I feel this channel is so underrated.

@b.g.5869

3 жыл бұрын

How is it underrated? You should realize that this channel is just a KZread repository for (mostly very old) Closer To Truth episodes. Closer To Truth is a television show that airs on PBS on the US, and had been on the air for most of the last 21 years. It's not first and foremost a KZread channel.

@1031jmurray

2 жыл бұрын

It's because humanity has been dumbed down

@SkepticalZack

2 жыл бұрын

In my opinion this channel is usually an exercise in mental masturbation.

@kafiruddinmulhiddeen2386

Жыл бұрын

For newbies. It gets repetitive with no forward progress. It is designed to never propose real answers

@andrewsmith3257

Жыл бұрын

Just found it a few weeks ago and it definitely is

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in being a good person and living by good morals. That's the way we should be. Not because a god is waiting to judge us.

@Jenniferab32

Жыл бұрын

If there is no God then there is no “how it should be”. Strongest get to decide how it should be until they get knocked off the top by a stronger one who then decides a different “how it should be”

@uthman2281

10 ай бұрын

Without god there is no good or evil.

@danceworld7026

8 ай бұрын

I personally believe in God, but I think l killing someone is wrong, whether God says so or some People agree with that or not. It's instinctively wrong

@benohara284

5 ай бұрын

​@uthman2281 yes there is

@benohara284

5 ай бұрын

​@Jenniferab32 throughout history religion has taken control by force, even today talisman in Afghanistan, Christianity did forced conversion in past too,so the strongest ruled ,correct

I wonder how many people realize what a great program this actually is.

@HigherPlanes

2 жыл бұрын

All of us who watch it.

The whole world should be subcribed to this channel

@Beevreeter

3 жыл бұрын

Are those the people with a hole in their head?

When it comes to God,I'm totally like you Robert . I've a deep desire for a God, but i don't want to fool myself.

@bigdog4574

Жыл бұрын

You’re not fooling yourself God created this world for His amusement… what that mean is a Godly sense it’s not for us to understand until we die and enter the spiritual world. In the mean time we have to live in this world and follow its rules. Fact that you are watching these video and searching for truth and God is exactly what He intended. Gods intent is not to prove that he is real but to make you think and come to this conclusion your self, free and willing to enter His kingdom! He doesn’t want to force anyone there who doesn’t want to be there. He has done enough of that since Adam… Through Jesus Gid have is a second chance to show that we are ready for his second coming!

@ihatespam2

10 ай бұрын

@@bigdog4574nice story,but no reason, evidence or logic here. You just want it. You “testimony” is useless and without merit.

@ihatespam2

7 ай бұрын

@@KatyWellsKingsland all you have to do is exactly what you it’s did. What reason do we have to believe that a god just exists, For no reason? Ordered? Are you blind? Childhood leukemia, billions of extinct species, billions of stars and planets with no life.14 billion years with no life until 4 billion years ago? Earthquakes, tornado? Where is this order? It is a delusion to think that because in a fraction of time when things became slightly ordered due to entropy and allowed some life to start after billions of failed lives which suffered and went extinct and died from many ways, that for a few thousand years there was enough balance to bring about conscious intelligence which allows us to think about these things now, that the universe is in order?! You have to be extremely unaware of all of the disorder in the universe to even say that. Your desire to make up an operational definition of god to fill the gap in your knowledge is exactly what the God Of The Gaps is about. Every time humans hit a place where they can’t understand something, they stick god there. It is a place holder for our ignorance. He has been dismissed from, doer of all things, from causing the wind and making babies, to creator of the universe who sits back an just watches. It’s a failed idea. If he created the universe, but is uninvolved, he is irrelevant, if he is involved but don’t care, he is a monster. If he cares, then he can’t be all powerful, and therefore not god. Perhaps if you considered that the cosmos, could be eternal, which means things do not come from nothing. Nothing isn’t even a coherent concept. Have you ever seen some nothing? The cosmos is eternal, then everything from, evolution, to the lack of moral accountability makes sense. Clearly there is no Karma or objective morality. That’s why they all make up stuff like heaven and reincarnation, because we know good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. If god is real (like the all powerful, all caring type) nothing makes sense. We are highly motivated to believe in immortality despite our knowledge of the mortality of everything. Ernest Beckers Denial of Death, explains it better than I could.

As a fellow agnostic, the ending of this one really resonated with me. Good luck everyone in your quest to know the truth.

@Tom_Quixote

3 жыл бұрын

It's a bit ironic that you say you are an agnostic and on a quest to know the truth, because an agnostic is someone who believes we cannot know the final truth.

@williamlight2393

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tom_Quixote lol wat?

@flickedbic

3 жыл бұрын

@Quixote that's maybe half right. Just as there are strong atheists and weak atheists, there are strong agnostics and weak agnostics. A strong atheist or agnostic would make a positive claim "There is no god/ It cannot be known". As a weak agnostic I'm just saying I don't YET know if there is or isn't a God, but I think I can find out.

@MrFlameRad

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tom_Quixote no. Agnostic literally means doesn't know. It's not a truth claim about anything. Saying something's unknowable is a truth claim, which completely goes against the whole point of agnosticism

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

How can you identity "the truth'?

I’m waiting for God to give an opening statement before I begin my rebuttal.

@con.troller4183

2 жыл бұрын

"I Am that I Am!" Over to you, G Dem.

@Jenniferab32

Жыл бұрын

@@con.troller4183 I am who am 😉

@con.troller4183

Жыл бұрын

@@Jenniferab32 Well thanks for clearing that up. Being everything, everywhere, all the time, can get disorienting sometimes.

@ihatespam2

10 ай бұрын

@@con.troller4183that’s a quote from a book of myths, how is that a statement from a god?

My top 3 reasons for rejecting the existence of God : 1.) The problem of evil. 2.) The problem of divine hiddenness. 3.) The total lack of explanatory power of the God-hypothesis. God is consistent with arguably any empirical claim.

@onclesam1463

Жыл бұрын

@@GoddessTier Nice word salad !

@TheBlackDogChronicles

Жыл бұрын

@@GoddessTier No one says the existence of biological life is the process of 'luck'. That is a strawman. What is stated is that humans are a long line of progression from the molecules that formed in the exploding structures of stars. Humans are one part of a continuous chain of change. So apparently in making the universe this way, the god of the universe has the same level of concern if the universe ended with dust, or amoebas, or worms, or dinosaurs, or humans, or what may come afterwards. What part of this continuous chain is "its image"? It is only a story made up by people who are insisting that it was all done for our sake. What did the dinosaurs do to get wiped out of existence? Did they sin?

i dunno, it seems to me that a much simpler explanation for the so called god shaped hole in our hearts is, perhaps, arguably the most primal emotion we possess which is Fear. something like : strong people provide food, they provide shelter, they keep the predators away, they make us feel safe when we sleep, etc. now add "Super" to it . super strong people always DO and WILL provide food & shelter & safety. sounds like god to me, i dont know. good video thanx

Ironic that those theistic refutations essentially amount to "don't assume you know how God works or what his motivations are", when that's EXACTLY what religion makes its money doing on a regular basis. The only reason theism exists as an ideology is because ignorant and credulous humans started making those wild assumptions about reality, instead of looking for evidence to test any of their hypotheses. Some of those assumptions got passed through the generational "telephone game", were eventually written down with a bit of poetic flourish, unreliably translated, mashed together through an arbitrary selection of "canon", and then those words were used as an excuse to torture, enslave, and murder people by the hundreds of thousands.

As an atheist I watch and love your videos about God, but I really, really respect you for being brave enough to look into all options and offer us a great variety of knowledge from every angle. Thank you RLK!

@michaelkugler100

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what I am, but like you, I enjoy the videos and how he looks at every angle to get a better perspective of the subject matter. To me, knowledge is the key to understanding, but god is not one to understand. I hope to learn more and define myself one way or the other. Totally in agreement with your assessment of RLK.

All of this reminds me of one of my favorite jokes of all time. - "A man was late for an appointment, and approaching the place he needed to be, he began to pray, "God, if you give me a good parking spot I'll go to church every Sunday without fail and I'll offer tithes without fail and I'll ......................................"Never mind."

Thank you for these keep them coming, these are great!

Just listen to Robert's voice and forget your sufferings for a while 😌

I already know a great deal about these arguments, but had to watch regardless because this channel posts great content. One of my favorite KZread channels.

@suaptoest

Жыл бұрын

How can you study things about God when you don't even know everything about man and what human consciousness is?

Thanks so much for the greatest series ever...

This channel is a gem. I'm so glad I discovered it.

@pascalguerandel2771

Жыл бұрын

AP it's so brainwashed.

Thinking about existence of god is waste of time and nothing more.

@jaffarbaqi

3 жыл бұрын

It's wishful thinking.

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

Is time real?

I've been following youtube from the beginning...this is the best channel to ever exist. Great show and series.

@ibinfo-tube5063

Жыл бұрын

I agreed there is no even any thing there in comparison with them, if I have to say about I would say like this as the mighty stars floating on the fabric of universe so are these all wise men emerging in my sight because of Mr. Robert Lawrence one by one time to time and taking me more closer to the truth.

So basically, the theist argument as espoused by Mr. Platinga, amounts to little more than this: We don't know what God's will is. Then the question becomes, why even believe in such an entity? It seems to me ridiculous to even posit an omnipotent, omniscient being if we're not meant to understand any of it. We may as well imagine a super advanced alien civilization that can create universes but remains neutral to their outcome.

@kevinchong1589

2 жыл бұрын

a super advanced alien civilisation as you describe is sounds far more likely to me!

@ihatespam2

10 ай бұрын

His logic is weak

Primitive man: lightning is from god Then science explain with good detail how the difference in electric charge cause them, the air becomes conducive and so on... Theists: no, the only explanation is God. So it’s not about God of the gaps it’s about a god that “explains” everything even though there is a natural explanation

@flux9433

Жыл бұрын

Modern insane man:soo god exists but not in biological (material shape) as we tend to go towards the future we can see that the tehnology is getting better and better(it comes to realization) that god indeed was able to go through realms material or spiritual soo the foundation of the idea is that god himself came from other realm made the human as his material avatar in this realm this physical reality lets assume we already do have non physical realm and that the computer the internet in the future ppl might be able to stimulate this reality so in order to get inside the virtual world u must be able to transport your mind into it and what if we can make ppl to be born in that reality so in order for them to get back to the real world they must have body outside the virtual reality an avatar that will contain the mind of the outsider what if god himself did use such type of technology ages ago what if we are in stimulation made by god so in order for us to get back to the real world we must transfer our soul to the other realm but only by permission from god!

I would be wary of those that tell you how unfathomable God is yet proceed then to tell you what God is like.

@michaelanderson4849

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. They never explain how they have access to their "inside" information about this amazeballs being no one can understand, except them of course. it becomes even more silly when they start giving detailed descriptions of eventual limitations of this amazeballs being. It awakens an urge to pimp slap the bullshit out of them.

@ik1408

3 жыл бұрын

Religions are taking advantage of people's hope to have higher powers caring about them.

@michaelanderson4849

3 жыл бұрын

@@ik1408 Yes, and our inclination to explain what we don't understand with "god did it", fueled by the fear of our inevitable death.

@alejandrogonzalez1541

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. I've always thought the same.

@unclequack5445

3 жыл бұрын

I've been taught that NO mind of man or angel could ever fathom GOD through out all eternity.

THANK YOU FOR THE BRILLIANCE ❤️

"And you're doing pretty well" that response sums up Weinberg's argument neatly. One cannot overstate the significance of these videos. Thank you for this great service.

The way I was taught god (god is good, he loves us, He's perfect, etc;) has not panned out thus far

Very well done being not skewed to 1 side or the other

This species needs people like you. Thank you for existing, please continue to for as long as physically possible, so that I may learn more, and aspire to your level of critical analysis. We are here for one thing, and that is truth. Nothing more, and nothing less.

@joejohnson6327

9 ай бұрын

Silly human hubris.

📣If I have to say about I would say like this as the mighty stars floating on the fabric of universe so are these all wise men emerging in my sight through these episodes because of Mr. Robert Lawrence, one by one, time to time and taking me more closer to truth 🌌

I expected an interview with an NDE experiencer. Those fascinate me the most.

@Ascendlocal

3 жыл бұрын

And indeed, they are being studied. Some reviewed thus far by credentialed professionals, are truly open ended

Seemingly, aruments either for or against the existence of God are always predicated on the Old Testament understanding. But in my opinion this leaves so many closed doors. If I may, - God is the summation of all things. This means that he/she is more than the Holy Scriptures. I don't believe an argument exists which would usurp my faith. Because my trust in 'meaning ' can never be 'disproved'.

@b.g.5869

3 жыл бұрын

There's a word for what you're describing: pantheism.

Glad I found this.

I have yet to encounter an argument against the existence of *_a_* god that is not, in truth, an argument against *religion.*

@b.g.5869

3 жыл бұрын

Atheists and skeptics generally don't argue that god doesn't exist; they typically just point out the errors in arguments for the existence of god. But if one defines god as the creator of everything, that can certainly be demonstrated not to exist because it's incoherent. In order to be the creator of everything it would have to exist before it created, in which case there was already _something_ so there couldn't possibly be a creator of everything.

@truerealrationalist

3 жыл бұрын

@@b.g.5869 Creationism is an aspect of _religion._ There are thousands of deities that are _not_ held to have created the universe.

@b.g.5869

3 жыл бұрын

@@truerealrationalist The god of the most popular ones are however based on a god said to be the creator of everything, which is incoherent. There really aren't any dieties associated with a particular organized religion whose existence cannot be reasonably dismissed as utterly implausible. The only god conceptions that can't necessarily be dismissed as impossible are the more general and philosophical conceptions of what sort of things might reasonably be considered "god". This aspect of the god conversation is given surprisingly short shrift. People generally leap immediately into debating whether or not a god could exist without first coming to some agreement on what attributes something must possess in order to reasonably and necessarily considered "god". There are some conceptualizations of god that can't be dismissed as impossible but most can be. I think we can be reasonably certain that none of the gods said to have written books for humans exist.

@truerealrationalist

3 жыл бұрын

@@b.g.5869 I don't disagree with any of that; however, my point is that these are still arguments against _religion._ *A* god, *some* god, *any* god could very well exist, and this is all that _theism_ suggests.

@fraser_mr2009

2 жыл бұрын

But nasty allows for the universe to produce emotions. Emotions evolve from nasty. Without emotions you might aswell be an inanimate object.

This woman at the beginning of the video is absolutely brilliant. I’ve listened to many hours of people, smart people, rambling about these same questions. The way she quickly and intuitively skates through them is impressive.

@chucklombardo8167

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe God was a human being who lied to his fellow human beings that he was the creator

@drmontague6475

2 жыл бұрын

I could do better: If you've ever had a wet fart then this is proof that there is no intelligent designer and that we are a product of evolution.

@lllULTIMATEMASTERlll

2 жыл бұрын

@@drmontague6475 I can’t tell what you’re saying. Are you an evolution denier?

@drmontague6475

2 жыл бұрын

@@lllULTIMATEMASTERlll I'll try again. If you've ever had a wet fart then this is proof that there is no intelligent designer and that we are a product of evolution.

@HLD534

2 жыл бұрын

really, it was the weakest part I think

Robert: What are the strongest arguments against god? Atheists: *reply* Robert: *brings up none of them talking to the theist*

@WayneLynch69

3 жыл бұрын

Feynman said: "Science begins with a guess. That guess is computed to form an hypothesis. The guess/hypothesis is tested against nature. If it fails to conform to nature, IT'S WRONG....PERIOD!!" THERMODYNAMICS REFUSES CATEGORICALLY to provide THIS UNIVERSE with A BEGINNING...1st LAW! AN ETERNITY...2nd LAW!! (heat goes ONLY to cold, ultimately complete cold---it hasn't/isn't) THAT'S "NATURE" repudiating any hypothesis we are able to provide: begin/not begin. WHY Hawkings/Krauss er al shamelessly contrive self-licking ice cream cone universes: THEY KNOW they're FD OTHERWISE.. "ORIGINS" is the sine qua non of "Scientific Atheism"...it can't exist without it. TOOFNBAD!! YOU LOSE!....HAHAHAHAHA....HOWL!!!

@Ascendlocal

3 жыл бұрын

@@WayneLynch69 Not in Eternal Inflation Theory

@con.troller4183

2 жыл бұрын

@@WayneLynch69 Thermodynamics, as you misuse it, only applies within closed systems. It does not apply to the universe. A little science is a dangerous thing in the hands of lazy thinkers.

@TheBlackDogChronicles

Жыл бұрын

@@WayneLynch69 Showing that you don't understand particularly the first law of thermodynamics which is a closed system. We have no idea at all if the universe is a closed system or not, as we are limited to observation to the border of the cosmic background radiation. Before you attempt to badly defame scientists like Feynman, Hawking and Kraus, you should at least attempt to get at least ONE scientific law right! lol

Argument against God as a question: Explain to me how miracles can happen in a natural world?

What a good channel this is.

I wonder - after so many episodes, are we really getting any closer to truth...? I like the channel a lot, but am getting impatient about the lack of any conclusions. :)

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

You are running away by running after. Be still and know that "I am' God.

@b.g.5869

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreejithMU You should write fortune cookies.

@b.g.5869

3 жыл бұрын

You realize this is a PBS television show right? It's been on the air off and on for over 20 years. Most of these 'new' videos are over ten years old.

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

@@b.g.5869 Aham Brahmāsmi (अहम् ब्रह्मास्मि) - "I am Brahman" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4. 10 of the Yajur Veda). I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. Rumi If you can add something more I'll be more grateful.

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

@@b.g.5869 But the question is an age old one.

'There is no script' - but isn't the script the cause and effect of the universe from its origins until now? i.e. determinism. All is then purpose and teleology in the broadest sense of the context of the universe, and this in turn is reducible and mirrored in the cause and effect of smaller systems on earth, such as ecology, the weather etc etc

To say I wish God to exist is to say I wish the world to be supernatural, I wish the world to be one where magic nullifies the Laws of Nature.

As a Christian, I love these shows. I think the case for God is pretty airtight, so it is fascinating to see why others don’t believe.

Human mind is still incapable of solving mysteries even in our material/natural world. No one can affirm that there is a god or not. We might find out when we die, or maybe not.

I never argue with my imaginary friends because they always do what I want.

@maxspek1646

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the entire explanation of the story of god😂

"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." Voltaire

Unfortunately the fact of the matter is is that we will never know the truth until it is our time.

If you are going to discuss the existence or not of god, how about you first explain what god is?

@con.troller4183

2 жыл бұрын

This show is always short on definitions. That's why the gullible love it so much. They think it speaks to them when in reality it says the same nothing over and over.

It depends on your definition of God.

I watch a lot of KZread videos. This channel is the best

nice final scene

Consciousness has got to be the most important aspect of the universe, because without it nothing exists... even if it actually does. But, if the purpose of the universe is to foster biological life, leading to consciousness, why have dinosaurs 🦕 doing nothing for one hundred million years?

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

they didn't do nothing, they evolved.

@Ascendlocal

3 жыл бұрын

And most likely, had they not gone extinct by the asteroid, homo sapiens, simply by statistics of chance, would never have evolved. If you accept this different outcome further, neither would have, our degree of intelligence or level of CONSCIOUSNESS to observe, understand the Universe

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

@Lisa Jordan i'm not sure that the non-existance of time has been established but you're right about the birds. :-)

@sureshrao8027

2 жыл бұрын

Let's not be proud ourselves, listen the truth, and truth is always truth.

@ihatespam2

10 ай бұрын

Why is it that we have zero evidence of consciousness until recently in a universe of 14 billion years, is it the foundation of the universe? That view is solipsistic. Consciousness evolved, there is no purpose.

- But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. Homer Simpson (in reply to Pascal wager)

God is a reflection of the highest form of morality we can think of, connectedness. God is an explanation of this FEELING. The Abrahamic God is a personal God, which is hard to believe because we haven't seen him. So I believe that God is a feeling of deep connectedness with the universe and the FEELING I get when this realization dwans upon me.

@con.troller4183

2 жыл бұрын

"God is a reflection of the highest form of morality we can think of, connectedness." Why do you need a loaded word like god to describe that? Is Yahweh, drowner of worlds, killer of children, the highest form of morality? How about Thor?

@ihatespam2

10 ай бұрын

The Abrahamic god is a monster who supports slavery, bigotry, sexism and demands the murder of innocent children. How can he be an example of morality. It is patently ridiculous. Your feelings and morality are instinctual and far superior to Yahweh.

@Jcs57

4 ай бұрын

Another feels good if don’t ask to many questions therefore god more specifically my particular god.

Thank you for positing these questions. I don’t understand anyone wanting a god or a heaven, but it’s important to shine light on the question. To me it seems primitive and remedial, but apparently it’s still has a pull on most of the planet despite the lack evidence and lack of need for a god. It’s frankly sad that the world is so caught in this mortality denial and the narcissistic desires to live forever.

The real question that people want to be answered: Is there God who loves and cares about humans and has something better for humans in this life or in the alleged after-life? But the existence of loving God clashes with the tremendous amount of suffering that humans experience in their lives. To explain this contradiction - "loving God and suffering humans" - that is the important question to be answered. And it is the equivalent of "the presence of evil" pointed out by that theist in the video. That is, the presence of evil and suffering of humans really equals lack of God's love and care for humans. Because omnipotent God surely can prevent suffering and defeat evil. So, what excuses do religions offer for the combo of "loving God and suffering humans?" A traditional excuse in Christianity is that God will reward people, who suffered in their lives, after their deaths. The huge flaw of such an argument/excuse is that we, humans, are made of our memories of our experiences. Horrible experiences in a human being's life profoundly and permanently change the state of mind and soul of that human. They remain ever-present in the human mind, thus making the human unhappy. And how God would make such human happy? By erasing its memories of suffering. But those memories are linked to other memories of a person, and erasing the person's memory would have inevitably led to erasing that human as a person. Whatever left would be a happy idiot with erased memories. The person, who lived and suffered, would have been erased permanently along with his or her memories. So, that's clearly not how someone can be made happy. Hence, the contradiction of "suffering humans and loving omnipotent God who loves but does not care to help humans when they suffer" - the contradiction remains and it is a strong argument against the existence of caring and loving God. That is, God might exist, but the way of how God does not wish to prevent human suffering tells us that God does not care. And one more note for those crazy pseudo-humans, who will rush to respond to my comment with insults and threats - as it is customarily done on this Channel's forums, don't do that. Because whatever bad you will wish toward me, it will return back to you.

@ezbody

3 жыл бұрын

Very well put 👍

Arguments against a god. 1. God is just a man made concept. 2. There is no proof or evidence of a god. 3.There is no proof that a god is needed for the universe to exist or to be created.

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

What's not a concept?

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

What will prove your proofs?

@sreejithMU

3 жыл бұрын

What proof have "you' got for proving the existence of universe and what will prove it to be true? Actually what is truth? If you can, please define truth.

very interesting channel. kudos

We are so lucky to have a god named God ! Without God, we would have no answer to the penultimate question.... "Why is there something rather than nothing ?" All we need now is the answer to the ultimate question.

@raccoon6072

2 жыл бұрын

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I don't have arguments against existence of God(s)/deities/demiurge(s). I have arguments against existence of a good, omni-benevolent God: Epicureus’ Trillema (best combined with modified Benatar's asymmetry of benefits and harms). No good God would have created any sentient beings, nor allowed any suffering. And we know that morality is either objective _or_ merely arbitrary (and thereby imposed/authoritarian/tyrannical), and that we can judge God's actions from Euthyphro’s Dilemma (morality can’t be arbitrary via any alleged/purported/claimed/claimable authority or divine-command and that it is objective and universally applies to all moral agents, including any deities/demiurges). I think theism is very dangerous, it teaches cultivating the ultimate Stockholm Syndrome. It teaches arbitrary, hijacked morality (do as I say regardless if it's right; you've been created with a purpose: to show gratitude for being created, needlessly tested for faith which is your vice-turned-virtue ticket (and the only ticket) to Heaven, you can 'sin' and harm others all you want as long as you eventually (but no later than on your deathbed, though preferably on a rinse-and-repeat fashion basis) ask your creator to forgive you your wrongdoings on behalf of those you've wronged. For God is all-mighty, can do the impossible: turn vice into virtue, forgive on behalf of others, divide by zero, square a circle... Also see: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq112peLhaeve84.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoCi1btumdKfZpc.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/pmlmy8aenM--aM4.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/eX-cxKmhn8-sf6g.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/podlya1xZtnQqco.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6yGm6qwe7G7pJs.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGeLxI-cZaenpLQ.html "You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children, or you have a God who simply watches and says: _"When you're done, I'm going to punish you."._ If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That's the difference between me and your God." -- Tracie Harris, _The Atheist Experience_ =====

@Ali-jw1xo

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, If there was an omnipotent, omniscient, omni-altruistic god Then, there would have been no misery, pain or evil whatsoever in the world ever. Which isn't the case, so either there is no "god" or god is not "omnipotent, omniscient and omni-altruistic". There could have been "deities" though, maybe aliens or ancient advanced civilizations of earth. etc But no "all powerful all good god" at all.

@KrwiomoczBogurodzicy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ali-jw1xo, We're in agreement, Ali.

@odiupickusclone-1526

3 жыл бұрын

If God was good i would never conclude that he isn't good because he would't allow such gratuitous torture of my innocent soul! I came to the conclusion that he isn't good, so either he isn't good or he doesn't exist. Since he exists then the only possibility which remains is trueness of his wickedness. If i am wrong (and i want to be wrong with all my heart), i am eager to see how and why i'am wrong...do i ask too much?

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

i agree with much of what you say but you are just saying, there is no proof. one question though, why would a good god not create sentient beings?

@KrwiomoczBogurodzicy

3 жыл бұрын

@@odiupickusclone-1526, I think I largely agree with what you wrote. I don't know why you would want to be wrong on the God question--unless you mean something like you only imagined all this collective suffering (kinda like the Matrix thing), however since there is no false sensation, even your tiniest discomfort, worry, anxiety, indecision is something a benevolent God wouldn't have allowed/accepted, even if you were the only entity to have ever suffered anything, be it merely a second of mild discomfort.

Arguments against bigfoot. The list goes on and on. 🤣

@arthurwieczorek4894

2 жыл бұрын

Bigfoot far more likely than God.

This is one case where I think your conclusion is totally right. It's the experience of a certain conception of God that proves its existence to believers, it could never be a argument as they are all based on premises that can never be secure.

@rl7012

Жыл бұрын

' it could never be a argument as they are all based on premises that can never be secure.' Pot kettle. The entirety of science rests on fundamental assumptions.

Speaking as an unremarkable, fataly flawed human being as we all are, and the simple fact that God is synonymous with religion (mostly) tells me where the right side of this argument most likely is.

God is NOT REAL.

Most importantly, there are no logical arguments supporting the position that god is real.

I am impressed with your professionalism, analytical thinking, courage, and honesty with which you explore all the arguments for and against God and all the important philosophical and scientific issues. That is why I have subscribed to your channel Closer To Truth. Exploring all the arguments for and against God, at the end of the day, we may feel ourselves undecided. What can we do? Let me share my experience. I think this would also be interesting to our colleagues on social media who wish or do not wish God to exist. In the above situation, I think we should explore the very argumentation as such, proof, which we rely on when exploring truth. Interestingly, proof is not completely rational; it also has an irrational component, and this became clear in Godel's incompleteness theorem: in a math system, there are true statements that cannot be proved by the axioms of the system. Godel's theorem has an important counterpart in physics - non-determinism, the existence of physical events that cannot in principle be predicted by physics. The unprovable true statements and unpredictable indeterministic events are the irrational components of scientific theories. In addition, proof is based on laws of logic, but are these laws provable? If they were provable, their proof would also be based on the very laws of logic, and this is a logical circle. So, laws of logic are unprovable. Therefore, they are the irrational components of our theories, as well. Axioms are also unprovable, and they are also irrational despite being obvious. Although science and philosophy should contain as little irrational as possible, the irrational is unevadable. Thus, when exploring truth, we cannot only rely on rational thinking; we also have to use irrational thinking, intuition, visceral conviction. This is what we can do when we feel ourselves undecided in the issue of God's existence and in any other issues at the end of the day. Of course, the question arises: Does truth depend on our intuitive choice? Or, is there objective truth? Objective truth does exist, but at the end of the day, some people's intuition fails to access it, and other people's intuition succeeds in accessing it.

I CANT believe this doesnt have millions of views. It probably did on tv

If you really break it all down, everything about a God is rooted in imagination. That's why there have been thousands of gods from past to present. None have been demonstrated to exist outside of the imagination. Arguements for a God are just that. Arguements. You can't argue something into existence. Lol

@TimeisReel

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, no one knows what they were before they were Born. And no knows what happens after Death. No one has Come Back... It's all Wishful thinking and Tradition.

@scooby3133

2 жыл бұрын

@@TimeisReel that is exploitable and many know it and do it.

@TimeisReel

2 жыл бұрын

@@scooby3133 A lot of Cash in Religion...

All the traditional gods, have nothing to do with the real creator, he’s not human he is energy, same energy everywhere in the universe. In this life and the next one stay in the light.

@DanieleNiero

3 жыл бұрын

So it is "The Force"!? Can we measure it? I mean if it is energy...

@MrRamon2004

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanieleNiero I don’t see how, he’s in every dimension. In this life and the next one stay in the light.

@DanieleNiero

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrRamon2004 How do you know? Because you are telling me that it can't be proven

@MrRamon2004

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanieleNiero I cannot proved, I was there. We are light.

@DanieleNiero

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrRamon2004 I'm light? I'm pretty sure I'm not made of photons

I would rather believe in Him and He not exist than to not believe and find out He does.

@Jcs57

4 ай бұрын

Since we have no provable points of knowledge concerning “him” we have no way to determine any positive or negative aspects of accepting the bald assertion that “him” exists or what “him” expects or any consequences attributable to those concepts. Preacher- You can’t trust mans word only gods word can be trusted! Child- Who told you that? Preacher- It is written in the Bible gods living word! Child- Didn’t men write the Bible? Preacher- It was divinely inspired! Child- Who told you that? Preacher- Child you’re going to burn in hell forever! Child- Who told you that?

Truth is not an 'argument' and neither is it 'against' anything. It simply exists as the thing that it is.. Truth merely, by default, exposes that which is not true.. But we ARE aspects of the nature of our existence. If the nature of existence is infinite, then we MAY have intuition of that state of being.. So here is one of the main problems.. People have a very poor understanding of what the word 'infinite' actually means.. This is not any kind of 'fault', but just that we have evolved within the confines of what appears to be a finite environment, and we thus try to look at things in finite ways, also justifying those 'finite' thoughts. When I first approached the 'problem' I had the same difficulties, so it takes our minds a lot of effort to reach another perspective of understanding, but it IS achievable.. Firstly, there cannot be more than one 'instance' of infinitude, otherwise a secondary 'thing' would render them both 'finite'. So we are describing a 'oneness'.. Also, it can have no 'beginning' nor 'ending' as these would also necessitate a secondary 'thing' (or the utter nonsense of a 'nothing'!), so we are describing 'eternity' when we apply 'time' concepts. Then, we have to admit that it can only be the one thing that interconnects all other 'things', and we deduce this to be 'Space', necessarily.. All references to 'size' or 'direction' do not apply to the nature of infinitude, and thus have no relevance to our understanding of the true nature of existence. 'Measurement' has limitations.. When we point to any position in Space, we effectively create a 'beginning' to any subsequent forms of measurement, which only has relevance to the entity desiring to understand said 'measurement'. This does not make it a feature of the nature of reality, only a desire from a Human perspective. spaceandmotion

......the reasoning mind of mankind pursues errors, we want "God' to prove his existence by oppressive tyrannical means which would go contrary to the nature of an "all powerful, all knowing, loving" God.

Video seems kind of short, considering the possible number of arguments...

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

there are a great number of these videos, covering all aspects of god, consciousness, and cosmos.

@brokenacoustic

3 жыл бұрын

@@cosmikrelic4815 Meant my comment as more of a joke than anything

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

@@brokenacoustic oh, ok, good one!

Wow Peter Atkins is awesome. Got a good laugh from his tuned to rock comment.

Wow they all look so young in this episode!

Weak arguments.

@MonikaLandkasova

3 жыл бұрын

Can you state some better ones for or against?

"I see Sue target human religion more than God" Ok show me some one whos obsessed with God and everything they talk about comes mainly from one place , the religions and their books. 'God' doesnt appear unless you have contact with religion in some form. I agree with Sue. Mystical experience has nothing to do with God.

@CrackBaby3

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@AshutoshSingh-on8zt

3 жыл бұрын

Its the Abrahamic cultural god she is limiting her arguments to.

@simplicityistheultimatesop6571

3 жыл бұрын

@@AshutoshSingh-on8zt She’s talking about the Christian god.

@Ascendlocal

3 жыл бұрын

One word. Indoctrination

@invisiblechurch9621

3 жыл бұрын

@@simplicityistheultimatesop6571 She mentions Allah by name 🤣

God is , by definition, omnibenevolent. Reality definitely disproves that adjective. Suffering and evil cannot co/exist with an omnibenevolent God.

@rl7012

Жыл бұрын

You can't have free will if everything is always happy joyous and free.

@bernardliu8526

Жыл бұрын

@@rl7012 I refer to natural disasters such as earthquakes, mosquitoes, plagues, hurricanes, tsunamis, and many other nasty things. Human free will, if it exists, has nothing to do with these.

@rl7012

Жыл бұрын

@@bernardliu8526 Are they evil though? All of those things are nature doing her thing. They are not acts of evil. Bad weather is not evil. Earthquakes are not evil. Tsunami's are not evil. They are all products of the natural living world. Can human beings suffer because of them? Yes of course, but that does not make the natural world evil. We are on a living planet. So what may be bad for some humans, could be good for nature. Same like if a wild animal kills a human. Is the wild animal evil?

Trillions of universes ? What an awesome idea !

God is an anagram for Dog 😱 Perhaps there’s more to our furry friends than meets the eye

Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong, the moderns version of it are wrong too. Statements at 2:30 is wrong. Check with the intelligent design movement, James Tour, Douglas Axe, Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe etc..

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

no, darwin's theory is not wrong. intelligent design is covered in some of the other videos. how can you believe that nothing evolves? look around you, look at the flynn effect, look at how animals have adapted to their environment, look at DNA and how we as humans have remnants of DNA from earlier species.

@jeancuivre

3 жыл бұрын

@@cosmikrelic4815 The theory of evolution is wrong. DNA changes over time and accumulates mutations, those mutations destroy the DNA over time, they do not have a creative effect, take a look at genetic diseases. Speciation occur and populations can split, that's about all. Chimps remain chimps.

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeancuivre mutations are evolution. they do not destroy DNA, that's ridiculous, andwhat have genetic diseases got to do with anything. chimps may remain chimps but they evolve, they grow more hair in cold climates, they have gotten vastly more intelligent over the generations. some of them are smarter than trump. i think you may mis-understand evolution which is not surprising since mot people that deny evolution are ignorant of the actual theory.

@jeancuivre

3 жыл бұрын

@@cosmikrelic4815 I know this theory better than you, I have studied more than you. I gave you reference check Stephen Meyer out. See you

@cosmikrelic4815

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeancuivre no you don't, you don't seem to understand the first thing about it. and as for having studied more than me that is laughable, how on earth would you know? stephen meyer is an intelligent design lunatic. if you find a watch in the jungle then there must be a watchmake crap. you are easily led.

Depends on your definition of God.

If God exists, I’m blessed; if not, I’m lucky.

I think "fining tuning" is the most intellectually dishonest position in the history of the humanity.

@Ascendlocal

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure what you mean. Eternal Inflation theory resolves it. The Anthropic Principal. We're here by chance.

@1974jrod

3 жыл бұрын

Because fine tuning just happened.

GOD doesn’t waste time to argue when the time is up you will all know GOD is real

One of the qualities believers attribute to God is that He is Omniscient. How do we know that God knows everything, or even anything at all?

all i can say lawerance is your statement at the end engenfers a feeling that hard to accurately describe

Whether God exists or not, we can say everything can become intelligent. That's something to celebrate

God is all information that exists.

Luck or infinite worlds...eh okay, ill keep my faith in the First and the Last. I enjoy the videos though of course and hope we all find guidance

The problems of suffering. Why? Why not?

GOD is a mystery but knowable, many religions say & show the paths too, I understand, Sir. MeenaC

@ihatespam2

10 ай бұрын

Nice story,with no evidence, just more stories. And “know” and “mystery” are opposites so your statement is contradictory. Therefore meaningless.

There are questions which don't have answers, God knows.

Sue is a very wise woman.

If I am wrong I will never know, if they are wrong....

The burden of proof for a God is on the one who believes, not on the one who does not. The one who does not believe in God cannot "prove God does not exist." That's at least a logical fallacy. Non-believers can only question whether or not any supposed God operates according to their cherished principles. What is interesting is that a non-believer will ultimately find his foundation of disbelief in the fact that evil exists, so it stops being a question of "does God exist," but, "What is the character of God?" The fact that there is a Creator God is almost incontrovertible. The question we should all be asking is, Who is God?

Sue doesn't even have an argument. "I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly" Vincent van Gogh.

No, we're not. We stay at where we begin in understanding God.

What would count as evidence for the existence of God?

The arguments against gods are compelling in their own right but for me the arguments for god are reason enough to ignore such a concept. Take their reasoning and distill them to their essence and you end up with if you just believe then it’s true. Under that notion I can wish into existence literally anything I can imagine.

As the ancient Roman philosopher Polybius once said...to paraphrase...there would be no human societies without "God," as societies are sustained by the risk of punishment after death.

The one being in control isn't the simplest answer because the question of its origin will always hang over it

The universe could never tune itself 10 to 120 by itself,an intelligent mind had to be involved.