User:Pereant antiburchius/The Atheist Experience

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The Atheist Experience is a weekly webcast and cable access television show in Austin, Texas. It first aired on October 19, 1997. As of April 2, 2012, 755 episodes of have been produced and aired, averaging on one hour per episode. The show is hosted and co-hosted by rotating regulars Matt Dillahunty, Jeff Dee, Martin Wagner, Russell Glasser, Don Baker, Tracie Harris and Jen Peeples. Frequent topics are religious dogma, morality, ethics and application of the scientific method. The co-host often opens with a theme or current event, after which live calls are taken. Although debate about all theist and atheist-related views are welcome, because of the large number of Christians in the United States, the emphasises is mostly on Christanity.

The Atheist Experience is broadcasted by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA) is an educational non-profit organization based in Austin, Texas. The central goals of the ACA are to promote positive atheism and the separation of church and state.

The show's YouTube channel has over 50,000 subscribers and its videos have over 8,000,000 views.

Notable appearances

 * David Smalley of podcast Dogma Debate and the American Atheists (episode #753, 012-03-18), guest appearance
 * Greg Paul, palaeontologist (episode #708, 2011-05-08), guest appearance
 * Ray Comfort, Evangelical Christian apologist (episode #702), live call-in
 * David Silverman, president of American Atheists(episode #701, 2011-03-20), live call-in
 * AronRa, vlogger and Texas state director of the American Atheists (episodes #648; #668; #703), guest appearances
 * Kathleen Johnson, vice-president of American Atheists and founder of the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers (episode #647, 2010-03-07), guest appearance
 * Darrel Ray, organizational psychologist (episode #645, 2010-02-21; #686, 2010-12-05), guest appearances
 * Kyle Miller, pastor (episode #639, 2010-01-10), guest appearance
 * Matt Slick, Evangelical Christian apologist (episode #593 broadcast February 22, 2009), live call-in
 * Victor J. Stenger, particle physicist (episode #499, 2007-05-06), guest appearance
 * Mark Loewe, theoretical physicist (episode #393, 2005-04-24), guest appearance

Awards

 * The Austin Chronicle, Best of Austin 2011: Best Public Access TV Show
 * about.com, Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Podcast of 2011
 * The Austin Chronicle, Best of Austin 2010: Best Public-Access TV Show: 'The Atheist Experience'
 * about.com, Best Atheist Podcast, 2010