Jay Richards: The Privileged Planet

According to a nationwide survey, more than two-thirds of atheists and one-third of agnostics believe that “the findings of science make the existence of God less probable,” while nearly half of self-identified theists believe “the findings of science are neutral with regard to the existence of God.” But what if there is another option? What if the discoveries of science actually lend support to belief in God?
Taped at the 2019 Dallas Science and Faith Conference at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.
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[@andrewheffel928]

So God made man, and gave man a brain capable of understanding God's creation, and put man in a location in the universe where man could best observe God's laws. God is awesome.

[@PInk77W1]

When I was around 15 I was at mass and Fr. Hinneman said during his homily “Every cell of our body has 10,000 chemical Changes every second of our lives, And they tell us this is by accident.” I will never forget Fr. Hinneman

[@jbjoeychic]

This was just really darn interesting. I note how Jay and Stephen and the other presenters do not attempt to bludgeon you over the head with their presentation. They are subdued l believe and l find it so refreshing to have them on my side. God is great and He designed all of us so we can arrive at that very conclusion. Unfortunately many have been sidetracked. A privileged planet we most certainly are.

[@LifeandLifeMoreAbundantly]

I love Jay Richards, the world needs your brilliant and God fearing mind. So nice to see you talking about this.

[@KenJackson_US]

_"The universe is not just designed for life, it's designed for discovery."_ This makes total sense when we look at the nature of men, which were made in God's image. Skilled craftsmen enjoy having people examine their work to see how remarkable they are.

[@user-mr1um1cg5v]

My respect for Carl Sagan has plummeted over the past years because of his worldview that like with most scientists inevitably gets in the way of true science. It’s curious and contrary to what the media and modern establishment tries to sell but the only truly open-minded and unbiased and non-militant scientists - when it come to either the origins of the universe or life on this planet - seem to be those who believe in God.

[@Yesica1993]

I love Carl Sagan's poetic language & wonder about the universe. It always leads me to worship God for the majesty of His creation! But it's true that he always had to get a dig in about God or religion.

[@hockeycowboy10]

It’s a privileged universe! And as humans, we are the only privileged creation that has the ability to appreciate its complexity and beauty! You never see a bear looking at a beautiful sunset.

[@jimstair6494]

I’m glad the Discovery Institute is doing what it is doing. I can’t wait for them to discover the most reasonable inference that evolution is really devolution and that the Second Law of Thermodynamics also points to a recent creation and an imminent end of the age. Praise God! See “Genetic Entropy” by Dr. John Stanford and “Evolution’s Achilles Heels” by several other Ph.D.s in various fields of science.

[@ibperson7765]

And then one day, the trained scientist, and former staunch atheistic materialist (me) crossed that last bridge and decided to go ahead and listen to scientists claiming much evidence points to a young universe... and to my shock.. then find it is compelling, nearly overwhelming.

[@Yesica1993]

Wow, I had not thought of Sagan's, “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be." quote being a direct mocking of the Gloria Patri. How evil!

[@gloriajones49]

thank you for making sense of this.

[@allanweisbecker8901]

One more: I saw the August 2017 eclipse and was blown away so i looked into the moon/sun/earth relationship. My question is Why you don't bring up THE REST OF IT: ...the moon is exactly the apparent size of the sun, making total eclipses like the one I saw possible - the moon being 400 times smaller in diameter yet 400 times closer to us than the sun. An added coincidence is the number itself, 400. A ‘round’ integer in base 10 arithmetic. What are the odds? Not only that but the ‘canon’ of the number ‘400’ is on its own significant: 400 is the number of kilometers the moon turns on its axis each day… 400 is the number of times the earth turns faster than the moon…40,000 is the number of Megalithic Yards in one Megalithic second of arc of the sun… 40,000 is also the number of kilometers the earth turns on its axis each day… (I know: Units of measurement are, in theory, arbitrary, i.e., human conventions. Maybe not, though, since both the Megalithic Yard and the metric system are related to - and probably based upon - the circumference and the mass of the earth, which brings up interesting questions about our ancestors, all dealt with in the book (more on this below my signature). Another reason ‘400’ is significant: the meter was geodetically defined as one forty-millionth (1/40,000,000th) of the earth’s polar circumference. (The above is from my blog at blog.banditobooks.com/an-open-letter-to-professor-nick-bostrom/ Scroll down to 'Another Line of Evidence) Here are more numbers: blog.world-mysteries.com/science/unbelievable-cosmic-coincidences/ Since we can rule out 'chance & necessity,' what we have left is Design. (This has nothing to do with the 'fine tuning/multiverse' argument.) These numbers are inarguable proof of a higher power. Do you not see this? But my question is why you don't bring this up. Reminds me of that old one about 'faint praise,' in that you're not really telling us how amazing the alignment really is. Why is that?

[@boycoatcoat7171]

In this universe, consciouness exist. How rational it is to say that consciouness who is beyond ours is not posible?

[@LifeandLifeMoreAbundantly]

Thank you Jay Richards 🙏🏼

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

“The findings of science make the existence of God less probable,” Not an argument. As it's not a Scientific Statement. It's an Assumption. As you just have too believe it. Just goes to show you how far scientific materialist can push Faith.

[@maximusatlas9377]

Great Video. I love Cosmology even though its outside my area of science. Usually Forensics are my area.

[@Possibleep]

Well crafted arguments in quick succession. Kudos

[@michaelgalganski5770]

Excellent presentation and thanks for sharing! 🌎🙏

[@respectgod3302]

Awesome work

[@larrytruelove7112]

Speaking of elements, I found one website video on the subject of the phosphorus problem. Apparently, the earth is the only place where there is sufficient phosphorus for life.

[@samarthbarshi1916]

The fact that everything is exactly how it should be or else we wouldn't exist. Too much of a chance.

[@robertjborer]

Nice presentation, but what's with this space-time stuff? And how about that photo of Earth from way out?

[@goingshort]

When he says life he means creatures just like us.

[@strumminfuel4625]

It's interesting how someone's childhood connection to religion can be so strong that they try to connect it with the theory of evolution. A star burns out every three minutes, The galaxy is ever expanding, But somehow people believe that five thousand years or so ago, a supernatural being created the earth, Come on!!!!

[@larrytruelove7112]

I have given the argument that the age of the universe presupposes that it began. One atheist insisted that something existed before the universe but science simply does not know what it was. Interesting that they do not want it to be God.

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

Because 'god', as a candidate for the cause of the Universe, is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy down the list as possible candidates owing to the fact that no-one has ever seen a 'god' nor indeed one in the act of creating ANYTHING at all. Wish y'all would stop using this 'don't want it to be a god' nonsense. It's really infantile.

[@carledwardvincent7131]

Formidable.

[@lloydscott7685]

I hear this and bless the Lord.

[@brunoborma]

Whenever life emerges/is created in the very only place and time life would possibly strive, senscient crratures will ways feel they were specially placed there.

[@davemuckeye]

Question 1: are spiral galaxies the best type of galaxies to expect to successfully find goldilocks habitable zones...? Question 2: what is the approximate % of spiral galaxies in our detectable universe...? Observation: it seems this talk greatly diminishes the opportunities to find life outside our unique circumstances...

[@raygon8]

sponsored by Baptist church, but behind him it says Catholic University of America ?

[@gersonfreiredeamorimfilho3012]

👏

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

I have an age. I had a beginning. I didn't always exist. I had no causal properties before my existence. I did not 'bring myself into existence'. So why ever would I think the thought or make the statement "I, which didn't exist, created myself". So why can't the universe be like me, like my Mum, like my Dad, like my kids, like my dog, like my pet tortoise, like the tree in my garden and like the squirrel in that tree, like the great maize plant in the field next to me? Why on earth is is so necessary to create the strawman statement: "The Universe, which didn't exist, created itself" and suggest that THAT is what non-believers promote? That's not the contention at all. I think if 'god' just turned up and banished cancer from the human race that would be better than all this needless talk. But he won't, will he. Interesting that believers need talks like this to bolster their wavering faith when prayers are not being answered and the Audi is making a strange noise.

[@ThePonderingPiper]

Evolution by design; love it!

[@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489]

interesting

[@peterpaul7936]

Okay we center ourselves in the design and yet not even 1% of the universe is habitable for living things. Why create something so big and yet we can only live on earth. See if it was just our milky way that existed than the design argument would be more obvious.

[@chrisanthamsilva3200]

Our earth has been uniquely selected for life. It is not only the position of the sun with in the milky way but also, earth has about 200 parameters absolutely necessary for life. These include the size of the earth, rotational speed, position and size of the moon , magnetic field, o2 level, earths core characteristics, percentage of the oceans, cyanobacterium, volcanic activity, Jupiter etc etc. If you take each as an random entity, the chances of all of them all perfectly aligning is 10 -99 chance !!! This probability is absolute ZERO. This is why SETI ( search for extraterrestial life programme) has still not found any evidence of life in the universe over 50 yrs and they will never ever find anywhere in the universe! This confirms that God has selected the earth for life !!!!!

[@amitaimedan]

Amazing... Said the paddle, this hole I'm sitting in, fit me perfectly, it was designed by God just for me....

[@aligator7181]

I just figured it out. The reason the Moon - Earth size produces a total eclipse is this : when the construction teams were assembling Earth, the Sun was much brighter. Also, for a while the Earth did not have atmosphere, so they needed an umbrella to prevent the Sun boiling the oceans away and frying the crews. Bingo, they towed and arranged the Moon to provide near continuous total eclipse for a while.

[@louisemaguire944]

If this was taped at Park Cities Baptist Church In Dallas why is there a Catholic University of America sign there?

[@Thewonderingminds]

No man's common sense would deny intelligence in all aspect of life. The issue of overall perfection however, by one single super perfect maker, falls darn short without make believe faith.

[@denvan3143]

Cosmetology has to do with make up; cosmology has to do with the make up of the universe. Pretty close.

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

Of all the arguments for theism, I think this is the least compelling. Considering how many planets are in the universe, using how great Earth is to argue for the existence of God is like claiming divine intervention because someone won the lottery when 100 million people played.

[@sandmonk5541]

Does the winner of a lottery have to question why he won ? Just because something isn't likely to happen doesn't mean it won't.

[@edwardlongfellow5819]

The fact that conditions on this planet are capably of producing abundant life forms cannot be taken as proof of an intelligent designer. There are 7 other planets orbiting the sun without life.

[@jeremywilliams3465]

Edward Longfellow 23:00 min into the speech he talks to your concerns.

[@chessplayer0106]

Gah. The big bang is a POINT IN TIME. It is not necessarily a beginning of our Universe at all.

[@rotasaustralis]

He's got the right heart but, he's incredibly wrong. We are at the galactic centre. There;'s no two ways about that. His version is that, god created all but, just how man thinks things were created. Yeh, goodluck with that.

[@ValChronification]

I agree with ID theory but I will never accept Christianity.