"Purposeful chance" - The Atheist Experience #676

AJ from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (apparently a follower of the Bahá'í faith) talks about "purposeful chance."

This is an edited clip from The Atheist Experience #676 of September 26, 2010, with Matty Dillahunty and Jeff Dee (topic: Viewer Calls). The television broadcast of this show was repeatedly interrupted by the local cable company. You can watch this entire episode without interruptions on Ustream.tv. The interrupted television broadcast is archived on Blip.tv.

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[shandcunt]

@aafrouz What the fuck does that mean? what part of me is spiritual, how do you know, how can i verify this myself, point to my spiritual part?

Cos as far as i can tell people have been spouting spiritual bullshit for centurys and none of it has ever been proven.

Are you familiar with the super-natural realm? what about the mega-natural? ultra-natural? google-natural realm?...see how spirituality works, you can just make up bullshit that can't be disproven

[itsjustameme]

Is this a prank call?

No one can be that stupid and gullible and still be able to operate a phone.

[DrChalkwithering]

@Antimidation Hitler tried to unite all mankind too...in a way. 

[DrChalkwithering]

Why doesn't AJ tell us the name of this cult he's part of, if it's been around for 160 years?

[Kailoa36]

"160 years of transformation of human beings." And, yet Muslims, Jews, and Christians are still as divided as ever. Show me all this amazing transformation or shut up.

[Kailoa36]

Whoever AJ is referring to, sounds like it might be Sai Baba, is obviously not uniting Muslims and Jews or anyone else. So why is AJ still following this con artist?

[Kailoa36]

I believe god is unknowable but I know something about him. He guides the world by purposeful chance. I wonder how many oxymora AJ will come up with before the end of this video.

[robtay1963]

I Bet this caller has never heard of the word Gullible.

[TheAplombMan]

Was it Mormonism?

[burnrider2001]

@shandcunt HAHAAHA.. For half a second I was like, WTF?? Mega-Natural?? What's that?!? Oh yeah, fuck god and all of that horseshit too!!!

[Antimidation]

The unification of man kind was an original idea so the person who said it must be a god? Why wasn't the guy who invented the internet given the same treatment?

[Antimidation]

And by moving the goal posts, it's easy for a theist to move into the realm of unknowing and then throw the word "faith" at you until you go away. Or the realm of Philosophy....anything can be spun in an abstract sense. You can just keep going back and back until you say something like "yeah well what happened before the big bang?" no one can ever answer that. My favorite is the flipping of burden of proof....