About this user
VIDEO PLANS
The series "Why I am no longer a Christian" is not finished. It is a work in progress.
When possible, I try to release one video a month. This is not always possible. My professional and academic life are extremely busy.
Based on my current notes for the series, there will be 39 videos in the post-Deconversion section of the series, for a total of 52 (13 + 39) videos. That means that if you look at the video count for "Why I am no longer a Christian" and the number of videos is less than 52, there are more videos to come.
TWITTER
For the status on the next video
http://twitter.com/Evid3nc3
WORDPRESS
For responses to critical blogs and YouTube PMs
http://evid3nc3.wordpress.com
FACEBOOK
For.. Facebook stuff..
http://www.facebook.com/Evid3nc3
FAQ
"I love the music selection in your videos! Can you tell me the name of the song in video X so that I can find it and buy it?"
-- I list the music used in each video at the bottom of the video description box.
"What do your parents think about your atheism? How did they react?"
-- Unlike me, my parents have not chosen to be public figures. I'm not comfortable exposing their current personal lives, beliefs, and conversations to the public without their explicit consent.
GOALS
-Inspire atheists, secular humanists, and freethinkers.
-Provide support and solidarity for other former Christians.
-Inform the undecided.
-Generate discussion with the open-minded and intellectually honest religious.
-Cause the over-confident religious to question their unwavering certainty.
VALUES
This channel is centered around using evidence and reason as the justification for beliefs.
It is about letting the evidence speak for itself without having any preconceived biases about what it should say. (Unless, of course, those biases are based on previous strong evidence. But all biases should melt away in the face of new, stronger evidence.)
The ethic of this channel is inspired by the Secular Humanist tenets of testing beliefs and believing strongly only in beliefs for which we, as a species, also have strong evidence.
Tenets of Secular Humanism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism#Tenets
ABOUT PMs
If you PM me to challenge my views and I reply, I will display the dialogue in the website above for public reference and edification.
However, I receive about 45 PMs per month, making it impossible to read, let alone respond to them all, especially since almost all of them are 2,000 characters or longer.
I regularly receive debate PMs 4,000 characters long; if you send me such a PM, do not count on me even reading it, let alone replying.
In short, the best way to contact me is through public comments and video replies.
If you must contact me through PM, use a descriptive, provocative, and relevant subject title and keep the message under 1000 characters. This will raise the probability (though not guarantee) that I will read it and reply.
I deeply appreciate all the personal stories and PMs of appreciation I have received about my Deconversion series. It is with great disappointment that I have finally accepted that, due to my greater responsibilities to my research, my family, and the larger YouTube community, I will probably never be able to read, let alone respond, to them all.
ABOUT VIDEO RESPONSES
I only accept video responses that are either direct responses to the original video or highly relevant to the topic of the original video.
This is also a service to my subscribers: if you click on a video response to one of my videos, you can count on it always being something I found relevant in some way to the original video.
PRONUNCIATION
My channel/user name is pronounced "Evidence" (3's are used for the e's).
SOFTWARE
iMovie '09 (video)
GarageBand '11 (audio)
Keynote '09 (diagrams)
Pixelmator (raster level diagram touch-ups)
Nodebox (God Concept diagram)
Google Sketchup (3D images)
Age
29
Hometown
Kansas
Country
United States
Occupation
PhD candidate in Intelligent Systems (a sub-discipline of Computer Science); my focus is on evidence-justified beliefs and their argumentation as a means of conflict resolution both in computational and human systems.
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