"I'm a religious jew" "Fighting the irrational is very hard... if people have a vested interest in believing something you cannot talk them out of it"
If you were to prod him on how his superstition is different from secular superstition you'd get a lot of special pleading.
His theory is that everyone has a superstition bubble in their brain that needs to be filled up and if we don't fill it up with god, we fill it up with other irrational ideas. So to falsify that you'd have to look at the willingness of theists and atheists to believe irrational ideas. I'm having a hard time finding studies that deal with that correlation. I'd look into pseudoscience and what demographic buys into specific ones like homeopathy, chiropractic, astrology. I have no hard numbers but I would would bet that the numbers not only falsify, but completely turn around on his argument.
"If there is no god there is no good and evil"
I'm positive that if we dig deeper we'd get some variant of the ontological argument which is so easy to debunk it practically destroys itself.
I'm at 32 min. and so far this has been a giant load of bullshit with an interviewer that has no experience in dealing with the dumbfuck arguments of theists. I don't feel like wasting the other 2 unless you can promise me he'll say something even more stupid for me to laugh at.
If this is something that interest you, even though it's clicheé at this point: the most thorough compendium of dumb things religous people say and how to disprove them is still The God Dillusion, and it's well worth reading. It also has multiple chapters dealing with the question of how religions evolve and why humans buy into them.
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