Response to Braxton Hunter, Part III. Question 5: When The Penny Drops
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Published 2020-12-30
This is Part III of my response to Dr. Braxton Hunter’s list of 10 Questions For Atheists, and answers question 5. Part IV will address questions 6, 7, 8, and 9. Part V will address question 10 and wrap it all up. Each will run 15-20 mins in length. –ish.
Part I can be found here: • Response to Braxton Hunter, Part I: I...
Part II can be found here: • Response to Braxton Hunter, Part II: ...
My responses to these 10 questions are broken up into multiple videos, because to answer all of these in one shot would require a video of enormous length, and, being as this is a femtochannel, no one would ever see my responses, particularly those near the middle and end of his list. Therefore, in playing the YouTube game, I'm compelled to make several releases.
Question 5 asks if it does not destabilize the atheist to consider the origins of the universe without a god concept. Sadly, Braxton failed to edit out a couple of strawmen in his presentation of the question, and seems to think that "Before The Big Bang" is coherent.
So... this takes a bit. Sorry. Not really.
Here's Braxton's Original Video:
• 10 Questions for Atheists
Background feature: "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari," (1920, Germany). This work is in the public domain.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction.
00:22 Intro: Music: "Rocked by Rape."
00:34 QUESTION FIVE: On Origins of Universe, 2 Strawmen, and Doesn't This Destabilize You?
01:38 This is a long-held debate between Christians and Atheists.
02:46 Before We Get There, Pt I: Addressing Strawman 1 In Presentation: On the "Uncaused Out of nothing"
03:24 Before We Get There, Pt II: Addressing Strawman 2 In Presentation: On "Impossible" past-infinite.
03:59 Before We Get There, Pt III: On Why Some Atheists Call Apologists "Dishonest."
04:32 Clarification: Not a debate--just my answer to your question.
05:04 Why I include what I say on this issue, based on question presentation.
05:46 Why Christianity Can't Destabilize My Position, Part I: Problem of Supernature.
06:30 Why Christianity Can't Destabilize My Position, Part II: Christian Theistic Instability.
06:52 Why Christianity Can't Destabilize My Position, Part III: A Quarry of Rocks and a Foundry of Hard Spots.
07:13 Why Christianity Can't Destabilize My Position, Pt IV: Limitations of God.
07:50 Why Christianity Can't Destabilize My Position, Pt V: Christian Narrative Flaws.
09:16 Clarification: "Before the Big Bang" is a meaningless question.
09:53 Why I Don't Debate, Part I: Appeal to the Meaningless, AKA "Outside of Space and Time."
10:56 Why I Don't Debate, Part II: Tradition Trivia Distractions.
11:13 Why I Don't Debate, Part III: Running Out The Clock
11:35 How Christian Apologists Could Challenge My Position.
12:04 My Position.
12:40 I Do Not Claim to Have Knowledge Beyond Our Best Measurements & Current Understanding.
13:07 10 To The -43 Seconds We Know Nothing About Doesn't Phase Me.
14:00 Illustrating The Point, Pt I: The Guy At The DMV Pays Fine in Pennies.
14:39 Illustrating The Point, Pt II: The National Debt, In Pennies.
15:46 Illustrating The Point, Pt III: 50 Billion Wheelbarrows of Pennies.
16:46 Illustrating The Point, Pt IV: Line of Wheelbarrows of Pennies = 1 sec.
17:44 Illustrating The Point, Pt V: One Penny Is To The -16 of 1 sec.
18:55 Illustrating The Point, Pt VI: To Get To The -43 of 1 sec.
19:32 Illustrating The Point, Pt VII: Would You Feel Short Changed?
20:04 Outro: Music: "Rocked by Rape."
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All Comments (9)
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Links to Part I and Part II are in the video description. Next video in this series (Part IV) will address questions 6, 7, 8, and 9. All of you have a safe, happy, and healthy New Year! Don't make me cut ya out of a car. Seriously.
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PJ is here, my friend.
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A scrape of a penny a wall??? Ha, you had me snorting and rolling!!!
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Loved it
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Just subscribed. I'm actually coming to you from "beyond space and time," and I can assure you that God is real. I had a Martini with him about an hour ago (from your perspective). Obviously, from our perspective, he and I were always enjoying that Martini, in one timeless and eternal "NOW" :)
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If I step away from the 'debate mode' for that question I'm waling away because he doesn't seem to be asking a good faith question. Also, all the attempts to circumvent the problem of the origin of the universe. Um, the scientific field of cosmogony isn't a desperate attempt to circumvent that gap in our knowledge, it's a direct attempt to learn more. But hey, we haven't solved it in the few decades we've been working on it, so I guess a deity is more likely?
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Should change his name to Braxton “strawman “ Hunter
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