Religious belief might be linked to evolutionary processes like survival of the fittest. Throughout history, individuals who conformed to the social and cultural norms of their environment-often shaped by religion-had better chances of survival and reproduction due to enhanced social cohesion and cooperation. In this sense, criticizing or rejecting religion may go against behaviors that have been selected for because they contributed to group survival and stability.

Is he really wearing shorts on stage?

Oh, I forgot well. Paganism is Christians Google, and look for a colorful cross called Rose Cross or the rosey Cross . This is why we paganism are different than Satanism .😊

I was thinking that instead of creation vs evolution it should be called creation vs autocreationism.

Faith only disagrees with science where things that are accepted by faith by the scientist disagrees with religious faith.

This in my opinion is the best lecture on KZbin Period. Abby also has a great sense of humour, Brilliant!

lucien greaves the satanic temple and the law ? What hey dude, I'm a paganism, and it's called paganism temple of law , we don't like your star shape. it's not a Christianity look . Soo how does it feel about this form of law ?

Describe of law satanic , paganism are not a witch stop hunting us down or we hunting you down like we are demon hunter make sence ? Your under paganism law of order . Watch your words and your mouth .

well if you believe world was created 5000 years ago you have to oppose evolution. It kind of cuts the legs of their religion altogether.

Come on boy , I'm not lieing or joken ? Been into a real live ine real life portal ? That's not science satanic marijuana.

Let see you do the real OBE front of the federal physic satan .

D9nt denied wanna be Christian and paganism. Stop lieing like to see the real angel of death?

Mr.grieve I proven myself in OBE is called astro-projection to show our truth to Jesus that we spoken the truth .

Paganism is NOT PART OF YOUR CULTS DIFFERNET CULTERS PAGANISM IS PART OF CHRISTIANITY NOT SATANISM.

Hey you are you discrimination paganism? I know your really lieing and I'm telling the real truth .

That means all Western poliicians with their absurd pro (Suni) Islam narratives are betrayers of their own people...

She is great woman

Disappointed that she felt the need to commit logical fallacies by invoking Steve Jobs declaration that all people believe the same thing. That suicide exists is proof that his assertion is false.

A complete and total betrayal of Christ, the Gospel of Good News and the Bible and regrettably he has sold his soul like Judas did. He fails to understand that Jeus is the healer and uniter who will return to sought out the Sheep from the Goats.

Christ is King

I have met Tawny and both her Mother and Father are friends of mine!

When I worked at Focus on the Family, people REALLY did believe in Satan! They were really afraid of him!

Love you Sarah Haider ❤❤❤❤ from Pakistan

by god!!! what is this???

Thank you.

To all Ex-Muslims, You'll always find friendship from Buddhists, especially Thai Buddhists because we know the danger of Muslim extremists and the moral defect in their belief system.

Sarah , marry me , you're someone I need in my life, clever , intelligent , articulate , wise , extremely brave and a damn good egg .

Only just found out about Sarah today , from the Triggernometry you tube site . She is a star . I think just as a meet a meeting with Tommy Robinson would make a great debate on Islam alone not on the Racism he is accused of.

Your name came across my desk this morning. I read your bio. You are obviously a very hard worker and an extremely intelligent person. Yet, you still only have one life to live. Have you ever wondered, “Why”? Many people will tell you we got her by accident. The odds of just the amino acids forming the peptide chains used for the basic code for life DNA and RNA to happen by chance are more than a trillion to one, never mind the rest of life processes. There is no way it happened by chance. So my question is “Why?” If life is not by accident, then why is there life? I contend that it is for one reason and one reason only, for an intelligent being to choose God. If that is true, they there must be life after death, a place where God makes it right for injustices and rewards. In the name of “religion” many atrocities have happened. You and I will never fix that. Anytime there is a seat of power, corrupt people will seek that power. That does not mean that every person who seeks to please “God” is corrupt. It seems a shame to see such a brilliant girl waste her life attacking those who chose God. Remember it is a choice. You only have one life, don’t waste it. When you reach the end of your life, no amount of success, money or popularity can replace a wasted life.

Stop calling them your "allies on the left." These ppl who pick their friends based off a scavenger hunt checklist. Seems to me you'd find a happier/ safer home with your everyday conservative, if you'd allow yourself to forget what you've been told to think about them.

LIES, SEAN, CAN EITHER RUIN ANYBODY, OR NOT, IN OVERPOPULATED PLANET EARTH. GOOD JOB, SEAN CAROL.

anti christ

this needs more views

An intelligent designer wouldn't have made teeth susceptible to decay and the problems that the decay causes.

"Should Humanists be Feminists" ? NO Feminists should be Humanists

What's difference between Muslim and atheist. Both of same in one line. Because Muslim are refusing the almighty God Jahowa and atheist are also have same faith. Only have a salvation in Jesus name. I offered you, accept the Jesus Christ as your personal saviour of your life. Leave the fake Life

wow this is 8 years old already, and unfortunately it only got worse (at least in Europe, where the debate systematically lags 10 years behind the US)

Osho on Islam "Mohammedanism is a religion of peace, but who else has succeeded more in bringing unrest? Mohammed was an absolutely illiterate man, and the Koran, in which his sayings are collected, is ninety-nine percent rubbish. You can just open the book anywhere and read it, and you will be convinced of what I am saying. I am not saying on a certain page - anywhere. You just open the book accidentally, read the page and you will be convinced of what I am saying. Whatsoever one percent truth there is here and there in the Koran is not Mohammed's. It is just ordinary, ancient wisdom that uneducated people collect easily - more easily than the educated people, because educated people have far better sources of information - books, libraries, universities, scholars. The uneducated, simply by hearing the old people, collect a few words of wisdom here and there. And those words are significant, because for thousands of years they have been tested and found somehow true. So it is the wisdom of the ages that is scattered here and there; otherwise, it is the most ordinary book possible in the world. Muslims have been asking me, "Why don't you speak on the Koran? You have spoken on The Bible, on the Gita, this and that." I could not say to them that it is all rubbish; I simply went on postponing. Even just before I went into silence, a Muslim scholar sent the latest English version of the Koran, praying me to speak on it. But now I have to say that it is all rubbish, that is why I have not spoken on it - because why unnecessarily waste time?"

Where to start... First... I'd like all to understand that..of course.. one can be a VERY Good, highly ethical person and not have anything to do with any religion. I myself was exposed to Christian religion... but by the age of 13, with quite a bit of thought involved, I came to the conclusion that religion was incredibly flawed... and understand that to this day. Even though I soundly rejected religion, still I remained NEUTRAL on the concept of God since scientifically... Lack of proof does NOT constitute Proof of Lack. My only fair choice at that point was to label myself an Agnostic.. because Hey.. who doesn't like labels. 😉 I went on like this, just being a good person, not because of some fear of hell but simply because it was my nature to do so. In my early 30's however something quite extraordinary happened .. I had a shared NDE (Near Death Experience). I was not the one dying, but was invited into the crossing over of a friend. As I entered this higher realm of Consciousness/ Awareness... I found myself being bathed in this remarkable Light, and for the first time understood what UNCONDITIONAL LOVE actually was. It is, especially for a skeptic such as myself, a MOST sobering and humbling moment. What my subjective Mind thought Unconditional Love was... was Not even close. This was only the begining of my spiritual Awakening.. and I won't won't get into it here but I just want to add something Important to the topic of "God" that some might find useful... and that is..How DOES ONE even BEGIN to DEFINE THAT which "God" actually is? How can we reject something we are in fact, unaware of? Once I actually met THAT Infinite ONE I saw that religion had gotten "God" all wrong. They had gone and created a limited, judgemental deity IN THEIR OWN Flawed Image. What often happens to Atheists is that.. INADVERTANTLY.. many who SAID they were rejecting "God" were still USING religion's EXTREMELY FLAWED definition of "God". How ironic that so many who reject religion.. are still so subtly locked into religion that they continue to use religion's extremely limited and flawed definition of " God" to reject God by. Once "God" / THAT /Infinite Consciousness...One's in HIGHER SELF is finally RECOGNIZED.. one REALIZES that within this Perfect, Divine Consciousness there is nothing to reject. One's True and Infinite SELF is the underlying support of all the Mind's subjective experiences. Think Matrix... the basic premise is quite similar. Your Higher SELF ( which we all share) has experiences THOUGH our ego veiled non-local/non-physical mind. Bottom Line: We ARE "God" / THAT.. caught up in our own SELF imposed dream of "NOT God".. all for the shear experience if it.. AND will Awaken at the appropriate time. No punishment, no judgement.. just Unconditional Love.. Always. The mind is finite and cannot fully grasp its own Source.. but Source can. We are ALL the THAT of " I AM THAT" Stay tuned.. Nothing HERE is as it appears to be... and religion is Clueless.. even as SOME religious minds are doing the best they currently can. Peace.

just read your article on contradictions in the bible, a lot of things stated weren't even contradictions just loosely put together "supposed" attacks lol

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Excellent argument for atheists to boldly express their thoughts and help others open up and stop the slide of the US into Christo-fascism.

I think for something to be accepted as scientific knowledge it must be clearly observed. Theory necessarily means that the subject hasn't been observed but it did leave behind a historical remnant, or evidence as we call it. Evidence allows for a forensic analysis, but like with lawyers and juries, all the best evidence can do is maybe render a decision among a jury where the conclusion of guilt is beyond the shadow of a doubt. (Good lawyers are the smartest people.) Courts do not always get it right. Innocent people have been sent to jail in spite of convincing evidence. Evidence can't always be trusted which is why lawyers, and not scientists, run the world. If I am going to believe that slime on a rock turned into Beethoven, I will have to see a lot more than what the evolutionary researchers have put forward.

Science has caused more harm to humanity than any superstition.

Well, if another freethinker doesn't fully align with ANY part of your ideology, you ban him. You're not freethinkers, you are ideology driven activists with a frightening authoritarian dogma. At least you have the audience numbers you deserve.

It's fascinating watching these documentaries mostly American. In uk hardly anyone talks about deconverting . Virtually no one cares about God. Have you read the Bible, its mostly horrific. God drowning all those poor animals.

Attempting to reform Islam is impossible! The Quran states very clearly and exclusively from Muhammad that his revelations are from Allah and that he alone was the last prophet. His words are divine and unalterable. That includes all the verses of violence...especially those verses. Good luck trying to reform that! Any true reform begins in the heart, on the inside. Like any real change in our lives. Our minds wake up - "not Woke up". Our minds awaken from slumber, the scales are removed from our eyes and we may say, "Oh I see!" And so the journey to reform begins. But to arrive at at such a place, first a Muslim must hear the truth in a way that will penetrate their hearts and minds. Its a process towards hearing truths about their beloved Muhammad and upon discovering that he bears some atrocious scars of murder, rape, pedophilia and sex slavery to name just a few. It is a difficult thing for Muslims throughout the world to hear such truth when their Imams teach them all their lives that Muhammad was the greatest example of a human being. They are steeped in this lie and lost in its deception. The only hope is a deeper revelation of the truth of Muhammad and the subsequent conviction and freedom of conscience to throw Muhammad - who is Islam - In the dust bin where he belongs. I think that's going to take a miracle of sorts. But not a reformation. I think it will require an awakening that this is "junk" and "bunk" and a huge swathe - millions of Muslims walking away from Muhammad and no longer calling themselves Muslim. Ah but there's the rub! Apostasy calls for the death penalty! From this so called religion of peace! Huh? So one is not publicly free to follow ones free thinking! Therefore those who do think freely and come to reject Muhammad live quiet lives of desperation inside Islamic countries. What a nightmare of fear Islam produces. Put yourself in their shoes and walk a mile or two in their fear of death. Ponder what that must be like? There is no reforming Islam. There is only reforming of the persons who then need to be free from persecution to throw Muhammad - who is Islam - in the bin. The freedom to follow ones conscience without being persecuted. Islam understands nothing of this type of freedom. Where Islam ends, life begins.

Amazing. More important than ever 8 years later.

🙏😭পৃথিবীর প্রতিটি ধর্মই প্রমান অসম্ভব আজগুবি কাল্পনিক বানোয়াট গল্প ও গুজব দ্বারা কিছু সংখ্যক চতুর লোভী হিংস্র হায়েনা হিংসুটে পুরুষদের নোংরা নষ্ট কুটিল বুদ্ধিতে তৈরী করা। ইসলাম তথা মুসলিম ধর্মটি মিথ্যাচার হিংস্রতা ও যৌনতায় ভরা। এই ধর্মটিতে মানবতা ও মনুষ্যত্বের লেশ মাত্রও নেই।😭🙏

I imagine she would be an amusing professor, but there really was very little argument here. The idea that a cool fish exists and a cool jellyfish exists and a cool cosmos exists is supposed to indicate that they were not designed? How does that follow? As many have pointed out, evolution is a good explanation for changes within the limits of the genes that a creature already possesses, but is a poor explanation for the creation of complex genetic information in the first place. For that, intelligence is the most reasonable explanation. If you disagree, let's see an empirical demonstration that shows it's possible to get this by chance in the time available (with no cheating by specifying the information in advance).