PZ Myers - Global Atheist Convention 2010

PZ Myers at the Global Atheist Convention Melbourne March 2010.

http://www.atheistconvention.org.au

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[cooljunkproductions]

@toobsucker I SEE YOU TROLL

[ilackedtheheart]

@TheFounderUtopia Man, I look dumb. If I am going to criticize someone on their grammar, I should at least have good grammar myself. My point still stands though. Anyone who is actually glad his religion sends people to eternal torture because they don't believe what they believe is an asshole. There is no way to spin this.

[MikeSpuches]

I personally don't care where or what this talk was for, I'd rather know what it's about as a title.

[halflifeproductionz]

49:30, religion is ALL about charity for marketing, straight up. its the only way it survives. the first encounter with muslims you will see compassion its later on down the road the terror comes out!

[fullygingerandproud]

@toobsucker, congratulations...you defined invisible..

Once again it seems I have to educate you on your own faith, you say it's not a leap to believe life can exist in these other realms, And once again I must say that God is supposedly not just another life form! He is omnipotent and omniscient and normal 'life' isn't either of those things.

[toobsucker]

@fullygingerandproud "God is supposedly not just another life, he is supposedly an invisible, omnipotent, omniscient being that whispers inaudible messages into his follwer's ears"

Science believes other unseen dimensions exist (string theory) . Its not a leap to believe other life can exist in these other dimensions if they do exist. Personally I believe the "spirit realm " exists on the quantum level. Invisible only means not yet detectable

[fullygingerandproud]

Jesus being born of a virgin? Animals talking? ordinary humans being resurected? And don't even think about saying that that stuff is metaphorical...either you believe that texts and you're religous or you don't and you're nonreligous. And you also talk about cell evoloution as an assumption. What about the countless fossils and skeletons that have been found? that is proof beyond questioning!

[fullygingerandproud]

@toobsucker you say that there is nothing extraordinary about another life existing nor another like with all our knowledge? That is indeed true and I do not dispute that however, God is supposedly not just another life, he is supposedly an invisible, omnipotent, omniscient being that whispers inaudible messages into his follwer's ears... And say what you like, but if that isn't extraordinary I don't know what is. And what about all this other extraordinary stuff in the holy texts?

[toobsucker]

@fullygingerandproud "what can be assumed without proof can be dismissed without proof"

Therefore abiogenesis (cell evolution) can be dismissed without proof ?

You seem to have no clue how much faith science has in many hypotheses they have.

God existing is not an extraordinary claim. There is nothing extraordinary about another life existing nor another life with all knowledge

It is only your minds limited inability to comprehend it that makes you label it as such

[fullygingerandproud]

@toobsucker what can be assumed without proof can be dismissed without proof. Besides, where's your proof that there is a God? To quote Christopher Hitchens "And extrodinary claim requires extraordinary evidence,the day someone can show me extraordinary evidence of a God id the day I start believeing in one.