Matt Powell Has Reasons to Believe in God!

[@johndemeritt3460]

SciManDan observed that Matt Powell has a giant inflatable banana in his back yard that Powell calls "Doctor Peel". I maintain that Doctor Peel is actually a mad scientist who manifests in our spacetime as an inflatable banana -- and that Matt Powell is Doctor Peel's audio animatronic mechanoid that Doctor Peel is trying to use to take over the world!

[@johndemeritt3460]

Thanks for the hearted comment! Now, let's see . . . what line comes after, "The same thing we do every night, Pinky . . ."?

[@magnusdahlgren3715]

All together now: 🎶“For the Bible tells me so!” 🎶

[@c.guydubois8270]

🎵Dumb de dum-dum, dumb, dumb, dumb🎵

[@robmckee6843]

@@magnusdahlgren3715 all hail Paulagia.

[@leahrossow8527]

"God created the world, and that's why I believe in God." Truly solid logic there, A++ effort. /s

[@zachreads]

Emotionally manipulative music could be a bingo square.😊

[@CTCTraining1]

To me the existence of Matt Powell disproves the existence of any god. No deity would possibly want him as a spokesman, and while he remains unstuck by lightning I remain convinced of that.

[@goldenalt3166]

Like the Darkmatter video where atheists go straight to heaven, but apologists have a lot of explaining to do.

[@chameleonx9253]

Technically, the existence of ANY apologist refutes the existence of the modern Christian God, since if that God actually existed, there would be no need for apologetics. You would be able to just point at God and say "there he is."

[@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018]

11:10 "I've seen horrible things! I was living with Kent!"

[@scarlett8960]

good one!

[@tussk.]

"If God doesn't exist then everything we see came from nothing. From magic" Yeah, except that's exactly what the bible says. In fact, the entire collection of books are filled with stories of magic and sorcery. It would be fascinating if it wasn't so dangerous in the hands of the wrong people.

[@robmckee6843]

@@tussk. I'd like Matt Powell to give his explanation of Plank time and I don't mean his billionth of a billionth of a million of a second time shtick, as he never extrapolated past that. Ode to Lawrence Krauss who after many hours of rewatching his "Universe from nothing" thank you sir you've proven how truly ignorant I am.

[@infidelcastro5129]

When you’ve finalised your bingo card, be sure to make a pdf so we can all play along 😂

[@scarlett8960]

love this idea!

[@anarchords1905]

All roight, Wolfie.🙋‍♂ (I think that's the way to spell 'right' in Cockney) 🙂 edit. I came back to change it to 'royt'.

[@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018]

11:50 I've been hearing quite a few apologists lately saying "If God is Real..." C'mon folks, where is your faith?

[@dogwalker666]

Bannana boy Powell thinks the universe is only 6000 years old, nuff said!

[@rembrandt972ify]

Matt isn't low hanging fruit, he's a potato.

[@christasimon9716]

"Don't put your faith in just your feels. Put your faith in MY feels."

[@johndemeritt3460]

As opposed to Sir Sic, who'd be likely to say, "Get your feels outta my whisky! Get your own whisky, God!"

[@rodneytgap5340]

Apparently, to Matt, 'magic' means 'being able to explain how something happened with a high degree of accuracy and probability. It is a bold definition but perhaps it will catch on.

[@reformCopyright]

Appeal to consequence is the apologist's favourite fallacy: *"If* God doesn't exist, everything sucks."

[@Griexxt]

I don’t see how ”randomly poufed into existence from nothing” is much different from being poufed into existence by a being who just randomly happens to exist, and randomly happens to have the ability to pouf things into existence.

[@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018]

3:45 Sorry, Matt, scientists may not yet have worked out precisely what the universe was at t=0, but it was definitely not nothing.

[@RichWoods23]

More like at t=±5.39x10^44, approximately.

[@mikeyhau]

Even IF Matt's god exists, a person can do absolutely horrible things throughout their life and accept Jesus as their saviour on their deathbed and be welcomed into heaven. Where's the justice? Even as a believer I found that hard to accept.

[@FeliciaByNature]

THAT IF IS DOING A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING

[@Diviance]

"Jesus gave up his own life for us! And then immediately got back up and attained godlike powers just shy of his omnipotent creator! What a sacrifice!"

[@chezeus1672]

according to matt, the biggest lie ever: that time, space and matter came from nothing. there's a latin phrase for that: creatio ex nihilo.

[@johnburn8031]

I wonder if more atheists watch videos about Matt Powell than Christians who watch Matt Powell? 🤔

[@RustyWalker]

Someone could "believe in God" but it wouldn't necessarily endorse Matt's beliefs about God. There are people that attempt to be rational when it comes to their faith. Those tend to disagree with Matt on virtually everything.

[@accountWithNoName]

The projection is strong with this one. Is he still working as Kent Hovind’s sidekick?

[@martinnyberg6882]

I think Powell decided that Hovind was not evil enough and started his own hate-church. 😬

[@Azho64]

I have reasons not to believe in gawd(s)

[@ryantennyson7562]

It's no wonder Matt doesn't understand science. His science book is the bible.

[@klodius8588]

Matt Powell looks like he's constipated.

[@martinnyberg6882]

That makes sense. He’s full of it. 🤷

[@MrCanis4]

And he seems very happy, doesn't he? 😂

[@mirandahotspring4019]

Matt Powell is a good example of the danger of home schooling.

[@christasimon9716]

Dude. The Big Bang is a Christian concept. It was a priest, Georges Lemaître, who first came up with the idea.

[@RichWoods23]

It's not a Christian concept; it's a concept that was first demonstrated to be a realistic possibility by a Christian. Those are two very different things.

[@MrCanis4]

But God puffed into existence, didn't he?

[@haydenwalton2766]

matt - 'this stuff (science) shouldn't be pushed on children' my first good laugh of the day. the man has zero understanding of irony.

[@MrCanis4]

Matty Boy takes the word “projection” to a divine level. What a talent.

[@BradPrichard]

Thanks for the video, Scarlett! As George Bluth said in the outtakes of Caged Wisdom. Faith is a fact!

[@billirwin3558]

I love this creationist bingo. Does Matt even know what words mean? Does he even have a dictionary? That black cat is so wise, and yet so hungry.

[@johnburn8031]

I can't choose to believe in things I don't see any evidence or reason to believe exists.

[@nobeoddy1664]

sincerity drips off matt

[@christasimon9716]

7:25 Do we need to add McCarthyism to the Bingo card? I'm not sure I've ever heard _that_ one before. (Edit) Ok, "Christian Nationalism" would be a fair entry also.

[@simonkoster]

Mini-Kent's vids are not even low hanging fruit, they have long dropped to the ground and are rotting away.

[@JasonHenderson]

Matt Powell has a inflatable banana in his backyard. Its name is Mr. Peel

[@FoxyRaccoon84]

I don't understand how "scientific explanation (butchered to all heck) is magic, and magic is bad," but "God spoke and stuff happened" is totally okay? Every time Matt makes a statement, I respond with "prove it." Provide some supporting evidence (beyond "someone said they heard about someone who says they totally had an encounter with a god... thousands of years ago"), and we can have a conversation about it.

[@OnASeasideMission]

In Matthew Ap-Hywel's ancestral land, we have a list of derogatory terms and insults. 'Coc Oen' comes to mind.

[@robmckee6843]

Univers is 13.7 billion yrs old earth 4.5 billion yrs old so my question is wtf was god doing for 9.2 billion yrs old

[@vestafreyja]

It was a very very very very very loooooooooooooonnnnnnnggggggggggggggggg day of rest that seventh day or perhaps god kept hitting that snooze button on his alarm clock. After all creating everything in 6 days winded God.

[@RichWoods23]

"wtf was god doing for 9.2 billion yrs" Wanking. He was getting in practice for all the years when he'd be able to spy on living creatures getting it on. After all, it's the one thing he can't do himself (without creating Asherah) and he clearly has issues with sex.

[@raam1666]

Maybe you're wrong?

[@robmckee6843]

@@raam1666 these are objective facts not feelings or decrees from the goat herders guide to grifting.

[@vestafreyja]

It's actually worse the earliest appearance of Yahweh is on the Mesha Stele which bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite god Yahweh. So it's 13.7 billion years less about 3000 years. Yahweh's got some explaining to do.

[@aldebaran4154]

Matty boy always looks like he's on goofballs. He runs the world's largest projector and deflector. Hypocrisy supreme.

[@One-Zig]

You know what, Matt convinced me. This world is too [insert fallacy] to have poofed into being. Obviously, Marduk split Tiamat to shape the cosmos and later produced man. No evidence, but I’ll take it on faith because the Enuma Elish claims this and I’m comforted with my prayer and worship.

[@scottmoore7588]

Gotta love how the same people who will get angry at atheists for supposedly using their feelings to determine that there is no god will turn around and go "What's wrong with having a belief in something that makes me feel good?" when anyone points out the obvious fact that they only believe because it makes them feel good. Good ol' rules for thee but not for me.

[@smokert5555]

I take Matt as not really believing what he's saying, that he's just going through the motions. He's just following a script.

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

If there is a real, loving god who wants to love us, and for us to love him, why does he send soooooo many wooden tops to scare us away from him?

[@michaelbell3181]

He's not even good at apologetics. LOL I could do better at it, and I left religion about 30 years ago.

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

*_Far from raising the epistemological bar, I lower it._* 🤷‍♂️

[@chables74]

Algormancy!

[@CookiesRiot]

3:30 "But yet, when it comes down to the basic fundamental [sic] of science of time, space, and nature's origins..." I had an argument in the comments earlier this week regarding the laws of physics and the "unmoved mover" that religious apologists have been asserting since Aristotle came up with it... Newton's laws of motion are a fundamental aspect of physics which supplanted the Aristotelian model; the first law describes a physical situation in which there need not be an initial mover (objects already in motion remain in motion without an external force) and the third law defies that the mover even could be unmoved (equal and opposite reaction forces). "Poof!" THE F*** DID YOU JUST CALL ME, MATT?! _(Kidding, of course. I know he, specifically in this instance, didn't mean that as a slur.)_

[@TheBarelyBearableAtheist]

The "Data Over Dogma" podcast recently did a show about the origin of the idea of creation _ex nihilo_ -- it's an innovation that's a lot more recent than most people think. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXfGe3SYl7OCps0

[@stevewebber707]

It is hilarious when he appeals to the need for God's perfect justice. The only reason they even say that with a straight face is because their God's "justice" doesn't even kick in until we die. So they are removed enough to ignore what it actually is. If Matt's God was real, the only injustice that his God would punish, would be not believing in his God. And for that horrendous crime, the maximum conceivable punishment happens. For all the rest of the "minor" sins, the genocides, child abuses war mongering, basically any real crimes, there is no consequence at all. And even if the justice criteria was fair, waiting until an afterlife before any action, is a piss poor form of justice. I would agree that Powell is not low hanging fruit. Perhaps fruit that has fallen, fermented, rotted into compost, then sprouted a new fruit tree, only to produce more rotting fruit over and over and over. And not fruit would be palatable or useful for anything either.

[@Groffili]

Matt Powell... the guy who couldn't manage to reach either the charisma or the scientific understanding of Kent Hovind.

[@tomfrombrunswick7571]

If God did not exist then everything appeared by magic. Not true but what is the God explanation? God used magic to make everything.

[@flowingafterglow629]

This is the funniest part. If God DID exist, then everything was poofed into the world by magic. That's exactly what they claim!

[@kerianhalcon3557]

You know Scarlett calling Mattie an idiot in the harsh manner you have done here is somehow still not harsh enough, and really going quite light on the total twat. It amazes me 5that someone like Mattie can even tie their shoes. I mean I don't tie shoes anymore either, an all me shoes are either rubber boots or Boa's, and I think even Boa's would be over Matties level of competency. I think Velcro probably still mystifies Mattie every time he puts his shoes on.

[@2l84me8]

Matt Powell wasn’t intelligently designed as were his poor arguments.

[@johnburn8031]

Matt Powell is the fruit that fell to the ground and is rotting and covered in flies.

[@eklektikTubb]

Isnt it a bit rude to make Bingo Card and use it on someone publicly? I mean, i can also play that game and make my Atheistic Bingo Card... no, not, isnt, aint, wont, dont, doesnt, didnt, wasnt, havent, cannot, couldnt, wouldnt, no one, none, wrong, dumb, stupid, fallacious, fallacy faith, facts, proof, evidence, burden And guess what - i used it on your video and i filled 18 squares. 😄

[@scarlett8960]

I don't know if I'd say it's "rude." The problem with people like Matt Powell is he has been corrected over and over. A lot of his arguments were already corrected before he came of age. The point of doing a bingo is this stuff comes up over and over again. Sure, you could do a bingo on anything - but what's your point? My point is the repetition of debunked nonsense. You can predict what kinds of things apologists will say and "make a bingo"

[@eklektikTubb]

@@scarlett8960 Yes, but you can also predict what kinds of things atheists will say and also "make a bingo". The repetition of negations, personal judgments and few other words and phrases... over and over again. The fair dialogue is about the same rights for both sides, such as the right to "make a bingo". I dont know if it is rude either, but even if it is, i think it might be worth it. 🙂 We all use negations, especially when trying to correct someone, but atheists and skeptics do it too often and too much. In order to convince someone that he is wrong you need to explain him why is he wrong, why do you think so and what should he believe instead.

[@eklektikTubb]

@@scarlett8960 I mean, this is easy: If you think that someone is wrong and he thinks that you are wrong, then you need a method to find out which of you is correct. And if that someone is using a different method, then you need to compare those two methods to tell which one is better. Bingo Card is definetly a fun method to show that your opponent is repeating himself and not bringing anything new to the table, but it shouldnt be used by someone who is also repeating himself and also not bringing anything new to the table. Because that would be hypocrisy and that is not good.

[@scarlett8960]

@@eklektikTubb Do you understand why atheists have to "repeat themselves"? It's because preachers keep bringing the same tired talking points. When they are debunked, they don't change. I have to wonder why you come to my channel if you think I am "bringing nothing new" and I'm not doing whatever you think I need to be doing. There are tons of KZbin channels for you to enjoy. You don't need to keep watching mine. But in case you didn't get it, my channel is primarily for snark purposes, to give other nonbelievers a laugh at the people who keep repeating themselves. By the way, I do state my method for getting to what is likely true, but my channel is small and people like Matt Powell are unlikely to care what I have to say.

[@eklektikTubb]

@@scarlett8960 Like i said, repeating doesnt work. It is like smashing head against the wall. So your channel is primarily for snark purposes and that gives you the right to repeat yourself, to act like the ones you criticize? Interesting excuse, i never heard that one. 🤔 No, your channel isnt bad and boring. You have the gift of the gab, courage, friendly calm vibe and the power to inspire people. And there are few moments when you are bringing something new, it just doesnt happen very often.

[@CharlesPayet]

8:50 I love that huge yawn of blasé boredom, @scarlett8960 . 😜