Neil deGrasse Tyson' All Time Best Arguments Against Religion

[@smalls9852]

The thing about words are they mean something different to everyone. I told my husband that even though I am an atheist, if someone I loved was on their deathbed or really struggling and they asked me to pray with them, I would. Not because I think there is a God who is listening, but because I believe it would be mentally beneficial to someone I love. It is not my job to try to change their mind. It is my job to be there for them, love them, listen to them and help when I can.

[@anthonybowen8332]

This is the most beautiful and sensitive comment I have read on this subject. Thank you

[@jeb6314]

My favorite point of Professor Tyson in this video is that he said he wants to be buried, not cremated. I do not even wish to be buried even in a formal grave. I figure that, when I feel my death is at hand -say, cancer -I will wander out into the desert or mountains nearby and intentionally swallow water into my lungs so as to drown, so to speak. I want to be food for the coyotes and crows and such creatures so that both my matter and energy will be recycled back into nature. I am a big fan of Professor Tyson.

[@gastropod557]

Recompose! A service that composts your dead body back to soil...then spreads the compost (formerly you) in the wilderness. I am 76, and will be composted after I die. My body will feed new plants, trees, and worms. I am grateful for a method of disposing of my body as opposed to embalming and burial in the traditional sense...and my composting will not foul the air from cremation. Check it out.

[@Polyphemus47]

@@gastropod557 Also 76, and I'm going to look into this - thanks! I won't be able to do it, though, if it costs money. ANY money.

[@Polyphemus47]

Maybe I'll see you out there - I've long held that same intention, and I live on the desert. I just have to hope the choice isn't out of my hands at that time.

[@Chris-hx3om]

I've lived my hobbies as a scuba diver and fisherman. In death I wish to return to the sea, so I might provide for it, as it has provided for me.

[@tims8603]

I'm interested in the chemical decomposition process that has been developed. They put your body in a vat and dissolve it with chemicals, like acid or something, Then they neutralize those chemicals and the resulting goo can be used as fertilizer. It's not legal in most states including my own.

[@billheuber5884]

To me, I'm fine with godspeed, because all it means to me is be safe!!

[@davidbroughall3782]

If we as children can grow out of believing in Santa Claus and having imaginary friends, how is it that we can't grow out of believing in God?

[@derekmclean5603]

Add in the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy, guardian angels, all instilled into children by adults as “innocent” well meaning lies until the children sus out the truth and everyone moves on with no damage done except for quite a few upset and disappointed children. As you say though, God (and Jesus) get by somehow with the adults maintaining the fallacy and never challenging or reasoning about the truth. Then the children become adults and have their own children and so the cycle continues unbroken. Only those with the ability or desire to seek the truth and challenge the whole concept of a Deity in the sky who created everything in the universe but focussed its attention on one tiny planet orbiting a small star out of 300 billion in one galaxy out of 300 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

[@helenamcginty4920]

But we can. I did. Funnily enough my 1st questioning about what I was taught was when I was 7. About the same time I realised the truth about Santa and fairies etc.

[@jimbracknell5648]

I did as well. I'm of the opinion that it has to do with when you are taught about religion. Usually that is during your formative years, and its harder to go against what you learn during that time as its more deeply imprinted on your psyche.

[@BooboosANDBloodshed_95]

Personally I am a scientific pantheist. Meaning that I see the universe as its own entity and alive. Everything that happens within said universe is a product of evolution and the scientific method. My interpretation is a tiny bit of spirituality sprinkled in with a whole lot of science along with a sense of wonder and awe.

[@alexissmith5589]

Without religion, society flourishes.

[@alexanderwolf1151]

Why?

[@raulhernannavarro1903]

​@@alexanderwolf1151A free mind is more productive, a more productive society is better for everyone.

[@marcozegikniet9301]

Religion only lead to fascism.

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@alexanderwolf1151 Science has questions without answers. Religion only has answers that cannot be questioned.

[@ha98372]

@@raulhernannavarro1903 Your free mind is limited just like how the "frog in the well" perceives reality. Everything will change for the frog If it only could jump out of the well.

[@muldrewdennis2837]

Believing in a God is as primal as rubbing one out.

[@thomas-gw3xf]

BUT ! you are looking at god as religious tyrants shove up your ass ---- some where in time before all this there was nothing ---- that nothing was replaced by empty space and then space was replaced by a universe and by cosmological mitosis we end up on a rock trillions of times smaller then that universe ------- now what appears to be a legitmant miracle has been labeled as god -- the physical transformation is god -------------- now people like Peter who had Jesus murdered in order to create a staged process following his death as the religion of all religions and the evil of religion from the Iron Age til now to control the masses for self enrichment and the oppression and suppression of humanity ------ religion is the evil and if you enter in and adhere to the tenets you will find goodness ---------- the alternative is to follow the WORDS OF JESUS - NO TO CHURCHES as god is the church so enter in ---- in other words internalize the miracle and go forth with the goodness you will obtain from the process of the creation labeled as god----yet religion stole from humanity that miracle and reframed it as god sitting in a cosmological Lazy Boy managing the process ---------------- god is a name of a miracle given by humans and that is it -- religion assigned human traits to a process of physical creation and made god in their image to enrich themselves while using evil to control the masses -------------- god is a label of a process to where we are not a human man of magic selling bottles of liquid religion ! god and religion are two distinct divergent concepts one a miracle the other a falsity served up by greedy humans to further the control of empires and emperors !

[@davidking8046]

Science will fly you to the moon; religion will fly you into a building

[@mehmetsimsek4794]

Actually religion can't do that either. Because you need science to fly the plane too.

[@andyMSH700]

we live in a world of lies....just be mindfull that our time on earth is very short and eternity goes on forever which you will be part of whether you want to be or not. If you want to prove to yourself there is a God then just look at the simple facts. Life on earth according to the non believer , claim that after the big bang happened chemicals got splashed around and mixed together and somehow life was generated and we evolved from this chemical action. They have to claim chemicals due to the fact the big bang gave off so much energy that all traces of life would have been destroyed. Good luck with that theory of mixing chemicals to make people. God bless and guide us all.

[@thesmartstickguy1145]

​@@mehmetsimsek4794Science is a tool to understanding our surounding. You can use it to invent useful stuff like the phone you are using right now OR you could use it to invent nuclear weapons to use in war. Religion however is a doctrine. It gives instructions to it's followers what to do. And the more popular religions do instruct stuff like killing non-believers or force your belief onto other whatever way you can. Science and religion are very different in every possible way.

[@sidneytrepagnier1038]

Well said!!💯

[@Dr_Wrong]

Scientists invent fire, then get burnt as heretics..

[@MadScientyst]

When u get applause from the great Richard Dawkins, u know you're worth your weight in Gold.....BRAVO, Dr Tyson!! 🤩🤩

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

As an atheist, if I was about to be executed. Probably by some religious nut who has an issue with me not believing their nonsense. First I'd think about whether life has been good to me, considering my current situation - being executed and all - I'd be glad life isn't going to be bothering me much longer.

[@Tevin-MK]

Same

[@kandyDugger]

wonder who will give the best rebuttal to this argument. hope

[@JamesRichardWiley]

I love man made pictures and stories of an invisible and unknowable god. The cognitive dissonance in the creators and followers is fascinating to watch.

[@butterg9535]

Clash of the Titans! I'm a fan too!

[@robertfindley921]

Reason 1 million: Exodus 22:3 states "“Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft." This was used many many times in the past to justify selling people into slavery. No, not make them work for someone, into actual _slavery_ .

[@daviddunmore8415]

I've never been religious, but, when I was a mature student (2009-13) graduating with a 2:1 in Computer Security & Forensics, we had a module on critical thinking - that put the final nail in the coffin of religious belief for me. I do still go to church, due to an article in New Scientist in the UK which reported on a study that found people who go to church (whether or not they believe) are happier and live longer than those who don't.

[@skindred1888]

Yea that's more to do with being social in groups than anything else. Community, very important. You can do the same thing by joining a gym class

[@djparn007]

👍👍👍

[@jahanas22]

The US may have freedom of religion but one group thinks it should be the only religion.

[@LanceManyon-p3x]

Isn’t that funny how that works?

[@goooch888]

I was raised as a Christian, but as i got older, i started questioning it all. My ex girlfriend is a devout Christian and we had some serious conversations about God. Now I'm dating a devout Catholic woman with her beliefs, which are a little different. I am having a hard time in believing what i have not seen any evidence of, other than life itself. I want proof and not what people are telling me or what a book is telling me.

[@rneedham667]

In secular countries women and children are better places to live.

[@DrDRE4391]

I would not place Engineers as equivalent to the scientific community. Many are not knowledgeable about the scientific method. They may have read about it or have been taught about it, but they haven't actually practiced it. Their appreciation of the accumulated scientific knowledge based on the scientific method is not part of their understanding.

[@sharontalley2155]

Studying nature is about as close as you can get to knowledge of God.

[@mushaanbanks7310]

This gentleman has never witnesssed a miracle. Also Proverbs 3:5-6.

[@nomadicroadrat]

I think it was Joseph Campbell who opined that there is no purpose to life. It's the individual who brings purpose to his/her life. Or not, I would add.

[@leanngugi]

I just don't understand how a scientist can believe in god.

[@Lordidude]

The same way everyone else does. Childhood indoctrination.

[@joseoliveira3691]

They are brainwashed scientist

[@optimusmaximus9646]

I would say that most - if not all of them - were brought up with religion. Fear - which is what religion thrives on - is the strongest force we feel. I do not know any scientist who is "born again".

[@allenmontrasio8962]

Maybe they are just religious. It's not the same as having faith.

[@raulhernannavarro1903]

Well, mental child abuse may be.

[@Scorned405]

Praying accomplishes nothing. The universe does not care for your well being

[@derekmclean5603]

Agreed! Although we were derived from material created within stars, stars could effortlessly consume us back again if we got too close to them, or them to us.

[@9719178]

I'm more offended that you have an iPod and you are an elite scientist!

[@Artanis15]

I still don’t understand why ppl think science and god are at odds when they are different fields, I still really enjoy vids like this tho it helps reinforce my faith, bless yall fr 🙏🤞❤️❤️

[@beckygoley714]

God is nature and energy,, yes I believe in God. I still go by the song in the 60’s I don’t believe in heaven and I pray there ain’t to hell! But there will be one child born to carry on. Carry on!

[@rayrous8229]

God's peed.

[@Shytot-1]

In the USA, 90% of the scientists were made religious before they became scientists, what would the number be if the scientists had not been made religious before they became scientists?

[@davidwpinkston4226]

the subscript writer should recognize "buy" and "bye" have different meanings

[@KurtGadgetSteinmetz]

I believe all ancient gods were extraterrestrials they started all languages and made them different so constantly in conflict with each other

[@elmercoblentz9432]

Prayer happens when people have peers they admire. Shame on those who hold their lives and accomplishments as a standard for those who can’t reach such heights and hierarchy.

[@BeefT-Sq]

" If your thinking is determined by your emotions, then you will not be able to judge anything, personally or impersonally. " -Ayn Rand-

[@BeefT-Sq]

"A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at the first encounter with the minds of others. " -Ayn Rand-

[@lotsofstuff9645]

He regularly paints Atheists as something the majority of them are not. When he said he is “agnostic” this is by far how the majority of atheists see themselves and act/interact with theists. He is imposing a view and actions of a handful of people he’s probably seen on KZbin as if they were an entire community. I would encourage him to not paint with such broad brushes

[@jeremypnet]

Technically you can’t say 7% pray to a god, just that they believe one exists.

[@TheKantele]

At the 40 second mark, Tyson cavalierly declares that his last wish is that his corpus provide food for the flora and fauna. This assertion to me is theatrical and dismissive of the finality of existence. I have not ever encountered this sentiment when attending several different funerals. If I were an atheist, my sentiment would best be found in the poem of Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night......Rage, rage against the dying of the light". This refrain is repeated 4x throughout the 19 line poem. Also, I find Shakespeare's words spoken by Macbeth to resonate more truthfully in Act V, Scene 5. " Out, out brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow - a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." If there is no God and Jesus did not die that we might live, our hope is in eternal darkness. Our expectations are bleak and grim. And I can't see how reckoning our decaying body as food for flora and fauna gives one any sort of sense of satisfaction and contentment.

[@barebones9]

IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN IT IS FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER HEAVEN. Are you feeling the stop/hesitation?

[@MizzouRah78]

I'm typically right there with Neil. I found his godspeed bit to be pretty weak.

[@Gideonite]

So if you are no believe you can’t use the word god?

[@MizzouRah78]

@@Gideonite How is that what you took from that? 🙄

[@clemstevenson]

I would have assumed that the lack of supporting evidence for the supernatural claims would have been sufficient reason for most people to give up religion. Nobody can threaten me with hell, because I have found no reason to blindly accept afterlife claims. The person you are dies, when your brain dies.

[@ivancliff2514]

The best argument is NO theist has been able to meet their burden of proof for the entirety of humanity.

[@billyryland]

Until Paramahansa Yogananda brought the greatest science known to man KRIYA YOGA, that brings proof of God's Reality through direct personal experience that works like mathematics. And by the way the time was not right to release this KEY that more than anything else, makes Atheism OBSOLETE. And SO the Obsolescence of Atheism began in 1920. In Your unfortunate misfortune that you didn't bother to keep a close eye on the opposition's progress, you have been flying the banner of an Obsolete opinion longer than your Ego is willing to accept.

[@ivancliff2514]

@@billyryland Oh. My bad. May I please see your Nobel prize for proving the existence of a deity? After all this is settled fact based on your assertion that seems grounded in “personal experience” correct? And you couldn’t possibly be wrong with your interpretation of the cause of your experience correct? Also if it can be mathematically proven may I have the variable for “god” and how you determined it?

[@wilcowiersma9465]

​@@billyryland So a god living in your head? Awesome. I'm looking foward to the publication and peer reviews and would like to know if his evidence is correct. The fact that you say it is based on personal experience, aka unverifiable data, I'm not gonna hold my breath.

[@unadomandaperte]

any God that hides from his own people and expects a select group of his own creations to speak on his behalf must have been very imaginative. but very misinformed!

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

Arguments for religion Martin Luther King, Mahamta Gandhi, John Woolman, The Civil Rights Movement, The anti Slavery Movement. William James. Logic (Watch indicates watch maker).

[@chris.eskimo]

Are you mistaking religion for morality ?

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

@@chris.eskimo Good question I will think about it.

[@randyzeitman1354]

Nonsense. Praying is not religious. Theists pray, plenty do and hate religion.

[@JohanBal-bc7kz]

Religous or great pretenders !!!!!

[@Istiqamahinsights]

1:03 what was that wo about lol, everyone who gets buried gets returned to the earth

[@richardgratton7557]

What he said was « not to be cremated but instead buried ». Because the ashes (after cremation) are not a food source for anything.

[@NM-qc2dh]

This man is an entertaining chap but he can never compare with the charming educated thinker Carl Sagan who could really think and convey his ideas without offending anyone and we could not help being taking with him. What a terrible loss.

[@MeditativeHandle]

you don't need to argue with a 0% success rate😂😅

[@daniel.sandberg.5298]

You just need to look at the sky amd try imagine god. That is impossible, so why believe in him?

[@ericgen1231]

"Jesus" was supposedly on this Earth for 33 years with a mission to save mankind from God knows what. We know nothing of his activities from the time he was 12 until the time he was 30. He had 18 years to write a manual for living in his own hand and signature. What do we have from him? Not one single word IN HIS OWN HAND. No wonder the mission failed.

[@iRenePeace83]

Romans 14:11 ❤

[@wilcowiersma9465]

What you mean to say is that this all loving thing apperently also said worship me or else?

[@iRenePeace83]

@ ask Him what He means 🙏🏾❤️

[@wilcowiersma9465]

@@iRenePeace83 So no anwser? Who would have thought...

[@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921]

Please watch and share with others my five brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!

[@LONEEAGLE_space_rock]

God is Dead

[@Chris-hx3om]

God is not dead, how can something that was made up die?

[@altosack]

@@Chris-hx3om- It’s an expression meaning the _idea_ of a god (which is all it ever was) is dead. Of course, it’s not dead, and will not be as long as it’s politically useful.

[@LONEEAGLE_space_rock]

@@Chris-hx3om it ie. “God” undergoes a metaphysical death in the minds of people.

[@billyryland]

The Souls with the many forms of nature would find your decomposing carcus inedible., unpalatable, repulsive. Please opt out of your egoistic premiss that you are recompensing mother nature with a free meal of your then decomposing form that was/is and will still be God-given, God-created and the property of God, which you had nothing to do with its temporary existence.

[@wilcowiersma9465]

So you're saying his body won't decompose? It is going to stay perfectly preserved, because the natural world refuses to feed of it?

[@michaelatherton5761]

Tyson is a Science zealot. Although science has better reality checks it is also a belief system not radically different than religions.

[@stevenroland147]

It’s not about your body after death. It’s about where your Soul will reside! Your knowledge will be known as foolishness!!

[@chrisw6337]

Since the fundamental premise of science that our existence is an epiphenomenon of our still very shakily estimated laws of nature it is unsurprising that to become an elite practitioner you would not subscribe to another belief system. My disagreement with you is that you place your belief and faith in the philosophy of science on a different level than belief and faith in any other epistemological system. Science is a highly flawed and ever changing system of knowledge and requires faith on behalf of most followers as its priesthood (like you) interpret and reinterpret its esoterica for the masses. Just like religion it is vulnerable to fraud, fakers, charlatans and fringe gurus. One of the premises of science is that religion must be false and incompatible with scientific principles. One of the premises of the Christian Bible is that it will be nonsense to nonbelievers, the universe , including time is a creation “not made from things which do appear” and temporary, God is outside time and created space, and there is and alternative universe called the spiritual realm (also that science is “falsely so called”). There is no reconciling of these belief systems but I consider it arrogant and erroneous to imbue one with superior intellectual status.

[@stephen2576]

Jesus is alive. Make him your savior. And receive eternal life..

[@BeefT-Sq]

" This---the supremacy of reason---was, is and will be the primary concern of my work, and the essence of Objectivism". -Ayn Rand-

[@HopDavid]

Tyson will look fondly back at the 50s and 60s when the U.S. was blazing new trails in technology and science. And when the vast majority of people went to church on Sundays.

[@davidbroughall3782]

It's likely those scientific trailblazers were not among those going to church.

[@HopDavid]

@@davidbroughall3782 You haven't heard of Max Planck? Georges Lemaître? Arthur Eddington? Kurt Gödel? Freeman Dyson? Werner Von Braun? Katherine Johnson? Of course you haven't. You're a Tyson fan. You're a poser with no actual interest in science.

[@skindred1888]

Yes. Technological advances were made in spite of religion, not because.

[@HopDavid]

@@skindred1888 Most of Tyson's fans have never opened a science or math textbooks in their lives. It is because of people like you that we are sliding down hill.

[@skindred1888]

@@HopDavid 😂 okay bud. Okay. Yes, I'd believe many societies were going downhill if I believed in bronze age goat herders morality yes. But I don't so...

[@CleverMonkeyArt]

Although I did not listen to all of Tyson's quotes in this video, I am still wondering what his actual basis for rejecting religion is. His first example, citing that 90% of people who responded to the question - Is there a God who listens to your prayers? with a Yes. And Tyson saying that that answer means you are by definition religious, is not serious. In fact, it is the opposite - mocking, dismissive. We the viewers of this video (or original audience members, if any) have no idea who he is asking this question of or under what circumstance it is being asked, etc. We do not have any idea how he comes up with this 90% number. He also betrays a definite presumption of what this so-called god is supposed to be like. For one thing, he personifies it, that is, refers to it as having a human-like nature, as if it were a big daddy in the sky. He rejects the existence of this entity based on his own presumptions. Pathetic.

[@tongleekwan1324]

You are pathetic. To believe something without any evidence is blind faith. A person has blind faith basically would not go through critical thinking, logic and even common sense

[@Chris-hx3om]

Education is the greatest force that shows people that religions are based on gods that have no basis in reality. As has been repeated many times, gods were created by man, to answer question our science didn't have the tools or background knowledge to tackle at the time. As our science knowledge grows greater, the gap that a god is required for grows smaller. As Dr Tyson pointed out, as countries education standards improve, and the people's knowledge grows, religions fades to nothing. And those countries are generally the most peaceful. Funny about that...

[@altosack]

He is talking to rational people. That 90% is not in his audience. If you watched _Contect,_ David Drummond was the scientist who clearly did not believe in a god, but used the 90% (including many politicians _also_ pandering to the 90%) to get the result he wanted. _That_ is pathetic; Neil Degrasse Tyson does no such thing.

[@robertbdesmond]

Boy are you going to be surprised when you die and find out there is a God.

[@Chris-hx3om]

Likelihood.... about 0.000000000000001%

[@thearmouredpenguin7148]

The only sad thing is that when you die, _you_ will never never know how wrong you were.

[@drzarkov39]

I like surprises.

[@rssphllps]

And you will be surprised that it's Zeus.

[@BeefT-Sq]

And you'll be surprised when you find out there is no god !

[@davidbass6119]

Neil, Don’t speak about what your not sure about!!! Afterall what better way to decieve faith based believers by Satan then try to convience people a deity dosen”t exist.

[@skindred1888]

Nobody is sure, yet that doesn't stop laws being passed based on people who are sure they know magic exists, right ?

[@mrshankerbillletmein491]

How some people suggest that science shows there is no God which is not true.

[@Lordidude]

Depends on the God.

[@skindred1888]

Because someone in a tie or a funny hat told them it does

[@churly9717]

Science hasn’t found evidence for a god. It’s up to believers to demonstrate the evidence. You can’t prove a negative.

[@mrshankerbillletmein491]

@@churly9717 The appearance of design is evidence of design.

[@churly9717]

@@mrshankerbillletmein491 the design argument isn’t one found in science.

[@HopDavid]

I am angry at Tyson's slander against Isaac Newton. How can his clueless fans embrace his revisionist history?

[@weegeelana8523]

John 3:16

[@gastropod557]

So, since you have made the assertion in John 3:16, I must ask you for your "Proof." Otherwise, Hitchens' comment, "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." You have made a claim; it is now "up to you" to show the evidence, or your claim/argument will be hollow.

[@jameswright...]

Yeah, it's a Verse from the immoral man-made bible... So what?

[@BeefT-Sq]

"Mysticism is the acceptance of allegations without evidence as proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and reason. " -Ayn Rand-

[@weegeelana8523]

@@BeefT-Sq I don't need proof. TRUTH IS TRUTH!

[@skindred1888]

​@@weegeelana8523I mean you kinda do, otherwise you're just saying nonsense right ? You need to show that it's the truth...not just saying it is.