QualiaSoup (archive)

QualiaSoup was a YouTuber who made videos about reasoning, critical thinking, religion, and atheism.
==Personal life==
QualiaSoup’s identical twin brotherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqCkx6WQBE is TheraminTrees.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcw1YEtTQCw&lc=Ugguc8gIQgLVRHgCoAEC.7-H0Z7-1inm7-OpUEmVlX1 They have produced several videos together.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37665B2AA610D13C Doctors told their parents the incorrect idea that, being identical twins, they would always lag behind other children. They scored consistently ahead of their age in reading and vocabulary.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqCkx6WQBE Their mother was a .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjZ3f-IXEXU&t=1574s
===Atheism===
As a child, QualiaSoup realised that “if there were any gods, none of them were bothered about using their supposedly awesome powers to provide direct, dramatic evidence of their existence.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNDZb0KtJDk&t=400s QualiaSoup and TheraminTrees lost their creationist Christian faith at around the same time. They considered the idea that religion was a test of reasoning, similar to Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. One Sunday in church, they both announced their atheism, and received an extremely negative response.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqCkx6WQBE&t=1259s Their parents eventually became more accepting of their atheism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqCkx6WQBE&t=1595s
QualiaSoup did not identify as a particular kind of atheist, as no subcategory of atheism reflected his attitude towards every god concept.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNDZb0KtJDk&t=166s He stated that the category that described him best was “the basic atheist category of lack of belief.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNDZb0KtJDk&t=224s
==YouTube==
QualiaSoup created his channel on March 22, 2008. His first video, Open-mindedness, was uploaded on March 31, 2009. As of August 2021, it has over 1.1 million views. As with all his videos, the comments are turned off.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
On November 28, 2010, QualiaSoup uploaded Irreducible complexity cut down to size. It refutes an argument against evolution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96AJ0ChboU On January 9, 2011, he uploaded Rebuttals: irreducible complexity, a response to criticism of his previous video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As1HlmYeh7Q
On June 23, 2011, he uploaded Morality 1: Good without gods, the first part of a 3 part series highlighting “flaws in popular religious moral arguments and teachings.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xt5LtgsxQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSS-88ShJfo The third episode, Morality 3: Objectivity and oughtness, was uploaded on November 6, 2011.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-yLH4bXAI
On October 7, 2012, QualiaSoup uploaded Substance Dualism (Part 1 of 2) [HD], the first of a two part series on substance dualism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4PW35-Y00 The second video was uploaded on October 8, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTCK8ZluEc
He uploaded his channel trailer Evolution on October 11, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdddbYILel0 He uploaded his final video, Superstition [HD], on March 14, 2013.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWo3kTYb8W0
QualiaSoup never used any social media other than YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/user/QualiaSoup/about
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2008