Does the SUPERNATURAL exist ? Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty - Claim Analysis #2

Does the SUPERNATURAL exist ? Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty - Claim Analysis #2

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Watch full discussion here: https://youtu.be/FmH7JUeVQb8
Matt Dillahunty goes head-to-head with Jordan Peterson on God, Religion, Morality & more!

Claims:

1. JP believes that the question of God’s existence is typically viewed as a question for science to answer.

2. MD believes that science cannot confirm the supernatural.

3. JP believes that people who take psychedelic drugs generally report a mystical experience.

4. JP believes that psychedelic mystical experiences are religious experiences.

5. JP believes that it is not clear what scientific data would look like for religious experiences.

6. MD believes that we have no way of confirming if something supernatural has actually happened.

7. MD believes that you can stop smoking without anything supernatural required.

8. JP does not believe you can stop smoking without the supernatural.

9. JP believes there aren’t any reliable chemical means to influence one to quit smoking.

10. JP believes that the antidepressant Wellbutrin is not supernatural & is unreliable in treating smoking addiction.

11. JP believes that you don’t need a supernatural effect to quit smoking, but without it will yield poor results.

12. JP believes if you give people magic mushrooms & they have a mystical experience (religious by JP’s usage) they have roughly an 85% chance of quitting smoking.

13. MD believes that someone may report having a supernatural experience, but that doesn’t mean it was supernatural.

14. JP believes that psilocybin doesn’t have a direct impact on smoking behavior & that it must produce a subjective mystical (religious by JP’s usage) experience to be effective.

15. JP believes that we have seen physical evidence of mystical (religious) experiences.

16. JP believes if you give people psilocybin & they have a mystical experience (religious by his usage) there can be positive effects & permanent personality changes.

17. MD believes that the mystical (religious) experiences that JP is describing does not demonstrate the existence of a supernatural realm or Being.

18. JP does not believe that the reported mystical (religious) experiences are direct proof for the existence of God.

19. JP believes that people are able to enter different realms of experience.

20. MD believes that the supernatural is claimed to be something outside the natural world & that he doesn’t know how we would verify its existence.

21. MD believes he described previous religious experiences as being “filled with the holy spirit” because everyone around him was describing their similar experiences that way.