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Related: About this forumRichard Dawkins Doesn't Think Much Of This Video 'Demolishing Atheism In One Minute'
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/13/demolishing-atheism-in-one-minute-dentist_n_6677918.htmlThe Huffington Post UK | By Louise Ridley
Posted: 13/02/2015 16:24 GMT Updated: 13/02/2015 16:59 GMT
Dawkins said the video was pathetic
Richard Dawkins has laid into a viral Facebook video that claims to "demolish atheism in one minute" using a scene of a woman at the dentist.
In the film, posted by American social media evangelist Joshua Feuerstein, the woman challenges her dentist on why he doesn't believe god is real, replying that she "doesn't believe in dentists".
Her dentist says that he doesn't believe god exists, because of all of the suffering in the world, but the woman tries to counter his argument by saying: "If there are dentists in the world, then why are there so many broken, infected and missing teeth?"
The video has been shared over 59,000 times on Facebook since it was uploaded by Feuerstein, who once offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who could prove that god didn't exist.
The Arizona-based evangelist - who has more than one million likes on Facebook - uploaded the video in December but it has been re-shared this week.
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Richard Dawkins Doesn't Think Much Of This Video 'Demolishing Atheism In One Minute' (Original Post)
cbayer
Feb 2015
OP
I wouldn't bother to get angry about it - it is just stupid and illogical. Shrug. nt
djean111
Feb 2015
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skepticscott
(13,029 posts)1. Ironically, a very apt illustration of the difference
in the ability to think critically and rationally between the atheist dentist and his religionist a-dentistic patient.
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. I wouldn't bother to get angry about it - it is just stupid and illogical. Shrug. nt
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Agree, but it's worth the watch just for the humor.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)4. Evidently the woman thinks dentists are omniscient and omnipotent
I think PCIntern might agree with her but the rest of us not so much...
cbayer
(146,218 posts)5. They aren't? Are you sure?
It's is a really lame argument. The scary part is how many embrace it.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)6. What's even scarier
is that defenders and apologists for religion adamantly maintain that the ignorance propagated by belief in gods is perfectly harmless, and that we should just "live and let live" rather than pointing out what a destructive force it is in our societies.
msongs
(67,462 posts)7. there are so many dentists needed because the loving god inflicts pain/misery via bad teeth lol nt