i often upload videos on youtube and commentate on what's being said but
occasionally i stumble across a video that has direct questions that i can
answer from my personal atheistic point of view
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flat earth or strange conspiracies but mostly the claim that a god is real
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that would be fantastic as an atheist i like to understand how theists reach the
conclusions they make i do this by asking questions so when a theist asks questions
it's only fair to answer them as openly and honestly as possible so that there's a mutual
understanding on position choose jesus with just over a hundred subscribers does just that
in this video hello friends so with this video i have some questions for atheist
now this is not a debate i'm not really trying to refute you just some questions for you to consider
some questions i had to consider when i was an atheist and an agnostic so there was a
time that you weren't convinced that there was a god and now you're convinced there is
i would love to know what it was that convinced you maybe that's where i'm going wrong
also you were agnostic but now you're gnostic as in you know there's a god this is groundbreaking
stuff a lot of these questions help me help push me to the truth which is christianity
is the truth ah gotcha these are the questions you need to answer
to become a christian and no there's a god i can't wait well let's get started
so do you believe in the scientific impossibility that everything came out of nothing no because i
don't know that there was nothing nor would i be able to demonstrate that so i accept that
there was always something and will do until it's been demonstrated otherwise now i've heard some
atheists say no some atheists say yes and if you said no you don't believe that then that's good
you're close to being agnostic great i've never claimed to be gnostic so do i get a prize because
how could anything come out of nothing that makes no sense that's magic and i don't do magic
but you believe there's a ah never mind that's too easy i do miracles potato potato do you believe
life came out of non-life how could something not living create life
i trust the scientific explanation that certain chemical combinations with added environmental
conditions could cause inorganic matter to become organic but the scientific theory
of abiogenesis goes way over my head so the short answer is yes it didn't have life in it
where did it come from like this pencil it's not alive and that pencil is more
than likely way more complex than the first ever organisms how could this pencil create
life it can't whoever suggested it could think about that i did next you believe consciousness
came out of something that didn't have any conscious how so this pencil doesn't have any
consciousness how could consciousness come out of it it all depends on the definition of conscious
as there are varying degrees of awareness the more simple an organism the less consciousness it
requires take simple multi-celled organisms that eat food they just float around in a soup floating
over something they absorb they don't need consciousness to survive but as living organisms
become more complex they require a certain level of awareness to survive what would a pencil need
to be aware of to survive what about intelligence intelligence coming out of non-intelligence where
do you see that happening over hundreds of millions of years of natural selection maybe
let's say humans were born 300 000 years ago with the level of intelligence we have today how would
the earth look now as a species we've evolved over time a way to understand and live safely
in the world we inhabit and we still have a long way to go before we get it right this is insane
or being aware awareness coming out of non-awareness
this spencer's not aware of anything
you know maybe stop focusing on the pencil and look at some real science just a suggestion the
big bang the explosion some atheists say it was an expansion it's not an explosion
but the expansion was faster than the speed of light that sounds like an explosion to me
i don't know guys you said it i don't know clearly so because you don't understand it are
you asserting it must be some kind of miracle you'd need to demonstrate that at least the
expansion of the universe can be demonstrated given that science demonstrates that there is
movement in an outward fashion up there how about if i say do you believe this pencil
had a maker designer builder creator you know i mean you're gonna say yes it does or i'm
going to say that the machine that made it had a designer this maker had to be intelligent had to
be conscious to make it not if it was a machine it wouldn't i mean we see the intelligence behind it
the wood the way it's shaped cut we have the the lead the lead in the middle we have this
this metal piece holding the the eraser he's really good at describing pencils though i'll
give him that the wood the way it's shaped we have the the lead this metal piece holding the
the eraser the eraser the eraser eraser eraser now of course as an atheist or agnostic you're
going to say yes of course this pencil does have a maker designer builder and creator because it
would be insane how could this create itself this is becoming less questions for atheists
and more i'll tell you what atheists think but then some atheist will tell me oh yeah we believe
this pencil does but the whole universe doesn't only because you can observe and demonstrate that
pencils are created we know how pencils are made we can observe and test it over and over
and over unfortunately we only have one universe and so can't exactly say how universes come to be
we can observe things that are happening in the universe and then apply that info to come up with
theories then test those theories until there's demonstrable proof but at no point does science go
there's no way we could ever understand how this works therefore it must have been a universe
creating elephant called eric that would be fallacious that's insane exactly my point what's
more complex this pencil or the entire universe the i mean all the galaxies the solar system
you know all the millions of different animals and plant life and humans that have consciousness
and awareness and intelligence and there's so much orders the fine tuning of the universe
you know yep you heard it here this guy is comparing the universe to a pencil what about
evolution you really think you're a monkey no and here i was hoping this would be a serious video
but nope it gets more and more stupid if you spent even 10 minutes researching basic evolution you'd
understand that we merely share a common ancestor with all the primates on earth and a closer
ancestor with all the other great apes monkeys don't go around turning into people what on earth
are they teaching in schools these days no wonder why atheists act like monkeys because they believe
their grandparents were monkeys wow just wow i had big hopes for this guy i've never once claimed my
parents were monkeys heck i have photographs with them and know that they're not tell me you don't
understand how evolution works without telling me you don't understand how evolution works
then for the next almost 10 minutes he goes on a long ramble about testimony and prayer
and nonsense that can't be demonstrated which i definitely would like to revisit at some point
but since this video is supposed to be answering questions and this guy went from question asker
to name caller we can call it a day how would you have answered these questions let me know in the
section below but for now i'm going to skeptic these questions as answered don't forget to don't
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