Aug. 20, 2025

Did We Strawman the Atheist?

Did We Strawman the Atheist?

Episode 2.32


In this episode, Zach and Michael respond to a sharp critique of one of their recent videos on the moral argument for God’s existence. The comment accused them of misrepresenting atheist views—doing a “disservice” to their audience by not engaging with stronger opponents.


But this raises a crucial question: Why is it wrong to misrepresent someone in the first place? That kind of moral claim assumes the very thing under discussion—an objective moral standard. After answering that, we dive deeper into the moral argument:


Do objective moral values and duties exist?


If so, what foundation best explains them?


Why don't evolution, social contracts, or human consensus suffice?


And how do we respond when people say we're “not being fair”?


Let us know if we hit the mark!


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Right, Zach?
Yes.

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Have you ever operated a 3D
printer?

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I've heard of them, yeah.
That said, for those that don't

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know, that's a joke.
I have a 3D printer that Michael

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now has and I religiously
probably for a year, I probably

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like every day is an
overstatement, but like at least

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weekly I would it's like one of
those addictive things where I'm

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kind of glad I don't have it.
Gotcha.

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I because I would, I would work
over here and have like lost

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myself and I would just be like
I would like every morning when

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I got, I had a time like I'd
learn how to start a print.

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So it'd be done at night or the
next day and I would go out so.

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You'd let it print overnight.
I I did, yeah.

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And I would.
It was like really fun and

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really great.
And you'd be like, oh, print

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messed up.
You'd be bummed you do it again.

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It's like it was really fun.
You're like watching the

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progress.
I do miss it in that sense, but

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I don't miss it in right now is
not a good time of my life for

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one.
But man, if I, if I get it's,

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I'm glad you have it 'cause if I
get it back, it's gonna be kind

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of crazy.
So I'm excited where this is

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going.
So Speaking of bad prints, this

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is 1 Silk does this.
Silk look nice.

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It does look one.
This is what so we gave your

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printer to Alex who got it
working and he was using the

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white PLA for a long time, but
when he gave it to me this was

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in here and I've been scared to
change it out.

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Oh yeah.
Yeah.

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Just easier, yeah.
To but I think I need to print

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some things not in this probably
white I will tell you.

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Silk.
To me silk is harder to print

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the normal PLA and if you ever
get if you look at the PLA and

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PLA plus I usually recommend the
PLA plus is a little bit more

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sturdy and those two like easy
prints.

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Gotcha.
So this is this is what this was

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supposed to be.
So I did get a wolf out of.

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It oh, this looks, it looks
really nice.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, wolves are reoccurring

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animal.
It looks like art D&D Yeah,

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yeah, it does.
And then I my.

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Oh man.
Purchased online SLT file 06

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bucks of my character but so
that is basically look at that

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our character that's a little
bit larger because the first

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time I printed it, it had some
problems I had to re change the.

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Structure.
It's pretty amazing this.

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Is the right size, but you can
see there's a little bit of

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webbing in there.
But I'm not, I don't think I'm

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going to try to take that off
because.

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It's such a.
It's so delicate.

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It's like it's so a it's tedious
and delicate, and then it's like

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you mess up one of the supports
or the webbing or whatever and

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then it's like, oh, I just
cracked off the head.

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Yeah, yeah, this guy has.
So he's got a Cape.

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He's supposed this is supposed
to be a flute in his hand.

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He's a musician.
He plays like, you know, like,

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not like a flute like you'd
think here like a, a wooden

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recorder.
And then?

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A recorder that's like what I
did in 4th grade.

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I'm just kidding.
This is very cool.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's got a rape here, so you can

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see that sword on his side.
Yeah, yeah.

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And if you could see his hand,
it's like there's a little smoke

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there because he's a, he's a
cleric.

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So he does like healing spells
and stuff like.

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That nice?
Have you ever heard of the resin

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printer?
Have I talked to you about this?

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Yeah, we had a resin printer at
formerly Spayware, now Nywick.

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And so it's like this big vent
of resin and there's three

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lasers boom and they hit, it's
where they they have to hit all

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three of them to form this
laser.

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And it's very the resin to
harden it.

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It's very precise.
You can get that's, I know a lot

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of people use it for that exact
thing for game figures.

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Also I think it's toxic.
So you have to have like

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ventilation or you have to have
better ventilation than a

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normal.
I mean, I could have bought

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this.
From the.

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Company printed.
It out.

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And it's like 3540 bucks.
I was like for 6 bucks if I can

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buy the file I'll just print Oh
I should.

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I should show you if I can find
it next time.

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I printed out like the little
trains for like like like

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Mexican Domino's.
Have you seen this?

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And it like it?
I mean, you could.

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It looks really good.
I mean, it's not perfect.

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I'll just say.
Does Northwood have 30 printers?

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Not that I'm aware of, no.
But it's a good technology to

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learn, that's what.
I was going to say maybe they

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should, maybe there should be a
3D print club.

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Yeah.
That, you know, like my sister's

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school is like grade and it's.
5th grade looking for some clubs

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I'm.
I'm just saying that 'cause that

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would be good, 'cause it's like
problem solving and developing

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it is and you can, you know
that's.

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It's not a science, it's an art
'cause I, I learned it is even

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doing this like, you know what
type of feeling I want to make

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the because the first time I
printed this, it was really, it

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just kind of crumbled.
I was like, OK, I got to change

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my supports out.
I'd made it the most the tiniest

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layers and stuff.
So there's different things you

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can do to kind of hone in on
something like this.

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But if you're doing something
that's like a box, you don't

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need.
That stuff you can save time,

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you can do like cool designs and
it sounds silly, but there is a

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difference.
If it's like like little like

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like silk PLA versus normal PLA,
it's like not that big a

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difference, but you do want to
maybe like 5 degrees, 8° on the

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temperature does make a
difference.

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Yeah, so your printer always
wants to go to 200°?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I had to put it up to 210

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because the the silk PLA is 210
± 10.

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And you'll see the nozzle
temperature like kind of flow in

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and around 2:10 go up like 214
and then like 204 or whatever.

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And it'll it'll.
Yeah, they should.

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They should definitely do that.
And then we could use three for

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like a really nice one, you
know?

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Yeah.
So anyway, nice.

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That is good.
I'm glad it's being put to good

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use.
It is so fun to do.

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It is a pain to change out the
PLA, but that is like really,

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really cool.
Yeah.

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Any tips on changing that out?
Just it's actually really not

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there's like 2 if you look on
YouTube, there's two there's

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like I can't remember which is
better.

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There's like a a hot, I don't
know, a hot pool and a cold pool

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and I don't know which one is
preferred.

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I usually have them on a kind of
heat it up because it like is a

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little bit easier like 50. 60°
or something.

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Yeah, I can't remember.
There's a YouTube video and some

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people are very strong, like
don't do the cold pool.

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You're going to mess something
up, you know, when you pull,

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when you pull it.
Out Alex was saying if you take

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the PLA and cut it at a point
because there's a little bit of

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a.
It's like a loop deal.

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Not a loop deal, but there's.
You gotta get to go through and

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if it's just flat it doesn't
want to make that angle.

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You have, yeah, that, no, that's
really smart.

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You have to have the angle and
it's still a little bit

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annoying.
It's really not hard, but it

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might take you like 5.
It's like, it's like not hard,

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but if it's something takes like
8 minutes, it's like very

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frustrating.
It's like not that long of a

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time, but you're like, Oh yeah.
But that's exciting.

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I like the the print updates
man, I love it.

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That was before I leveled it
with the paper, 'cause I didn't

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realize I had to do that, 'cause
I just used the auto leveling.

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Yeah.
And I thought, oh, it should be

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good.
Should be.

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And I came back and those things
were like floating around while

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it was trying to print.
Oh, you just like in midair

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doing?
The Yeah man.

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Yeah, great.
I as Alex, he has his new

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printer has.
He got his own printer now so.

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I bet it's killer.
Yeah.

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Has he showed you what he's
printed?

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I no, I don't know what he's
got.

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I don't know if he got one like
yours or I I.

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I bet it's good because this my
printer used to print better

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than it does now.
I feel like I haven't printed it

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in years and he got like a like
a next level up.

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Like I bet it's I bet it's gonna
be so good.

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I'm excited.
That's like so fun to print.

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All of I print so many things,
all of them useless, all of them

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like not super functional, but
it's great.

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We have that ornament that you
printed.

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Do you remember?
That oh, I do that was like a

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that was a intensive print.
I mean, it took a long time and

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I mean it looks pretty good when
you go like a little bit bigger

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than this.
It like has less blemishes.

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You know, it's so hard to get
that small detail, but it is

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annoying.
Nothing's ever like perfect.

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There's like a little bit, but
that's it's so fun.

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You can just make it.
I made like a gas cap for like

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my car.
It wasn't it like Fit, but it

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wasn't it wasn't good.
But you can do like little

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things like that you.
Know and the gasoline won't eat

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at the resin.
I, I I didn't use it.

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I I stopped it.
It wasn't.

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It was like, oh it fit.
Almost like I probably should

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use the normal 1.
OK, so you had.

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It wasn't like you didn't have
one.

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You were just like trying to.
Yeah, it was like.

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It was cool.
I was trying to do like

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functional things.
I was looking at all these

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functional, but I was like,
yeah, most of my stuff is, are

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like containers.
Yeah.

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And like shell like I'll, I'll
have to show you some of this if

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I can, if I can find it, 'cause
it was like so fun.

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But anyway, a lot of 3D print
talk there.

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You just said something like
nothing's ever perfect and that

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would, you know, people would
say the same thing about our

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podcast.
In fact, people have said such

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about.
That's what's prompting this

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podcast.
Michael had the great idea to

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respond to some comments, 'cause
we're getting comments.

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We are getting comments.
We started putting out Moss

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Louis Moss shorts, so it's.
So weird.

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'Cause you look at them, you're
like, why did this one?

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And is it like YouTube getting
served up or is it like the

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first few people that see it how
they react?

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To it.
Does it make it either go or not

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go?
So just a word of the wise, if

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you see one of our shorts just
let it run for like 5 minutes.

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Like it comment that just.
Watch it 6 times and like it

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because it it is bizarre.
We're posting slightly more

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shorts and for the most part
really gotten a lot of views,

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but it's so bizarre to be like,
hey, here's 2000 views, then

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hey, here's like 15 views.
Yeah, 4/4.

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It's like very drastic.
Yeah, there was one.

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I so I guess I'm learning also
the art of that because there

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were, I'm taking like what I
consider good little Nuggets out

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of a longer format, squashing
us, you know, on one on top of

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the other.
And then I named three of them

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very similar or maybe even the
same.

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And I, the third one, it just
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it's like, OK, it's like, I
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We'll see.
Man, well, that's what we're

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gonna talk about now.
Some of these comments.

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I'm, I'm excited for that 'cause
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Let's go ahead and take it to
the next level.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
Quite a few comments.

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We're only going to get to 2
commenters.

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So if you commented something
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comment or something.
But these are the these are the

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two that I felt were kind of the
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OK, yeah.
And I wanted to address them.

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And the first one was on our
longer format on the moral

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argument.
So the moral argument for God's

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existence.
And strange Pan said this is

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about 3 weeks ago said you all
do your viewers A disservice by

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so poorly misrepresenting the
counterpoints you bring up.

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It does very little to
strengthen your own position.

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It's like testing bulletproof
armor with airsoft.

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Try discussing these things with
an actual atheist who knows what

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they're talking about.
First off, want to say thanks

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for commenting and fellow
southerner y'all.

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So we got some common ground
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Yeah, I appreciate y'all.
Have you heard about the Y'all

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Bible?
No, I haven't.

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So we have often mentioned the
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can be singular plural.
So this Bible puts in a Yaw for

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all the plural yous.
So you clarify that is helpful.

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That is talking to multiple
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one person.
It's one of the fewer.

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One of the few pluses KJV brings
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the and all this stuff.
Yeah, that's great.

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But y'all, so I was, you know,
trying to do clues.

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Strange.
The name doesn't help me a ton.

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Strange Pan, you know, it could
be anything but y'all.

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So anyway.
Yeah, and I will try to comment

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or you know, maybe comment the
name so it shows backed up

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because you may not be a all
time follower.

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I understand that sometimes
YouTube allows me to do that,

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sometimes it doesn't.
And I wonder if it's like

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privacy settings for the
individual account, whether you

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can tag someone.
But all right, so my first

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comment like you said, thank
you, appreciate the input.

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And it makes this be a little
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It's and it's really, it's
honestly really helpful like to

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your comments to get pushed back
like that so we can think

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through things better or
different or at least do

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something like this where we're
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with this one and the fact that
we're not trying to, you know,

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Mantle dismantle a straw man,
right?

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Right.
Yeah, we don't want to do that.

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But my first question is yes,
why is that wrong?

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Oh, why is it wrong to build up
a poor argument and take it

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down?
Yeah, I I see what you said.

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You're doing the moral argument
like turning it around.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.

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Is there some standard that we
should live by with our podcast?

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And I'm just a little tongue in
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question because I appreciate
the the input.

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Strange, Pan, but it's almost as
if you think that we have a

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moral obligation or a duty to
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said this maybe on like the
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something like that.
But your comment came in on the

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moral argument.
And so it if something is like.

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A disservice if it's poorly
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What's the big deal?

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So only you know, and there has

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to be objective moral arguments
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values for this to go through.
Because if it's just subjective,

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it's like you're saying I don't
like it when you do that, but

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that's be like, that's fine.
And I don't like chocolate.

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I like bread.
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Yeah.
It's like, fine, yeah.

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ironic, you know, just taking a

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step back from the challenge
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There is an applied duty that we
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fairly, and that speaks to the
moral argument.

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we agree with you that there

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should be some objective like
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We should represent things well.
So I thought maybe we just go

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over the moral argument because
I think we hit all these things

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and I don't.
I mean, what, what's the I wish

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I I wish I knew what the
specific pushback was or like,

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you know which which area part.
Did we not?

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Did we not do so Just the moral
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God does not exist, then
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duties do not exist.
Objective moral values and

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duties do exist.
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So that is how we phrased it
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And we are going to say that the
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moral values and duties is a
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And so when I read this, I was,
I think I told you this like I

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just responded in like a little
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like, I was thinking about it.
I was like, I want to say these

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So as I was responding, I was

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driving.
I just had it on my little

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magnetic thing recording.
So I kind of wanted to get the

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the the.
You're in the moments.

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In the moment.
Capture the language.

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And as I was driving a 55 mile
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physical thing and it is
informing me however of a non

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physical reality.
Right.

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That's right.
Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.
There is a physical reality of

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my velocity.
That is a physical thing that we

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can measure, but the non
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is a body of people in the state
of South Carolina who have an

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authority over me.
And we can and you can debate

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government authority, but we'll
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authority is a non visible
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And so we're saying that they
have they are a proper authority

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to make a law that passes.
And that physical sign is

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informing me of that law, but it
is not the.

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Law, it's not the law, but it it
kind of you look at that and

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you're like, oh, there's there's
something there.

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Right.
And so I just use that to to

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reinforce this idea that laws,
moral laws and duties are non

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physical.
They're not physical.

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Yeah, if that's right.
If we walked into someone's

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garage and picked up a garden
hose and I gave you every

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possible physical description of
that act, like anything you

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wanted to know, I could tell
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You still wouldn't know whether
we broke a moral law or duty or

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not 'cause you'd have to know
things like ownership or

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permission to borrow those types
of things.

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And those are non physical
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Yeah, I like that.
That's good.

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The non physical side of things.
Yeah, that I I'm I'm like trying

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to wrap my brain for like what's
like the what would strange Pam

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like what would he say?
You know what I'm saying?

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Like that's what I'm trying to
think.

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Of yeah, So most of the time
when folks.

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So there's 2.
So there's two premises that

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basically first premise says
that you can't have objective

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moral values and duties without
God.

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You can have subjective, but you
can't have objective.

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Second premise is saying that
they actually exist.

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argument, you either have to

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somehow try to ground objective
moral values and duties and

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something other than God.
OK.

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Which would be like.
DNA Evolution.

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Social contract type of stuff.
So you you might you might try

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to ground ground them in an
abstract non physical object

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like a Platonian object.
Sorry I'm getting wrapped up in

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my chords.
So the problem is abstract

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objects are causally effete big
words.

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They cannot stand in a causal
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So even if there are Platonic
solids or Platonic ideals that

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do exist apart from God, you
know, we could say that the idea

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of goodness is an abstract
object, exists, but it only

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exists in my view, in the mind
of God.

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But even if I were to grant you,
goodness exists outside of God,

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and it is its own thing, like a
Platonic substance.

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It's 'causely A feat.
There's nothing that would say I

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have to obey it.
Right, it's just.

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Right.
It's just out there.

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Just like the, the, the purest
perfect nature of a chair is out

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there, the purest perfect nature
of a triangle is out there.

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Doesn't mean I have to make a
chair that conforms to that.

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In fact, I I can't make a chair
that conforms to it.

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Yeah.
So.

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That's good.
Yeah.

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So I'm trying to think of what
other things that you might try

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to ground objective moral values
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Most of the time what I have
heard in talking with people on

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the street, it's evolution.
OK.

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So yeah, so we're talking DNA,
we're talking evolution.

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It's like we're just made this
way.

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It's how we've survived.
It's like we're, we can keep

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like, you know, the human race
going through observing these

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actions.
Yeah.

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So lots of times they'll say it
is in your survival nature to be

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cooperative.
It's in your survival nature to

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love.
So we have basically been

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naturally selected to have these
these things.

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Well, first of all, that sounds
like it's not objective.

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So it doesn't that language by
itself, how I, at least how I'm

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phrasing it and how I best
understand the argument, is not,

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is not objective.
But there are four huge hurdles

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for evolution to be the
grounding of objective moral

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values and duties.
First one, did evolution even

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happen?
Right.

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Yes, yeah.
And.

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If there's an atheist, they're
going to roll their eyes.

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Yeah, that's.
Like always a given, probably in

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their minds.
But not so fast.

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And evolution really depends on
even though it presupposes like

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if you read it, if you hear
about it, they'll they'll go.

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Well, there was some RNA
molecule, like even the starting

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of life.
Yeah.

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And evolution, if you press
someone who knows what they're

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talking about and they're like,
yeah, evolution does not

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actually account for the start
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It just accounts for natural
selection.

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After life starts.
But so that aside, if we grant

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that, let's say, let's just
grant to you that evolution did

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happen, then how does
consciousness arise from that?

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So you've got these molecules
that.

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That's a big leap, yeah.
Yeah, there's a huge leap there

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for consciousness.
OK, well let's we could grant

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consciousness then you could ask
how could evolution in principle

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even affect something that's non
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Remember we talked about that,
that speed sign physical thing,

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but how could our DNA, if we're
talking about, you know, love

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and justice and, you know, not
raping someone, not, you know,

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you know, probably that that
board always gets bleeped out.

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So maybe I'll have to bleep that
out.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not assaulting someone, you

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know, all, all of those things.
You know, those ideas are, you

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know, there's non physical
elements to those.

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Just because you see someone
taking something or see someone

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mating with someone, you don't
know from that whether

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something's been broken.
But even if we could, let's say

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that we can grant that to you.
The last bit is even if

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evolution could affect something
non physical, evolution selects

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for survival, not truth, which
is kind of what I was getting

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that before.
So all we know is that our if

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if, if we're here as a product
of blind evolutionary chance,

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neo Darwinian synthesis.
All we know is is that our

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brains evolved to get our genes
in the next generation.

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Yeah.
And it's like when you look at,

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you know, animals not behaving
very morally, and you're like,

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oh, going back to some things,
maybe you were just saying, it's

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00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,880
like, oh, that seems like
something we wouldn't do.

445
00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,360
Right.
Yeah, that's that's.

446
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,640
So, I mean, and I know we talked
through it, but then the

447
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,040
pushback's like, well, you know,
someone, somewhere, some

448
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:06,360
culture, somewhere don't have
this standard or whatever.

449
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,080
But but the broader point I
think is.

450
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,320
Well, even to that point, yeah.
Yeah, when you die then into

451
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,080
what's actually going on on
those cultures that seem to be

452
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:23,760
aberrant, the the main moral
things are still there, even if

453
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,680
it's like a culture where my
tribe we believe we can do all

454
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,120
these bad things to your.
Tribe.

455
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,520
But inside our tribe we have
the.

456
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,440
Same exact.
Values and stuff about not

457
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,080
murdering and and you know,
possession of property, you

458
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,600
know.
And with all of human history,

459
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,840
even if there were like a
handful of people, it's kind of

460
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,880
like the exception proves the
rule and like that you.

461
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,560
Say strength of bad culture.
Yeah, Yeah, that almost further

462
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:49,440
strength.
Yeah, I got you.

463
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,080
Yeah.
Yeah, so if it's not DNA and

464
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:57,400
evolution, other possible things
are social contract theory, kind

465
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,360
of like house rules.
So every.

466
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,400
Culture maybe has different
things and it's like, hey, get

467
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,400
to spy.
We just agree.

468
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,760
I'm not going to punch you in
the face.

469
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,520
Don't punch me in the face.
We'll be good on this podcast.

470
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,280
But that's not objective, right?
We just agreed to it.

471
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,320
It's not something that is
outside of our subjective

472
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:19,120
agreement and then human
authority alone, you know, so

473
00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:23,680
like some type of limited or you
know, just because I say it or

474
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,600
might makes right, you know,
just trying to think of what

475
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,400
other what are the things that
might try to be grounded.

476
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,480
So if we if we missed some other
way that.

477
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,560
Let us know, yeah.
Try to ground objective moral

478
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:38,760
values and duties.
Then then then let us know the

479
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,760
other way around.
This is to just say they don't

480
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,920
exist.
Yeah, right.

481
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,880
Right, But by pointing out that
you thought we straw man the

482
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,000
argument, I think that shows
that they do exist, right?

483
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,400
Man.
And it's not.

484
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,640
I can't think of a real life
situation where someone letters

485
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,200
their entire life consistent
with that anyway.

486
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,200
Right, You can't because you
always smuggle it in, especially

487
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,480
when you feel like you've been
wronged #1 you can't do that.

488
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,400
That's wrong.
Why can't I do that?

489
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,000
Why can't I, you know, take your
purse?

490
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000
Why can't I take your wallet?
Why can't I slap you?

491
00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,720
Why can't I call you ugly or fat
or you know, all those things?

492
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,720
You tell my 3 and 4 year old
what's objective morality.

493
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,800
They have no idea, but they do
know Shane called me a baby or I

494
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,000
don't know.
It's like they, they're like,

495
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,560
they're like, not about having
this unfair treatment.

496
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,360
Or whatever that's right.
All right.

497
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,440
So key takeaways.
People naturally appeal to

498
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,840
objective morality when claiming
something is wrong.

499
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,360
Objective moral laws point to an
objective moral moral law giver.

500
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,400
We call that person thing this
God because it's got to be he's

501
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,480
got to be non physical.
It can't be made of this stuff,

502
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,960
right?
He's got to transcend this

503
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,600
thing, but he has to be a
person.

504
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:53,000
It can't be like those platonic,
you know, non physical things.

505
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,720
So so God is that best
explanation?

506
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,320
Nice.
And you have this in here.

507
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,880
I know we're running along on
time a little bit, but man, it

508
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,800
would be nice to do a five part
series on the more argument, but

509
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,960
audience isn't probably there
slash.

510
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,640
I mean, Michael probably would
love to do it, you know, you

511
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,800
know, but you know what I mean.
It's not like maybe the the

512
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,480
forum or the goal of this.
That is good.

513
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,960
I'm glad you where I I missed
that I it's right.

514
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,520
About the key take away.
OK, Oh yeah yeah cuz what I what

515
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,800
I what I was thinking is what I
would consider ourself hopefully

516
00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:33,680
is this edutainment yeah yeah.
So it's, it's educational

517
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,400
entertainment.
And so hopefully we're we're,

518
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,360
you know, people are listening
to us, they're doing a little

519
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,800
banter.
We're and we're giving you a

520
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,680
accurate.
That's right, yeah.

521
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,440
Thumbnail sketch of what's going
on maybe?

522
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,160
Without reading a textbook to
you.

523
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,560
Right, because you know there
are channels who do.

524
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,960
This, yeah.
Alex.

525
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,400
I think Alex.
I can't remember his last name,

526
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,560
but he's an atheist who seems to
have had a really strong atheist

527
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,000
but seems to be flirting with
coming over to the other side.

528
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,600
Very deep, inspiring philosophy,
very deep.

529
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,400
William Lane Craig's.
You can find some of his videos

530
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,960
of debates very deep and
exacting.

531
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,400
So those channels are out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

532
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,200
That's just not, we're trying to
do this in like 30 minutes or

533
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,440
so.
So yeah, we're not trying to to

534
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,920
get down to the academic level
of some of these.

535
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,800
So I'm sure there are probably
some academic responses, but you

536
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:36,120
know, I've read Oxford Press's
you know, thing on the problem

537
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,920
of evil and the the argument for
morality.

538
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,200
I'm sure I've forgotten some of
that stuff, but I think I'm

539
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,920
trying to, I'm mostly
accurately, you know, depicting

540
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,440
that.
So hopefully if there's

541
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,160
something I've missed.
Yep, honestly, that would be

542
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,400
helpful and then we could get
whether we agree or disagree,

543
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,560
we're at least engaging with
things accurately.

544
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,280
That's right.
And the talk show host, not Greg

545
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,480
Kopel.
What's He's the Jewish guy,

546
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:02,880
Dennis Prager.
Oh yeah.

547
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,680
That's one of his mantras is
clarity, not necessarily

548
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:07,880
agreement.
That's good.

549
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,200
So let's clarify what we mean
and and if we're misrepresenting

550
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,480
something, you know, we want to
hear that.

551
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,120
I love it.
That's one comment.

552
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,880
That's one comment.
We probably I have a whole.

553
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,840
The second one is even longer.
Even longer.

554
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,200
So that's I was going to say
we're at kind of the 31 we're.

555
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,160
At that that time frame, so we
probably should do the next

556
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,200
comment in another.
Session.

557
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,920
I think that sounds fantastic.
We got this cool guy commenting

558
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,320
on this too.
This Kobe Forever, 08/2.

559
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,760
Four.
Yeah, Kobe forever.

560
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,640
Who could?
Who is that guy?

561
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,800
I love it that that was good
though, 'cause I, I, we do want

562
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,600
to be fair and, you know,
objective and do things we want

563
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,080
to do things well.
So I think that comes.

564
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,400
I'm hoping for more back and
forth on this with Strange Pan

565
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,440
for.
Real yeah, strange pan obviously

566
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:59,040
yeah drop a video type of some
lines whatever, we'll listen to

567
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,560
it because you know we want to
make sure that we are being

568
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,640
objective and not not straw
manning so.

569
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,400
I love it.
Awesome.

570
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,680
Well, anything else you want to
leave the listeners with,

571
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,200
Michael?
No.

572
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,320
All right, that's our take.
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573
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574
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