Recently I have been enthralled with the Intelligence Squared channel on YouTube. Please check out this video and I hope you check out the rest of this series on "Atheism is the new fundamentalism."
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Beer Bullshit + Brains Episode 16
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Scott's Drink, Ranger
"I have no idea why I keep trying New Belgium beers. There's just something wrong with all of them. India Pale Ales seldom fail to extract happy, satisfied noises from me, but this one managed. Yes, it's hoppy, but the hop notes tasted stale, which seems strange to me. Someday I will learn my lesson and stop buying these."
Justin's Drink, Bud Light Golden Wheat
The appearance of this beer was slightly hazy and amber in color. It had a watered down look to it that definitely put it in the same family as Bud Light. The bottle said it was brewed with coriander and orange. I couldn't smell the orange at all, but it had quite a bit of the coriander aroma, although it didn't smell natural. Do they make coriander extract? If so, I bet they just added that to a Bud Light and changed the label. We record the podcast at night, and I left the empty bottle on my desk to clean up the next day. In the morning, my whole office reeked of this shitty stale beer. If you insist on drinking Golden Wheat, be sure to put your empties in a diaper genie. It tasted about how it smelled, cheap beer with coriander. It tasted like a watered down Blue Moon. I'm not that big of fan of Blue Moon, but it is so much richer and creamier than Golden Wheat. Don't waste your time with abortion. If you want a wheat beer, there are dozens of others that are so much better. If you want a Bud Light, you probably like watered down cheap beers and won't care for all of the artificial flavors that have been crammed into the Golden Wheat. In conclusion, no one should drink this beer. 1 Star.
Tony's Drink, Schlitz
The smell made me ill and the one sip I took tasted very skunky. To be fair I did buy the oldest six pack I could find at the store, but I am sure it still tasted like ass fresh."
The theme song for Beer Bullshit + Brains is an excerpt from "The Backspace Statement" by Superargo. Thanks to them for letting us use it!
I love how he calls out Dawkins, who is sitting right next to him.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest hole in the presentation of this argument (to me) is that the speaker compares ignoring the facts of accumulated centuries of scientific man-hours to not being swayed by the opinions of poets. Poets may claim to be seeking the "truth", but it does not compare to scientifically established fact in any real way. The argument is akin to saying we should believe it because believing it was good enough for everyone else, which is not valid.