A case for Intelligent Design? - The Atheist Experience #660

In June 2010, Gary from Manhattan, NY tried to make a case for Intelligent Design. This soon turned into a long and heated debate of almost 39 minutes. At the time this call was too long to be uploaded in one piece, but now you can watch the whole discussion in its entirety.

This is a segment from The Atheist Experience #660 of June 6, 2010 (topic: viewer calls), with Matt Dillahuny and Martin Wagner. Note that the phone number on the screen (512-472-2255) is the new call-in number, which has been in use since October 2010. This episode of The Atheist Experience is archived on Blip.tv. (The recorded webcast on Ustream.tv is fragmented and incomplete.)

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[gimmethegepgun]

35:49

What.

Why is that picture their "picture lost" screen?

[TheAtheistExperience]

@gimmethegepgun

- "What. Why is that picture their 'picture lost' screen?"

It's fake, but funnier than a completely black screen.

[MrNerdyBrit]

before the big band time did not exsist, so it leaves no room for god.

[TheAtheistExperience]

@MrNerdyBrit

- "before the big band time did not exsist, so it leaves no room for god."

Are you referring to the Glenn Miller-Urey experiment...?

Never mind, but I think you meant Big Bang. :)

[politicoochie09]

Here's the bottom line: You don't have to "believe" in evolution to be an atheist. You don't have to be a scientist, or to even understand science, to be an atheist. And here's some common sense: IF there is a creator of this vast, incredibly massive universe, it was very definitely NOT created by the tiny narcissistic, ignorant, hateful, war loving, child killing, genocidal psychotic maniac called Yahweh/Jesus you find in the the Bible. Earthlings discovering god? That's too fucking funny!

[SlashDotDash121]

@politicoochie09 Very good!

Could not have said it better myself..

[adman123]

"I reject absolute certainty across the board."

That's humor.

[55chh]

This caller is obviously a very smart guy....why is he clinging so desperately to this mythology??? Why not just accept the reality?

[YY4Me133]

If the christian god, or any god, exists one would expect to see direct evidence, but there is none. Behe had the opportunity to make his case for ID at the Dover trial, and failed miserably. ID supporters want to redefine the rules of science to include the "supernatural" because actual science doesn't support any of their claims. The "Wedge Document" is the smoking gun that proves that the goal of ID advocates is to replace science with religious dogma, knowledge with ignorance.

[drche420]

@ScarsFTW

True. That, and without an explanation for how the world could become so complex (evolution), some people would use an argument from ignorance to claim it is impossible.

[drche420]

Existence is temporal. Meaning if you define "god" as "outside of time and space", you have just described a nonexistent entity by definition.

[elgar104]

98% of every species that has ever lived on the planet has become extinct. Some design!

The brain inside this callers head, some design.

[sdacrowe]

@kakureru I don't think he's all that smart, onehe allowed the glasses to bypass all the logic when he was looking up the jargon needed to try & trick people with word play. I don't even think he tried to understand the arguement from both side. He set out to find things to prove what he wanted to believe rather than actually reveiwing evidence that's clearly out there for him. He's a fraud. Most con artist are a little smarter than most, which is not that hard in this society.