Here I respond to a recent video by @CapturingChristianity. I explain why you should probably still take atheism seriously, and I also explore problems for limited god hypotheses.
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OUTLINE
0:00 Intro
0:27 Cameron’s video
11:53 Four main responses
12:37 Response #1: Arguments for global atheism
16:12 Response #2: Problems for a limited god
16:56 Imprecision
17:47 Arbitrariness
20:00 Probabilistic tension
23:13 Evidential dilemma
38:29 Deontological problem of evil
39:34 Ad hoc, likelihood ratio rigging, and unfalsifiability
42:02 Response #3: Atheistic arguments disconfirm theism
49:43 The Joy of Bayesianism
59:21 Twitter interaction
1:04:48 Response #4: The same problem applies to theism
1:11:09 Parody
1:17:05 Takeaways
RESOURCES
(1) The video to which I’m responding: https://youtu.be/oj6eCF63DAw?si=1UaTNK28TIV5JBRg
(2) Oppy, “The Best Argument Against God”: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Argument-against-Palgrave-Pivot/dp/1137354135
(3) Oppy and Pearce, “Is There A God?”: https://www.amazon.com/There-Little-Debates-about-Questions/dp/0367243946
(4) Schmid, “Naturalism, Classical Theism, and First Causes”: https://philarchive.org/rec/SCHNCT-4
(5) Felipe Leon’s post collecting over 200 arguments for atheism: https://exapologist.blogspot.com/2023/03/200-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html
(6) Draper’s SEP entry “Atheism and Agnosticism”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
(7) My response to Cameron’s video on 150+ arguments for God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP0Mh42jvV4
(8) Aikin, “The Problem of Worship”: https://www.academia.edu/7062247/The_Problem_of_Worship
(9) John Buck clip is from @EmersonGreen's here: https://www.youtube.com/live/mlMBzYTGuW4?si=IaPzPihfOuhOZ9qN
(10) My response to @TheCounselofTrent on the problem of evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctHQlYbl6E
(11) My Bayes’ Theorem video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1MdtyLL3Uw&pp=ygUfbWFqZXN0eSBvZiByZWFzb24gYmF5ZXMgdGhlb3JlbQ%3D%3D
(12) Steinhart, “Six Axiarchic Arguments”: https://ericsteinhart.com/articles/axiarchicargs.pdf
(13) Nagel, “Mind and Cosmos”: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-Conception/dp/0199919755
(14) My Kalam playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkZzH2YffI32ViTZ73Tu8jSR
(15) My Contingency Arguments playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkZkl5I5QDUXW5CauOfO_bs1
(16) My Design Arguments playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkax5OrwZmkqE1fY446O4i6g
(17) My Ontological Arguments playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkZ7oLLpd6Joxl2VS1gOce6t
(18) My co-authored SEP entry “Ontological Arguments”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/
(19) My Springer book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2
(20) My website: https://josephschmid.com