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text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Atheism" title="Template:Atheism">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Atheism" title="Template talk:Atheism">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Atheism&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Matt Dillahunty</b> (born March 31, 1969) was the host of the webcast and cable access television show "<a href="/wiki/The_Atheist_Experience" title="The Atheist Experience">The Atheist Experience</a>", and from 2006 to 2013 served as the president of the <a href="/wiki/Atheist_Community_of_Austin" title="Atheist Community of Austin">Atheist Community of Austin</a>. He was also a founder of the comprehensive counter-apologetics Wiki "Iron Chariots", which went offline in 2018. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Dillahunty is an outspoken <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a> and fierce advocate of the concept of <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">separation of church and state</a>. Having been raised as a <a href="/wiki/Fundamentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamentalist">fundamentalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Baptist" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> and having studied with the intent of going to seminary and becoming a minister before his bout of apostasy, Dillahunty is familiar with the worldview of Christian fundamentalists, and very knowledgeable about both the history and the text of the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>. </p><p>He frequently participates in atheist and skeptic conferences around the world, and alongside fellow activists <a href="/wiki/Seth_Andrews" class="mw-redirect" title="Seth Andrews">Seth Andrews</a> and <a href="/wiki/AronRa" title="AronRa">AronRa</a>, he traveled to Australia in March 2015 as a member of the "Unholy Trinity Tour"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Debates"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Debates</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Debating_Creationists"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Debating Creationists</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Debating_Jordan_Peterson"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Debating Jordan Peterson</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Support_for_trans_people"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Support for trans people</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Agnostic.3F"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Agnostic?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Debates">Debates</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Debates">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>I don't presume that everyone out here is going to be running out to start doing formal, public debates. Most of you are going to be engaged in the informal debates. Talking to the people you love... about why they're wrong.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Matt Dillahunty<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Dillahunty is a huge fan of debates (of all types) and finds them very useful for collecting valuable information. He has debated numerous theists, including <a href="/wiki/Ray_Comfort" title="Ray Comfort">Ray Comfort</a> on his live show <i>The Atheist Experience</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup>. </p><p>When debating, Dillahunty is also willing to admit that he does not know when asked a question that he cannot answer<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup>. He rejects the notion that saying "I don't know" in a live debate is tantamount to waving the white flag (like the ones seen in the old <i>Tom and Jerry</i> cartoons) in admitting defeat. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Debating_Creationists">Debating Creationists</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Debating Creationists">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>While he is not formally educated in any scientific field, he has amassed enough of a working knowledge of biology, cosmology, and geology to defend these fields from <a href="/wiki/Creationist" class="mw-redirect" title="Creationist">creationists</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Ray_Comfort" title="Ray Comfort">Ray Comfort</a>. Dillahunty does not claim to have any expertise in any of these fields and will frequently admit that his knowledge is limited, even as he soundly schools creationists who declare their own willful ignorance of <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. </p><p>While Dillahunty firmly believes that creationists claims about science should be combated, he is not a huge fan of when actual scientists debate creationists, as it may falsely elevate the creationist position. Rather, he believes that science <i>enthusiasts</i>, like AronRa, should debate them instead (in part so that the scientists can get back to work in the lab instead of wasting their time having poo flung at them in a debate). </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Debating_Jordan_Peterson">Debating Jordan Peterson</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Debating Jordan Peterson">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>In 2018, invited by Pangburn Philosophy, Dillahunty debated <a href="/wiki/Jordan_Peterson" title="Jordan Peterson">Jordan Peterson</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>, who might not be a creationist but is a christian believer with plenty of stupid beliefs. After a brief introduction, Dillahunty sat down with Peterson. While firstly (and annoyingly) congratulating Peterson on being a nuisance to the "<a href="/wiki/SJW" class="mw-redirect" title="SJW">Social Justice Warriors</a>", Peterson couldn't help himself but make wacky statements that Dillahunty had to engage. Among them (but not only): </p> <ul><li>You can't stop smoking addiction without having a "mystical experience" <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup></li> <li>Atheists <i>deep down</i> do believe in God, otherwise they would kill each other (Peterson not understanding secular morality).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup></li> <li>Beheading someone is not detrimental to their well-being.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup></li> <li>Just like how secular morality is open to change and revision, the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> is the "Bible 2.0 update" to the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> (Peterson not understanding that the Bible is composed of both and not an "update").<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup></li></ul> <center><div class="thumb embedvideo autoResize" style="width: 648px;"><div class="embedvideo autoResize" style=""><div class="embedvideowrap" style="width: 640px;"><iframe title="Play video" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FmH7JUeVQb8?" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div></div></div></center> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Support_for_trans_people">Support for trans people</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Support for trans people">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>In April, 2021 he criticized Richard Dawkins's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/Matt_Dillahunty/status/1381018961081434112">transphobic comments</a>, and ridiculed Sam Harris for not subsequently showing solidarity with the AHA after they <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/Matt_Dillahunty/status/1384687152479432708">revoked Dawkin's 1996 humanist of the year award.</a> </p> <h2><span id="Agnostic?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Agnostic.3F">Agnostic?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Agnostic?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Dillahunty rejects the notion that God <i>definitely</i> doesn't exist, taking the more mainstream atheist approach that one <i>does not need</i> to believe in a god. He even ended up getting into a minor debate with a caller on <i>The Atheist Experience</i> in 2019, who claimed to prove that <i>no gods</i> exist<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup>. Dillahunty criticized the fellow caller for shifting the <a href="/wiki/Burden_of_proof" title="Burden of proof">Burden of proof</a> to the atheist, something he firmly believes should remain with the theist. He has made similar comments on the existence of an afterlife<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup>. </p><p>Dillahunty's position has led some to claim that he is actually agnostic, <i>not</i> an atheist. He cleared up his views on atheism vs agnosticism on his YouTube channel in 2016<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atheist-experience.com/">The Atheist Experience</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SansDeity">His YouTube channel</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matt_Dillahunty&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span 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