Counter Apologetics

Emerson Green defends the motion “God probably does not exist” against John Buck. Moderated by the Non-Alchemist.

YouTube: A Catholic and an Atheism Debate God and Religion

Transcript of Emerson’s opening statement

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Introduction (2 min)

John’s Opening Statement (20 min)

First Cross-Examination (5 min)

Emerson’s Opening Statement (20 min)

Second Cross-Exam (5 min)

John’s Rebuttal (12 min)

Emerson’s Rebuttal (12 min)

John’s Closing Statement (5 min)

Emerson’s Closing Statement (5 min)

Audience Q&A

There are many famous examples of unintelligent design in nature, but what about malevolent design? Some natural systems are aimed at producing suffering: they cause suffering by acting in accordance with their natural purpose, function, or design plan. Why would we infer a benevolent, omnipotent designer from malevolent design?

The fact that predation – a striking example of teleological evil – is a prominent feature of the biological order is very surprising on theism. Predation isn’t a feature of the biological order because animals are acting against their design plan – exactly the opposite. The fact that animals must savagely kill and devour each other in order to survive is strong evidence against the hypothesis that nature was designed, directly or indirectly, by an unsurpassably great being of perfect love and goodness.

The Problem of Teleological Evil – Felipe Leon [exapologist]

An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws – Quentin Smith [infidels]

Justin Schieber of Real Atheology interviews Quentin Smith (2017) [YouTube]

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We conclude our Devil’s Advocate series with religious experience, a summary of the arguments we’ve discussed, and why I’m still an atheist. I also offer a few thoughts on the debate between atheists and theists.

The Full Series

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I recently participated in a “devil’s advocate” debate on God’s existence. Today, we continue to take a closer look at the arguments I raised. We discuss the common consent argument, epistemic authorities, soteriology, universalism, eternal conscious torment, religious diversity, and divine hiddenness.

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00:00 Introduction & the argument from widespread theistic belief

11:00 The consensus of experts

15:57 Religious disagreement (diversity, discord, confusion, etc.)

37:06 Divine Hiddenness

47:02 A few more thoughts on religious disagreement

52:03 The value of disagreement

55:33 Final Thoughts

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Transcript of my Opening Statement

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I recently participated in a “devil’s advocate” debate on God’s existence. Today, we take a closer look at the arguments I raised. We talk about the general approach of building a cumulative case for naturalism and theism, the argument from the existence of consciousness, and the argument from psychophysical harmony.

This is part one of a three-part series. The full series is available now for patrons AND on YouTube for subscribers to the channel: https://youtu.be/qzV3E5NcDTA

00:00 Introduction

01:08 Models of God

03:19 Methodology

08:27 The Existence of Consciousness – Is this understated evidence?

21:49 Psychophysical Harmony

33:17 Final Thoughts

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I recently participated in a “devil’s advocate” debate on God’s existence. I defended theism, and my opponent, a Catholic, defended atheism.

Emerson Green vs. Kyle Alander (Christian Idealism)

Transcript of Opening Statement

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Dr. Dustin Crummett joins me to discuss a new argument from consciousness for theism. Though psychophysical harmony is evidence for theism, it may be equally good evidence for non-theistic hypotheses that I find interesting, like axiarchism and natural teleology.

**In the initial presentation of the argument (the first ten minutes or so), we assume that epiphenomenalism—the idea that consciousness has no physical effects—is true, but this is just for convenience, as psychophysical harmony is a puzzle for all (or nearly all) metaphysical views of the mind.

Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion) 

Philip Goff & Joshua Rasmussen – The Nature of the Cosmic Mind 

Philip Goff – Axiarchism, cosmopsychism, the fine-tuning problem (Aeon) 

A Christian Philosopher Answers Common Objections to Same-Sex Marriage – Dustin Crummett 

In Defense of Socialism | Dr. Dustin Crummett 

Applied Ethics: Abortion & Gun Control | Dr. Dustin Crummett 

dustincrummett.com

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