Why do humans worship supernatural agents?

@bigthink Жыл бұрын

Why do you think belief in supernatural agents is so universal across cultures?

@cyberswine Жыл бұрын

Some would try to point to this fact as if there is some truth in the existence of supernatural agents. The universality only points to commonality in our biology and psychology. Anyone trying to extrapolate this to the existence of supernatural agents has to explain that the claims made by believers are contradictory. You cannot be a Buddhist and a Christian at the same time.

@frojojo5717 Жыл бұрын

Could just be because we primarily evolved to survive in a social setting we extrapolate the idea of intention beyond it’s scope. And maybe because neoteny played such a large role in our evolution we want to be looked after. Doesn’t mean it has to have an evolutionary advantage, might just be a side effect.

@internetfasting80085 Жыл бұрын

@@cyberswine That is a basic explanation, however, the more complex answer is how humans "interprete" so called "external" stimulis to begin with...Example: this video is just a collection of sounds & pixels, arranged in various overlapping diagrams (magick joke reference,....get it, cuz pentagrams ....anyway) , premised on the "bias" of experience & education....Example, the English language. Point: you see this video as an "entity" , not a person (like yourube itself ia literally a person, but i digress) , but an "entity" of data points "packaged" into a multifacetious communicative device on your...device ...which you "divine" as having anything remotely worth wanting to believe or feel or think or act from, to, by , for etc. Point: it got you to react by commenting. Point point: classification of "entities" for communication & abstraction is how humans function, example: a "river" technically only exists definitally in your mind, in reality, its just H20 , here, there, everywhere, nowhere, not for long anyway, long being relative, and transitorily based on ones own temporal, limited perception. Point: believing in supernatural beings is as logical as beliving in any noun, including yourself.... Oh, no, of course wait, dont believe you exist as an "agent" , if you wanna believe you are a clump of cells or atoms only.... Which, you might be, but why bother with "more"? Is it useful? Does it function anything? Depends on if you believe anything effects anything else. But remember, your thoughts will be limited if you allow them to be confined by definitions you were handed by someone elses experiences. 😂

@matteframe Жыл бұрын

DMT receptors in the brain

@avonsternen6034 Жыл бұрын

Life can be more meaningful in relation to higher power. With awareness, respect but don't worship or shoot the messenger/s. :)

@skinnypete3104 Жыл бұрын

I grew up singing in the choir loving church and the almighty god. But as i got older I started independently reading the bible and was horrified to realize no supernatural deity had anything to do with it. Not wanting to give up a belief in a god i studied for years so many different religions. Eventually i realized that the probability of them all being man made was high. More surprising was how freeing it was not to be ruled by ancient men. What brought me the most peace was the famous quote by Marcus Aurelius: Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

@daveblack2602 11 ай бұрын

You copied that Marcus Aurelius quote off the internet, you've never read his writings. The quote is fake, invented by atheists. Here's the real translation: "Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of providence? But in truth they do exist, and they do care for human things, and they have put all the means in man’s power to enable him not to fall into real evils". Stoicism is a religion.

@LabGecko 11 ай бұрын

@@daveblack2602 Be careful pulling different translations and assuming they're accurate. I've looked into your quote before and translators found serious issues with it - including that time is a factor in translation regarding cultural norms. Further, it's obvious that whatever the origin of Pete's quote, that sentiment is his intent, not its exact author or authenticity.

@daveblack2602 11 ай бұрын

@@LabGecko false. The atheist translation is intended to suggest that Aurelius and the other stoics were at least agnostic about the existence of gods. In reality there are dozens or hundreds of quotes proving that they absolutely believed the gods existed and were devoutly religious people. I've never met a single atheist who's actually read the stoics, they just like nice easy thought-free quotes.

@redwatch. 11 ай бұрын

@@daveblack2602 You sound like a very forthright person. I'm curious, do you believe in god(s)? And if so, please describe the god(s)?

@daveblack2602 11 ай бұрын

@@redwatch. Yes, I believe in a singular supreme being which logically must have specific attributes - omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence, manifested in a personalised way. This is not a comfortable idea - if there is no God that's bad news but if there is one it's probably even worse. But it's the only one I find logically tenable.

@Susanonwow 11 ай бұрын

Perversely, life is a lot less stressful when you accept that the universe doesn’t take you personally. Then you can get on with self creating yourself as you want to be.

@AscendantPhilosophy Жыл бұрын

”The religious myth is one of man’s greatest and most significant achievements, giving him the security and inner strength not to be crushed by the monstrousness of the universe.” - Carl Jung

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@cht2162 Жыл бұрын

Music to my ears.

@vanessac1965 Жыл бұрын

Carl Jung believed in God. Don't cherry pick

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

@@vanessac1965 it’s just rhetoric my point is intelligent design “proves” God

@Moodboard39 Жыл бұрын

@@Vishnujanadasa108 Exactly. Roman 1 proves the point

@tavontebrown7394 Жыл бұрын

The fool affirms, the scholar doubts, and the wise man entertains. -Aristotle

@BicycleFunk Жыл бұрын

I think too much entertainment is a bad thing. In the US at least, religious exemptions need to stop because a lot of people are devastating their children's lives. I don't even want to know what the ratio of homeschooled to public is these days, but I have a feeling that we are going to be crippled in a couple decades.

@anonunknown7999 Жыл бұрын

@@BicycleFunk I think Aristotle means "entertain an idea" - it is very difficult to understand any philosophical viewpoint without receptivity to the idea.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

And the unoriginal quotes.

@BicycleFunk Жыл бұрын

@@anonunknown7999 I'm aware, but you should entertain the idea to yourself in private or only in the company of skeptics. When people ask if I believe in god, am atheist, or agnostic. I respond that I am an an atheist just to be sure that no moron can take away the idea that their god *might be real. There is some chance we are in a simulation and you could call such a creator a god, but there is no doubt that the religions many subscribe to are fallacy.

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@asdasikdaisncxzinaskdnmf Жыл бұрын

Can you guys turn the music down in the videos please, it's getting a little excessive and it's very distracting, just use ambient or something ? thanks for what you do.

@DCayce Жыл бұрын

Yeah… distracting, at the very least… would be one thing if it was subtle, ambient, but this is anything but. Can’t watch this one.

@Moodboard39 Жыл бұрын

Is annoy af when they do that....why they don't check before going into production ....

@readjordan2257 Жыл бұрын

More music. Hard to concentrate without it.

@TheDoublebassist Жыл бұрын

I like the music and its composition with the talk. It often is your device's fault, maybe speakers, maybe headphones, maybe a cheap phone with already (ab)used playing system that boosts some frequencies or deletes/weakens others so you hear something ugly. I listened to it on studio monitor headphones and the balance wad brilliant. Professional work. So keep your music remarks for yourself or change devices or listen to it on a brand loud speaker of a larger size.

@milesobrien6695 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, your speakers might be messed up. Without the music it would be dead. The voice is always louder than the music on my speakers.

@purplecouch4767 Жыл бұрын

I don't know exactly why people worship gods. But I think it's fun to have someone to do it with. I love how religion can give you a sense of community. It's a bummer that some of them are bigots though. Believe or don't believe whatever you want just don't be a jerk.

@BicycleFunk Жыл бұрын

Which is weird because it's entirely an option to just have a community building and do all the same stuff without the god part. I really like the Grange Halls you see around the US. No gods, just a place to get together for functions.

@speggeri90 Жыл бұрын

Our lord Jesus Christ saves us from a just damnation, from a righteous God. Without Gods mercy we are lost sheep and need a savior. That's a reason I believe in Christ.

@MadsNordholm Жыл бұрын

@@speggeri90 Jesus was a rebel and not a sheep. Christians are supposed to be Christ like. Yet most Christians follow doctrine like mindless sheep 🤷🏻‍♂️

@bobbabai Жыл бұрын

I hate how religion keeps selling the idea that you have to have religion for community. If you teach your children God is real and you tell them they need the church for community, they are likely to say the same things to their kids, because it's the easy thing to do. Except now, much less so.

@bobbabai Жыл бұрын

@@speggeri90 Yes, we understand how you've been told you need God.

@TheBlackEyedOne Жыл бұрын

What about mystical experiences that relate more to pantheism and that are not entity-based? What about experiences of oneness? What about experiences of "non-seperatedness" during the everyday, while in normal society? While I am absolutely confident that there are no supernatural entities, I do believe in the divine as being contained and containing the natural. And these questions are burning on my mind.

@cristianduque2879 Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean...

@willleslie2745 Жыл бұрын

These are just regular human emotions and forms of consciousness.

@jodimichelleschoenherr Жыл бұрын

God is omnipotent.

@TheBlackEyedOne Жыл бұрын

@@willleslie2745 Does that mean they are less divine or not worthy of accomplishing? I don't think it has to be supernatural to be magic. My point entirely! Look how amazing reality and experiencing it is! I just would love to know what is going on in the brain when we are experiencing these kinds of things in opposition to supposed entities.

@hawkpeterson Жыл бұрын

⁠@@TheBlackEyedOneYOU GET IT oh my goodness. We need answers

@EviLPlayeR04 Жыл бұрын

I think religion and supernatural beings exist and have existed for so long because people needed something to hold onto in regards of life conditions and survival. Once people integrate that supernatural entities exist (and often at a young age since it’s so omnipresent in many countries), it gets solidified in their thinking. I would say it’s nothing bad but it’s fictional (most probably). A good option to stay grounded that I’ve noticed over the years is indifference. It helps with coping with life’s problems and makes you good at critical thinking. Also, finding a goal (a real one, not making money) helps a lot too since it gets you more in control of your life. If you can find a goal that drives you, you become more able to grasp tasks and get better at critical thinking (from my experience). I’d say the more in control of yourself you are, the more easily you can gauge your thoughts (including religion). Why religion is disappearing right now is because technology is helping us realizing ourselves and gives us a lot of information.

@xx_amongus_xx6987 Жыл бұрын

I think statistically religion is actually on the rise. But there are also things that pop up that say that religion is on the decline, so...

@EviLPlayeR04 Жыл бұрын

@@xx_amongus_xx6987 I’d tend to think that as well, covid happened recently and that put a lot of people in trouble

@xx_amongus_xx6987 Жыл бұрын

@@EviLPlayeR04 It was supposedly on the rise even before covid, but you are right in that conflict and problems tend to push people closer to religion. Covid probably helped a lot with that

@BicycleFunk Жыл бұрын

@@xx_amongus_xx6987 at least in the US it seems we are going backwards, but I think a lot of new religious followers are in it for community rather than being true believers. The religious exemptions in the US is a major factor. Elsewhere in the world it does seem like Islam is on the rise in places where people face severe oppression. It gives people a sense of purpose where one cannot be found otherwise. These are my observations anyways. I'd love it if religion evaporated as people got smarter, but it certainly feels like we are in a depression.

@tchoteudimitri8506 Жыл бұрын

I share thesame opinion but as a West African, supernatural powers or feats are a common thing. I know some may not believe until they see but there are people who are literally bulletproof walking around in certain areas. Personally, I find it hard to shun these beliefs considering what i saw from my own eyes. Certain things in this world are yet to be understood the physical world as well as that other side I ought not to believe in

@cht2162 Жыл бұрын

As much as most humans try to deny it, we are just smart animals, destroyers of even our own kind. To assuage our guilt, we imagine divine permission supports our every thought and action.

@BicycleFunk Жыл бұрын

Sort of a way to rationalize our bad behavior.

@cht2162 Жыл бұрын

@@BicycleFunk Please Explain

@BicycleFunk Жыл бұрын

@@cht2162 our ability to rationalize is not to explain the logical, but a tool to cope with the illogical.

@cht2162 Жыл бұрын

@@BicycleFunk Gotcha Thanx

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@cubearthx Жыл бұрын

He hinted at the solution he is looking for; When interacting with supernatural agents the area of the brain that is active during REM sleep becomes active. We dream when in REM sleep (that you can't control for the most part). Supernatural agents are a funtion of waking dream. This is separate from the survival benefit of (believing in) supernatural agents.

@djayjp Жыл бұрын

Cough survival benefit...? If you say so. Irrational thinking is generally at odds with survival which instead rewards understanding reality.

@cubearthx Жыл бұрын

@@djayjp there are a lot of 'wonky heuristics' that have/had a positive survival benefit, like hyperactive agent detection and placebo effect (see: 'You are not so smart by David McRaney for a fuller list). I will say; 1. Unchecked the cost can outweigh the benefits. 2. Something that had a survival benefit 10k years ago may be detrimental to our survival in today's world.

@jimmyquigley7561 Жыл бұрын

@@djayjp When we knew nothing of science myths helped tie what we did know into a memorable story (the meaning/etymology of the word "religion").When powerful gangsters started calling themselves kings and imposing their authority religion helped them impose their authority. We still don't understand reality, but science is better at describing and manipulating the world. Teaching children religion is now a form of child abuse.

@Cosmic_Hobo Жыл бұрын

Brilliant observation, I noticed the same thing. I'm suprised the neuroscientist didn't expand on it, maybe it would have defeated the open ended nature of his conclusion.

@cubearthx Жыл бұрын

@@Cosmic_Hobo You are exactly right! He needs to create a 'mystery' to insert his (possible) 'solution'. He reminds me of ancient aliens 🤦🏽‍♂️.

@terranovium Жыл бұрын

Interesting how the commenters with belief seem to kindly share their experience, whereas those without belief seem to be inflating their consciousness and ego as if to prove themselves intelligent. It's unsettling how many seemingly try to achieve this by putting others down in the process.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

Thence the need for charitable discussions, which comes more easily to religious people (not that the nonreligious can't be charitable, mind 😉). But speaking of the latter group, the major problem seems to be they put much too much stock on psychologizing people, rather than going out in the word and _finding out_ what's actually true by themselves; a trend that I saw disturbingly displayed all over in Feuerbach's _The Essence of Christianity_ , which functioned as a sort of founding text for modern secularism, IMO.

@terranovium Жыл бұрын

@@thstroyur Charitable discussions sound crucial. If for anything just to learn to healthfully agree to disagree and live and let live while working towards some level of symbiosis so we can stop competing. I can't imagine either side will have the energy to keep this up long term. Maybe if there were more dedicated spaces to commune in a civil manner for all faiths and non-faiths, we could achieve real growth.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

@@terranovium Well, it has kept up for centuries, now - the so-called 'Enlightenment' in the West, I mean. It does seem to be running out of steam, but I'm not naïve enough to gloat over its corpse just yet. But as for a dedicated space to commune urbanely, I got good news - we _do_ have those - like this one! The Internet is an amazing tool for sharing knowledge - in spite of the fact we're often too busy using it to be toxic to others. But perhaps the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our optical cables and modems, but in ourselves - and therein is, perhaps, the beginning of true religion.

@terranovium Жыл бұрын

@@thstroyur I mean, if people keep this division up they'll be too busy fighting to have the energy required to achieve sustainable living. Sustainability is inherently the first key to ensuring our existence at all. I would say this affects more than just 'Western Enlightenment' though. Not gloating over a corpse, just striving for clear foresight. Regarding dedicated spaces, I specifically meant physical ones as they force a higher degree of accountability and mutual respect. That's not to say discussions couldn't be posted on KZbin and other platforms to inspire and educate others. Also, Brutus comes from "Et tu, Brute?" - the words spoken by Julius Caesar when stabbed in the back by his best friend. Literally stabbed... I don't even know you, nor have I stabbed you in the back; I don't believe you're using that correctly. Unless there's some other intention you had with that. I'd still avoid using that in the future though, as one may easily take unintended offense.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

@@terranovium "Sustainability is inherently the first key to ensuring our existence at all" You're thinking more on the lines of 'pacific coexistence', 'agree to disagree', etc., methinks. "I would say this affects more than just 'Western Enlightenment' though. Not gloating over a corpse, just striving for clear foresight." You miss the point of the remark: the Enlightenment made grandiose ethical, epistemic and metaphysical claims that not only it failed to deliver/provide evidence for, but also saw no qualms in turning society into its guinea pig, to the cost of many human lives and suffering. It's not about being on one team or the other, and coexist in a pluralistic setting (which is _de facto_ impossible, anyway) - it's about deciding what is objectively true, follow wherever it leads, and implement that. "Regarding dedicated spaces, I specifically meant physical ones as they force a higher degree of accountability and mutual respect" Oh, so I take it churches don't cut it? What about parks, college campuses - cafés? There's plenty of space to go, but apparently not much will to do so; besides, what do you expect - glass rooms like the ones for smokers in Europe? That'd make me feel like a caged animal in the zoo, more than anything. "Also, Brutus comes from "Et tu, Brute?" - the words spoken by Julius Caesar when stabbed in the back by his best friend." Brutus is a historical figure, he wasn't made up - and if you think me paraphrasing a very famous Shakespeare line has "some other intention" and may "easily offend", I'm afraid the problem is more within yourself than with a perceived shortage of free-speech 'safespaces' (and incidentally, that was the intended analogy). If you assume the worst of people, you only ever see it in them; it's a vicious cycle.

@ChelseaLori Жыл бұрын

I believe belief in supernatural agents is universal across cultures for two reasons: 1. Before we had better ways of understanding the world around us, belief gave some feeling of understanding and order, in contrast to fear and chaos. 2. For those who are not satisfied with their natural position in life - whatever physical, mental, emotional, ethical, social, economic etc resources they have or don’t have, belief gives them comfort and guidance. Because they may not have the ability, for whatever reasons, to do better, or make better decisions, on their own or for themselves.

@claybarrel Жыл бұрын

I agree on both points. If humans don't destroy themselves in the next few thousand years, I could imagine our "evolution" on a more macro level. We are just now entering the technology and science age on the timeline scale. The religious beliefs we hold onto today are sort of baked into our minds, because they were past down from societies, cultures, etc. close to our timeline of existence. Even our views of Christianity today, would probably be considered heresy not that long ago. The farther we get from the unknown, the less the desire we will have to hold onto supernatural beings. Essentially we've always created "Gods" to explain the why, the how, the what... and the ultimate question for humans, what happens to us after we die. I guess, the more we answer those, the less the need is to use our creative imagination-which, as I type that, kinda sounds a little boring also. LOL!!

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

That's not the reality. The think is, there is a supernatural being in control of everything, otherwise there will be no orderliness. The presence of creation justify a creator, effect justify a cause.

@youngdegenerate1002 Жыл бұрын

I'll listen to Carl G. Jung ❤

@RedRosa Жыл бұрын

I think it is important for viewers to understand the role of the John Templeton Foundation in this series. The Foundation has goals of promoting science, religion, and free market capitalism, which sometimes collide such as in the Foundation's early advocacy of "intelligent design" (creationism) and long-time work in climate change denial. I have also seen this play out in the Foundation's heavy push into free will research and backing of the questionable positive psychology movement. Just understand that there is a strong bias in most (not necessarily all) projects funded by the Foundation.

@cubearthx Жыл бұрын

Yesssss! A lot of people don't realise how their function is to slip woo into science! This guy is so committed to his end goal he misses the most obvious explanation that the research he talks about hinted at. Supernatural agents are a product of waking 'REM' sleep.

@robertdouglas8895 Жыл бұрын

As we understand our own bias and substitute truth, we are not deceived.

@djayjp Жыл бұрын

Exactly, free will is nonsense.

@mattparis340 Жыл бұрын

Boosting this comment. Thai channel can be interesting but This video is gross and utter bullshit.

@RedRosa Жыл бұрын

@@djayjp That's why they spend a lot of resources flooding the zone of free will research. No free will = no religion. (also issues with free market capitalism)

@giuseppeLizzi-rj3er 7 ай бұрын

I like believing in the impossible because my life hasn’t been the best but I have tried my best in everything and have had good moments and memories ❤️

@paulmaloney2383 11 ай бұрын

I have been pondering the existence of supernatural beings all my life and wondered why some people believe in a deity while others do not. listening and watching this video I am no closer to an explanation or answer.

@FluffyChikki 10 ай бұрын

Gods offered an explanation for the mysteries of nature-the thunderstorm or earthquake was created by gods releasing their anger. However, with every scientific explanation found for these mysteries, the list of things that were explained by the gods' DIRECT involvement grew shorter and shorter. Today, that possible list has been reduced to the creation of spacetime, physical matter and the physical laws. Science is on the verge of removing those items off the list as well.

@wilsel1394 9 ай бұрын

Where you are born and raised makes a huge difference. People who are born and raised in the U.S.A are far more likely to be Christian than someone born in the U.K. People born and raised in Iran are far more likely to be Muslim than someone born in the U.S.A.

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

@@wilsel1394what those that justify

@tamarallyod6087 Жыл бұрын

*It is no longer a story that the economy crisis keep rising, one needs to have different streams of income,as well as secure a profitable investment future.detailed diversified investment portfolio in the the financial markets is needed to survive...all thanks to Mrs Mary margaret Schimweg services*

@Ericwatson413 Жыл бұрын

HOW?!! I'm totally a newbie to trading and I've blewn up my account several times trying to trade on my own. Please I'd really appreciate if you could show me how to go about it.

@Tatianabella45 Жыл бұрын

After I got up to $300k trading with Mrs Mary margaret Schimweg i bought a new House and I'm now able to send my kids to a better school in the states thanks to her. When someone is straight forward with what he or she is doing people will always speak up for them.

@mikewalker4723 Жыл бұрын

@@Tatianabella45 I've accumulated generational wealth in two years trading with Mary Margeret schimweg's services. Her firm and brokerage is the best I have encountered in my life history of investing in stock and crypto market and other digital assets like real estate..

@sabrinajones1136 Жыл бұрын

Her trading strategy is also working for me at the moment. I'm pushing it already up $50,000 in profits so far...

@chrisnick6666 Жыл бұрын

Her good reputation already speaks for her last month i invested over $100,000 with her and I've already made over $250,000 profit.

@lanceg3208 Жыл бұрын

That chuckle was the laugh of the year. lol

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@iambored2006 Жыл бұрын

Consider this: your own brain is, from one perspective, simply a mass of dead matter. And yet, by constantly maintaining a certain pattern within itself, it conjures the self-sustaining idea of the 'self'. This it does out of sheer necessity, but that doesn't make the idea of the 'self' real, or does it? One must ask oneself, in what sense is the self real, and not merely a hallucination that the brain 'believes' in for comfort? Buddhism's clear answer to this question is that, indeed, the self conjured by the mind is an illusion, and that by realizing this truth, we may alleviate our suffering. While I hold Buddhism in very high esteem, I believe that its approach is wrongheaded, or at the very least, the opposite approach is certainly merited, namely, that the 'self' is not an illusion, despite the fact that it maintains itself, and despite the fact that, much like Theseus' ship, it is an ever-changing entity. Natural selection is one of our best tools to glimpse the deep truths of existence, and in this matter, its verdict is clear and simple- organisms have evolved such that they construct and maintain a sense of self (and of distinct others), which is to say that, to the extent that an organism's genome is its answer to the great riddle of life (= how to flourish and preserve one's DNA in the world), the so-called 'illusion' of the self is an integral part of the answer. Viewed through this lens, our constructed sense of self emerges, not as a comforting mirage, but rather as life-giving truth. Now consider everything I just said, but replace divinity for selfhood. I won't elaborate here as I've already written enough, but I'll end my comment with an enlightening example. Genesis 18 recounts a soliloquy of the God of Abraham. Let's assume, minimally, that there was a man named Abraham who experienced what he interpreted as the divine revealing itself to him, and he subsequently wrote down his revelations and promulgated them in his family. Verses 18-19 tell us: _"Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."_ What exactly happened here? A man heard a voice inside his head, which he interpreted as the ground of being itself speaking to him and through him, and the voice commanded him to command his children to keep the way of the Lord, that is, the pathway indicated by man's encounter with the transcendent. It then elaborates exactly what is meant by this pathway- the way of the Lord simply means to do righteousness and justice. Furthermore, the text tells us that by keeping the way of the Lord, that is, by maintaining proper conduct, Abraham's seed shall flourish, and the rest of mankind shall be blessed through him. It seems to me that there's no way around it- to Abraham was revealed a sublime truth about the nature of existence, and this transcendental truth is now a cornerstone of the value systems of more than half of mankind. It is a self-maintaining, self-reifying truth- as more and more societies abide by this truth, and strive to maintain proper conduct within themselves, their subsequent flourishing strengthens the transformative potential of the truth revealed to Abraham, literally increasing its truthfulness. By maintaining the belief in the divine origin of Abraham's revelation, it is afforded power and potency.

@kimberknutson831 Жыл бұрын

This is interesting, brilliant, and profound, and the discussion is extremely well considered and expressed. Wow. Just wow. Thank you. : )

@anywallsocket 11 ай бұрын

How old / sheltered must you be? Homie has explained nothing new

@kimberknutson831 11 ай бұрын

@anywallsocket Well, how "nice" of you to take time out of your busy day to say something rude to a complete stranger. Since you asked, I am 59 and a retired university teacher of English Literature and Academic Writing. I have an MA and am ABD (all components completed but the dissertation) on a PhD in Nineteenth-Century British Literature that I chose not to complete when my husband, daughter, and I moved to Hawaii 13 years ago. Zero regrets. I am considered an expert on "the novel" as an art form. In my spare time, I enjoy quantum physics, philosophy, comedy, art, food, friendship, creativity, imagination, and humor. Einstein, Sagan, and Feynman are my science jams in no particular order. In the rap world, I like to kick it old school, so, you know, Snoop, Dre, Tupac, Biggie, 50 Cent, Eminem, and others, but Kendrick Lamar is also the S***. I would name my favorite philosophers right now, but I am bored. Aloha.

@anywallsocket 11 ай бұрын

@@kimberknutson831 well u seem nice enough, and smart too, so now I’m even more surprised you thought the video was ‘profound’

@kimberknutson831 11 ай бұрын

@anywallsocket Good grief. I am guessing that you are young, and youth is often wasted on the young. Young people can be especially attached to their illusions of freedom and control like, for example, the illusion that you are smarter than other people. In my experience, people who think that they are smarter than other people are rarely smarter than other people. Moreover, humans are social beings. Intellectual intelligence only matters as much as it does. I know some people with PhDs who are stupid. Ignorance just means not knowing. Stupidity, on the other hand, is almost always willful and self-serving. Take, for example, the former orange president of the United States who is probably going to be getting fitted for an orange jumpsuit pretty soon. He is a stupid idiot, and Karma is real. Emotional intelligence is the only intelligence that actually matters in this experience of being a human being on planet Earth. So you go ahead and enjoy your condescending, patronizing, hierarchically superior promontory on high as long as it lasts. Maybe read the Tao Te Cheng. "Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know." Humility is very freeing because it releases you from the burden of maintaining a false front, but the humility has to be real. Your utter lack of respect is appalling. Something will come along and teach you that at some point. Life has a way of doing that. I am bored again. Take care. Aloha.

@nicob3088 10 ай бұрын

@@kimberknutson831 lol....

@daveblack2602 11 ай бұрын

Can anyone give an example of evolution producing the ability to perceive something which doesn't exist? Does light exist because we have eyes? Did sound appear because we evolved ears? Did social skills evolve because we imagined other people existed? Or do we evolve the ability to perceive things which actually exist?

@mikechamp78 Жыл бұрын

WEAN YOURSELF Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game. Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding." You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. Listen to the answer. There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating. Rumi, The Essential Rumi

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@estebanclouthier8521 Ай бұрын

The difference between reality and existence is that the second is greater than the first, for what we call reality is physical existence (phenomenal), but thoughts exist, imagination exists, the things you think they exists, not in physical existence, but in mindful existence (noumenal). So existence comprehends physics and the mind. All the natural. But does it comprehends the super natural? For that should be "above" physics and the mind.

@johncrondis4563 11 ай бұрын

I come at "supernatural" from a logical argument that appeared to me way back: Existence/Universe/Multiverse (whatever the entirety of reality is), is either finite or infinite. If it is finite we get a paradox of "ad infinitum" what started it, and then what started that, if it was nothing, then nothing at the end of existence could start it again, etc....Finitude leads to its opposite, Infinitude, and logically this means the universe is Infinite. Now what does infinity mean?? Well intelligence, levels and style of consciousness and experience far beyond our own and even beyond our imagination. Yogi's learnt this as "God" or the "Higher Self/Atman". This is a logical path, no need for dogma in specific experiences of deities. Even the religions like hinduism and buddhism which have deities and supernatural beliefs, also often have "wise masters" that explain the possible hallucinatory nature of supernatural beings, but still expound the truth that our own present consciousness is interconnected with all things, and that all things are infinite. With infinity comes some wild stuff, and to some extent, yes supernatural entities do exist, but they aren't actually beyond nature and the operations of the infinite existence.

@muslalah5567 11 ай бұрын

The question in the title was never addressed much less answered. I’m still wondering why we worship supernatural beings. Assuming they aren’t real, does it perform a vital function in our brain? Assuming they’re real, do we worship out of sheer fear?

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

This is a simple matter

@SearchOfSelf Жыл бұрын

The enduring presence of supernatural agents throughout human history raises fascinating questions about our cognitive and social evolution. What if our belief in these agents is a reflection of deeper psychological needs and cultural adaptations?

@Gobbldeegoo1 Жыл бұрын

Imagine believing everything that someone on hallucinogens said… that’s religious people. Hallucinogens have been taken recreationally for eons as a way to connect with ancestors, gods, different realities… and it was even weaponized to validate whole societies going to war and slaughtering people. Even then, there were people like you… “Look at the enduring presence of supernatural agents… we need this to psychologically validate the genocide of our neighbors, the non-believers.”

@Rosegarden327 Жыл бұрын

what if it isn't

@shadowgreen123 Жыл бұрын

@@Rosegarden327 no but what if yes

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

"What if our belief in these agents is a reflection of deeper psychological needs and cultural adaptations?" The thing is we don't know that. Its just a what if. Makes it easier for Atheist not to believe though. Don't reject something just because it easier for you not to believe!! Truth is not about taking the easy way out!

@CCrosson Жыл бұрын

@@amberhiggins6327 Exactly. Which is why we have thousands of years of research and study: so we didn't have to take the easy way out by believing in a big scary tribal man in the sky.

@Bc232klm Жыл бұрын

Because people aren't smart and tend to believe things that aren't real when they feel discomfort in unknowing.

@danteandkyler7954 Жыл бұрын

I personally am Christian, I grew up catholic and realized that I wasn’t catholic. Went through a period of not really identifying with anything but then I kinda saw the world differently and would say I am a believer of god. I can’t say I know anything as nobody can but I do believe through my faith and that’s enough for me, that’s just not enough for some people and that’s ok. At the end of the day as long as you’re not trying to diminish what I believe then we’re good.

@Dan-pt2tn Жыл бұрын

I was raised Catholic as well (and still am) and I'd be the first one to acknowledge all the flaws of the Church. But I separate the faith from the humans who comprise the Church. Beyond that, I'm not sure one needs religion, just the Good Book. As long as you have a working relationship with God and you put effort into it, organized religion seems less than necessary. Also, a lot of people in power are trying to diminish what you believe in. God is actively erased through every possible outlet and institution and millions buy into it hook, line, and sinker. Don't let your mind get infected by scientism like most of the videos on this channel preach and many of the people in the comments can't tell apart from science (which acts in harmony with God and faith). If people need something to be tangible or proven all the time, they aren't quite grasping the notion of faith, or science for that matter.

@funkykong9001 Жыл бұрын

The reason humans have created gods is due to our consciousness and awareness. The idea of gods served to explain all the things in the world we didn't understand and the things that scared us

@pietpetrus2343 Жыл бұрын

yes but people with brain dmg tend to believe sometimes aswell, maybe the past was also bad for your brain lol

@ronaldmorgan7632 Жыл бұрын

Uhhh, sorta. You're either an atheist or agnostic trying tell religious people why they are religious. Some societies may have created Gods over a lack of understanding, but not all. When God makes frequent contact, that tends to make people take notice. When God inspires the writing of his story, and it has stood the test of time, that's more than just "happy to be in the know about things that we don't know and scare us".

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@michaelbindner9883 Жыл бұрын

And then there are near death experiences who come back and say that supernatural agents don't need anyone from us.

@ajcrump9492 11 ай бұрын

Care to elaborate? I’ve heard many different things on this.

@michaelbindner9883 11 ай бұрын

@@ajcrump9492 people who have had NDEs feel at peace with death and stop going to church. Watch the videos.

@vistrextkans3170 Жыл бұрын

Sad to see how far behind contemporary science trails the work done by the Vedic people thousand of years ago

@ChelseaLori Жыл бұрын

Great video. But would’ve absolutely been worth it to include 1-2 more minutes to explain the different brain networks and areas from 3:55-4:32 in laymen’s terms. Important info that just got breezed over.

@cyberswine Жыл бұрын

The fact that it occurs in every culture tells us that the psychological phenomenon is real, but religious people's claims about their supernatural agents cannot all be true. That is you cannot be a Buddhist and a Christian at the same time. So what made you a believer in one religion and not in another? The answer is almost certainly happenstance.

@xx_amongus_xx6987 Жыл бұрын

But someone's view of the truth being led by happenstance does not mean it is automatically untrue. By this I mean, lets say theoretically, Christ did exist. There would still be some people who blindly believe in Christianity, and there would still be some blind people who believe in Buddhism. The truth is not affected by how many people believe in one thing over another. This comment might be a little irrelevant to what your point might have been but I thought I'd share my opinions anyway in case they were relevant.

@vnaykmar7 Жыл бұрын

So true

@cyberswine Жыл бұрын

@@xx_amongus_xx6987 I do not disagree with you. My comment is in response to what was said at the beginning of the video that one possibility for the phenomenon to have happened in all cultures is that "Supernatural Agents are real". Well, how can supernatural agents in all cultures be real if they all contradict each other?

@speggeri90 Жыл бұрын

I believe many faiths are ultimately an attempt by many peoples to find their creator and be in a relationship with him. I have personally deep faith in Christ, our savior, and I do agree that not all faiths can be true at the same time. We are all liers and thieves, adulterers and blasphemers, murderers and hypocrites, and if we have a just God and creator, he has to judge us according to our Sins, because he is holy and perfect, and cannot lie. Therefore you can only ask for mercy and it was Jesus who paid the fine so to speak, for us. He gave his life through a horrible death, only so we could have everlasting life through his sacrifice and love. "There is no greater love than to give your life for your friends." That is how much God loves us and desperately wants us to become good through being born again in Christ. To get the little Christ be born in our hearts so we could be washed clean from our Sins. All we have to do is to repent, turn from Sin, and trust in Christ. I know more than 99% of people watching this video reject this, but I ultimately believe that it's because people don't want to let go of their Sins. It gives too much pleasure, and a just God is inconvenient in that world view. They hate the truth and love lies, and the only truth is in the word of God revealed to us through the bible. You only have to mention the name Jesus and people are prepared to destroy you if they are far enough from goodness and God. I apologize for the long reply, but just thought to share the gospel in a place where few people actually hear it. Gospel means good news, and the good news is that you can be saved and have eternal life through our Christ. "What should a man profit, if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul."

@bobbabai Жыл бұрын

Where you were born is the critical factor

@FutureAIDev2015 Жыл бұрын

This is very interesting. It kind of makes sense that due to decreases in default mode network activity in autistic individuals that they would be statistically less likely to be religious.

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@FluffyChikki 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps gods provided more than an explanation of natural forces, but also a unifying force for people to rally round. The belief in the same gods can help turn a disparate group of people into a tribe that will more willingly work together. That might be why you often find people with tribal gods and/or totem animals.

@kirandeepchakraborty7921 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoying this man speak. A deep thinker indeed. Want more such Explainations from him.

@UltraK420 Жыл бұрын

I've suspected for a long time that these "religious" experiences are really just self-induced psychedelic experiences, perhaps their brains are producing decent amounts of DMT and these people are just tripping on their own supply without ever knowing it. Surely some dopamine is also involved, maybe some adrenaline depending on the kind of shit they're into.

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

I knew you knew 100% you're not sure of yourself.

@UltraK420 9 ай бұрын

You should prove that.@@muhammedtrawally1798

@TrippSaaS Жыл бұрын

There is definitely something, but I don't presume to know what it is.

@farmpite 11 ай бұрын

4:22 The upregulation of the Social Brain areas, paired with the down regulation of others that facilitate that subservient state creates a superhuman mind ? So if everybody participates in that it creates something akin to collective consciousness. A force that helps us aggregate around a shared ideal, helps solves the coordination problems that we face. A spiritual technology

@michaelbartlett6864 11 ай бұрын

Patrick, nearly all, if not all human involvement with supernatural agents can be attributed to dreams, waking dreams or trances. There is a big prize waiting for anyone who can prove supernatural events.

@willleslie2745 Жыл бұрын

Long story short. It's a coping method. Particularly for those with no hope for anything else!

@sgsupreme17 Жыл бұрын

And very low critical thinking

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

Long story short. Your 'criticism' is a coping method (it's called 'Bulverism'). Particularly for those with no actual arguments or anything else!

@sgsupreme17 Жыл бұрын

@@thstroyur Meaning?

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

@@sgsupreme17 Meaning what I wrote; what wasn't clear?

@sgsupreme17 Жыл бұрын

@@thstroyur To what side of the argument? It seems vague, it can be attributed to any side, meaning, are you theist or atheist.

@heinousanus9352 Жыл бұрын

So the first possibility isn't a possibility.

@bobbabai Жыл бұрын

What happens when you stop believing in supernatural agents? Well, since people still need community and need mutual validation and support, people figure out how to do that without churches.

@schwarzwolfram7925 Жыл бұрын

The history of supernatural agents in the course of human development can be summed up as: People thought that the universe was magic. Then they figured out how it worked. That still doesn't stop it from being amazing.

@JakubTrochowski-pq4wi Жыл бұрын

We still havent figured it out

@SupaDupaFli79 Жыл бұрын

Supernatural agent? I can't even get my insurance agent on the phone.

@ronaldmorgan7632 Жыл бұрын

One exists, and the other doesn't.

@MichelleCarithersAuthor Жыл бұрын

great discussion and if in a safe setting worth while to contemplate

@AdenwalaM Жыл бұрын

I wonder if belief in supernatural is a particular case of what is more generally prevalent, which can be differently described as establishment of authority in the psyche. Once the authority gets established, does the relevant areas of brain either are lighted up or they fail to light up? Do we have any comparative research in primates where rank of the individual in the society governs significant parts of their behavior? It seems important to ask this question because control agents can be more devastating than any belief in supernatural. Hitler is a glaring example of a regular control agent guiding not only individual beliefs but even world affairs for a prolonged period of time.

@Ex-expat Жыл бұрын

I went from Atheist to Antagonist some time ago. Based on how little we actually know from creation of the BigBang, to how proteins are built to our brain leaves me no room to firmly discard faith, even if Im a atheist at heart.

@User-jr7vf Жыл бұрын

I think yours is a problem with definitions. AFAIK an atheist is someone who is 100% sure of the inexistence of supernatural beings, such as gods. As you correctly pointed out, we are not even near from getting a complete understanding of the nature of certain things in the universe (or the universe itself), thus you don't want to rule out the existence of supernatural beings, then you are a agnostic. You can't reject discarding faith and still call yourself an atheist at heart.

@CarpenterBrother Жыл бұрын

What you are describing is called "God of the gaps", just because there is gaps in our knowledge about the world, doesn't mean we can shove God in there. If our experience of the past is any indicator of the future, that tells us that there is probably a natural explanation for the things you've just described, we just need to find it.

@hnr9lt-pz7bn Жыл бұрын

@@Chillfanger no, he really mean antagonist 😂

@krishp1104 Жыл бұрын

@@hnr9lt-pz7bn bro became the villan

@ronaldmorgan7632 Жыл бұрын

@@CarpenterBrother He just said that there is nothing that would cause him to stop being an agnostic. Re-read and process...

@sloperdad4835 Жыл бұрын

While I don't believe in a god, I still have morals. Respect for life, kindness, honesty, and love.

@EnlytendFilosofar Жыл бұрын

That's desire

@juhadexcelsior Жыл бұрын

That desire didn't come from nowhere. You aren't the author of it.

@reuvenpolonskiy2544 Жыл бұрын

You do have them. But you do not posses an argument to rationalise them as principals that should always guide personal behavior.

@heathdavidsonmusic Жыл бұрын

If you don't have Jesus you have none of that.

@ImpoForrest Жыл бұрын

I don’t need divine permission, or some guy in the desert 2,000 years ago allowing me to be an ethical human. If you do, maybe explore that within yourself. And if it truly is from God, he can convince me himself in a way that is discernible and fair.

@hn7405 11 ай бұрын

I’m not maniac to religion, not even close. But I would recommend have a trip to Asia, meet a few good fortune teller. Let them walk you through the story happened to your life, I believe some answer about their existence will be slightly revealed.

@eastafrika728 11 ай бұрын

We stop breathing in oxygen and we pass away, meaning our consciousness is in oxygen, this means that the only supernatural agent is Oxygen.

@speggeri90 Жыл бұрын

People don't want a God in their lives, because they are doing things they know a creator would not approve or give justice. They don't like the idea that God sees everything you do and think, because they want to follow their perverse wants, rather than what is good. "A tree is known by its fruit. A good tree gives good fruit, and bad tree bad fruit." This pretentious "science" based world view is just sad to follow as it's bringing slowly a living nightmare on this society of ours. May God save us, in Jesus name I pray.

@bri5522 Жыл бұрын

I'm excited to know there are others who don't share the repugnant materialism world view. Humanity is not the authority and an ant has no quarrel with a boot.

@smidlee7747 Жыл бұрын

To be fair God is not a supernatural being. God isn't natural or supernatural or even superdupernatural.

@NerdyGirlLiveLove 11 ай бұрын

Not true

@totalfreedom45 Жыл бұрын

It's an ego trip: boredom + loneliness + unhappiness = escapism and self importance. *_Without love and sense of humor there is unhappiness and life is meaningless._* 💕☮🌎🌌

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@VocalChainsStudio 3 ай бұрын

Humans CAN abstract, therefore they do. Creating gods is what intelligent life does. We evolve on a planet which comes without instructions and explanations, so we make up our own. But now we see the universe more clearly, its scale both large and small, and realize we ARE the instructions for this beautiful planet.

@TheUnknown79 10 ай бұрын

Supernatural agents though without boundaries superartificial agents make them limited by political boundaries

@MAG320 Жыл бұрын

The dieties are as real as they can get. This is absolute. Theres Thousands of them. And they all know each other. We as humans are not interpreting them correctly like the animals & plants are doing. As you cycle through different lives & somehow get away with getting rid of amnesia, youll figure it out eventually.

@wendelynanderson9517 Жыл бұрын

Don’t believe everything you think.

@hnr9lt-pz7bn Жыл бұрын

No smart man ever believing something. Just proving it.

@zudnughitaf4785 Жыл бұрын

Belief is good when you are well-guided. If your chakras are all open you will believe in what you see. This doesnt mean sometimes you will be skeptical and doubt all these things. Its a matter of balance...

@mamiel4413 Жыл бұрын

@@hnr9lt-pz7bn weird thing is, there are more religious scientists than there are atheist scientists

@cubearthx Жыл бұрын

@@mamiel4413 that's primarily because there are more religious people (in the general population) than atheist. Poll them about their specific religious beliefs and they will contradict each other. It is a testament to the power of religious indoctrination.

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

Also don't reject everything. Approach all things with an open mind. Don't be so skeptical that you believe in nothing.

@shikharsharma6399 11 ай бұрын

We then believe something else. Karma, destiny, etc. It’s like love emotion is the same expression changes.

@11-AisexualsforGod-11 Жыл бұрын

an infinite* "god" is all loving and thus ambivalent in having no preference for "good" or "bad" .. this is why we put our faith in the finite* flesh and blood qualities of Christ as king.. only a finite man can establish a garden in spite of the infinite wilderness

@11-AisexualsforGod-11 Жыл бұрын

the serpent $ells Eve as in the unconscious side of our brains on progress.. only Adam as in the conscious side says NO distinguishing right from wrong

@11-AisexualsforGod-11 Жыл бұрын

money sign represents the serpent going beyond the pillars of Hercules as in the known world permitted by the finite in group

@ingenuity168 Жыл бұрын

Just because many people think the same thing doesn't mean it's real.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

Doesn't mean it's not real, either; seems we're still missing a symmetry breaker, somewhere.

@funnytv-1631 Жыл бұрын

Is there one change you can make right now to your work environment? What could you add or remove so you will not be tempted to wander? Silence your phone. Put up a sign. Close the door. Set a timer. Notice, when it is time for your work session, you will commit. Nothing can distract you. Whatever you need to prepare to make that happen, now is the time.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

"work"??? - are you living to work, or working to live? - why create such a barrier around the concept of "work". I do not separate out the things I do that I receive payment for, from the things I simply do out of enjoyment - ALL is part of the life I am deliberately living - _all_ of it and how is this at all relevant to this topic, to the content under this topic?

@cht2162 Жыл бұрын

@@juliaconnell In my 83 years I find that there are no irrelevant ideas or conscious constructions. No irrelevant ideas but often irrelevant thinkers.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

@@cht2162 thank you, wise words at any age, I do appreciate you sharing them, very much appreciated. 😊

@Larry00000 Жыл бұрын

The sense of credibility of the existence of supernatural agents always comes from the individual. It is not otherwise confirmed. It is a phenomenon of the individual's brain and nervous system, not an actual supernatural agent.

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

Am not sure you any knowledge base evidence for your claim

@whoknowsnubby Жыл бұрын

If they exist, do all versions exist. Or are there ones that are more real that others. Or are they all equally real because we believe they exist? Or is there one that is real that all others are just us trying to get closer to the real one.

@wishuonmyjourney818 Жыл бұрын

only the first the last the beginner of existance the creator of the begining and the end The Creator is what to look for and u need to follow factq and proof only

@345optimusprime Жыл бұрын

@whoknowsnubby Look up a book called The Origin And Evolution Of Religion. by: Albert Churchward

@pyeitme508 Жыл бұрын

Bruh

@Roust7 Жыл бұрын

What the heck does Neuroscience protocol means ? How can you differentiate belief in supernatural and hallucinations? You didn’t do the experiment.

@subhankarmohanta7546 Жыл бұрын

Hi, can we get a non-religious person to explain this subject?

@XOPOIIIO Жыл бұрын

Great title!

@Yesyou599 11 ай бұрын

When humans gain consciousness they starts to realize that the Universe is Created and there is a creator of the universe. So then they search for the creator.And they realize that if the creator can create such huge universe , the same creator can also change their lives.

@Yesyou599 11 ай бұрын

@@yesilbeyaz593 thanks❤️

@Kaboooooom 10 ай бұрын

Imagine an advanced civilization which can control every aspect of life - can cure all diseases (or cause you to have no diseases), can fix physical trauma cases due to accidents, can control the weather or has enough infrastructure that your geographical location and climate do not affect your adversely, can give you a job that you love and has downgraded the importance of money so everyone gets equal pay and is brought up to take what they need and there is harmony and symbiosis. Basically a civilization where there is no threat or negative effect from other humans or from life in general. Would a child born in such civilization need to believe in a concept of god or a supernatural agent? I guess you know the answer. Just to clarify, the need to believe in a supernatural agent comes from our weakness as a human. There are 2 types of weaknesses - 1. The planet - i.e. Life in general - the planet and its weather/climate and things that can cause threat like floods, earthquake etc. 2. The Humans themselves - the vices of being human - greed, envy etc. which cause one human to cause threat to another human. If these things are overcome, there is no need for a supernatural agent.

@TheyCallMeNewb Жыл бұрын

What to think of them ontologically is not an open question. So long as - and only so long as - people must face non-existence, they will remain fatefully susceptible to stories which might spare them, all operating in lockstep with the evolutionary imperatives to which they play host. Our distant descendants will find as much mirth in as compassion for the tragedy of our personal truths.

@littlebear5522 Жыл бұрын

what do you make of the spiritualities and religions that do not believe in a soul or an afterlife

@TheyCallMeNewb Жыл бұрын

Broadly, a different shade of denial product of imaginative iteration. You'll need forgive my loyalty to the presumption of personal truths triumphing over objective ones. It is after all they which peculiarly service our own ends, and our own ends all that evolution affords us.

@littlebear5522 Жыл бұрын

@@TheyCallMeNewb what are they in denial of

@littlebear5522 Жыл бұрын

@@TheyCallMeNewb what's the difference between imaginative iteration and personal truths

@TheyCallMeNewb Жыл бұрын

Denial typically at the point of frustration to one's ambition, and at the seat of whose occurrence is to be found germ of a new 'personal truth', taking on myriad and ingenious disguises as it does so. These tricky little deviations from aversion are in conspiracy against and run contrary to an objective truth of harm. It is they of which imaginative iteration is author.

@user-rk3dl3vg3c Жыл бұрын

After having one of these experiences, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what happened. Physical laws and rules can’t seem to do it; I was physically conscious and aware the whole time (and have a witness to verify this fact), but something very nonphysical was happening at the same time. What I wonder is whether I was encountering a reality beyond what my brain and senses are capable of understanding, and they were just doing the best they could. The one thing that was overwhelmingly present was love.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

do you mind me asking = one of the experiences? are you willing to provide more info - I'm assuming, (given the end of this), psychedelics were involved? (a lot of near death experiences sound very similar - reality beyond understanding - overwhelming love...)

@LauraMolina-PaintDiva Жыл бұрын

I have severe obstructive sleep apnea. I’ve had 2 episodes in my sleep that resemble the “near death” experiences of trauma patients except I was not floating above my body. I figure the lack of oxygen to my brain during a longer than average time when I stop breathing triggers these hallucinations.

@ronaldmorgan7632 Жыл бұрын

Yep. It's like we're connected to "the cloud", and realize it more during certain situations.

@weaseldragon Жыл бұрын

When we cure cancer, what will we replace it with? (asked nobody ever)

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

And you can thank the rise of the modern hospital infrastructure that makes it even possible to entertain eradicating cancer nowadays to religious orders, pal; you're welcome, BTW

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

Am not sure you have any idea about infinity

@finnjacobsen684 Жыл бұрын

Seems to me that activities in the subconscious mind, which is beyond personal control, provides a good explanation for contact with supernatural beings. Since reality is a mental construction based on sensory observations and stored data (e.g. religious beliefs), when the subconscious brain feeds into the construction of reality, these "entities" will be experienced as real in the same way as "reality" is experienced as real. Psychoactive drugs have been part of human culture since the beginning of man. Question is why there are plants that make the brain construct these alternative realities.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

thank you Finn. this is an interesting topic (though to me, several complex topics were briefly glossed over, some contradictory... ) which deserves thoughtful and intelligent comments, conversation, debate - unfortunately it's a bit of a mixed bag in this comment section... I thank you for your comment. completely agree "reality is a mental construction based on sensory observations" - however, can we _trust_ our sensory data/inputs. the whole 'brain in a vat' concept etc. my sensory data certainly feels very 'real' to me - however I have very (very) vivid dreams, often lucid vivid dreams that feel equally as real. and that's just my normal straight/sober brain - no drugs except the medical kind you make a great point though - so many plants / natural sources of 'alternative realities' - and a long history of use, in cultures all over the world. and no way of determining which version of 'reality' is more real.

@tmengucor Жыл бұрын

💯

@finnjacobsen684 Жыл бұрын

@@juliaconnell Thanks for your comment. Our sensors are limited in what they register, probably somewhat different for different people. I have no way of knowing if my constructed reality is exactly the same as my neighbor's. I can only relate to my version, and I have to trust that it is functional for me. I realize that since only 10-20 % of my brain's working is observable, there must be a lot going on outside of my control and knowledge. Like running the fabulous machinery in which my brain dwells.The subconscious mind is obviously running its own show, no need for external actors. And mind altering drugs are great directors.

@ronaldmorgan7632 Жыл бұрын

Or, these "entities" exist and we have had contact with them. History is full of examples, and more recently thousands of documented NDE experiences where people see objects in a building from a perspective that they could not have known from lying in a hospital bed unconscious.

@finnjacobsen684 Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldmorgan7632 Question is if mental images and sounds "exist". As far as I know, the NDE "observations" have been given rational explanations.

@workingtoseethelight8244 11 ай бұрын

Gods and dogs, all humans have them. Which one is spelled backward? Religion on psychedelics is also good; religion has used psychedelics, fasting, and many different techniques to communicate with the supernatural. Hard to separate the two, really.

@jonnovember2136 Жыл бұрын

According to some believe systems; life is a testing ground b4 we shad this mortal coil...

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

yeah I tend towards that concept - something along the lines of Jonathan Livingston Seagull...

@ThunderKat Жыл бұрын

This video contain so little information you might as well read cover of books on a library and learn more in the same amount of time... No idea why they invest so much on presentation and not more on spreading knowledge with all the effort they put on it.

@liverrrrrr Жыл бұрын

Or perhaps it's not meant to provide all of the answers on a silver platter, but to encourage you to do your own research.

@m.dgaius6430 11 ай бұрын

Turn music down please

@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC Жыл бұрын

There are two reasons why people believe in God, Multiverse, Big Bounce, Hard Determinism, and Simulation Theory: *(1)* Whenever a theory or construct is missing key information, the human mind naturally fills the gap with "infinity." *(2)* Humans need to feel like there's something bigger in charge.

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@elearis1 10 ай бұрын

Uh, not really... at least not everyone.

@melon9680 Жыл бұрын

I merely see our notion for the existence of a God or Gods is kinda like an instinct, we've been doing it for so long, that its part of our nature. Everyone has that feeling, even Atheists. We've been religious longer than not, but times are changing and we will change with it. We find ourselves at the starting like, the turnover of human evolution into a new age. We no longer need to assume about the universe. Anyone who's gone over the aspects of various religions will find it to be far dumber than it actually is. So why speculate, let it die i say.

@ronaldmorgan7632 Жыл бұрын

We are the only species capable of pondering our existence, as as well as others. Unless you have had contact with a supernatural being (many have) it is reasonable to come to a conclusion that we're here against a TON of odds. And, to nit, religion and belief in a higher being are not equivalent. It is sad what atheists in all facets of life are working so hard trying to get rid of religion. It's definitely not some kind of reaction to people everywhere coming to come kind of logical conclusion.

@jimk8520 Жыл бұрын

“There are some 3,000 gods to choose from. You don’t believe in 2,999 of them and I don’t believe in just one more.” Ricky Gervais

@Calbizzle 11 ай бұрын

These videos get me to think, but not much else. What’s the point of pondering all the time?

@dgokp Жыл бұрын

Believing in God helps people in anxiety...

@Vishnujanadasa108 Жыл бұрын

You’re upset god destroyed your face so you want to destroy god. It’s karma comrade. That’s why y’all love masks. Don’t cry but if you still are deposit tears here 🥤 I’ve never seen a beautiful atheist. Maybe some prostitutes but they hate god for their own bad life decisions-more daddy issues. It’s why they loved the Covid masks. Atheists are mad at god for making them too ugly, poor, dull, or they just didn’t get enough ice cream for dessert-daddy issues. But that’s their ugly karma sorry comrades. Be good maybe next time your karma will be better. Many atheists have a complex about God because they have personal issues they blame God for-daddy issues to put it colloquially with all due respect. They think there must not be a God because their life or the world isn’t perfect but the theology or philosophy is all wrong. They don’t consider karma and past lives. Be pious and in your next birth you might get a better situation. Many atheists assume to know how or why God would do things from their parochial viewpoint not thinking maybe this world is meant to be both good and bad depending on our actions or karma. Most western atheists aren’t so cultured or sophisticated or philosophically trained so they focus on the Iron Age books of the Abrahamic followers as if only they had an idea of God. They focus also on comic book myth such as magic pond scum or evolution transforming into super computers or bears becoming whales after millions of years (same exact storyline to the X-men comic books). It’s not a position supported by evidence ie science. Quite the contrary, which is why you can’t debate a single point I’ve made and resort to ad hominems. It’s understandable why one would reject Abrahamic religions because there isn’t much philosophy and there are all sorts of inconsistencies and illogical statements. When you really study the human body, you soon realize that it is a machine - a biochemical robot, so cunningly designed that the vague speculations of the Darwinists cannot really account for it. Furthermore, the brain of this machine is a complex electrical computer, which can be programmed and reprogrammed by an outside force. Many scientists have abandoned the evolutionary concepts, grudgingly admitting that the more complex lifeforms on this planet seem to be the product of design, rather than some hit-or-miss natural process. The physical evolution of humans is a comic book hypothesis with all due respect. It’s not real science like physics or chemistry nor a bona fide theory like gravity or quantum mechanics. Despite what people read in glossy pop-sci magazines, no one has ever demonstrated a sequence of gradual beneficial mutations leading to new complex structures in organisms. To put the theory of evolution on firm ground, mathematical models of how genes translate into physical form are absolutely essential. Without such models there are only vague handwaving stories about evolution. These stories can’t provide any firm, testable predictions, and when they are applied after the fact to observations, they are so flexible that they can be adapted to any set of data imaginable. In contrast, a mathematical model gives definite predictions that can be compared with evidence and thus be proved or disproved. If such models did exist, it might be possible to use sufficiently powerful computers to determine what might happen when a specific set of genetic information is randomly modified in concert with certain selective rules. If these modifications predicted in the model actually resulted in physical changes that corresponded to observed relationships among species, then we could say that evolution had actually been raised to the level of a science. But this is not the case. As of yet there exist no models making definite predictions about evolution. In fact, the evolutionists are not at all certain about what they would like to predict. Contradictions abound. On one hand the student of evolution can find statements that the outcome of the process of evolution is completely a matter of chance. And on the other hand, there are statements saying the outcome is quite determined by physical processes involving natural selection. ⁣ In human evolution, some authorities assert that the evolution of manlike beings is highly probable and would be likely to happen on any suitable planet in the universe. For instance, Dale Russell and Ron Sequin of Canada’s Museum of Natural Science have proposed that if dinosaurs had not become extinct, there is a good chance that they would have evolved into humanoid reptilian forms by now.⁣ ⁣ Then there are those who assert that the appearance of human beings on earth is a chance occurrence. According to this view, at the beginning of the evolutionary process there would be no certainty that humanlike creatures would develop. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a leading evolutionary theorist, poses this question: imagine a highly competent biologist living 50-60 million years ago in the geological epoch called the Eocene. Could he have predicted that man would evolve from the primitive primates then in existence? Not very likely according to Dobzhansky, who says, "Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same ways and will⁣ be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man's evolutionary history."⁣ ⁣ ⁣ So here we have two completely contradictory viewpoints about evolution. They both cannot be right. One says evolution is determined: the other says it proceeds in a way that can never be duplicated. Therefore it would seem that evolutionary theory does not provide a very consistent framework for deciding even the most basic questions.⁣ ⁣

@lovebucket Жыл бұрын

I disagree , it's just another road to authority.

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

Don't be so skeptical that you believe in nothing. Haven an open mind!

@jimk8520 Жыл бұрын

@@amberhiggins6327 The “us and them” game is very likely the oldest control game on the planet - and it works! Hence the reason it’s used by governments, religions, political parties, and special interest groups worldwide. “Don’t be so skeptical that you believe in nothing” but make sure you are skeptical enough to see bullshit for what it is.

@auxinakanikhilchugh5657 Жыл бұрын

Try lsd or shoorms you will know what he is talking about.

@lovebucket Жыл бұрын

I do what's more open than going to work and not needing a boss. Stop passing judgements on social media newbie.

Жыл бұрын

Does Chat GPT fall into this category, if it becomes sentient? 😮

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

No its AI and it fall in the category of love ones or powerful people.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

@@amberhiggins6327 oh look, you're capable of DIFFERENT words to the same trite you're sprouting all over the place - different trite, still trite again - are you drunk? or high? or both? - or just deluded? please explain "it fall in the category of love ones or powerful people" - please do share your wisdom, your "understanding" from having "an open mind"

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

interesting - what category Luxus? "the gods"?? - but if AI become true AI - artificial intelligence, from Chat GPT or another source, wouldn't this make us - humans - their 'gods' - since their sentience came from 'our' creation/s

@yoshreimi Жыл бұрын

Ai will be more everyone's friend, evil people feel threatened by AI I wonder why..

@kald360 Жыл бұрын

@@juliaconnell Depends on your definition of god. If by god we mean mere creators, then sure, we're their gods. But if we to apply classical judaic christian definition with all the "omni-" attributes, then obviously no. The way I see it, we're to AI in its current form - even without the sentience - what factory workers are to the iPhone.

@vijendrapillay1352 9 ай бұрын

I have a cross boold of Enoch the angle of Jesus Christ but I want to remove this boold how can I remove this

@kuntal2kuntal Жыл бұрын

If supernaturals are real, why do we call them 'supernaturals'?

@speggeri90 Жыл бұрын

If a tree, a dog, a person, and a cloud are part of natural world, then most of us believe there is something more to this mear physical world, "super" just means, "on top of" or "more than". Supernatural, something more than just the natural.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

@@speggeri90 It's just bad terminology. I'd reserve the term 'supernatural' for things like souls, minds, spirits, etc.; what people often mean by 'supernatural' (things like miracles or wondrous creatures and so on) is often best described by the term _preternatural._

@kuntal2kuntal Жыл бұрын

@@speggeri90 Well that's weird! if something is on the "on top of" or "more than", that becomes supernatural? there's lot of things beyond a dog, a person and a cloud that are very perplexing and magic alike, such as black hole, the big bang, wireless technology, special relativity, quantum computer...they all would've considered supernatural by your definition, however they're considered perfectly natural phenomena since there's objective evidence for that. Supernatural is just an umbrella term (or an arbitrary term) for all the nonsense people want to believe, just to ignore the obvious that our senses sometimes deludes us, so it's better to depend on evidence rather than our personal beliefs and biases.

@smidlee7747 Жыл бұрын

@@thstroyur soul and spirit are not natural nor supernatural. Superman or the Greek gods would be considered supernatural beings. Zeus is still part of the nature world , has a body of some form.

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

@@smidlee7747 And on the basis of what? Nothing - just your assertion. Pay attention to the etymology of the word, though: it is SUPERnatural - as in, it goes _beyond_ the natural - i.e., it's nonphysical - and what is nonphysical? The soul, spirits. It is precisely for this reason that a fantasy character like Zeus who, according to the myths anyway, was supposed to interact and operate within the natural theatre (as opposed to, say, a dream the 'Prophet' had one particular night), would _not_ qualify as a SUPERnatural agent. The word 'preternatural' covers the strangeness of his existence, as it does werewolves, or Jesus walking on water, or any other such examples.

@SamiKotiranta Жыл бұрын

Alcohol and religion, 2 of worst things ever created by man...

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

Don't be so skeptical that you believe in nothing. Have an open mind and you just might find the truth.

@m2pozad Жыл бұрын

God thoughts reflect man's psychological and brain processes, both conscious and unconscious. Mystery solved.

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

No so fast if it was that easy all belief in the Gods would die out. You have to be open minded and consider there is more out there than one would think. Don't be so skeptical that you believe in nothing.

@Gobbldeegoo1 Жыл бұрын

@@amberhiggins6327 don’t be so desperate that you believe in everything.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

thanks for solving this mystery. that was easy. how about.... world... peace or hunger - take your pick - next 😊😉

@amberhiggins6327 Жыл бұрын

@@Gobbldeegoo1 "don’t be so desperate that you believe in everything." You think I believe in everything without know much about me. Funny aren't you the person that comment the world be better off if I was gone. Sounds a lot like WW!! Germany! Wanting one or more persons gone! Just for the recorded! I'm not a Christian or even a monotheist and if you thought I was arguing for Christianity you are dead wrong and know next to nothing about me!

@m2pozad Жыл бұрын

@@amberhiggins6327 Just the opposite. God beliefs would be universal. And guess what, they are, or were. Until about 150 years ago. I'm not sure what will happen to the collective unconscious and the soul, if god thought instincts cease to be passed-on.

@chinoto1 11 ай бұрын

Alright, now go find someone who disagrees so we can actually learn something from them debating.

@invox9490 Жыл бұрын

It's funny because (and this is only an example) you tell someone it needs to lose weight, and they say they can't because they don't wanna diet and exercise is rough, etc. BUT if that same person discovers "religion" (say hinduism) that tells them what they should eat and to do yoga, and them they loose weight, they'll say "I've found xyz" but they will not credit THEMSELVES for doing it, despite being the same result. Imo, hey, whatever works to improve your life is good for me... for you, and for society in general.

@hafeezulhassan11 9 ай бұрын

The ending was not clear. It was intended in this way to give a wrong impression. If they are not hallucinations, that we know of but other aort of brain activities which internally creates hallucinations. One should actually research all the possible causes of hallucinations to rest this case

@ebonyblack4563 Жыл бұрын

I remember a documentary from at least a decade ago revolving a study where they had found what they were calling 'The God Response' when certain areas of the brain were activated. It caused perceptive sensations of an entity (or multiple) being near, and 'natural occurrence' corolated with certain kinds of experiences and stressors. The biggest thing that I remember was that they found it could be triggered with certain kinds of remote stimulation via technology.

@thisisme5487 Жыл бұрын

I'm not reading anywhere that they found what was called a "God spot", just that they were looking for one, and their findings were inconclusive. Actually, from what I've read, while the "God spot" or "God response" was previously believed to be what accounted for such experiences, these studies found those beliefs to be unfounded scientifically.

@ebonyblack4563 Жыл бұрын

@@thisisme5487 Oh, I wasn't sure there was ever more done on it, the show had ended with a more research is needed tag. This video discussing different activation in certain brain regions just reminded me of it. Thank you for letting me know there was more looked into.

@muhammedtrawally1798 9 ай бұрын

So you believe in them

@wilsel1394 9 ай бұрын

Have you noticed on 'The Creation of Adam', 'God' is contained within the form of a human brain.

@blu.direction Жыл бұрын

Cus humans are weak we need our creator

@sgsupreme17 Жыл бұрын

Because we are delusional animals

@ShaunMahabeer Жыл бұрын

How many Avatars do you need to see before you swallow your Ego and admit that there is something greater going on here?

@vjndr32 Жыл бұрын

1

@thstroyur Жыл бұрын

The dillema every James Cameron fan is faced with

@berlin6515 Жыл бұрын

Just one

@CastleRaccon Жыл бұрын

Humans in the being worship and in the end we will revert back to that, just like in everything we do; I wouldn't be surprised if eventually humans from the future start worshipping ai's and cosmic entities if we become space fairing

@ericphantri96734 10 ай бұрын

Because the first reason was all human had flaw and we wish to belief a higher power that deserve our service jusr like when we serve country we don't serve officials rather we serve the office they held that how government held in reverence

Ең жақсы KZbin

Why do humans worship supernatural agents? | Patrick McNamara

Пікірлер: 923