Doctor Mike

Is the whole idea is that when something, there's good and there's evil, there's right and there's wrong.

It's binary thinking.

It's religious thinking about scientific or political things, which is always a mistake.

And the way that you deal with it is- Well, it's cognitive distortion at scale.

You throw out the heretics.

And don't throw out the heretics.

It's like beat the heretics in their game, man.

It's like be an actual expert.

And the trouble is that when you don't expose yourself to people with whom you disagree, you become kind of-

intellectually flaccid.

You're not good.

You're not able to make these arguments.

You asked me a bunch of questions about atheism and God.

And if I actually didn't listen to the smartest atheists in the world and take them seriously and treat their arguments with respect and the possibility that they might be right, there's no answer.

There's no conversation.

There's nothing I can do except...

repent or die, Mike, which is pretty ineffective.

And you want to hear, by the way, you want to hear.

I mean, you need to hear what people think if you think it's incorrect.

You need to actually hear it in their words.