Those Times Scientists Blew Religion Away!

[@Thecaptainblackadder]

One more argument worthy of adding to this list is from Ricky Gervais to Steven Colbert. Went something like this “if you burn all the scientific books, in a 1000 years they will come back exactly how they are now. Not the case with any religious book.”

[@timg7627]

Yep. That’s a good one too

[@jamesupton4996]

That's one of those glib thought experiments \ analogies that doesn't work - I'd say because unimaginable.

[@s.a.m.9837]

"Exactly" what, they still use english? No new words were invented? You think our trajectory is convergent towards an inevitability? Historical context doesn't matter?

[@Lynn-s3i]

What are u talking science changes all the time

[@Thecaptainblackadder]

e= mc2 now and remains so in a thousand years.

[@wagsman9999]

The first 300-million-year-old dinosaur fossil should have been a big fat clue.

[@razony]

What I always say. 'HELLO!'

[@1000kings1]

Until the flexible tissue was found.

[@wagsman9999]

ADAM: "God, are you there?" GOD: "Yes, Adam." ADAM: "God, what do I do with this thingy between my legs?" GOD: "Oh shit, let me borrow one of your ribs." LOL LOL LOL LOL @@1000kings1

[@1000kings1]

@@wagsman9999 I thought your comment was about 300 million year old fossil dinosaur bones. Now it's about Adam? There's a book about that.

[@CyreniTheMage]

@@1000kings1 Making Adam with reproductive bits when Eve won't exist until he gets lonely is a very silly thing for a supposedly omniscient figure to do. As are a lot of things that happen in the bible, really. Makes much more sense if there isn't actually an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god at all, just a bunch of ancient humans writing stories.

[@Malt454]

Religion might make some people act better than they would otherwise be... and that says something about those people. Religion might make some people act worse than they would otherwise be as well... and that says something about religion.

[@nevada8462]

Holy crap! That’s basically what my life experience has been, but you said it so much better than me. Thank Malt454

[@lynnlynn1317]

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[@bennettdeneghuedoeshits2950]

Fuck! That's deep.

[@jamoke123]

That's called humanity. That's what created religion, the atom bomb, picnics, and movies.

[@davidhoekstra4620]

The pre-Columbian Aztecs and the Incas pretty much universally supported ripping the beating hearts out of humans. Seems that Religion reliably made all those people act worse.

[@carlopolli3995]

Religion. Because thinking can be hard.

[@davidrexford586]

I could say the same of those who are highly intellectual that refuse to understand the Notion of a God whose intellect is higher than all of ours.

[@artemis_studios6555]

We don't refuse the notion of any God (we can't prove that), we just refuse the notion that the evidence we are presented supports a specific God of a specific religion. @@davidrexford586

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

@@davidrexford586 A being of such unfathomable intelligence, who created the entire Universe. Just so he could obsess with animal sacrifice, foreskins and hating gay people. Yes, god is truly beyond understanding.......!?

[@carlopolli3995]

@@davidrexford586 Intellectuals don't refuse to understand the 'notion' of god/s. Children understand the notion of gods and that's exactly why theists want to teach religion to them. This is how it actually works: A theist claims there is a god and iIntellectuals simply say "I don't believe you." And there's the end of that conversation. It's that simple. When there is actual proof of Adam & Eve, ghosts, angels, gods, fairies, talking donkeys and snakes and all the other childish notions, that ensnare the gullible eye and morally feeble, then the atheists, and intellectuals, will pay attention.

[@davidrexford586]

@@carlopolli3995the thing is to understand God You must be willing to repent of your sinful nature first and some love their sinful nature and wouldn’t change for the world and yet demand God show himself to them. The dilemma anyone faces trying to understand a Holy and Righteous God. I had no one come to me to ask me to repent at first but found God first and then I contemplated what would God want with a drug ridden teenager who did as he pleased? I didn’t think I could ever know God in my sinful state but God meets you where you are no matter what your condition is. Too many try so hard to not understand God because they can’t know him the way they know their friends and family. God is a Spiritual God and you must reach out through Faith and that is exactly what I did and continue to be blessed even when I don’t think I deserve Gods blessings and honesty I have never been let down.. ever. I have known God over 40 years and will I slip back? I very well could but when I count the costs it’s better I continue on no matter what others say..

[@anthropocene-]

Whatever is unknown is GOD for ancient people. But we as a civilisation of 21st century whayever is unknown is an opportunity to explore. Be curious be fearless.

[@Truth-Be-Told-USA]

Exactly

[@The_name105]

Yet the God of Christianity specifically wants us to know him and calls that salvation. You're argument non sequitur.

[@titusbaum9690]

And yet you do not know God but do not seen him as an opportunity to explore. Ironic.

[@Truth-Be-Told-USA]

@@titusbaum9690 knowing a loving God personally that is invisible in all aspects is creating a fantasy friend in your own mind. You don't know what God would actually look like or sound like except for the way your imagination shapes God.

[@titusbaum9690]

@@Truth-Be-Told-USA Your statement has made a fatal error. To say He is invisible in all aspects is to deny the evidence of causes. It is a notion as foolish as me claiming I am responding to one because I have not seen you. For as surely as you have replied to my comment, He has responded to me, equally coherently. So either I am deeply insane, or your existence is just as likely as God's. That is, certain.

[@devonharris5936]

Oof what a terrible comment section. Don't listen to them. This is a wonderful compilation of beautifully well thought through perspectives. Thank you for this.

[@mr.spiderman5105]

agreed

[@slowjamcdub]

God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

[@nottuhs5192]

Slowjamcdub Holy hell, man literally dropped an essay just to prove the point further of how actually shit these types of people are, man fuck off and enjoy science fucking religion in the ass like it's bitch.

[@jonsnow8032]

Can anyone give me all these interview links?

[@xenomorphman3380]

@@slowjamcdub God loves us does he? If that's the case why according to your gospels has he by his own hand killed more humans than any other Dictator, King, Pope or Emperor in our entire history. You saying God loves us is like saying Hitler loved the Jewish people. God does not exist, fact, but let's just hypothesise and say he did, he would need to be tried by humans for all the terrible things he has done and does do to us, not even to mention that he is okay using Angel's as slaves. If we as a race can judge our ancestors and parents who raised us then we can judge our creator. But as I said he does not exist, and I'm glad because I could never love anyone that can treat their children the way he does, whether they love and worship him or not.

[@cottontop9276]

No no no you can't take that away from me!! I know there is a Santa Clause and he rides in a red sleigh pulled with reindeer who talk to him and sing to him. My mommy told me so!!

[@allstarwatt7246]

religion in a nutshell

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

Atheism is a nutshell

[@erikjohnson3859]

@@marknikovvelesky2960 Cope harder, d*mb*ss

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@marknikovvelesky2960 Not atheism. An atheist is a person who has done the work, and discovered for themselves that there is no god, and religion is just another scam.

[@FakingANerve]

After that first sentence, my brain immediately started playing "Head like a hole! Black as your soul! I'd rather die than give you control!" ...still works. 😋

[@psyekl]

Arthur C. Clarke created Clarke’s Three Laws, and law #3 stated: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -This is the unusual problem we are encountering with the less educated and slower-developing regions of our society: Science is progressing at such a rate and we have discovered so much about our universe that those who are not privy to the resources, or for one reason or another reject those resources, see the information provided as being somehow impossible without supernatural intervention. Without the foundation of education to support the information, the explanations sound supernatural and magical and are rejected using explanations that the science somehow doesn’t follow linear thinking, the traditional understanding of cause-and-effect, or some other argument. When one learns to comprehend the science; the misconceptions, misunderstandings, lack of knowledge, flaws in reasoning and critical thinking often become recognizable and can be addressed and ideas once considered too complex to comprehend become clear (or at least as clear as we have come to understand them). Education is definitely not always an easy road to travel, nor is it a short journey; but it is always well worth the trip!

[@lagodifuoco313]

I don't read long comments.

[@psyekl]

@@lagodifuoco313 "I'm not going to read that" is the willful choice of ignorance over enlightenment. It is also a very common and preferred option among the vast majority of society. This is not to imply that my original comment is of great value, well written, or that it is even correct. I have seen many posts that were of great length that were written by individuals who obviously lacked mental stability or who were otherwise simply repeating quotations and tired tropes, stereotypical arguments, and meaningless jargon. The difference was: I actually read them. By reading them I was able to form an opinion of the writer's objective, biases, level of education, professionalism, familiarity with the topic, etc. With this in mind I was able to decide whether or not if the topic was worthy of pursuing. This also added to my volumes of information relevant to the topic being discussed, if only in a minor or abstract way. In other words: There are some people, like myself, who read everything. And we are well aware that the level of discussions that we participate in and attempt to instigate are not for individuals such as the one who posted the "I don't read long comments" response.

[@janolthof2487]

shame, this is a pretty good one@@lagodifuoco313

[@jesusvdelgado5401]

Naa, science is not the source of ultimate knowledge, don't fool yourself.

[@RobertCampsall]

@@psyekl I'm with you on a lot of that. That "ill informed" position seems to be what drives belief in flat earth - the true believers, anyway. There are a bunch who are obviously on the grift. It can be very frustrating watching them proclaim that something "violates natural law" when it is quite obvious that they are so ignorant (and by ignorant I mean lacking in information/education) they don't actually understand what IS natural law. An example I've heard regarding gravity: How can "gravity" reach out and grab the oceans and hold them to the surface of a globe, yet a butterfly can still fly where ever it wants. Why does can't gravity reach out and grab the butterfly and hold it to the ground. The butterfly weighs a lot more than the butterfly, the butterfly shouldn't be able to move if gravity is true? The fact is, there is so much wrong with a statement like this that it's hard to even know where to start. They have such a monumental misunderstanding of EVERYTHING that it is hard to find anything they understand about reality that actual communication is next to impossible.

[@IheartDogs55]

I've seen a couple of these before. I enjoy them because my scientific knowledge is small. My parents were Fundamentalist Christians. Science was not valued highly when I was being raised. These brilliant speakers can give information to someone as ignorant as I am in the fields of science, and it makes sense. I appreciate the passion they have in sharing the awe-inspiring facets of reality. If I had been raised without theism, I think I could have become a scientist.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

😂

[@mrsstaff78]

I once read that without religion we would be more technologically advanced by 1000 years than we are now, religion has held us back.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

@@mrsstaff78 lame logic, its the christainity who forced humans to think, not hinduism, or islam or buddhism or any other religion or non religion. All scientist from few centuries back were christains. Newton to maxwell to galelio. Know before writing any sh*t.

[@GuardianSoulkeeper]

​@@marknikovvelesky2960What a profoundly ignorant thing to say.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

@@GuardianSoulkeeper Yes, that atheist are logical.

[@moodyrick8503]

*Definitely not the same ;* _(science Vs. religion)_ If science was like religion, there would be contradictory competing versions of it being taught in cultures & countries all over the world. If religion was like science, there would be one tentative version taught in countries & cultures all over the world.

[@roberthill799]

@moodyrick8503 And if science was like religion, we'd be murdering each other over whose estimate on the age of the solar system, for example, is the correct one.

[@whoff59]

... and this one version would be optimized all the time giving new releases and chapters. And every action in it there would be proved and checked and references to other books would be given ... 😅

[@brianholmes3547]

The case against religion is complete, only satire and jokes remain to be made. No person can justify being religious now.

[@RM-lu1kx]

As long as no one can provide evidence of how light and gravity arose, you are believing in loose sand. Speculaties about a multiverse do not count

[@Kdot19]

What an insane thing to state as fact

[@juv7026]

@@RM-lu1kx ‘multiverse speculations dont count’ but god speculations does? No-one is looking at the multiversal hypothesis as some scientific fact, but just as a placeholder explanation.

[@1000kings1]

That's what the evolution expert who found Nebraska man said.

[@RM-lu1kx]

@@juv7026 If you dont ask the question back if God speculations count and just look at the logic of what you believe in. Random luck created light and its colours. Physical laws, mathematics. Random processes created a creator that can make cars, helicopters, computers, space shuttles. Where did all the material come from for all those creators to be creative with? All over the world people can be creators even in the Sahara desert and the North Pole. And you believe its all a coincidence?

[@albertjackson9236]

Pure simple logic blows away all the gods & religions.

[@RM-lu1kx]

What is logic about a single cell from soup became a human being? Or a pile of dust became a helicopter?

[@RM-lu1kx]

Is there logic in living without any purpose?

[@RM-lu1kx]

Is it logic that light, colour, periodic table of elements, magnetism, space time, gravity, centripetal force, energy, humour, consciousness just exist?

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@RM-lu1kx primordial soup has not been used in a long time you need update your science knowledge.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@RM-lu1kx we asign our own meaning.

[@garybaltiejus7248]

Facts vs fiction, it's no contest facts wins EVERY TIME

[@RM-lu1kx]

One fact is: light exist, now how could this be?

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

​@@RM-lu1kxnuclear fission pushing photons away from it?

[@RM-lu1kx]

@@drmantistoboggan2870 it that your fact? Why the question mark?

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

@@RM-lu1kx im asking if that is your answer. Seems fairly obvious to me

[@RM-lu1kx]

@@drmantistoboggan2870 oke i am sorry did not mean to be rude. Nucleair fusion does indeed produce light of course, but what i am wondering. How did Light arise from the big bang?

[@robotswithgunzlol]

You could have normalised the audio between clips. I had to constantly turn the volume up and then down and then up and then down.

[@stephenbouchelle7706]

If any of these great folks had a church, I’d go every week to hear them preach! I love Sam Harris and his giant diamond.

[@carlisroy6666]

I wouldn't. Eco chambers are the antithesis to critical thinking.

[@kdmdlo]

@@carlisroy6666 It is interesting that Mr. Harris doesn't address the actual issue. With his refrigerator story, there are naturally two questions ... but he won't ask them. First, the fact that there is or is not a refrigerator sized diamond buried in his yard is either true or it's false. Second, what evidence does the person have to believe the diamond is there? Certainly, just wanting it to be there isn't sufficient (which is the only thing he ever talks about). But what is the evidence/argument? Address those, Mr. Harris. Serious atheists (Camus, Sartre, Feuerbach, etc.) took on the actual issues. Harris and his ilk are just wanna be pop stars in the atheist world.

[@cnault3244]

@@kdmdlo ". Second, what evidence does the person have to believe the diamond is there? " None. Same applies to the belief a god exists.

[@mikekolokowsky]

@@cnault3244Of course it isn’t there. Once he started telling people, I dug it up and stole it. It keeps my food and beer chilled and my ice frozen. Also, it’s magic and it talks to me in signs and portends.

[@DayLateGamerWill]

All praise the diamond! For it is the diamond which lights our life, without it we'd be lost

[@danielt.8573]

I think Neil Tyson is too polite and diplomatic for his own good sometimes.

[@phxbillcee]

Granted, but it helps to have a scale of responses to many of these questions. One response will reach some, while another will reach others. Hooray for Tyson, Krauss, & the "Four Horsemen" to give us a range of answers & responses to reach as many as we can!

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Tyson is definitely an atheist. But he won't claim it.

[@xenxander]

But he's such an awesome guy, I wouldn't want him to not be polite.

[@astaut2659]

If you become rude, then you will be viewed in a negative light. So its better to be polite if you’re trying to convince someone of something

[@slowjamcdub]

God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

[@joyporcella81]

These ppl are my kind of apostles!!

[@johnconnery1939]

Wonderful video. Keep it up

[@Outspoken.Humanist]

Ignoring the clickbait title (a sign of the times), there are some excellent nuggets here. The biggest killer of all, in my view, is that theists have no answers for any of this, except to turn away and hide in their beliefs.

[@Jarige2]

I guess you haven't met thoughtful Christians then, because the contents of this video don't really say much about God.

[@Outspoken.Humanist]

@@Jarige2 Thoughtful Christians? I have met a few but they all struggled to balance their beliefs with what they know of the universe. To me, being religious and thoughtful is almost a contradiction in terms. I have certainly never met a thoughtful Christian who believed in the inerrancy of the Bible or saw the Torah (Pentateuch) as anything more than myth and legend, or who believed a man could really perform miracles and rise from death. There are a very small number of religious biblical scholars who are honest in their work and admit the Bible is nothing more than a collection of man-made documents with a variety of motives and levels of belief but in the main, being a Christian entails denying science, or at least discounting it.

[@Jarige2]

@@Outspoken.Humanist Could you give an example of where science contradicts the Bible? The video didn't really give any contradictions as far as I could see.

[@Outspoken.Humanist]

@@Jarige2 There are so many to choose from. I will ist a handful. Miracles in general are a suspension of the laws of physics. Science has a view on returning from the grave. The stars are incredibly massive balls of helium becoming hydrogen and giving off radiation. They are not lights in the firmament (Genesis) and they cannot fall to earth (Revelations) Genesis tells us that God created light and there was day & night, before he created the sun. Exodus tells of around 2 million people leaving Egypt (600,000 men of fighting age plus old men, women and children and a host of other no-Jews) As I said, there are so many more. I hope this helps.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

​@@Outspoken.HumanistYes this helps me to find one more ignorant ni**gga thinking that he will put some random things out of context and this will prove god doesn't exist. You don't have balls to debate with me. If you have then reply.

[@keithrenyard]

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded" Terry Pratchett

[@shulin29]

"Forget jesus, the stars died so you could be here today." I think i finally found the answer if someone asks who my creator is as an atheist

[@campfireaddict6417]

In the complicated world of physics, yes, so true.

[@PortmanRd]

"If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science then they are mere superstitions and imaginations. Abdu'l Baha Philosopher

[@dulls8475]

Can you list the standards of science please?

[@PortmanRd]

*Source* Scientific Standards and Methods AOAC International A "standard" is an agreed, repeatable protocol for performing analytical test. Standards contain technical specifications and criteria designed to be used consistently.

[@PortmanRd]

@@dulls8475 Ask the guy who wrote the quote. Oh! You can't. He dead.

[@danielhoward9729]

We're all fumbling around in the dark. Science is our flashlight.

[@frankdeleon4209]

In respect to the desires of experiencing the supernatural. One must first acknowledge what we naturally have-think about it

[@ForumLight]

Yes, science is great. But the left has been misusing science to push deceptive agendas like the latest "science" that "men can get pregnant". Common descent from a first cell evolution is the claim that populations of living things that never had brains 'evolved' brains over generations. Same for eyes, ears, hearts, lungs, etc. No one in the world can or could ever cite any such thing, proving this is contrary to all of biology / science. The left is maligning actual science to push their own anti-science agendas.

[@ryant32u]

@@ForumLight I feel so sorry for you and whatever indoctrination you received. A creationist that doesn’t understand anything about science.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

As an atheist I have found purpose in life by adopting and caring for elderly cats. It's truly rewarding, and I do it because I decided it was a good thing to do, not because I want an imaginary sky daddy to reward me.

[@tomcooper6108]

Love these! Science is so awesome. A billion times more awesome than any make-believe jebus.

[@dulls8475]

Tell that to the many Nobel winning Christian scientists. It was a a Christian who gave us the empirical method to start with. State brain washing....

[@ThrashTillDeth83]

I always fell asleep during mass as a child, science is fascinating!

[@jdos5643]

You sound so misinformed. It seems truth is not your trade

[@technicianbis5250]

Except Jesus really lived, roman records tell us he lived so do some research, fool.

[@technicianbis5250]

@@ThrashTillDeth83 "i always fell asleep" Catholic church does that.

[@johntomasik1555]

I never understood the phrase, "there are no atheists in a foxhole". Umm, I think they kinda got it backwards. There are no true Christians in a foxhole....because if they truly believed, they wouldn't cower when faced by their enemy. They'd jump right up, engage the fight to win, "knowing" that if they die, they'll live in eternal happiness. The only person you'll find in a foxhole is a non-believer. They want to protect their life, because they don't truly believe in that eternal happiness waiting for them.

[@johntomasik1555]

@@scottselenak And the point I was making is that "believers" don't trust their own faith. Derp.

[@michaelcrawford3796]

There's that morality issue again?

[@Richard-b5r9v]

It's quite simple. God was created by mankind not the other way around

[@V8AmericanMuscleCar]

You mean several thousand gods. 😉

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@V8AmericanMuscleCar Indeed!

[@iamstrange8301]

Who/how / why /created human

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@iamstrange8301 Humans weren't created, they evolved.

[@iamstrange8301]

​@@Chris-hx3omHow / Why / who created that bacteria from which humans evolved from..

[@Jimmy-p9n]

Religious people have slowly been evolving. Taking centuries but they are getting there

[@technicianbis5250]

8:35 "you are all stardust" true? Man created from clay not true??

[@gabedrinkswater]

Possibly the most braindead comment I have read today

[@davidbelway6076]

Faith is the art of lying to yourself.

[@arbanaskocudo]

I think god is something used to explain things before development of science, i do believe life is a miracle but we are also in circle of life and like all things in nature that circle will end one day

[@GoibniuNihiliste]

Recently have become more skeptical of everything. I'm not sure how to cope with the fact there will be nothing when I am gone, though.

[@maartenhartevelt6626]

All religious people in this section (christians), imagine a star falling on earth. Now make it a big bigger. Think about a star in our solar system. Continue to think (reason), if you can't fathom, don't worry, just ask around, you wil get there someday.

[@williambolton4698]

I'm not going to get drawn into an argument with a bigot but its pretty vile to attack one group of religious people (Christians). There is more than one religion on the planet. Pretty disgusting post. Post anything you like back, I wont respond. As George Bernard Shaw said "Never fight with the pigs, you both get filthy and the pigs love it".

[@DavidLoveMore]

How do you know what other people think?

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@DavidLoveMore That's not what he was saying.

[@DavidLoveMore]

@@Chris-hx3om Fair enough

[@templargfx]

If that wasn't a mic drop for science at the end I dont know what is

[@turnersawman]

When it's just what happens like the equation, there is no way other life does not exist.

[@Yakito666]

Believing in other life is faith as well. You have no proof, just an assumption.

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@Yakito666 It is an assumption, but it's an assumption based on facts, science and mathematics, unlike religion. All current scientific theories started as assumptions (in science they are called an 'hypothesis'). Once evidence is gathered and the hypothesis it tested and can't be 'broken', it becomes a theory. That's how science works.

[@noneofyourbusiness747]

Anyone know what those rays of "light" are in the pale blue dot picture? Are they just added into the picture for effect?

[@Chris-hx3om]

Probably just an aberration of the lens.

[@siqueirabarros]

That is what I call a wonderful "blew" job. Congratulations to these dudes.

[@ronparsons8786]

Man created God, not the other way around

[@loganlee5875]

All these negative comments. Hmmm. Why aren't any of them from God?🤣

[@gabedrinkswater]

hmmm... i wonder... maybe he doesnt exist

[@micklumsden3956]

I’m very surprised to see so much certainty. As a scientist myself, one of the great tenants is that the truth is provisional. It would be nice to see more humility and openness, particularly from this comment section.

[@campfireaddict6417]

I agree. The truth is provisional depending upon many, many factors, to step out of the realm of "theory" into the world of "Truth" aka "Fact". Takes trained and cautious eyes from all over the world to determine that. MANY people haven't learned critical thinking or seeing the whole picture and have their own extremely skewed views of reality. They worry too much; don't have enough psychic energy or proper education, don't read good literature, iffy education. But they can vote.

[@shawnmiller9984]

We need more people to weaken religion's or cult's effects on rhe globe.

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

Factual Truth, Honesty and growth in education, paying attention to accurate and curated History, promote critical thinking skills in our children.....all the things the Religion and right wing mentalities fight against. If you, (collectively "we"), support the ideas and societal attributes I mentioned in the beginning of this comment, you'll find the ignorance and fear that fuels these two entities, will become less prevalent and troublesome in a modern, educated, free society. This usually means more and more people realize the value of factual knowledge and reasoning is a much more fulfilling and empowering endeavor and a socially healthier way to live life.

[@dulls8475]

If they had blown religion away we would have stop being believers.

[@PD-ws4td]

Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity

[@charlestownsend9280]

Some people prefer to live in their own little world and reality despite what reality actually tells them. It's why people constantly vote against their own wellbeing or continue to believe conspiracy theories or don't do anything to prevent the current mass extinction event. Hans are stupid and illogical and dishonest to themselves.

[@annecurtis630]

All religions are very very old and guidance for people of that time. They are all outdated

[@dulls8475]

@@annecurtis630 Outdated by what?

[@Xanderbelle]

Two trillion galaxies does it for me

[@blupandax7902]

Who created those two trillion galaxies?

[@dlon4539]

Your question assumes that the universe was created and therefore there was a creator

[@blupandax7902]

@@dlon4539 Looking at how complex the universe is, and the laws of physics that control it, I believe it is indeed created.

[@dlon4539]

@@blupandax7902 Given a creator, wouldn't everything already be existing aswell. not separated but the same as this eternal being?

[@phiality9070]

​@@blupandax7902 ever heard of probabilistic science? Specifically quantum science? Thse physics are not bound by causes, so if something were to happen without an obvious cause, theres no need for there to be a cause.

[@Greyarcher1]

If your Good existed there would not be any other Goods or Religion.......... This sentence destroys al Religion and al the 18000 Goods Humans worship! Religion is man made mumbo jumbo!

[@FightXScience-wh6kx]

Your comment is evidence that atheists can be as dumb as theists. No, there being a God-being doesn't mean other God-concepts wouldn't exist. That's moronic. Far from "destroying al religion and al the 18000 Goods", it doesn't even destroy one of them you illiterate buffoon.

[@toddduchesne1749]

The title of this video is very misleading. I listened to all the arguments and didn't hear anything that BLEW away Christianity.

[@rodomolina7995]

Then you have auditive comprehension problems

[@donnyh3497]

Reality blows christianity away. Cosmology, neuroscience, biology, astronomy, all blow christianity away. All it literally takes to see through that paper thin vail of ignorance is the slightest willingness to care more about the truth than you were trained to care about the ridiculous jesus story. Just open your eyes for a few minutes and it all comes crashing down

[@gjaseid]

Then you didn't actually listen, you ignorant toddler. I used to feel sorry for you hapless, theist fools, but now I honestly hate you all with a burning passion. Your bigotry and willful stupidity is holding up the advancement of our species, and I'm sick of it. You morons believe the word of illiterate, bronze age shephards over verifiable data. It would be astounding if it weren't so depressing.

[@richardcaves3601]

Try the human timeline. Homo sapiens on earth - 1.5 million years. All religions - 3000 years. Obviously humans invented religion to explain things it didn't understand. If god gave you a brain, and reason to make sense of things, why do you insult him by not using it?

[@brandonmartin8258]

My invisible friend is more real than yours.

[@MichaelToub]

Great Video!!

[@Qrt99]

i believe in humanity not in religion and i do believe God exist but i am not going to follow him

[@slowjamcdub]

God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

[@nielsroerdink7063]

@@slowjamcdub "God is real and He Loves You." Explain God to me, in His entirety. The fact that you probably can proves that He is not unknowable, and thus not real. God may be infinite, but humans understand infinity now, and went past it long ago.

[@robhaskins]

You're halfway home! 😀

[@hashtag9990]

I don't know why is it hard for people to understand it. It is ok if your sky daddy really exist who doesn't interact or influence your daily life anyway, but the humans around you do. Believe in your surroundings and help others. God's existence is almost irrelevant for humanity right now.

[@robhaskins]

@@hashtag9990 skydaddy is absentee at the least, abusive and cruel at the worst.

[@ScienceisStupid-f3r]

Religion didn't get blown away. It is still here. Scientists will turn to dust but religion isn't going anywhere.

[@user-kv1po2dm5j]

I know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this, but there seems to be a pattern here. All of these arguments seem to be arguments from materialism. They don’t really take into account philosophy and other abstract concepts. Theist or not, you have to admit that not everything in life is material. It’s ignorant to use one tool to describe everything when you have millions of other tools to use. You don’t build a house with just a hammer. Just something to think about.

[@Yakito666]

What does phylosophy got to do with this?

[@user-kv1po2dm5j]

@@Yakito666 It’s a video about religion. Religion is grounded in theology and philosophy.

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@user-kv1po2dm5j That's the point, religion has no grounding, no basis. It's all just made up, invented by men who either had too much time on their hands, were lazy and figured out how to get other people to do their work for them, or were the world's best scammers.

[@kilroy987]

Yep they sure showed religion.

[@johncipolletti5611]

Look. For humans that need inspiration and energy to get through the day, religion plays an important part. Yet, we need science to make our lives better! Unfortunately, we spend too much time trying to debate which is important! Both have their advantages and disadvantages!

[@Chris-hx3om]

The only 'advantage' I see in religion is to divide us (and scam a lot of people out of a lot of money and wasting their time praying to something that doesn't exist).

[@AtamMardes]

Only a fool believe and considers as sacred the contents of a book just because the book claims itself to be the holy truth.

[@warren52nz]

*_Religion is the placeholder for human ignorance._* If you can't put in the hard work to learn about what we know about reality then bailing out and saying *_"Duhhh... God Dunnit"_* is for you. Leave the rest of us alone to work on what's *_ACTUALLY_* going on!!!

[@Helm-w1q]

I once had a scientist blow me. And I'm not even religious, although I must say it was a heavenly experience.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Yeah that comment is somehow cringier than the one saying 'Commentsection is full of loser-atheists coopopping, lololol' Feel free to delete your comment

[@liamlol1539]

ngl as an athiest i started seeing heaven for a sec when i got a blown by a scientist. I was ascending realities n shi. Crazy stuff

[@billbaggins1688]

I wish there was a hell to send the creator of that muzak to.

[@duaneburris7ate9]

Aaah...the good old days

[@krølle-1]

first example is even worse, if you dont believe theres a diamond. you gonna burn forever.

[@whirledpeas2514]

To those with faith, no explanation is necessary. To those without faith, no explanation will ever suffice. Since you obviously don’t have faith, then why not consider moving on with your life instead of spending your time droning on & on about something you think doesn’t even exist anyway? Why on earth would u think its so very important for u to be giving such devotion to something you’re really thinking doesn’t even exist in the first place? From your perspective, it’s looking like you’re wasting considerable amount of your lifetime thinking about a subject that really is nothing more than, “Much Ado About Nothing”. However, if you’d rather keep on trucking, then by all means, keep on knocking yourself out!

[@brianrushford4057]

How can you blow religion away,lol,I’m an atheist but these lot just can’t get their intelligent heads around something so simple as belief

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks

[@blupandax7902]

“Thank the stars for exploding”. But who was the one who wrote the laws of physics to enable stars exploding? If there were no laws of physics,l to control the movement of particles, there would be no way for stars to form or explode.

[@FightXScience-wh6kx]

The laws of nature aren't literal laws written down. They don't require someone to write them down dunce.

[@blupandax7902]

@@FightXScience-wh6kx There is no evidence that the laws of physics just came into existence by themselves. Many astronomers agree that the universe is finely tuned for life to exist, which is why many of them are into the whole parallel universe theory.

[@moodyrick8503]

*A Universe From Nothing.* (Lawrence Krauss "click bait" titled book) Thanks Larry, foe unwittingly giving creationists the idea that science asserts that _the universe just popped into existence from a literal nothing._ Which BTW, is not what Mr. Krauss believes.

[@williamcoleman7398]

A God worthy of worship wouldn't require it. Fuckin think about it. Also, I stopped having magical thinking as a kid, maybe 8 years old, You grownups who haven't grown out..... I have faith that you'll wake up soon.

[@josefschiltz2192]

I must admit that a diamond that size would be very useful.

[@SupremeModes]

I mean could you imagine no refrigerator-sized diamonds our backyard?! Doesn’t even compute.

[@Leebo13]

There's something else the size of a refrigerator that's even more useful, a refrigerator.

[@hanslepoeter5167]

Ok. Now I'm not a religious man and do not hold believe in the christian god as many others. Nevertheless i would like to make the difference between good and evil. I think religious people are given a template. A simple one which helps them make the difference between good and evil. many people might agree. If you are in church for that reason it might not be that bad. If you hold a template for people to make the difference in good and evil and promote it to others, have you not started a religion ?

[@allstarwatt7246]

all morality is man-made.

[@hanslepoeter5167]

@@allstarwatt7246 Thanks for the comment. I have to think about that. Good and evil might not be as universal as I imagine it to be.

[@liamlol1539]

Yeah this falls more into philosophy. If you murdered someone but there's no one around to find them, nature wont purposefully punish you. After all, nature doesnt make conscious decisions. So yeh as the other guy said it's more of a social construct

[@percubit10]

How Christianity ruins lives.

[@Ex_christian]

There is NO HATE like Christian love!

[@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid]

Hmm, Sean Carol's last clip didn't age well. With the JWST universe breakers and the new doubt about the big bang theory, it's more than clear we've missed something that applies to the everyday regime, ie how things on earth came to be. Cyclical universe, multiverse, simulation theory, conscious universe, are not yet ruled out and certainly not accounted for in SM+GR. Still it's a wonderful equation of life the universe and everything, though. W=42 I hear.

[@garyhink2015]

Religion is a joke like you tube😂

[@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid]

@@garyhink2015 Amen! 😁

[@HolyMith]

Well that's the beauty of science, things don't have to age well. It's all open to correction. Love your name by the way.

[@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid]

@@HolyMith Excellent point. And thanks :)

[@LelenSingsit]

Great

[@avengers1978]

My argument against “intelligent design” for humans…. Why are we not the absolute best we can be, animals have better eyes, better hearing, better sense of smell, are stronger, faster, capable of flight, or living constantly underwater, can eat things we can’t, have better immunity to parasites, etc. We are frail, and easily killed by diseases, or a simple slip and fall. If a “god” created humans as his perfect creation we would be better than we are.

[@arbanaskocudo]

Im not religious but simple answear could be that god usually wants for people to suffer and give them obstacles in life so he can test their faith and make faith stronger so they deserve life in heaven

[@Jarige2]

Why though? Why would God have to make us into your view of perfect beings? Could you explain why that would be the case?

[@1stPrinciples455]

Everything experienced thru belief in God (any of the millions human invented gods) can be found in other non-god beliefs.

[@blindwatchmaker2345]

It`s EVERY time.......

[@maxcorey8144]

Where is heaven? No telescope or other inquiry has ever discovered it. Is it apparently hidden.

[@Jarige2]

I don't think the Bible answers that question. Wouldn't be surprised if it is indeed out of reach for us.

[@liamlol1539]

heaven is grated cheese at 3 in the morning🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@Tomthumb123]

Scientists will keep the human race sane. Help in stopping fairy tales!

[@garciadany6759]

I try sometimes to share my understanding of the universe and religion to some friends I consider worth the effort, still, sometimes I just give up Bec we are all gonna die anyways and their believe is not based on science but n beliefs

[@dulls8475]

Both good and bad are worth it. God set us the example.

[@Tinker1950]

Delusional dross - you have no understanding of the universe, no useful philosophy - and no grammatical ability.

[@craigwallace4560]

These people should listen to Christian apologists. It's so easy to correct these statements. Science points to a creator guys. It's really not complicated!

[@monkeyboy7969]

Sienceis there God. What is the differents?

[@jameswright...]

Science is no one's god. The different between Science and the separate subject atheism are based on evidence and fact. That's the difference between god and religion.

[@liamlol1539]

please for the love of all that is holy, improve your spelling and grammar. This goes beyond religion at science and this point

[@skepticlookingforevidence]

Stars died so that we can live 😂 .

[@prestonbacchus4204]

It's easy to prove that we were created.

[@Golfiseasy]

Christians are not saying that you are insane

[@hellifiknow1315]

Making fun of and insulting someone and you blowing their argument away.....no ! Not the same thing

[@FightXScience-wh6kx]

And, yet, it was the same in these instances.

[@hellifiknow1315]

@@FightXScience-wh6kx and yet it wasn't Seriously weak X Just disagree with nothing else n walk away. Seriously weak ! You and your disagreement

[@FightXScience-wh6kx]

@@hellifiknow1315 I'll have to apologize. I only read English. Can you get a neighbour to help you compose your next response?

[@JACKnJESUS]

If you work out the last equation...the answer is 42.

[@The_Deaf_Aussie]

Still stump them with the age old "yeah but... who created it all?"

[@Chris-hx3om]

Nobody created it. What you see is the result of the conversion of energy to matter. It really is that simple.

[@gabedrinkswater]

The simple mindedness to assume that something needs a creator to be created.

[@neilfletcher1841]

Indeed, stars falling out of the sky - a religious perspective, science bringing to the fore a reality check to religion on this silly story tell! Science needs to keep bringing questions and challenging religion (Christianity, Islam Judaism - Abrahamic religions especially) we go forward as a species without religions and their divisiveness to keep us apart!

[@diaryofnricom163]

Wow. 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@wolframhuttermann7519]

I reject religion as well, but I follow, Jesus. If you support democracy, do not support scientism.

[@mikebrown9850]

My 7 year old daughter could blow mainstream religion away. A different story with the God of the Bible!

[@merkaba0635]

Shit had me crying.

[@steflmac]

I have seen all these clips in other videos on the same subject.

[@phxbillcee]

Yes, but repetition is quite often needed to get the point(s) across!

[@xenxander]

Yeah the clip compilation is a 'thing'. At least they continue to be spread around - like herpes... haha, okay I'm kidding, but in all seriousness, it's good that clips get spread around.

[@stefanielouise9715]

@plusaf dotcom My point "was" lost from memory about 3yrs ago. I moved on.

[@stefanielouise9715]

@@CookieMonstaHG Only here because someone asked a question of me and I replied. When I ask questions, I like to get an answer, not to be just ignored. I suppose it depends on what level your politeness is.

[@janisthompson9801]

@@stefanielouise9715 brilliant!❤️🇨🇦❤️

[@gregjones2217]

If not for the interfering of religion trying to justify a fairytale, humanity would be thousands of years more advanced. How can religion be justified if not for stupidity and over bearing cruelty.

[@ensontaylor4836]

Neil degras tyson also said gender is a spectrum so…

[@lejandario7779]

I mean some men are more masculine than others and some women are feminine that others, regardless of opinion that is by definition a spectrum.

[@ensontaylor4836]

@@lejandario7779 respectfully, I disagree. that is your TEMPERAMENT, not gender. personality doesn't define gender. I could act more like a fish, or a cow, but that wouldn't mean I am a spectrum of species. I could feel like a fish or perceive myself to be a cow, but I would still be a man.

[@lejandario7779]

@@ensontaylor4836 I would also like to respectfully disagree, I believe what you may be referring to is sex and not gender. Sex is more binary in humans but not entirely (as in intersex people and other factors). Temperament is a person dispotion socially (a choleric man wearing hot pink isn't that much more masculine because he's choleric). Finally gender is traits culturally associated with the sexes i.e pink for women and blue for men even though those things have nothing to do with biology. The fact of the matter is certain things and people are more gendered than others like trousers being male leaning gender neutral, jeans being truly gender neutral, skirts are feminine, tank tops being masculine, caps being masculine leaning gender neutral and jewelry being feminine leaning gender neutral. All these things and the way people choose to express their gender being on a spectrum.

[@ensontaylor4836]

@@lejandario7779 perhaps I was referring to sex, but if gender is traits culturally associated with the sexes, how is it a spectrum? you said sex is binary, and gender is a social construct of perceptions that's rooted in sexual identity, ie colors & clothes. honestly, if it is just a social construct, we are just arguing over something that is made up and not based on reality anyways.

[@lejandario7779]

@@ensontaylor4836 A spectrum is just anything that is on a gradient ( which is almost everything) and not binary. Let's take skin tone, if you want to classify people into black or white you could do that but if you line up a 100 people, albino will bleed into pale, into pink, then tan, yellow, golden, chocolate then dark. It becomes harder to draw a definitive line as to where one begins and one ends. Then if you realise they are 2 ends of the same thing then that's a spectrum. Why are we arguing over it? I'd call it a discussion but we are because this is something that people often misunderstand, as you did. That misunderstanding made you consider Neil Degras Tyson as less credible of a physicist even though he was right both on gender and what he said in the video.

[@leemichaels406]

Quit using god to cover for your problems... they are YOUR problems, stand up like a man and own them!

[@dorkception2012]

LOL what are you even talking about?

[@clayz1]

Diamond in the back yard what a silly analogy.

[@sirwalterwallcarpet6623]

As person of faith(Christian), i love science and learning about the universe through science. I agree with many arguments here and in awe of the top scientific minds, and don’t have much time for religious fundamentalism. The science makes me truly humbled before the magnificence of the universe. But I wish there was a little more understanding/insight into the complexity of good religion and how ideas don’t necessarily contradict - rather than the typical broad brush, often naive, and entrenched Conflict Hypothesis way of arguing. I don’t see reason and faith as much at war with each other, as much as some think them to be. I suspect these are reactions to fundamentalism more than religion. Great and interesting video thanks.

[@SupremeSquiggly]

The insecure theists on here who don’t even attempt to refute anything and go right into whiney dismissals and offering inept strawman arguments only support why religion is such a bad thing. Good thing religion is on the decline.

[@Jarige2]

I'll make an attempt. Sam Harris first. He discusses a few strawmans of Christian responses and honestly, the Christian responses are indeed quite bad. There are a multitude of philosophical arguments for the existence of God, then there's historical evidence for the existence, death and resurrection of Jesus. It's not just believing it's true for me, I think it's true based on those arguments. Let's discuss Neil claiming that the literal interpretation of Genesis started to be doubted after scientific discoveries. Blatently false. Philo, for example, as a pre-Jesus Jewish philosopher writes that the 6 days of Genesis provide not a literal account, but an ordered account of how God created the world. And he interprets the 6 days as symbolic for the perfection of Creation. Neil also claims that as we've discovered more, religious people had to change their interpretation often. And that is true. It would have been irresponsible not to change the interpretation, so I'm not sure why this is a bad thing. If the new information is not enough reason to throw away the baby with the bathwater, then you should obviously not throw away the baby with the bathwater. And scientific discoveries haven't been enough to throw away that baby. In fact, many discoveries seem to indicate that the universe didn't get the properties it has now by chance. They did the math, the chance is so extremely improbable that scientists are speculating about a multiverse to deal with the extremely low odds of this coming around by coincidence. Now there's a story of some guy I do not know about physics. I haven't really found arguments in his story to be honest. It was a big story about how you can make up a meaning for your own life based on what's left to discover in this huge universe. I do like it when atheists are honest about the fact that you can make your own meaning. It's a game of make-belief to me. If you act like it all matters long enough, eventually you'll believe it. It doesn't make it true though, no matter how important scientist think their discoveries are, them believing it is important does not make it true. Now there's the talk with the big formula on the board. I think with this it comes down to the definitions of explanation and your philosophical take on science. I do not believe that formula explains everything we have ever scientifically observed but I do think it describes it. And there is a difference between the two. I don't think the description of certain behavior of particles is sufficient to be an explanation. In the same way describing why the water boils by giving facts about physics is simply not an explanation, but a description. It's not an answer to the question "why?" but to the question "How?" and implying that it's an answer to the "How?" question is within the realms of Philosophy of Science, not physics. In other words, just because physics can describe behavior of particles, doesn't mean they have given an explanation. It's just a description nothing more, nothing less. A very, very useful and powerful description, nut still only that. Any conclusions based on that description, and you're entering philosophical realms and philosophical presuppositions, like methodological naturalism. Did I miss any arguments? It was hard to find any arguments actually, so I just gave my thoughts on the topics as a whole.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

Religion is decline because of rise in consumerism and changing lifestyle. Not because PEOPLES ARE GETTING ENLIGHTENED, today generation are the dumbest among the dumb.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

@@loturzelrestaurant Refute any atheist youtuber, give me prticular, the debate is between me and you. Otherwise I can also say watch david wood americas dumbest generation.

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

@@loturzelrestaurant You also need logic to understand this, I ask you when americans loose their virginity?

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@marknikovvelesky2960 Ok so a completly random question that has nothing to do with anything will save the day??

[@tepesvoda464]

Forget Jesus, a star has died so you can live!

[@areafifty]

This is dumb. There's a wide variety of religions, many of which do not contradict science

[@josiahgittman1268]

Religion is not always theistic, but it is fundamentally supernatural and thus is non-scientific because the supernatural has never been scientifically demonstrated to be real.

[@ljramirez]

... no there isn't

[@areafifty]

@@ljramirez yeah? OK. You go on and keep believing that all religion = Christian nonsense. I mean, that's just as narrow minded a stupid as they are... hmmmmm

[@mohammadrezanargesi2439]

1:52

[@Golfiseasy]

You do not know what you are talking about. The writers of the Bible never thought the stars were angels or demens. We know that the Bible was talking about demens, not literal stars, because right out of the same book, it says that they were demens. If you take just a small piece of a book, you can make it sound false, but you have to take the whole book.

[@ljramirez]

The whole Bible is false and ridiculous

[@MrGilfred]

God does give you a purpose to live, the purpose is to have the right fear of God (one of displeasing him) and keeping his commandments. Doing that will give you the best life you can live now while at the same time you can help others get that same life now. The best that man can do is record what God did when he had his son Jesus create the universe. Something that has a pattern is not chaotic. Instead it shows design.

[@campfireaddict6417]

What happens if you displease "god", your "father"? What happens if you see an Island with blue waters and a beach, and covet (wish you were there)? Have you really read a bible? There are hundreds more "Commandments" your god requires. Have you followed them?

[@MrGilfred]

@@campfireaddict6417 So then you don't know of anyone that loves their parents so much that they wouldn't want to do anything that brings about their displeasure or disappointment. Well I know people that are truly like that. Fear of punishment is not out of love. It is the wrong kind of fear. Fear of displeasing God is what Jesus had which is why he kept all of the commandments perfectly. Whereas I an imperfect human being cannot do it perfectly. I still keep getting up dusting myself off and keep on trying. The punishment for Disobedience to God is destruction. It would be like you never existed at all. You would be under the bonds of the second death, without the hope of a resurrection, forever. Where no one would remember you. Even God would forget you even existed.

[@campfireaddict6417]

@@MrGilfred You sure do "know" a lot about it huh.

[@liggettselect]

So Jesus created the universe now? Man I wish you religious people would stick to one story.

[@MrGilfred]

@@liggettselectThe bible teaches that God is still credited with creating all things. God created Christ first then through Christ God created all things. Jesus became a master worker besides his father. This is saying that instead of creating Jesus then God directly creating all other angels then the universe and us directly. Where his spirit sons had no meaningful work to do but watch is not how God operates. He gives his firstborn son the privilege of being a master worker besides him. Since God still choose what was created and how it would be created means God is still credited with creating all things. Since God had everything created the way he wanted whether God did it directly on his own without Christ's help or not he still gets the credit for creating all things. Because God choose what was created and how he wanted it created.

[@lanazak773]

I used to listen to sam harris