{"podcast":{"title":"The Atheist Experience","slug":"the-atheist-experience-1065764","podcast_index_feed_id":1065764,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3254896/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.atheist-community.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/759ffa12e832b60f7779066e7b874dba.jpg","author":"The Atheist Community of Austin","episode_count":693,"summary":"The Atheist Experience is a weekly show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist and atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin. The Atheist Community of Austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. We define atheism as the lack of belief in gods. This definition also encompasses what most people call agnosticism. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience--3254896/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T04:21:06.612359+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience-1065764"},"episode":{"title":"The Atheist Experience 30.19 with Justin and Scott Dickie","slug":"the-atheist-experience-30-19-with-justin-and-scott-dickie","published_at":"2026-05-13T01:56:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience-1065764/the-atheist-experience-30-19-with-justin-and-scott-dickie","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience-1065764","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-atheist-experience-30-19-with-justin-and-scott-dickie--71984668","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71984668/the_atheist_experience_30_19_with_justin_and_scott_dickie.mp3","summary":"In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Justin and Scott Dickie celebrate Mother’s Day by examining the \"bad design\" of childbirth and the failed promises of the Bible! They dismantle the myth of messianic prophecies, the forgery of the Shroud of Turin, and the logical gymnastics required to ground reality in a transcendental deity. Isaac in AL argues eyewitnesses and the Shroud of Turin prove Jesus. Justin notes the \"500 witnesses\" are unnamed, and the shroud is a confessed forgery. They analyze Hebrew text to see if Jesus failed the messianic job description. Will he find a counter? Joel in AZ asks if a perfect God could create imperfection. Scott challenges the vague term \"perfection,\" while Justin notes that if God is good, unnecessary suffering is a contradiction. Does this resolution simply delete the Christian message? Toby in Italy asks how God grounds logic. Scott explains logic is a descriptive tool for reality, not a transcendental entity needing an anchor. They critique Platonism. If logic is just a language, what happens to the transcendental argument? Thank you for joining us this week! We will see you next time! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience--3254896/support .","meta_description":"In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Justin and Scott Dickie celebrate Mother’s Day by examining the \"bad design\" of childbirth and the failed pr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6032,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-atheist-experience-1065764/episodes/the-atheist-experience-30-19-with-justin-and-scott-dickie/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-atheist-experience-1065764/the-atheist-experience-30-19-with-justin-and-scott-dickie.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}