The Watchmaker Argument - Debunked (Teleological Argument - Refuted) @rationalityrules

Rationality Rules As most famously presented by William Paley in his theological work titled “Natural Theology”, the Watchmaker Analogy (teleological argument) is a recurring argument for a designer, which, by way of analogy, asserts that complexity requires a designer.

The way Paley put it is essentially as follows: if you were walking across a field and saw a watch lying upon the ground, you wouldn’t assume that it had come together by chance because it’s too ordered and complicated. Rather, you would assume that it had a conscious and intelligent designer. By way of analogy, Paley then went on to argue that because life and indeed the universe is ordered and complicated, it too must’ve had a conscious and intelligent designer.

Throughout the video I pint-point several flaws and fallacies that those who use the Watchmaker tend to commit, but for a very brief summery (extremely brief), they are as follows:

1. False Analogy:

An analogy is a comparison between things that have similar features for the purpose of explaining a principle or an idea, and in this case, Paley insists that a comparison can be made between the complexity of a watch and the complexity of the universe, which both imply that they had a designer.

2. False Cause Fallacy:

Essentially, like all False Cause Fallacies, the Watchmaker Argument mistakenly confuses correlation with causation. It recognizes a relationship between complexity and designers, and then concludes that one necessarily implies the other.

3. Ignores Evolution by Natural Selection:

It completely ignores evolution by natural selection. Without getting into it too deeply, natural selection has been completely and utterly proven to be an unconscious process that has given rise to countless complex and purposed organisms. The watchmaker argument ignores this in the attempt to substantiate it’s black and white fallacy (deliberate designer or randomness).

4. Special Pleading:

Its core premise asserts that purpose and complexity requires a designer, and so if we draw the Watchmaker Argument out to its logical conclusion – that there is a god and that it created the universe and everything in it, then by applying the argument’s logic to itself we must conclude that this god too had a designer, and so on and so forth for infinity…

5. Contradiction:

The Watchmaker Argument is self-contradicting. The argument first assumes that a watch is different from nature, which it indirectly claims is uncomplicated and random. However, it then states that since the universe is so complicated and ordered it too must have a creator. Thus, it gives the universe two incompatible and contradicting qualities.

6. Shoemaker:

The Watchmaker Argument doesn’t imply a designer – it implies that there are many designers. After finding that watch upon the ground, imagine if you then saw beside it a shoe. Would you assume that a watchmaker made that shoe? Of course not – you would assume that a shoemaker made it.

7. Ex Nihilo

The Watchmaker Argument acts as if a watchmaker creates a watch from nothing, when this simply isn’t true. A watch, like all human creations, is a rearrangement of energy and mater that already existed.

8. Doesn’t Support Theism:

The Watchmaker Argument doesn’t support theism. Even if it were accepted as a sound argument, it would only prove that a universe had a universe designer – and that’s it. It wouldn’t prove a particular religion to be true.

9. Incompetent Design:

An all-powerful and all-loving god would not create organisms with the type of suboptimal design that can be seen in nature. Meaning that either that god isn’t omnipotent or that it isn’t omnibenevolent – or both!

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The Watchmaker Argument - Debunked (Teleological Argument - Refuted)

Rationality Rules 2017-03-15 | As most famously presented by William Paley in his theological work titled “Natural Theology”, the Watchmaker Analogy (teleological argument) is a recurring argument for a designer, which, by way of analogy, asserts that complexity requires a designer.

The way Paley put it is essentially as follows: if you were walking across a field and saw a watch lying upon the ground, you wouldn’t assume that it had come together by chance because it’s too ordered and complicated. Rather, you would assume that it had a conscious and intelligent designer. By way of analogy, Paley then went on to argue that because life and indeed the universe is ordered and complicated, it too must’ve had a conscious and intelligent designer.

Throughout the video I pint-point several flaws and fallacies that those who use the Watchmaker tend to commit, but for a very brief summery (extremely brief), they are as follows:

1. False Analogy:

An analogy is a comparison between things that have similar features for the purpose of explaining a principle or an idea, and in this case, Paley insists that a comparison can be made between the complexity of a watch and the complexity of the universe, which both imply that they had a designer.

2. False Cause Fallacy:

Essentially, like all False Cause Fallacies, the Watchmaker Argument mistakenly confuses correlation with causation. It recognizes a relationship between complexity and designers, and then concludes that one necessarily implies the other.

3. Ignores Evolution by Natural Selection:

It completely ignores evolution by natural selection. Without getting into it too deeply, natural selection has been completely and utterly proven to be an unconscious process that has given rise to countless complex and purposed organisms. The watchmaker argument ignores this in the attempt to substantiate it’s black and white fallacy (deliberate designer or randomness).

4. Special Pleading:

Its core premise asserts that purpose and complexity requires a designer, and so if we draw the Watchmaker Argument out to its logical conclusion – that there is a god and that it created the universe and everything in it, then by applying the argument’s logic to itself we must conclude that this god too had a designer, and so on and so forth for infinity…

5. Contradiction:

The Watchmaker Argument is self-contradicting. The argument first assumes that a watch is different from nature, which it indirectly claims is uncomplicated and random. However, it then states that since the universe is so complicated and ordered it too must have a creator. Thus, it gives the universe two incompatible and contradicting qualities.

6. Shoemaker:

The Watchmaker Argument doesn’t imply a designer – it implies that there are many designers. After finding that watch upon the ground, imagine if you then saw beside it a shoe. Would you assume that a watchmaker made that shoe? Of course not – you would assume that a shoemaker made it.

7. Ex Nihilo

The Watchmaker Argument acts as if a watchmaker creates a watch from nothing, when this simply isn’t true. A watch, like all human creations, is a rearrangement of energy and mater that already existed.

8. Doesn’t Support Theism:

The Watchmaker Argument doesn’t support theism. Even if it were accepted as a sound argument, it would only prove that a universe had a universe designer – and that’s it. It wouldn’t prove a particular religion to be true.

9. Incompetent Design:

An all-powerful and all-loving god would not create organisms with the type of suboptimal design that can be seen in nature. Meaning that either that god isn’t omnipotent or that it isn’t omnibenevolent – or both!

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Timestamps:

00:00 An Insight
04:26 Qui Bono
10:32 Definitive Definitions
21:30 The Problem

Caught lying: Dennis Prager & Daily Wire

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Apologists be like... https://youtu.be/BUjWMwoTTis

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Roman Apologetics was WILD!

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The Bible, Witches, and Mark Twain | Mark Twain, 19th Century

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Why Call Him God? Epicurus, 270 BCE

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Beyond Differences: Agreeing with Jordan Peterson on Controversial Topics | EXODUS EP2

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EXODUS | Daily Wire: dailywire.com/show/exodus

Rise of the Warrior Apes: youtu.be/YfAukeJTqJE amazon.co.uk/Rise-Warrior-Apes-Season-1/dp/B092TKTY33

EXODUS DEBUNKED | Jordan Peterson's Round Table EP1: youtu.be/Jb1oakkUTGg

The Biology of Good and Evil | Frans de Waal | EP 269: youtu.be/7h7oqlG_FxE

Christianity is evil Voltaire, 1736

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I hope religion dies Bertrand Russell, 1927

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Why black men should go to church… according to Dennis Prager, at least.

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References:

Dennis Prager's Master's Program | Daily Wire: dailywire.com/show/the-prager-u-master-s-program-with-dennis-prager

Dennis Prager - Daily Wire (playlist): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMd8xj-C1CsMD2Sxq-RVxdH4lgmdjh9JW

Are Atheists Unhappy? FACT-CHECKING Dennis Prager | Rationality Rules: youtu.be/N3XvDixGDxg

The Quiet Death of Racial Progress | The New York Times: nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/racism-progress-income-equality.html

Black Men Making It in America | The American Enterprise Institute: The Engines of Economic Success for Black Men in America | AEI: aei.org/research-products/report/black-men-making-it-in-america-the-engines-of-economic-success-for-black-men-in-america

Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society | Pew Research Center: pewresearch.org/science/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society

The 2020 PhilPapers Survey | David Bourget & David J. Chalmers: survey2020.philpeople.org

Why has God failed? Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1811

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Theism is IRRATIONAL... heres why @theaylesburyvaleacademy

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The Aylesbury Vale Academy

I want to thanks everyone invloved in setting up the debate at The Aylsebury Vale Academy. I will post a link to the full debate here once it's available to the public.

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Inspiration

I want to give a special mention to Emerson Green, and recommend checking out a debate he recently had that inspired part of my own approach here: A Catholic and an Atheist Debate God and Religion | Emerson Green: youtube.com/live/k5k48FeQqE4?

#theaylesburyacademy

EXODUS DEBUNKED | Jordan Petersons Round Table EP1

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References:

EXODUS | Daily Wire: dailywire.com/show/exodus

Religious morality is BULL! Here's why | Rationality Rules: youtu.be/rv-R3K01sTc

Evangelical PROPAGANDA is intense! | Eric Metaxas Is God Dead?

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References:

Is Atheism Dead? | Eric Metaxas | amazon.co.uk/Atheism-Dead-Eric-Metaxas/dp/1684511739

Donald Builds the Wall (Donald the Caveman) | Eric Metaxas | amazon.co.uk/Donald-Builds-Wall-Caveman/dp/1684510295/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HQW2YU0K2MTY&keywords=Donald+builds+the+wall

Donald Drains the Swamp (Donald the Caveman) | Eric Metaxas | amazon.co.uk/Donald-Drains-Swamp-Eric-Metaxas/dp/1621579387/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38AITWCYFRD4Z&keywords=Donald+drains+the+swamp

Veggietales | veggietales.com

Drawn Together | amazon.co.uk/Drawn-Together-Season-1/dp/B00M39U1ZU

Socrates in the City | socratesinthecity.com

Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God | Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568

I took Dennis Prager’s MASTER'S PROGRAM and now my world is ending: youtu.be/2Q2HxqoRVbo

Are we the baddies?: youtu.be/KtXvF5keNyI

Faith on the Hill | PEW Research Center: pewresearch.org/religion/2021/01/04/faith-on-the-hill-2021

The Daily Wire is LYING to you! Heres PROOF

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References:

Dennis Prager's Master's Program DEBUNKED: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMd8xj-C1CsMD2Sxq-RVxdH4lgmdjh9JW

Ben Shapiro's The Atheist Delusion DEBUNKED: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMd8xj-C1CsMF9amsF8hvMKVfQinCtZTj

#prageru

Are Atheists Unhappy? FACT-CHECKING Dennis Prager

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References:

Galen, L. (2015). Atheism, Wellbeing, and the Wager: Why Not Believing in God (With Others) is Good for You. Science, Religion and Culture, 2(3), 54-69.

Galen, L. (2018). Focusing on the Nonreligious Reveals Secular Mechanisms Underlying. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Vol. 10, No. 3, 296–306.

Gearing, E. R., & Alonzo, D. (2018). Religion and Suicide: New Findings. Relig Health, 2478-2499.

Prager, D. (2023, January 26). Episode 1: Consequences of Secularism, Part I. dailywire.com/.

Prager, D. (2023, January 26). Episode 2: Consequences of Secularism, Part II. dailywire.com/.

Saroglou, V. (2020). The Psychology of Religion. 1st Edn: Talor and Francis.

Shariff, A. (n.d.). 6.1 - Religion, Health and Happiness. youtube.com/watch?v=JBd95soD8-Y&t=912s.

Stavrova, O., Fetchenhauer, D., & Schlosser, T. (2013). Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm. Social Science Research, 90-105.

Teismann, T., Willutzki, U., Michalak, J., Siegmann, P., Nyhuis, P., Wolter, M., & Forkmann, T. (2017). Religious beliefs buffer the impact of depression on suicide ideation. Psychiatry Res, 257:276-278.

VanderWeele, T. J., Li, S., Tsai, A. C., & al, e. (2016). Association Between Religious Service Attendance and Lower Suicide Rates Among US Women. JAMA Psychiatry. 73(8), 845-851.

U.S. Population 1950-2023: macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/population

Official 'Well-Being' Statistics Show Religious People Are Happier Than Atheists: huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/02/office-for-national-statistics-well-being-data_n_9138076.html

Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World: pewresearch.org/religion/2019/01/31/religions-relationship-to-happiness-civic-engagement-and-health-around-the-world

Pew Research Center, Jan. 31, 2019, “Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World

Religious Americans Enjoy Higher Wellbeing: news.gallup.com/poll/152723/religious-americans-enjoy-higher-wellbeing.aspx

Very Religious Americans Lead Healthier Lives: news.gallup.com/poll/145379/Religious-Americans-Lead-Healthier-Lives.aspx

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29736876

Wayback Machine:

web.archive.org/web/changes/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28783575

Religiosity as a protective factor against suicidal behaviour | PubMed:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27059615

Religious beliefs buffer the impact of depression on suicide ideation | PubMed:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28783575

Association Between Religious Service Attendance and Lower Suicide Rates Among US Women. | PubMed:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7228478

Substance Misuse and Substance use Disorders: Why do they Matter in Healthcare? | PubMed:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525418

12 Step Programs: 12 Steps to Recovery for Addiction | American Addiction Centers:

americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/12-step

Focusing on the nonreligious reveals secular mechanisms underlying well-being and prosociality | APA PsycNet:

psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-36594-010

Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World | Pew Research Center:

pewresearch.org/religion/2019/01/31/religions-relationship-to-happiness-civic-engagement-and-health-around-the-world

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
05:40 Overwhelming Data
19:06 Broadening Horizons
27:04 Breathtaking Dishonesty
30:55 Opium of the Catholics
39:08 A Master's in Bigotry

#prageru #dailywire #religion

The SMUG Wisdom of Dennis Prager

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:38 The Wise Old Man
11:08 Ancient Wisdom
19:01 Pathetic Professors

Nashville Shooting: Daily Wire journalism is beyond absurd

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References:

School Shootings and Student Mental Health: Role of the School Counselor in Mitigating Violence: counseling.org/docs/default-source/vistas/school-shootings-and-student-mental-health.p?fbclid=IwAR0NrRi-bkOyLNBBxao769I_5wkLhMjt7XPF_xDpM8fOlQFjE0GvuMBJPnw

Being transgender no longer a 'mental disorder': APA (2012): nicic.gov/weblink/being-transgender-no-longer-mental-disorder-apa-2012

Gender Dysphoria: psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria

Gender dysphoria: nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria

GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2023: gunviolencearchive.org/?fbclid=IwAR1u1WIF_rckF1gH6fD6-_WX10FnNmGBOo7LM-cPBAAOeqWulW9FsgYS8rg

Mental disorders: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders

Religious morality is BULL! Heres why

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References:

PragerU Master’s Program with Dennis Prager: dailywire.com/show/the-prager-u-master-s-program-with-dennis-prager

I took Dennis Prager’s MASTER'S PROGRAM and now my world is ending: youtu.be/2Q2HxqoRVbo

Are we the baddies? youtu.be/KtXvF5keNyI

A Refutation of Deism | P. B. Shelley, 1814

PragerU – The ten commandments what you should know, prageru.com/video/the-ten-commandments-what-you-should-know

PragerU - If There Is No God, Murder Isn't Wrong - youtube.com/watch?v=yrcQ_PTkVD4

Shariff, A (2020) The Science of religion, episodes 3.3 (Religion and Moral Decision Making) & 3.4 (Religion and Moral Enforcement) learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:UBCx+ReligionX+1T2020/home

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:12 The Married Bachelor
04:08 Holy Jenga
06:45 Might Makes Right
12:45 Divine Stagnation
20:40 Alternative Framework

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#debunked #prageru #morality

Do we need God to love Dennis Prager? @PragerU

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References:

PragerU Master’s Program with Dennis Prager: dailywire.com/show/the-prager-u-master-s-program-with-dennis-prager

I took Dennis Prager’s MASTER'S PROGRAM and now my world is ending: youtu.be/2Q2HxqoRVbo

Are we the baddies? youtu.be/KtXvF5keNyI

A Refutation of Deism | P. B. Shelley, 1814

PragerU – The ten commandments what you should know, prageru.com/video/the-ten-commandments-what-you-should-know

PragerU - If There Is No God, Murder Isn't Wrong - youtube.com/watch?v=yrcQ_PTkVD4

Shariff, A (2020) The Science of religion, episodes 3.3 (Religion and Moral Decision Making) & 3.4 (Religion and Moral Enforcement) learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:UBCx+ReligionX+1T2020/home

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
02:19 Inhumane Seculism
08:42 A Sweet Suggestion
18:22 A Small Government
24:56 A Bygone Relic
30:15 Hatred is Foolish

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Are we the baddies?

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References:

PragerU Master’s Program with Dennis Prager: dailywire.com/show/the-prager-u-master-s-program-with-dennis-prager

I took Dennis Prager’s MASTER'S PROGRAM and now my world is ending: youtu.be/2Q2HxqoRVbo

Medieval Concepts of the Past | Cambridge: cambridge.org/core/books/medieval-concepts-of-the-past/5BC2F3F9AAE8A1D3EAF5FBEAEC6BF908

Inquisition | History: history.com/topics/religion/inquisition

Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda | Timothy Longman: jstor.org/stable/23921896

Church and State in Rwanda: Catholic Missiology and the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi | Marcus Timothy Haworth: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3854&context=isp_collection

The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939. 1. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 19-20.

Speech in Passau 27 October 1928 Bundesarchiv Berlin-Zehlendorf; from Richard Steigmann-Gall (2003). Holy Reich: Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 60-61

Speech 26 April 1933 made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933; from Ernst Helmreich (1979). The German Churches Under Hitler. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 241.

Mein Kampf. (p. 65)

Religion in Nazi-Germany 1939 census: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_in_Nazi-Germany_1939_census.png

Secular Countries 2023: worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/secular-countries

Estimated global population from 10,000BCE to 2100: statista.com/statistics/1006502/global-population-ten-thousand-bc-to-2050

Death Estimates for the Crusades | Andrew Holt, Ph.D.: apholt.com/2019/01/30/death-estimates-for-the-crusades

Genocide openbible.info/topics/genocide

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:23 The Crusades
06:27 Spanish Inquisition
09:54 Secular Nazis
18:20 Communism
24:37 Beautiful Bible
29:30 Freedom For Some
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I took Dennis Prager’s MASTERS PROGRAM and now my world is ending

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References:

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
02:37 Prager Who?
06:58 Define Thy Terms
12:58 No One Religion
19:45 Celebration Of Poop

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#debunked #prageru #atheism

Ben Shapiro BUTCHERS the Big Bang | The Fine-Tuning Argument DEBUNKED

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References:

The Shapiro DELUSION | A lesson in rhetoric Rationality Rules: youtu.be/rNyALe7snCc

I fact-checked Ben Shapiro so you don’t have to | The Shapiro Delusion | Rationality Rules: youtu.be/T_J_AMJehFI

Ben Shapiro DEBUNKED by Scholar | The Argument from Change: youtu.be/_W4I3G9ahCw

Our expanding universe: Age, history & other facts | Space: space.com/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html

Homo sapiens | Smithsonian Meusem of Natural History: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens

Does the Big Bang Fit with the Bible? web.archive.org/web/20221001000000*/answersingenesis.org/big-bang/does-the-big-bang-fit-with-the-bible

Daily Wire says streaming service has surpassed 1M subscribers | Axios: axios.com/2022/11/17/daily-wire-1m-subscribers

Arguments for God's Existence Tier List: youtu.be/gd5Zfg2i2mc

Why is there something rather than nothing? (All Roads Lead to Russell): youtu.be/Ymy6Zdv_5ig

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Ben Shapiro DEBUNKED by Scholar | The Argument from Change @BenShapiro

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References:

Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs | Joe Schmid and Daniel Linford (amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs-ebook/dp/B0BNMHRW63 | link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2)

Joe Schmid’s videos on arguments from change: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXka2JpwLJaSaXdDZlBYkd9Cn

The Shapiro DELUSION | A lesson in rhetoric Rationality Rules: youtu.be/rNyALe7snCc

I fact-checked Ben Shapiro so you don’t have to | The Shapiro Delusion | Rationality Rules: youtu.be/T_J_AMJehFI

The Fragmentation of Being | Kris McDaniel

Metaphysical Grounding | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/grounding/

Grounding, infinite regress, and the thomistic cosmological argument | Thomas Oberle | Philpapers: philpapers.org/rec/OBEGIR

Structural Realism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/structural-realism/
youtu.be/nQ-Y5NWV9kc

Pryupism | Christopher Hitchens And Tony Blair Debate
youtu.be/oJCZKZomtXQ

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I fact-checked Ben Shapiro so you don’t have to | The Shapiro Delusion

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References:

Definition of delusion: (dictionary.com/browse/delusion)

Humanists.uk | T H Huxley
humanists.uk/humanism/the-humanist-tradition/19th-century-freethinkers/huxley

Ayn Rand Institute | The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand
youtube.com/watch?v=lHl2PqwRcY0

CosmicSkeptic | Deconstructing Ben Shapiro on Religion
youtube.com/watch?v=2nvwpVoBgLQ

Nautil.us | Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
nautil.us/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute-236591

Al Jazeera English | Dawkins on religion: Is religion good or evil? | Head to Head
youtube.com/watch?v=U0Xn60Zw03A

Britannica.com | Brian Greene asks Richard Dawkins: Does God exist?
britannica.com/video/222278/Brian-Greene-asks-Richard-Dawkins-Does-God-Exist

Atheism VS Religion | Richard Dawkins VS Islam - FULL Interview and Q&A - Richard Dawkins On Islam
youtu.be/nQ-Y5NWV9kc

Pryupism | Christopher Hitchens And Tony Blair Debate
youtu.be/oJCZKZomtXQ

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Timestamps:

00:00 Fifteen or less!
02:03 Define your terms
05:29 Ricky Gervais
11:00 Ayn Rand
19:43 Christopher Hitchens
24:46 Neil deGrasse Tyson
31:18 Richard Dawkins
46:16 Stephen Fry
52:05 The Shapiro Delusion

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Michael Knowles and Anthony DeStefano turn Gish Galloping into a new sport

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References:

1) Their IGNORANCE is palpable... and yet eclipsed by their arrogance: youtu.be/6wxGyLN-W4Q

2) The Shapiro DELUSION | A lesson in rhetoric: youtu.be/rNyALe7snCc

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

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The Shapiro DELUSION | A lesson in rhetoric

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References:

1) I paid for Ben Shapiro’s video about atheism and all I got was disappointment | Genetically Modified Skeptic: youtu.be/aZjnS1mp88E

2) Deconstructing Ben Shapiro on Religion | CosmicSkeptic: youtu.be/2nvwpVoBgLQ

3) What Philosophers Believe: Results from the 2020 PhilPapers Survey: dailynous.com/2021/11/01/what-philosophers-believe-results-from-the-2020-philpapers-survey

4) Census 2021 in charts: Christianity now minority religion in England and Wales: theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/census-2021-in-charts-christianity-now-minority-religion-in-england-and-wales

5) Why Does GOD Hate Intelligent People? | Rationality Rules: youtu.be/R11audPuldA

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
03:28 Logical Fallacies
06:35 From The Fringes
23:55 The Shapiro Delusion

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