DEBATE: Matt Dillahunty vs Mike Licona (Was Jesus Raised from the Dead? 2017)

Dr. Mike Licona debated atheist Matt Dillahunty of "The Atheist Experience" at the [un]Apologetic Conference 2017 in Austin, TX on Feb 25.The question of the debate was, 'Was Jesus Raised from the Dead?'
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[@MikeLiconaOfficial]

Check out this video of an atheist who became a Christian after watching this debate! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2izmGqkibCAi6M

[@gbrown932]

@@dinglerange oh my gosh he did lol

[@gbrown932]

I've struggled hard with christianity since I basically lost my family over the last 3 years. First spouse, then 3 dogs of old age, then my mother, then a miscarriage. I'm looking for answers and investigating.

[@akoskormendi9711]

Poor one, he should have a better standard of evidence than that.

[@justandy8385]

I have come to the conclusion you are an intentionally dishonest person based on this debate.

[@xxRellekxx]

Mate I wouldnt advertise or brag about this one bud. You came armed to a debate with "My Freind Saw a Spirit Attack a Trashcan" vs a guy who brought facts and rational arguments

[@guiagaston7273]

Mike "I gave you evidence" Matt "No you told stories" This sums it all up

[@reydebad2643]

Not Really, Matt didnt go through the arguments that Mike gave. He went completely on a different argument.

[@guiagaston7273]

@@reydebad2643 what? Which argument did he ignore?

[@TheMitchmills]

@@reydebad2643 bullshit.

[@carolmosher7745]

@YexaC Logic is nothing but mind games, which is all Atheists have. Science requires something real and physical to observe, test and measure. And the fact is there is incontrovertible scientific evidence for the existence of God.

[@cheyannecaballero2814]

@@carolmosher7745 can you show me a non biased site where that's true?

[@AlexPBenton]

It’s ironic how he tried to prove the supernatural, then claimed that he didn’t believe in aliens because they defy the laws of nature.

[@ThePunikaTV]

That's the problem when you start your entire argumention with an assumption, which in this case is "god exists"

[@mikejohnson8373]

The funniest part is that in doing so, he somehow managed to be wrong on both points.

[@christopherianlister5212]

that's your con exposed

[@CheaterzEye]

My dad went to preaching/bible school and then preached and did missionary work for years. He said so himself that the key to a sermon isn’t what is said, but how well you can invoke the audience’s emotions. The substance of it doesn’t really matter as long as it sounds scary or uplifting or any other emotion that can easily blind people to what’s being said.

[@jerrylanglois7892]

@@CheaterzEye Excellent point, humans for the most part are emotional, irrational creatures... and preachers, so well aware of that condition, exploit it, giving them the easiest job in the world -- just telling people what they want to hear.

[@robrogers2532]

Kudos to this church for inviting Matt Dillahunty to speak. 🏅

[@Dustandfuzz]

As a Christian it’s all about spreading the gospel, even if it’s just to make people curious enough to actually read the Bible. Jesus wants everyone to have a great eternal life after death.

[@shaqyardie8105]

@@Dustandfuzz And do you have any evidence that eternal life actually exists? Oh, a man(not jesus) wrote in a book that there is, so it must be true. Get real!

[@dabssauce1198]

⁠​⁠@@shaqyardie8105You already know the answer to that haha! There’s no proof whatsoever, and there never will be aside from a book that is somehow more right than thousands of other books that rehash the same stories.

[@shaqyardie8105]

@@dabssauce1198Lol gotta make them see how ridiculous their beliefs are somehow.

[@arthurfleck629]

@@dabssauce1198Which one? The Goblet Of Fire? Or Anne Of Green Gables? The Wishing Chair?!? Ohhhhhh, you mean the bible! Well, yeah, that one is obviously true, I mean, it’s not like there’s any possible way it could be manmade is there? No, absolutely not, it’s just, you know, so very different from all the other books written throughout history, with its, you know, unique features, those being paper and ink. Oh and how can I forget, perhaps the most unique features of all, the instructions to commit mass genocide, kidnappings, forced marriages, paedophilia, and rape, with some stoning people to death and murdering our son to prove our love for our celestial dictator mixed in there. It’s truly something special isn’t it?

[@johnnybgood7442]

I'll give Mike credit. Lots of respect for posting this video and leaving the comment section open, considering how badly his arguments were exposed

[@Wretched2JZ]

Lol but why won’t he change his position if the evidence is so strong? Money coming in too strong ? I tried to google him because I never heard of him. And it brought up all this stuff on how he’s a celebrity and worth several millions of dollars 🤷🏼‍♂️😬

[@johnnybgood7442]

@@Wretched2JZ I think that's why lots of them do that. Jordan Peterson is the same way and doesn't wanna lose that money 💰

[@ThirdSonSeth]

⁠@@Wretched2JZ the historical data is well beyond enough for one to believe that Jesus rose from the dead, but to a point, it’s a choice one has to make in their own heart. There’s believing that the chair is there, and then believing that the chair will hold you up when you sit in it.

[@harrycooper5231]

@@ThirdSonSeth That's a terrible example. I can show you chairs. I can show you chairs that can hold you up. You can't show me a god. Not one.

[@savageryreally7058]

@@harrycooper5231 Might be a terrible example but I don't think that's what he meant. To him, you showing him a chair would be the same as him being shown the historical data. It is good enough of a reason for him and not that God can be shown just like how a chair could be shown. What we cannot do for him, is to sit on the chair for him or to believe for him that it'll hold. Only he can do those for himself.

[@james-r]

After watching hundreds of hours of ‘religion Vs atheism’, I’ve never seen religion win

[@HarryNicNicholas]

well, the dice are a bit loaded, i mean, no god for a start. but atheists have to ask questions all the time, scientists have to spend their entire career defending their discoveries, but god, well he thinks he can just point and command.

[@osaomoragbon7852]

Religion can never win because religion puts itself at a disadvantage. It is obviously man-made but claims it is from things or beings beyond human undestanding. Religion fails at any basic level of human understanding; Historically? F. Biologically? F. Archeologically? F. Physically? F. Morally? F. Creativity? F. Lawfully? F. Mathematically? F. Linguistically? F. I mean, think of anyway to justify it and apply it to religion and it just falls flat. It is why religion is only successful where there is illiteracy or lack of understanding. Get them when their still discovering the world 🌎 (mostly kids or people who have not been exposed)

[@osaomoragbon7852]

@Barthelemy Lazerlips hmmm... sounds like you are making stuff up...

[@kayem3824]

Religion would always win in the past by sending whoever disagreed to the dumgeon.

[@abuqatada2389]

You need to watch William Lane Craig vs Christopher Hitchens then. Craig destroyed Hitchens

[@otopico]

Mike made no sense in his opening, but his 'rebuttal' was embarrassing. But Mike has my respect for not being like so many others and locking down the comments.

[@zapkvr]

Hahaha you said butt

[@dronexfun8469]

@@zapkvr I like fellatious reasoning. Hehe.

[@zapkvr]

@@dronexfun8469 fellatio reasoning?

[@ihatelogicalfallacies6443]

Doesn't that infuriated you? When these jesus-humpers block comments!! Anything to keep the ignorance flowing.....

[@jamestor6700]

his rebuttal had problems the moment he started talking with his opening statement "the natural world strongly suggests that the supernatural exists." Even if that is true it doesn't mean the supernatural actually exists

[@berbberb6029]

It’s hilarious that Mike was the one who was actually proud enough of this debate to post it😭

[@moragslothe6449]

For his go-to line to be so proudly, "what if some crazy thing that's never happened... happened! Then wouldn't you assume something even MORE unlikely?!" it's very unsurprising. Apologists are all pride, no shame.

[@HillBelichick]

I 100% disagree with his arguments and think they're silly, but don't you think y'all are being a bit too harsh? Posting a debate in its entirety and letting people make up their minds is something I've seen apologists consciously avoid. Infinitely better than disingenuously editing it down.

[@operationlegend9746]

​@@HillBelichickdefinitely agree with you, however the harshness on the content of his arguments isn't necessarily unwarranted. Someone objectively looking at his claims would see how silly they are. Completely allegorical or straight out of the Bible. Circular reasoning. Excluding those looking for surface answers, all they do is confirm those who already believe and does nothing to those who don't.

[@HillBelichick]

@@operationlegend9746 sure I just think there's a very clear line between constructive and personal criticism and it sucks to see it crossed by so many people who are nominally on my side :/

[@mattalley4330]

Not hilarious, just intellectually honest to post the video and let people decide for themselves. I think, in so far as a winner can be determined, Matt clearly won.

[@KrustyKlown]

Theist argument summary: Someone said they saw a flying trash can lid .... therefore Jesus rose from the dead.

[@barkYdarkATFB]

His opening statement was an embarrassment. The rest of his statements also.

[@VestigialHead]

@ConfusionFusion God is the universe hide and go seek champion - 6000 years in a row.

[@DawnHub666]

Lmao..

[@mgenetos]

Are there a lot of headless humans walking around?

[@KrustyKlown]

J w: atheist argument would be based on verifiable evidence, which there is NONE for a risen Jesus .. only claims of such from non-eye witness anonymous Christian sources (i.e. conical gospels), for which the original texts don't exist, only copies of copies. More damning is there are NO contemporary non-christian documents referring to Jesus rising from the dead. So, why should anyone believe these written claims from Christians that constitute their Bible?? It's all even more absurd when considering people just believe crap because they want to, for instance we have 16 million Mormons who believe Joseph Smith dug up ancient Egyptian gold tablets in his backyard in upstate NY, translated them into the book of Mormon, then those tablets were taken away by an angel ... a perfect example of how people will first believe stuff without evidence, then write about that belief.. that itself is NOT evidence for its truth ... yet Christians do the very same with their Jesus resurrection story, claiming it is true because they wrote about believing it.

[@jfreeman4275]

When the guy says he wouldn't believe in alien abductions because there is no evidence and then says it was supernatural...mind blown. Matt is a saint.

[@s1sters118]

I've a feeling Matt was leading up to " how can you believe in one and not the other when the standard of evidence for both is the same " but Mike threw a spanner into that by suggesting that aliens were also supernatural which I think was unexpected by Matt and threw him off for a moment..... If he had have been a little more on the ball in the moment I think Matt's response should have been " well if both are supernatural and the evidence for both is the same how do you justify concluding ( or coming to a belief ) that one is real and one isn't

[@RP-rg2go]

Licona - "It can't be aliens DUH, it's probably ghost aliens." Matts hair grew back and fell off again. Holy fuck.

[@kifwoo1]

This fight should have been stopped after the first round. If not by Mike's corner then by the referee. Rarely have I seen such a mismatch between opponents and genuinely feared for Mike's mental health. He was brutally murdered here.

[@sanjivb53]

😂 I totally agree!

[@SeattleDinghyer]

Yet he was seen on the street 3 days later. Therefore the supernatural exists, clearly.

[@rey5597]

@@SeattleDinghyerha good one 😂

[@mikerodgers7620]

Atheists aren't going to survive punches from Lucifer in Hell.

[@SeattleDinghyer]

@mikerodgers7620 As an atheist, I fear no God, much less a minion of theirs. What kind of crappy Good who calls themselves loving, would sentence anyone to an eternity of pain simply because they failed to convince them of their existence? That's on the God, not me. If anything, I think that an entity would reward me for not falling for whatever flavor of religion is popular where I was born.

[@SaxyCalzone]

Dude actually led with “because ghosts.”

[@tangerinetangerine4400]

derkcloud yeah thats some big mental jump from 'there are ghosts' to 'this specific character from this specific religion is real'. Like how???

[@natanaellizama6559]

Wasn't his argument that ghosts are proof that there's a spiritual realm rather than his particular viewpoint of God?

[@20july1944]

Shin: Where do you think the universe came from?

[@20july1944]

Shin: Explain how exploring past the planck time would help answer it?

[@20july1944]

Shin: Explain how "the expanse" may have originated. Not asking for any evidence, just an explanation of how -- in theory. Are you positing something came from nothing, or some self-existent original thing?

[@xxsageonexx8910]

Mike: “The Christian God exists because ghosts and stuff” 🤤

[@TheWTFcakes]

Now I want to listen to deadmau5

[@roqsteady5290]

No no! Remember the Ouija boards, that proves the supernatural... right? Difficult to credit the level of self deception and confirmation bias in these self serving attempts at arguments for miracles. You might think that someone like Licona with his doctorate in something (theology presumably) would do a bit better, but this floundering is no better.

[@Anthony-jp2zm]

William Arnold that’s a darn good song. I like Arguru the best. That drop at 1:30 😁

[@DudeWhoSaysDeez]

Weird unexplained things happen? Must be a different unexplained thing.

[@joerusso7851]

I know, how lame.

[@tonycowin]

This is like a child telling his parent there's a monster under his bed and the dad telling him monster don't exist, pulling off the mattress to show him and the kid still says he sees it.

[@LjiljanaPetrovic-ez3sh]

Is This Daniel acting stupid or he is juststupid as a chair

[@andyhodge9703]

Some kids playing with a ouija board and near death experiences . Well you've convinced me , praise the Lord

[@valentino3228]

Convicing an atheist of supernatural events? Is like arguing with a table.

[@wabbitramos2922]

This year is the best year of my life,it's the year I broke away from all forms of religious indoctrination. I'm so happy for myself ❤❤❤

[@bitofwizdomb7266]

Noice !! You are free now . Just be self responsible and accountable for your words and actions 👍🏻 you yourself create your own “heaven or hell “ moment by moment by your choices and actions . It’s all cause and effect . You can’t get around it . Choose wisely 😉 welcome

[@wabbitramos2922]

@@bitofwizdomb7266 thanks..god less

[@Melody.Joy.23]

@@wabbitramos2922 congrats! I left in 2021. 🎉

[@wabbitramos2922]

@@Melody.Joy.23 wow.. congratulations to us ..im so happy for you

[@anthonykenny1320]

Good for you keep up the good work Purge your mind of all religious indoctrination and falsifications We don’t know where we come from we don’t know why we’re here We don’t know where we are going Rejoice in the unknown and unknowable and and refuse to become a junkie on the narcotic of religion

[@GetReide]

"Christianity is the most plausible and unified theory of reality." Yes, he really said that. I'm sad.

[@Volmire1]

Sanji won. Another empty rhetorician bites the dust.

[@cadecampbell5059]

Sanji Kun have you read or seriously considered the work of anybody that opposes your position?

[@cadecampbell5059]

Sanji Kun I’ve always found the word games that believers play with a bit silly, but they can be wonderfully entertaining, nonetheless. It’s like arguing with someone over the specs of a character that was created in some table-top role-playing game. Bro..you’re god is too OP. Nobody is going to play with you if you’re character starts off in God Mode. He’s gotta do a little work first. Complete the dungeon with your whole clan still intact and then we can talk about upgrades, cheats, and achievements lol. But seriously, if your god (emphasis on “your” god, because he shares that title with a variegated flock of cooky monsters, pun intended. It must be pretty cramped up there in that timeless, spaceless, immaterial attic you’ve been describing) exists, why does he have to put in so much effort to get us to believe in him? Maybe your god is just a concept, a belief, an intentional object that has no basis in reality and appears to be “practically” nonexistent. What would happen if you and everyone like you stopped “spreading the word” or “defending the faith”? Do you think god would step in and remind us himself? Yah know, just to take that heavy burden off our shoulders’? My bet is that he’d disappear. My belief is that he wouldn’t step down from that lovely, timeless, spaceless, immaterial perch you’ve squeezed him into and come knockin’ like some apoplectic mafioso slime wondering where the first of the month is at. Try imagining a universe where your god doesn’t exist and never has. And then try imagining the universe you’re living in right now could be such a universe. Then realize that you don’t need to imagine it. 🤗

[@cadecampbell5059]

Sanji Kun I cant see your comment? I just saw the first half of it when it popped up in my notifications, but it looked like a fun read. Can you post it again?

[@cadecampbell5059]

Sanji Kun 😂😂😂 you can’t just declare victory like that. What would stop me from doing the same and being equally justified? I kind of want to know how you have two different definitions for the word “exist” and are able to use these two definitions as interchangeably and whimsically as you have. How can your mind and body operate within the constraints of time and space (I’m sure we can agree on that) and be accepted as an existing entity, and yet a “being” that is timeless and spaceless can also “exist”. How can those two seemingly separate things occupy the same logical and ontological space? Wouldn’t that be a contradiction in terms? Unless we’re redefining “exist” to mean something much grander or more inclusive-if that’s even possible to do without collapsing into madness? I just don’t see why anybody should have to accept your god as “existing” or “real” in the same way I accept you as existing and real just because you’ve defined him or it as such. Is there some as of yet unknown but revealing branch of epistemology that you’ve used to adduce the existence of your god?

[@turkwillingston218]

lol a bunch of grade 9 girls playing with a ouija board is considered evidence? i guess if you believe in God, anything can be evidence

[@uscg1381]

Seeing the face of jesus on a waffle is my favorite.

[@jgunn03]

Lucky gals. I tried a ouija board, VooDoo dolls, prayers to Satan . . . and all I got was this cruddy T-shirt to prove it.

[@Docwiz2]

Turk Willingston Well, it's better evidence than what you have for any other alternative. You guys are basically on the level of the "flat earthers" 1) Natural processes without any guidance from any intelligence, somehow comes to the initial understanding of the physics of "powered" flight for birds and bats. Now, that is a true supernatural miracle. 2) How about another one? creating all life over 4.5 billion years and never once having DNA get corrupted. As you are aware DNA can get randomly mutated and that will cause cancer in cells. Yet, this is a supernatural miracle! 3) How about a third? DNA mutation + Natural selection + 4.5 billion years cannot create new information. Mutation just changes, it doesn't add anything new, therefore Darwin was wrong about all of it. Then you add in epigenetic information which can't get mutated which is needed for the body structure itself. It's pretty much game over. Again, how incredibly supernatural! Are we tired of playing games yet? Live your life to the fullest of course, but be intelligent about it.

[@Docwiz2]

@Meka Leka Himekahineyho Well, people don't become atheists because it's the best choice, they become an atheist to escape judgement on things like self indulgence and all kinds of other things.

[@stylis666]

@@Docwiz2 _...it's better evidence than what you have for any other alternative._ PFWHAHAHAHAHAH It always amazes me how many people think that dumb ass assumptions, arguments from ignorance and wishful thinking are better evidence than (f)actual evidence, but you're definitely taking the cake by literally stating your denial. But let's see how much more stupid you can get. _"1) Natural processes without any guidance from any intelligence, somehow comes to the initial understanding of the physics of "powered" flight for birds and bats."_ _"Now, that is a true supernatural miracle."_ No, that's how nature works. It's like how the particles of water aren't wet and combined in specific ratios, dictated by natural laws, they are. No magic required. _"2) How about another one? creating all life over 4.5 billion years and never once having DNA get corrupted. As you are aware DNA can get randomly mutated and that will cause cancer in cells."_ As you are aware, most people don't get cancer until they have had years to decades of fertility. Cancer doesn't stop evolution. It only shows that all of life is nothing but natural processes. No magic required. It's not a coincidence that we see way less deadly diseases in children of the age of 10. DNA does get corrupted and people who do develop a deadly hereditary disease that would kill you before fertility would simply have a vastly reduced chance of procreating, so that mutation will not be passed on to the next generation. Being prone to get cancer AFTER you have had decades of fertility doesn't stop you from having children, so we should expect cancer and many other age related disease to occur and the longer we live the more of those diseases we'll see. That's evidence of evolution. It's exactly how natural selection works, not how magic works. _"3) How about a third? DNA mutation + Natural selection + 4.5 billion years cannot create new information. Mutation just changes, it doesn't add anything new, therefore Darwin was wrong about all of it. Then you add in epigenetic information which can't get mutated which is needed for the body structure itself. It's pretty much game over."_ You're a fucking idiot. If a gene that makes your eyes brown is mutated when you accidentally impregnate your sister and you probably will, judging by your intelligence, that is new information. You don't have information in your genes to make eyes brown. If a gene mutates from being sensitive to touch or to nothing at all to being sensitive to light, you will get your first proto-eye and it will give you an advantage over your blind predecessors and it added new information, so you will have a greater chance of procreating and every other member of your species that has this advantage will have this increased chance as well, resulting in more offspring with the new information than without, effectively creating a new species that can see, that evolved from a species that can't. If the environment changes so that the blind members of your species can't procreate at all, they will go extinct and the seeing members won't. The seeing members can also spread more easily to other environments where the blind ones could not, etc., etc. No magic required. _"Well, people don't become atheists because it's the best choice, they become an atheist to escape judgement on things like self indulgence and all kinds of other things."_ And you're a mind reader! How amazing, but you're wrong. People are born atheist until they're lied to. People also don't become atheist by choice at all. You can't choose to believe or not believe something, so your 'judgement' is punishing people for the lack of evidence that a god exists and that it is possible to know what it wants, which you seem to think you do and you can't. That's intellectual dishonesty from your part. How do you know a god exists and what it wants? And atheists can't be atheists to avoid 'judgement'(which effectively is petty vengeance for not being gullible enough to believe things without sufficient evidence), because they don't believe that that 'judgement' exists without the god they don't believe exists. Atheists are atheists simply because there is no reason to believe there is a god and thus there is no reason to live as if there is one and to pretend to know what it wants like you do. Atheists are what you would be if you were intellectually honest.

[@coul]

Congrats to Mike for posting this. It takes a lot of guts to publicly humiliate yourself. Ouiji boards and flying trash can lids... LOL

[@dougr8646]

You think they're lying?

[@coul]

@@dougr8646 could be, but I doubt it. It’s probably that they’ve never learned how to think critically and logically. More than anything I think they’re probably lying to themselves, that’s what I used to do

[@i.ai.a5466]

I think it is a language level barrier.... people are more easily convinced by what they can understand and more easily manipulated by what they cannot

[@Replies.Delete.SometimesIDKy]

You cant critically and logically explain something like that...im telling you. Yall just use the "smartest sounding" words and then put together a sentence.

[@johnlile7562]

Don’t give Mike too much credit, he, or whoever controls his channel does delete posts he doesn’t like even if it follows KZbin policy. Mike prefers not to address certain arguments. But that’s ok, Matt humiliated him enough.

[@kublaikhan5633]

It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.

[@potiphajerenyenje6870]

Old but gold

[@Cardiac.Kid81]

So absolutely true 🎉

[@tpu55]

In His infinite chivalry, God only equips His defenders with the very weakest arguments

[@ebizmaster]

Matt is not being fair. My mother always told me it's not fair to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

[@Vyral714]

@@ebizmaster This is gold. Made me laugh out loud

[@ThermaL-ty7bw]

arguments ? what arguments ? incoherent blabbing is all i've ever heard of any of them , just no points in reality what so Ever

[@jamestor6700]

@@ThermaL-ty7bw did you watch the video or even listened to it? they both made arguments just one of them had better ones then the other

[@VestigialHead]

+ tpu55 Hahaha nice. So you are saying that so we atheists do not feel belittled by the powerful intellects and arguments that theists would assert on us, God deliberately weakened their logic and reasoning so we can save face. Unusual but interesting angle on the religious debate.

[@flywillis5684]

Who the hell gave this guy a doctorate? 120% of his evidence are anecdotes.

[@huckthatdish]

Davis Huffman but a coincidence happened and he knew a girl with a ouija board, therefor god

[@Bowl01986]

A doctor in theology though :D

[@TheMozk]

It's a toy-doctorate, he's happy to call himself a doctor, fanatics are happy to listen to an "educated reliable source in PHD", and Sane people understand its bullshit. It works for everyone

[@MrDorbel]

The plural of anecdote is not data.

[@Superman679]

It's a legit doctorate, he got it from Trump University

[@4ndytrout46]

"I have 4 lines of evidence" 1st one... GhOsT sToRiEs... oh boy here we go.

[@Robert_Jacobs]

What I absolutely love about watching Matt debate, is that the simplest logic disassembles every argument

[@mikerodgers7620]

Nope, heathen logic does not.

[@Robert_Jacobs]

@@mikerodgers7620 there is no such thing as “heathen” logic, it’s just logic.

[@mikerodgers7620]

@@Robert_Jacobs Your heathen logic won't win.

[@Robert_Jacobs]

@@mikerodgers7620 it will ALWAYS win against magical, fairy tale folklore. The device you’re using to come online and spout nonsense? A product of logic.

[@mindymild]

@@mikerodgers7620 butt hurt?

[@stevexxx007]

A: Do you believe in God? B: Yes! A: Do you believe in aliens? B: No. A: Why not? B: Because I've never seen one. A: -.-

[@Gwhizzman1]

When we one day have a true, undeniable encounter with a planetary alien species (I do believe they exist) and they have a similar story regarding creation, a moral fall of their nature, and the salvation of that immorality through the sacrifice and resurrection of the moral standard.....I'm going to laugh at you.

[@marxk4rl]

@@Gwhizzman1 Do you believe in Zeus?

[@needs2805]

@@Gwhizzman1 I'm laughing at you now for thinking an alien species would have a similar story.

[@willemrm4033]

@@Gwhizzman1 In that case, they will have plenty of polytheistic, animistic and other stories, reïcarnation, spiritism , astrologie , etc also similar to ours. That doesn't exclude they might have evolved to become atheists. Maybe all of them.

[@betadecay6503]

@G Williams The idea of the fall of morality is ridiculous and nonsensical. If Adam and Eve ate from the 'tree of knowledge of good and evil' how could they possibly sin? Until they eat the fruit and gain the knowledge they cannot possibly know that it is wrong to disobey God. God has never mentioned the concept of sin at this point. He set them up to fail at a game they were incapable of participating in. For a perfect being God failed a hell of a lot of times. Had to wipe out everything a few times and try again only to fuck that one up too. Then he fucked up yet again by telling Noah that never again would he wipe out man. I'll bet he regretted that one when we let him down some more and he had no choice but to sacrifice his only son. Or a better way of viewing it is, when he sacrificed himself, to himself for his own fucking failings. I mean come the fuck on if he was real he'd be fucking tragic. He's like Blackadder and Wile E Coyote had a retarded, narcissistic cunt of a son

[@shortgorilla2057]

"Anyone have a clicker? A wireless clicker? No? Okay thanks. Well Kim played with a ouija board once and talked to a ghost. So... cased closed. Checkmate, Matt."

[@lucasliew4924]

I'm surprised that god can't even work a simple power point slide presentation.

[@55Quirll]

@@lucasliew4924 Even worse, he can't even write a book about himself and creation that everyone could read and understand.

[@mykr0324]

He shoulda prayed more tbf. What a bad christian

[@LuminesBreezer--]

Why ask another for a clicker when God should have either not only known or damn guys; flew down and handed to him?

[@Praise___YaH]

Here is the Original Semitic Text. Guys, HERE is The Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"

[@chansetwo]

Matt's opening statement is a fantastic introduction to critical thinking.

[@pleaseenteraname1103]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I mean if you call conceding the entire debate a fantastic introduction to critical thinking, and constantly dodging then sure.

[@highroller-jq3ix]

@@pleaseenteraname1103 He "conceded" in exactly the same sense that he didn't concede anything at all, but even so, if you were capable of critical thought, you would realize what a non sequitur, emoji-ridden and infantile shriek you posted. What about the farcical resurrection fantasy did he dodge again?

[@pleaseenteraname1103]

@@highroller-jq3ix 32:46 he literally conceded because he said he didn’t come to debate the topic of freaking debate! I mean I don’t know what definition of “ concede” you’re using but I would call saying in the first 30 seconds of your opening statement that you didn’t come to debate the topic, is conceding the debate. Imagine if Licona said that he didn’t come to debate the topic and instead spent his time in his opening statement talking about why he’s convinced of Christianity, and how he became a Christian. I can guarantee that you and the other Dillahunty pathetic sock puppets would be really frustrated, and would be calling him dishonest, but it’s perfectly acceptable and it’s perfectly honest when your daddy Dillahunty Dodge does it. 🤣🤣🤣 oh and don’t lecture me on “critical thought” when you’re the one who isn’t capable of grasping or even having a productive or reasonable conversation about anything related to this topic. Dude you like to just throw out claims without justification, and then you get mad at people for asking you to provide evidence for your claims. Yes he did and I provided the timestamp. Buddy if you had any critical thought whatsoever or you were capable of any critical thought, you would admit Matt is being dishonest and he’s not interested in having an actual debate, or productive discussion. He literally said in the beginning of his opening statement he didn’t come to debate the topic and if that’s what you came for you came to the wrong debate. He literally said he’s not a Resurrection investigator, and he hasn’t studied this topic that much so he can’t really say if there is evidence or there isn’t. Yet he’s going to scrutinize absolutely every single point that Licona’s makes for his case, and say it isn’t sufficient evidence, despite the fact he literally admits he doesn’t even know what would constitute a sufficient evidence to begin with! 🤣🤣🤣 I mean just wow. So do you have anything substantive to bring to the table? Or are you just going to continue to pedal your arrogant nonsense, and troll for fun?

[@craighambling]

​@@pleaseenteraname1103 What do you mean?

[@pleaseenteraname1103]

@@craighambling come again? I’m not sure what you mean I explained in my comment.

[@marcuspi999]

So this part was really upsetting to me. At about 2:19:40. Matt had just finished answering a question by a former church member he knew from his past about what changed him. Matt gave a really well thought out and eloquent, heartfelt, personal explanation that was as good as I've ever heard. Truly great. The instant he finished, Mike just dismissed the whole thing with some rambling nonsense, ignoring the emotional story that was just told. What a tool.

[@VaughanMcCue]

You are so right about Saint Matt of Dillahunty. I felt pangs of pain watching that because I was as gullible as M Dilly in the olden days. I also empathised with that dude from Saint M Dilly's old church. M.Lic can't afford to acknowledge that people come to their senses and leave the superstitious worldview. Let your mind ponder the number of victims in that church who will quit in the next few years. According to Pew Research, churches are closing at a 20% rate. That means 100 have gone, notwithstanding the fence sitters and the domino effect of the leavers also taking others. Recognise that M.Lic is only a *tool* of the system. He takes money from the gullible; earned would be too charitable. Famous actors, musicians, and sports heroes wear fancy-dress and perform to entertain and sell customers good feelings in exchange for money. The significant difference between the entertainment styles is that apologists prey on gullible customers, and their effort is focussed on conflation sensible and decent living with the brand of superstition that generates income. It is worth contemplating the Holy cow, the cash cow of the cabal of thirteen (ish) charlatans who endorse each other's books and video channels. A few mega-churches are raking in big time, and the little clique are clawing back the leftovers. Desperate victims; congregations will never comprehend WLC word salads or master Greek and Hebrew texts, so they resort to conveniently packages of drivel to bolter their diminishing faith. Weapon, weapon of mass delusion, would be a better description than tool.

[@ray_x6959]

@@VaughanMcCue glad you grow in intellectually

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@ray_x6959 Thanks for your kind words. It is more about growing up 1Cor 13. When I discovered my faulty epistemology and quit the superstitious life, I felt sorry for myself for a long time, but others suffered far worse. St-Doug-of-Pine Doug had a recent clip where the honest Sean McDowell explained his situation of having to keep believing (IMO, the unbelievable) because his whole life's infrastructure requires him to maintain a superstitious outlook. The implications of him or any pastor leaving are as frightening and cruel as JW shunning torture. Thank a god for The Clergy Project, as it helps pastors transition to reality when they recognise the folly and deceptive practices of the god industry. Many have good hearts and excellent training to assist everyday people in navigating society's challenging pitfalls. The project helps those victims to use their skills in honest endeavours. BTW, at my departure, I had never heard of the trinity of saints: Dawkins, Dennett, or Dillahunty, and I squirmed through life thinking it was only me who got a glimpse of reality. The truth will set you free, but a judge might decide otherwise. Jn 8;31 Thanks for your interest and contribution. aunt

[@mindymild]

@@VaughanMcCue sorry, I misread your first few comments Totally agree

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@mindymild Thank you for your kind words. It is a sad fact that the apologists are also victims caught up in mythology.

[@fixedguitar47]

Matt starts at 31:40 You won’t MISS ANYTHING!

[@SamI-bs5mm]

Thx i swear this Mike guy has never won a debate ever. This guy is so bad that he struggles against Muslims.

[@netcompany3]

Thank you so much!!! as a fellow Atheist with daddy issues, I never listen to any conflicting arguments to my world view. I already know everything!! I only want to hear things that I agree with. We are so smart as atheists hehehe.

[@dough254]

I was looking for timestamps

[@nathanelder2718]

@NO NAME 00110001001110010011100000110100 Then why do you follow these things and comment on them. What is the fixation?

[@nathanelder2718]

@@netcompany3 Well said my fellow atheist brother. And a thumbs up you have definitely earned from me. He-he-he!

[@burgruk]

Setting the debate aside, I'm giving this video a thumbs up because it's earnestly refreshing to see a video of a debate or highly argued/controversial topic, posted here on KZbin without comment restriction or Likes/Dislikes disabled. Thank you for your openness in letting people in the community share their thoughts and opinions, regardless of what side of an issue they fall on.

[@shawnbydalek4153]

Very true. I applaud Dr. Licona for that reason too.

[@grantkohler7612]

You should give a thumbs up to any video you actually like, that is what is was put there for. Well, that and the KZbin search algorithm. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did too.

[@warlordnipple]

It was rather surprising, usually videos by religious groups have comments off. Doesn't make it seem like they have much confidence in their arguments/followers

[@gssr1]

Honestly the best comment I have seen. I very strongly believe one side, but you are so very spot on. Allowing debate is the most important thing. Anyone who thumbs down you should be beaten and flogged :)

[@DocBree13]

I wholeheartedly agree

[@brydakainma]

Lmao, this dude’s opening argument is literally just “yeah so uh, some guys I know have seen ghosts apparently.”

[@johanfijnvandraat9339]

It’s hilarious that he thinks eye witness testimony is reliable but then forgets wether or not he had spoken to the guy asking the question…

[@tomaasen]

This is the best coment in here😂👏👏👏

[@jesserapkin2660]

a round of applause for Matt because he continues to give his best effort to educate, despite the blatant disregard for the truth from the opposition

[@ChrisJohnson-pc3pd]

what truth are we talking about exactly that he is disregarding?

[@dooganchode9447]

Chris Kounterstrike I read it wrong like you did, they are saying 'congrats to Matt for being able to withstand stupid'

[@notatheist]

Matt rocks!

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

Just thought of a question for these guys: _"How would you describe the supernatural to me, if I was an alien, visiting earth from another galaxy (who happens to understand English)"_ ?

[@Volmire1]

Don't worry Chris, there will be no answer, because most atheists are all rhetoric.

[@556colt]

It is hilarious that Mike is the one that posted this, he should be hiding this video and denying it ever happened. lol Thanks Matt!!

[@LPCLASSICAL]

I am afraid that he most likely thinks he won the debate which is why he posted. Matt in his presentation more or less pre-dismissed everything that Mike said by laying down his principles of sound justification for belief based on examination of the facts. Licona talks about facts but what they boil down to is unhistorical accounts in the bible and anecdotal evidence - results of prayer etc - something Matt debunks week in week out on his AE channel.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

@bmk777k I think the widely accepted meaning of supernatural is that which is beyond or outside of the natural world. I believe in the natural world that I live in and experience - but I don't believe in that which is purported to exist beyond the natural world. Neither do I deny it.

[@coco_bold]

@bmk777k supernatural doesn't mean enhanced natural, it's not like superman. super natural is something defying the laws of natural, something that cannot be explained by the natural laws. As some say it means outside of the natural.

[@coco_bold]

I don't like Mike, he too readily concludes super natural, he wants to believe but after hearing the debate i cannot say he was ridiculed or that he lost. For any believer, Mike's position stayed unscathed. Matt is not Hitchens, Matt exposed his case and explained his position he didn't destroy Mike, there was no KO here or any incredible outcome where people would go suddenly saying i don't believe anymore.

[@rickedwards7276]

bmk777k Nope. Super means above or on top of or outside of. Super natural means outside of the natural world. Think of superposition, or superficial.

[@Pohgrey]

This is hilarious! The backflips Mike goes through to justify his claims actually made me laugh out loud a couple of times, lol.

[@Pohgrey]

Magic is more plausible than aliens! We have far more "evidence" for aliens than we do the supernatural! Ha ha. This is a really fun debate,

[@ceceroxy2227]

I know that was crazy when he didnt believe people could reattach their heads naturally

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@Pohgrey I thought the Mexican wall and ICE stopped the aliens.

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@ceceroxy2227 There are certainly some clever magicians and charlatans that can fool many of us. Look at how much money the god industry provides unimaginable lifestyles to the chosen few.

[@moragslothe6449]

58:30 it's an absolute bile spewing of anecdotal bs and nonsensical ramblings. 🎤 🤡

[@michaelpmcdonald]

At every full stop I find myself asking, "He's a doctor?!"

[@steelcarnivore8390]

Yeah, I can't believe Matt can't even bring a logical argument

[@goto_1032]

@@steelcarnivore8390 oh Matt is the guy on the right btw, think you got them confused there

[@EustaBAracer]

You know schools will give you degrees if you pay for it. Intelligence not necessarily needed.

[@steelcarnivore8390]

@@goto_1032 No, it was intentional, I think Matt is just an idiot.

[@steelcarnivore8390]

@@EustaBAracer I don't know which University you are attending, but if you go to universities outside of USA, your statement becomes invalid immediately.

[@MinhPham0407]

This is not a debate. This is an intellectual humiliation for Mike. How can he be a doctor with this level of irrationality in his thinking?

[@elirane85]

That's because he's not a real doctor. His entire education is in theology.

[@elirane85]

How did you get from my comment that only physicians are "doctors"? You can be a doctor in physics, biology, literature, etc... But, you can also be a "doctor" of homeopathy, so what? And like homeopathy, "doctors" of theology are not real "doctors"......

[@DBCisco]

He has a BA in Saxophone and MS & PhD in Christianity (AKA Bible College). In other words an education in music and bullshitting.

[@DBCisco]

Are you serious , John ? Our Universities are based on the ROMAN trivium and quadrivium NOT Christianity. Note the contribution of Jews to Science and Technology, Does that make Judaism the cause ? Give it a rest. A PhD in Bible Studies is like getting a PhD in Comic books.

[@DBCisco]

Yes, John, I am. Although I admit it is unfair to the comic books.

[@tommykiger1871]

I expected much more from Mike, but he ultimately summed up religious faith - it's just "what if" statements, silly tricks, and 'I know a guy' stories.

[@WA-ge3vz]

But he doesn't just know about guys. There are also "i know a young child" and "I know a woman" stories. Over 300!

[@tonybennett4159]

The worst is the ridiculous "what if" about the beheaded man. How about avoiding, as a talking point, any eventuality that we know is so highly improbable as to be meaningless.

[@robertrosskopf4641]

We can only know God if he reveals himself to us. If you want a real debate, then find someone who has had that experience. In the end you will say that he is crazy or lying, and go on your merry way thinking you have won the debate.

[@ATSaale]

@@robertrosskopf4641 once he reveals himself to me, I'll believe. Pretty simple prospect. Until that day, I literally am not able to believe in a god. I couldn't even do it as a child

[@robertrosskopf4641]

@@ATSaale I understand. Not everyone cares to know the truth. I felt the same way once upon a time. And then one day I did want to know.

[@leviallen9303]

This is the boy who's believed every story he's ever been told.

[@bridgenorton537]

Only the bullshit stories unfortunately

[@Goddamn_heisenberg]

😭😭😭 this is so funny 😭😭😭

[@g1toys2014]

Loved the look on Mike's face after he said nothing would convince Matt in regards to his "head chopped off" scenario to which Matt said would never happen and has never happened. He really thought he got him somehow but the only thing he got was less followers and subscribers. Matt has clearly won this debate.

[@PrometheanRising]

Mike's example, as presented, actually invited natural explanations. He basically described various components of the skillset of James Randi. His argument, shorn of irrelevant details, is 'something happened and I do not know how it happened, therefore supernatural'. This should sound very familiar as it is widely recognized as a logical fallacy when the word 'God' is used at the end.

[@huh7056]

Explain how it wasn't a gotcha moment

[@rey5597]

⁠@@huh7056there was no gotcha to be had. He wanted him to say that an event could be/would be supernatural and Matt didn’t. I don’t think it would have accomplished what he expected even if Matt was willing to say yes.

[@huh7056]

@@rey5597 if my head gets chopped off so im dead now and then it gets reattached and im alive again, you won't call that supernatural? Or when a trash can throws itself up to the wall you won't call that supernatural? Then what is supernatural? And how would you describe these two events? Negative natural? If you can't be convinced these obvious scenarios are supernatural, nothing can and that's a you problem not a real one.

[@blissfuldj7627]

​@PrometheanRising he also added that there would be scars, which implies scar tissue, meaning natural cellular regeneration as opposed to magic bullshit

[@TKD_Link]

Jeeeeeeeez! Ghosts? Really? 10 minutes in, I haven't even heard what Matt says yet, and you've already lost. Epic fail!

[@anarchyintheusa4443]

"Empirical evidence" lmao

[@truestartv9591]

To prove that spirits exist is to prove God exists. Evil and good exist. Satan and God exist

[@zer-op2gq]

@@truestartv9591 not really. There's been many claims of spirits amongst many religions. Even if the supernatural (ghosts, witches, djin, leprechauns) is proven to be true it proves nothing but the claim that's true isn't proof of anything but the claim that's proven true. While I'll admit personally for anything magical to be true would be a huge step, and may convince me. I'm not sure as I haven't seen anything that convinced me of anything supernatural

[@garyskinner2422]

@@zer-op2gq When I was doing my paper round as a kid I had a bizarre experience which to this day I'm now 53 I can't and will never know the answer to, I was delivering a newspaper I was in a tower block, top floor I was around 13/14 years old, my normal paper round I'd done for probably around 8 months and I remember it was around 6 am and winter I was just putting the paper through the letterbox and I suddenly heard this rapid knocking, I swung around and was frozen in fear what what seemed like 30 secs but in reality was probably 3-5 secs the opposite doors letterbox was clacking at such a rate it was incredible I ran through the door to the stairs and jumped every flight of stairs in a single bound all the way down, went to the shop said sorry I won't be back and left lol, had another unusual experience when I was around 8 or 9 also at school, I don't have any clue what it was, i just know what I saw and for years I've gone through all types of things but can't explain it, to return these heavy letterboxes so rapid to be able to knock again someone would have needed to weld an iron rod to be able from the inside to knock the letterbox, when I say rapid I mean seriously fast. Weird shit happens, and I'm a regular guy

[@zer-op2gq]

@@garyskinner2422 I really don't doubt something extraordinary happened. Some may scoff at a mail slot making a ruckus, but to have remembered it for 40 years I'll agree it probably wasn't just the wind or you'd have forgotten it. If we don't know what caused it, and you say yourself you can't explain. I wasn't there so I certainly can't explain it either, but adding an explanation is the same line of thinking of "of course Zeus is real; what else could explain lightning? ". I don't doubt it was something, but that isn't evidence that the answer is supernatural

[@Pranav-rp8wi]

Kudos to Mike for posting this video and keeping comments enabled. Btw Everything he said in the video was laughably weak

[@flyingdog1498]

He posted he knowing that Matt being on it will generate views therefore make money for him. Who watches this to hear this Mike Whoeverheis?

[@BobBob-sf2gb]

Flying Dog, good point

[@avedic]

1:24:00 Everything Licona said following up to that time was....wow. Everything, absolutely everything, Matt said went right...over...his...head. Or so it seems to me. I could be wrong. But it sure came across that way. Then again, Matt was _so_ good in this I sometimes felt oddly sorry for Licona. I did. BUT.....I honestly appreciate that Mike posted this video _and_ enabled voting and comments. That is very very rare in the Christian world. Most of them want desperately for the overwhelming majority of people to be silenced from contributing. So I applaud Licona for doing this. Sincerely.

[@ada2step997]

If you think your stardust why do you care. You care because otherwise it wouldn't make you so angry. The Bible isn't just on book it is 66 books and has filled prophecies.

[@jesussweetbabyjesusbabyswe2610]

That scumbag Ravi Zakatias and Frank Turek often disable comments. It's so weak

[@craigwelton7186]

Bro, I am like 5 minutes in and this dude straight up started talking about Quija boards. 😂

[@craigbikes8831]

Yeah bro I was actually surprised at how stupid his opening statement was. Literally playground-tier storytelling. The ouija board story is literally the most basic Hollywood trope. Some kid repeating some random ghost story and claiming it happened for real is not evidence lmao

[@craigbikes8831]

Im still trying to get through Mikes opening statement as i write this. I cant believe how many christians in the comments think Mike somehow made an argument. His whole argument is, "my friend said she saw a ghost 23 years ago, therefore paranormal experiences are true" Like wtf dude? Thats literally nonsense.

[@blissfuldj7627]

Don't forget, my plane didn't crash, therefore god is real

[@MetalWolfz]

Yeah what about all the unanswered prayers! My father died of cancer at 42 God didn't answer his prayers.

[@Replies.Delete.SometimesIDKy]

Except that wasnt what it was. Your just being disengenuine like all a theists are

[@Replies.Delete.SometimesIDKy]

​​@@MetalWolfzThe word says He doesnt listen to the prayers of the wic ked. Also Hes not obligated to. Also also you dint see the bigger picture while He foes.

[@blissfuldj7627]

@@Replies.Delete.SometimesIDKy shhhhh

[@bighoss1860]

Matt has the patience of a saint.

[@TheCountfilth]

Big Hoss I believe he sais he draws a lot lol

[@zachbarnett9636]

Watch his show. He is way different . Like the guy and agree with him, but whoo is he fiery on TAE.

[@margaritatheodorou]

The irony

[@Hoplasa]

Zach Barnett and this confuses you? this is a formel debate where as TAE is trolls after trolls if not delucional people calling in.

[@zachbarnett9636]

Don't remember saying I was confused.

[@NoelRayland]

With Dr Licona I don't see someone diligently searching for the truth as much as someone desperately scrambling for excuses.

[@jpapan1]

He really is not good at all. He's like a politician. He replies to a question or point...but doesnt answer it. He thinks giving a weak ass reply is just as good/effective as giving an actual solid rebuttal. And based on some comments from believers, he's right. Why waste time with sound replies when weak ass ones will suffice.

[@pleaseenteraname1103]

Except that’s all Matt did he just filibustered the entire time, he didn’t even attempt to give a justification for his beliefs.

[@quintonmason1513]

Back in the late 90's when I was a teen, a well-renown prophetic speaker came to speak at our church. Toward the end of the service, he prophesied over some of the people in the church including the pastor and his wife - who happened to be the parents of my best friend at the time. I remember clearly what he said that day, he prophesied that the pastor and wife would sometime in the near future build and open a massive sports facility in our town and it would attract many people and bring them to God. Roughly ten years later, both the pastor and his wife (with much respect as they were wonderful people) were diagnosed with cancer and not long after that, passed away. How do you go from being two kind and generous people who loved God with all their hearts and served him loyally, being prophesied great things in the future, and then dying in one of the worst possible ways that exist on this earth? How can such an esteemed prophet supposedly in touch with God, stand there and with such confidence prophecy these things of grandeur all to find out years later, not only was it a load of bs, but something completely opposite happened? This is exactly one of the reasons I don't believe in Christianity anymore, it is one big charade, steered by people who make wild claims about the supernatural, ultimately preying on peoples naivety and imagination. Sickening

[@olivieryeung398]

God warns about false prophets, also remember God's word in Hosea: my people are dying because of ignorance. If you keep looking for the truth without the influence of your emotions into the question you'll find it. But most people like you who get emotionally affected and then don't believe in Christianity anymore didn't actually understand Christianity in the first place.

[@ThirdSonSeth]

It’s quite evident that that “prophet” was indeed a false prophet, according to Deut 18:22. And, those people that were faithful servants of God here, this earth is the closest to hell that they ever got. The fact that they got cancer and died is a shame on earth, yes, but they are now experiencing a joy like no other. Remember, the Christian walk is not merely about what happens here on this earth. Jesus even warns against storing up treasures for ourselves here. Our true home, as Christians, is in Heaven. The day that I die is the day the sorrows stop, the day that the tears will be wiped from my eyes, the day that I will finally see the Lord that loved me enough to die for me. In this life, we are promised to have trouble, but we are of good cheer, because He has overcome the world. I wonder why the good die young as well. Nabeel Qureshi, a great man and apologist, passed from stomach cancer. He went on from this world to the next, where he is no longer in pain, and he is with the Lord. I wondered often about this, why God would take someone so good, so soon. But I know for certain that I wouldn’t do him the disservice of bringing him back, out of the paradise that is God’s presence. I get your troubles, believe me, but remember, their goal as servants of the Lord was not to be well off here, but to live in His presence.

[@ivancal123]

You are right. The religious leaders in many cases are delusional or in others openly deceptive. They traffic in the lucrative market of hope and when everything goes bad, is your fault because you didn’t have “enough faith”. All is pure BS.

[@nineofnine]

Bullshit...i asked god yesterday bout you and he said he doesn't like you and never did...its the sins ya see, spilling of the seed to be precise...😜🤪😜

[@anthonymarlowe6986]

​@@ThirdSonSethNo pagan Jewish imaginary been Jesus a fictional characters never existed. Warned peoples beware of false prophets Matthew 7-15 yet falsely prophesied his return second coming of Judgement day 2000 years ago CE never happened Matthew 16-27 28 it's evil zionist lies in the pagan zionist bible.

[@blacbraun]

People like Licona just cannot say "I don't know". My pastor brother is the same way. They think saying I don't know is sitting on the fence. They just don't get that "I don't know" is correct sometimes and more correct than sticking a supernatural element into it.

[@ForgedinPrint]

I don't know means a question that god alone cannot fix. Makes them think about their beliefs too much I think.

[@dennisjordan5917]

I wonder if he was forced to post this video or if he is delusional enough to think he actually did well here.

[@theyeticlutch3486]

The latter, almost guaranteed...

[@mrpeace8820]

His god told him so. Hahahah

[@cycytries]

I haven't watched the video yet, but apparently, an atheist converted to Christian after seeing this video. 🤔

[@mobilegamersunite]

The guy is delusional for sure! Ghost stories about trash can lids moving.... delusional wishful thinking of a dumbass.....and the only reason I call him a dumbass is because he's trying to pass his delusion on to other people, instead of keeping his crazy bullshit to himself...dumbassery loves company I guess

[@mobilegamersunite]

@@cycytries plz don't watch the vid! We can't loose you too LMFAO 😂🤣💀

[@stevefrenchize]

Some atheist experience callers have made better arguments than this guy

[@blueheron9060]

Right? This was pathetic. My friend saw a ghost therefore magic is real.

[@susanthroop7041]

Like what? That's an empty assertion.

[@Philitron128]

@@susanthroop7041 Saying that some people claim to have seen ghosts is not an argument lol

[@robergarcia11]

@@susanthroop7041 His whole argument was the god of the gaps, saying that something is supernatural because it cannot be proven by our current understanding. Saying that some callers from AE have better arguments is not just a justified assertion, it is an understatement.

[@zu3bikil]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@futilitarian3809]

Re. Mark's beheading metaphor: If people were shown a Tesla Coil in operation before they were aware of the existence of harnessed electricity, they would likely jump to the conclusion that something supernatural was occurring (especially if the person in control of the coil claimed they and/or the device were supernatural). They would have no other explanation. Matt's point is that we can be shown something that entirely defeats our knowledge of what is possible, but that it is still not reasonable to appeal to the supernatural out of ignorance (to do so is a kind of argument from incredulity).

[@qbarnes1893]

I’ve had my own experiences that I cannot explain, I’ve also had a near death clinical event that also cannot be explained, not one of these events gave me any belief that there is a supernatural power at work, not one. I’m alive today because of humans nature to save life, and I’m so grateful for those individuals intervention. In my opinion, no god was intervening, I experienced nothing, was not aware I was becoming deceased. No amount of claiming or reciting from a book, written by humans will change my stance on faith, unless proof can be provided and that proof has to be confirmable by facts.

[@roisin9401]

apologist’s opening statement: -some people think they see ghosts -the bible is a historical document and the people in the bible said the bible is pretty legit

[@getbennt]

art kid the people in the bible said they thought it all up, they didn’t say they were told!

[@raw_oyster]

Haha. Sums it up 😆

[@joaotadeufontes9008]

Yeah watching apologists debate isn't much fun, there's other guys like John Lennox make for pretty good debates

[@ada2step997]

The Bible is clear that demons can fool people. There was a news cast about these kids that came to school with bruises on them. The cops were called to the house and a social worker. When they got inside the kids were walking up the wall backwards. You can look it up!

[@jonfromtheuk467]

@@ada2step997 how come it wasn't world news then? proof of the Devil? maybe milk prices had gone up a cent and that was deemed more news worthy? LOL you are soooooooo gullible. OK I watched this. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/possession-ghost-demon-house-hell-13465790 Its all hearsay, no actual evidence whatsoever , just some actors and some special effects, with people who seemingly want their 20 minutes of fame and everyone in the deep south( what another shock) are spookily enough ALL believers - see what I did there? grow up - its 2020 .

[@baphnie]

At least Mike managed to convince himself.

[@samuelpope7798]

LMAO!

[@amelialin8877]

@ "Who sings best?" (1)Christ followers: Shot to the LORD, all the earth 🌎. Let us sing. Power & majesty, praise to the KING 👑... (2) Atheist Church: Shot to the VOID, all the earth 🌎. Let us sing. Power & majesty, Praise to NOTHING! Christian Conclusion: Philipians 1:21 To live is CHRIST, & to DIE is GAIN. ___ Athiest:To DIE is NOTHING

[@thomasdowling6594]

Amelia Lin this is the problem: how do you KNOW 1) that there is an afterlife 2) that Jesus is in the afterlife. Even if you could demonstrate that supernatural occurrences exist, it still wouldn’t tell us anything about any one particular religion, be it Christianity Hinduism or Islam.

[@baphnie]

Amelia Lin A little song has you convinced.... really?

[@JB-jr8zw]

Snide comment? Good for you ..

[@JesusGarcia-bu7tf]

“Paul was a skeptic” and in same sentence “he believed it was god’s will to destroy the movement…” lol

[@langolier9]

That last question was incredibly significant. I don’t know how anyone could argue against the fact that religion has caused more harm death suffering throughout world history than anything else nothing is worse than religion for the lives of peoples and happiness.

[@j.gairns]

Wow, Matt utterly slaughtered Mike Licona. It was cringey.

[@bindjacrowetoge2975]

Ambrose Bierce really how, it was pretty even

[@Sophia_Tal]

@@bindjacrowetoge2975 yeah those anecdotes were totally convincing....

[@bindjacrowetoge2975]

J PrOvost just y’all opinion

[@j.gairns]

@@bindjacrowetoge2975 Even? Licona was talking about resurrection (fantasy) the and Matt was talking about rational thinking (reality). Once *anyone* can prove a god is even possible and that it can circumvent natural laws (for which there is zero evidence) that apply to everyone except it, and that these things are even possible ... yeah, won't be holding my breath for anything like that nonsense

[@bindjacrowetoge2975]

@@j.gairns But no one disproved anything, neither matt nor mike so saying that mike was destroyed is absurd

[@t8060am]

If Mike got Scooby-Doo on the case; chances are most of his apparitions and spirits would end up being Old Man Jenkins!. He would have gotten away from it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!

[@jonathanserino6128]

And their stupid dog too!

[@faithschwenck2975]

LOL I think Mike sounds slightly like Scooby Doo every few seconds. Maybe like Scooby's cousin or something. Like the way his voice is. Does anyone else hear it?

[@dwagneriowa]

Meddling scientists, that is.

[@pocketsjuicy3444]

Is it so hard to imagine there's a lot of liars in the human race?

[@bizambo100]

Or people who hallucinate or mistake dreams for reality, etc.

[@lutkedog1]

@@bizambo100 That is how Paul made up Jesus you forgot "Hit by Lightning

[@thefub101]

Mike has to be the most gullible human being in existence 😅

[@SNORKYMEDIA]

his paycheck depends on it

[@49perfectss]

I don't know... I heard of a guy whos virgin wife told him that a god impregnated her so she never technically cheated...

[@kittenkillzu]

The best part of all this is realizing that this video is on Mike's channel.

[@justincase1660]

I think mike is now an atheist.

[@Ajinzem]

It's also sad. It shows how little attention he has paid and how full he is of himself. The delusion he is caught in and the inability to recognize his ignorance.

[@edwardofhydeiii666]

You can't tell from the comments

[@Keevthe8thLordunderChristJesus]

that's how I felt when I was on Matt's channel.

[@erikjohnson3859]

@@Keevthe8thLordunderChristJesus Name one thing Matt is delusional about. Go ahead, I'll wait.

[@scottreynolds2466]

My dad told me when i was a kid, "I would never be a Catholic! Ever notice in the movies they are the only ones that get possessed or haunted?"

[@bms77]

scott reynolds they’re the only ones ever portrayed as the “religious” characters in general

[@cryptozoology7]

Yeah they’re crazy they are even ok with their children being raped.

[@robertrosskopf4641]

The Catholics represent all Christians, as far as Hollywood is concerned. I know from personal experience that it doesn't just happen to Catholics.

[@sammysam2615]

Perhaps that's due to the character being catholic and what that character believes. Yet not once has any claim of a possession or haunting ever been proven as true.

[@patriley1026]

A man gets drunk in a bar and sees his dying mother. Therefore: God exists!!!

[@DefenderoftheCross]

Nice strawman.

[@atheisth5066]

@@DefenderoftheCross thats literally what ghe story was its not a strawman

[@jamesm1580]

@@DefenderoftheCross You clearly don't understand what a strawman is.

[@AkanoWire]

also there is a major difference between these two: If the dude loved Cleopatra or not has no impact on people, who cares. its historians describing what happened, the closest to what really happened as possible, nothing more Jesus being resurrected and many other claims are used to force your believe on other people. You tell people, they are not allowed to love each other, you tell them what to do with their body, you are making peoples lifes worse, thats the problem

[@Trid3nt861]

I used to believe in religion because of intimidation of hell and fear of it... Then I listened to George Carlin..... and began to question my beliefs..... then I opened my mind and questioned the bible.... fast foward later on... I am religion free and a atheist.

[@bucketheadkfc]

@John TheAgnostic I understand what you are saying but in the Bible God is described in that way many times. Jacob wrestled God in Genesis, therefore God is a man. Most Christians think that Jesus is God (even though he never claimed to be God). If Jesus is God and his BODY ascended to heaven, then God is literally a man in the sky. God has always been thought of as a man, and heaven has always been thought of as a place in the sky. I do agree that "man in the sky" is an oversimplification of theist beliefs that is used to ridicule and poke fun, but it can be useful in shedding light on silly beliefs. If a Christian says "I don't believe in something as ridiculous as an invisible man sitting in the clouds, I believe...", then they may try and compare their own beliefs in an attempt to show how their beliefs are more rational than that, and in doing so, might realize that their beliefs about God are no more rational than believing in the "invisible man in the sky."

[@seanjones2456]

I pray to Joe Pesci also, may he get things done! amen

[@CTRS777]

Same. Used to be legitimately scared of hell. Losing that fear is the best part of transitioning to atheism.

[@eziocucit6276]

mechaart - well done, you started to use your brain properly - wish there were more like George Carlin , Chris Hitchens , Matt Dillahunty etc - all those atheists which have (or had) a very high I.Q. have got the pathway to truth , unlike theists with their "faith" that has no substance. Religion is pure slavery.

[@darin1701]

@@eziocucit6276 bull crap

[@ColonelCommissar]

i think mike licona is confusing 4 lines of evidence with 4 outlandish claim with no proof whatsoever

[@Fendelfull]

Mere claims in a book for the veracity of the claims contained in the book. That anyone continues not to understand how inane this proposition to be is a kind of testimony in itself for how underdeveloped we are as a species at this point in our history -- in how ill-prepared we are for the existential implications of our age, and how likely we are to survive this big test that lies at the heart of fermi's postulate. I really would've thought we'd prove ourself worthy of at least level 3, but the dark ages seem to have got us good, pa, and we're not going to shake that hell hound that drags us still to our knees, soon to the very ground where he'll tear out our entrails and prevent us from that cosmic field trip. I expect this isn't an uncommon fate for worlds whose most sentient and self-aware creatures contend inevitably with the remnants of their primal, collective pathologies that without exception would folllow the species' reaching of the ends of their respective earth's and precede that 2nd conundrum of awakening beyond which so much potential for transcendence might shimmer only inches from their reach, but without their knowing of it will present nothing less than doom and horror, a bloody and gore-spitting apocalypse of self-cannibalizing that -- in the absence of their gods, poorly retired -- will prove the promised annihilation properly fulfilled by those gods' faithful subjects and zealous acolytes -- their imminent liberation quietly twisted like fragrant buds from spring branch by pollen-stained fingers and crushed into vanishing meaninglessness beside the tombs of their greatest works, never any further interest to pique before the dust of dust to eternity becomes, hardly an Olmec sentinel in the wilderness to witness when breaches of the Gulf by simulacra of third age do traverse, finding only dung beetles skittering somewhere between stone and iron, or bronze at best, memories of the Old Ones hardly scenting the archetypes that connect the beetles to a lineage that clicked underfoot of those same Ones who might've made sense of these hulking, damp and aromatic tourists that step so carelessly among these most advanced of sentient dwellers of earthly substrate -- not knowing, of course, of those descendants of the atlantic porpoise who eschew such calls to attention and thereby escaped the trials of the 2nd by sheer accident of the briny iodine-shot confluence where heavy amazon unfolds into crashing atlantic, salt crystalline barriers to half-life their unremembered bulwark yet standing. But everybody knows this.

[@bobjoe3492]

@@Fendelfull The bible is true because the bible says it is though!!!!!!

[@Fendelfull]

Bob Joe oh, I didn’t realize. This is quite convincing. Ok, I’m sold. Guess I’m a Christian now. How do I start this thing? I have a lot of personal stuff I need to get rid of first, I guess. And does my involuntary baptism from my christening still hold? Or do I need to renew that shit?

[@bobjoe3492]

@@Fendelfull You can start by acting like you read the Bible, but in reality you only read the good parts about it. Then, you need to base your morals loosely around what the Bible says. Remember, not entirely though, because the Bible says slavery is good but we don't do that now, so that's a part you can ignore.

[@Fendelfull]

@@bobjoe3492 Darn, but thanks for letting me know, because I'd already had my eye on one dude that owes me a little cheddar and whom I could justify counting as a slave. But if that's a faux pas among acceptable modern day practice and if you're sure they wouldn't approve, I'll cancel my order for duct tape and zip-ties and schnapps until I come up with some other justification.

[@aussie187]

This is the funniest debate ever 😂 someone get Matt a beer because I can only imagine what’s going through his head

[@wheelnerds3002]

You mean a Coke Zero 😂

[@ceceroxy2227]

Probably dreaming of some men dressed like women

[@tannermclaughlin2653]

Sorry you're not smart enough for logic

[@zacharyberridge7239]

@@ceceroxy2227 first, you're a jerk. Second, who cares?

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@ceceroxy2227 Is your Freudian slip showing, or is it part of your dress?

[@eduarchavarria]

Matt is simply brilliant. Mike is using the "god of the gaps" fallacy and calling it by another name.

[@Finckelstein]

Not only that, he dares bring up "Nature of the gaps" - as if his infantile belief in a super space wizard could be compared to the explanatory power of natural processes. Utterly absurd that we even have to deal with such people in the 21st century.

[@valerieprice1745]

Silly rabbit. With God, there are no gaps. You are listening to a man who says he can't know anything. You will learn nothing from know nothings.

[@Rising_Pho3nix_23]

This debate in a nutshell: Mike: Miracles exist Matt: Show me one Mike: If xyz happened, would you call that a miracle Matt: I don't know, probably not, but let's find out. Show me Mike: No I can't. I already proved that xyz happened and was a miracle and showed it to you in a thought experiment. You just have to have imagination. What about abc event Matt: I don't know, probably not, but let's find out. Show me Mike: No I can't. I already proved that xyz and abc happened and was a miracle and showed it to you in a thought experiment. You just have to have imagination. What about def event Matt: You keep giving examples of things that you cannot provide. Do you have anything you can actually provide Mike: No. But miracles exist Matt: Show me one Mike: If def happened, would you call that a miracle Matt: I don't know, probably not, but let's find out. Show me Mike: No I can't. I already proved that xyz,abc & def happened and was a miracle and showed it to you in a thought experiment. You just have to have imagination. What about ghi event Matt: You keep giving examples of things that you cannot provide. Do you have anything you can actually provide Mike: No. But miracles exist Matt: What rational justification do you have to believe that they exist Mike: Because I believe that they exist Matt: So you believe they exist BECAUSE you believe they exist and that CONVINCES you that you're right? Mike: Yes. And that proves that I'm right. Miracles exist. Matt: Show me one Mike: No I can't. What about jkl event Matt: -.- I'm done with this clown. See ya guys later. ^^^^ Every single religious debate in history. Exchange the word "miracle" for whatever the debate topic is, and you have ALL religious debates. A clown making a claim, refusing to back it up, a nonbeliever asking questions, getting the runaround, and then the clown making more vacuous claims devoid of substance or example. The religious clown will then complain about their feelings rather than the subject matter when the nonbeliever simply asks for proof of the claim. The holy book is the claim, not the proof nor the evidence. The book cannot prove itself and you cannot start any rational thought with the conclusion as one of the foundational assumptions leading to the conclusion. I have watched hundreds of these professional debates held with professional debaters, moderators, formats and timers. It was these debates themselves that convinced me that there were no miracles, or gods. The fact that a believer became a nonbeliever because the professional believer did such a poor job, is very telling. EVERY truth anxiously waits to be discovered. NO lies will want to be discovered. Want to know who is lying to you? Look to the one who enjoys secrecy. Who legislates lack of inquiry or faith into rule.

[@briannewton3535]

That was funny 😂

[@fishdawn1804]

Dude! I laughed my butt out on this. That was funny, but its really ironic and it was a lost battle for Mike because he provided non evidence at all. He was trying so hard to demonstrate his evidence by a very lousy and stupid hypothesis which cannot even be categorized as qualitative.

[@holdingtonfarley4444]

25 lines of text is not "in a nutshell"...

[@aldillion9]

Hi Brandon, check out some of the videos at Speakers Corner, London dealing with Atheists, Muslims, and Christians...

[@UFOs978]

A long coment

[@daveeirikid6974]

Ghost stories from a friend are this guy's argument WTF.

[@Duras80]

Yea these are the same people who think that bible is a scientific fact! LoL

[@cuteflygon]

Lol then my dreams can also be evidence.

[@AsixA6]

@David Stanton *Is that how you convinced yourself a 'god' or 'devil' exists? Just kept your eyes closed tight and kept saying over & aver again that there is such a thing as 'gods' or a 'devil'?*

[@harrispinkham]

But dude, like, people SAID they experienced ghosts! 🙈🤣

[@GuitarDog_atx]

@@princesswarriorjp175 If what you said is true, why did it take millennia for these scientific discoveries to be made? The bible is not a science book. It implies a flat earth and explicitly shows geocentric cosmology.

[@marcuspi999]

Once scientists understand the supernatural, it merely becomes the natural. Stuff like lightning or viruses were once in the realm of supernatural until we understood it. That's why the "I don't know" stance is so important, rather than attempting to fill in our ignorance with mythology out of fear.

[@sarahtonin4649]

This is just sad. An honest search for truth is impossible when you've already decided what the truth is, because then all your efforts are to ignore or deny anything that doesn't support your belief, and latch on to anything that can, by any twist of logic, support your belief. Religious people's fear of the unknown allows beliefs that are barely more reasonable than a child's belief in Santa Claus. "This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.” - Sam Harris

[@andrewedis9907]

I see he mentioned near death experience. I feel pretty qualified to weigh in here. I've died on 2 separate occasions, as in clinically dead. The longest was for about 2 and a half minutes, any longer than this and my brain being starved of oxygen would have received damage. Just to be clear I had no heart beat and if it wasn't for the paramedics I wouldn't be here today. Would you like to know what I saw or what happens after you die? Well I can tell you from personal experience that NOTHING happens after you die, you're dead.

[@kevinlove8983]

Andrew Edis scripture says it is appointed once for a man to die and then the judgement and just because your heart stops does not mean your dead. your heart is an organ and is physical life is entirely different life is the person inside your body the one that reasons thinks makes choices the person you cannot see like the words that come out of your mouth you cannot see them you can only hear them and everyone is accountable to God for every word thought and action done in the body your body will go in the ground and decay or be cremated but your soul will go to either heaven or hell that's up to you if you believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ then heaven if you reject the Lord and what he has done for you then hell. the choice is yours God will not force you to believe him. the life of Jesus Christ is all the evidence needed now whether you believe it or not this truth will never change the devil is the deceiver deceiving people right into hell yet God sent his only begotten son Jesus who lived a perfect sinless life and laid down his life for us because God Loves us don't reject his Love for you and your family

[@andrewedis9907]

Kevin Love So all those words you typed and all the words you could've possibly typed you choose to go with what basically is a threat. (Believe this or burn in hell) What kind of person does that make you?

[@kevinlove8983]

Andrew Edis that's what God says he made a way of escape for you when he sent Jesus It's not a threat just truth.

[@andrewedis9907]

Kevin Love "Truth" according to you

[@kevinlove8983]

Andrew Edis no truth according to the bible

[@prerecordedresponse9884]

So basically his only arguments are emotional appeals based on anecdotal situations. Lovely.

[@4ctmam]

Well, yeah, he was arguing for resurrection, the existence of god, etc. There really are no other arguments for that. I mean, there are no argument for that as these aren't actual arguments.

[@ada2step997]

You obviously didn't listen! He gave historical facts. The Bible isn't just one book but it is 66 books written over thousands of years. It has filled prophecies. Why do you care anyway since you think that you came from stardust. The Bible is clear that demons can fool people. There was a news cast about these kids that came to school with bruises on them. The cops were called to the house and a social worker. When they got inside the kids were walking up the wall backwards. You can look it up!

@@ada2step997 what prophecies? Wars, plagues, diseases, earthquakes? Things that have happened and are happening every single day since these" prophecies " were written?..3rd time you've mentioned that bullshit story about kids walking up walls, let it go. It never happened, because it can't happen..Tell you what, I will look it up right now, I'm gonna type in Google " police/welfare officers witness kids walking up walls ". If it happened or was reported in some tin pot, 3rd word religious country, credibility will drop accordingly, like stories of stigmata and bleeding statues only happens in Catholic countries.. but just this once, I'll put my skepticism aside and look up these child wall walkers

[@ada2step997]

@ first of all the Bible is not just one book it's 66 books okay that's a little library. Harvard University has a Bible college they don't have a Harry Potter school. After the resurrection of Jesus he appeared in front of over 500 people. Delusion is when one person see something. the people that wrote the Bible actually spent time with Jesus walked with Jesus ate with Jesus. You believe nothing created everything. That's like planting a lollipop stick in the ground and hoping for a lollipop tree. Who do you think started universities in the hospital's it was Christians. There are less people that are atheist. The Bible has tons fulfilled prophecies. These prophecies are very specific. You can't predict the future but God can and did. The Bible even predicted being destroyed and the Jews being scattered all over the world and coming back as coming back as a nation in one day and it did. Isaiah prophesied that Israel would become a nation again and that it would happen in one day! Bible passage: Isaiah 66:7-8 Prophet: Isaiah Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC Fulfilled: 1948 DID YOU KNOW - God used what Hitler did during WWII, to bring about TWO of His end times prophecies? It's true! In Isaiah 66:7-8, the prophet (1) foreshadowed the re-birth of Israel, and, just like the Bible says - (2) it happened "in one day." The woman giving birth before going into labor represents Israel. This accurately describes what happened on May 14, 1948 - when "the world" briefly felt sorry for the Jews and returned Israel to them and they were able to declare independence for Israel as a united and sovereign nation for the first time in 2,900 years. During that same day, the United States issued a statement recognizing Israel's sovereignty. And, only hours beforehand, a United Nations mandate expired, ending British control of the land. During a 24-hour span of time, foreign control of the land of Israel had formally ceased, and Israel had declared its independence, and its independence was acknowledged by other nations. Modern Israel was literally was born in a single day.

[@dentyx]

@@ada2step997 demons are not the only thing that can fool people, the bible has to be right up there as far as fooling people goes..

[@charlesmadison1384]

Albeit that this debate video is about two hours too long, it is a KZbin gem !!! It should be preserved as a case study for students of Psychology to provide evidence of a corrupted human brain that manages to otherwise function in society. Mike Licona, I hope you get the help you so desperately need.

[@Nameless-pt6oj]

I hope you learn to stop bullying people you disagree with.

[@ARoll925]

​@@Nameless-pt6ojin which way are they bullying anyone?

[@i.ai.a5466]

Dunno ... but when he said that it was bullying I suddenly thought that I should have felt offended so now I am Offended. I am just waiting for someone to tell me why... maybe I should turn to the bible for answers

[@johnboy992]

It's more of a childish insult to call someone who believes in the truth mentally ill or as he says it "corrupted human brain" you can lie to yourself to make yourself feel better or to be less afraid but that darkness is still out there

[@ARoll925]

@@johnboy992 please demonstrate how what licona said is true, just cause you said it doesn't make it so, and trash can lids are not a demonstration of god or Christianity being true

[@caseyspaos448]

I just finished listening to Mike's opening statement. I predict Matt's response; anecdotes and claims are not evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[@superfly2449]

I once saw a cat glow in the dark. I looked away, looked back, and it was gone! That was the best marijuana I’ve ever had. So far. edit-Licona seems like a nice enough guy, but it makes me sad to realize that he thinks anything he’s saying makes sense.

[@kenbrunet6120]

Therefore we can now teach people that cats have the ability to vanish into thin air

[@cipndale]

@@kenbrunet6120 You had your chance to shut up and you miss it.

[@kenbrunet6120]

@@cipndale Mindless hate. good job.

[@dontforgettolike7127]

Lol and you just looked at it like, "....huh.... that's weird..." As opposed to, "WTF A GLOWING CAT!!!"

[@lucasliew4924]

Deja vu says Neo

[@GreenLulz]

Paraphrasing Mike: "People saying they were abducted by aliens are likely confused because it couldn't possibly be an alien abduction because that is massively improbable given what we know about reality. No, it's way more likely that they experienced a spiritual disturbance from the supernatural realm!" *facepalm* The dude is just too far gone into his religion. All of his thoughts are tainted by irrational theistic nonsense.

[@kenbrunet6120]

He makes money based on these blatant contradictions. Im not sure if im angry or jealous.

[@enki3439]

@Jubei Yang check out Apex tv.

[@christopherianlister5212]

indeed, the special pleading is so silly and this would b true even if god was real...

[@presidentobummer447]

The guy is awesome, his whole shtick is "we don't have a natural explanation for the lightning strike that someone thousands of years wrote about, so it must be a supernatural thing caused by Zeus!".

[@bizambo100]

“Nature of the gaps” is the stupidest thing ever. It completely overlooks the historical evidence that shows science advancing and pushing back supernatural claims, and the opposite never happening.

[@brockstanford7608]

Mike: "I don't believe in aliens because that is implausible". Also Mike, "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus because that is implausible!"

[@MrTheclevercat]

@Psicólogo Miguel Cisneros No one has ever been resurrected. Do you know what the term "plausible" means so that you could figure out what "implausible" means? There is no reason to believe it ever happened. That's what makes it implausible.

[@davidarbogast37]

​@@psicologomiguelcisneroscan you prove that the resurrection is plausible? Remember the resurrection is the claim therefore it has the burden of proof.

[@keagankrossman]

@@psicologomiguelcisnerosLol wut? That was a stupid question.

[@ThirdSonSeth]

@@davidarbogast37 I mean, you’re still “claiming” that Jesus died. Show us a body.

[@ramigilneas9274]

@@ThirdSonSeth So… whenever a corpse is missing a resurrection is suddenly plausible? This means that there might be many millions of potentially resurrected people out there.😂

[@johnchristiansen9095]

Seeing Matt debate in a church is awesome

[@75Built]

Dude! Adding up all the bad evidence...does not equal "good evidence."

[@ada2step997]

The Bible is clear that demons can fool people. There was a news cast about these kids that came to school with bruises on them. The cops were called to the house and a social worker. When they got inside the kids were walking up the wall backwards. You can look it up!

[@jonfromtheuk467]

@@ada2step997 YOU KEEP ON POSTING THE SAME COMMENT ??????? Look a claim without any evidence but believed by fellow believers in the deep south , is not evidence . And if Satan is the one person who knows gods ultimate maximal power why does he tweak gods nose every nanosecond of the day across the world simultaneously ? .....worse still when a child is being raped god knows in ADVANCE that it will happen as he is omniscient remember , but chooses to do nothing about it. He just closes the door and tells the guy , hey, help yourself to another 7 year old, but boy, when you eventually die it will be bad for you............................unless...............before the lethal injection in jail and after a meal of fried chicken you accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, and then you can join us in heaven. You people are deranged.

[@dacksonflux]

THANK YOU

[@theonebegotten]

A bunch of pieces of weak evidence do lead to strong evidence

[@NA-vz9ko]

Bob Usualis not necessary. Separate evidence needs to have reliably connected records which all need to have strong evidence. Just because many people have weak evidence for aliens, their stories do not “combine” to make aliens a more reliable theory.

[@HighStakesDanny]

Thanks for leaving the comment section open.

[@TheCASSMAN777]

Matt Dillahuhty is one of the worst atheist apologists. He doesn't respond to arguments or evidence. He just ignores them and asserts that they are not evidence, without demonstrating why they should not be considered evidence. He just says that "he's not convinced," which does nothing to prove his position.

[@noamaster3898]

I can't believe he came armed with stories about floating trash can lids and ghosts.

[@mobilegamersunite]

Well what else could he even bring to the table? Just imaginary bullshit that proves he's a dumbass and believes in things that are made up....my goodness it would suck to be a slave to stupidity

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

If that's the best supernatural "evidence" he has the supernatural is fucking boring lol

[@johnd.shultz7423]

Once you open the door to magical thinking then Anything is possible/superstition feeds on itself....

[@davidbermudez7704]

john d. shultz So you magically believe the Universe pop into existence from nothing, by nothing and for nothing

[@noamaster3898]

@@davidbermudez7704 Notice that it's you who "magically believes the universe popped into existence from...GOD." And do you think something as supremely intricate and powerful as GOD is excluded from your implicit suggestion that things can't come into existence without a designer?

[@perrosuelto200111]

I love how Mike Licona keeps going back to that moronic example of “if I were beheaded in front of you and then came back with my head back on my body...” - Then in the end he brings it up for the umpteenth time, Matt just says, “when that happens, get back to me and I’ll investigate it.”

[@steelcarnivore8390]

Yeah, I know Matt was just an idiot all the way lmao

[@brockstanford7608]

Has Mike never been to a magic show? People are sawed in half all the time, and come back all alive. Super Natural!

[@anujagarwal7992]

@@steelcarnivore8390 this logic thing is a pain in the ass, ain't it?

[@BScott7220]

But Matt's response was weak. He basically became Sye Ten Bruggencate, but for atheism.

[@goto_1032]

@@BScott7220 not really. Matt was basically just taking a position of not accepting the supernatural claim as it has insufficient evidence. Whereas Sye actively asserts that the supernatural exists and that we all already believe in it.

[@Daniel-ss7vh]

I don't understand why Matt didn't mention that in Licona's reasoning. Everything we can't explain yet according to science so can legitimately be attributed to the supernatural.

[@joelrivardguitar]

Mike keeps talking about how historians can verify the resurrection through multiple accounts yet the actual historians he debated, Richard Carrier and Bart Ehrman made clear cases against the gospel narratives being historical. Both also said this opinion is held by most in their field.

[@Miownd]

What amazes me is the level of dishonesty required for mike's bs arguments. One person is being truthful and one person is talking about stuff he doesn't understand therefore god.

[@yasmin88ish]

“Dr” Licona’s friend Kim ‘s trash can lid levitated across the kitchen during a Ouija Board session 23 years ago. Therefore we have proven without a doubt that Jesus was resurrected. Brilliant !

[@geoengr3]

It was Schrodinger's cat trying to get out...also Kim was really high on shrooms at the time...

[@justincase1660]

thats the point where i saw the light and converted ! from sitting to falling to the floor ! yeah that was as low as ive ever heard for evidence of god.

[@brianpottiebeardedchild]

Shabnam Hossein Yeah that’s what he said! You nailed it! #sarcasm He used that as one example for a supernatural realm

[@ramigilneas9274]

Brian Pottie Yeah, he demonstrated that his standard for evidence of the supernatural and for the stories of the Bible is so ridiculously low that he wouldn’t be able to function in society if he accepted the same standard in every other situation.😂

[@justincase1660]

@@ramigilneas9274 ayep. same ol story. every time. created every thing but needs people that can only know as much as me or you. that's my ending point . any way.

[@questioneverything7011]

Damn… I genuinely appreciate Matt’s story towards the end.

[@craigbikes8831]

Sorry, maybe I'm missing something because I'm right at the beginning of the video. But did the Christian guy really start his argument with "23 years ago teenagers played with a Ouija board"? What? Wait, what? Is this a joke?

[@Thornspyre81]

NOOOOOBODY prayed for a wireless clicker??

[@jrasicmark1]

Lol! He shouldn't have needed a microphone either, God should have made his voice carry without it.

[@whitneyhudson2395]

😂

[@Thornspyre81]

@@jrasicmark1 Hahaha exactly!

[@deluxeassortment]

You'd think this circumstance would be a prime candidate for a miracle!

[@carlpen850]

Well if prayer worked than every schmuck with a wart on his ass could change god's "plan"

[@coreybaldwin168]

Matt: is it reasonable to conclude the supernatural? Mike: At that moment. One big face palm. Mike's response is the foundation for being scammed.

[@liamamber87]

Brilliant. Really enjoyed this. Good job guys

[@paulonius42]

It has been 6 years since this video was posted, so I certainly hope Mike has learned how to actually present coherent arguments with evidence and logic. This entire debate seemed staged to make Matt look brilliant in every exchange. I assume it wasn't, therefore you presented quite possibly the worst debate opposition Matt has ever faced.

[@Sergio0694]

I've lost so many brain cells hearing Mike's opening statement I'm not sure it was worth it

[@johnbee3416]

Hahahahaha

[@boaty9714]

Dillahunty is phenomenal. His personal story hit home. Very similar to my own deconversion. TKO Matt.

[@corywiedenbeck1562]

Now you believe nothing ultimately matters and nothing made us and nothing is absolute

[@cobraimploder]

@@corywiedenbeck1562 Where did Boaty say that?

[@corywiedenbeck1562]

@Mike fu That doesn't explain who conducted space, time, and matter. Who created the DNA? This is so evident of a Creator it astounds me how you guys put your faith into idols popular opinion and let modern "science" dictate and indoctrinate your common sense. If nothing created nothing and nothing is absolute how do you even trust your own senses? Or anybody elses for that matter? Think about this, everything is relative and there would be no truth, and what is truth in a universe out of chaos? It can't exist. There is none, only opinion. What fixed reference do you have to compare too? This is a battle of the heart and spirit and not the mind so much. It is black and white evident of the intelligent design we see around us, it is staggering as a matter of fact.

[@corywiedenbeck1562]

@Mike fu " matter of time before we figure it out" this is faith

[@corywiedenbeck1562]

@Mike fu it doesn't exist so as of right now be genuine and say it

[@blacbraun]

A world where a god that exists with a jesus that has been resurrected is indistinguishable from a world where those stories are made up but people believe it. A world where gravity is a made up equation is COMPLETELY different from a world where the equation is not made up and it makes accurate predictions, like it does. That is the difference between religion and science.

[@drew2fast489]

It's indistinguishable TO YOU because you don't know God. Stop speaking for everyone else. And everyone knows religion is different from science. They're supposed to be different. Besides, it's not either or. A person can be religious and a scientist. What you're really saying is that your FAITH is in science and not religion, which is a religious position itself.

[@leovere]

That's because Jesus resurrection is an historical fact And gravity is an empirical fact

[@kaiza6467]

@@leovere can you demonstrate it’s a historical fact, or are you just going to claim that without evidence? That’s like me saying the Titan’s invasion of Mt Olympus is a historical fact. (Greek religion)

[@49perfectss]

@@kaiza6467 guess not lol

[@kaiza6467]

@@49perfectss they never can 😂