Religious Evidence - Atheism UK Podcast #10

Religious Evidence - This podcast focuses on the nature of the evidence given by religious apologists. There seems to be a different concept on what the evidence means to those defending religion and trying to prove that their beliefs are real and backed up.  It's hard to take religious people seriously when they fall back on scripture to prove God's existence, to lay claim to truth or to take the moral high ground stating that it's the divine word of God, whilst at the same time brushing under the carpet the parts that collapse any credibility in the reliability of the text.  If the words laid out in the Bible, Tanakh and Qur'an are the words of God then the God portrayed is morally corrupt.  If you layer upon that the fundamental and literal interpretation of the word of God it gets even crazier. We've had conversations with "young earth creationists" that have shocked us. Their understanding of reality has been eroded (possibly from childhood) to such an extent that it's like listening to someone who believes that the world of Marvel Comics is real.  They reject evolution, because if they believe the world is six to ten thousand years old then evolution has to be wrong, despite the wealth of evidence to support the Theory of Evolution.  They say it's JUST a theory, without an understanding of the weight of what a scientific theory actually means. I just see this as ignorance, and wilful ignorance at that.   So the question is ‘what is evidence when it comes to the existence of god and whether religion in any of its manifestations is in any way true?’

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Video version On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFb3caksB-k&t=1522s