atheism doesn't have common sense wait what first off wouldn't it be atheists have no common sense
ironic i like to think i have a bit of common sense so stick around to the end of the video
to find out why this dude thinks atheists are lacking in the common sense department
hello i'm the skeptic i watch videos on youtube that make extraordinary claims whether that's
evolution is fake or atheism is wrong but mostly the claim that a god is real and then explain
why i don't accept their position before we start today's video do the things with the
buttons that would be superb tom brown popped up into my youtube search and this two minutes
and 22 second video caught my attention atheism has no common sense huh well tom lay it on me
why on earth is that almost the entire world more than 90 percent of the world believes
in some form of deity or god that has made the world where did you pluck that statistic
from tom there are many factors to take into account one for instance is that some folks
live in a place where being open about lack of belief will get you killed nuns are on the rise
which i discovered when i went to the american atheist convention 2022 and i know it's not the
world but about 30 percent of american adults now claim to be religiously unaffiliated so perhaps
you're 90 is incorrect less than 10 percent of the world's population is atheistic or agnostic
do you realize that a very small percentage have you heard of appealing to popularity
just because lots of the people on the planet believe there is a god it doesn't actually mean
there is one you still have to show that there was and anyway how many different gods are believed in
if you split it into which god was believed in or not believed in surely the numbers would be
much closer to each other you've got to think about each denom tom it's hard to get almost the
entire world agreeing on anything when it comes to politics social issues morality i mean there's
just you know 60 40 percent you know what i mean and if it's 60 40 then that's a big percentage you
know that's like a landslide in an election way to drop a percentage bomb tom no i don't think i do
know what you mean 60 40 means that it's a close call but even then it doesn't demonstrate anything
because the slightly bigger percentage could just be convinced of something for bad reasons but when
you have 90 or more believing in god or some form of god who made the worlds then that ought
to tell you something it just tells me you haven't done your research or that you're accepting that
every god that is believed in is correct when we all know that that's not how it works
and out of all of those different gods what gives you the arrogance i mean the right to say the ones
you don't believe in are also wrong tom that being an atheist and an agnostic makes no common sense i
think tom is getting common sense and just regular old sense mixed up maybe it makes no sense to you
tom but that's not the same as common sense is common sense the same as sense that is common
tom how could you if you're an atheist say well i'm right and almost the entire world is wrong
well it depends on what you think we're saying we're right about i can be right about not being
convinced that there is a god or gods the difference is we don't have to demonstrate
being unconvinced i could even go as far as saying i'm convinced there is no god because the burden
of proof hasn't ever been met for the existence of any gods that's also right want me to carry on tom
that almost sounds like a conspiracy theorist i think you need to look up what conspiracy theories
are it's not a conspiracy to not believe in a god conspiracies are more like the moon
landing was faked or the earth is flat or a pc game from the mid 90s on a cd rom tom you know
you're always going to get a small percentage of doctors or lawyers small percentage of ministers
that's going to hold to some outlandish lie maybe this is projection do you think tom is holding on
to some outlandish lie like i don't know the proof of the existence of a god or something what other
outlandish lie would it be is this projection a custom tom we call it conspiracy theories
but that's what atheists and agnostics are doing they're holding to an idea that hardly
anyone accepts to be true yeah sure hardly anyone accepts that atheists aren't convinced
i roll that's why they don't believe you know who could change that someone like you tom brown
you could give a single piece of irrefutable evidence for your god and then atheists could
use their common sense to accept it that hasn't happened that's why most atheists don't believe
you can accept it or not but it doesn't change the fact that nothing convincing enough has changed
the mind of atheists like myself sorry that answer was long tom and yet an atheist an agnostic thinks
their idea is the right one yep the idea that burdens of proof haven't been met are right
otherwise i'd be convinced you can't be wrong about what convinces you thomas it either does
or it doesn't and because i'm not convinced a theist i have not become tom and there is validity
in common sense common sense is simply that it means it is an a knowledge in which most
people agree to be true are you changing definitions tom common sense
isn't a knowledge that most people agree to be true it's thinking and behaving in a reasonable
way and making good decisions you can be exceptionally smart but have little common sense
so maybe use a better definition tom and if you can't accept what most people agree to be true
then we really can't have debates or arguments ah that's not how debates work tommy arguments
are usually opposing positions and like i've said before just because an idea or belief is popular
it doesn't make it any more true more and more folks are coming around to the idea that lisa
the rainbow giraffe is the one true deity leaf be upon her but just because there are six or
seven people that believe in it it doesn't make it true though it's lisa so it must be true you
should start to believe in giraffe dom tom this is why common sense is an important uh tool in debate
atheists and agnostics are rejecting what is common sense to the rest of the world belief
in an undemonstrated being or many beings since that's what you started with isn't
common sense tom thumb what atheists are actually rejecting is the claim that a god or gods exist
if you have so much common sense why not use it to demonstrate the being you think is there
it doesn't take much common sense to work out how to move on tom and that alone ought to
show you how suspect their belief that god doesn't exist or that he's not likely to exist
is such a fallacy wow tom really really doesn't understand the burden of proof can
we start teaching this in schools i'd like to start teaching the burden of proof in schools
maybe a little late in this instance though the burden of proof may be hard for tom to fathom
it shows you their air in their thinking and it confirms what the bible says that a fool has
said not a smart person a fool has said there's no god oh not this again a fall has said that
there's no rainbow giraffe called lisa for it is written in swampland 119. see how easy it is
to just say things and not demonstrate it just because a book says it it doesn't make it true
just because a large group accept it it doesn't make it true there are people that believe the
earth is flat it doesn't suddenly become flat when the majority of folks think that way
atheists aren't foolish for not being convinced that there's a god because of one bible verse
you could make this really easy by demonstrating that there is indeed a god it's taken a few
thousand years and there's still no demonstrable evidence but maybe you could be the one tom
because it doesn't make any common sense and that isn't how you're supposed to
use that in a sentence wow that video was pretty short and so to really get our money's
worth i want to see what other videos he has on his channel ah 3.8 000 subscribers
okay videos here have a look around and uh atheism is a lie bingo though is it a lie or is
it lacking in common sense tom brown atheists like to pretend they're smarter than the average person
they like to view people who believe in god as superstitious this isn't the first time i've
heard this said looking down on men and women of faith as being stupid maybe they all share the
same script and like i said in that video there's a difference between thinking someone isn't as
smart as you and thinking that what they believe is questionable due to a severe lack of evidence
i don't think you're a clown tom brown they like to think that their education has caused
them to surpass this archaic idea of belief in god what are you even saying it could have
nothing to do with education it could just be standards of evidence you know you could just
ask a non-believer instead of guessing why it is that someone doesn't believe i'm sure there
are atheists in your hometown tom brown the truth of the matter is the scripture says uh
a fool has said there is no god so you're going to cite that same verse every time
i don't care that a book says that the bible still hasn't been demonstrated to be the word of a god
at best we can say a man who thought the same way as you wrote that it still doesn't make it
true you're starting to make me frown tom brown you know a fool is not someone who's uneducated
it's someone who actually sees the evidence and refuses to go by it what evidence you can't say
there's evidence for god but not present it is that because if you do present it it gets refuted
immediately i always hear that there's evidence but nothing i've been shown is convincing and i've
got to tell you it's a real let down tom brown the evidence is quite clear we know one thing
everything came into being because it was created by something else ah no that's not quite right
first of all what we see all around us isn't evidence of a deity created is the wrong word to
use to demonstrate that this was all created first then we can find what or who if anything did it
but until then i'm out tom brown i look at a tree and i recognize that a tree came because
there was an acorn i look at you i recognize you came into being because of a mom and dad
i look at a mountain i see that it came into being by two land ridges pushing together creating
the mountain in other words everything we see today it all came from something else did he
just debunk his own look at the trees look at everything argument it all came about because
of natural means yes all very explainable natural processes physics chemistry biology
maybe throw in the towel tom brow oh man in other words you cannot say that something came out of
nothing it doesn't exist exactly you're doing a great job here tom really saving me some time
something can't come from nothing and we're not suggesting that there was nothing there
quite possibly was always something around tom brown that's not possible common sense tells us
that everything came because of something oh wow back to the common sense thing and actually it's
not necessarily because of something but because there was something it's all about how you say the
words you know how they sound tom brown now you take us back to the very first act of creation
scientists can tell you what happened at the very millisecond they can tell you that this
element created this element and when this element hit then this element was formed
they can tell you the process but they can't explain to you what is the cause of the first
element so i guess what science needs is a guy who isn't a scientist that gets the definition wrong
for common sense to explain it you can't explain it so it must be god sure i could tell you that
the colorful deity lisa the rainbow giraffe caused the rapid expansion of the universe by licking
the singularity with her extra hot tongue and things aren't made of elements in giraffism no no
things are made of elephants obviously lisa is a goddess tom mess and if you say well
we just need to go and we'll find out that it was this element that created the first element well
then it ceases to be the first element then we have another problem what created that element
and then we go infinite until finally you realize there is no explanation because you cannot say
that the first element came on its own i wish i knew more about quantum fluctuations and how
energy could become mata but even just saying that sentence with no understanding of it shows that it
is possible you don't need a being to start it because science shows that it was possible but
if you want to understand it ask a scientist not a floating circle that just thinks certain ideas are
a bit ridiculous thomas so that's why belief in god is the most common sense thing for any human
being to uphold sure personal incredulity will do that to a person tom because belief in god is
to say that god who is beyond the universe is the cause of the first agent which created everything
but if it was beyond the universe surely it wouldn't be able to interact with the universe
and if it can interact with the universe it's not beyond it it's part of it and if it's part
of it then it's demonstrable so which is it lay it on us thomas when i look at the universe it's
made up of three things time space and matter when you look at the universe can you see time
and yet you can glue that something you can't see or prove made it happen why can't i see that
maybe i'm a universe spying novice thomas so that means this god has to be beyond time space
and matter according to the bible god is eternal which means he's beyond time he's everywhere which
means he's beyond space and he's invisible which means he's beyond matter and so if it is beyond
all those things how could it possibly interact with what is within the universe you're making
one heck of a lot of claims and using the thing that suggests those claims to back up those claims
just saying it doesn't mean it is you need to actually show it is thomas but since he is god he
can become matter and in christianity we believe he did become matter through his son jesus christ
again you believe it which is just peachy but you haven't shown it to be the case and now that
you've thrown in all this god is outside of time space and matter it would be impossible for it to
manifest itself as or in a human so where do we go now tom brow so you realize if you're an atheist
you're actually being foolish because you're trying to say that everything came out of nothing
that's eventually your conclusion or you could actually do the honest thing and ask what an
atheist thinks rather than asserting you know when you really don't just ask an atheist what it is
they believe and they'll be honest thomas nothing is the is the cause of the universe wait what
nothing is the is the cause of the universe nothing is the is the cause of the universe
did we just get through all that for him to admit that nothing caused the universe
why all the drama stamps that doesn't make sense the only explanation is god
created the universe well i don't know if it's the only explanation that's your explanation
but which god why not my rainbow giraffe why did it have to be created couldn't it have
always just been could it have been an alien race there are so many options of course each
one would need to be demonstrated rather than just asserted but i think it's safe to say that
tom brown lost his crown and didn't demonstrate that atheism was a lie or that atheists have no
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