Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Matthew Adelstein, YouTuber, philosophy student, and prolific Substacker, sits down to discuss Richard Carrier's arguments for atheism and why they fail to convince.

Matthew's YouTube channel: youtube.com/@UCgMYs1CgxkXy2KStHTvA9UA

Matthew's written response to some of Carrier's arguments: substack.com/@benthamsbulldog/p-157356189

Carrier's paper, "Bayesian Counter-Apologetics: Ten Arguments for God Destroyed": richardcarrier.info/archives/11868

My dialogue with Carrier on many of these same points: youtube.com/watch?v=TxccR9GpJ7k&t=1376s

EPISODE CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:03 Cosmology
00:16:04 Fine-Tuning
00:40:26 Consciousness
00:53:08 Reason
01:00:41 Religious Experience
01:24:32 Miracles
01:29:34 Morality
01:34:28 Meaning
01:39:42 Superman