Surely there are better ways to deal with bad people than simply killing them all. Especially when such an act would be precisely counter God’s own moral code.

The entire reason I made this video about the moral argument is because of the staggering overconfidence of apologists like this one youtu.be/0CwX6mNWBXk?si…

For a start, you can have right and wrong, good and bad on atheism. Objective morality without God is a thing. Secondly, the example of children with cancer is used as a reductio argument - assume for a moment that a loving God exists, children with cancer seems inconsistent.

People like you strawmanning atheism.

It’s more of a question for science than atheism per se. But even so, science is well on the way to answering it. Alkaline hydrothermal vents is currently the best theory. I’d recommend “the vital question” by Nick Lane for more information.

It seems to me some theists think that naturalism/atheism requires the abandonment of the PSR. That’s why they say “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist”. But I reckon most naturalists take the PSR seriously, they just think we don’t need to go beyond natural reasons.

Some theists seem to have a weird obsession with demanding that atheists must identify morality with natural processes. Hence the term “evolutionary ethics” #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZGefQJmwg/

What’s unintelligent is not understanding the reasonableness of the arguments from the other side. If you think an unborn baby is a person I can understand your side of the argument. But it should be clear to any intelligent person the reasons to think the contrary are reasonable

Lesser known fact: we genuinely have no idea whether the universe has a beginning or not.

One thing I actually agree with young-Earth people on. I think evolution really is a major piece of evidence against Christianity. P(Evolution|Christianity)<<P(Evolution|Naturalism) I can see the appeal of rejecting it entirely. Unfortunately that means ignoring reality.

As an atheist, I’ll reject all claims of the existence of God or communication with God equally. Be it Jesus, Muhammad or anyone else. You probably just have a victim complex.

Question for panpsychists (or anyone of a similar bent). How do you account for the fact that we do not have conscious awareness of many cognitive and perceptual processes going on in our brains? Philip Goff

Yes, I have. See “ROMY: a multicomponent ring laser for geodesy and geophysics”. They measure the Earth’s rate of rotation and deviations from it using a ground-based ring laser.

Agreed. I haven’t seen a convincing resolution of this from theism.

People say "I'd be a materialist but you can't explain consciousness in material terms" as if you could explain it in non-material terms. Similarly people say "You can't explain free action if determinism is true" as if you could explain free action if indeterminism were true.

Why it’s wrong to refer to the Big Bang as the “beginning” of the universe. #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZGePhPxjx/

Do you think philosophical zombies are metaphysically possible?

Most certainly true to most certainly false: 1. I exist 2. Natural laws cannot be broken 3. The universe had a beginning 4. It is wrong to lie 5. We have free will 6. I will see my dead great grandmother alive

Fun fact: you’re always time travelling.

A great advert for why IQ is a flawed measure of intelligence. The "world's highest IQ record holder" relying on an argument from authority is an amusingly ironic way to diminish his own credibility as an authority.