Canadian Catholic is apparently an "ex-atheist" who thinks that you can't get to a cockroach brain to a human brain via evolution. Why? An argument from incredulity, redefine god to uselessness, and fine-tuning basically.

The first time encountering him was when he was on the Atheist Experience. It's this episode:


Ep clip of CC:


Recently, he debated AronRa. I can't give much on this debated, other than CC stalks the r/ex-catholic and r/atheism subreddits. He also whines about the definitions of gods being "magical", even though that's an honest description. Even though he redefines god in a more pantheistic sense. (35:49) So he's not a Catholic, he's a pantheist or panentheist (some who thinks that God is transcendent, beyond space and time and eclipses the universe). He also very liberal in his interpretation of the bible, using excuses of allegory and "colorful language" to explain away faults in his god (the bible).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism


To me, he sounds like the typical ex-atheist apologist.

The only CC that’s worthwhile in Canada.

never tried it, never ever drank Canadian whiskey in my career I'm afraid... is the bottle in the picture the basic form of that beverage or a special edition?

There’s younger.

felltoearth wrote:The only CC that’s worthwhile in Canada.

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Classic RatSkep. Never change.

felltoearth wrote:The only CC that’s worthwhile in Canada.

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Agreed.

Canadian Catholic is apparently an "ex-atheist" who thinks that you can't get to a cockroach brain to a human brain via evolution

I'm not a Canadian or a Catholic, and despite all his reasons being wrong, he's still basically right even for the wrong reasons. Evolution doesn't remotely suggest that if we took any extant animal and applied tailored forces that we'd be able to turn it, over billions of generations, into a human.

Rather, a human and a cockroach share a common ancestor, and thus both our ancestors had a particular brain from which, through contingent selection pressures and statistical shuffling of genes, both cockroaches and humans evolved.

I had a listen finally. Besides Matt’s and Jenna’s points I think there is an issue where CC is confusing complexity with “bigger” or “more of same.”

It’s called evolution dickwad. Stuff changes, it doesn’t just enbiggen.

who knows, maybe he has a human scaled version of a cockroach's brains?

felltoearth wrote:

Took me a few seconds to work this one out, I'm sorry to say.

Another consequence of a Canadian takeover will be that we'll finish most sentences with ",eh?".

That will be a requirement otherwise it’s the ice floe for you!

felltoearth wrote:

If the atmosphere in Toronto is representative of the rest of Canada, I could not agree more, it's oppressive. Can't even compare with the Atmosphere in Montreal and Québec at large as I was too small a kid then to really notice.

felltoearth wrote:That will be a requirement otherwise it’s the ice floe for you!

Sorry, but by the time Canada has taken over the world there'll be no ice floes left. So, nothing to worry about, eh?

Hermit wrote:

felltoearth wrote:That will be a requirement otherwise it’s the ice floe for you!

Sorry, but by the time Canada has taken over the world there'll be no ice floes left. So, nothing to worry about, eh?

Accurate.

felltoearth wrote:

Bwahahaha!

I’m picturing the invasion now. Troops will rock up to the border and go ‘oh hey, hi, yah, we’re just invading now, k? We sure don’t wanna cause ya any inconvenience there, yeah, sorry aboat that...sorry...sorry...’ A polite, mildly spoken wave will spread inexorably across the globe - ‘hey, how are ya today? Yeah, sorry, just here ta take over, alrite? Oh sorry, I see you’re on the can there...sure yeah I’ll wait...sorry’. Etc.

I wonder if it's important for heaven to be fine-tuned for the support of angelic and celestial life...or if hell has been carefully fine-tuned for the support of damned life.

Or could God sustain sentience in those realms without having to crack open a physics textbook?