I love to hear Professor Sean Carroll speaking in this enlightening manner, it enhances my understanding of the world and universe around me, it helps me also to stay away from religious nuts & apologists.

He is the best by some margin,and i have listened to them all for decades,religion is a model and he understands models.

@thejackbancroft7336

2 жыл бұрын

Who else would you recommend? I’m pretty well-read on Bertrand Russell and Chris Hitchens, Dawkins and the rest of his circle less so. But I’m familiar with them.

@AFMMarcelD

2 жыл бұрын

@@thejackbancroft7336 Indeed, if you never have read anything on professor Carl Sagan I highly recommend “The Demon Hunted World” it started me on my path to question people’s delusions, idiocy old traditions and mythology, also “Billions and Billions” by Carl Sagan, his last book is an eye opener…cheers to enlightenment. 🍻

Sean just slays. It's like a 20-year veteran chess master going against an 8 year-old Pokemon player.

@5tonyvvvv

5 жыл бұрын

So we should believe in infinite unseen untestable universes, rather than God

@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

4 жыл бұрын

@@5tonyvvvv It's at least easier to believe.

@rockysandman5489

3 жыл бұрын

@@5tonyvvvv We have evidence of one universe, thereby raising the likelygood of a universe existing to 1, and if one universe exists then it may be that more universes exist. We have no evidence of a god, thereby the likelyhood of a god existing is 0.

@scambammer6102

2 жыл бұрын

@@5tonyvvvv I like how you snuck in "untestable" which is exactly NOT what Sean says, or naturalists believe, but it IS what theists accept. Managing to both lie and be a hypocrite is an art form. Well done.

@tonymaurice4157

2 жыл бұрын

@@scambammer6102 There is no way to test for this unseen infinite universe generating mechanism, it's the same as saying God did it.. Abiogenesis is an even bigger disaster! And if they ever produce life in the lab all that will prove is highly contrived environments and intelligent design!

8:25 "@Birthing Vaginas" The fuck?!? Lol 🤣

Thank you, Leandro Macedo, for editing this video!

Sean is just so clear in his thoughts

Leandro Macedo Thank You for the post.

I really enjoy listening to Sean Carroll. It also helps to pass the time while at work. I have heard Eric Hovind say that without God we can't know anything. This is entirely false and for a logical reason. If there is a god that performs miracles then all of science is out the window. It means that anything can happen at any time that goes against the laws of physics. With god, we couldn't know anything (for sure). At anytime miracles could happen at god's will. However, without god, that is, without miracles, then we can depend on science and observation. Well, that's how I see it.

@horkade

8 жыл бұрын

+brigham2250 In a similar way, Carl Sagan said that an universe that changes all the time following no rules would be impossible for science to investigate it. And an universe that never changed wouldn't be interesting for scientifc inquiry. Just an universe like ours - that changes but following some known laws - is one in which science is possible.

@brigham2250

8 жыл бұрын

Leandro Macedo Thanks for the details about Sagan. I haven't read his work, but I'm in good company if some of my thoughts mirror his.

@brigham2250

8 жыл бұрын

angelwolff90 richard doom Yes, you have convinced me. Sean Carroll is a no good dirty liar! If you ever see him, tell him I said so. Thanks!

@guy0172

7 жыл бұрын

+angelwolff90 Chef Richard is he more nonsensical than Christianity? don't answer that, nothing can beat Christianity for nonsense and ridiculousness.

@frederickj.7136

6 жыл бұрын

Angelwolf...whatever: We can easily tell a desperately outclassed crackpot here in KZread comments... one lacking both counter-evidence (100%) and evidence of ascribing to commonly held moral principles and standards... because he [she] apparently thinks an example of a convincing rebuttal is to start off with a five word sentence -- *three* of which are in caps -- followed by *four* exclamation points. You can "shout" even louder, but it won't help you.

Thank you for making this video. Would you mind posting links to the original videos as well? I'm always looking for more Sean Carroll videos. Thank you!

@horkade

8 жыл бұрын

+Rich Baker I put the links in the description.

@RichBaker

8 жыл бұрын

+Leandro Macedo Thanks so much!

@horkade

8 жыл бұрын

+Rich Baker You're welcome.

Religious Law, like any law or lore, is based on presumptions formed from probabilistic precedents, the difference with science is that those presumptions are in a constant process of retesting by experiment. So if morality is constantly reinforced in its practice, then that would be a similar process to science. The universe is a continuous process and we are integrated components, the compound tips of waves of probabilistic information most of which has a longer duration than bodily existence. The person you are at any time is changing and the exact combination of events of which you are a component will never return, even though most of the waves are conserved overall. It's shifting relativity, not solid certainty, because most information is dispersed, (in a quantified logical and mathematical way), according to the process that connects uncertainty and exclusion in principle.

Last argument is fraking mental!

Bravo! Mr. Carroll

+Leandro Macedo Thanks!

@horkade

8 жыл бұрын

+Leif Urdaneta You're welcome.

When asked about slavery, etc., Christians say 'how can we understand god'. I love the idea that the bible should have scientific information. Imagine god trying to explain quantum mechanics in the bible. Now that would be impossible to understand.

Starting at 6:36, Sean replies "We have no good reason to believe math..." :-o

@starfishsystems

2 жыл бұрын

Correct. We don't BELIEVE math, because no aspect of belief is necessary. We're able to EXPLICITLY DERIVE every mathematical proof or lemma that has ever existed. And this is completely the normal practice when teaching math as well. Nobody says, "Here's a bunch of rules for doing differential calculus. Just take them on faith." Instead the concept of differentiation is presented in terms of limits, in order to show a robust means by which we can avoid dividing by zero. And then that concept is applied to various canonical formulae so as to construct the rules for differentiation. You're always given a thorough look under the hood before you think about buying the car. So yes, we have no reason to "believe" math. We have excellent reason understand and apply it.

@abptlm123

2 жыл бұрын

@@starfishsystems I'm pretty sure Sean was referring to Gödel's incompleteness theorems. He proved that any set of axioms you could posit as a possible foundation for math will inevitably be incomplete; there will always be true facts about numbers that cannot be proved by those axioms. He also showed that no candidate set of axioms can ever prove its own consistency. His incompleteness theorems meant there can be no mathematical theory of everything, no unification of what’s provable and what’s true. What mathematicians can prove depends on their starting assumptions, not on any fundamental ground truth from which all answers spring.

does he play drums... reminds me of neil peart

There are no good object credit giving arguments.

@Vislav

6 жыл бұрын

I do not know if i understood you correctly but my answer is this: There's logic and evidence you cannot beat, arguments based on that are objectively valid.

@5tonyvvvv

5 жыл бұрын

So we should believe in infinite unseen untestable universes, rather than God

Mindless object credit giver.

It is so depressing to see, over and over again, that professional religionists (at least those in the big 3 western religions), and the scientists who "debate" them, always confuse "religion" with the religious mythology associated therewith. But, to be fair, I think that is unfortunately a confusion which is near universal in the western world. What "religion" has to teach us is how to strip away all our preconceptions, and yes that leads to an infinite logical regression (sorry, but suck it up!), and directly confront (apprehend) "reality" (whatever that may be - no speculation here) without concepts, images, myths, numbers, words, etc. That produces a state of meditation, which comes directly from certain religious practice traditions, a fact which even the scientists who promote it as therapy are too embarrassed to admit.

@craigknepley6021

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but once you get to that point you don’t need the religions anymore. Anyone can sit down and close their eyes for 30 minutes. Doesn’t require a 3,000 year old religious tradition.