Sye Ten Bruggencate, a Presuppositional Apologist, was able to engage Penn Jillette, an outspoken champion of the atheist movement, at the recent Reason Rally in Washington, DC. Although the two only spoke for a few minutes, it exposed the problem with Penn Jillette’s worldview.
The video was then posted online and Penn Jillette is not happy about it! While there is nothing legally, morally, or ethically wrong with posting the video, Penn claims he asked the bystanders not to post it. In reality, Penn told them they did not have a legal right to post it because he did not sign a release form. However, this was, at best, misleading on Penn Jillette’s part as a release form is not necessary for a video taken in public, especially when you know there are cameras present.
However now that the video is out, rather than accept that someone had “called his bluff”, Penn is accusing apologists Sye of lying, claiming that Sye promised not to post the video, which he never did. A very interesting twist indeed!
Here’s the video. In it you can see for yourself that Penn did not want to go down the road of exposing his presuppositions because he knew he could not make any claims with the atheistic worldview as his basis.
I did find the Twitter engagement between Sye Ten Bruggencate and Penn Jillette almost amusing.
I thought @pennjillette would be open to discussion but he clammed up quickly when his presuppositions were exposed https://t.co/IomIM9qazu
— Sye Ten Bruggencate (@SyeTenB) June 8, 2016
@AvgAndy @SyeTenB It had gotten circular
— Penn Jillette (@pennjillette) June 8, 2016
.@pennjillette @AvgAndy The only one who could have a problem with circularity is me, as I have a worldview that accounts for laws of logic.
— Sye Ten Bruggencate (@SyeTenB) June 8, 2016
@SyeTenB @AvgAndy Yup, you sure are the only one who sees it.
— Penn Jillette (@pennjillette) June 8, 2016
.@pennjillette Not what I said, but I really did not expect that you would dodge the issue like most other professed atheists do.
— Sye Ten Bruggencate (@SyeTenB) June 8, 2016
@SyeTenB Thank you for your time and effort, but we need to stop clogging my feed now. Thanks again. Bye bye.
— Penn Jillette (@pennjillette) June 8, 2016
.@pennjillette If there ever comes a time that you wish to have a rational discussion about worldviews please contact me. I care for you.
— Sye Ten Bruggencate (@SyeTenB) June 8, 2016
@SyeTenB Thank you.
— Penn Jillette (@pennjillette) June 8, 2016