Neil deGrasse Tyson on God

In this web exclusive, correspondent Martha Teichner asks the acclaimed astrophysicist, as he examines the universe, whether he believes in an all-powerful creator.
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[@richieblack5530]

The lady thinks she's staring Satan in the face

[@mjparham6430]

🤣🤣🤣

[@emilio04100]

Lmao

[@banselbiase9293]

Thats y all relegious are judgmental sad

[@albertosaldana7456]

In this case satan is smarter than her

[@tuongle4996]

No, she’s just staring at a really logical dud

[@doge5603]

I know she didn't like what he was saying, but not interrupting him or doing weird stuff was really respectable.

[@chriswinkler284]

@@mitchellc4 Finished? Are you sure you didn't leave anything out :P

[@davidusa47]

The interviewer is a single woman from NYC who did her undergrad at Wellesley and her MBA from UChicago. Pretty sure loved what he was saying...

[@feelsbaronman8044]

@@mitchellc4 X to Doubt.

[@wundu7512]

@@mitchellc4 This is the reason why i'm an atheist.

[@jarifkhan3487]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaGYcnuwfdZjf6M

[@VishwadeepShinde]

"You believe something in the absence of evidence. That's why it's called FAITH" Simple words but very thoughtful!

[@vqsxd]

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

[@carl7674]

@vqsxd that Is an empty assertion

[@vqsxd]

@@carl7674 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

[@carl7674]

@vqsxd if we care about believing what is *true* or most likely to be *ttue*, faith is a very unreliable tool to use.

[@vqsxd]

@@carl7674 We need to believe what is true though its not optional otherwise you have delusions and go against the life itself.

[@grandemauro344]

This man has got the gravitas, the class, the elegance, the vocabulary and the voice to utter it without offending any reputations. Truly a master.

[@danieltaylor1784]

He really is quite the belligerent bell end whenever anyone has the audacity to disagree with him

[@Zebrahhh]

NDT is so pompous and full of himself

[@MiniTutoriel]

Bro think is emotional like humans . If you believe that god created you , wouldnt you believe that he also created your emotions ? If there is no emotions you wouldnt even consider an earthquake a disaster ! Hope you got what i mean .

[@davidgriffore9443]

A master??? Dang.

[@gabrialrodriguez7036]

He says “all powerful and all good” . No where in the Bible does it say he’s all good. That in it or itself shows how little he has truly thought about it

[@tumsfestival8027]

I’m just glad the lady didn’t interrupt him. Discussions should be: one person says something, finishes, and then the other person says something

[@williamswenson3970]

I agree with you 100%. Neil deGrasse Tyson might not so much lol, he loves to interrupt - or at least interrupt Joe Rogan. :)

[@AlecWelsh-ut7cc]

If someone is saying something that isn't true and they are not qualified to say it then they should be interrupted when they are on TV. Philosopher Francis Bacon proved communication about the universe is complicated and limited by human vocabulary so we need intellectual standards to reduce inevitable accidental miscommunication. Conservative media has proved that humans can lack integrity and take advantage of this inevitable accidental miscommunication so we need journalist skilled in epistemology and educated in a wide range of subjects to call out dishonest or wrong individuals when they are on TV.

[@tumsfestival8027]

@@AlecWelsh-ut7cc I agree with you in theory, the problem is the same can be said for the opposite. I’ve noticed a lot of conservative tv hosts are constantly shouting, or talking over people giving legit information. So it goes both ways. In the end stupid people should be allowed to talk so smart people can correct them. But just talking over each other doesn’t accomplish anything

[@supersaiyandrama8918]

@@williamswenson3970 that joe rogan podcast really made me not like tyson as much for being so rude lmao

[@billyhenerson2871]

Sadly that's not the case, as we saw in the presidential debate. Quite possibly humanity's lowest point

[@abe6495]

He doesn't exclude the possibility of the existence of God, he is open to inquiry. Inquiry and openness are the hallmarks of a great thinker.

[@ChiefMac]

Free spirit 👍🏾✊🏾

[@jordanwaynejansen7546]

@@dan78789 good for you😂

[@BigWickEnergy_]

Daniel Pedersen could be agnostic.. don’t be so quick to label boss.

[@Qrexx1]

@@dan78789 I don't think he's an atheist. Not being convinced is not the as denying. The existence of a god or whatever you wanna call it is neither confirmed nor ultimately denied by sience yet, that's why it's called faith. This is what he's saying. And I share his point of view.

[@QualityEJC]

@@Qrexx1 it's faith because there's no evidence and no evidence means it doesn't exist. God is a myth.

[@ZuKuPLayer]

Personally, I was never a believer, but I listened and well grasped what a bible tries to teach, visiting church every sunday for 20 years of my lifetime. In my opinion, it is a literal manual of how to be a well behaved person. My conclusion about faith is clear. It can be a curse but also a blessing. People believe in something that cannot be proved but it's exactly what pushes them forward in life. Getting up every morning, going to work, fighting with daily struggles like pain, misfortune, etc. but knowing that someone out there is keeping an eye on us and one day everyone would be rewarded for their effort. If faith in god can save lives and keep people from becoming mentally unstable to a point of self harm, I'm not against the idea at all. Only those who try to change my mind.

[@devilvocano420]

And there are those who develop religious trauma of hell if theyre a bad person Religion is not all good

[@nothing26375]

We are responsible for this chaos on Earth not God we have to fight and change it, Adam and Eve were living happy lives but they disobey God,they were living without doing any works and God gave us a beautiful heaven but then Adam and Eve break God law and now on Earth we shouldn't imagine for life that we get on heaven we have to face this problems and fix and work for this world so that's the solution 😊

[@devilvocano420]

@@nothing26375 Youre responsible because you got brainwashed that you are How u know u not going to hell, just stop believing fairy tales

[@Gtagcash]

What about the science in it What about the facts that they ACTUALLY found the blood of Christ and HE ACTUALLY 100% Came back to life And his word was that of the Bible so why change your mind you already know which makes it that much worse for you

[@trolljones4386]

@@Gtagcash That is complete nonsense, prove it first off how would you be able to prove it is the blood of Christ? do we have Christ DNA? how could you demonstrate that it is Jesus blood and not simply the blood of any other person?

[@freeman9738]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a great combination of a scientist, writer and science communicator.

[@Zebrahhh]

😂

[@user-gf2nd2ig1y]

Neil is F.O.S......🍐. 👍. An OBLATE SPHEROID, ... FREAKING HILARIOUS.. What a STOOGE, And to Know that some people ACTUALLY Take him SERIOUSLY is Even FUNNIER Yet!!!!😂

[@WARRIORMETAGOD]

😂

[@user-gf2nd2ig1y]

@@WARRIORMETAGOD Exactly, Point Made 👍🍐😂🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-gf2nd2ig1y]

@@WARRIORMETAGOD Next, He'll claim it's Really kinda Cylindrical now, kinda like a Banana 🍌....😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@slashbrees2288]

His shirt fits in perfectly with the logo on the bottom right corner of the screen.

[@Talker13563]

Slash Brees dude hahah

[@David-iu3ep]

Amazing skills of observation. (And I mean that sincerely)

[@floatinsun]

Haha in this chaotic endless debate of excistance of God that's a good observation!

[@johnwayne-parr2059]

Must be god! That’s the evidence he was after 😂😂😂

[@nostalgicwaffle7490]

Thats all i look at now.. Thanks

[@optimisecode2936]

The lady allowed him to exercise his freedom of speech. That’s excellent of her

[@darnright7415]

LOL She asked... He didn't ask her - Can I tell you my view?

[@tomkay4881]

@@mitchellc4 where is your evidence?

[@jack_hodges]

Lol that’s so not how freedom of speech works

[@tomkay4881]

No she just asked him a question and listened when he answered it

[@davidwilliams1856]

She must work for CNN

[@josephbrown8482]

Love the way he close the question.

[@emekaagbo6697]

Neil is just being kind

[@Deltahairlines82]

Exactly

[@canaree6]

this is the guy that said the earth is peared shape

[@leileiluslay]

LMAO

[@joshw6631]

When he said “what I believe should be irrelevant” I gained so much respect for him

[@vsslsmchlks]

Josh Windes that Right there is the key to science

[@wbdangelos8393]

I consider nearly all of what Tyson says to be irrelevant, so he's close to being correct about one thing, at least.

[@martindagoat3909]

WB D'Angelos GUYS I FOUND A FLAT EARTHER

[@wbdangelos8393]

@@martindagoat3909 - Now if you could only find the CAPS LOCK key and figure out what it does.

[@martindagoat3909]

WB D'Angelos yeah it makes it sound like I’m yelling which is was exactly my intentions Einstein.

[@mikerowave9734]

He explained it very well without offending any other religion. Mad respect for Mr. NDT

[@xeeezyx]

I as a christian loved to listen to this explanation because even though i know he didn't really get the definition of an all good god in christianity, you can see that he had some thoughts at least and is open

[@liudvikas6534]

He didn't sayed a single smart thing his arguments are childlike

[@trevormoran6158]

@@xeeezyx What do you mean that "he didn't really get the definition of an all good god"?

[@markramirez7543]

@@trevormoran6158 His perspective is off, he looks at God from a limited perspective. He is looking at the whole universe as a man who does not even take up 0.000001% of the universe, so how could he know until someone explains it to him. God is all good and what he is saying is in essence is, "how could a good god let bad things happen?" We need to remember that the "natural causes" that cause pain and suffering are not natural at all. Remember, God made everything perfect except for us, we are the ones who caused there to be a curse on this earth it was us who brought sin into an otherwise sinless world. Pain and suffering are caused by both the curse on this planet and the sin of man. Which brings me back to the question, "How could a good god let bad things happen?" The answer is both simple and complex, the simple part is that God is good but he is also just. The curse is an effect of sin you could say a judgment of sorts, a good judge would not want to see people in pain, but a just judge would want to see justice being served. This is why God allows this suffering. We see things from a limited perspective, kind of like a baby who does not understand why they cannot play with a knife. We are like babies who do not know much and God is the one who made everything and who knows more than we do. Also, sometimes suffering is necessary because some metals cannot get stronger until it goes through fire and a sword cannot be made unless the metal is beaten with a hammer.

[@jacobtaylor9850]

@@markramirez7543 very well said!!!!!

[@Wardfolio]

What I "Believe" should be irrelevant to anyone. It's not about me, it's about the real world

[@flyingash]

100% and this is 100% best example of his intelligence. He is so right on this topic!

[@koz3ris252]

hes not, many agnostic or christian theologist already debunked things like this.Even atheist agree on it (theologysts).

[@hi-js9rb]

@@koz3ris252 well, that's because you got sources from ONLY believers and not non-believers. i'm agnostic, and i don't believe in any God.

[@chicks4503]

@@koz3ris252 Show me an example of someone accurately debunking it.

[@TheBarber5550]

@@koz3ris252 Please provide evidence of what Niel DeGrasse Tyson says being debunked.

[@Gorilla721]

@@koz3ris252 The way I look at it, even if a god is real, going off of what I see, in the world, killing, people starving, diseases, etc.. Why would I even want to workshop such a HORRIFIC god? To me, real or not, they would not be worthy of my devotion. Just like a evil KING, people would overthrow him or call him out for being such a horrid leader, same should go for such a horrid god!

[@Webhead123]

"What I believe should be irrelevant to anyone. It's not about me. It's about the real world." If only more people let themselves consider this notion.

[@joshportie]

The sad reality is he is pushing pure religion.

[@Webhead123]

@@UCLAfilm01 Agreed, in a generalized sense of course. Atheist or no, I think it can be agreed that individual beliefs are far less important than acting upon the world as we can perceive, study and understand it. Also, it's possible to be atheist and not liberal, as well as religious but not conservative. Cheers!

[@Webhead123]

@@UCLAfilm01 Quite correct.

[@Webhead123]

@@tryb3gd489 I agree that saying that Humans are at "different stages of evolution" is a bit misrepresentative. Rather, different strains of Human (call them "races" if that's convenient) have taken different adaptations. The amount of melanin in the skin and hair as a prime example. Could you say that the amount of melanin positions one Human strain as "more evolved"? I don't think so. Differently evolved, perhaps, but not "more" evolved. People are constantly evolving with every generation.

[@biffbiff7827]

Truth is by its nature exclusive.

[@apollo4961]

this lady looks like she is about to talk about how unfaithful he is to her church Sunday school

[@TheCoppoy]

Seems like She is about to crawl the wall hissing

[@patorgio7779]

💀💀💀💀

[@firstlast9731]

exactly so

[@dogyear82]

You can't tell from her reaction whether she likes what he's saying or not. This was just an interview and she had that same look on her face whenever she's listening to any of his answers. You can find more clips from the interview here kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5uaoIagrM2ZrJo

[@batt3mar222]

Don't draw assumptions based off of looks. You don't judge a book by its cover.

[@thinusmilner2538]

I pray for you my friend!

[@servicioslegales2930]

🤭😏

[@sfullernj]

And we'll think for you

[@colonelradec5956]

I wish this is how we all debated/ disagreed. With respect lol. And if you ask somebodys opinion they should be allowed to speak it in full even if you disagree. Respectful communication is nice lol.

[@b41ts2late]

Later that day she got a tattoo and started smoking weed

[@jakelowe9057]

Kevin Martinez lol

[@ViktorNederloe]

I mean...

[@scaredface347]

Smoke weed every day

[@alexalvarez9852]

lmao!

[@alexalvarez9852]

He is one smart dude.

[@johnlewis7021]

He lookz like they woke him up just to ask him this

[@MELLOWSHIESTYGOD]

John Lewis Was 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@capalothardonalaptop1727]

Lmao lowkey

[@andrestoussaint7125]

🤣🤣🤣

[@NoobsDudes]

Yep XD

[@shees1993]

Looooooooool! ;D

[@Snowwie88]

I had a Mexican girlfriend once who had a very interesting thought about this. Yes, she did believed in God, but she said, that 'hell' is something we are already IN. Here on Earth. All the miseries that Neill describes are all elements of 'hell'. Once we die we served our time in 'hell' and everybody moves on to heaven. So that was her point of view. I found it interesting, and even more logical than the opposite thought about Earth being paradise and that based on our actions it will be determined that you go either to heaven or hell. There are two things not quite right about that thought: First: young children or even unborn babies, who die prematurely. Did they had the change to do something good? Not really. Second: If Earth is a paradise (which it is not really), then the penalty being in torment forever in hell does not even come close to what God actually represents. How could He inflict that on any human, who lives 70 maybe 80 years on this planet and then by their actions be punished for an eternity? That's not likely. Hence I found the Mexican girl her thought pretty interesting.

[@JeffSmashDesigns]

That makes god seem like an even more like a giant evil asshole. So, from birth, I am forced to live in a prison of suffering so I can get into heaven when I die and hang out with the abusive entity that tortured me for the first part of my eternity. No thank you, I wouldn't even want to be near something like that. Yuck

[@elpapuxDDReal]

I'll say not based on the bible at all . The earth is not paradise nor is it hell, it's just a place where we live. You can think of Earth as a kind of rehabilitation center, we are all sinners by birth. In Earth we can decide to either do good or do bad, in which those decisions will decide where we end up after life

[@ShadeMedia]

This lady looking at him like he’s the Anti Christ

[@donaldjohnson2038]

Her instincts are good.

[@wuvv]

@@donaldjohnson2038 she prayed 30-60 minutes a day and now shes realizing that god doesnt exists wow.

[@netherwolves3412]

@@wuvv haha

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@wuvv So now, she'll pray two hours a day! No amount of lack of evidence will convince willful ignorance.

[@ythaagruligiztil4813]

@@blackholeentry3489 true these people are braindead They don't even try to understand

[@gigalyrics]

"what I believe should be irrelevant to anyone, it's not about me" .-

[@poppopN]

But but but my feelings....

[@johnnybgood7442]

Dirk Knight exactly. Beliefs inform our actions most of the time

[@SrRAFAGAS]

Yet.. religious people want to make their beliefs a law every one needs to follow.

[@johnnybgood7442]

Dont even know what that means

[@darinwaynec]

@@SrRAFAGAS I don't say anything about law....I just think Christ is truth, and I feel sorry for those who don't want to live in truth and would rather ignore truth and live some other way.

[@chachoo3833]

Neil makes total sense to me. I had the pleasure of seeing him on tour this year and so glad I went.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

1:08 "If we bump up to the bearded man - if that shows up, we're good to go!"

[@codybischoff5998]

He handled that question with a ton of class, a lot of people who have questions about religion have a terrible way of demeaning people. Very impressed by his response

[@dwightk.schrute6743]

While I agree with you 100%, you also have to understand that these people are tired of being told that they'll burn in agonizing torment for all eternity for the sin of thought crime. They're demeaning behavior can be often more than justified.

[@ryangoepfert9112]

@Mac Loud Actually that does more or less make it okay nor dies it make it an invalid argument

[@user-gn4ts8jb7n]

@@ryangoepfert9112 Did you just use nor correctly? How.

[@user-gn4ts8jb7n]

@@dwightk.schrute6743 IDENTITY THEFT IS A CRIME.

[@dontdoittoyoself6786]

I usually lie and act like I have faith or be forthcoming and just say the concept of a God makes no sense.

[@sagecapra6442]

"Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza." -Michangelo

[@DaEdge89]

Wait, do you mean the turtle? xD

[@simonjonker3127]

nice way of putting it i guess

[@IqarP15]

HA! Real old skool there. "I got to get a new route!"

[@akassebaum]

Cowabunga dude!!!!

[@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261]

"pizza dude's got 30 seconds.."

[@armiesep8710]

I feel there is good in me. I am kind & compassionate to others. 😊 i try

[@Melbot103]

Then you're doing great. Keep going 👍 The majority of people don't even try. So you're winning.

[@jillianleda6732]

Yes! Neil Degrass Tyson! You are a big teacher to me and have been for many years (half my life actually). Thank you for teaching me everything i love your thoughts and explanations

[@abdiyusuf8561]

Are you 80% woman and 20% man today

[@HelloThere.....]

But he didn't actually teach you anything. All he did was a juvenile analysis of the idea that God is either not all good or not all powerful, which is a seductive but incorrect idea. God is both all powerful and all good, and this is WHY he chooses to allow evil to exist. If he didn't, then the soul and free will could not exist. Also, without the ability for destruction, you also cannot have creation. The very laws of the universe that allow natural disasters to exist are the same ones that allow for life to exist and come about. The laws that allow suffering to exist are the same ones that allow strength and courage and virtue to exist and emerge as well. A world with the possibility for destruction or suffering or malevolence is BETTER than one without it. A world without these things is an empty void without planets or stars, without oceans or weather, without plants or animals, without free will or people or societies or art and love and passion and fear and courage and suffering and endurance and weakness and strength, without evil AND without good. What was God supposed to do? Not create anything? No, he took a chance, he had faith in us. He decided something was better than nothing, created it, and then gave us reason, empathy, the ability to feel meaning and purpose and have courage and become better and stronger and transcend our suffering, and even gave us a huge book of instructions on how to do all those things (the Bible). God is amazing and he gave us an amazing gift despite, and partially even BY giving us suffering as well.

[@trillspace]

@@HelloThere.....Love this Glory to the great god Jehovah

[@chicks4503]

@@HelloThere..... God doesn't exist

[@gunnamanmike4173]

@@HelloThere.....people turn to religion because they’re scared of what happens after we perish

[@randallwong4382]

You can’t properly debate with someone that has made up her judgement even before entering the conversation.

[@darnright7415]

Randall Wong It's called Confirmation bias.

[@darnright7415]

@Oni Master www.lexico.com/definition/confirmation_bias en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

[@carlos-ej3sv]

@Rickey H. well said

[@tumei1851]

@Rickey H. Planets are formed when a star explodes and the remnants of that star start forming into an object by gravity. There really isn't much dictating where a planet can form other than it must be inside the star's gravitational pull. Imo because exo planets exist, it doesn't prove god exists. There are also theories which state that when the universe experiences a heat death, it results in another big bang. An endless loop if you'd like. I'd have to do more research on the matter, but I did like how you involved math in your arguement.

[@MohamedNabil-xz5ob]

@@tumei1851 well its not that you like its true the universe can't create itself with presence of physics law like Stephen Hawking said , physic laws don't create matter and that's the reality there gotta be an agent that causes things to seize to exist its like looking at an engine and saying wow this engine existed due to physic laws , it's total wrong ! Physic laws can't create matter they're just rules or facts to be going through while the agent is working , physic laws are exactly like 1+1=2 , it can't create matter ! There gotta be an agent that seizes the matter to exist or to be created .

[@LordLemoncake]

-Do you believe in god? -Does it matter what i believe? Well done.

[@LordLemoncake]

@@set_apart360 If you dont stand for supernatural things, maybe you are just fine :)ű Believeing in things that you cant confirm to be true or false sounds to me like really believing in your own imagination to me.

[@LordLemoncake]

@umair ahmad Well, it is a belief, a belief is about what a person is convinced to believe to be true. If you cant confirm that what you believe in is true or not, it does not really matter. Religion is about giving people comfort, not truth, and most people want that comfort more than they want the truth. Afterlife? Nobody knows there is one. God? Nobody could not proove to it exist. Religion is deeply there in every culture, but people do not really question why. Maybe that is the problem.

[@LordLemoncake]

@@set_apart360 Theists: We have an explanation for the origin of the universe based on late bronze age stories, and we know this information is true because people wrote it down in a book. Oh and it will always be the same it will never change no matter what science prooves to be true. Atheists: We accept the current explanations of science about the origin of the universe because science is not biased and if we find more evidence in the future we know these explanations can change. Who is honest?

[@LordLemoncake]

@@set_apart360 We have common acestors with apes, we evolved differently, but it did not stop, you know, we just cant fastforward time to see how we or other apes evolve in time. Oh and if everything is god's work, why cant nobody find a proof that a god exist? I mean you realise that we are talking about a belief, not knowledge. If we would know that a god exist we could proove it and it would not matter if we believe in it or not.

[@LordLemoncake]

@@set_apart360 That is the beauty of it, you know science is a tool to describe and understand nature, when you make a theory in science other people will test it, and if it gives reliable results they will use that theory as a model. The model changes, as we get more information, so it can give more and more accurate results. But when you neglect and ignore everything what science shows us, because you cant accept it, and you rather believe in god, which has zero explanation, i say you are not really making sense.

[@user-zk7ef6eg8x]

He is an awesome teacher.

[@thegutsyninja8851]

100% agree with him!

[@corneliaarthur1658]

I am Christian, and even I don't think there is a critizism in this. I mean he wants evidence, that's fair. So I give credit to those you didn't give hurtful comments to anyone at all.

[@isaiahwilson4729]

Im with u but his statement on tragedy is ridiculous because god has released both famine and disease and is stated to flood the earth.

[@pascalsimioli6777]

@@isaiahwilson4729 Which makes him pretty much a mass murderer on this logic, I don't want to kiss a dictator buttcheeks only in the off chance I get to a wonderful eternal land of more buttcheeks kissing No offense, just my logical reasoning

[@BaptistJoshua]

I saw a car wrecked on the side of the road. It was a Ford. There was much destruction, it was on fire, seeming chaos, and the people within lay dead. Some fanatic came up, claiming the vehicle was built by Ford Motor Company. I highly doubt that. The vehicle came about by random chance and endless combinations of metallic parts. I mean, if there really is a Ford Motor Company, one would expect them to build cars that work and are not smashed or on fire! I just don't see any evidence for such a benevolent Company. This crazy fanatic next to me *claimed* that the Company built the care just right, but that later the owner misused it, which led to the destruction. I then asked, "Then why doesn't the Company just force all drivers to do exactly what the Company wants?" He then said I would be complaining about the Company being tyrannical, if it did that. What an idiot! I think every scientific, free thinking, rational mind knows there is no such Company as Ford Motor Company. I am totally willing to accept it, if there is such a Company, but I do not see ANY evidence for it. What? The Ford logo? Well, again, that is just chance. Randomness that uneducated people see as creation and order and design? What? Ford logos on the leather and interior and under the hood? Again, wonderful accident. The beauty of randomness. 🙄 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:19-20 "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." John 3:16 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9-10

[@pascalsimioli6777]

@@BaptistJoshua Wait wait wait: how do you know a Ford isn't a natural thing? How can you rule this option out?

[@colonelpopcorn1947]

@@BaptistJoshua I always use a watch as an example but this is fine

[@CooperStation01]

Lmao that interviewers face though..

[@BruceWayneofCamelot]

I love how she tries to throw him off with facial expressions conveying her obvious disdain for the notion that there is no god.

[@kokolatte825]

Eru Iluvatar I think that's just her face.👺

[@deyjishnu]

RBF

[@josephp5909]

Eru Iluvatar Oh hey, an all powerful creator! Lol

[@alexb3617]

priceless face. after watching the video i came here looking for comments about her face and here it is

[@Nyanira]

Absolutely agree! We humans create scenarios to try to make sense of things we cannot comprehend. A religion is a belief system that tries to uphold a way of life through persuasion and not evidence-based practices.

[@vincentwilliams2314]

It’s crazy to think about . God and religion are man made concept. we conduct our lives a certain way because we say it’s god way or will but yet we created the concept of god . 😳

[@djbrowm1562]

I kinda disagree. Before scientific evidence of being clean, we have scripture that teach of how to be clean and staff off infectious diseases. In some cases, scripture came before science.

[@trashtuber6021]

@@djbrowm1562 Science greatly overshadows whatever ideas and practices existed before, especially those described in religious scripture, and they're overshadowed both in amount and efficiency. Just look where we are now compared to medieval times. While some religious scriptures happen to mention basic scientific practices, they come absolutely nowhere close to today's science.

[@user-jk8ez5hq4d]

@@trashtuber6021 You talk about science like it's the best thing to ever happen to the human race. Science has achieved some great things, but it's also contributed to a lot of horrible things (including our ability to destroy all life on the planet).

[@bjstephens790]

The thing is, science and religion should not be trying to compete to see who's better. They both bring valuable information to the furtherance of the human condition. Religion has been around for 5,500 years. Science has been around for about 400 years. There are topics that religion cover that science will not, because science is the study of the natural (observable) world. You would be ignorant to only look upon science as the end-all-be-all and completely ignore the 99% of the world that is unobservable. This is why both religion and science should be promoted and studied.

[@Spider-Fan-yj1fp]

Yoooo this guy's COOKINN!! He brought up the same questions and thoughts and feelings that I had scratching in my brain from the inside out my whole life! He really filled me with satisfaction that there Are some people who thinks and feels as I do And there are some in the comments as well. Thank you everyone and I LOVE YOU GUYS

[@zixxrg]

What a polite way of saying - NO!

[@woundedone]

@@kingflockthewarrior202 No, he said he would believe if there's edvidence.

[@vcvortex6356]

@@kingflockthewarrior202 in no way did he say he wanted to believe anything.

[@Brawley_jit]

God is real John 3:16-17 we are living in God's awesome creation

[@vcvortex6356]

@@Brawley_jit Uh.... No.

[@jovial5286]

There is no yes or no. Thats the whole point. Saying yes or no contradicts with concept of God. If God is a super intelligent being, then we don't have the intelligence to say yes or no of God. If God is not a super intelligent being, then there is no difference between you and God. Which means you are God.

[@BigBen1994]

She looks like she can't even comprehend what he is even talking about...

[@midshipsport]

She does. But Neil burst her bubble.

[@keymul]

Brian cox explained the same thing Neil did on joe Rogan podcasts

[@cristopheralexander1583]

Ha

[@YEDxYED]

She can but her belief and faith is too strong to want to comprehend what he’s saying

[@armandosmith8323]

Ya she has to much faith. Or not evidence

[@RighteousFiyah]

Who forms light and creates darkness, Who makes peace and creates evil; I am the Lord, Who makes all these. Proverbs 47:5

[@abominable.7800]

reasonable, respectful and is open to new ideas. I can get behind that.

[@itsOrba]

I didnt think the title was real but he put it “on god”

[@stankyleginc.8157]

@@klevens5496 bruh he died 2000 years ago can we just move on

[@alexpierre5604]

@@klevens5496 that's right brother preach to all this atheists👍

[@adzzino]

Alex Pierre I’m not Christian , and preaching doesn’t prove gods existence.You must give a reason.

[@alexpierre5604]

@@adzzino can you prove god doesn't exist ? Give me one of those long explainations a really good one,im listening.

[@adzzino]

Alex Pierre I never said I dont believe I god.i do , im a Muslim , and I believe it gives you logical and rational reasonings to the existence of god.We believe in the bible , but however differ because of the falsifications and tapering’s with the scripture.Not only that but the fact that you believe , that he died on the cross and that he was the son of god/god , and applied the trinity(man made) to back this up.You as a Christian cannot prove gods existence because it’s just too contradicting , the whole idea of trinity is man made and contradictions can be found in the bible against it.Thats my paragraph.I hope your not blindly following your faith and research it in depth , when the trinity was applied , why there’s over 60+ different bibles etc..Atheist will ask you questions you can’t prove using your scripture.Actually , you can prove to an atheist gods existence through philosophy , ontology etc.The Quran states one of the reasons you made Jesus (peace be upon him) your god , is due to his miracles , but if you read this verse(I can’t remember) you’ll see allah(god) is saying that it’s was through HIS will he was able to do these like raising the dead , healing the leapers etc can you see our perspective.

[@scottk1525]

"What I *believe* should be irrelevant to anyone. It's not about me. It's about the real world." -Neil deGrasse Tyson 2017

[@djtheshooter6748]

Scott K - Begs the question "what is the real world"? Since Neil has never been to the universe nor has anyone else, all their talk is nonsense. How can you speak about Peru objectively if you've never been there? So why not simply say, 'I HATE GOD.' That makes more sense than tossing the explosion/evolution salad. Neither have a shred of proof.

[@PigJarHut]

Just because you are unaware of the proof doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[@PigJarHut]

Agreed, I guess? I was replying to DJ ;)

[@scottk1525]

DJ THE SHOOTER - Getting the strong impression you don't know what universe means. We've all been there. We're actually all there right now. Crazy, I know.

[@scottk1525]

DJ THE SHOOTER - You didn't listen to a word the man said. You're stuck in an echo chamber of straw-man arguments. He never said he doesn't believe in god because we have "proof" of other theories. He never even mentioned the big bang or evolution. He said he doesn't believe in god because there is no evidence of god. Pretty simple concept.

[@MichaelEMaul]

Got to see him speak when I was a student at case western. Amazing man.

[@drewdietrich7849]

A religious person would probably say they don't need evidence because they have faith. That makes me feel uncomfortable about everything else they believe because they feel they don't need evidence to support their claim. Neil has such a thoughtful and logical way of explaining things, he is incredible.

[@josephkanyike8319]

There is proof

[@carl7674]

​@@josephkanyike8319 That is just a claim. SHOW the proof.

[@drewdietrich7849]

Show us the proof. @@josephkanyike8319

[@josephkanyike8319]

@@carl7674 God is a keeper of His word and does not change his covenant. He created the heavens and the earth, he gave man the administration of this earth, Psalm 115:16. He acts on earth as a response to man/human. It's interesting how we reject him, push him out of schools but blame the results on him. In this world exists the all bad devil, Satan. The author and inspiration of all that is evil and bad. God is all good and powerful but so so gentle he does not impose on man His will. He gave us the power of choice. Consequently there are principles he set in motion that determine results, like seedtime and harvest, when you sow hatred and all kinds of evil, you receive evil from Satan through people sometimes and then blame God. Now the choices we make sometimes give the devil access to our world(eion) and the effects reach even the innocent. But 2Chronicles 7:14 says if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray I will heal their land. We have a responsibility on the affairs of this world, let's not act so innocent, and these actions affect not only us but our world even the innocent. God is all good, and like I can't see heat but know it's there because of its effects on me or things around, so you may not see God but can see what goodness he does that's beyond science. Just that you may ignore or reject the proof, but that doesn't take away the truth that we have seen things only God can do. Stage 4 Cancers healed with proof, blind eyes opened, and hiv after prayer to God as He says in James 5:14-15. These miracles come as a proof of His word, and if His word is true and these things have been documented if you care to know, proven by certified medical personnel even in your countries. Therefore if He gave us His word, and His word can be proven do do things beyond human science, then He is true and exists.

[@user-hg2kd1nz4l]

@@carl7674 There is so much evidence, scientifically speaking, our world is unique, nothing like it has been found, there is also evidence in the Bible, its stories are real and archeology confirms it, as well as the prophecies. It's a topic that can be talked about for hours.

[@RamanSingh-zo5hf]

1:00 "If God is all powerful, he cannot be all good. And if he is all good, then he cannot be all powerful" - Lex Luthor

[@TrevorWilliams117]

As a Christian, I love his answer and have the upmost respect for him. He doesn't believe in God. But does not rule out that God might be proven correct one day. In science, everything is a possibility until it is proven not to be. So, thanks, Neil.

[@AdiiS]

The universe is almost an endless room, with that in mind it's much more difficult to prove that god doesn't exist than the other way around. Same thing with aliens, planets etc.

[@3kbschannel288]

If God is supernatural, there is no way science can prove it, or disprove it

[@darnright7415]

@3KBS Channel Because supernatural is belief and science does not investigate belief

[@inox1ck]

3KBS Channel the spaghetti monster is supernatural by definition, can science prove it doesn’t exist? You invent something that cannot be proven because of how you describe it then ask scientists to prove it doesn’t exist 🙄 You can’t prove it doesn’t exist but you can point out it doesn’t make any sense.

[@vreyoxl8754]

As long as you're the same, believe in God sure.. but accept that he could (and most likely will be) proven wrong. The issue tho with believing in God is his 'rules' are inhumane and idiotic soo.

[@ryantowell]

The guy absolutely nailed it.

[@dustinposey8476]

Nailed wht?

[@mr.nibblenips4231]

Just go with the flow as my grandfather used to say.

[@collinskud3096]

I like how he's so careful with his response

[@themodernshoe2466]

Neil's careful with all of his responses; he's a world class orator and educator.

[@ralphfurley404]

@@themodernshoe2466 I second that he's great

[@urgedpanda]

I'm religious and I really respect this guy for just stating his opinion based on his experience and not judging others for what they think, the way he stated how religion is a faith is the best possible response imo.

[@notyourpapi]

Because its not easy to deal with religious people

[@urgedpanda]

@@notyourpapi or because it's a sensitive subject

[@MrOvergryph]

"What I believe should be irrelevant to anyone. It's not about me. It's about the real world." Neil deGrasse Tyson on God

[@davidulloa9684]

Underrated comment 💯 he’s such a respectable guy for those last words

[@searchrightthings.947]

Lol once it's irrelevant to anyone and once it's about real one. That's one example how atheists contradict their arguments.

[@rabietariq8325]

I letterly read this when he said it EPIC.

[@rajamohammed8683]

Our beliefs , the rational ones that are with evidence and the little superstitious ones without evidence, are relevant to both ourselves and everyone around us, for we every moving second push them towards others knowingly or unknowingly. You will see what I mean if you are in India more obviously. There is superstitions in every step of the way you turn to, got bombarded with visuals of rituals of how to respond if a person sneezes or a cat crosses your path or you see a person from a certain caste comes by. No country is spared of these kinds of beliefs. What I came to see in my faith is that a person is blessed by the presence of God when the very idea of God himself wipes off all the other millions and millions of beliefs in that person's system. And the faith make a person ever more sensible in his way of life and the way he responds to his fellow beings. As for talking about real world, I am of the opinion that we are far less equipped than a baby to sense and see the so called real world. There is an entirely different world when we come to a state when rationality no longer helps and extreme struggles, like disasters in both personal life and on a social scale, makes some people see through the membrane we are all covered in since from our birth.

[@kaizen_monk]

@@rajamohammed8683 religions are false...god may or may not exist

[@j_packer35reed18]

Even if you brought this man evidence he’d deny it, it’s his heart that doesn’t want to except

[@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King]

You're projecting so hard right now. But even if what you said was true, thats not a good excuse to not provide your evidence. Provide it and make people dismiss it, then you've won. Saying "I won't provide it because you wont believe it anyway" is very easy to dismiss as a lie.

[@axxel9626]

Cosmological argument, go search it up. God exists, and one day He will judge EVERYONE​@@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King

[@bobikdylan]

He's articulating what's called 'the argument from evil'. It's not new, but it's very compelling. If God is all loving, why does He allow such suffering? If He does, why should we worship him?

[@carl7674]

Very compelling. That and the argument from "Divine hiddeness" Why would an all powerful being choose to be invisible and controversial.

[@pannerbiryani3002]

I love the way he didnt disrespect the ppl who have faith in god and also the interviewer didnt interrupt him

[@FisTheDucc]

je thats pog-w-

[@mcale8384]

Ikr. Too many athiests these days trying to force and rub on people's faces what isnt real. Religion is religion.. its all what you believe in.

[@mgk5856]

@@mcale8384 Yeah that's true. I think it's unlikely that there is a god but I don't have a problem with people who believe that there is. In my opinion if you are a good person it doesn't matter if you believe in god or not.

[@jonathanespinal9367]

@Jason Rutkoski you get into heaven in your way, your way being the path that god has sent for you. Follow his word, follow his teachings, and live the life that is best for you

[@Superbed2]

@@mgk5856 you can't be a good person and believe in a god... that's a contradiction.

[@thisguysgaming7246]

Obviously he never met shrek

[@JH-wi2xr]

star pro Best comment here

[@BigManJevnikar]

This comment deserves 1k likes minimum. Dead

[@thisguysgaming7246]

BigmanJevnikar lol thank you

[@aim-9sidewinder550]

I've never met shrek either

[@dedicatedcommunist6544]

lmaoooooo

[@user-bk1ub7sf7u]

This is gold

[@truending]

The point he misses is that you can’t define what “good” is if there’s no “bad”.

[@carl7674]

That's not necessarily true.

[@lovepeace9747]

@truebding.. evolution makes us know what is right or wrong as a human being..look all the animals in wildlife killing for survival..

[@truending]

@@lovepeace9747 If you judge the good and bad according to the evolution, you have no solid standpoint. Evolution is a continuous process, which, according to your view, may change the good and bad as time passes. Then, there’s no point in the discussions regarding what good is and what bad is, so the discussion in this clip also becomes pointless.

[@lovepeace9747]

@@truending . You have a point but this is not an evidence that theres a God that is all powerful and all good

[@lovepeace9747]

@@truending it just how living things worked..evolved in order to adapt in surroundings so that they can survived..

[@arpitasahoo128]

"That's why it's called faith, otherwise we would've called all religions evidence."

[@blukester7994]

Jeez he was just giving a definition calm down

[@hamsandwich2303]

Explain?

[@aomorgancool1775]

@Liam Aetolp that's a lie. You people want to take him down because he's black.

[@jasonlittle6161]

Wow, way to bring race into this

[@justsomeguyanimations]

@Brendon Lima explain then. What about human action caused these natural events to occur?

[@djentlover]

That lady has the most distressing stare I've ever seen

[@caffiend.9761]

I will see her in my nightmares

[@thelegendkillersshittyduff1335]

@@caffiend.9761 lmgdao

[@tomthumb9839]

I watched it a second time because it was so funny. Lmfao.

[@raindog5109]

because it clouds her delusion of a super being

[@sulaimanadewale320]

Like she could devour him, I see hate in her, she's triggered, someone talks against his precious God

[@Adrian-fk6sl]

I can't believe how my opinion changed completely on this issue over the course of a year

[@screentime6051]

Niel degoat tyson speaking mad facts, he is speaking on behalf of all atheists

[@KINGFISHOL]

Honestly I am really religious and Niel Degrasse Tyson is my hero, he doesn't care about arguing about religion he just likes the universe and science. I think that's pretty cool

[@bighutto7875]

Exactly he’s just a cool fun guy. He understands that people are religious, and accepts that, he doesn’t throw a hissy fit at the mention of God. And on top of that he’s agnostic and pretty much all agnostics are chill ppl.

[@carlospinto5402]

Just like God, He is a nice guy and will understando you and save you no matter what you are doing. Everyone is cool LOL man

[@Brawley_jit]

God is real John 3:16-17 we are living in God's awesome Creation

[@jovial5286]

God has nothing to do with religion. Religion is horsecrap.

[@jovial5286]

@Kitalia the kitsune wow! Did God gave that definition?

[@ES-lx6vv]

"Do you believe in g-" "ME?!"

[@DaveA7]

😂😂

[@techloto]

Underrated comment... Those who know

[@thesymbiosis1444]

perfect start :D

[@wisesquirrel4986]

God I love youtube. I rarely laugh out loud nowadays. Thanks, fun joke. The fact that he sounds startled just adds to the joke.

[@techloto]

I thought this comment was a Dark Knight reference, "swear to me!" But I watched the video back, and I get it now 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@alanratay4583]

You gotta love Neil. He thinks of everything. It’s hard to believe this whole thing is coincidence until you consider the vastness of the universe.

[@estikofficial]

"The Creator is either not all powerful or not all good" ... In my opinion, more than half of the things mentioned, from viruses to earthquakes are done by our own hands and brains. We could see that the weather can be easily controlled, and as Israel president said "We got good tehnology and the skies got eyes so we see you". He gave us free will of choice... but the problem is when some bad intended people limit or control somebody else's free will of choice. Regardless of the povs or ideologies, this man is so nice and he is good at explaining things and he also got cool povs.

[@megemet5269]

“if God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful.” -Lex luthor

[@nathannikora1761]

Tera Raiden how does that make sense?

[@alexhowle8202]

@@nathannikora1761 If he's all-powerful he has the power to prevent bad things from happening but does not. If he's all good, then he's obviously not all-powerful otherwise bad things would not happen.

[@JosiahFickinger]

Unless he is a judge

[@caderenken3047]

If God is all good then it can also be said that evil did not come from God, but rather it came from humans, the story of Genesis 3. And if God also values human free will because he made humans as rational beings, capable of making their own decisions then you cannot stop us from doing evil or else he would not be all good in keeping his promise to allow humans to chose him or not; because there is not such thing as forced love it is like saying God should make a square circle or a dark light things that in their very nature are contradict and cannot exist. And because God made humans with free will and allowed them to be tempted by the snake in the garden of Eden that makes the human choice to love God genuine and significant.

[@caderenken3047]

Oops *he cannot

[@someguydudeidk]

The title isn't lying, on God, it's Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[@restassured277]

Lol

[@jojox3321]

i only clicked the video to see if someone commented this xD

[@newsunset6526]

Super underrated

[@w.8424]

I was having a bad day. Now I'm not hahahaha

[@astrocellofficial]

on god?

[@colinpope368]

Catholic here. I appreciate his distinction between divine attributes and the existence of "God." and I think that that's really important. Everyone who thinks critically about the question believes that there exists some primal cause or principal of all that exists, some first cause, some first mover. That's not the question. The question is what else can be said about that first cause or mover. Is this principal the universe itself? Is it contained within the universe? Does it possess agency? Is it good? These are the questions that need to be asked.

[@carl7674]

All I know is, if it is, whatever it is, it's doing a darn good job of hiding from us, therefore must be enjoying all the controversy about it's existence.

[@colinpope368]

@@carl7674 Do you actually disbelieve that there is an uncaused cause? (I’m not asking if you disbelieve the uncaused cause to have any personal quality, or whether you believe that it is a deity, or whether it is distinct from the universe itself. From the results of the argument for an uncaused cause alone there’s no reason that somebody couldn’t identify the uncaused cause with the fabric of the universe itself, or with the laws of physics or something, as Spinoza and Einstein and Sagan do, so I only ask what you think of the uncaused cause as such.)

[@carl7674]

@colinpope368 My skepticism of the first cause/prime mover is that Aristotle didn't know about Newton's 3 laws of motion. He believed that the force had to be constantly applied for the body to stay in motion. Wasn't Aquinas's metaphisic on this "unmoved mover" encompassing Aristotlian physics which became essentially obsolete around the 17th century? And an inclined plane can get a body moving without an initial push Can't it?

[@colinpope368]

@@carl7674 Carl, thanks for your thoughtful response. You’re right these arguments come to us from Aristotle; Aquinas just makes reference to them as much of his work was an attempt to reflect on his faith in light of the best of the philosophy and science available to him (something many religious people could admittedly learn from). You’re also right that, while we stand on his shoulders in many ways, Aristotle’s physics were crude and have been superseded by Classical Mechanics for good reason. Nevertheless, I think he has some important insights for us. While it’s a common misunderstanding, Aristotle’s argument from motion doesn’t concern the phenomenon which Newton is concerned with which we call “motion.” In Aristotle’s vocabulary, “motion” refers to “the reduction of something from potentiality to actuality with respect to its form.” Frankly, I don’t know if his metaphysics accurately describes our world, but I’m not sure that it matters here because the arguments from motion and efficient causality are, in many ways, different flavors of a single argument which tries to demonstrate that an infinite regression of caused causes cannot possibly explain an effect in a way which doesn't rely on his peculiar grammar. It’s also worth noting that Aristotle was concerned not only with what he called “efficient causes” (for example, the efficient cause of the ball going into the net is the player kicking the ball). In fact, anything which could be preceded by the word “because” is a cause. So if we consider a body which has always been in motion with respect to some reference frame, it’s motion isn’t “uncaused” even though it doesn’t need to be pushed to move; it’s motion is in some sense “caused” by it’s nature. “Why does the body move?” “Be*cause* it is the nature of a body in motion to stay in motion”. With this in mind, the argument could be generalized, without that flavor, as follows: 1. Every effect has some cause. 2. A cause can either be caused or uncaused. 3. In the final analysis, a caused cause is a mediator of an effect, not a cause. The metal rod, for instance, mediates the heat of the fire and burns my hand. 4. A mediator will never mediate an effect without a cause. It’s ability to cause an effect on its own can be quantified as 0. 5. A series of mediators will never mediate an effect without a cause. If we take the quantities of their potency to cause and add it up, 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0. 6. There is no reason to believe that (5) becomes untrue if the series is infinite. 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + … converges to 0. 7. Therefore, if there is some effect it is not possible any mediator or collection of mediators could produce an effect without a cause. 8. In an infinite regression of causes, because every cause is the effect of some anterior cause, every cause is a caused cause and thus a mediator, and according to (7) it cannot produce an effect on its own. 9. If there is an effect, it is either uncaused, caused by an uncaused cause (and perhaps mediated by a finite regression of caused causes), or caused by an infinite regression of causes, but we know from (1) and (8) that the first and third possibilities are impossible, 10. Therefore, if there is an effect we must admit that there is some uncaused cause which is ultimately behind it. Now, any phenomenon with an explanation is, by definition, an effect of some cause. If the argument above is true it tells us that if we keep digging, and keep asking "why" we eventually get to some foundational reality. The question isn't "is it there?" but "what else can be said of it". edit: I don't think that this argument implies that we'd eventually exhaust all questions (in which case it would contradict Gödel's theorem), only that we would eventually hit an answer(s) which is terminal and fundamental.

[@carl7674]

@colinpope368 I see where you're going... I'm not too big on philosophy. I am a lab rat who is convinced that if philosophy goes away, it will be bad for the world. But if science goes away it would be worse. Having said that, as far as I'm aware, the consensus regarding this logically necessary "first cause" is that it is some kind of agency/intent... if theology has any say... But it doesn't necessarily have to be, does it. Whether it is or not seems trivial to me. How does knowing that help us anyways. To use your {touch hot metal rod, cause premise} our fingers can be burnt ( intentionally) by an agent or you can accidentally touch the hot metal rod. Either way, the effect is the same. Like I said in my initial response, (albeit sarcastically) Why would something as powerful as a "good" First Cause (being an agent) choose to be hidden and so controversial. Of course it could be an evil intent, prime mover that allows some good. Intent on keeping us confused. Unless more (demonstrable/falsifiable) evidence emerges, I'm inclined (ad populum belief notwithstanding) to (based on reason) think we accidentally came in contact with the hot metal.

[@parthasarathiroy1646]

True..i too think the same

[@han3298]

even though i’m religious i LOVE the way he went about answering this question. he was very respectful!

[@mdah7090]

How are you still religious after hearing that? That’s like an insult. It’s like someone explaining to you that 4x4 is 16 and you say “I love how he answered and respect it but I still think it’s 7”

[@han3298]

@@mdah7090 bc my faith isn’t a math problem nor is it dependent on what neil thinks.

[@05Levi]

(Just tryin to give a positive reply but) Ma'am I agree with you

[@han3298]

@@05Levi haha thank you!

[@han3298]

@@james5076 hes looking for evidence then of course he’s not going to believe. if there were true evidence of God himself then that would ruin the purpose of “faith”. we walk by faith and not by sight. furthermore can i ask you why you’re spending your time attacking people for something so harmless as believing in God? i’m not sitting here attacking you for not believing.

[@weebofthesouth4113]

I'm a Christian and honestly I like the way he answered the question. It was a very respectful way that he gave his view and I really respect that of him.

[@giacomo5727]

Yes, I think that too.

[@goofyboi1505]

Yes whenever you look at it from Niels view here it’s inevitable you come to the same conclusion he has in the video. However when he mentions a man with a grey beard I think that’s the problem. God isn’t that. God is everything and nothing, the plants in our garden and the president of our country. God is happiness we that gets us through the week and sadness that brings us down. The fact that we are allowed to experience life is enough proof of God. And on the topic of god being all good, well I don’t think that is reffering to what Neil talks about here such as disasters, I think that’s more reflective of the world we live in being all good, and the disasters can be attributed to just the cycle of life. When we watch a lion maul and eat an antelope we don’t think of that as good or bad, we just see it as life, as God.

[@rmm3803]

@@goofyboi1505 Neil would disagree with you, as do I. Sure, if anyone looked at it from your perspective they might come to your conclusion. But the problem is that... you have no evidence. What you refer to as "evidence enough" is nothing more than a statement of faith.

[@goofyboi1505]

@@rmm3803 I didn’t really mean proof sorry. I was just trying to point out that what this existence is, is incredible. I don’t really believe in a traditional god that is worshipped or anything like that, I can just see how people can come to the conclusion that all of what we experience and don’t experience has a certain undeniable divinity to it, with an almost unlimited amount of processes happening at subatomic and universal scales all at once, all responsible for facilitating life, it makes you wonder what exactly is it that we are experiencing.

[@rmm3803]

@@goofyboi1505 This perspective is legitimate, no need to apologize. However, the irony is that in this day and age there are more plausible theories than that of a Supreme Being explaining nature and the cosmos but we are so mired in centuries-old tradition that it is truly difficult, as a rule, to embrace new concepts and ideas as they become revealed to us by the progression of science. So, we deny them out of hand without even bothering to at least explore new possibilities. I'm not saying by any means that science explains it all but the fact that there are plausible alternatives to our current thinking should give pause to all who really think about these matters. Digressing, I know, but quick question please. According to theology (of most if not all faiths) man is generally placed at the top of all creation, and is supposed to be favored by God, to rule and be master over all other creatures. How does this comport with the now acknowledged existence of phenomena in our airspace that appears to have incredible abilities, far beyond anything mankind can even conceive of? Assuming (as I suspect will ultimately be the case) that these objects are the creations of sentient beings, how can we possibly be the masters of such creatures and where does that leave faith-based teachings? No wrong answers, I'm just curious on your take.

[@rodre0250]

His argument might sound extremely simple but he's got a point if you actually think about it. No Bible verse can explain it without leaning to religious fanaticism.

[@carl7674]

"But if you've got some GOOD evidence, bring it, bring it" Case made.

[@bradleydavid1827]

"There may be a God,but the universe can explain itself without the need for a creator." -Stephen Hawking

[@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl]

Noice 😮

[@Sasori.OfTheRedSand]

i know how the car works , so no one created it 😁

[@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl]

Sasori of the Red Sand Wtf? Bruh u either a 5 year old or You high or something ???

[@plopkoekmovies5566]

PeaNut buTTeR why is he a 5 year old?

[@sanjivinsmoke2719]

@@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl really fair argument.. in his part how can you disaprove.. show logic idiots and not your ignorance with spewing insults

[@HDitzzDH]

The interviewer looks at Neil as if though he's the anti-christ himself when explaining his views lmao.

[@beastified22]

GZA he is bra he promotes fake propaganda garbage wake up bro

[@HDitzzDH]

Sonelezz 00 such as? How does one promote ”fake” propaganda, it’s not propaganda at all?

[@onthetoilet8397]

He is.

[@tardigradesarecool]

@@onthetoilet8397 How.

[@onthetoilet8397]

@@tardigradesarecool because he makes money of theories. Theories = Lies = Sin = Devil and he's has multiple theories that are not based on facts.

[@dighad3824]

Sir this is a Wendy's

[@AMadScientist]

When I interviewed for my last job, the interviewer asked me about my education. I said, "I was working towards my PhD but I didn't quite complete it". The interviewer said, "Oh? How far did you get"? I said, "About the 10th grade".

[@gelsm8709]

Keep going you got this lol

[@robertfrank886]

Outstanding!

[@lufunomulaudzi6230]

Legend!

[@jurabekahmadjanov1996]

“What I think should be irrelevant to anyone” man let it sink in. Cuz if we can really apply that to our life’s I think we would have less stress that we gotta deal with

[@vvthetalentlessduo6976]

L9l

[@mitchellc4]

The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings! Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21 Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. RSV Only-monos God-theos Monos theos Monotheism The Father Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)! Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God! Jesus has a God! Jesus died! God can’t die! God raised Jesus from the dead!

[@Troy13]

Plot twist: nobody cares regardless

[@welles2002]

Makes perfect sense to me

[@antoniosmaila6789]

If you sell something to a child as an indisputable truth, it will be so to him in his adulthood. Religion is all about selling childrens things as indisputable truth, so that they never question anything throughout their lives and continue to live in their own little world.

[@paulg1759]

Interesting take on that issue. So, please inform me then: If the bible is not true, where did evil (and therefore anything bad mankind suffers from. Like what he mentioned) come from? The bible says it clearly. How do we fix those issues? The bible says it clearly. Where did everything come from, if not created but happened by accident? Again, the bible says clearly. Perhaps you could teach me? Not an arguement please, a serious discussion as i am curious the answers to those. After all, you have seemingly questioned religions or the bible. So, in your questioning, what answers have you found?

[@adfinemrising]

that's a very logical way of explaining it and at the same time precise enough to not be an attack. definitely well said.

[@angell.xx2]

Attack? How would not believing in God be an "attack" anyway.

[@letsgo_123]

Hmm yes according to my technical research you are a fanboy.

[@tahamohammedi5898]

Yeah, we heard that before "God is EVIL!", if he stepped out of his science bubble he'll see that the concept of God doesn't contradict the malevolence of the world. it would've been better if he just said there's not enough evidence

[@bhp000]

His way of saying No 😂

[@jasonmichael3676]

It's not logical at all. Saying God should make everything on Earth perfect is very stupid.

[@Nathan411466]

"If you've got some good evidence, bring it" Exactly. Simple and to the point.

[@B..P..]

Its faith and its personal.There is no evidence needed because its a choice. You believe in what you want and wait for the truth after death.

[@tiwoni972mad]

@@B..P.. Yeah that's cool for people who are looking for opinions and comfort. You don't choose the truth, you choose YOUR truth. We, atheists, are more interested in THE truth, whether we like it or not. And boooy it's not found in this good ole bible. Oh it's not.... Just read it.

[@january3rd293]

@@B..P.. That's fair, but it's different when you're say, a a gay child in a fundamentalist family. Then- you have other issues. A conflict brought about by that choice. Evidence then becomes all the more important, because under the laws of this and many religions, that child has to throw away their chances at marriage, intimacy, etc. All for something they're being asked to believe in without evidence, and often given shame by their upbringing just for the way they were born. Suddenly, evidence means a great deal. Especially to someone in that situation. If you're being asked to take that abuse and give up the chance to potentially be so much happier, many people will understandably ask *why* should I? And if the reason is "none, just faith", then that's extremely difficult for people in such situations to get behind. That's not even the only example, just one.

[@B..P..]

@@tiwoni972mad I am happy with the choice i made.I dont need anybodys opnion on this particular matter. When we eventually die then we will know the truth. I'll see you on the other side someday.

[@B..P..]

@@january3rd293 Well life is about living with the consequences of our choices.If that person is not strong enough then nobody can help them. I chose to believe in God and i am happy.

[@user-yn5te8vj5j]

Whether to believe or not in God is something personal and shouldn't be an issue for others. The point is, people think they believe in God but does not follow God's teachings unlike those that doubt his existence yet does more good in the world despite not knowing the word of God.

[@carl7674]

He is absolutely right If believing what isTRUE matters, faith is NOT a RELIABLE way to find TRUTH

[@joromo]

Reporter: "Do you believe in God?" Neil: "No evidence" Reporter: 👁👁

[@quintuscleff5686]

Truuuee

[@richardcastaneda8318]

The evidence is coded in the Bible... ...or God must of been a lucky God to know there are 7 days in a week 4000 years ago... DUH...

[@richardcastaneda8318]

And God doesn't just throw any number atya. Numbers have purpose. Our Solar System is coded in Genesis Chapter 5. The number 365 is mentioned here in relation to how many days we have in a year. Before NOAH there are actually nine characters mention here that denote the nine celestial bodies. 6 out of 9 have a total life span of 900-999 years, again to confirm the nine planets, (with Pluto) 3 donot, to mark the position of Earth with Enoch living only 365! 777 very lucky God.

[@cyanicxl00]

@@richardcastaneda8318 The Bible isn't evidence, it's a fiction.Also, words are easily corruptible, meaning if you were to take any book and wait 200 years you can almost guarantee there are going to be changes to how it's written and changes to plot. The Bible is just like any book, it'll change in time as well. A lot of Christians are ALREADY claiming "The Bible never said being is a sin" because science found that being homosexual is not a choice but is decided by genetics & hormonal balances, meaning you can be born or grown up to be gay/bi. You can't 'choose' to be attracted to someone, it's just a balance of hormones making you feel the sensation of attraction & pleasure. I'm sure in 100 years, all Christians will not be homosexual, just like how Christians used to be very racist & xenophobic and put anyone who wasn't white into slavery but now it's negatively, less of them are these things. If you don't believe me, look this stuff up. I'm sure you will find it, unlike the existence of Jesus. There is a probability that there could be a creator of everything that is everything but it is definitely not Jesus Christ. Also churches, communities, and traditions of Christianity or any religion are also not proof, for real evidence shouldn't need these things to prove it's velidity, it should just be a fact like the sky is blue and water is made up of H2O. If you were to burn every book that was religious and every book that was scientific, only science would come back because you are ACTUALLY able to prove these things, unlike religion, which enforces you to believe what it says and shuns you for questioning it. Evidence should be able to be questioned or there's probably something it's hiding if you were told not to question it. While religion thrives on ignorance & weak people, science flourishes in knowledge & hard work.

[@esayefishatsyen3744]

@@richardcastaneda8318 I'm pretty sure the world is not 4000 years old.

[@orgenborgen1717]

I read the title as “Neil deGrasse Tyson is god”

[@mr.blueitachi5258]

Why u think so?

[@pandapirate25yearsago33]

*Plot twist: he is, that's why he's so smart and he's trying not to reveal more science than we already know.*

[@MrBurns-um2id]

That's because he is ....duh

[@coin5207]

He might be. He is featured on Logics studio album Everybody where he's the voice of God in the skits

[@jonathanmk5402]

At least we can confirm Tyson exist

[@andraetkula6044]

He's had a good life so far.....eagerly waiting for the next video discussion with him speaking on the same subject......

[@Manish-by6tv]

Very clear and rational answer

[@emperorpalpatine2957]

Bruh she looks like she doesn't even know where she is at the moment like she's having a internal panic attack.

[@tonytooshort]

Didn't know there were any external panic attacks🤣🤣🤣🤣 jk

[@vadamsable]

🤣🤣🤣🙌

[@TheFredster-dk1bi]

As soon as I read this comment I looked back up and the camera pointed at her 😂 0:52

[@gabekozak6536]

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Carl Sagan

[@solounusuariomas5574]

“Evidence of absence is evidence of any kind that suggests something is missing or that it does not exist” I wonder how this is possible in this context since there is no proof that God exists or does not exist.

[@Wenhao3]

Well he clearly raised the natural problem of evil which at least to many is an evidence of absence

[@jakeanderson1682]

This is a flawed argument. You can’t just say “ Just because there is no evidence doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist” If we did that then I could say there is a giant teapot orbiting Earth and you wouldn’t be able to prove me wrong.

[@andrewmiguelvirtudazo1953]

I guess yall non believers will learn it the hard way, what's to lose by believing in God? If he is real (which he is) then youll be damned for eternity. But If he's not then you have nothing to lose.

[@mattb9973]

@@andrewmiguelvirtudazo1953 Why don’t you hang garlic over your door in case there’s a Dracula? What’s to lose believing in Dracula?

[@giuseppeLizzi-rj3er]

I think we need to learn hard lessons than easier ones

[@douglaswarner5791]

@startalk NDT- I’ve been studying the Book of Mormon this week. And when I watched this video it stood out to me that if you read and studied the book of Jacob, Chapter 5, you would have your evidence the God exists. ❤ it is a notoriously hard chapter to understand, but when you do, the love and wisdom and hope of God shines forth!

[@jasongates-]

Science is not the opposite of religion. Wet and dry are opposites. Science shows how the universe works.

[@darnright7415]

And religion pretends to know what makes the universe work- God

[@RinWin13]

Darn Right, the majority of christians do not claim to know HOW or WHY the universe works. You obviously have a very misguided idea of what a believer in God is believing. Perhaps you should try something more relevant than youtube videos to form those opinions.

[@RinWin13]

Tim Engelbrecht, he used a capital G in God, so its safe to assume that he's including Christianity in there with the other few monotheistic religions that believe in a God. do you have an actual opinion or response?

[@matthouse6279]

Rin Nguyen I have one. Science is a process-or way of thought-involving observing evidence to support some hypothesis or theory. Nothing is “proven” under science. There simply has to be recorded, observable results that can be recreated. Pseudoscience is actually the opposite of science. It ignores all of that by creating a theory based on nothing, then observing no supportable evidence. It claims to be true because technically there is no evidence against it (usually because the scenario is so ridiculous that it doesn’t relate to the universe in any practical way). This is what religion does. Someone creates a concept such as god and spins it to the point that no real world concept can relate to it, and demands you just accept it as truth. That’s pseudoscience; therefore, religion kind of is the opposite of science.

[@RinWin13]

Matt House, call it pseudoscience then. However, you seem to have a very generic, misguided idea of religion. You're characterizing them all as being based on nothing because you can't physically measure supporting evidence, as well as demanding that they be accepted as true. You are right that there might not be physical evidence that God exists, but that does not mean Christianity, or other religions, are based on nothing (its called faith). If you were to join a church , you can witness physical evidence that people's lives are being changed as they develop relationships with God. If you were to believe in God, or reach out to God, you might experience communication with God that is undeniably real, even though you couldn't physically prove it. Its always going to be up to oneself to decide what to believe, nobody is forcing you to accept God is true. Christians are evangelical because after witnessing the power of God, it would be selfish to let others die without atleast having the oppurtunity to choose.

[@lyjj]

Its easy to tell tat the interviewer is not a science fan lol

[@sajO5754]

Lim YJJ Funny how the historical scientists mentioned by non believing scientists all believed in God

[@crimsonnite9291]

Science has nothing to do with "disproving god"

[@A1Cook]

@@crimsonnite9291 True experiments proves God's existence.

[@karsonwalker4102]

@ACook Geaux Roos I’d very much like to see those.

[@walterdayrit675]

Most religious people are not fond of science. A lot of them hate science.

[@stephenwatts2649]

The reason for our becoming self-conscious, or self-aware, creatures will become apparent later on, when we begin exploring the nature of being human in greater detail. But this human self-consciousness is something quite different in nature to the reality of the Consciousness that lies behind and within everything to appear as the myriad forms in existence. Consciousness inhabits and animates creation and its creatures not unlike the power that flows through a computer to make it work in accordance with the hardware and software of the device. By this analogy, the specific physical characteristics of a creature’s body constitute the hardware, and the programming of its mind the software. These things are important to understand because if this conceptual ground is not firm, the model we build from here will not endure, and its potential value will be lost. What all this is pointing to is that what you really are―what we all are―is an eternal, unlimited energy source capable of creating and experiencing events. What you are is this creative source, this Consciousness. Who you are is how this Consciousness works through you to express as something unique in the world. Powerful creative Consciousness is your true and essential nature, but of course, you experience your life through the limitations of a human body, so it may not seem that you are an all-powerful being at times, or indeed ever. By its very nature, the body exists as some ‘thing’ and is, therefore, a limitation or restriction of ‘everything else possible’, to become something specific and useful―a human being. And then it must be remembered that these bodies we inhabit are a product of Mother Earth, and have developed for good reasons. Although today there are many philosophes, theories and just sheer guesses put forward to explain the purpose of our existence, none of them fully describe or satisfactorily explain the original intention for our emergence. Some bodies born into this world have, or will develop over time, physical or mental attributes that further alter the creative opportunities and experiences available to them in a lifetime. The influence of our national culture, the general culture of our times, and the impact of our upbringing by parents and other significant people also become major influences that can place limitations on our thinking and power. Other restrictions occur as a result of the pains we might experience in life, the emotions that often get buried in the body as a result, and the accumulating limited beliefs they then give rise to. There is also the concept of ‘karmic debt’ that will limit opportunities, and this too will be discussed later in the work. The state of your own evolved Consciousness is another factor affecting personal power. All these things limit the opportunities you have in life, and so it can be seen that although your true nature is something quite grand, you find yourself in very limiting circumstances. But it is important to keep perspective. Your essential nature is a free and unlimited Consciousness, a potential capable of eternal creation and experience. And this Consciousness was the reality before the Universe that we know emerged. Did you know that there is no inherent illumination or luminosity in photons? “Light,” as such, cannot be found there. Photons are, perhaps, ‘packets’ of energy which have the properties of both spread-out waves and localized particles. Photons only take on the appearance of being luminous as they arise within consciousness, in our mind’s eye. It may be that photons are spread-out energy potentials that fill the immensity of space, and only take on the appearance of being a localized discrete particle of “light” when we become aware of them in consciousness, in this actualized awareness we call mind. Thus, you are the light of the kosmos. This “light” is only arising in us. The world outside of a mind is perfectly ‘dark,’ or empty, unactualized in any way. Of course, what else could it be? What would perceive it as illuminated, or as any “thing”? All of our thoughts are the activity of consciousness, modulations of that consciousness, incarnations within that pure consciousness, rays shining from inside that consciousness. We are agents of that consciousness, emerging from within that consciousness. All there is to experience is the knowing of it, and that knowing is God’s own Self in us, living in us, the source of our life, the energy of consciousness itself. We could say that God lives in us, since consciousness seems to have become localized in this particular body-mind. Or we could say that we live in God, since all that we perceive arises in that consciousness, including our body-mind. Thus, Jesus was right to say, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (John 14:10-11, 20). Both are true, and they are true of us as well. We are arising within God, and God is arising within us as well. Sometimes this is called “mutual indwelling,” the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father, also called perichoresis or co-inherence in Christian terminology. God is the field of consciousness in which all knowing occurs, in which all thoughts and perceptions and feelings and sensations arise, like waves in the ocean. Our body-mind and its thoughts are like localizations within that consciousness, temporary manifestations of that Ultimate Reality, expressions of that consciousness, that being, that One. God becomes veiled and hidden from our awareness when the thoughts that arise in and from consciousness believe they are something separate and discrete from the consciousness in which they are arising. The thoughts form a separate entity, a dualistic subjective ego, a separate self identity, an independent being, an “Adam/Eve,” which thinks it is apart from infinite nondual divine consciousness and Ultimate Reality. This seems to be the “Fall,” the beginning of duality and separateness and alienation from God’s Presence. But how could thoughts be separate from the consciousness in which they have arisen? They can’t, but that is exactly what our thoughts and our self-identification with them think they are. It is a kind of psychological illusion. The thoughts take on their own separate identity apart from pure nondual consciousness, forming a self, a person, an entity, seemingly cut off from its own source and essence. Once we look at it like this, it seems impossible, and that is because it is. Our ‘self’ is never actually separate from the source in which it arises, thoughts are never separate from the consciousness in which they emerge, the wave is not separate from the ocean. The thoughts that make up our ‘self’ are just finite actualizations or relative localizations of the infinite potential of absolute consciousness, or Divine Being, or Ultimate Reality. In Christian symbolism we call this the incarnation of God. In Buddhism it is the Dharmakaya that incarnates as the Nirmanakaya Buddha. In Hinduism it is Brahman that manifests itself as each Atman. God becomes incarnate in reality, in the flesh, embodied, in us and all things. There is no time, no space, nowhere we can go, nowhere we can be, that will be outside of this Presence of God, outside of this consciousness, beyond the borders of God, or the Ultimate Reality. God is always present, and is Presence itself, awareness itself, consciousness itself, the “spirit of life” within us, from which we derive all being, all knowing, all our substance, every thought, every sensation. It all arises in God. This is perhaps why, in order to pierce the veil and know God directly, contemplative practices such as meditation help train us to transcend thought, to go back to the source of thought itself, beyond all thoughts of self, to recognize that from which it all arises, this pure open vastness of nondual unitive at-one consciousness. Do you see why we cannot “think” God? Nothing that arises in consciousness as a thought will be that consciousness in which it is arising. No relative finite manifestation in consciousness can be the absolute pure infinite consciousness, even though every manifestation or relativization or actualization of that consciousness is made up of nothing other than that consciousness. God is Present even while we are trying to comprehend God, even in the midst of that very comprehension. God is what makes that attempt at comprehension even possible. God is the very field in which we are trying to know God. When we let go of the trying, the conceptualization, surrendering the thoughts that are trying to know themselves, and rest in the pure still silent open awareness of being, that is when the realization of God may dawn on us, as us.

[@arthurtafero9230]

The late Joseph Tafero wrote an acclaimed play on this subject called “The Defense” (Amazon Books) several years ago, which highlights a potential PHD’s Doctoral Dissertation Defense at Columbia University. The Committee reviews his contention that all gods and religions are doomed to eventual disappearance in a few hundred years time. The final scene is an eye-opener.

[@huntergerriets4122]

At the end He should have said “an that’s on god fam” *mic drop*

[@onlynhmusic]

😂🤣

[@jrloyal2594]

Obama,Neil,MLK's class don't speak like ok "FAM" 😏🤣

[@tigerbandy3667]

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[@vishnus2296]

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[@ericburton4705]

Now that's the best explanation I've ever heard! Believing and knowing are not the same

[@markramirez7543]

His perspective is off, he looks at God from a limited perspective. He is looking at the whole universe as a man who does not even take up 0.000001% of the universe, so how could he know until someone explains it to him. God is all good and what he is saying is in essence is, "how could a good god let bad things happen?" We need to remember that the "natural causes" that cause pain and suffering are not natural at all. Remember, God made everything perfect except for us, we are the ones who caused there to be a curse on this earth it was us who brought sin into an otherwise sinless world. Pain and suffering are caused by both the curse on this planet and the sin of man. Which brings me back to the question, "How could a good god let bad things happen?" The answer is both simple and complex, the simple part is that God is good but he is also just. The curse is an effect of sin you could say a judgment of sorts, a good judge would not want to see people in pain, but a just judge would want to see justice being served. This is why God allows this suffering. We see things from a limited perspective, kind of like a baby who does not understand why they cannot play with a knife. We are like babies who do not know much and God is the one who made everything and who knows more than we do. Also, sometimes suffering is necessary because some metals cannot get stronger until it goes through fire and a sword cannot be made unless the metal is beaten with a hammer.

[@jockoadams3377]

@@markramirez7543 Yes, Tyson looks at God from the limited perspective of science. Science is based on the best proof available at this time. All of what you say is true.. to your beliefs. But they are not provable facts. Thats why he makes the clear distinction between scientific evidence and faith. Each has their own respective value and limitations.

[@samirpernell2136]

@@jockoadams3377 Of course God and science interlock

[@johndoe-ii1ko]

@@markramirez7543 if we're made imperfect, who's fault is that?

[@dennisplume7571]

You keep copying and pasting this comment as if you actually made sort of good point. Your argument can be boiled down to: God exist but is too complex to understand therefore theres no use to question God. This argument is bunk. Nor does it give an answer for suffering. The other day I heard of a story of a man raping a 1 year old child. How can God sit in the comfort of his throne and watch this happen having the power to stop it but doing nothing? If you had the power to stop this yet didn't you'd be considered evil. Yet in your cognitive dissonance you provide an absolution for God, and you cop out of giving an efficient response by saying to not question it because its "God." You're ridiculous. Clearly a being able to prevent suffering yet allows it by definition is evil. And as for your argument God allows evil so his justice may be displayed, why is it an all powerful God needs babies to be raped so he can be seen as righteous? And to intentionally create such evil just for your own glories sake? That sounds even more evil.