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

Dr. Victor Stenger talks about his new book, "The NEW Atheism" at Millsaps College, October 2009. Stupid Youtube and their 10 minute restriction!

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[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.

[matthewjhaywood]

@Meathead36

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

[skinsmagic]

Skip past intro to 3:38.

[DaReelSituation]

Alma mater dear old Millsaps.

[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.

[TheZwede]

@BigDaddyXD Why not? You did.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@artemus21 shut up lol

[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.

[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?