My opinion is that the new atheist movement imploded because so many of its participants were only interested in it insofar as they could use it as a cudgel against Christianity. They wanted to parrot atheist apologetics at their parents who forced them to go to Sunday school. When Christianity was sufficiently delegitimized, they went to the trough of woke and ate it all up because they never cared about rational thought in the first place. They used atheism as a moral/political tool rather than a rational one.
Me and many of my friends left the Humanist Atheist group in Vancouver, Canada when they went all woke and began saying that men could be women. Some of us were scientists and understand XX and XY and not going to accept men being in women's sports, washrooms with little girls or other female safe spaces. There was a division so we left.
Religion isn't just the mere belief in deities, but has a massive cultural accompaniment that even as a full atheist is impossible to cleave away from oneself. I think the desire to do so turns big-A Atheists into mean and nasty types who seem to be bullies by on-lookers. The greatest turn off from atheism is atheists themselves.
Competent people lost interest when the outrage grifter culture started to seep in, taking the free thinking audience out the door with them. I think people following the so-called ‘new atheist movement’ saw the canary pass out in the wokeness coal mine and waited a long time through a lot of gaslighting before the normies caught up. I pray (ironically) that the worst is over.
At 1:00:59, you contemplate on skepticism on various topics and said you would need to know what topics to potentially be more skeptical about. Macro-evolution is a topic you have expressed zero skepticism towards.
You say your confidence in expertise has been shattered and conservatives were right about not trusting experts without question. The conservative skepticism towards evolution has been widespread and out in the open for decades. Ben Stein even made a documentary about it called Expelled, no intelligence allowed.
What is your confidence that macro-evolution ever occurred?
Do you agree with evolutionary biologists like Bret Weinstein who says, “whether Darwinism is the answer is not dependent on anyone knowing it or being able to explain it”?
There is a difference between beliefs and agendas... People with an agenda will typically bend their otherwise logical conclusions toward their interest using "motivated reasoning". It takes a lot of intellectual self-discipline not to do that - and the Humanities were worthwhile prior to the modern era when academics still held onto such rigour.
Being Canadian, I don't think Trump made the right move by delaying the tariffs by 30 days. Like your guest said, it was suddenly giving politicians a reason to actually believe in Canada. Trudeau famously said that Canada was the "first post-national state" and that it had "no national identity". Yet this was completely forgotten when Trump announced the tariffs. We could actually solve many of our problems but we refused to do so. I have suffered as a result of many of these decisions.
I may not be a Trump supporter, but I want to see things happen in Canada and this made things happen.
My opinion is that the new atheist movement imploded because so many of its participants were only interested in it insofar as they could use it as a cudgel against Christianity. They wanted to parrot atheist apologetics at their parents who forced them to go to Sunday school. When Christianity was sufficiently delegitimized, they went to the trough of woke and ate it all up because they never cared about rational thought in the first place. They used atheism as a moral/political tool rather than a rational one.
Oh, and I enjoyed this conversation!
Me and many of my friends left the Humanist Atheist group in Vancouver, Canada when they went all woke and began saying that men could be women. Some of us were scientists and understand XX and XY and not going to accept men being in women's sports, washrooms with little girls or other female safe spaces. There was a division so we left.
Religion isn't just the mere belief in deities, but has a massive cultural accompaniment that even as a full atheist is impossible to cleave away from oneself. I think the desire to do so turns big-A Atheists into mean and nasty types who seem to be bullies by on-lookers. The greatest turn off from atheism is atheists themselves.
Competent people lost interest when the outrage grifter culture started to seep in, taking the free thinking audience out the door with them. I think people following the so-called ‘new atheist movement’ saw the canary pass out in the wokeness coal mine and waited a long time through a lot of gaslighting before the normies caught up. I pray (ironically) that the worst is over.
At 1:00:59, you contemplate on skepticism on various topics and said you would need to know what topics to potentially be more skeptical about. Macro-evolution is a topic you have expressed zero skepticism towards.
You say your confidence in expertise has been shattered and conservatives were right about not trusting experts without question. The conservative skepticism towards evolution has been widespread and out in the open for decades. Ben Stein even made a documentary about it called Expelled, no intelligence allowed.
What is your confidence that macro-evolution ever occurred?
Do you agree with evolutionary biologists like Bret Weinstein who says, “whether Darwinism is the answer is not dependent on anyone knowing it or being able to explain it”?
[1:58:21] https://youtu.be/7ted-qUqqU4?si=LtUleWGBEf3PIoV6
What do you think or Eric Weinstein’s claim that Richard Dawkins tried to close the books on evolution before presenting sufficient evidence? https://youtu.be/d9SVa5XxmH0?si=5k5HHmpIkh30Yyhj
Wouldn’t that create a problem for trusting the expertise of evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins without applying a little skepticism?
There is a difference between beliefs and agendas... People with an agenda will typically bend their otherwise logical conclusions toward their interest using "motivated reasoning". It takes a lot of intellectual self-discipline not to do that - and the Humanities were worthwhile prior to the modern era when academics still held onto such rigour.
Come and join us Peter. The water of life is warm
Being Canadian, I don't think Trump made the right move by delaying the tariffs by 30 days. Like your guest said, it was suddenly giving politicians a reason to actually believe in Canada. Trudeau famously said that Canada was the "first post-national state" and that it had "no national identity". Yet this was completely forgotten when Trump announced the tariffs. We could actually solve many of our problems but we refused to do so. I have suffered as a result of many of these decisions.
I may not be a Trump supporter, but I want to see things happen in Canada and this made things happen.
I am so looking forward to listening!