outside of existence and grow angry when we point that out. (Existence/Universe) - Nonexistence/god

  • without proof one person said the world is ROUND. no one beleived him and everyone scourned him and yet he was right. EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS SQUARE BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT SEE BEYOND THE HORIZON. he had faith and knew there was something beyond the horizon and wanted to sail to the end of the earth.

  • @pugolka Except for the part where greek mathematicians had proven, by measurement that the world was round.

    You've committed an argument from ignorance. Congrats.

  • @pugolka It was not faith that told anyone the world was round, it was evidence.

    The flat earth theorists went with a false assumption until evidence demonstrated a flat earth was incorrect.

    I wish you were taught scientific method and logic in school

  • there is something that exists without being created. we cannot see it or understand it because we ourselves are created and this uncreated creator is "outside" of creation and nature and science itself. we CANNOT understand a realm which is outside of our own existence!

  • @pugolka If it's outside space time, then how do you know it exists, and what form it takes?

    Oh, right. People have told you that some ancient text is the truth.