An Examination of The Watchman: Part 4

PART 4

Robert King, the Jehovah's Witness podcaster and webmaster going by the title The Watchman (or e-Watchman), answered an atheist's email duing one of his podcasts. In it, he tackles subjects which apparently turned the emailer from a Jehovah's Witness himself into an atheist. Thes subjects include slavery in the Bible, a few odd commandments found in Leviticus, and the story of Elisha and the bears. Tackled in such a way as to build the faith, the Watchman is confident by the end of his podcast that he has shown atheism has no future.

Or has he?

PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgkIx7wdaiw
PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6JxVLnVyU
PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8oir3BwtM
PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqbxwlY8nA

(This series was inspired by a request made by a subscriber. YES!! I do requests and seriously consider suggestions for videos! Please submit any you may have!)

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[withfootnotes]

brett, @4:23 you show what looks like a time lapse evolving of something and I saw something like this in another of your videos. what is that and where could i find it? is it something on youtube? i'm really trying to better grasp evolution and i would love to see this if i could. i'm still trying to get past all the blocks and confusion due to years of indoctrination in creationism. thanks!

[brettppalmer]

@withfootnotes At 4:23 that's just a timelapse of a gecko being "eaten" by ants. Not evolution. Best thing I would suggest is reading some basic books. Three off the top of my head that would recommend are: "The Greatest Show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins; "Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)" by Matt Young and Paul K. Strode; "Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters" by Donald R. Prothero. Good luck!!

[withfootnotes]

@brettppalmer oops! o.o i saw that and something on another vid and thought it was something else. anyway, thanks for the recommendations. i love to read but i find with evolution i find some of it so hard to grasp. i'm not very scientific minded and i also have trouble with comprehension but i will try to read it slowly.

again, thanks!

[brettppalmer]

@withfootnotes That's what makes those titles so awesome! One needn't a degree in biology to understand them. They were written for laymen like us!

[lyricmaster007]

seldom have I read a more feeble critique as the one presented here. I was hoping for something of real substance, but instead got a list of books and a 'who's who' of famous atheist. Yes, I agree, it would take books to explain something which probably has no validity, re: the comment made regarding the authorship of the Bible, to the end that one simple example isn't produced here. The rest of the critisisms are just petty. You'll need to do better next time. Better still, dont bother!

[brettppalmer]

@lyricmaster007 Seldom have I read a more hyperbolic, kneejerk reaction. So, it took me four videos to do nothing more than present books and list a who's who of atheists? You don't like it that I didn't spend more time trying to school the Watchman in current biblical scholarship regarding authorship? And you think I'M being petty? I think a trip to mirror is in order for you, sir. If you think The Watchman made a point I missed, perhaps you can present it.

[Cootabux]

Damn, I've seen, and debated, some dumb ass Apologists before but this...Watchman, gets the gold ring! What makes this whole thing sad is that this guy doesn't hesitate to lie, that's all he's been doing. All of these apologists try to use that Jubilee year thing to give the impression that all slaves are released on the 7th year. That only applies to Jewish slaves, and this guy knows it. They make me fuckin sick cuz..these so-called Xians have no honor and no integrity. Probably never did.

[KaijinDV]

@r29 yeah, in that Bruce lee didn't believe in any gods. although i think it had more to do with a rejection of all organized dogma's or doctrines much as he rejected similar dogma's in the martial arts world

[trailerfitter2]

Jehovah Witnesses are sheltered and told what they need to know without question

[norwayjonas]

at - 6:48 - no one you know states the universe came from nothing.

Search youtube for A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

[TheCrescentKnight]

I know it's an appeal to authority but... You know you're right when you have Bruce Lee on your side.

[DeistByDefinition]

I think that, when he's talkin' 'bout future, he's refering to the afterlife... And remember not to drink poison...

[viicISrotcib]

Burce Lee was atheist? you learn somehing new everyday :)

[Brascofarian]

Hi Brett, just wanted to point out, George Orwell wasn't really an avowed atheist. He was more weak Anglican... and he died pretty young, unfortunately.

[ivann198]

5:40

Cells, how do they work?