The Origin of God - Douglas Adams

[@pervious1]

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it as well?" Douglas Adams.

[@AtheosNous]

So Adams is the one who came up with the puddle analogy? Brilliant! I give it a 42.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

I gave the 42nd like and am so proud and give all honours to the team that made all the Hitchhiker's guide radio series, from the primary to the quintessential! Also I can't recommend Young Zaphod plays it safe hard enough!! Everyone would do well In listening to Douglas Noel Adam's lectures and comedy. Please. D.N.A is a hero of life. My hero.🏆 🕊🐸🥊💞👨‍🔬🌏🦉🐺

[@AtheosNous]

@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 Nice! Don't forget your towel. 😄

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

@@AtheosNous If one is able to understand the concept (I just pretend I donpmease explain it hahaha) should Indeed always have a towel in a quick and easy to get in indeed armreach proximity. Love. Respect. Stay well. Cheers! ✌🧙‍♂️🌍🐺👍

[@AtheosNous]

@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 Cheers! 😊

[@dontaylor7315]

42 isn't a very valuable thing to award it. 42's just the worthless answer that came up because Deep Thought assumed the humans embedded in its circuitry were evolved monkeys instead of being descended from Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers, market executives and hairdressers.

[@brianranzoni]

Adams was an early athiest influence on me, back when I was still a Catholic. What I like is that his books were subtle enough about it that you could be a theist and still laugh and keep reading.

[@alwin5995]

Douglas was a brilliant man. His legendary feats shall never be forgotten.

[@Michaelanthony24680]

I can't help but smile at how much this makes sense.

[@Aristeia48]

You left us all far too soon, the world still has need for people like you!

[@Swordaxe567]

I agree.. he is a Genius. thanks a lot for the info on the voice, I have been wondering that for a loong time! I think Simon did a great thing by doing this

[@erikdeeNOSPELLSNO]

15 Years ago! This is Time Travel at it's Finest!

[@MaricaAmbrosius]

I loved this so much that I had to "Like" it (press the button) and share it on facebook, and after that I had to go on to thumb-up any nice comment about it.

[@archonlegion6288]

What an amazing mind. RIP Douglas.

[@JoshDiaz87]

What a beautiful and simple way of explaining it. Love it!!!!!

[@VenomFanqX]

Brilliant. Thank you clearing things up. I can now see I've been wrong, so wrong. I can now enjoy life on earth knowing there is nothing else.

[@CJ-bb2gs]

how cool that Simon Jones read / narrated this..

[@picat6741]

he taught people so much and could have taught us so much more

[@petehjr1]

Thank you again Mr. Adams for putting things in perspective.

[@charliecundiff]

I think that this clip comes from "Salmon of Doubt." It's a collection of Adams' writings, and sections from the book he was working on when he died. Any Adams fan should read it. (Or listen to it, as the performance is brilliant)

[@kroozader]

I found this video inclredibly smart and thought provoking. Mr. Adams was a remarkably intelligent man, and I still believe in God.

[@glenliesegang233]

Loved his books. Sad he never understood that, though many people's conceptions of God ( including his own) are serioously childish,, God is not. The mile high letters say, "I love you, and have given you beauty. Now, Go,Love, Serve, Restore,. Yes, evil is present also. But I gave you insight and reason and love to ovetcome it.

[@identityz3ro]

Bravo analogy Douglas Adams, bravo. Peace.

[@ShadowZZZ]

In the begining man greated god in his image

[@cgametheory1423]

Only when he learn’t to travel through time. God in man’s image is a little way in the vast infinite distant future otherwise.

[@nameless888]

This is an excerpt from The Salmon of Doubt, definitely worth picking up if you liked this.

[@hannahperkins6183]

It’s on my dirty floor somewhere (I just read it) I should pick it up. The book jacket for dirk gently’s holistic detective agency is loose unattended next to the coffin basket for my dirty laundry. I can’t believe we got left like that with the rhino and the symptom of the cat

[@hugme9592]

I love Douglas Adams! He was such a genius!

[@KaraRvn]

You know, this is the best explanation for religion I've ever heard. Thank you so much for posting it! :-D

[@surrog]

Ah Douglas Adams, brilliant, comme d'habitude =)

[@HamsterJ35]

42

[@sripuranam]

So long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas!

[@BrooklynRagtag]

Fantastic! What a brilliant man.

[@PancakesFGC]

Inspiring speech and kickass background music.

[@GreatFox42]

A true genius, this man was.

[@b5thomas7]

brilliant and entertaining

[@TobiasRieper47]

Never heard this clip before. Pure genious. ^^

[@markus2004]

"The puddle thinks 'this fits me very well - very very well. it must have been made for me". Heh. Nice point.

[@WizardJim]

Great stuff, faved.

[@Highlyskeptical]

An eloquent and lucid man.

[@Zazwaz]

Douglas Adams was brilliant. RIP Douglas.

[@Thor00430]

@bimmjim GENIUS! I applaud you.

[@Dilligara]

love it !!

[@HarshColby]

This is my fav Adams bit. It's from The Salmon of Doubt (which is itself a collection of his previous speeches and interviews).

[@SquireDonCristobal]

@DontTouchMyVicodin Its from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from UK TV - NOT the movie. You can get it online as a video or probably an audio book somewhere !

[@agfahadfebasdeggins]

This was one of his older ideas which helped inspire some of Dawkins approaches to discussing the origin of God. They were mates in the old days.

[@My2Cents1]

BTW, Douglas Adams was awesome, is awesome. One of the wisest in our time. R.I.P.

[@Mark-b3b]

What a brilliant writer.

[@jmalmsten]

I don't know exactly where from it is, but I seem to remember reading a passage like this one in the Salmon of Doubt - a collection of writings by DnA published shortly after his death.

[@dominictemple]

A brilliant man.

[@MrDasmaster]

brilliant

[@weavehole]

@spazfox Effectively, this helps a lot with being able to provide at a lower and much faster than contiguous concatenation, however is intrinsically the problem of differential delay where each that is created.

[@chandlermeeks-owens2497]

AMERICA NEEDS MORE OF THIS

[@coolair00]

Well said sir.

[@sxuatz]

Its good to know that some people like douglas adams was happy with his digital watches!

[@PokrPro21]

excellent video, great concept, seems like common sense that everyone could grasp, unfortunately not everyone is capable of making this correlation....

[@bozobingbox]

True genius. Articulately expressed. Great humour. Ties in perfectly with existentialist psychology theory.

[@fayswan69]

Best quote ever.

[@mrbreeze737]

douglas adams is a life changing genius. may he rest in peace, returning to the earth that gave us life.

[@bigboxbobby2]

Great!

[@brickmastertube]

oh my gods! What a freaking genius.

[@dwwolf2006]

While most of us mistake self awareness for intelligence, Adams was/is intelligent enough to be humorous. So precarious is the balance that allows life on this planet, one can only laugh at the hysterics created by debating superstitious mythology. Douglas Adams is brilliant!

[@markopokodude]

Darn the jazzy music... It distracts me a lot from listening to this genius speech...

[@fantabulospleef]

love it

[@LJL85]

Gro - si - si - mo! muy muy bueno! :)

[@lisamariefan]

Man, Douglas Adams owned.

[@Panushkin]

some people need to believe that other people need something else to belive in makes em feel different ,special even "only thing i believe in is tellin people what to believe" should be a famous quote /ignore

[@simonrandall5471]

Jesus. Could early man turn down THAT RACKET!!!!

[@redk1234]

he was so realistc in his theories, he is one of the masterminds of the 20th century

[@sebastianquilt]

Hi there: endearing as your admiration for Adams is, I think it's a bit much to call him the greatest intellect of our time. He wrote a radio show and then a novel based upon it; I'm not sure where his influence extends beyond that. I don't even think his work has been 'canonized', as it were, by the past century's readers (it's not all done by critics). But as it's your opinion, I'll respect that.....tbc.

[@Chewitt321]

Science doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop! Dara O'Brian

[@babypolerpopster]

Who is this God fellow is anyways?

[@ungertron]

Cave Rave God is no fellow, our ancestors made that mistake. God is the all natural big bang creator, evolver & ruler of the universe -- the integrated laws of nature and forces of physics. Yes God evolved the world then evolved man, the Darwinian way. This is the way that we fit into the world so perfectly natural evolution. If not for God there would be nothing instead of everything. Atheists are profoundly wrong & delusional, most believers misidentified God, but to think humans created & rule the universe is truly frothing at the mouth insane.

[@MikhelBL]

ungertron What Cave Rave wrote is a quote (albeit a misquote) from one of Douglas Adams' books.

[@ungertron]

Mikhel Barajas Oh thanks for telling me Douglas Adams was Richard Dawkins favorite comedian on religion. I went here after hearing that Dawkins interview.

[@horsemann7354]

ungertron It was a quote from Adams' book, you cretin.

[@Dixitkushagra175]

He is dead.

[@MrShannonite]

Put so straight forward and simple...Religion 0 - Rational thinking 1

[@Strangelove657]

Well said

[@iamimiPod]

I was going to ask, as I thought it sounded more like Arthur Dent.

[@allister2357]

LOVING the puddle analogy

[@jazzsonic]

does anyone know the music in background of the video?

[@Runeroev]

Quote 3:40 The best description of religion ever made. Dont read it if you find yourself being a puddle. “This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" RIP Douglas Adams.

[@mspeter97]

this guy is a Genius

[@daemonartursson7159]

Coming to this masterpiece late but as a life-long admirer of Douglas Adams (& his disciple pTerry Pratchett) who better than Simon Jones - the original Arthur Dent to narrate Douglas Adams ??

[@flpflpflp]

cool vid man, thanks for sharing!

[@TitanFind]

"You have nothing to answer for and no reason to live a good life." I don't believe in any deity, but I try to live a good life. Am I irrational? Or is my moral compass stronger than yours?

[@x5vampire5x]

This needs an animation, Hitchhikers guide style!

[@epartida7]

@Maddin667 Yes!, thats my point exactly. I think, and I might be wrong, but he presents early mans view god as one single god who created things with a purpose behind it; but as we all know primitive religion was centered around many gods not just one. So, in order for his arguement to hold up, early man had to have believed in a monotheistic god and not in several. What do you think?

[@El_Escritor222]

Has anybody in here read anything of chesterton? I think he makes great points of what is being discussed here, especially on his book The everlasting man, I think that is a good book to read in honor to neutrality. I myself believe that faith is in the hearth of every human knowledge, also in te law of gravity we put faith in. The problem is in what we put faith in. (im sorry for my bad englis, its not my first langaje)

[@thedexterbros]

@ianmac2010 I never understood how the universe was limited in size. That's wrong, it can never be known if it's actually limited, you know? I mean maybe the planets, stars, galaxies and other heavenly bodies end and we just don't have strong enough to see past the void in space where a new set of galaxies and supergalaxies begin. And even if the heavenly bodies ended somewhere, wouldn't that infinite space after it still be part of the universe? (uni=one aka encompasses the all).

[@donrane]

Thats the nature of a true Atheist...he/she can lose an argument and acknowledge it.. Respect

[@joemedley195]

Why can’t I thumbs up 100 times?

[@youvexme]

this was for ufewl. sorry for posting in the wrong spot.

[@vuotopiuscuro]

in memoriam

[@loctr9307]

Beautiful!

[@be12]

this. is. awesome! (to the tune of "this is Sparta")

[@sstan1337]

@ovechkin100 May I ask what exactly do you mean by this? I think I know but, I am very curious to hear what you have to say. Please respond.

[@s31720]

Wow, that "zany" jazz in the background isn't irritating at all.

[@drprasad79]

Genius

[@Foucault42a]

Where did Douglas Adams' ideas come from? Answer: Robert Sheckley.

[@biblenerdjedi]

Hmmm... the puddle comment was really interesting. I guess i could see that happening if rain water had rational thought. Adams is a real sharp dude i didnt know he wrote Hitchhikers Guide.

[@zippydebrain]

What is that FROM? I know it is attributed to Douglas Adams, but I don't know what book it is from. Is it from 'last chance to see'? (The one I haven't read yet.)

[@DontTouchMyCroissant]

Where is this recording from, can I get it and more like this on CD?

[@Unclesamslair]

Kind of reminds me of the Veil of Madness stories. Can't explain why without giving away spoilers. Look it up and read it, you'll understand.

[@crandallaj]

I miss douglas

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Me too. Very much. I do him the honor of listening to what he expressed and telling others about him.

[@DrBurdock]

Well I guess you are right! But still i think there is a subtle difference. Most of the unique entities are used with an article "the" (the Queen, the President) while god as far as i know is never used that way. (I don't believe in the God((?)) vs I serve to the Queen)

[@BojanBojovic]

incredible man. Too bad he left us too early.

[@sur3alnub]

omg that was sooo good :) loled hard

[@djole94hns]

"He even manages to live in New York, for heaven's sake!" - ah, Douglas... In the third book (I think it was the third) in his Hitchhiker's series, he also makes fun of NYC :)

[@AudieHolland]

There's an airport where all planes are filled with passengers waiting for it to take off but there have been delays... So all passengers are put into hibernation by the central computer. From time to time, they all wake up, start screaming because they're still where they were, their plane's take-off still delayed. And a nice voice on the intercom informs all that coffee and peanuts will be served while they are waiting for the plane to take off. Eventually, since no plane does take off, all passengers are put into hibernation again. Till the next time they wake up. I think he described Hell.

[@ovechkin100]

@PastafariansWON as much as i knew that already, i never really THOUGHT of it... guess thats the way they get people. FEAR! thank you tho, your comment makes me feel better : )

[@Remousamavi]

Well, you do need to consider the alternate theory: Rather than it being made for you, you were just programmed to feel pleasure by being there so that you would stay there instead of venture off somewhere where that program brings pain instead.

[@hellomate639]

thebbeenn, thank you so much for not tossing out the baby with the bathwater.