Richard Dawkins & Brian Greene - Is there life out there?

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An Evening with Richard Dawkins & Brian Greene in NYC on Nov 1st 2018.
The awe-inspiring Dawkins sits down with Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene to talk all things science.

[@Pangburn]

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[@PoetlaureateNFDL]

It was great! 🎉🎉

[@robertknisel533]

the Bible was written by atheists

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

Despite my valid complaints expressed in my public comment that probably no one will ever see, obviously I appreciate intellectualism and the hard work of the scientifically minded. Obviously I shared this with my people.

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

Your Discord community? Why would I ever join a community that most assuredly will not be able to handle my level of integrity, my infallible logic and the fact that I'm wiser than all of the people moderating the community? Until the world learns how to identify the wisest person in the room and then understands you don't command that person but rather just respect them and thank them for being there, I'll never be a joiner. It's this complex social equation that makes me understand my place in this world can only be as a king. There is a natural hierarchy to be observed and respected whether we like it or not.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

If there are infinite number of universes, does that mean that in one of those universes I get laid, or does quantum physics allow such option?

[@Lasselucidora]

It is more delightful to listen to a conversation between two honest people searching for truth than Richard debating idiots.

[@macysondheim]

These aren’t honest people. These are left wing democrat liberalists, pushing their atheistic ideology of murder (abortion), depravity (allowing for same-sex marriage), and drug use (legalization of pot) down everyone’s throat. It’s b.s.

[@bisonjones2594]

🤣🤣

[@zmirac7652]

They don't search for the truth you deceived

[@kofidan9128]

Yes, a very animated conversation between two developed monkeys 😅

[@TheEnigmaUniverse-vt2pm]

"thank you for uploading these videos. Even if I'm having a hard night, I just put a relaxing astronomy video on and listen. It always makes my nights go much easier. Thank you!!!"

[@gazsibb]

Fantastic discussion. Thank you for posting.

[@alien9209]

Mr Dawkins changed my life.

[@rosemariemann1719]

"The God Delusion" was the best 20 pounds I ever spent😊. 🇬🇧🥀🌎🦉🏞️😊🇬🇧

[@ShortFuseFighting]

Didn't change mine but he strongly reaffirmed, validated and articulated what I already believed my whole life

[@googlespynetwork]

Because you became foolish?

[@bariizlam638]

I really like Brian Greene. Him, Sean Carroll, Avi Loeb, Dr.Becky, David Kipping and Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind are some of my most favourite scientists and science communicators. I have learned so much from them. They make interesting and sometimes difficult concepts so easy for the laymen like me to understand

[@VirusSI]

Brian Cox ?

[@michellelester243]

E.O Wilson, Steven Hawkings...RIP

[@Whippets]

I think I would add Lawrence Krauss to that list.

[@emptyinsiderecords]

Dawkins and Krauss touring around, talking theology was a great documentary. Can't remember the name but I watched it several times. Great minds.

[@travisscheiwe4656]

Avi Loeb is a nutjob. Best to not listen to him.

[@PeteVanDemark]

These discussions are so thought provoking. Very enjoyable.

[@mysunnybird]

Two super-intelligent and educated men having a conversation......... I could not resist watching them because I really admire them !!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

[@antoinettejoubert]

Fascinating discussion ! Will never get boring and these are saving my sanity because I had to retire and then it is very easy to become a cabbage instead of keeping the brain occupied😜🇿🇦

[@MendeMaria-ej8bf]

Another two Gentlemen who know how to talk politely. Thank you.

[@QuaintQuipster]

No, Dawkins an AH when sound issues.

[@MendeMaria-ej8bf]

What does this sentence mean? It's not understandable.

[@kenpumphrey8384]

​@@MendeMaria-ej8bfI think Gary was trying to say Dawkins was an asshole dealing with the sound gear problem.

[@backpackbattles4176]

@@MendeMaria-ej8bf calling Dawkins an a hole when he had sound issues

[@ShortFuseFighting]

"gawd hates fewghs! If jeezus hand an ak he wouldn't git creuspha'ad. Drrrr I just done shirt muh britches drrrrrr"

[@dimitrijuszigunovas3782]

Mr Dawkins is my hero

[@ingenuity168]

I'm on the same camp as Richard Dawkins. ❤

[@Scorch428]

So is every rational human being :P

[@ShortFuseFighting]

​@@Scorch428and Joe Rogan (somehow)

[@googlespynetwork]

Camo foolish.

[@hugodegaris4054]

IT'S INTERESTING TO WATCH BRIAN MEET HIS MATCH ... It's not often one sees Brian Greene stumble for words, in the presence of a superior intellect.

[@justin_ooo]

what a fantastic duo. so glad i came across this.

[@magnushorus5670]

fun conversation, thank you for sharing this with us all

[@emese-tundetorok1135]

I was born atheist and remained an atheist even though I searched for God, read the Bible and even attended a theological school for 4 years 😅 but nothing. I learned a lot about the history of religion and perception of creating everything. In hugarian we use the word paradicsom (tomato 🍅)when we speak about Eden (paradise), as a child I could not comprehend how 2 people fit in a tomato 😂.

[@madzangels]

Fareplay to you. I am also atheist, but I can't stand (personally) the vitriol from atheists, the arrogance at times, or the sheer dimissiveness towards religious people, and their ideas. Mainly, because they have never REALLY tried. You clearly have really tried, and still come to your original conclusion. In a sense, you've been mentally prepared to accept the arguments, if they convince you - and you've decided the religious tones have not convinced you. That is commendable, truly. How old are you? Reason I ask, I'm 36 now. I certainly haven't become 'religious', in terms of any of the so called religions made by man. But I have, in the last year or so, became progressively bothered by the idea of 'death', and the non existence of it all. I don't want to be 'selfish', because I am absolutely lucky even if I live another day given some people, children sadly, barely make it into consciousness. So I don't want to feel 'greedy'. I guess what I'm saying is, never say never - life changes people, differently. Add to the above context, I lost my Grandmother, and my best friend took his own life 2023 Xmas Eve. I can't help, but factor these monumental life experiences into my new 'want' to search for something more. Maybe its' really just not there, maybe it's a form of mental denial because I don't want to believe my best friend simply doesn't exist anymore, anywhere? I wrestle with this every night now when I close my eyes. Sorry for the essay, I intended to write a sentence and my brain started farting everywhere. Best Wishes to you, in your search of the truth - I think we are both on the same journey.

[@smark1180]

Everyone is born "atheist."

[@emese-tundetorok1135]

@@smark1180 but not everyone remains atheist!

[@smark1180]

@@emese-tundetorok1135 Thanks for that update, Capt. Obvious!

[@emese-tundetorok1135]

@@smark1180 but as a second thought you should ask a religious person about it's own child if it was born atheist or not!

[@edwardlee2794]

good thing I don't have to convince anyone that I am capable of enjoying this conversation of two Wiseman meaning that I am not too far off (excuse me my aloftness). at least I feel like I'm the enlightened lifeforms. thanks for your efforts in your field and keep up the good work.

[@SuperBlinding]

This is good ~ I need to watch it a couple of times and concentrate more while I am doing that.

[@bisbeekid]

Extraordinary and enlightening conversation! It is fascinating to be able to learn from such intellectual giants.

[@DrDeuteron]

What was the most extraordinary or enlightening idea?

[@bisbeekid]

@@DrDeuteron Our planet's place in the cosmos and human progress. Many others.

[@illlDCllli]

Dawkins is a legendary intellectual

[@carolspencer6915]

Team TRUTH Indeed. Truly grateful to Richard and Brian and all the many decades of sensemaking. Thankyou. 💜

[@aanchaallllllll]

0:12: 🔒 The speaker's views on religiosity have not changed since their conversation in 2014. 8:55: 🔬 The DNA code is universally the same in every living form, indicating a common ancestor, but the possibility of other life forms existing cannot be ruled out. 17:37: 🧪 The discovery of DNA or a different polymer on Mars would be the most exciting discovery ever. 26:11: 🧠 The video discusses the problem of how matter and fields can generate inner sensations and consciousness. 34:37: 🌌 The discovery of intelligent life forms on Mars would have a profound impact on our perception of ourselves and the world. 43:11: 🐱 The video discusses the Copenhagen interpretation and Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. 51:38: 🧪 The video discusses the limitations of current equations in understanding what happens at Time Zero and the motivation for theories like string theory. 59:50: 🤔 The conversation revolves around the distinction between existence and Celius' distinction, and the discussion of God. 1:08:30: 🙏 The speakers discuss their irrational beliefs and the usefulness of holding onto them. 1:17:31: ! The degree of entanglement between particles is so fantastically tiny that it's hard to imagine consciousness being connected to the world through quantum entanglement with our brains. 1:25:52: 🤔 The speaker believes that science does not provide explanatory power for understanding human heritage and our place in the cosmos. 1:34:44: 🧬 The actor posing as Darwin had to explain Mendelian genetics to him, which Darwin got wrong, and Einstein would be surprised that quantum mechanics is still in use. 1:43:17: 😱 Richard Dawkins would not choose to live forever and finds the idea of eternity under a general anesthetic less frightening than death. Recap by Tammy AI

[@TheMerryPrangster]

Thanks Tammy 😊😊

[@myhorseishoarse207]

richard dawkins actually had a good time with this conversation. a rarity

[@jaymicris]

I wish I could listen to them forever, so fascinating. 🤓

[@TheMerryPrangster]

Forever is an extremely long time

[@pitbullvicious2505]

Richard Dawkins I know well (as a public figure). I don't think I've ever heard about Brian Greene, but I think I fell in love with him around 42 minutes :D

[@desoconnor7445]

Every mind should watch this and evaluate

[@desoconnor7445]

Fascinating thoughts

[@willemdesmedt6736]

Great!

[@barhamabdalrahman9835]

What an amazing duo

[@michaeljurney8354]

"We can explain absolutely everything, every motion of every particle to a very precise degree without any need for any sort of god or outside force. You just need to give us 1 miracle, and we can take it from there." - misquoting i forget who.

[@muddymaker3721]

Observing two gentleman conversing in polite dialogue respectfully as if they were alone enjoying a beverage while their wives in another room entertain possible alter egos is quite astounding in this day and age. Well done and bravo good sirs, *clink* cheers. Oh BTW, Off Earth intelligent sentient beings do exist and this present dimensional reality is all but an illusion.

[@richardcaves3601]

Unfortunately, not, sorry. There's no extraterrestrial intelligent life within our galaxy, which is 100,000 light years across. As the speed of light is absolute throughout the universe, that means the nearest ETIL is beyond visiting range. Scientific fact. I suggest you look up and consider the number of Goldilocks events and things that have to happen in the right order for we humans to have evolved. Now consider how ridiculous your comment is.

[@muddymaker3721]

Oh my dear boy, how you have misread my statement! Which by the way either reflects your naive age or incapability to comprehend plain English due to your lack of intellect, or both perhaps. Please do point out again where in my statement I said there were intelligent sentient beings on Earth? Perhaps you can enlighten us with your immense wealth of knowledge with your magnificent pseudo intellectual prowess on all things related to the search of extraterrestrial intelligence? Do educate us mere plebs with your wonderful mind my dear boy? Now consider how ridiculous your comment is..........waiting!

[@johns1625]

You've got just as much evidence for that as Mormons do for Moroni 😂

[@muddymaker3721]

@@johns1625 As you do for your own existence? Therefore we are, just because we can. Do I exist or am I just a construct of your imagination? The beautiful thing is you'll never know or have the capacity to comprehend the complexity of this dimension.

[@richardcaves3601]

@muddymaker3721 try science, not sci-fi or fantasy 😇😈🧪🔭🚫🚭

[@freebird5392]

Brian, I'm a fan, but I could not feel that you were asking statements rather than questions😮...your show, I guess, but while listening and trying to fall asleep...I reached my limit and switched off...on a positive note you have a good rapour with your guest, both experts in very different fields...both with interesting views on reality 😊

[@phillipdean9830]

This is a dream come true. Two of my man crushes talking to each other!

[@antoinettejoubert]

😂😂I love these two brilliant guys 👍🇿🇦

[@yoshtg]

i am a very economical computer science person so i believe the many worlds theory must be wrong, to me it feels way more comfortable to think that the reason our universe is fundamentally probabilistic is because it saves A LOT of memory. but thats just my human computer science based brain trying to understand the universe in a human computer science based way

[@ZeeAmy]

Yayy ❤❤❤❤❤

[@mjk2023T]

Love them both, separate, if together, it’s a real feast ❤

[@yoshtg]

1:36:29 please note that we are talking about relativistic mass here not the actual mass. the actual mass always stays the same no matter the speed it travels. thats actually a very important thing to add else it would mean that moving in one direction gains you mass and moving in the other direction loses you mass because we as earth are moving very fast around the sun which moves around the black holes in the galaxy which moves through the universe. its all relative to each other not to a center of the universe. thats why ONLY the relativistic mass changes not the actual mass

[@BoneySkylord]

What’s really weird, listening to this in the background, to my British ears Brian Greene’s voice sounds exactly the same as William Lane Craig. I’m finding it really confusing hearing THAT voice being honest and truthful and talking sense! 😳🤪😄

[@captaincat1743]

The accent is similar when he says some words but William Lane Craigs voice sounds more chocolatey and creaky doorish to me, like his voice box is made of wood and carefully varnished. Then dipped in milk chocolate.

[@AdamGNordin]

Be and it is✌🏻✌🏻✨

[@snowqueen1184]

What is the origin of the first molecule and its components that the formed the basis for Molecular Darwinism?

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

This was settled in 1943 by the Manhattan Project's "Side Project Fermi." "It's the Hungarians."

[@larryforsythe416]

Around time 30 minutes, there was a mention of the thought experiment regarding consciousness and copying of human beings. I have never heard anyone discuss this before but I had come up with a similar thought experiment several years ago but it is different in a critical way. It follows. If you replace your molecules one by one with molecules that are in the exact same state as the ones being replaced, you would continue to be you. If instead of replacing molecules, you copied molecules in the exact same state to make a copy of yourself, you haven't really done anything different - replacing and copying should be identical results. So if you continue to be you under the replacement scenario, who is the copied you? You haven't done anything different. At the instant of copying, you are identical to the copied you.

[@roberthutchison8197]

Life is more possible than INTELLIGENT life! Life is, as the saying goes, is a dime a dozen...

[@vincentcross9148]

Omg i want to yell at the audio tech so bad…. Why didn’t he run up there with a replacement lav already????

[@martinrutley-wk5ds]

Regarding string theory - wouldn't a 'theory of everything' make predictions about everything?

[@Raptorel]

On the discussion about the hard problem of consciousness, the issue arises if you insist on a materialistic metaphysics, which you have no reason to do. If you take instead the idealist point of view, that the true ontology is mental, then the hard problem goes away - the neurons and brains are just how mental processes present themselves to other mental processes. The neurons don't generate or cause the mental world, they are just the image of it to other minds.

[@BenKrisfield]

What is the information that describes the question, what is life.

[@robertfinck1275]

You mentioned conscious ness. Since the Universe contains all ingredients for life, is it possible the Universe is sentient? When you change scales of all objects the Universe resembles microscopic organisms within the body.

[@michaelkearney3646]

Anything possible in a quantum world.

[@kellysmyth2337]

What do you mean by downhill?

[@petersmith8070]

Decay.

[@mr.d.8121]

Is consciousness more than the sum of its parts?

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

What was the first conscious living thing ?

[@PeterChowchow]

Your mom

[@patrickboudreau3846]

What is good to know is that we don’t know what the universe is. We don’t know its size or if its alone ! We don’t know where energy comes from and we dont know why energy turn into matter, life, conciousness and God knows what else.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

I know the answer to these questions....and if you send me 20$ I'll tell you 😃

[@tazuosukuro7855]

"You know, we don't know each other well but you know, this is how you get to know the person that you're going to be conversing with. If we just get that right in there. Is that tight?" "It's the second time it's come off." "I think that's right." HAHAHAHAHA!!! 😄😄😄

[@TheMerryPrangster]

Ok

[@iamBlackGambit]

Brian just SPILL IT!!!!! When it came to the god part Dude kept saying ummm ummm ummm ahhh...like 1000 times! Lol

[@oliverjamito9902]

Can hear ye clearly pop! Just know who keeps watch? Nothing is better seeing my beloved having sincere conversations unto one another. Longing for clarity, coherence, adequacy, evidence, and witnesses! Likewise students keep watch! Who are ascending and descending? Pop remembering ye once born to crawling to walking till now thy feet resting upon the very tip of time. At least i can do is to washed thy FEET. Just to let ye know the Mileage from thy feet is Recognize! If tears is evident I will wiped. To turn thy tears to tears of Joy. To remind thy worth. Likewise given Mouths came with utterances. Comes with an Aim. Unlike many other Aims. Some will say who is this Child? Who distributes freely and freely receives. What is a Covenant without to share with another? Remember together! Students will say, why are ye all are talking for? Asked what is thy Aim? Students will say asked 1ST. Thy intent 2nd. Thy Base 3RD. Thy Foundation 4th. Where your Treasures is (my Heirs innocents little ones) there your hearts will be also. Resting upon the NEW Permanent Foundation no one can uproot nor shaken but here to stay for good. Some will say who is that Child sitting in the midst of the LIONS upon all dry grounds nor the world? Heirs will say, if ye can't recognize. Don't belongs unto thee! But unto all who thirst? Who quench thy thirst, love with patience, mercy, and grace. Likewise judgment and justice knows the True Owner. Hold still...till. Some will say what is on Line? Heirs programmers will say provided the Sea of Glass. For the CHILD to walk on water upon the sea of glass. Indeed. Pop some will say every song has an end but who is this Child? SONG HAS NO ENDS. Why? Nor How? Love you Pop. Heirs will say who is this poor child the rich young ruler and nations resting upon HIS SHOULDER? Who walks in the midst of the CANDLE STICKS? Sitting upon the lowest seat LASTS. Yet some will say who is that sitting upon the Clouds resting upon the NEW Permanent Foundation? Front. In plain view. What is world views? Students, Hosts, and our Beautiful given ABLE TO pull down strong holds from all world views upon all dry grounds nor the world.

[@justacherryontop6538]

The harsh truth about reality is that, there is a lot people like Wendy wright whether they are expressing it or not, may be they are not even aware of their own wendy wright personality

[@petersmith8070]

Is archaeological evidence sometimes considered evidence for Biblical accounts?

[@adamhill2223]

No but it is widely used as evidence against it lol

[@petersmith8070]

@adamhill2223 Really? Definitive evidence, or just confirmation bias? Can you cite an example?

[@maxdoubt5219]

Yes. Several people and places mentioned in the bible have been confirmed through archeology. But the Flood, 10 Plagues of Egypt, Exodus, Wanderings and Conquest narratives, as well as most of the characters in those tales, have been relegated to myth.

[@petersmith8070]

You can relegate them to myth if you want to. It's just hard to test that opinion. It seems unfalsifiable. I relegate the macroevolution hypothesis to myth and superstition. Evolution is revealed by proper repeatable experimental science to be a lousy candidate for the ultimate creator of anything. Archaeological science is an incomplete science, and I suspect it will always be. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But there is certainly plenty of evidence that confirms names, events, and geographical locations mentioned in Scripture. And what about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the countless other artifacts? Even if you only view Scripture to be just a historical artefact and not divinely inspired, it has been preserved by the most rigorous, longest running scientific restoration programs of all time. There is no credible basis to doubt the accuracy of its preservation and restoration. Even Dawkins.agrees with that. But you can still be skeptical about different things, that's OK. I am skeptical about various things, but, without anything definitive, I remain open-minded. That is the scientific thought process.

[@adamhill2223]

@petersmith8070 Just read some books about actually history. That's what I did. You'll figure all this out on your own. The Bible is a story book. Mythology

[@robertrodneyuplinger6046]

..'(Likely) right. Thanks.

[@johns1625]

String Theory is the Creationism of physics 😂

[@Beelzebubba1983]

Is it not possible that indeed the universe is capable of producing life, but that we might just be the first? I haven't heard anyone put forth that idea, yet i think it needs consideration.

[@IanKnox_40oz]

That idea has been around a long long time. It’s very interesting and you should look into it more.

[@marknoonan5524]

Fantastic debate! Spoiled as a nigh-time going to sleep excersize due to adverts.

[@k8eekatt]

Show me the aliens, Peter Jackson!

[@captaincat1743]

15:12 Brian Greene nearly says 'extra testicle life' but had to correct himself.

[@IdentityCrisis1581]

I have always wondered why consciousness? It isn't necessary for life as far as we know. Trees and fungus and things like that are alive but don't appear to have consciousness as far as we can detect. Human consciousness is fairly advanced. So it must have evolved from a lesser form. Even animal consciousness is pretty advanced so even that came from a lesser form. So what was the original consciousness and what benefit did it give that early life that consciousness became so proliferated among the different forms of life.

[@madzangels]

Thing is, human consciousness is advanced - fine. But to what end? Maybe we could avert the next asteroid destroying Earth. Although even in the last 20 years we've spotted certain asteroids, very late - which have taken us by surprise. Consider an Alien race visited us today, and decided to rank order the most succesful species on our Earth based on our history - purely based on which species existed for the longest amount of time, without destroying itself? Dinosaurs roamed for, what? 180 million years? We've been around for 200,000, being super kind to us 800,000 perhaps. Compared to the Dinosaurs? We're what? 0.5% of their time-span spent on Earth? I just think it's a though provoking idea to consider, when we think consciousness and it's resolution, is a form of superiority.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

Good question 🤔

[@youtubverse]

Reading bible,quran, Bhagavad Gita made me atheist. Explore the science 🔭🧪, different myths n religious belief u would conclude science & reason is best way of life rather than faith, myth,belief

[@deepaktripathi4417]

It must have been a wonderful night. 1:09:19 is the best part for me. 😅

[@257rani]

❤Felt it in your bones, Consciousness, That is the Highest intelligence in the world, That is how some Humanoids are making contact with beings from the Universe ❤as light the way humans can understand and relate to.❤

[@greenfireball2882]

Respect for Richard Dawkins for holding it down... keep it up Richard we will win science is on our side. F! Religion!!

[@Sq7Arno]

Extremely improbably things happen all the time, simply because the grand total of possible different things that can happen is infinite-adjacent. And the way these things go... Once something happens that can lead to the same thing happening again, then that thing tends to keep happening. As long as it's not too monotonously, then it's sometimes even interesting. In any case we should not be surprised that life arose on our planet. It is after all fairly obvious that life arose here. You'd have to be a bit oblivious to not have noticed it yet.

[@yadibalderlou1443]

Could we theoretically say that atom is kind of intelligent?

[@caricue]

That's a funny term, "hypercycle." Determined reductionists will come up with anything to avoid saying that the whole has properties that the parts do not, since that negates reductionism and determinism in one shot. Craig Venter did not create life in his lab. He used a living bacteria, stripped down to the minimum parts necessary to live, that he carefully kept alive, and added new DNA. This is a far cry from creating life from non-life, and Dawkins should know this. Brian Greene insisted that life would be dismissed as "mere chemistry" in the future, and then invokes unknown forces to explain consciousness and mind. His commitment to the orthodoxy is simultaneously impressive and scary.

[@spookyninja4098]

I too was an atheist and a person of Science until I found the evidence of life after death - then I have 2 choices = Either ignore it - Or explore the mystery. I decided to explore it and confirmed the fact that yes we have a soul and yes we survive after the physical death.

[@slik00silk84]

And why don't you cite this evidence Afraid of laughter ?

[@spookyninja4098]

@@slik00silk84 Can do buddy = BBC documentary " The Day I Died " for starters buddy - When you finish watching that I look forward to your immature questions

[@ManifestWistful]

Energy or heat has property to build right... Why can we not consider that under a high pressure first protien was developed after moths and plants flowers ...

[@patrickbinford590]

Good scientific discussion. It has it own "apples and oranges" differentiation. But THAT is better than the "apples NOT oranges" differentiation between science and science denying religionists. .

[@YeshuaisnotJesus]

Reading the Bible made me an atheist.

[@supertor100]

"God" did not write the bible, humans did.

[@YeshuaisnotJesus]

@supertor100 Indeed, so why do 1/2 the world believe it.

[@supertor100]

Quess we are still stupid monkeys with a big ego. But dont ever stop wondering over this amazing thing called life ;)

[@kofidan9128]

According to Jesus, before you pick up the Bible, God must first give you a sign that it's true. Otherwise it's just another book. So nothing surprising there

[@kofidan9128]

​@@supertor100not true, the Bible is the word of God. Humble persistent seeking might help you discover that ... read prayerfully and continually

[@christianisaac9327]

I see where they got the inspiration for Stewie from family guy

[@jestermoon]

Take A Moment 1:36:40 Hobbyists 1:39:13 Go 1:36:31 correct done ✔️

[@chriscarney513]

I wish the sound technician hadn’t gone for lunch as soon as the talk started.

[@dietrichbilger5581]

Isn't it in plain sight, that different life forms foster each other? Take humans and apple trees, for example: Don't they interact, supporting each others existance, for each others benefit? "An apple a day keeps the doctor away!"

[@Fireworxs2012]

*When Dawkins said He'd be afraid to spend the night in a Haunted House, I almost spit my coffee out...LOL* *There really are no Athiest's in Fox Holes* ❤‍🔥

[@jestermoon]

Hi universe, come on up

[@coldflu]

What is the difference between God and consciousness?

[@slik00silk84]

God is "wishful thinking?"

[@allenmouldey7784]

Why is when people debate these issues they don't recognize the Sommerian tablets.

[@AndreyBogoslowskyNewYorkCity]

Whether God exists is the wrong question. Universe. As we know, it is a perpetual process, most likely mathematical structure continuously evolving. Universe is not an item. It’s not a thing it’s not an object. It’s a process. Questioning, the establishment about the existence of deity is truly admired as every other questioning an authority. Just in case authority has too much power. Contributions of spiritual inheritance to contemporary world is certainly undeniable. At the beginning of 21st-century humanity is craving more than ever spiritual reincarnation, a.k.a. new format of spirituality, perhaps even without reference to GOD. I encourage everyone of my followers to engage on your own tireless quest. Nothing is for sure. What was true yesterday, today is just a fog of illusion. Keep your mind open to every scientific idea. At the same time keep in mind your own nature reflects the nature of the universe: process, process, process. You are not an item you are a process. #Bogoslowsky .🦁🤴

[@markoreilly3414]

Dawkins, Hitchins & Penrose, 3 of the greatest Minds of the 20th Century.

[@1halnass]

I don't understand how other people can take other people's work and repost it!...........

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

I can use the logic to completely refute creationism but of course that makes me the villain of all of civilization which proves that civilization isn't very civilized.

[@maxdoubt5219]

I faced some aliens ago, and found out the right thing to do: just exclaim, "Klaatu! Barada! Nicto!" And they won't disintegrate you.

[@Spino111]

Be careful you might start a religion!

[@slipziq]

just make sure to remember the words exactly

[@michaelfried3123]

Get back on your medication please.

[@etaylor8028]

What does that mean exactly

[@alfredadrianjr.4702]

I'm a C chauvinist but there is no reason to think that in a Universe of approx 2 trillion galaxies that an entirely different set of amino acids, proteins, nucleotides, and biochemical pathways do not exist. Most probably life on earth is but one member of a vast set of molecular solutions that have evolved complex dissipative systems capable of reproduction. If we ever find such life imagine what a union of such systems could produce.

[@darthjarwood7943]

Religion says " in the beginning the universe was empty and void... science says in the beginning all the matter in the universe was in infinatly small space...very close but thousands of years apart the observations were made...then religion says god said let there be light...science says the universe heated up after the bang from particles colliding which would be the light...close again with thousands of years between observations...you can keep going and the religious view is very close to what modern day science says...star formation, planet formation ,life in the sea ,life on land, plants and trees, the order is sliggtly off but still very close to current day scientific observation...gotta give them credit for having some idea that is close 5000 years ago

[@x2mars]

Wait a second, did he say at 20:18, someone’s has created life from scratch???

[@user-dm7qj3ru8e]

Seems like Brian stopped him and he said something about living on Anesthesia

[@marcbangs747]

Kind of - google Craig Venter and Synthetic Life - they created a whole genome from scratch (a copy of an existing genome, rather than a whole new one), and inserted it into a cell, which then was able to replicate, and churn out copies of the new genome. What we haven't managed yet is creating life from *nothing*.

[@successbyanymeansnecessary7998]

Yellow thumbnails? Lol

[@intell0]

Nice philosophy

[@DavidShort-lf4jn]

entanglement = or implies consciousness?

[@mikev751]

Show me the math anf chemical chances of forming such bonds to be able to create foldable proteins

[@frinoffrobis]

chlorophyll and mitochondria are very close and both use rna

[@michaellust2030]

As to a powerful genetic technology (or any such technology) "falling into the wrong hands"... I'm not sure the purported distinction between governments and terrorists is valid.

[@michellelester243]

20:40 creating bacterium and possibly multicellular organisms that have not existed before. 21:04 wasn't Covid-19 an exciting preview of what happens when the petri lid cames off.

[@andreasfehlau4965]

Well, in this video I see a lot of we just don't know. That's why, especially for you guys I wrote the theory of everything for five-year-olds.