50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- This video is an edited repost, as the original had copyrighted BBC content (speaker 23, David Attenborough) blocking it in countries outside the USA. It has been removed in this version to make it available worldwide.
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I do not claim that this video demonstrates there is no God. It is not an argument against God in itself, so there is no argument from popularity or authority. I claim that the more scientifically and philosophically literate a person, the less likely they are to believe in a deity. If you think the concept of a God has nothing to do with the universe, logic, metaphysics, epistemology, human beings, etc., then this video is not for you. If you think it does have something to do with such subjects, then you might want to consider why the best experts on those subjects usually fail to see reason to believe in a deity.
Speakers in order of appearance:
1. Lawrence Krauss, World-Renowned Physicist
2. Robert Coleman Richardson, Nobel Laureate in Physics
3. Richard Feynman, World-Renowned Physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics
4. Simon Blackburn, Cambridge Professor of Philosophy
5. Colin Blakemore, World-Renowned Oxford Professor of Neuroscience
6. Steven Pinker, World-Renowned Harvard Professor of Psychology
7. Alan Guth, World-Renowned MIT Professor of Physics
8. Noam Chomsky, World-Renowned MIT Professor of Linguistics
9. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Laureate in Physics
10. Peter Atkins, World-Renowned Oxford Professor of Chemistry
11. Oliver Sacks, World-Renowned Neurologist, Columbia University
12. Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
13. Sir John Gurdon, Pioneering Developmental Biologist, Cambridge
14. Sir Bertrand Russell, World-Renowned Philosopher, Nobel Laureate
15. Stephen Hawking, World-Renowned Cambridge Theoretical Physicist
16. Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel Laureate in Physics
17. Ned Block, NYU Professor of Philosophy
18. Gerard 't Hooft, Nobel Laureate in Physics
19. Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford Professor of Mathematics
20. James Watson, Co-discoverer of DNA, Nobel Laureate
21. Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy, Miami University
22. Sir Patrick Bateson, Cambridge Professor of Ethology
23. Sir David Attenborough, World-Renowned Broadcaster and Naturalist
24. Martinus Veltman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
25. Pascal Boyer, Professor of Anthropology
26. Partha Dasgupta, Cambridge Professor of Economics
27. AC Grayling, Birkbeck Professor of Philosophy
28. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate in Physics
29. John Searle, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy
30. Brian Cox, Particle Physicist (Large Hadron Collider, CERN)
31. Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Laureate in Physics
32. Rebecca Goldstein, Professor of Philosophy
33. Michael Tooley, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado
34. Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
35. Leonard Susskind, Stanford Professor of Theoretical Physics
36. Quentin Skinner, Professor of History (Cambridge)
37. Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Laureate in Physics
38. Mark Balaguer, CSU Professor of Philosophy
39. Richard Ernst, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
40. Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge Professor of Anthropology
41. Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson, Princeton Research Scientist
42. Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Laureate in Physics
43. Hubert Dreyfus, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy
44. Lord Colin Renfrew, World-Renowned Archaeologist, Cambridge
45. Carl Sagan, World-Renowned Astronomer
46. Peter Singer, World-Renowned Bioethicist, Princeton
47. Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
48. Robert Foley, Cambridge Professor of Human Evolution
49. Daniel Dennett, Tufts Professor of Philosophy
50. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics
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Ludovico Einaudi - Andare 09:27, 24:30, 26:31
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche 13:13
Max Richter - Vladimir's Blues 29:21
Ludovico Einaudi - Eni 30 Percento (The Earth Prelude) 33:16
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"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
Voltaire
What a marvelous sentence...❤
I support you Mr Atam Mardes.
"Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." - Saint Paul the apostle
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
- Voltaire
"He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God."
- Isaac Newton
"The more I study science, the more I believe in God."
- Albert Einstein
I like the comment "theologians invent questions that they then taunt humanity with"
“Theologians invent questions”
Ho the irony!! This is just stereotyping and a sweeping statement. The conflict between science and faith is a false dichotomy perpetuated by philosophically illiterate militant atheism. The irony is that one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history was discovered by George Lemaitre and atheist scientists coined the phrase the “Big Bang” as a term of ridicule and they “invented questions” holding back scientific progress for several years. The double irony is that George Lemaitre turned out to be a committed Christian. We can all appeal to authority. Equally, this video is nothing more than an (Appeal to Authority Fallacy) not to mention the (Appeal to Argumentum ad populum Fallacy). (The Band wagon Fallacy) that is the (Appeal to popularity Fallacy). Furthermore, materialism and empiricism is a dogma Hence the famous essay by W Quine (The Two Dogmas of Empiricism) and Noam Chomsky’s common sense critique of eliminative materialism. The fact is that you can’t prove sense data using sense data.
You can’t prove that the external world is providing accurate information about reality, existence and experience as this is a metaphysical presupposition that can not itself be justified or grounded in the strictly materialistic/atheistic paradigm as a strict materialism/atheism clearly excludes metaphysical realities. This is a basic observation that can be justified by using Aristotle’s transcendental critique of the Sophists (Appeal to Scepticism Fallacy). Again I’m not the one making the (appeal to authority Fallacy) but Aristotle debated the sophists centuries ago regarding metaphysical truths and the (truth) of the law of non contradiction and the sophists naively responded….
“You can’t prove that Aristotle!!
because we could just come along and deny metaphysics and the law of non contradiction?”
Aristotle responds brilliantly using a transcendental argument. Aristotle pointed out that when you deny something that’s so fundamental and paradigmatic as metaphysics and the laws of logic, that is the foundations of science itself the proof of that thing is that it’s assumed in its denial.
Equally, according to the expert linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky…
“There are only two ways of looking at eliminative materialism (the idea that all things reduce to solid substance). One is that it is total gibberish until someone tells us what matter is. Until someone tells us what eliminative materialism is there can’t be such a thing as eliminative materialism and no one can tell us what matter is”. (Noam Chomsky).
Similarly, the brilliant mathematician and Logician Kurt Gödel including Mathematician Georg Cantor and, going much further back, Plato (429-347 BCE) all argued for an intelligible reality that is yet, in the end, forever beyond complete understanding. In the new Testament, Paul argues for this perspective when he says that in the end, even knowledge will pass away and the only thing that will be left is love. Equally, in the Paradiso, the third book by Italian poet Dante’s poetic trilogy the Divine Comedy, offers a number of intellectual discussions, including discussions on science topics. But when the hero (Dante himself) gazes into the face of Christ, trying to reconcile the duality of Jesus’s divine and human nature (one of the many paradoxes he addresses), he finds that he is facing a reality that is beyond intelligibility and thus he attains the beatific vision.
Johns’s argument is a powerful one and it can help break us free of the ideological Matrix of physicalism.
A strict physicalism, materialism/atheism basically says that nobody took no time to turn nothing into everything a belief that is synonymous with the belief in magic!! And at best it’s synonymous with the belief in miracles. I don’t need secular theologians and secular religion to know what right and wrong is!!
If under materialistic premises evolution and mutations are true demonstrating beyond doubt that reality, existence and experience is nothing more than blind random, mindless matter in motion why do good things happen!! ??
“Evolution, then, is the creation myth of our age. By telling us our origins it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory”
“Fatalism is now offered, not as just one possible philosophical attitude among others with reasons given for and against it, but as a fact backed by the tremendous authority of science.” (Mary Midgley).
This is not a strawman attack on militant atheism as Mary Midgley was an eminent philosopher, a humanist and a stoic defender of religious expression. Furthermore, according to the prominent atheist philosopher Michael Ruse
“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion -- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity.” (Michael Ruse).
“The literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” (Michael Ruse).
“It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds, It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.” ( Richard Dawkins).
I rest my case!!
@@georgedoyle7971 excellent comment. You nailed it as far as I can tell. Didn’t sleep much today after working all last night. Had a drive into Astoria in bumper to bumper traffic. Talk about mans’ foolishness. Time is the most precious thing in the world and we jam so many people into an area that travel, in an expedient manner, is all but impossible. Shalom.
@@georgedoyle7971 oh so your particular God then lol ?!
@@georgedoyle7971with respect , your task is more straightforward . You must make the argument for an anthropomorphised male deity figure who created the universe and is supposedly watching this comment section too as we talk about him , with as much interest as he has watched every human event and natural disaster that has befallen / taken place in the world since the dinosaurs and after them .
I enjoy theologians but I prefer scientists.
Live a good life, cause no harm or hurt to anybody , love your family and friends and be loved back in return,help people who need it and look for nothing in return for your good deed, just keep and open mind on life and enjoy it as much as possible and when we die what ever happens happens. That is my philosophy on life and it’s serving me well.
The past is passed and cannot be changed the future is unknown and cannot be for told all we have is now this precious second to live and perhaps take our last breath.
Make every second count they are finite.
Thank you for putting this together. It exposed me to several individuals that I hadn't heard of before. Appreciate it!
Thank you so much
@@JPararajasingham Modern India was BUILT by the Christian British.... THINK about that, dude...
@@JPararajasingham well if you were in any way intellectually honest which i doubt you are , you could easily make an exact opposite of this video
let me start you off with a few names of academics who are on the other side of the debate
Prof Emeritus of pure mathematics at Cambridge John Lennox
Prof and leading expert on nanotechnology Dr James Tour
Prof of history Gary Habermas "minimum facts argument"
Prof in astronomy Dr Jason Lisle
Prof in Archaeology Prof Grady Mcmurtry
Prof in astronomy Stephen Meyer
Eric Metaxas presenter of " Socrates in the city"
and I am could keep going , but i doubt you are interested , because it will disturb your ostrich worldview
you think denial will get you out of judgment and unfortunately it won't
only Jesus Christ can do that
@@travelsouthafrica5048 I have made a video of Christian academics, including one of the names you mention, and despite their dwindling number.
Thanks very much for the re-upload, well worth another viewing.
Many thanks!
For these people however intellectual or academically inclined they are, the gates of hell will be waiting them
The glee with which believers anticipate the eternal torment of atheists is one of the more sickly and inhuman aspects of religion.
@@nadeemleon4197 I'd rather burn in hell than worship a false god.
@@yunoewig3095 That is why you must worship the one True God and not burn in Hell.
Thank you so much for putting this together. What a masterpiece!
Weinberg's quote at the end, "they were right...science IS corrosive of religion...and it's a good thing too" really hit home with me. As a person who spent most of my nearly six decades on this earth so far as a Christian (26 years of that as an evangelical), I've been coming more and more around to the view that he is exactly right.
Can I ask - with all respect - why did you spend all those years believing in Christian teaching? Did you look at and question your beliefs critically though that time? Is your move away from Christian faith a result of thinking more critically about what you believe?
@@EASYTIGER10 First question: I was raised to accept it, and that by itself is a powerful thing. Even when one thinks one is engaged in critical thinking, from inside the bubble it's really hard to tell. In my adult years I ended up attending an evangelical church by chance, and was impressed by how serious they were about the bible and studying it...and that attracted me, so I joined that movement and stayed there for a long time.
Why leave? It started with disillusionment...realizing after many years that what the people around me really cared about, in fact really worshiped, was not Christ. It occurred to me that "if these are the people who are indwelt with the Holy Spirit, how can they be focused on such vastly different priorities from what their "head" was focused on?" Based on what was preached, that should not have been possible, but there it was before my eyes. It took THAT to get me to finally take a look at this entire system of beliefs the way I would look at any other, and examine the bible the way one SHOULD examine any other historical text...and only then did I finally realize just how unsupported the whole thing is.
I kind of wish I could say that it was just me and critical thinking, but it took something else to get me to take that step.
@@njhoepner Thank you, that was very informative. It's interesting how it was disillusionment rather than critical thinking that initially moved you away from religion. Many religious people seem to assume that the majority of atheists are the way the are because of disillusionment with God. In fact most atheists - particularly those like me who have never had faith - are neither disillusioned nor...whatever the opposite of disillusioned is! They are indifferent and are simply unconvinced of a specific argument. It suggests - like you mention - that if one is brought up in a strongly religious environment, one simply can't comprehend what not being convinced of the existence of God feels like, and must therefore be discontented with the world as God made it, and are "rebelling" against him.
Congratulations. The truth is much more magnificent than the illusion.
It’s not a coincidence that the vast majority of scientists are atheists. These are the people who really understand how things in the natural world work and they see no need to interject a god into it. Interjecting a god into it not only wouldn’t help anything, it flies in the face of the known facts about the universe.
Religion is not about known facts of universes. It is about the promptings of the heart. This is why human beings accept religions and why they are needed.. Being clever or scientifcally knowledgeable doesn't help you at all in matters of the soul.
@@iansdigby It does release you from the chains of religion, freeing one up to ponder the wonder of existence without the suffocation of dogma.
@@iansdigby it helps in identifying whether such a thing as a soul exists though, sadly there is no evidence of such.
@@iansdigby You're begging the question by assuming the existence of a soul, for which there is no good evidence.
@@iansdigby You said it in your first sentence - Science is about facts, numbers - one can have all kinds of theories but they have to be verified then it becomes science
So a scientist can't say he is one unless he discards "this promptings of the heart" - that doesn't help him or her in their line of work
A person who is honest, obeys all the virtues deemed correct in its era, has no fears or self doubt, loves every living being equally, does not procrastinate, doesn’t bother about the fruit of his efforts doesn’t need a God. Rest everybody do.
"The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations", Miron Zuckerman, Jordan Silberman, and Judith A. Hall
Thank you JTP for creating this collection. It's a great service to humanity.
I am so happy God saved me from my academic life. Rather to know Him then remaining in blindfold mode with cherished colleagues.
What lots of people (even pastors) don't (yet) understand.
God created us according to His own image and likeness. Godly.
Mankind/the first Adam fell. The image of God in man got lost. That's why there is all this predicament on earth (selfishness, greed, lust, wars, sicknesses, death, etc).
We are all born into that mess.
For the fall of man a perfect atoning sacrifice had to be made.... that is what God did in Christ.
With His own once and for all perefect sacrifice, He paid the debt for the fall of man for us, so we can be indwelled by His Spirit again and finally receive the divine life of the ages back, the first Adam let got of in the fall of man. An amazing act of grace and love by our creator.
That is what you see happening in Christ's first disciples. They too healed all and walked in unselfish love.
And yes.... that is still avaible today. The holy blood is in place, the Holy Spirit is here to give us understanding, power and transform us back to origin.
Not to be debated about, but to be embraced and be-come.
So: The Kingdom of God already came. Through Christ, in Spiritform, in those that understand.
Hence the divine healing miracles we experience.
God manifested in Christ to give us back the divine life mankind lost in the fall of Adam.
Christ, the exact image of the invisible God.
The image we were created after in Gen 1.
The image we lost in the fall of man.
The image that can be freely restored by Christ's blood and Holy Spirit working IN us.
What a plan. What a solution. What a love. What a God. Jesus is amazing.
It is the ultimate conclusion of the word and plan of God. God came full circle.
He Himself stooped down from glory to restore us back to original created value: Christlikeness. Walking in divine healing power and unselfish love.
Jesus, born of the Spirit of God, filled with the spirit of God. The "Son" of God, the incarnated word, God in the flesh.
For three years He healed all, raised the dead, casted out demons, controlled nature, spoke pure divine truth.
He said:
"Follow Me. If you see Me, you see the Father. The Father and I are one. The glory I have IN My Father, I give to you. It pleases the Father to give you His Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature. I will send Holy Spirit, the same as Me, He will be IN you, guide you into truth and give you explosive power. The same miracles i do, you will do too, because you will understand that the Father is IN Me and I am IN you. Freely I give you My Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, freely I give, freely share" Etc, etc, etc.
I have experienced thousands of beautifull healing miracles through the power of Holy Spirit IN me already. Broken bones, cancers, covid, all kinds of infirmities healed in seconds. Demons manifesting and casted out by a simple "get out, in Jesus name".
Jesus. De name above all names. In Him all power and wisdom is sourced and.... He calls us one with Him. God in man and man in God again. C'mon Jesus!!
So.... again: God stooped down IN Christ to restore us back to Gen 1:27 were He said: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness and let them have authority.....": walk as Christ.
Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after and being restored to by His atoning blood for the fall of man and indwelling Holy Spirit.
You are free to receive this original divine life of the ages by Holy Spirit of Christ/God. Ask Him to guide you into truth. Read the Gospel of John and fall in love with your creator.
You are not made for the fall of man and its effects, but for the image/glory of God and to walk like Christ. Holy Spirit is the guide and transforming power that will get you there. Amazing grace.
A big leap in faith can be made when we start realizing we are already IN Christ, IN the last Adam.
Free from the fall! Loved! Growing into awareness of our new (yet old) godly identity. Changing by Holy Spirit. The most fullfilled life ever.
Paul healed all on Malta. He understood and wrote:
"As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë (= divine life) again".
"IN Christ (the last Adam) we are co-cruisified (dead to the fall and its effects), co-raised (justified/made righteousness, holy, blameless, above reproach), co-seated (one with Him)"
"The fullness of deity dwells in Christ and YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE IN HIM, who is the head of every principality and power".
So.... thank you Jesus! Thank you for redeeming me from the fall of man. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that makes this new (yet old) divine life come alive in me. You are amazing!
In the shadow of Peter the sick healed... He understood too and wrote:
"By Gods power (Holy Spirit) and knowing Christ, we have become partakers of the divine nature and have escaped the fall of man".
The divine life of the ages has been returned to us by Jesus once and for all perfect atoning sacrifice for the debt of the fall of man and His indwelling Holy Spirit in us. Jesus/God is amazing!!!
Ask Him to give you revelation and change you to the way it was before the fall of man: Christlikeness.
He will do so. For it is written: "the Spirit brings forth after His own kind".
"I have come to give you Zoë (divine life) in abundance...."
Go and preach elsewhere. You are in the wrong place here. Nobody will read this nonesense, self-deluded diatribe.
What a bucket full of poop,,,,, are you forgetting that your god fantasy gives us all the illnesses? And do you have any evidence to back up your claims?
All empty claims and bald assertions. Please demonstrate the truth of your claims, and pick up your Nobel prize.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
- Paul McCartney
This video should be played to everyone, young and old. Then let the people decide, what they want to believe. So many people have been brought up to believe in a god. Time to reject religions.
By establishing a religion of atheism? Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot demonstrated where that leads!
@@jonathansturm4163 It's always amused me that the faithful cite - for example - Stalinism as a defence of religion. "Come to our church; we're better than Stalin" is not setting the bar especially high.
But this is beside the point; the atrocities committed by and on behalf of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler and many other regimes occurred precisely _because_ their people abandoned reason for faith (in the quasi-divinity of the leader or the ideology) and critique was silenced and severely punished.
Atheism is not a religion or a dogma - it is the natural conclusion of a process of asking "really? Who told you that? How do they know?". That's called free thought; something which religion calls 'doubt', and labels a sin.
@@owensims7491 If atheism is not a religion, why the desperation to convert me? I’m not saying all atheists are evangelical; many of my atheist friends do not. But the same is true of my theist friends. One of my sons is a Christian, the younger an atheist and we’re fine discussing matters of faith. The evangelicals on both ends of the spectrum show a remarkably similar disregard for facts… I remain a contented agnostic.
@@jonathansturm4163 ooooooo,,,, and what about the Spanish inquisition or the crusades, or the centuries old battles between Christianity and Islam?
Bad ppl will do bad things and good ppl will do good things, but it takes religion to make good ppl do bad things
Awesome video and it's great to know there is and were a lot of people with actual brains 🧠
You call it intelligence because it lines up with thinking that suits your world view. About 50% of scientists in the world believe in a god. Many of them believe in the Judeo/Christian God, Yahweh. What makes you so sure they’re wrong? What is it about the bleak outlook of Dawkins that you find so attractive?
@@michaelbrickley2443 50% of scientists would not believe in God and the scientists that do would not believe in a creator that watches every move you make and especially one that sends you to a hell for eternity if you don't believe lol that is ridiculous and it's child abuse if you teach this to your children.
If you were born in another country you would believe in a different God so grow up.
@@OZIPUG1970, I’m glad to see you haven’t done your homework. And if misstating truth makes you happy, have at it. I stated truth and I know what Truth is. You will either learn here or on the other side
@@michaelbrickley2443 In America about 10% of Scientists believe in a God/Gods.
@@flipwright1138 WRONG
17:30 I am with Brian cox… having the unknown and being comfortable with it is wonderful.
What effort, thank you!
How can you have laws of physics in a random universe?
I wish the whole world think like that will be a better civilization will be in a better place not with the corruptions of faith and poison and crappy lies making rich and ignoring humanity
The universe isn’t random. The universe (at least ours) comes about through the laws of physics. Where the laws of physics come from, as Alan Guth said, is unknown and perhaps unknowable.
Just like there's billions of random cars adhering to the same traffic laws.
Thank you very much for a great video. Could you re-upload the ''30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God'' video because it not available in Germany anymore?
Could you please add subtitle, i have hearing problem and english isnt my first language.
But thank you for the compilation, indeed they are some of our brightest mind.
Amazing video, thank you so much.
Painstaking , terse and rigorous . Thanks so much .
Thanks for posting but the background music gets a bit intrusive in places. (Except the Mozart at the very begininng when no one was speaking.)
I could listen to this man all day. He's brilliant
Which man?
@@whittlepixels5633 THAT ONE
@@w.8424 brilliant.
@@whittlepixels5633 the one in the sky
Children, they want the candy bar to last forever.
"Religion is best seen as a subject of comedy". "It's best to avoid irrational beliefs". "It's best to stick to explanations that have evidential backing". So many wise words. Brilliant.
Atheism gives us much more comedic material!! There is nothing irrational about belief in God. The converse is however more true about atheism, which is completely irrational with no evidence to support that ideology, and indeed laughable at best. Furthermore, Christianity is replete with evidential understanding. It has nothing to do with blind faith, but everything to do with the evidence that buttresses an understanding of the truth that God provides. There is a very good reason why the poet said, "[only] the fool believes in his heart there is no God."
@@WienArtist atheism isn't an ideology, it's a conclusion,,,, and I love you religionists who insist you have evidence but over 2,000 yrs have produced not one scrap,,,, you wanna give your evidence?
@@hellohandsome9875 Goodbye Ugly!
First of all, I am not a religionist, since I do not adhere to any religion. Point of fact - Jesus was also not a religionist. His various talks with the religious leaders of that time illustrates that fact.
Atheism itself is a religion, according to this definition of religion: a pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.
Additionally, atheism is indeed an ideology based on this definition of ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture.
To what evidence are you referring? To claim that Christians have provided zero evidence for their belief(s) is untrue. However, regardless of what evidence we might suggest, the godless will always simply hand-wave it away, and deny it a priori, claiming that it does not fit into their category of "evidence".
@@WienArtist that was really sweet of you,,,, same old story from believers, you have lots of evidence but cannot produce it,,,,, the day I believe a man walked on water and came back fro the dead is the day I get a a little room with soft walls,,,, jesus was born of a virgin, right? So, prove she was a virgin
@@hellohandsome9875 Goodbye Ugly!
Ah, so you have trouble believing? I recognize your ignorance.
Jesus was not just a man. Do some homework before making ignorant claims.
Can you prove that atheism is true? Since you obviously cannot provide any evidence for your position, I will continue to remain a Christian.
The answer from Richard Ernst at 24:22 was short and on point!
I have only one reason to hope there is a god, heaven and hell. And that hope is that Donald Trump is judged by God to be a sinner and consigned to immolation in hell. Beyond that forlorn hope, to believe in god is an absurdity bourne of wish thinking and the underhand conspiracies unscrupulous men in search of power and wealth.
There is no answer, because no one knows. It's all speculation and theory.
@@terryowen7449 your second sentence shows much of your character and level of intelligence. Do better.
@@gethappycyclingcampingoutdoors yes, but his "answer" is exactly this. him saying "of course" to the question "is that it?" is simply one answer which we know for certain, which is that when you die, you stop being able to use your physical body.
what happens to "you" AFTER you die from that point is indeed speculation. though i would personally speculate that the idea of a "soul" seems like total bullshit, as that would require all animals, and furthermore microbes and single celled organisms to also have a soul.
and if there is a "heaven", that it would have to be an afterlife for all dead organisms, from viruses to people, to have a spot in heaven, rather than JUST for humans, as that idea is retardedly humancentric
@@ImHeadshotSniper how do we know every living cell, organism etc. doesn't have an afterlife? We don't know, no one knows!
Thank you for this video. I am not religious, but have a degree in religion (lost it along the way). I thought this video was going to be about renown scientists speaking about why they DO believe in God. I try to watch things I don't agree with from time to time, to make sure I don't live in an echo chamber, and see if there is something out there I am missing. So I pressed play getting ready to be mostly perturbed, but was pleasantly surprised instead.
This is well worth viewing several times. After my first viewing, the comments of John Searle and Bertrand Russell were among my favorites.
@Christopher Jordan
Was it God who told you to post the same message 20 times? Did he specifiy an exact number?
great compilation, thank you!
First he lived in the trees.
Then he moved to the mountian.
Then to the sky.
Then to outer space.
Now he lives in the twilight zone.
Smart people will understand this.
Cut the background music. It doesn't add anything. In fact it's a negative. I hope it's just a passing phase.
A little too much intellectual arrogance on display here from some participants. Very interesting nevertheless.
I didn’t see any. I saw people answer the questions honestly.
Where and by whom?
@@jamesanthony5681don’t bother. Intellectual arrogance to them is not adhering to their religious dogma. These people just answered a question based on personal belief, but some how they’re the ones intellectually arrogant while he is open minded.
What does suffering add? Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor and chemist said, “Chemistry led us to the heart of Matter, and Matter was our ally, precisely because Spirit, dear to Fascists, was our enemy.” Death is no big deal. Certainly Beethoven helps.
Seeing this it terrifies me to know that a belief in the supernatural is mandatory to become a leading politician in the most powerful country in the world.
do they act like they are Godly?
@@rsm2342 no, not really. But that sort of behaviour is nothing new
@@rsm2342 What would acting Godly look like?
@@dimbulb23 The politicians live off the people, retire on the people, lie to the people, pad their pockets, support foreign involvement of our military and the killing of our troops for very poor reasoning. Maria Cantwell spent millions of her own money on her campaign to run for a job that pays 150000/year? Doesn't make sense unless their is a lot of "other" benefits. Want to take our weapons but have armed guards themselves. These are not Godly people.
@@rsm2342 So guns are godly. Got it.
This is ridiculous. We all know god looks like Carlton Heston and has a deep booming voice- and always speaks in English. Plus we know he helps some people win the lottery while letting millions of kids starve to death. It all makes perfect sense.
Don't forget about homeruns, touchdowns and soccer goals...god loves those. 4000 children a day...not so much!
@@robsaxepga
Priorities, priorities.
If *He* does exist, then I sure hope He's a better actor than Charlton (not Carlton) Heston.
English?! How dare you?!
We all know God speaks Latin...
I wish you hadn't included the music in these clips. It takes away from the viewpoints of the speakers and creates unnecessary drama.
Where is Richard Dawkins in the video?
The director ?
Great video....many thanks to many great people.
What a bunch of great people! :)
Ironic that this opens with one of the most religious pieces of music ever composed .
Sacred is the correct term.
no such thing.
@@larrycarter3765 Nihilo Sanctum Est?
" Drink, for we know not from where we come, nor why
Drink for we know not to where we go, nor when"
David Attenborough & Stephen Fry have even better takes on god , well worth the watch.
Believing in God is not the problem. The problem is organized religion. One guy said it perfectly. These people who follow these religions are in positions of power and base decisions on their silly religion. That is how it ends up affecting everyone and that is simply not fair. I am so tired of religion and politics mixing together and finding its way into my life. I believe in God but following organized religion is a form of mental illness.
Believing in god. This statement already holds organization at it's front. Which god and why is irrational belief not a problem? Tell me, how can a human being not be influenced in their decision making if they claim belief in a supernatural being?
The Monsters: Many times 'religion IS the problem". God doesn't care what religion we are (or aren't); He wants a relationship with each of us. He had that relationship in the Garden with Adam where He walked with him in the ‘cool of the day’. He lost that relationship when sin came into the garden and sin and rebellion caused banishment from God’s presence. . Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, came to restore that relationship - to pay the penalty of our sins. The tearing of the veil in the Temple which separated the ‘common folk' from the Holy of Holies symbolizes this: We are no longer separated (by a veil or anything)… If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9) Religion is not a part of this gift! Faith in His finished word is. There is only one way to the Father - through Jesus Christ, the Son: BUT there are many ways to come to Jesus. The Gospel message of Jesus Christ is a great place to begin or continue or come back on this journey. Have a great day.
I was always surprised how the corporate structure of the Vatican Church resemble Microsoft
Organized religions are often not concerned with finding truth, but rather bend it towards their own ideals of what should be true. Too many people have fell into that trap.
I find the religion of scientism + politicz far more disturbing.
Ego-centric consciousness will only take you so far.
Atman
Than came Gotama the Buddha and got even closer to the truth and the scientific world view when he concluded that the self and the higher self are not real but illusions... Anatman. And that is not egocentric but quite the opposite. Egocentric is the one thinking he has some immortal divine part in him that will live on (soul), the one who refuses to accept his humble place in the world and his mortality.
Super! Thank you for posting.
Allright ! But why the need for that cheap music ?
I get the idea of rejecting a creator god, or a monolithic god, or the tenets of a religious text, but not totally discarding metaphysical possibilities. There are simply things beyond our understanding. Different cultures have different beliefs because they are all trying to make sense of the unknown. So that includes you, empirical intellectuals.
The supernatural implies that there is a world outside of the natural world that we cannot know and that we need not provide evidence for. In fact, there is no evidence for that idea. The thing that distinguishes scientists from people of faith is that they do not pretend to have evidence for what they do not know. They tend to be more comfortable with the unknown.
@@sfreddy Pain is metaphysical and far from supernatural. You can dismiss other people’s pain, but I suspect you might have a problem dismissing your own.
@@jonathansturm4163 pain is entirely physical and chemical. Try again
@@jzfvos4038 I don’t think you’ve ever experienced pain.
@@jonathansturm4163 what an idiotic statement. Seriously. Pain is being around, or communicating with you. Still entirely physical tho.
It seems to me that "belief" or "faith" is an attempt to alleviate the fear of the unknown. If there is no unknown, then there is nothing to fear. The one gentleman said he doesn't want all the answers he wants to be able to search for answers. Other people just want the answers.
I think you really do have to separate those two words. We all work on a set of beliefs that is how we make sense of the world. Most of us try to ensure that our beliefs line up with the world. When you get out of bed in the morning you believe that the floor will hold your weight. This is a reasonable belief as all the other time you have walked on those floors they have held your weight, there is reason to believe.
Faith is having a belief without any evidence to back it up. If you have evidence you do not need faith. This could be religious or faith in your lucky rabbit's foot. We all have some faiths nobody is completely rational about everything. It is important to recognize your own faiths so that when you act you understand how much you can rely on the outcome.
You may have faith that you will win the lottery, fine but don't get rid of the house until you have actually won.
Or how about people simply wondering if death is the final
Ancient people simply created a replica of their life in the after life - Heaven is God's Kingdom. God sits on his throne in the Heavens. Jesus is his prince
Religions were happy to use this replica - No king/Dictator would allow a disloyal person to remain in his kingdom, hence one must swear belief in this God & only to this God & no one else! Otherwise he would get angry and dump you into hell
Made much sense to people living under Kings/Dictators and allowed religions to control their followers. Gain enough of them and then they can kill those who did not want to be converted
What is amazing that even in the 21st century, even the best of minds blindly follow these primitive ideas of God
It is like watching a chimp teach humans
The question is ' does a mind need a body to exist' if yes there is no god or God but if no, there is.
A twisted logic there - just because you have to have body to exist - how does that prove God? Just nonsense
Not one of those 50 solicited monetary funds. Lets listen to 50 televangelists and see how many show what their true god is. I'll bet money would be their favorite subject.
Well, all fifty essentially agree on all the key points. And since they were chosen perfectly at random with absolutely no prior knowledge of their viewpoints or what they would say, I guess that pretty much settles the issue once and for all.
It was not meant as an objective survey, but rather as a range of scientists' views on the nature of god and the afterlife.
@@davidsellon4580 your right David but there were some philosophers in there🤗
''God has been DESIGNED to be beyond the verification process of science''...Daniel Dennett
God has been designed BY MAN to.....whatever 31:00
David Renwick you can worship santa claus but I’ll worship the God/man who produced the highest moral teaching the world has ever seen. Smh
@@michaelbrickley2443
Christian Roulette:
Open the bible to a random page.
Do exactly what it says.
See how long it takes until you are locked up.
@@rebanx1, where did you learn to argue? Suppose you took a class in bad arguments and this is the result.
@Tich Ennis Turin shroud is an impression of a person, radio-carbon dated ~12th or 13th century AD.
How many times did use the word "believe"? Has anyone counted?
Well yes, because it is impossible to disprove anything to absolute 100% certainty. I believe that leprechauns and unicorns don’t exist. I don’t know with absolute certainty they do not. It is up to those making a positive claim to provide the evidence. And the more extraordinary the claim, the more proof I’m going to need. If you are going to tell me that a supernatural being exists outside the laws of science then I’m sorry, I’m going to need some evidence for it.
@@chrismathis4162 I was simply trying to point out the lack of vocabulary. Implied here is the idea that the "abuse" of the word 'belief" undermines reason, the reasoning process, and warps the standards used to evaluate conclusions. This way it is natural to expect me to claim that "
@@chrismathis4162 I was simply trying to point out the lack of vocabulary. Implied here is the idea that the "abuse" of the word 'belief" undermines reason, the reasoning process, and warps the standards used to evaluate conclusions. This way it is natural to expect me to claim that "
can u put eng subtitles please it is very important
Click on the video top right 'three vertical dots', and then click 'caption'.
Enjoy.
Never ask a scientist about God. It's usually bad advice.
I liked, "religious belief is a form of madness"
You like the idea that many of the top thinkers, scientists as well as philosophers, are filled with a faith that you think is madness? Scary. I find it incredibly depressing to think of the world these men envision but thank God every day for He is the truth and these men only know what they believe to be “true.”
All of the naturalistic (i.e., non-supernatural) explanations of the origin of the universe begin with the existence of some combination of three things: space, matter and energy. What was the origin of those three? Either they were not created, they have always existed, which would mean THEY are supernatural, or they were created by an intelligent entity who is supernatural. Which of these two explanations is more reasonable? I say the latter.
So how did your "Invisible magic man in the sky" come to exist? Did he just spark into existence? Or does he not exist? I say the latter!
@@tonywadkins5258 My reasoning is that something has always existed, which by definition means it is supernatural. The question is what is that something? Is it the space, matter and energy I referenced, OR an intelligent entity? In my opinion, an intelligent entity is a more reasonable explanation. I did not say prof, I said a more reasonable explanation.
@@morriswilburn9858 Your initial premise is fundamentally flawed.
That is not true. Modern cosmology does not assume there was space, matter and energy.
@@morriswilburn9858you’re making a God of the Gaps fallacy. Just because there is an issue that can’t be explained yet it has to be God? That’s a very intellectually lazy attempt at understanding the world. “ I don’t understand this so it must mean it’s God” does that sound reasonable?
Believing in a God (Designer) is not a religion. It’s an explanation of all things you don’t understand. God doesn’t have a religion. Religion is man made. God exists in all things.
I really dont care who says what on this subject. Its abundantly clear that there are no gods. No hell. No heaven.
It s all man made, for various reasons.
Academic or not, if you believe in (any) deity youre not using your brain. Simple
If its all man made who made man, my man?
I think I hear what you are saying- and I agree that there is an objective standard right and wrong that governs the Universe. That is obvious- yet if there is a moral law, there must be a moral lawgiver- who I truly believe is God. Out of all the possible knowledge in the Universe, the most intelligent genius in the world doesn't posses anything but a speck of dust in comparison to all that there is. And to claim that you have examined all of that knowledge and can conclude there is no knowledge of God in the Universe is honestly a little arrogant. Whether you follow Him or not is a different question, but being an Atheist and being a Christian both require faith.
" Professing to be wise they became fools "
It isn't "abundantly clear". It is abundantly clear what consciousness is? Does it exist after death etc. The Big Bang sprang from nothing. That's the limit test of credulity yet... physicists start with that premise just to make things easy.
The burden of proof falls to you since you are making a knowledge claim. One that you can't substantiate.
Moses (a very interesting character himself) came down from a mountain and said that God had told him that God is everything which exists, that it is not possible for man to see (understand) God and that by following a very simple set of rules, humanity would be able to survive long enough to evolve into a next higher level of existence. Such is the only reference I have about God actually describing himself.
I find all this to be very logical, persuasive and satisfactory. Most everything else taught in the different religions are but human interpretations and convenient accommodations. Personally, I see God in every flower, in every seed and in the inside of each of the 7 Trillion cells that make my human body.
It sounded like you subscribe to Pantheism-the belief that the universe is all there is to it and you would call the universe god, there's no god outside, something extra or outside of the universe, which is different from Panentheism--the belief that god is within the universe and exist apart from it.
I believe Christians are Panentheists, but from your description, it seems Pantheism appeals more to you. 🙂
@@terminusadquem6981 - I do my best to avoid dogmatic bigotry. I, by no means, pretend to see - know - understand everything that exists.
I said that God, apparently, said that God is 'everything' that exists. Not just everything that I see.
It is already suggested that our observable universe consists of a remarkably complex matrix of energies that, so far, no one understands. Who knows what God may be!
For those with Faith,
no proof is necessary.
For those without Faith,
no proof is possible.
...which is why those with faith will believe anything.
Why would we care more about the opinions of academics than say plumbers or nurses?
Or priests, imams, rabbis, theologians or holy books?
You can not understand God untill you meet him
But nobody met him.
@@Vislav proof it
@@-Blue-_
Actually the person that says that he met the god needs to prove it.
Common sense from uncommon men: They speak the truth, the truth will set one free.
Dr. Lane Craig atheist say He puts the fear of God in them by their own words
ua-cam.com/video/wQ-aqnDHqqA/v-deo.html
Peter Stoner Science Speaks “Any man who rejects Christ as The Son
of God is rejecting a fact proved perhaps more absolute than any other fact in the world.
ua-cam.com/video/LMA41EVDhqw/v-deo.html
Scientific proof of the Bible the flood carbon dating sedimentation coal and oil formation earths age and much more it’s an amazing documentary
"Cause of the universe would have been outside of space and time because it created space and time"
Physicist are saying that the details of the universe needed to so finely tuned on a razors edge for life to be possible.
One Cambridge Astronomer likens it of "getting all the parameters to a tornado blowing through a junk yard and producing a 747 Boeing Jet”
AN Oxford physicist said “The difference you could have while still getting life is less that 1 part in 10 raised to 10 raised again to 123! If I tried to print that percentage out I could not do it because if I turned all the matter in the universe into paper I still could not do it because I would have far too little paper.” Those are the sorts of odds we are taking about if this universe is created by chance just by randomness.
craig isn't a scientist.
physicists also believe there are many other universes with different finely tuned laws.
recent science proves matter forms in a vacuum.
Freedom can you please expand on the definition of that
@@christopherjordan6237 If you were to consider the probability of you existing in this world today as a result of only one of billions of sperm cells ever produced by your father and of every male in your lineage (and one egg from every egg produced by the females in your lineage) you must conclude that it is virtually impossible that you should exist. Yet, here you are.
I can't bealive that I've heard so poor and weak arguments from so educated people. They are good in their work but their argument are just silly thoughts. Their argument are totally demolished by William Lain Craig and John Lennox !!!! I will make a video on this subject and I will post here.
An idea is not yet a dead fact, it is alive in our being. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it is now.
The concept of “I am a deterministic animal originating from blind random chance” is not an idea because it doesn’t aim for anything better then it is now, it degrades the thinker into something worse. A creature that cannot really think but can solely embody it’s being, that has no innate value to the structure it inhabits, and no purpose in what it’s journeying toward, only built-in drives to preserve it’s own distance from suffering or ending. The complete ending, of the creature created by this concept, is it’s only ultimate destination. Rationally this is not even a construct that could be considered an idea.
Free will is a delusion. You may think you could have chosen Chocolate instead of Vanilla. But the fact is, you can never know that you could have made the other choice... because you didn't.
@@dimbulb23 Why bother me with your subjective delusion, we can't really communicate meaning with your worldview can we.
@@boltrooktwo Just testing if you were sufficiently evolved. Apparently, not.
@@dimbulb23 You being evolved is just the root of your delusion, to believe something so unreasonable isn’t intelligent. You haven’t communicated intelligently, can you only follow your drone programming which tells you to denigrate any being that might listen to you? I guess believing you have no freewill makes you predictable. Let’s open the great book of evolution and judge who is evolved or not. Subjective absurdism, there is no such book and blind random chance answers to nothing.
How determinism leads to purposelessnes? I fail to understand. 🙂
Academics who believe and academics who don't believe.
It means nothing if God remains hidden.
I've seen you a ton on numerous videos. Thanks for spreading rationality everywhere you go💯💯💯
Where are the women?
18:37, you dumb male hating piece of shit,
They are at my place.
Thank you. My dad constantly berated my "arrogance" for wondering just what this "God" was that we spent so much time visiting. How dare I think of questioning the countless generations of theologians ( he meant Aquinas and Copleston!) who had devoted their lives to explain it all to the peasants ( that would be me ). What a waste.
Your dad may have been wrong in his approach, but one thing is sure the God of the Bible is real. They have found Sodom and Gomorrah. Please UA-cam Sodom and Gomorrah 4K. The scientific evidence is undeniable. Also Kent Hovind Lies in The Textbooks.
@@christopherjordan6237 The alignment of archeological evidence with textual data is interesting but contributes nothing new to the "existence of a God " debate.
Why would anyone lie in textbooks? I lie in my bed. ;-)
@@christopherjordan6237 "Slaves, obey your earthly masters..." - Colossians 3:22
"Slaves, be obedient to your human masters..." - Ephesians 6:5
"Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters..." Peter 2:18
No thanks! And where's the "scientific evidence" for the *mythological* claims made by the religious? As the comment above stated, just because a man-made book that condones bigotry makes some references to historic events, doesn't make the mythology of that book true last I checked.
@@christopherjordan6237 Also if "God" exists, as monotheists define and explain through their religious texts as "all powerful, all knowing, and all wise." Then how do you explain this:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then why is there evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Greek philosopher Epicurus
@@silvercloud1641 Brother You are thinking about it from man’s point of view. Now think about it if you were God. If you were love and also just. Would you want robots that can only feel one way that are trap with no choice but you and to love you. That’s not love. That is a robot. If you make your wife stay with you is that love? Or is it because out of everyone she picked you. Jesus/Yeshua is the only God who died for you, a legal transaction to buy you back in the spirit realm for what man did in handing over the keys to your adversary the fallen one. UA-cam Sodom and Gomorrah 4K there is no doubt God did what He said there with pure sulfur balls that are belted into the ziggurats and structures that burn a hots blue white and purple found no where else in world not even volcanoes have sulfur that pure which was lab tested to be 99%. Also evidence of atomization in the rocks that melted which only occurs above 4,000 degrees F. Have you researched Noah’s ark? The Red Sea crossing? The Case for Christ?
Do you know there is no scientific evidence of macro evolution which is the change in species, a bacteria to a from ECT… a bacterium will always be a bacterium. There is only evidence of micro evolution the change in kinds like kinds of dogs from the wolf but they will also be the same species. Evolutions God is a rock. My God is The Rock and He is Real.
God means many different things in different cultures. In some cultures, it just refers to a cosmic force or energy or just nature
Excellent video of reasonable people who are not atheist evangelists articulating their concerns and scepticism of belief in god. But please, why the awful background piano music?
Because intellectual snobbery and a lack of self-awareness.
As someone with severe hearing issues I agree entirely! It is unfortunately far too common...
This is very subjective and the creator of this film has - of course - been very selective in the viewpoints he presents. I am not a follower of religion myself, but neither am I a believer in a lack of balance.
Some good comments, some not so inspiring ones. Talk to anyone for long enough and you’ll disagree at some level. These guys are no different, get 10 of them in a room for a while and there would be a disagreement on the origins of the universe and the fate of it also. What does this prove? That we know what we know and don’t what we don’t, the pursuit of truth is good, the belittlement of anyone that is living there life to their own level of understanding is not. Appreciate the talking/thinking points here though.
The main point is none of them believe In an intelligent designer, or just have not been convinced . They all share that same conviction so that's the point.
That is normal, tell me how many religions agree with the same principles or religious people who agree with the same bullshit they read in the Bible..moron
I really doubt your argument. If you really put 10 of them in a room and they talked about origin of universe, the most probable outcome would be that they would all agree that we lack knowledge to definitively argue about the origin and big bang is probably the most probable explanation.
@@daddydaveshowshow7945 So what! So a group of people explaining their unbelief of God! There are a great many very intelligent scientists who do believe in God or at least recognize the idea of an intelligent designing agent. I happen to fall into the second group because I observe the world through a lens that sees the Creator in everything. Atheism makes no sense. I would much rather watch a video of former atheists explaining how they came to change their mind versus a bunch of egomaniacs mired in their closed-minded stubbornness.
@@aushafe-rabbi7081 nothing can’t be created out of nothing, what was there before the big bang? Why laws of physics are how they are? There are many things left unexplained, I’m convinced there’s not an anthropomorphic God but maybe we can call God to the force of nature that creates space and time.
Before I watch this, you do not require a scholar to speak about God and spirit, because it does not require only an academic to stimulate soul, consequently they may be intelligent combined with a weak soul. God is about scripture and faith, and academia is about science and facts, but not necessarily truths.
How and why does anyone think these people have any more of an opinion of god then you or I is beyond belief
are you saying christians don't understand their own belief? 🙂
They’re elitists.
All these brilliant scientists are blind about God--using juvenile definitions of what God is as if those were the deepest truth. God is not a supernatural thing, tho God is an aspect of nature not usually noticed. God is the organizing factor in nature, operant at all levels. Not seeing the fundamental organizing factor, science is BLIND.
God is nature then. Fine. Call it nature then.
You’ve defined god in a way that no theists would recognise but which deists or pantheists would be fine with and you overlooked those people who simply refused to state what a god is.
Seems to me you’ve got semantics to peddle but nothing remotely profound
With the exception of Feynman, this video is simply a collection of hyper-specialized academics united by the unfortunate and yet hilarious quality of being fucking terrible at philosophy. Yet, they remain blissfully unaware that their qualifications in their tiny respective niches within the sciences permit them to speak competently of those niches only. They do not know what they do not know. Imagine having the mind of a 15 year old for an entire lifetime...it looks like this.
Fine words................but.................utterly meaningless.
@@epicccurusaurelius2634 Thanks for demonstrating my point so beautifully. The fact you wrote a response with words detailing the supposed meaninglessness of words happens to be a glaring performative contradiction. Your desire for a meaningless universe doesn't make it reality.
@@patrickschissler5860 I wouldnt know where to start with people like you. I have written hundreds of pieces on this and im tired. My point was, you never talked about the points they are making. You are only talking about their jobs and that they only know a small piece of it. But the problem is, you know even less, because I assume that youre daily job doesnt have anything to do with science. Or does it?
@@epicccurusaurelius2634 Not to mention he completely ignored the philosophy professor. Unconscious misogyny implanted by patriarchal religion, perhaps?
Lol, you clearly do not keep up with science. Some of those so called hyper specialized academics are just as accomplished as Feynman. The people who are blissfully unaware are theologians who never cease to amaze me by making claims on subjects which they have absolutely no education.
Infinite regress would only apply to the laws of the physical universe, if there is a higher plane say of pure mental stuff this would not apply. The evidence points to a simulation, elements, molecules, DNA, the laws of physics etc are codes.
Dr. Lane Craig atheist say He puts the fear of God in them by their own words
ua-cam.com/video/wQ-aqnDHqqA/v-deo.html
Peter Stoner Science Speaks “Any man who rejects Christ as The Son
of God is rejecting a fact proved perhaps more absolute than any other fact in the world.
ua-cam.com/video/LMA41EVDhqw/v-deo.html
Scientific proof of the Bible the flood carbon dating sedimentation coal and oil formation earths age and much more it’s an amazing documentary
"Cause of the universe would have been outside of space and time because it created space and time"
Physicist are saying that the details of the universe needed to so finely tuned on a razors edge for life to be possible.
One Cambridge Astronomer likens it of "getting all the parameters to a tornado blowing through a junk yard and producing a 747 Boeing Jet”
AN Oxford physicist said “The difference you could have while still getting life is less that 1 part in 10 raised to 10 raised again to 123! If I tried to print that percentage out I could not do it because if I turned all the matter in the universe into paper I still could not do it because I would have far too little paper.” Those are the sorts of odds we are taking about if this universe is created by chance just by randomness.
Dr. Lane Craig atheist say He puts the fear of God in them by their own words
ua-cam.com/video/wQ-aqnDHqqA/v-deo.html
Peter Stoner Science Speaks “Any man who rejects Christ as The Son
of God is rejecting a fact proved perhaps more absolute than any other fact in the world.
ua-cam.com/video/LMA41EVDhqw/v-deo.html
Scientific proof of the Bible the flood carbon dating sedimentation coal and oil formation earths age and much more it’s an amazing documentary
"Cause of the universe would have been outside of space and time because it created space and time"
Physicist are saying that the details of the universe needed to so finely tuned on a razors edge for life to be possible.
One Cambridge Astronomer likens it of "getting all the parameters to a tornado blowing through a junk yard and producing a 747 Boeing Jet”
AN Oxford physicist said “The difference you could have while still getting life is less that 1 part in 10 raised to 10 raised again to 123! If I tried to print that percentage out I could not do it because if I turned all the matter in the universe into paper I still could not do it because I would have far too little paper.” Those are the sorts of odds we are taking about if this universe is created by chance just by randomness.
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Dr. Lane Craig atheist say He puts the fear of God in them by their own words
ua-cam.com/video/wQ-aqnDHqqA/v-deo.html
Peter Stoner Science Speaks “Any man who rejects Christ as The Son
of God is rejecting a fact proved perhaps more absolute than any other fact in the world.
ua-cam.com/video/LMA41EVDhqw/v-deo.html
Scientific proof of the Bible the flood carbon dating sedimentation coal and oil formation earths age and much more it’s an amazing documentary
"Cause of the universe would have been outside of space and time because it created space and time"
Physicist are saying that the details of the universe needed to so finely tuned on a razors edge for life to be possible.
One Cambridge Astronomer likens it of "getting all the parameters to a tornado blowing through a junk yard and producing a 747 Boeing Jet”
if you see a car you believe it was made but if you see yourself more complicated than that car suddenly you can't believe anyone made you.
By that logic you should simply believe that your parents made you and leave it at that.
There is no suddenly about it. It's exactly because we know the car was made, because we know about the history and manufacturing of the car, we can compare it to things that aren't consciously manufactured or created like humans or any life for that matter.
Of course if you can provide the detail on how a human is made to at least the same degree of detail on how we can build a car, then I am all ears. Wait.. we can, by the unconscious blind processes of evolution by natural selection.
@@PianoDentist you misleading to people by saying that something comes from nothing, what is nothing, don't you know it like you know a car ?
@@forexgainer1786 Show me where I said that something can come from nothing? Those are your words. But since you brought it up, you define 'nothing'.
@@forexgainer1786well nobody came from nothing we have parents after all.
@@PianoDentisthe makes no sense. We come from our parents and they came from their parents and so on.
There is no god to speak about.
Since the God of Einstein equates to everything there is then there’s absolutely nothing to speak about. You don’t even believe in your own existence.
we go on and on about god. with many claims of one kind or another. and yet even after 5000 years of the beliefs, there is not a single word on what is god ?
What is energy?
@@rsm2342 Energy is what permits change.
In a nutshell, religious belief is ridiculous and petulant. For the love of god (pun intended), let's grow up shall we?
Regarding 2:27, being "the sum total of all of the causal influences" invalidates rationalism because it ultimately implies that ALL of our inevitable beliefs are delusional. If we were not free to have believed otherwise then we should only be allowed to rationally describe our beliefs as inevitable. Likewise evolutionary determinism has developed in us tendencies towards evolutionarily advantageous delusions, some of which may be impossible for us to recognize as delusions. In a deterministic universe, pretty much every experience and belief has an underlying delusionality which we should not EXPECT to be able to overcome. Of course, a non-deterministic universe is pretty much the definition of super-natural since it would require extra-physical factors to exert physical effects.
@7:11 yep "Theologians don't respect the power of human intellect". that about sums it up
Theology is for con-men and their prey.
There are as much religious scientists out there as there athiest scientists.
In other words, WHICh of the thousands of gods is the right one!?
@Ireland Forever But, as Krauss noted at the very beginning of this video, whether they are theists or not is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. They may belong to the cult of Pinocchio and yet, that would have no bearing whatsoever upon their work.
@@archangel7052 Citation needed please.
I feel very fortunate that I have had such a profound interest in so many disparate subjects.
God, as an example. I felt very
'short sighted' in feeling or contemplating God should I have only had a true side interest in one or two rather similar things.
Meaning; I do not want to struggle with the nuances of a sociological concept with all of my training in mathematics.
I am as hard-bitten with the bug of reason, logic, math, and even skepticism as I care to admit.
But this experience in thought leaves me rather impotent with a concomitant interest and even passion for theology, languages, or behavioral sciences.
Strange as it may sound, and maybe even overly ambitious, I really have had an intense interest in all of these 'field's.
Eventually, with a big heart as well as a strong effort in critical thinking, I finally was able to narrow my life down to a handful of hair-pulling choices.
Though even with my best efforts with physical law and cold reality
keeps God just out of my reach,
I'm not such a fool as to 'believe' in any destination as a one-way street. Truth, is far and away much more than I can ever hope for.
Call me a complete fool, maybe even criminal intellectual suicide,
but, since realise that truly I can never really 'know' shit,
You may call it,
A Suspension Of Disbelief.
It must be quite challenge lving each moment every day using only maths.
Can you please give me the link of Neil Degrasse Tyson's speech?
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@@JPararajasingham Thank so much!
It's strange, but the most eminent scientist, namely Isaac Newton was an extremely pious man....... I just wonder listening to all these individuals opinions what he would have reckoned to them....
Yeah.. he also worked on mysticism. 🙂
Newton wrote around 2,000,000 words about God, far more than he did on physics. Galileo was renowned in his day for his sermons and was best friends with the head of the Inquisition, Cardinal Bellarmine. When he was tried for heresy, it was for insulting the Pope (an ex-student of his) and was not found guilty. The finding was “vehemently suspected of heresy”. We know this because Napoleon ordered the preservation of the Inquisition’s documents of the trial, the contents of which scientists to this very day tell lies about. Go figure...
The God they don't believe in says.....John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
No, the people who wrote the bible said that.
1:1 There was a ringing clash and a stab of white fire. 1:2 The Balrog fell back and its sword flew up in molten fragments. 1:3 The wizard swayed on the bridge, stepped back a pace, and then again stood still.
1:4 'You cannot pass!' he said.
1:5 With a bound the Balrog leaped full upon the bridge. Its whip whirled and hissed.
I believe this happened; for it is written.
@@owensims7491 Brian is the Messiah and I should know...I've followed a few.
@@novakingood3788 He's *not* the messiah...
@@owensims7491 Only a very naughty boy would say that!
"The mind gives meaning to anything, but the meaning it gives is meaningless." J. Krishnamurti
It is absolutely illuminating, in both senses.
what utter hogwash - do you ever listen to yourself, or even take heed of the jibberish you quote?
Wow... deep maaan. The usual woo-woo mystical tosh- a turd of a quote from a very privileged and clearly self-important rich man who lived very well- unlike the vast majority of his compatriates in the appallingly unequal Indian society. Insulting. Meaningless. Pointless. Vacuous. Krishnamurti's thoughts may have qualified for his own defintion, but thankfully most people will see this quote for what it is: pathetic pseudo-philosophical garbage.
It is ridiculous that elected scientists are given their judgment on the existence of God when it is simply known that His existence is connected with human free will. Only man has the ability: learning, speaking, thinking, creativity ... that is, God's attributes given to him by God to use them. Constantly and always God has elegantly and carefully helped in our development and progress but has never touched the freedom of will He has given us.
Primitive people made God in the image of their local King/Dictator - "We must get down on our knees, swear loyalty(belief) & obedience, beg for his mercy & hope for a reward(heaven)"
Did I get your "God" right? None other than a Putin, a Saddam
Believe, beg, grovel down on our knees and he will be pleased and GIVE us the good life? You get to live an eternal life of comfort?
How are you any different from prostitutes/gigolos/leeches/freeloaders who look for rich Sugar Daddies to give them a life of comfort
You view God the same way
And guess what? These rich Sugar Daddies view such people with contempt and disgust for they know that all that "love" and high praises are not for him but for his money
God knows what you are after & is disgusted by such people
no it's the other way around. 🙂 god was given man attributes. 🙂
Why didn’t you get 25 academics that believe In god and 25 academics who don’t, this is hardly fair
This is only one of a number of videos on my channel. It's hardly fair for you to comment without checking first.
@@JPararajasingham ah okay fair enough
The fundamental problem with these interviews is that there is no definition of God. So we go back to Wittgenstein - it's all a question of language.
Thats because there is no “god” so they dont need to define it.
Scientists without imagination, that's sad
Oooo, I have a lot of imagination, but religion is not one of them. And, well, I don't feel sad at all.
Book smarts
@Jim Scott Well yes, just like Rome... it's imaginary for me cause I never been there. But I believe it exists :)
@Jim Scott Well my comment concerns imagination and not specifically the existence of God. Before observing the atoms or a black hole, scientists had to imagine them. Therefore I find it strange to hear scientists sound so "conclusive" about even bigger questions like the fundamental reasons why we are here. Imagination is the engine of the human experience. Without the idea of God (whatever form he takes for each of us), this world appears to me without fundamental purpose, and I think it's a way of living that is untolerable for human (which should be consider as an argument). And the main fact is that whether gods exist or not, the sun will destroy us way before we approach that knowledge (or maybe Elon Musk's descent will throw us in another galaxy!)
@Jim Scott The idea of god is not conforting to me because he's an asshole! (haha) But we agree on the fact that religion is a personal thing that shouldn't be mix up with politics! Amen :)
6:17 exactly ,8:40-14:43 ,15:40-19:13 OMFGGG YESSSS THAT'S KING.... 31:58 another king
I for one appreciate the balance in this video. It's nice to hear both sides of the argument.
Dr. Lane Craig atheist say He puts the fear of God in them by their own words
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Peter Stoner Science Speaks “Any man who rejects Christ as The Son
of God is rejecting a fact proved perhaps more absolute than any other fact in the world.
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Scientific proof of the Bible the flood carbon dating sedimentation coal and oil formation earths age and much more it’s an amazing documentary
"Cause of the universe would have been outside of space and time because it created space and time"
Physicist are saying that the details of the universe needed to so finely tuned on a razors edge for life to be possible.
One Cambridge Astronomer likens it of "getting all the parameters to a tornado blowing through a junk yard and producing a 747 Boeing Jet”
AN Oxford physicist said “The difference you could have while still getting life is less that 1 part in 10 raised to 10 raised again to 123! If I tried to print that percentage out I could not do it because if I turned all the matter in the universe into paper I still could not do it because I would have far too little paper.” Those are the sorts of odds we are taking about if this universe is created by chance just by randomness.
The Balance?? Are you watching the right youtube clip? There is no blance in this. It is all full of atheists and agnostics who are either mildly or rudely denouncing any possibilities of an Intelligent Designer. This is an anti-God fest.
@Jeff You think that whole universe came into existence from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, that the laws of the universe invented themselves, so it is you who needs to get real sunshine.
@Jeff I understand perfectly what they are saying, it is you who seems not to grasp it. It is not me who believes that the universe comes from nothing, it is you lot.
So tell me Jeff, if you disagree with your fellow atheist Krause and refute his argument that the universe came from nothing, then what is your understanding of the matter then? Because all you do is irrationally attack but you provide no argument yourself.
@@rolo5424 If you define God as something unknowable then that is very convenient major premiss. You could claim anything. It is meaningless.
What does one expect when they ask 50 non believers? Now ask the same questions to 50 believing academics.
Pete Miller
Being less than 5% of the National Academies of Science, those are hard to find. Dumbass!!
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Typical response from an uniformed individual. Here let me see if I can help out a little were you might have over looked something....
The National Academy of Sciences(NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to scienceand technology.
93% of a voluntary non-profit organization believes in creation outside of God alone as the primary source.
There are currently 2290 members of NAS. 93%
There are from 7.8-10 million scientist's and researchers across the globe.
93%=2122
7.8M total scientist in the world "minimum number for your advantage"
2122÷7.8M=.0002 of the scientific world are part of NAS.
This leaves 7,797,878 other scientist to ask......
Hmmm please please tell me again about this tiny pool of people available for this survey... I'm sure they could have found 50 believers out of that TINY little pool.
Pete Miller
Your list across the globe includes dentists and sewage scientists, and those with dodgy credentials. The NAS represents the BEST of scientists, your list contains the worst.
rstevewarmorycom Tell that to John Lennox lol typical lack of evidence answer.
Here maybe this will help where you lack intellect.... look these names up Francis Collins, Galileo, Isaac Newton and see id we needed dumbies like them....lol
Pete Miller
Lennox is an idiot, he's lost every debate he's tried. Collins believes in magic waterfalls, he has a big part of his brain dominated by superstition. Galileo and Newton were just more compartmentalized brains of their times, Galileo should have hightailed it for the Netherlands when the getting was good, instead of getting threatened with torture. Newton was a one-hit wonder one-trick pony fruitcake whom no one liked and who thought he was sure for heaven because he died a fucking virgin!! He diddled himself with alchemy and failed to discover perturbation theory when it was right in front of him, he gave up and claimed god musta dun it. All these men are nothing but ALMOST SCIENTISTS!! The failed to apply the scientific method to their own lives! Someone like them today are not even respected by other REAL scientists.
50 people who know nothing about metaphysics or theology talk about metaphysics and theology with profound confidence.
Just because they are experts in another field does not prevent them from acquiring knowledge on metaphysics or theology. You're just showing ignorance in presuming so and arrogance in not accepting they probably know more about these things than me or you.
@@aushafe-rabbi7081 Have you ever watched any of Dr. Peter Atkins debates on theology. Lord, have mercy!
@@aushafe-rabbi7081 Why the metaphysical presumption of naturalism?
I don't think it is arrogance to state that non-experts in a field of study are speaking as non-experts. If a professor of historical theology opined on cellular biology I would see that as highly problematic, unless, of course, he had dedicated himself to its study.
The problem is that most scientists have little interest in metaphysics or theology, but the ones here are not shy of speaking on the matter.
The more science we are aware of the less religion is needed for stories of gods and fairies...
Most of these people are physicist and astronomist. The problem is that they are looking for God in skies when he is not there. He is not physical being that could be seen. He is felt. It's a question of perception and belief and not of physical existence. If you think about him consciously you will not find him as he lies in your unconscious.