TheLivingDinosaur's video: Holy Hallucinations 27: Casey s Conundrums

Another slightly unusual episode, in that I'm not addressing a specific YouTube video but rather a series of questions posed by the Discovery Institute's resident asshat, Casey Luskin. I normally stay away from the atheism/theism debate and prefer to stick to probing creationists as roughly as possible, but in this instance Casey forced my hand and also led me into topics that I would normally avoid because they're not in my areas of expertise. As a result I've deliberately avoided getting too specific and can only hope I haven't, for the most part, made a complete twat of myself somewhere. Casey's questions were ones that he apparently felt would be difficult for atheists to answer, but I'm not entirely sure why he thought this unless his only exposure to atheists results from talking to some on the short bus he rides into work in the morning. I have to say that I didn't encounter any particular problems in finding my answers, but as I was doing it I was struck by the impression I got that Casey was asking his questions as if his alternative has somehow more explanatory power than the answers provided by science, or for that matter even simply saying "I don't know". As a result you may notice a running theme where I try to point this out to our neuronally challenged friend. The channels I mention (do check them out -- they're all fantastic): http://www.youtube.com/DPRJones http://www.youtube.com/ProportionalResponse http://www.youtube.com/Brettppalmer http://www.youtube.com/GreatBigBore Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out): http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES References: Crick, F. and Koch, C. (2003). A framework for consciousness. Nature Neurosci. 6: 119-126. Soon, C.S. et al. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature Neurosci. 11: 543-545. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major (543).