Dear Mr. Gore, I am truly enjoying your lectures. I am an atheist, and would call myself a skeptic (with some reservations), but that does not take away from my pleasure in seeing these interesting videos presenting an overview of the long history that led to Christianity as it took form in late antiquity. I learn a lot from these, and I am enjoying your enthusiasm for teaching. Unlike so many skeptics and apologists, you have the ability to talk across the silos. All the best Morten
I was going through the comments and found them entertaining. Apparently, some people don’t realize this is a high school class. This is foundational..not a department at a university. Love your lectures!
Thanks for posting these! I found this while reviewing the Ionians for a book that I'm writing on an astronomy topic, and it ha helped direct me to other material. You're such an effective lecturer that I thought I was watching something from a college course, initially. One point that I'm wondering if you might reconsider is your notion that these men thought life was meaningless just because they thought one should have fun. For these men, having fun meant learning and teaching. Anaxagoras is reputed to have said that the opportunity to study the Cosmos is what makes life worth living. That's why he fought so hard to stay alive after he was indicted in Athens for teaching that the Moon and Sun were not gods, why he was willing to live out the rest of his life in exile.
ITS AWESOME i see The Fathers work even in this if you research church history and the different denominations you will find that over time each one brought a partial truth to be noticed from scripture to the world just like each of these philosophers brought a partial truth out of the world just by thinking and seeing The Fathers creation and all of these truths came into the world when it was needed to help mankind develop
They have found that the speed of light is not constant and does change according to what it travels by like a black hole if it travels to close its pulled into the black hole and cannot escape but if it travels a little futher away from the black hole lights speed is slowed down so so its not always a fixed speed
20:52 This might be a misleading account of abiogenesis. Amino acids did not bump into one another to form DNA in the way that Democritus believed atoms configure themselves. The Urey-Miller experiment first and foremost shows us that amino acids can form naturally if one were to simulate the Earth's early conditions. We don't exactly know how life began, but biologists would say that replicating molecules was probably the beginning and this may have had an arbitrary sense, but certainly not in the way that is posited. RNA, a single stranded and much simpler form of information so to speak, predates DNA. The emergence of life was an incredibly slow process, it wasn't as if RNA suddenly sprung into existence in some arbitrary way that molecules collide. It was gradual, bit by bit.
Anaxagoras must not have known of Hippocrates who was living around the same time and understood some of the principles of the physical body and digestion only reason I know this is because I had to do a report and presentation on Hippocrates in the 6th grade
Modern materialism embraces biology, among other major areas of knowledge. A modern materialist doesn't think that atoms or chemicals just randomly bump into each other to form an organism. He realizes the role of sexual reproduction and DNA, which is the template which provides the organization of an organism. You know this. The reductionism is gratuitous.
35:35 The real response is that one's feelings, desires, and emotions have absolutely no bearings on the truth of a proposition (the existence of God in this case). One should believe something because there is warrant for that belief (justification, which is typically good standing, solid evidence), not because it makes you feel uncomfortable. The question of God is a truth claim about our fundamental ontology. Thus, it is most appropriately an intellectual enterprise: one based on evidence and argumentation (assuming the evidentialist approach), not comfort or wants. Nonetheless, I think an unfortunate and untrue impression is given about the unbeliever. The unbeliever's position is generally of rejection based on lack of evidence. I don't think the majority of those who do not have such beliefs about God ground their rejection in the way that Mr. Gore's friend did. Atheists, in fact, have the stereotype of always telling others about their atheism, even if nobody asked.
Dear Mr. Gore, I’ve been feverishly going through you lectures and your explanation on various instances of faith in the Bible are thoughtful and insightful, until you struck a note that wasn’t in harmony with all I have listened to up to this point. It seems that with your Bible videos you have a keen understand of scripture, but after this video, I have to wonder if you believe it. You made a comment not a quote that we as humans are “accidents”, and come from the cosmic slop, and you talk here as a evolutionist, which is not in line with bible principle, as we adhere to a GOD of purpose. So it struck me odd that you made such a statement, and that you teach a Sunday school. How do you say and do that exactly? I do love your academic approach. But can that approach distance you to far from the information? Your videos are a great Apologetics tool, but again that foolishness of evolution, is to crazy to repeat. a theory at best, and science inconclusive. The science of dating anything really could be considered a pseudoscience, but I digress. I pray you to keep your eyes fixed on bible principles, and do not allow paganism to enter into your spirit through academia, and continue speaking on the plan truth of bible principle, and all things that connect to it. Blessings
My dear friend, I could not agree with you more! I believe you misunderstood my comment. I was describing the view of people who repudiate any idea that we are created by God, and who are thus bound to affirm that we are but meaningless accidents of the universe with no purpose or hope. That is certainly not my view, but is necessarily the view of any atheist who tries to account for the meaning of human existence. In this presentation, I was specifically describing the outlook of the ancient materialist pluralists. I hope that helps clarify!
This teacher is putting up straw men arguments to brain was these poor students. Maybe he should ask them what "God" (or Gods) Will say to you after you die, if an entirely different religion is true (Hinduisme, The nordic asa religion, Islam, Sientology, Old Greek religion etc.) . The real questions is why is Christianaty right ? Because you happend to grow up in a Christian country ??!
He's simply teaching the history of philosophy. The so-called strawman arguments are stages of development of institutional thought. The argument over the validity of Christianity is a separate issue.
You pose a very interesting question, Mr Falk. I have often wondered this myself. My current reasoning, the idea that appeals to me most, is that the "real question" is not why Christianity is right, but rather, what is right about Christianity? I ask the same of all religions. I always find the answers to be the same. God does not care if a man guesses his true name. He cares only how we treat his children. Or, so it seems to me.
@@tobystewart4403 I too have wondered about this several years ago about Christianity that... just by believing, what is going to change? But as I live in India... I do understand now. what you believe ,... makes a huge difference in how you live. You see that most people in India ... are Hindus .. and they all believe in God. And you know that... India is one of the most corrupted country ??
These are an absolute gem. I wish I had such a passionate teacher when I was these kids age.
Dear Mr. Gore,
I am truly enjoying your lectures. I am an atheist, and would call myself a skeptic (with some reservations), but that does not take away from my pleasure in seeing these interesting videos presenting an overview of the long history that led to Christianity as it took form in late antiquity. I learn a lot from these, and I am enjoying your enthusiasm for teaching. Unlike so many skeptics and apologists, you have the ability to talk across the silos.
All the best
Morten
I am honored by your kind feedback. Thank you very much sir.
Truth must be objective, can’t be subjective. Truth must be truth to everyone. Otherwise it can’t be true.
Loving all your lectures and binging on your channel. Thank you, sir. May the light shine on you.
Thank you!
The dialogue between the beliver and an atheist is good. Thank you sir.
Thanks for these lectures! I appreciate their clarity very much!
Thank you!
I was going through the comments and found them entertaining. Apparently, some people don’t realize this is a high school class. This is foundational..not a department at a university. Love your lectures!
Indeed, sir, for me your lecture is excellent and enjoying daily.thanks
Dear Mr. Gore, Thanks you. I´m Brazil . whatching in 2021.
Thanks for posting these! I found this while reviewing the Ionians for a book that I'm writing on an astronomy topic, and it ha helped direct me to other material. You're such an effective lecturer that I thought I was watching something from a college course, initially. One point that I'm wondering if you might reconsider is your notion that these men thought life was meaningless just because they thought one should have fun. For these men, having fun meant learning and teaching. Anaxagoras is reputed to have said that the opportunity to study the Cosmos is what makes life worth living. That's why he fought so hard to stay alive after he was indicted in Athens for teaching that the Moon and Sun were not gods, why he was willing to live out the rest of his life in exile.
Thanks for the feedback and helpful critique.
Thank you, sir, for your lectures truly helped me.
ITS AWESOME i see The Fathers work even in this if you research church history and the different denominations you will find that over time each one brought a partial truth to be noticed from scripture to the world just like each of these philosophers brought a partial truth out of the world just by thinking and seeing The Fathers creation and all of these truths came into the world when it was needed to help mankind develop
Thank you
Is it just me who finds it fascinating students stand up to ask or answer the lecturer? XD
They have found that the speed of light is not constant and does change according to what it travels by like a black hole if it travels to close its pulled into the black hole and cannot escape but if it travels a little futher away from the black hole lights speed is slowed down so so its not always a fixed speed
What did the student said about the water?
20:52 This might be a misleading account of abiogenesis. Amino acids did not bump into one another to form DNA in the way that Democritus believed atoms configure themselves. The Urey-Miller experiment first and foremost shows us that amino acids can form naturally if one were to simulate the Earth's early conditions. We don't exactly know how life began, but biologists would say that replicating molecules was probably the beginning and this may have had an arbitrary sense, but certainly not in the way that is posited. RNA, a single stranded and much simpler form of information so to speak, predates DNA. The emergence of life was an incredibly slow process, it wasn't as if RNA suddenly sprung into existence in some arbitrary way that molecules collide. It was gradual, bit by bit.
Has anyone ever told you that you sound a lot like Jeff Goldblum?
I mean that as a compliment
Democritus is largely a contemporary representative.
Anaxagoras must not have known of Hippocrates who was living around the same time and understood some of the principles of the physical body and digestion only reason I know this is because I had to do a report and presentation on Hippocrates in the 6th grade
Modern materialism embraces biology, among other major areas of knowledge. A modern materialist doesn't think that atoms or chemicals just randomly bump into each other to form an organism. He realizes the role of sexual reproduction and DNA, which is the template which provides the organization of an organism. You know this. The reductionism is gratuitous.
35:35 The real response is that one's feelings, desires, and emotions have absolutely no bearings on the truth of a proposition (the existence of God in this case). One should believe something because there is warrant for that belief (justification, which is typically good standing, solid evidence), not because it makes you feel uncomfortable. The question of God is a truth claim about our fundamental ontology. Thus, it is most appropriately an intellectual enterprise: one based on evidence and argumentation (assuming the evidentialist approach), not comfort or wants.
Nonetheless, I think an unfortunate and untrue impression is given about the unbeliever. The unbeliever's position is generally of rejection based on lack of evidence. I don't think the majority of those who do not have such beliefs about God ground their rejection in the way that Mr. Gore's friend did. Atheists, in fact, have the stereotype of always telling others about their atheism, even if nobody asked.
Dear Mr. Gore, I’ve been feverishly going through you lectures and your explanation on various instances of faith in the Bible are thoughtful and insightful, until you struck a note that wasn’t in harmony with all I have listened to up to this point.
It seems that with your Bible videos you have a keen understand of scripture, but after this video, I have to wonder if you believe it.
You made a comment not a quote that we as humans are “accidents”, and come from the cosmic slop, and you talk here as a evolutionist, which is not in line with bible principle, as we adhere to a GOD of purpose.
So it struck me odd that you made such a statement, and that you teach a Sunday school.
How do you say and do that exactly?
I do love your academic approach. But can that approach distance you to far from the information?
Your videos are a great Apologetics tool, but again that foolishness of evolution, is to crazy to repeat. a theory at best, and science inconclusive.
The science of dating anything really could be considered a pseudoscience, but I digress.
I pray you to keep your eyes fixed on bible principles, and do not allow paganism to enter into your spirit through academia, and continue speaking on the plan truth of bible principle, and all things that connect to it. Blessings
My dear friend, I could not agree with you more! I believe you misunderstood my comment. I was describing the view of people who repudiate any idea that we are created by God, and who are thus bound to affirm that we are but meaningless accidents of the universe with no purpose or hope. That is certainly not my view, but is necessarily the view of any atheist who tries to account for the meaning of human existence. In this presentation, I was specifically describing the outlook of the ancient materialist pluralists. I hope that helps clarify!
This teacher is putting up straw men arguments to brain was these poor students. Maybe he should ask them what "God" (or Gods) Will say to you after you die, if an entirely different religion is true (Hinduisme, The nordic asa religion, Islam, Sientology, Old Greek religion etc.) . The real questions is why is Christianaty right ? Because you happend to grow up in a Christian country ??!
+Alan Falk Thanks for the helpful feedback!
+Bruce Gore You are welcome, ;and thanks for putting these interesting lectures on UA-cam.
He's simply teaching the history of philosophy. The so-called strawman arguments are stages of development of institutional thought. The argument over the validity of Christianity is a separate issue.
You pose a very interesting question, Mr Falk. I have often wondered this myself. My current reasoning, the idea that appeals to me most, is that the "real question" is not why Christianity is right, but rather, what is right about Christianity? I ask the same of all religions. I always find the answers to be the same. God does not care if a man guesses his true name. He cares only how we treat his children. Or, so it seems to me.
@@tobystewart4403
I too have wondered about this several years ago about Christianity that... just by believing, what is going to change?
But as I live in India... I do understand now.
what you believe ,... makes a huge difference in how you live.
You see that most people in India ... are Hindus .. and they all believe in God.
And you know that... India is one of the most corrupted country ??