There are some really great channels on Youtube - one of my favorites is Wildwood Claire. She has a show called "Coffee with Claire" which I...
There are some really great channels on Youtube - one of my favorites is Wildwood Claire. She has a show called "Coffee with Claire" which I love where she uses her brains and scientific training to bust the chops of religious and political hacks. If you haven't seen her channel I'll put a link to it in the description for you. I really enjoy her "Dim Bulb Of The Week" award where she features a few bombastic idiots and picks a winner. Recently she did a show about "creation" in which she took on among others, Ken Ham! So of course I watched it - how could I resist? One of Claire's nominees for Dim Bulb Of The Week was a guy named Christian Talour. She played some clips from his video called "Atheists are like toddlers" in which he makes some claims that really pissed me off. Now if you've watched my videos about debating Christians you've heard me talk about using a simple yes or no question to put your opponent in an impeachable position, and what sorts of reactions to expect when you do. And since Mr. Talour didn't win Claire's Dim Bulb Award, I decided to give him some attention, and show you how it works in the real world. I posted the question on his channel page: Can you cite any secular evidence which has not been and/or cannot be refuted, such as a contemporaneous record or eyewitness account from outside the Bible, that validates EVEN ONE of the magical characters or miraculous events described in it... YES or NO? And his answer is classically typical and predictable - change the subject to avoid giving an answer! Notice how he's done everything BUT answer the question I asked, even though his answer WAS yes? And at the end claims his "evidence" satisfied the parameters of the question, even though it's not even close to the kind evidence I asked for? As is typical in debates like this, I had to go back, remind him what the question was, and explain why he got it all wrong. Mr. Talour, you accused me of having a standard of evidence which is too high. But I'm pretty sure that if a man walked up to you on the street and claimed to be Jesus, even if he had ID and 12 disciples to vouch for him, you wouldn't believe him - maybe a toddler would, but I bet you'd want some kind of testable proof, right? So, in that situation, your standard of evidence would be the same as an atheist's -- you know, justifiable skepticism! But you're willing to scrap that standard, and put your faith 100% in a 2000 year old book of obvious, proven nonsense, fiction, and fairy tales, written by men who thought the earth was flat, and diseases were caused by demons - for which not one scrap of contemporaneous corroboration has ever been produced by anybody - ever! And you say atheists are mentally defective? Maybe you'd better think again! Well since Mr. Talour didn't win Claire's Dim Bulb Award, please join me in a salute to the newest recipient of my coveted "Giant Moron Award." Because Mr. Christian Talour, you definitely deserve it! nWildwood Claire's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WildwoodClaire1nChristian Talour's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/christiantalour Less
