BRIAN GREENE IS IRRATIONAL ON RELIGION!? with Richard Dawkins

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@duncanwallace7760 Ай бұрын

Knowing when you're being irrational... that's very scientific. If the religious knew when they were being irrational, many evils of religion would end. For example, nobody would be punished 'in the name of god', because it's irrational to claim you know what god wants OR that god needs YOU to punish others when he's more than capable of doing so himself.

@SaffronHorizon Ай бұрын

Religious moderation is really a contradiction in terms. If you're really religious and you believe that a god or gods was responsible for the creation of a certain scripture, where is there room for picking and choosing? The all knowing, all wise creator of the universe has ordered you to follow a certain set of commandments. Disagreeing with just one of those commandments shows that you don't really believe that they came from an infallible god. Those who call themselves religious moderates are really non religious people who've found some ideas in their scripture that they agree with and are now pretending to be religious.

@danmayberry1185 Ай бұрын

Well said. If someone exercises "religiously" they do so without compromise.

@langreeves6419 Ай бұрын

You're stuck on thinking of only one definition and type of religion. But you don't get to decide what religion is and isn't for the billions of people on earth. You have decided the simplistic idea "religion bad" is ultimate truth. So if any religion doesn't meet the requirements of being bad, you decide it must not be religion.

@juanausensi499 Ай бұрын

@@langreeves6419 Let's sort this out: do you think irrationality is bad?

@langreeves6419 Ай бұрын

@@juanausensi499 I think generally that's a true statement. Religion doesn't require any irrationality or supernatural elements.

@juanausensi499 Ай бұрын

@@langreeves6419 Can you give me an example of such religion?

@benjamintrevino325 Ай бұрын

"A connection to a long heritage" is precisely the problem we have in Israel/Palestine right now. Without this mythical sense of entitlement, it would simply be an issue of real estate which could have been dealt with long ago.

@anitareasontobelieve378 Ай бұрын

The so-called sacred texts are literary, not literal imho.

@goldfishi5776 Ай бұрын

Perhaps religion is standing in the way of solving string theory 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

@UncleBuZ Ай бұрын

I have a headache suddenly. Wonder why.

@TooLooze Ай бұрын

My Gypsy grandmother would turn a glass upside down to help find something lost. Spitting is required when the item is found.

@blacbraun Ай бұрын

I hope you captured some of her tears. They are quite useful according to Borat.

@nakkadu Ай бұрын

I find it so silly when people are clearly not really believers but still identify themselves as a Jew.

@ret4kind Ай бұрын

"It's a granfalloon when it applies to everyone else."

@ziploc2000 Ай бұрын

Does Brian think his prayer made any difference? Apparently no, since he doesn't believe in a god. Does he think his prayer could change god's mind, if he did believe in a god? If in fact he'd found his mother dead, how would he then feel about his prayer and god? I just don't get why he'd waste his time. And I'd love to stay overnight in a "haunted" house, if I had some instruments to record room temperature, drafts, electrical activity etc. We humans are great at seeing the tiger in the trees that isn't there, it's a survival mechanism.

@liamgross7217 Ай бұрын

Understandably we are a very superstitious ape.

@maxcaldwell2680 Ай бұрын

Always amazes me to see smart people try to argue the case for religion…and inevitably fail.

@Andrey-il8rh Ай бұрын

All people are irrational, the only difference is that some people are trying to realize that and others treat it as some kind of a virtue

@patricialauriello3805 Ай бұрын

Good for you Brian Greene. Good for you.

@larryparis925 Ай бұрын

Nah. He's just disingenuously hedging his bets. He's a great educator, but to accept a non-god(s) explanation of cosmology as he does but then to essentially say 'but I'm not going to commit to it', is uninspiring fence-sitting.

@RandomStuff-he7lu Ай бұрын

Well, to be fair, Greene is a string theorist which is as close as science gets to being a religion.

@goldfishi5776 Ай бұрын

the Bible has more foundation in provable history than their theory that hangs by a string 🤷

@christopherhamilton3621 Ай бұрын

L😂L!!!!

@bas919 Ай бұрын

Sabine Hossenfelder uploaded a video recently about Brian Greene as well, talking about some shortcomings (and actual mistakes?) in Greene's explanation about String Theory. At least, in this case, he doesn't sound like Jordan Peterson. He's trying hard to explain in simple terms and not add unnecessary _sauce to his pasta._

@jasonmoquin Ай бұрын

I LOVE Sabine. SO real and not afraid to call bullshit.

@christopherhamilton3621 Ай бұрын

I disagree. Greene sounds suspiciously like Peterson inasmuch as he’s desperately trying to sound like the ‘reasonable’ one in the interests of popularity & talking fees…

@sethhornaday5943 Ай бұрын

I truly believed , for years, nothing ever happened prophet send messages that seam synchronized my neck neck never was fixed

@bckelley90 Ай бұрын

What?

@bimfred Ай бұрын

Poor Brian is desperately trying to sound smart…but no matter how much hand waving he does, his brain won’t deliver

@laganas2008 Ай бұрын

If religion was true, the archaic parts would never have become archaic in the first place.

@jasonmoquin Ай бұрын

Again, Brian? Same shit, different decade. Just stop it. Stop the Many Worlds shit, stops the String Hypothesis shit, stop the “can’t handle a lack of god” bullshit. You’re a freaking science educator, man!

@atmoo3447 Ай бұрын

Believing in religious stories is ignorance, that ignorance is what needs to be gotten rid of

@DebateColloseum Ай бұрын

So if you get rid of any religious objective morality where then does society get its moral directives from?

@nedcassley5169 Ай бұрын

Religion provide alternative subjective moralities. Gods order enslaving people and killing people. By the way, since you are a morality expert, is it objectively moral or objectively immoral to marry a third cousin?

@ZeeAmy Ай бұрын

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@GeoffV-k1h Ай бұрын

RD would hesitate to spend the night in a haunted house because he doesn't want to confront anything which might challenge his view of materialistic scientism.

@gijs4824 Ай бұрын

What fantasy could bring us at different times.

@daves2955 Ай бұрын

If Brian thinks it is irrational, then how can it bring him comfort?

@willthemeadmaker4048 Ай бұрын

Lots of irrational things bring people comfort

@anitareasontobelieve378 Ай бұрын

Community. Ritual and tradition provide comfort. Brian knows science. Plus if the religious aren't free to be that way in all legal forms, it is taking their freedom. Just my opinion and I can be wrong.

@RandomStuff-he7lu Ай бұрын

That's the irrationality of it.

@dansacco1964 Ай бұрын

Our brains find comfort in companionship and support. Talking to a god you dont believe in makes you feel less alone in stressful moments because its natural to feel better with the support of a team. If you confessed a secret over the phone and felt a huge sense of relief but the phone had disconnected and the other person heard none of it, the sense of relief was still a real feeling.

@goodvibes-gy3jn Ай бұрын

Because people can be irrational. It’s hard or probably impossible to be completely rational. The important thing is we all acknowledge that rationality is a standard that we can fall short of but nevertheless should strive for.

@dongee1664 Ай бұрын

There are. A lot of 'erms and aahs' coming from both sides.

@ramnatarajan2158 Ай бұрын

What else do you expect from a string theorist?

@bimfred Ай бұрын

You are preying for circumstances beyond your control to fall in your favour. NO GOD REQUIRED for that prayer. It is purely an addition you make based on your cultural upbringing.