I wish Sean would run some of his quantum measuring experiments on me 😉 You sure can make a woman dream Sean. 😍🥰 Mr. Big sexy Science man 😘 Gosh he’s so tall too 🤭

PS. I witnessed a man unable to speak, only make unintelligible sounds for 7 years after a brainstem stroke, could not move, who was struggling to convey something very important about his health condtions suddenly regain his speech 5 to 10 minutes after a nurse and i prayed fervently, asking God, if was within His Will in another room where he could not hear us, that the man might talk to us and tell us his need. Coincidence? maybe. But in my life, and the lives of "believers," we have seen similar, and more. No one keeps "believing"unless they witness such events. No impotent non-Being here.

The digital nature of life on Earth ( Dawkins, et al) is insanely complex. The code table itself, considering stop codons can appear anywhere on it, is 64^(n-3)! where n is the number of amino acids in a chain. Watch the video "The Number 52! Does Not Fit in Our Universe. For life to occur (and it did at least twice,) both code and encoded structures must occur simultaneously. Why? Because there is no back-coding from structure. A few to thousands of copies of keyv strucures must existvand match the code, in a cell membrane < 1 mm^3. Consider tRNAs-they must be pre-loaded with the correct amino acids in thousands of copies at the time of first life. The odds of that almost can't be calculated but at minimum of 1 in 20^32. Only a God,-like Superintelligence can make a self-copying /sysrem. Complexification, equally unlikely. Why? To make a new piece which interacts with another to improve its function with a completely different structure dr novo from code duplication and mutation, becomes successively infinitely smaller with each new piece added by random changes in code. The most complex multi-subunit bacterial protein complex enzyme system contains 64 different peptides working as active sites or scaffolding. Ribosomes- you look up their structure and function. Bottom line- 10^120 is a small number, but it is the number of atoms in 10^10 galaxies visible by the James Webb telescope. You who grasp this, think. If a critical process above occurs randomly with odds of 1:10^120, the scientific laws of probability say, "It cannot happen by random processes even given 10^2000 copies of each pieces of all the proteins and tRNA needed for living cells to copy themselves, unless the DNA (or RNA (RNA world hypothesis) encodes for the whole systems..

Let's talk science. Religion and science are not on the same axes, they are orthogonal. The dominant hemisphere cannot grasp non-dominant hemispheric activity. It looks at the words religious philosophy uses to attempt to describe what cannot be put into words. So the words used to describe the wordless truths of religion are examined, and found nonsensical, ridiculous. Most of the "self," is neural activity which repeats a story continuously to hold itself together to calm the uncertainty of a messy, unpredictable reality, and provides a "self which acts, plans for "itself" i n future events. Does this make scientific sense? "Ego" is part of self. Ego constantly evaluates it's place in the dominance hierarchy. The Ego seeks a certain level of superiority over others, often invisible to its functioning. The radical Anti-theist Ego accomplishes two agendas- it can "feel better" in its ridicule and anger towards the "airy-fairy folk who actually believe that Flying Spaghetti Monsters exist." And, that the ego is then freed from any moral restraint it chooses not to accept. This is the "You must believe in God" the Ego hates, but, as Jordan Peterson aptly points out, the consequences of rebellion against the societal narrative and ethics ( sorry, Islam, you do not make the cut, here!) embodied in religion and its practice within a majority of any society. And, as JP points out, if you get rid of these culturally embodied moral constraints , "There will be hell to pay." Doubt me on that last statement? Look up what the CDC statistics say about the health effects of "immoral sexual practices, and especially in MSM. The HIV epidemic was scientifically understandable when the practices of MSM, promiscuity of any non-monogamous relationship. Shall we ignore the scientific evidence? The concept of God is rational to children who's non-dominant hemisphere grasps how all things seen to work together purposefully as gestalt. Any questions?

We are still discussing god in the 21st century?! Oh God!

God is not a good "scientific" theory????? Yay! You get a candy for the right answer sean. Well, no one claims it to be an empirical/scientific theory. It is a meta-physical theory and certainly a really good one at that. In fact so good, that even THE modern science can't really defeat it. Scientists rarely study theology, even if they do, it is a reading from scientific critical perspective, then construct a punching bag from THEIR interpretation of theology and enjoy punching their imaginary punching bag and feel good about it. Lol. Well, cheap thrills I guess.

@lawrencegreen8952 0 seconds ago There is nothing profound about God. He is a simple intellectual construct created and impersonated by the clergy! All Gods are artifacts; none are supernatural. ANY GOD CONSISTENT WITH THE ORTHODOX DEFINITION WOULD BE NON-CONTINGENT, i.e., dependant on nothing else in its existence. Man-made gods are dependent on human beings for their existence, as I will show you is the case with Wahweh. Religion is a con game for the clergy. Heaven is the carrot; hell is the stick. Christianity’s Cross is a psychological symbol of death and torture. The clergy’s game is fraud and extortion. ON THE PERSONAL LEVEL, lying to obtain money or other benefits is a felony punishable by prison. ON THE SOCIETAL LEVEL, lying by the clergy to obtain money or other benefits is protected under Constitutionally protected religious rights, and the wealth and income derived from such fraud and extortion is given tax-free status. Among the 18,000 gods worshipped in man’s history and the 3,000 gods worshipped today, there are no gods other than man-made gods, and those gods were curated and monetized by the clergy, whose behavior as grifters involved fooling their weaker, slower, and more fearful fellow human beings by stealing their money or other valuables under false pretenses. Man-made gods are purpose-made for fraud and extortion and have no more supernaturalism than the clergy. Yahweh (check out the hyperlink below), the original and current name of the Christian God, was one of three Gods, along with El and Baal (all mentioned in Genesis) and three Goddess consorts in a Canaanite Pantheon. About the time the Jews returned to Isreal from exile, under the influence of the sophisticated culture and mythology of Mesopotamia, the Jewish clergy demoted the more senior Gods, El and Baal, and killed off the Goddesses altogether. They declared the junior God Yahweh the storm God, the "ONE TRUE LIVING GOD,” and incorporated many Mesopotamian myths into the Bible, such as the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, and Noah's Flood. This altering of the status of various gods proves that MEN, I.E., THE CLERGY, MADE LIFE, DEATH, AND CAREER DECISIONS FOR GODS (probably typical clergy control for all Gods). THIS PROVES THAT THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS NOT A NON-CONTINGENT BEING AND IS THUS NOT SUPERNATURAL WHEN THE VERY ESSENCE OF GODHOOD WAS AND IS SUPERNATURALISM. THIS PROVES THAT YOUR GOD IS A CONCEPT, NOT AN VIABLE ENTITY, AND SO HAS ZERO INHERENT POWER. THIS PROVES THAT THE CLERGY DOESN’T JUST INVENT GODS; THEY MANIPULATE THEM FOR THE CLERGY’S CONVENIENCE. THIS PROVES THAT YOUR MANIPULATED YAHWEH GOD IS FAKE, AND THE CLERGY ARE PUPPETIERS MANIPULATING THEIR GULLIBLE BELIEVERS BY MANIPULATING THEIR PUPPET GODS AND THE FICTICIOUS HISTORIES THEY WRITE ABOUT THEM. SINCE THEY MADE UP THE GODS, YOU WOULD BE A FOOL NOT TO REALIZE THEY ALSO MADE UP THE STORIES AND “FACTS” WITH WHICH THE CLERGY CONJURED THESE FAKE GODS. Appreciate the moment. I just proved that your God, Yahweh, is a puppet controlled by human beings and is thus no God at all. My refutation is consistent with logic, history, and Biblical scripture. I challenge all you Bible-Thumpers, Evangelicals, Mainliners, Anyone! Do you think you can prove I’m wrong? Show me, but stick to the facts. Bring it on! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh www.christianity.com/wiki/god/how-does-god-differ-from-man-made-gods.html#google_vignette www.abc.net.au/religion/who-invented-the-idea-that-man-made-god/10101104 www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2011-jul-18-la-oe-thompson-atheism-20110718-story.html

the god delusion is the cancer of mankind

er a scientist at his her base has faith in theories and even for instance newtons laws and absolutely all concur that in fact you would have to equate faith with science at its base - it's framed wrong to begin with so that blows the entire argument to he$ll

Given the choice between God and the multiverse theory, I choose the one with infinitely less excuses.

Im starting to wonder if sean has any phisical proofs . Expirimental proofs . Or just mathmatical fancies as tesla said .

Fine tuning is simple to explain Sean . What if the nuclear strong force was weaker Sean ,Or stronger . Not only could life not exist but a universe could not exist . Scientist these days are purposefully disingenuous..

If James Woods and Matthew Broderick had a baby. lol.

I personally believe god is pi, somehow.

Phases patterns movement moments, lost now?

13:25 When they insist that the Universe needs a reason, that a god is that reason. Fine then, why god? Who created god. God just is, they respond. I finish: how is that any different from the assertion that the universe just is. There is no difference. Occam's Razor: the simplest answer is usually the right one. Introducing a god only creates an unnecessarily complex solution.

Scientists will never find this answer because they can't prove anything, but they don't need to, we don't need them for this type of answer, as the answer is within us all, not in relying on some non creative overly logical nerds.

God is not a good theory , I would agree 100%. Not sure the theories we have now are very good either , but thats not my point. Point is if we ever do get a good theory on how everything works and how it came to be , seems to me that at that point our only achievement will have been the discovery of how God does what God does.

God is the BEST theory. Sean Carroll is just bad at philosophy. I highly recommend the new book The Best Argument for God by Patrick Flynn. He does a masterful job of showing just how badly naturalism does against theism.

sean carrol is not a good theory, no, he's a person, a sentience. God is neither proveable nor falsifiable , therefore God cannot be called a theory except wth sloppy logic. Carrol might want try ignoring his idiot ego and stick to science.

God format is to securizevthose who are terryfied of living commando

the problem of a left-brain thinking western man

Send Sean Carolll to a planet with gravity x10 that of earth and let him walk there and see if he acknowledges God after that. The point that many things cannot be explained in the universe is the more reason that somebody is out there beyond our understanding.

It is simple . Imagine if the sun and the planets are bigger than they are . Imagine the amount of gravity that the human body would have to deal with just walking the earth. The weight of the planets and stars are fine tuned to the point that our body can stand on earth. God exists you fools.

The only time a physicist would acknowledge the existence of God is on their last days on earth and thinking that all their knowledge will be recycled and will be put to rest and there is nothing they can do to turn back time.

This is what happens when someone learns something about science and thinks he is above nature and the universe.

God save us from Good Theory then

God Is a She

Totally awesome. Job needs to hear this presentation. There is no apparent correct explanation or answer for suffering. Our notion of the all knowing and loving being does not comport with the likes of a simple person like myself praying over and over again for the wisdom and understanding to live the best life I can for all those people in my life and me. Having faith in faith is an ask beyond all the extraordinary gifts I have been given. The very need to have to rely on biblical scholars to explain godship is hard to grasp and the Truth , the way and the light should be easily accessible to everyone. Thank you for a well thought out explanation. Keep them coming

When this guy can breath life into a hand full of dirt, you got my attention.

If God exists his power would have to be unimaginably vast to be the creator of physics laws,etc. God would know the true laws of physics not mankind's approximations. He wouldn't be subject to death or aging. Every motion of every electron would be known to God (in contradiction to QM).

Christian God is theory not science God

This was much better than I'd thought it would be - physicists have a tendency, not entirely unwarranted, to give a facile dismissal of a dumb claim and then move on... because it's dumb and that's all they think it needs - _but the proponents usually have thought of that already._ In this case, Dr. Carroll has anticipated and dealt with all of the usual responses already. Nice! I also ultimately agree with essentially all of this; MWI seems very likely to be the winner among quantum-physical interpretations. _...that said,_ I think there's a stone left unturned re: "reasons." The claim "everything needs a reason" might be closer to something like "two plus two is four", or "A is A", than it is to "momentum is conserved" - that is, some things are such that we cannot really make do without them, and hence we either _must_ apply them to theories re: universal origins... ...or else throw up our hands. (As in the case of some idea like "when did time begin?", say: it's probably a malformed question... but it's not clear what the alternative could be, either!)

God does not require for Sean to get it.

As for Free Will: I can Choose to Believe. Now what?

God has created Us to eventually find an amusament source such as this fool.

it's called an Axiom, silly! and why so angry, Sir?

No Sean. If you were to come across a car (high entropy object) on Mars, your logical conclusion is that some intelligent being made it because the likelihood of particles coming together by themselves to create that is basically zero. That's obvious because we know how the laws of nature work, and if it were easy for nature to produce cars on its own, then we'd see cars throughout the universe. We have something unnatural, the car, that we can compare to natural things and can conclude that intelligent creature must have made it because we don't see it anywhere else. With the universe, however, you have nothing to compare it to because it's the only universe we've ever known. What would a universe not created by God look like? It's hard to say because we don't have an example of one. E.g. if all you've ever known is a universe without intelligent life (excluding humans) how would you know intelligent life exists since you couldn't even imagine there'd be such a thing given that you've never seen it? Is our universe of high entropy when compared to others? That's anyone's guess. If the universal constants that make our universe are fine-tuned for life then you can argue it our universe is of high entropy and has an intelligent creator. In fact you don't even need evidence of a high entropy creation. If we can conclude that high entropy events/objects must have a creator because they're so hard to come by, it is unfair to say the opposite for low entropy objects. Anyway, my POV is that the fact that anything exists at all is proof that an intelligent being must have made it. Otherwise if universes can make themselves then cars, buildings and computers can make themselves too.

I understand that human brain doesn't only have Logical prefrontal cortex but amygdala emotions ... But Coming to this the conclusion that God is stupid fantasy which is not even a good fantasy is Easy ... If you use little logic

There are three levels of belief in a God. 1. A God created the universe. 2. A God which is omnipotent and omniscient created the universe 3. A God which is omnipotent and omniscient and loves me created the universe. 4. A God which is omnipotent and omniscient and loves me created the universe in six earth days. The ONLY one which cannot be rejected out of hand is number one. Omnipotence and omniscience are mutually exclusive. Number one is, as Sean Carroll says, not a good theory/hypothesis.

OK, I'm far from stupid. I can follow rudimentary physics, philosophy and cosmology. But that was very heavy to follow. 99.5% of theists would go. WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU ON ABOUT. I LOVE JESUS AND JESUS LOVES ME.

Rip

good work

“The stage is too big for the play.”

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well, I’ll repeat that, created sick and then ordered to be well. And over us to supervise this is installed a celestial dictatorship, a kind of divine North Korea, greedy for uncritical praise from dawn until dusk and swift to punish the original sins with which it so tenderly gifted us in the first place. However, let no one say there is no cure; redemption is offered at the low price of the surrender of your critical faculties. “Religion” it might be said, must be said would have to admit, makes extraordinary claims, but though I would claim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, rather daringly provides not even ordinary evidence for its extraordinary supernatural claim. I am asking you is it good for the world to appeal to our credulity and not to our skepticism? Is it good for the world to worship a deity that takes sides in wars and in human affairs? To appeal to our fear and our guilt, to our terror, our terror of death, is it good to appeal? To preach guilt and shame about the sexual act and the sexual relationship, is this good for the world? And asking yourself all the while, are these religious responsibilities as I maintain they are? To terrify children with the image of hell and eternal punishment not just of themselves but of their parents and those they love? Perhaps worst of all to consider women an inferior creation, is that good for the world? And can you name me a religion that has not done that? And to insist that we are created and not evolved in the face of all the evidence? Religion forces nice people to do unkind things and also makes intelligent people do stupid things.” Christopher Hitchens in a Munk debate with Tony Blair, “religion is good for the world” “I have done my best, believe me I have more!”

What's he smoking

Remember the day when We shall roll up the heavens like the rolling up of written scrolls. As We began the first creation, so shall We repeat it; a promise binding on Us; that We shall certainly fulfil.” [Quran 21:105] And the heaven We built with Our own powers (aydin) and indeed We go on expanding it (musi’un).” [51:48] Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We clove them asunder. And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” [21:31]

So if God is no more than a "hypothesis"---. than perhaps the speaker should detail just how the universe came into being in the first place. Oh and don't forget the continuous power within each and every atom throughout the cosmos. Now, that shouldn't be too difficult should it ?

The intelligent power within and without each and every atom throughout the universe, illustrates the very nature of God. Do you still believe that everything that exists came (and comes) from nothing ?--- bearing in mind the complexity of matter, not to mention the sustaining intelligent governing power within, (and without of) each and every atom ?

We are all part (creations) of the (a) supreme power; (which we term God). If you cannot accept this, then you would have to come up with an alternative intelligent source of everything. (Always has been, or an accident which produces everything from NOTHING, (and maintains it remember) is simply avoiding the issue. The power within each and every atom,( together with its rules of operation) throughout the universe can hardly be termed 'an accident', since it is on-going or continuous.