A Christian known as seaneire on YouTube has a video about a "brilliant" Christian who destroys the Atheist-Experience talk show in Austin, Texas and that is was " epic". To be honest, I wouldn't bother to watch the video as I doubt that this Christian destroyed the show. I doubt that Matt Dillahunty, Russell Glasser, Jeff Dee, Don Baker, Tracie Harris or Jen Peeples have changed their minds over Christianity. No Christian who has called into the AE show has ever proven their beliefs. They mostly go on long rants about what they believe but offer no evidence. The hosts of AE have had if anyone offer's evidence of a god's existence, whether it be Yahweh or any other that they will believe but that does not necessarily mean that they will worship that god if it turns out that god is a very immoral entity. By the way, why is a fundamentalist Christian bothering to watch atheistic-themed videos in the first place? Your not supposed to. I guarantee you that if you belong to a very controlling fundamentalist religious group like the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Orthodox Mormon church ( LDS Church) or the Seventh-day Adventist Church that you may actually be subject to punishment by your religious leaders for going on "worldly" websites if they find out. So be very careful. I highly doubt that the Christian caller had much of an impact on the hosts or their listeners. Christians don't agree on everything. Keep in mind, there are over 40,000 denominations, sects, branches, splinter-groups and movements within Christianity and most of them believe that their specific group are the " only true Christians" and are favored by Yahweh and all others are being misled by Satan.
The hosts of the Atheist-Experience merely talk about religious, spirituality, atheism, science, politics etc. and a host of other subjects. It is educational. The Atheist-Experience was not created to "prove" that atheism is the " correct" position that one should hold to others. It is geared to a non-atheist audience but not to convert you. I'd personally say it is more about getting you to think more about what you believe and why? Most Christians shows don't do that. Most of them are geared to proselytize to non-Christians or Christians who don't belong to the "correct" denomination as they believe their religious text commands them to do.
My brief take over the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate is that it was unnecessary. Bill Nye is certainly well educated in scientific thinking but he is an engineer, not a skilled debater. The Creation Museum held the debate and is funded by the Answers in Genesis website which is run by Ken Ham and the money that went into this debate goes to Ken Ham. I don't think debating creationists is a really worthwhile goal for someone who is not a skilled debater and whose career is not built upon being a counter-apologist. Well, atheism is not a career. It is the stance that ones has that they do not believe in the existence of one or more deities, usually due to lack of sufficient evidence. Counter-apologetics is not really a career. I don't see anything wrong with debating creationists but it must be done by someone with more expertise in this area. Bill Nye may not have any degrees in science but he clearly is educated about this issue. Ken Ham is a pseudo-scientist and makes arguments from emotion and authority and talks about subjects that he clearly knows little or nothing about. The whole point of a debate is not to change your "opponent's" mind but to get the audience to think about what you have said.
B.W.
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