Sean Carroll: Has Science Refuted Religion

[@lloydchristmas4547]

35:07. "Life matters. Because the life we have right now is not a dress rehearsal. It's the only performance we get to give." - Sean M. Carroll

[@alankoslowski9473]

I think he paraphrased someone else, but yeah, it's a great quote.

[@steliosp1770]

I think if you are trying to train yourself in public speaking you MUST study Sean even irrespective of the subject matter. This might be the closest to a perfect talk/speech/whatever you want to call it that I have ever seen. Coherent arguments put forth in a way anyone can follow without demeaning the subtlety or complexity of the subject matter, keeping the audience engaged with allegory, jokes, thought experiments and using a relatable experiential vocabulary. What a man. Thank you for being who you are Professor Caroll!

[@Dr10Jeeps]

Sean Carroll is both brilliant and entertaining. That's quite a combination.

[@alankoslowski9473]

He's one of the smoothest, most articulate speakers I've ever heard. I've almost never heard a stammer, 'uhm', or superfluous vocal mannerism from him.

[@TshaajThomas]

He's blind.

[@GlorifiedTruth]

Yes, he is a Toastmaster Level Omega.@@alankoslowski9473

[@Alan-gi2ku]

@@alankoslowski9473My thoughts exactly.

[@GForceimpact]

Outstanding speech! A wonderful treatment on the subject life and death.

[@humanoverpopulation1352]

The highlights of that debate "Sean Carroll vs William Lane Craig" was AWESOME!

[@alankoslowski9473]

I think you mean Carroll vs Eben Alexander. I don't think he mentions WLC in this vid.

[@piratassarajevo4293]

@@alankoslowski9473 in the intro by dan barker, he mentuoned WLC

[@shanestrickland5006]

This dude is actually both funny and honest. I have got to listen to this guy more.

[@sydneymorey6059]

KZbin is simply the best. I love it. The more I use it the more I love it. Sean Carol’s rendition here is brilliant, I love him too. Cheers SBM.

[@trumanhw]

WHAT A GEM! I never hear people mention the hedonic treadmill and HE did. AWESOME. And that GEM at the end about determinism. I fucking love Sean Carroll. He's the best since Carl Sagan. Trumps deGrasse easily, and beats Krauss by being less emotional (condescending) in some of his debates. But, of course, I do love Krauss, and did love Tyson's talk at beyond belief. We're lucky for all of them.

[@leeu1707]

As he was finishing his speech, that was my exact thought! Best science divulgator and speaker I've heard since Carl Sagan (or even Feynman), hands down, hats off. Clear, amusing and inspiring.

[@lower_case_t]

Must be the name. Sean B. Caroll the biologist is also an amazing author, speaker and teacher. Look for his documentary on the discovery of DNA, "What Darwin never knew" here on YT,

[@DoorknobHead]

Sean Carroll: better than any 'holy' book.

[@ABARANOWSKISKI]

I love that! I was once a brainwashed religious sheep, then I found reason! I love thinking for myself!!! :D

[@yumyum723]

​ABARANOWSKISKI I'm pleased for you as I was once the same. I still deal with a lot of criticism unfortunately though

[@tommonk7651]

Congrats, Sean. Thank you for all you do. You are a great science communicator. Keep up the good work.

[@frankiewally1891]

What a wisdom pearls he drops before us....thank you Sean..you are a breath of fresh air in this muddy puddle of metaphysics and politics

[@demikelis11]

When I see Sean Carroll, I give a Like

[@eugenecoleman8525]

Something I'm very surprised abput is looking at the audience. It seems to be a pretty mixed demographic age wise, with a lot more older people than I would have imagined. That makes me very hopeful.

[@TranNguyenVungLay]

Physicist Sean Carroll is the leading of the open-human-mind of the century 21st.

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Carroll’s Murder of William Lane Craig is one for the history books

[@cullenarthur8879]

William lane Craig made a mistake debating Sean carrol, a physicist who actually knows what the hell he's talking about. He tried to use the same tired Kalam shit, and Carrol shut it down. Every time I run into a Craig fan boy I bring up that debate.

[@oldpossum57]

@@cullenarthur8879 WLC’s Kalām is so incoherent that a high school humanities teacher (me) can poke holes in it with ease. What accounts for the seriousness with which the theist chattering class received it? What gives?

[@SrinivasKowtal]

Sean feels more awesome every time I hear him speak. A credit to humanity I say.

[@BearHeart13]

Have enjoyed Sean Carroll's writings since reading his during the blog, "Cosmic Variance" in mid-2000's and his books.

[@junevandermark952]

When I studied Stephen Hawking's theory, that the universe in one form or another always existed, and then studied that there were those back in history such as Plato and Aristotle that believed the same, at the age of 70, that was the end of my religious indoctrination. It all made sense, that if the universe always existed, there could not have been a creator, and it also made sense to me that suffering of all forms of life, was and is, natural. I'm 83 now, and feel whole just as I am, and I realize that if I try to treat others with kindness, I will always feel better about myself. It's as simple as that. “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking

[@oldpossum57]

Hawking arrives at the conclusion by his maths. Aristotle and Plato arrive at their conclusion by superstition. I think equating and confounding the two is the error Pius XII supposedly made in 1951-2, of thinking that the Big Bang of George’s Lemaitre confirmed the “Fiat lux” of Genesis. The appearance of correspondence is poetic and accidental merely.

[@andrewagyeman3338]

Sean spanked Craig like a silly child! He is gifted

[@SweatyShivers]

So my apartment looks the way it does because of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics? All this time I just thought I was a slob.

[@fathertime2020]

That's hilarious

[@seandonahue8464]

Thanks Dan Barker for speaking out and doing it so well! I truly enjoyed all of your youtube available events! I love how great a speaker Sean Carroll is too! He has a gift to that I’m very happy to have enjoyed over these last few years. I’m a non-believer but can’t be out there. My wife is frightened not to believe, she was raised in such a way, can’t think outside the box she was raised, The Philippines. I go through the motions just for her. Thank you again Dan!

[@stoya2s]

We need more Sean Carroll's in this world.

[@ramaraksha01]

The problem is deeper than we think - religion has the amazing ability to turn good people into total scum buckets and not even realize it "Boss promotes yes-men, those who support him & think he is perfect, boost his ego" Moral, ethical people: "What a scum bucket" "God will GIVE Heaven to only those who believe & support him & think he is perfect, sing his praises & boost his ego" Moral, Ethical people: "Praise the Lord!"

[@Schrodinger_]

I first knew Sean Carroll's name by reading his General Relativity textbook, which is really well written, by the way. At the time I, I had seen one of his debates but had no idea that it was him. So when I found out that, not only is he a public speaker and debater, but that he was _that_ debater I've seen before, it blew my mind! Now he turns out to be one of my favourite public speakers, as well as one of my favourite physics textbook authors.

[@carlystur]

The speech starts at 4:05

[@xerox1959]

Wonderful speech! Thanks

[@dylan3657]

an excellent educator

[@trafficjon400]

SCIENCE brains neurons helped me after that mix in the morning.

[@Rico-Suave_]

I just love Sean Carroll, can’t get enough

[@jeff2424]

Brilliant talk. I would love to see Sean debate Deepshit Chopra.

[@Koran90123]

Sean Carroll is awesome! Thanks for finally uploading this.

[@Steve-in-the-uk]

What a joy it is to listen to this amazing man.

[@CarlWong5]

Thank you for recording and uploading this.

[@TalladegaTom]

Great talk! LOUD Applause!

[@waynejoiner]

Sean, please come to Australia and give some talks.

[@chastitywhiterose]

This guy brings humor to the subject of death. Somehow this cheered me up.

[@alegnalowe3679]

As an atheist and a practionist of healthy eating my belief is that we should keep not only our mind healthy as well as our bodies.this is the only life we get so let us live long and healthy as possible!

[@0004W]

You shouldn’t use the word belief…. as an atheist we know 😊

[@0004W]

Sean is just brilliant….. can hear him all day

[@rhondaguerrero2869]

I like the way you explained everything!! Thank u

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

This was just delightful.

[@greatunwashed9116]

Funny, brilliant and insightful.

[@aaronh.8230]

I want him to speak at my funeral. My family would freak out, but if I were watching from above (which isn’t demonstrably possible), I’d love it. It’d be the best send off ever.

[@joeyenniss9099]

Probably the most important and profound speech to ever grace humanity. Phenomenal.

[@robjohnston1433]

He could compensate for "smaller book sales" than quacks and con-artists by vast earnings as a Stand-Up Comic! An excellent addition to the Atheist Pantheon since the loss of Hitch.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

31:00 just to say, art, music, writing all good ways to avoid being unhappy, you can never achieve the perfect piece of art, so it's always a challenge, and sometimes you can come close, and that's very happiness inducing.

[@origins7298]

Great speech!

[@youknowcrimedontpay9257]

When people die their friends and family talk about giving the person a send off.. What does that actually mean? When you die it's no different then sleeping it not breathing and never waking up. What the heck are these people believing in thinking that they are going somewhere other then a 6 foot hole in the ground or a 1800 furnace. Smh

[@lepidoptera9337]

Grieving is hard. People don't want to have to go trough that.

[@oldpossum57]

If I meet the rather rigorous admission requirements, and there is room, I am going to med school when I expire! Only then is my body cremated, or whatever less harmful disposal they adopt.

[@JeroenBaxexm]

amazing talk....!!!

[@alexp8368]

The people who in life after death are greedy,this life is not enough for them

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Thumbs up if you would like to work with sean and come up with the answer to life, the universe and everything and become a science hero. I think it's 42, just a hunch.

[@AtamMardes]

It takes gullibility to consider sacred the claim that an invisible man gave birth to himself via virgin birth to sacrifice & resurrect himself to forgive a petty fruit eating mishap in order to save you from a hell & give you heavenly eternal life. It takes arrogance to believe the burden of disproving the claim is on those who are not gullible.

[@oscarg7460]

inspirational.

[@lamb998]

this guys great, so clear

[@Apostle-of-Reason]

The joke about the typo was very funny. Carroll thought it was a serious question, but his answer was very funny too.

[@Lawless1960]

oo I do love a bit of physics

[@thomastidswell7310]

Terrific.

[@russianaloha4576]

We need much more of THIS!! What an amazing video! Thank you so much for sharing this!! ❤ If i was learning this when i was in school, i probably would have actually went & listened!! 🙏

[@TheWorldsStage]

23:40 "I just got Windows Movie Maker and goddammit I'm going to use it!"

[@nontheistdavid]

Congrats Sean.

[@johnayers2483]

Just remember Dr. Carroll, Bill O’Reilly sells more books than Richard Dawkins, too. Keep fighting the good fight!

[@radientbeing]

As a mathematician I think about infinity from a metamathematical perspective. Physicists have problems with infinities in the large and the small. Infinities are hard to ignore lately from string theory/loop quantum gravity etc resulting in the multiverse idea (also some cyclical as well as fractal versions). In set theory if Ultimate l, vs pluralism is resolved, the result may guide physics (or not if pluralism, a mathematical multiverse everything goes, is proven). He did not discuss the Strong Free Will Theorem (if we have free will so do electrons). No discussion of MWI interpretation of quantum physics.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Just thinking about all the believers banging their heads is so funny.

[@alankoslowski9473]

I doubt they're banging their heads. When someone forms an emotionally-based perspective, rational explanations usually don't change their minds.

[@zarathustrareborn7472]

Beautiful...

[@Senazi08a]

This man is a gretest intellectual and philosopher in our life time

[@johnrichardson7629]

The recently detected spike in neural activity at the moment of death is a safe place to file away near death experiences. NDEs were never as convincing as advertised. Now they are even less so. That said, the hard problem of consciousness remains hard.

[@krisweaver7524]

Such a shame that there are actually empty seats in that room.

[@spaveevo]

nice talk

[@Rico-Suave_]

This is way better rational thinking then the theist arguing about “ why it’s wrong to eat babies and that atheist can’t justify that it’s wrong in their world view “

[@schmetterling4477]

I think you need to get help with that. ;-)

[@RootDubz93]

Some of his mannerisms remind me of Michael Mcintyre

[@chaotickreg7024]

6:50 He states his thesis. 8:30 A more specific claim

[@robertcox433]

No atoms zooming off to heaven, they all died.

[@manifold1476]

atoms don't "die" - - - animals do (and plants)

[@doydark4ever]

he s the buddha among physicist

[@Anne--Marie]

That would be Fred Alan Wolf.

[@life42theuniverse]

21:42 In a 10^100 years when all the black holes have evaporated the energy will be just as smooth as the origin of the universe 10^0 years... just a difference of scale?

[@lepidoptera9337]

Yep.

[@starofjustice1]

I mean, no, it hasn't (how can it when all believers tell other people about God is vague unquantifiable stuff), but I find it important to note the difference between what science and religion say. Religion says, "Come with us, we have all the answers." Science says, "We don't have all the answers, but with diligent effort we get closer every day."

[@peteypablo2081]

Wow!! Dan Barker and Sean Carroll together!!! If they're going to hell, I want to join them (you know..instead of being stuck for eternity worshipping a fu@#ed being that would create a place like hell ;)

[@adamc1966]

Yes. Next. 🌎

[@ambulocetusnatans]

I got a joke for you all. A physicist who specializes in thermodynamics dies and wakes up in heaven. He says, "well then how do refrigerators work?" Like if you get it.

[@artstrology]

11:49 - Both can be true. The oldest science, is the measure and observation of individual people and their products. Most people, do not know anything about this science, and academia has done no experimentation on it, and it is not allowed due to religious dogma and its hold on academia. Study this, and religious academia is done in a fortnight. The proof is everywhere. Any person and their product, their motivation, even the shape of their art products whether in science or the arts, is easily correlated. Jung and Freud born on the same day, in the human consciousness calendar, which is a 20 day cycle. Chronobiology has been sidelined for way too long.

[@Hsjfbxgakehucishu]

Why does being in a perfect state have to be impossible? It seems like it's more a consequence of evolution, not a fundamental rule. I can imagine someone existing constantly happy even if nothing interesting is going on, just destroy the brain circuits for boredom or something.

[@Apostle-of-Reason]

If you were constantly happy, you wouldn't know it.

[@manfrummt]

This sounds more like a childish fan club picking on the other guy, than truth seekers. The question is why do you work so hard to disprove your creator?

[@johnallison6054]

My parents definitely exist

[@jayanderson66]

Lack of evidence. Do not believe in fairies either.

[@diaryofnricom163]

11:42

[@HarryNicNicholas]

just to say i'm very much a hard atheist, but i can't believe the universe, so pretty, only allows us a hundred years to get things going, my afterlife would be to journey around this universe until i have seen it all, and then come back to earth and see all of that too.

[@schmetterling4477]

The universe has made sure that you can't do that. ;-)

[@rpeavey50]

Who is the one person that disliked this video? I am hoping they chose dislike by mistake! ;)

[@pdoylemi]

Ken Ham.

[@rpeavey50]

Pat Doyle Ha!

[@johnalexir7634]

6:05. I like Carroll but he's out of his depth on this part. Regardless of what happens phsyically at the moment of death, science can't in any way see what could potentially be on 'the other side'. This topic traverses into metaphysics, so the smug dismissal of it here is annoying.

[@robertcox433]

I don’t know that you can, your dealing with the mind. It’s often a wall of stubborn attachment to their beliefs.

[@manfrummt]

Good simplistic linear thinking, using atom theory to define "life" is nauseating.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

The definition of religion is ‘that to which we are bound’. Good luck in trying to unbind yourself. Align, or float into space holding on to a rock without a compass.

[@oldpossum57]

Weird definition. I prefer “Religions are a set of statements governing superstitious belief , and a set of sometimes very arbitrary rules governing moral (as opposed to ethical) behaviour.

[@rosieokelly]

He assumes a soul has weight and obeys some rules of physics. Under his thinking, we should not even be able to formulate thoughts or insights...why? Because atoms can't explain thought...his theories do nothing to defy the existence of a soul, much less God....but I will pray for his soul.

[@alankoslowski9473]

Your statement doesn't seem to make sense. If thoughts are produced by the brain, and we have a brain, why wouldn't he think we can form them? You seem to be presupposing a soul exists.

[@joeyenniss9099]

bro you didn't understand anything he said. You clearly don't understand emergent systems which he literally talked about in the speech. Atoms cant pump blood either but if you put the right ones together it can create an emergent system that can, but the atoms will always follow the law the laws of physics. We know thoughts are created in the brain, which is made of atoms, and the atoms always follow the laws of physics. Quantum field theory perfectly explains the behavior of atoms, all of the forces are 100% accounted for, so therefore any kind of soul acting on those atoms would SUSPEND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS which is impossible and would require insane amounts of evidence to even be considered real. It is so obvious that consciousness is completely physical. Its why if you remove a part of the brain it completely changes that individuals conscious experience.

[@jayanderson66]

When you are knocked unconscious and wake up, How come your soul does not tell you what happened? It is incapable of interacting with you or we would see that something is interacting with your brain. Your senses are but there is no ghost in the machine.

[@Randy-p2e7j]

The only thing science can refute is science.

[@schmetterling4477]

It doesn't have to refute religion. Religion has been a failure since day one. It has caused nothing but poverty and bloodshed. ;-)

[@oldpossum57]

Nope. It can refute false beliefs. The second law of thermodynamics dismisses the superstition of the soul, and of the NY resurrections.

[@mistag3860]

666th like - oh noes.

[@TshaajThomas]

He's wrong.

[@alankoslowski9473]

No he's not.

[@oldpossum57]

Nope.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

The body doesn’t survive as a body, or form, energy survives; is always conserved, electromagnetism and magnetism survives. Satan fought for individuality, this view of science by Carroll is religious, against Satan, as it denies individuality or anything that survives as an individual entity. Sorry Satan, you are part of the whole, according to Carroll, there is no individuality that once given is never taken away. Get used to it Satan, according to Carroll that is your fate you fought for individuality, why? Now still fighting for it, it is getting state, and Carroll is not on board with you. He does not believe in individual monads that evolve and are beamed up into unity. No such individuality survives, the world is just the world, no individuality, no evolution, no being reunited with the Cosmos, no rebellion, just alignment that is the new religion,, alignment is actually taking place. Who knew? Satan you lost, at least according to Carroll.

[@schmetterling4477]

What's up with the bullshit? ;-)

[@booboo-ov3tj]

I wish almost everyone could escape from the jokes of the Bible.

[@tracer740]

but, so long as "almost everyone" is plagued with fear, guilt, superstitions and their denial of their mortality, the bible will continue to be just what it is ...