"Some people still believe the Earth is balanced on the back of an elephant." That's four elephants and a turtle for your information!

@ExtantFrodo2

9 жыл бұрын

RIP Terry.

@ourorboros2

9 жыл бұрын

Oook

@ExtantFrodo2

9 жыл бұрын

***** There's a rumor that there's a tortoise at the bottom....

@infuscolumen

9 жыл бұрын

ExtantFrodo2 Blasphemy!

@h8stupidppl

9 жыл бұрын

***** The truth is that the cheese is made of moon... Its written on this piece of papper that I called "The real bable".... I totaly didnt made it up on a piece of papper

The moon is made of cheese Wallace and Gromit went there and ate some

@sjames1955

8 жыл бұрын

+188basstrom crackin'

@RastaPilot737

7 жыл бұрын

wish that to be true.... all that cheese!!

@188basstrom

7 жыл бұрын

The cheesemakers bribed NASA not to go back to the moon

@DarthGangsta

7 жыл бұрын

must be why there's no more Apollo missions :(

@chameleonedm

7 жыл бұрын

What you say must be true because it was represented once in the past. Religion.

The Dalai Lama ~ "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change."

@jellydee123

7 жыл бұрын

Jerry VanNuys Hinduism and Buddhism is the closest man has got to understanding god

@jellydee123

7 жыл бұрын

valhalla 2073 Yep, it's just a BIG shame these omnipotent, boss type god religions are of the majority, the world would be a much nicer, loving place without them

@jazzblack666

7 жыл бұрын

Buddhism is actually, an atheist religion. Budha is something you and me could one day become, if we put our mind to it, is a mental state, not a divine person. One of the principles of Buddhism is actually to acknowledge that the only thing moving us is energy, and therefore we are one with ourselves, the universe and nature. Thus, there is no individual thought that counts above the rest, there can be no ego and pride, only respect and selfness. Even Nietzsche said it would be wrong to equate Buddhism with Christianity, one teaches you to overcome pain and be the better self you can be (although knowing that at the end you are just a grain of sand lying on the vast and calm seashore), the other tells you to kneel and pray and worship images and carry on with a made-up guilt. Heidegger and Schoppenhauer(particulary the last one) were astonished with eastern buddhist philosophy and knowledge, because is not a religion as we conceive religion in a Abrahamic way, it's a pathway to overcome pain. A truly natural way of living, and most importantly, being.

@mrlozmoore

7 жыл бұрын

there is no such thing as an 'atheist religion' so you need to work on that. also there's no evidence to suggest that we get an afterlife; which is a core belief of buddhism.

@jazzblack666

7 жыл бұрын

I do need to work on that, I find it quite interesting actually. And yes, denial of a superior enthity(spelling?) is one of the principles of Buddhavacana, the book of "Mahāyāna" buddhism. Afterlife is not defined as Abrahamic religions concieved it, it's complete a complete lack of awareness that happends when you die, and it doesn't take you to an individual field of knowledge, you don't know that you're dead because you have become one with yourself and the universe. You might say it's like Spinoza uses to put it, which unfortunatelly i don't recall the precise name, but these comes to an understanding of yourself with nature and energy as a whole. Just like pessimits and nihilists, and they are both influenced by buddhsim, let's call it Nietzsche or Schoppenhauer. And yes, They are atheists as well, and so am I.

I too yell strawman at anyone that disagrees with me.

@piccolo917

7 жыл бұрын

in that case you should just carry a few actual mini strawman's with you, just to make it a little more fun

@yashuafly6342

5 жыл бұрын

Whats a stawman? Like no brain? Wizard of oz reference? I never heard this term before..

@bladesmith5927

4 жыл бұрын

@@yashuafly6342 it's slang for homosexual

@pablolloyd1450

3 жыл бұрын

haha

@lagrangiankid378

3 жыл бұрын

@Frank Brown Biological evolution is a well established fact as much as the roundness of Earth is. Teaching creationism (i.e. evolution denial) is as objectively wrong as teaching flat earth or geocentrism. The comparison was therefore appropriate.

epic priest is awesome "does the lady want to keep talking"

@pondartinc4002

8 жыл бұрын

+Robin Ng Coming from a priest wearing a dress.......Its all funny.......and strange.

@seanmurphy1984

8 жыл бұрын

+Pondart Inc I think its a moo-moo lol

@gendoruwo6322

6 жыл бұрын

coming from a priest wearing a dress, that line is even more humiliating... to 'the lady'.

@LeelooMinai

6 жыл бұрын

It was an instant head-shot considering the context - no response to this one:)

@cocricklewood4441

6 жыл бұрын

Wearing a dress? He's got a shirt and dog collar on?

for the first time ever, I want to high five a priest

@vonfaahquard8532

8 жыл бұрын

Lol

@mcrettable

8 жыл бұрын

+Dylan Perry Oh please.. priests aren't bad people who happen to be priests are bad

@tubemagpie

8 жыл бұрын

+Von Faahquard Me too..... as a teacher and a parent.......

@vonfaahquard8532

8 жыл бұрын

tubemagpie where and what do you teach, if I may ask? I hope ur not somewhere that there is major pressure to teach creationism in schools. I cant see it happening, but if it did it would be such a huge step backwards

@lechevaliermalfet1

8 жыл бұрын

+Von Faahquard I think he C of E,which are know to be very liberal.

I'm an Atheist and i hate it when people say religious people are idiots ... this man is definitely intelligent

@sleazybtd

7 жыл бұрын

But he's the minority in a sea of idiots.

@noire1706

7 жыл бұрын

sleazybtd true, I wish it wasn't like that tho

@mvidale1

7 жыл бұрын

+xDark Star117x I am an atheist, anti-theist and anti-religious, Religious people are only delusional on the one topic - A personal god. This is not to say they are not intelligent but the ones who accept the facts and separate that from their beliefs are acceptable but it is the creationist who are retarded because they are willfully ignorant which makes you an idiot by definition. I am with this priest all the way. Teach facts to the kids and if parents want to push their bullshit in the privacy of their own home it is fine. Let the kids grow up, turn gay and hate their parents for this indoctrination.

@gjeacocke

3 жыл бұрын

@@mvidale1 i study law. Atheists can not trust facts. Alcohol and drugs are bad for you ESPECIALLY with vulnerable ppl through science and observational EVIDENCE. Do you permit ppl to enjoy them? Yes! Is love personal? Gods love is personal. Or do you have love very mixed up in your head?

@freewheels7544

3 жыл бұрын

My dad has a theology degree but despite thst he introduced me to evolutionism and manny other scientifical belifes , i'm not an atheist but i do consider that religious people take the bible too literally and without any interpretation or simbolism

"I don't want to believe, i want to know!" -Carl Sagan

@shroomer8294

3 жыл бұрын

Based

@roydamanna

3 жыл бұрын

@@shroomer8294 Nederlander!!! TIMMMMYYYYYYYY OUWE PASTOOR RUKKER alles goed?

@shroomer8294

3 жыл бұрын

@@roydamanna Ken ik jou? Alles is goed hoor. Hoe’s ie met jou?

@roydamanna

3 жыл бұрын

@@shroomer8294 Met slechte mensen gaat het altijd goed toch! Het is vooral het geweten in mensen die onnodig lijden met zich meebrengt. De natuur heeft geen genade. Aangezien wij natuurproducten zijn leven we niet zoals het zou moeten. Het gaat je goed! Maar wees niet te goed... te veel mensen willen deugen.. alleen via opoffering van je tijd,geld,veiligheid,comfortzone laat je blijken dat je het ECHT MEENT.

@shroomer8294

3 жыл бұрын

@@roydamanna Ik bedoel het gaat prima met me. Oké. Niet geweldig of ontroerend slecht. Ik dan dat als je nooit fout wilt zijn het beste is om te zeggen: “Ik ben.” En het daar bij te laten.

Oh my goodness, I've met the guy who interrupts him with the "straw man" claim. He's a crationist professor of thermodynamics and we argued about carbon dating for about an hour in Canterbury town xD

@pondartinc4002

8 жыл бұрын

+MichaelLeroi Isn't that spelled "crayation'?

@MichaelLeroi

8 жыл бұрын

oops...

@noevilea8370

8 жыл бұрын

+Pondart Inc that`s because these people haven't progressed from crayons to pencils. Pencils are sharp so these people could be dangerous to themselves or others.

@nobodysfool8200

8 жыл бұрын

I met him too and we talked about his girly voice.

@ArcHelios117

8 жыл бұрын

+MichaelLeroi Does he think that "carbon dating" is true as long as the date is not prior 6000 years old or something ?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

@francoisona

2 жыл бұрын

Wisdom implies reason and reason implies that talking snakes only exist in children's books. 🗨🐍🙃 And rather than quoting biblical verse as a substitute for thought try and think for yourself for a while. I know.. I know ..you wouldn't know where to begin but just try.

@francoisona

2 жыл бұрын

@maximum sterons testicular squatsExplain why .. oh sorry you can't. You prefer to hide behind words to faint erudition. Sorry doesn't work like that in the world of grown ups. You argue your position not just quote bullshit verses that make you sound clever. Besides doesn't your bible tellyou that you have to defend your faith when asked? Oh sorry you being a Christian you probably didn't know that..You're welcome 🙃

@francoisona

2 жыл бұрын

@maximum sterons testicular squats Take care but, you know, playing the ostrich won't remove that intellectual dissonance.. Whether you like it or not, these questions and others like the immorality of worshiping a god that visit suffering on millions of children because a nudist got scammed by a talking snake - won't go away when the atheist stop pointing them out. That immorality buddy is your companion. Day and night. Take care.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

@@francoisona You got to be joking, what he said is absurd. Intelligent Design is the paradigm of reality and science. It's what birthed modern science. The model of naturalism is what needs to go, it's a mythology of magic, it doesn't work and never has it's nonsense a hollow model predicated on a deus ex machina mechanism that does not exist and never will. Why? Because if you had a mechanism that produces rationality from irrationality that is reality breaking. That invalidates all human achievement and personhood because the universe created everything at that point. This is why the multiverse is such an absurd theory. Does a programmer who creates a video game or an author that creates a book create those things from magic? No. It's a mind. Mind is the paradigm of creation for reality not magic. This is a very basic concept that apparently you don't grasp. Naturalism/Atheism is a mythology of magic that is the most egregious belief anyone can hold or pair with science. Mind>magic The historicity and reliability of the biblical text is exemplary. You are a fool for mocking it. You clearly don't know where universities, the scientific method, modern science, or even the big bang theory come from.

@Nictator42

6 ай бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep intelligent design is simply a precept of small minded people to make their god small enough to understand him with their tiny brains. If you posit that your god is omnipotent and omniscient, then how is it that such a god creating a deterministic universe with the foresight that setting up the conditions just so at the moment of the big bang such that humanity would eventually emerge from that universe is something you baulk at? Intelligent design is quite literally arguing that god messed up when he made the universe and then had to patch it later so we'd exist. And then you argue that he's perfect in the same breath? No, you're not arguing against naturalism because it is heretical to you, you're arguing against it because you can't see past your own nose far enough to comprehend your own theology. If you wanna be a woo woo spiritualist, try out yoga or wicca. Christianity was supposed to be a philosophical and theological religion. Stop messing it up by being stupid.

Im surprised that a lot of atheists believe this man is in the minority. He isn’t.there are tons of religious people that agree with him on the subject. When you look only to the bad side of anything that’s all you’ll see.

@mcplesk8765

3 жыл бұрын

Of course he’s not in the minority The Catholic church has admited evolution and when a priest discovered the Big Bang he went to then current pope and he said he will make it mandatory dogma all Catholics have to believe in

@Jotari

3 жыл бұрын

The Catholic church was the main funder of scientific history for much of history. It just gets a bad rep with science because of the whole Galileo debacle which is simplified down to the church punishing a scientist for being right. When in reality he just happened to be right about a pretty radical new theory with very limited evidence, and was a bit of an ass about it at the same time.

@jasonbyrne8487

3 жыл бұрын

It's kinda hard to see the good within the church when they have spent billions of dollars settling out of court in literally hundreds of sexual abuse and paedophile cases. Shit, a convicted Canon (Ronald Mulkearns) went to prison and the Pope still hasn't fired him, he is still a Canon in the Catholic church. It's about time that the church was banned from indoctrinating children into its ranks, at least until they are mature enough to form objective arguments. Brainwashing children is the only reason Christianity still exists, if they were banned from talking about the Bible and hell especially until a child turned 16, within a few generations, Christianity would be just like all those other religions that nobody believes in anymore, a thing of the past...

@bulletprooftiger1879

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. And all the Muslims I know (like 40 of em) believe in evolution and actually use the Qur'an to support evolution.

@scotte4765

3 жыл бұрын

In this case it's easy to think stupid creationist beliefs are widespread among Christians when the more educated and sensible Christians largely stay silent and don't do anything to speak out against the creationists and fundamentalists. Vocal public statements like the one in this video are extremely rare. I think mainstream Christians harbor some fear of criticizing fellow believers of any stripe, so it's only when they think their own reputations are being smeared that they publicly disavow creationist nonsense. And this priest's respect for science rings a bit hollow when the Catholic church still asserts all sorts of miracles with no scientific or historical evidence. The things he lists as obvious are things his church resisted mightily for many years. He only accepts them now because they've become so strongly confirmed that it would be socially embarrassing to do otherwise, just like mainstream Protestants looking down their noses at creationists for believing Genesis while they take Jesus rising from the dead as perfectly credible.

So, here's the real label: Priest Never Mentions Creationism...

@ciderstamp

6 ай бұрын

No but he did say that teaching it was equivalent to abusing kids.... which ngl is pretty good :>

@jordanhester4821

12 күн бұрын

Oh so you didn't understand the metaphor?

"Does the lady want to carry on talking?" Burnnn!

@Daz555Daz

8 жыл бұрын

+Barry Shitpeas he deserves a spot on Thug Life for that put down!

@terenceobrien9088

3 жыл бұрын

Nasty

@llkooldave6492

3 жыл бұрын

sweet burn

@blaketurner7989

3 жыл бұрын

Well yeah if it was about, he might of tried to fuck him

I respect that priest so much. Thanks for being truthful to not only yourself, but also other people. I'm an atheist, but I have so much more appreciation for a christian that is willing to see reality for what it is.

@b0onsen182

3 жыл бұрын

Woah never thought i'd see you here lmao

@andrewfrankovic6821

3 жыл бұрын

@kron n I don't think any two tribes of Christians are alike. There are diehards who are literalists regarding the bible, but in general Christians are simply mad for power like any government, and the larger any religion the larger the power base. I went to a Catholic school and I have no recollection that they preached creationism. iT may have been referenced as religious history, but religion was mostly just a performance for entertainment sake and give priests something to do. I've never met anyone as common as the priests and nuns I grew up around.

@michaal105

3 жыл бұрын

Well Ask yourself why 10 of the 11 remaining (after Judas' betrayal) disciples were executed because of their Christian faith, as attested confidently by historical sources. To quote Sean McDowell of Peter: ''The early, consistent and unanimous testimony is that Peter died as a martyr;" and of the martyrdom of the disciples as a whole: "It shows the depth of the apostles’ convictions. They were not liars. They truly believed Jesus rose from the grave and they were willing to give their lives for it." They needed only to deny their faith to be saved, but did not. Would you seriously die for something that you know wasn't true? These men died fully believing in their contact with the risen Christ. If you'd like to research more on the martyrdom of Peter, you can research (amongst other sources) 1st Clement. Some have theorised that they merely had hallucinations, but this isn't true for 4 reasons: 1) The theory does not explain the empty tomb 2) Multiple people shared in group-visions of Jesus 3) They had group-conversations with the risen Christ 4) They touched Jesus and ate with him, which is impossible with a hallucination. The gospel of John speaks of Thomas physically touching Jesus' wounds to prove to himself he was real! And we can know the gospel’s are reliable. Papias - a contemporary of the apostle John, wrote that the gospel of Mark was based on Peter’s eye-witness testimony; and that Matthew and John were indeed Jesus’ disciples. This is someone who directly knew eye-witnesses to the reported events! So, since you affirmed seeing reality for what it is, then you should recognize Christianity as the truth and not atheism (which posits the scientific and logical impossibility that nothing created everything)

@ajaxcastle9400

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaal105 'historical sources'? What about David Koresh in Waco or Muslim martyrs or any other martyrs in history.They fit the same criteria. Me thinks your description of atheism is far wide of the mark.

@michaal105

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajaxcastle9400 Muslim martyrs believe in an ideology. They don't claim to actually have seen Allah, but are zealous for an ideology. The apostles of Jesus claimed to have actually SEEN AND TOUCHED Jesus after he rose from the dead. That's very different than simply being zealous for an ideology.

As a non believer to hear this coming from a priest is not only refreshing but reassuring! He deserved that round of applause 👏

@el_equidistante

6 ай бұрын

"coming from a priest", you really don't know much about history if that's surprising to you!

@JustMe-vn5pq

6 ай бұрын

Christianity is not that delusional, once you ignore the weird fringe elements. Many Protestants can go off the deep end, with things like creationism and the rapture. Many Catholics can go off the deep end by allowing only celibate men to become priests, banning birth control, etc. However, Protestants and Catholics agree on roughly 90% of what they believe. And where they agree, they're surprisingly sane.

@nealgrimes4382

6 ай бұрын

In England few believe in Creationism, Christians included.

@Darbobski

6 ай бұрын

@@nealgrimes4382 I wish it were that way in the United States. The loons have been taking over.

@danielmiles7666

6 ай бұрын

Almost no Christians believe in Creationism. The idea that the two are synonymous is a fiction put forward by weird atheists who know nothing about the thing they're criticising.

church of England “priest”, so don’t take him too seriously.

In the future, creationists will be relegated to the back of a history book, mocked and laughed at by children in a classroom.

@fuckedupmind3548

8 жыл бұрын

+Justin Hopkins Unfortunatly it won't be soon .

@JustinLHopkins

8 жыл бұрын

FuckedUp Mind :(

@JustinLHopkins

8 жыл бұрын

***** How do you read all their comments without raising your blood pressure? I swear one day I'm going to have a heart attack reading their nonsense lol.

@JustinLHopkins

8 жыл бұрын

***** Exactly. Once you prove them wrong they start calling you names like a child or condemning you to hell. They get so defensive. It speaks volumes about their poor character simply because they can't admit they're wrong. The problem is that on a much larger scale, they're immaturity and selfrighteous attitude is what causes wars.

@JustinLHopkins

8 жыл бұрын

***** Not to mention these people WANT the world to end. You can tell they're all frothing at the mouth while watching doomsday videos. They're dangerous.

The moon's not made of green cheese???

@patrickseo6190

8 жыл бұрын

Sorry, the moons made out of blue cheese

@davidcraigthor

8 жыл бұрын

:) I knew that, I just wanted to see if you did.

@williamwilson6499

5 жыл бұрын

Wensleydale...

@jcarson3721

5 жыл бұрын

What it if were made of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it then? I know I would. Heck, I'd have seconds, and then polish it off with a tall, cool Budweiser.

@yashuafly6342

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone knows god is italian..its made of mozzarella..

What a fantastic, honest man. He knows he'll get criticism/ abuse for saying this (including some, I'm sure, which will want him to lose his position) but he stood up for knowledge. That's an honest, respectable theist who doesn't simply blindly follow and regurgitate what he's socially pressured to say.

@kapitankapital6580

6 ай бұрын

Probably not. Despite what atheists seem to believe, young Earth creationism is not a mainstream Christian belief and is not part of the doctrine of either the Catholic or Anglican Church. From the way he's dressed I very much doubt he's an Evangelical.

@AlanIsHarmony

6 ай бұрын

@@kapitankapital6580 Did you criticise someone for stereotyping Christians, while at the same time stereotyping atheists? "Despite what atheists seem to believe..." No, he's probably not evangelical: Never the less, it's not very often that Anglicans appear to have much to say in criticism of Young Earth Creationists. This may be simply because they're not often invited onto programmes that involve these topics but that's how it is.

@kapitankapital6580

6 ай бұрын

@@AlanIsHarmony no, I did not. And I have to assume that you just don't talk to many Anglicans if you think they support Young Earth Creationism. It's not their fault that you are ignorant of their views.

@InformationIsTheEdge

6 ай бұрын

I thought the fellow in holy orders was a SAVAGE! Even insomuch as he sincerely mistook that rude interrupting fellow for a lady. Fantastic!

Watched the video twice... Still waiting for the part where the priest mocks creationism...

@slevinchannel7589

6 ай бұрын

Ohhhh honeyyy

He thought that guy was a lady speaking? He really has been in the priesthood a long time! lol

@Wavemaninawe

8 жыл бұрын

Stealth trolling.

@Wavemaninawe

8 жыл бұрын

+3DLeif Potaytoes. Potahtoes.

@SulkyStoner

8 жыл бұрын

+Wavemaninawe That's what normal people call a joke buddy and a funny one too. Lol.

@Wavemaninawe

8 жыл бұрын

+Trev hence my comparison. Normality is overrated.

@SulkyStoner

8 жыл бұрын

Wavemaninawe People saying the word "troll" instead of acknowledging it as a joke is retarded. You say normality is overrated but you use the word "troll" just like everyone else. So you make no sense.

if soaringraven1 doesn't stop spamming responses, i'll ban him from this page

@crackawood

6 жыл бұрын

oooooooooo..tough guy

@HongKongEclectic

6 жыл бұрын

+jwoods 😂

@crackawood

6 жыл бұрын

i like 🐢

Even though I'm no longer catholic myself due to fundamental differences in ethics (and the belief that Saul's letters don't belong in the Bible), I do still hold a great deal of respect for Catholicism due to their official stance on science, that being that they assert that since god's perfect and science is a valid method for observing reality, which they assert is gods creation, then the two should never contradict. And whenever scientific evidence contradicts the historical record in the Bible, the church just shrugs and says that the story the bible tells doesn't have to be factual to have meaning. I mean, how stupid would your religion be if your religion demanded you to believe a bunch of random trivia about a historical fantasy instead of focusing on important things like ethics? So, yknow, despite my other disagreements I respect em for that.

@Rasarel

6 ай бұрын

I applaud you 😊🎉 but you still should do the next step. God created magic mushrooms for a reason, so we can fill ourselves with holy spirit and embrace trees.

@joebiden123mail5

6 ай бұрын

​@@Rasarel😂😂😂

@MattKeepsFish

6 ай бұрын

😂😂

@baraka629

6 ай бұрын

​@@Rasarel god also created cliffs for a reason, you probably being one of them.

@Rasarel

6 ай бұрын

@@baraka629 God created drugs so people can be happy and healthy: Ayahuasca, San Pedro, psilocybin, marijuana. ✌️ People created narcotics to destroy humanity: cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin..

See, this guy is a good example of a serious Christian theologian and philosopher, someone who you can actually engage in a conversation with and actually has a clue on what he's talking about.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

You got to be joking, what he said is absurd. Intelligent Design is the paradigm of reality and science. It's what birthed modern science. The model of naturalism is what needs to go, it's a mythology of magic, it doesn't work and never has it's nonsense a hollow model predicated on a deus ex machina mechanism that does not exist and never will. Why? Because if you had a mechanism that produces rationality from irrationality that is reality breaking. That invalidates all human achievement and personhood because the universe created everything at that point. This is why the multiverse is such an absurd theory. Does a programmer who creates a video game or an author that creates a book create those things from magic? No. It's a mind. Mind is the paradigm of creation for reality not magic. This is a very basic concept that apparently you don't grasp. Naturalism/Atheism is a mythology of magic that is the most egregious belief anyone can hold or pair with science. Mind>magic

@eroszakos9042

6 ай бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep If intelligent design birthed modern soyence, then it has a pretty major indictment against it. Are you like a Christian or something shooting yourself in the foot by posing as a super giga ultra rationalist? What do you even mean by a mechanism that produces rationality from irrationality? Do you mean that given naturalism things were once irrational but now are rational? What's even the litmus of something being rational? I don't think naturalists would argue the universe creates anything. They'd try to argue that the universe simply is (they don't have a proper cosmology). Mind may be what creates reality, but that assooooms it's agreed upon that reality is a creation, which is exactly what gaytheists don't agree with.

@landsgevaer

6 ай бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep You think god is carving every snowflake, I bet.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

@@landsgevaer In a way he did since he set up the system that creates them. Do you know how infinitesimally small the area is IN the liquid water habitable zone of a star a planet has to be in just to even have a water cycle where water can exist on multiple states like snow, ice, liquid water, vapor... It's like a thread. Usually all it is, is frozen ice, or liquid water planet. That's it. The universe is so incredibly fined tuned and just so our minuscule pocket which is even more infinitely fined tune can support life just for this tiny fraction of time our sun has stable solar output right when humans exist and advanced human life. There hasn't even been found another star in the universe that is like ours with the same composition that can have such a stable time in it's cycle. There hasn't even been another galaxy like ours which is unique with it's spiral arms just so it has a specific pocket where we can exist between arms and not die from radiation. Just 1 dimes work of matter difference at the start of the universe and the universe wouldn't have been able to support life, that was how fine tuned the universe was set up from the start. Cosmologists know the whole universe was needed just so this tiny pocket could support life it's not wasted space. Instead of being an insignificant speck of dust that shows how much value God has for you as a human being to do all of that. That is why God became flesh and died in your place as a substitution so you might be free from the punishment of sin a just God requires. You truly are a snowflake of value to him. He gave his life for you.

@landsgevaer

6 ай бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep You funny. If god exists I don't ever wanna be his friend. Yet he is omnipotent and wants me to be his friend. Religion makes no sense at all.

This is the smartest, most honest priest I've ever seen.

@lanaistyle

10 жыл бұрын

I studied new testament history under Jesuits at my University. Went in as a bible banger, came out an atheist. When I asked my favorite prof at the end of my studies how he could possibly believe this crap, he gave a one word answer. "Faith". There are some honest ones out there.

@BrunoSamael

10 жыл бұрын

lanaistyle But that's intellectual dishonesty.

@lanaistyle

10 жыл бұрын

What is intellectually dishonest, Bruno? The man was a believer, without any evidence. That's called faith, and he was willing to admit that's why he believed. That's dishonest? Where I come from, that's called honesty. Christians are so used to lying about "verifiable witnesses" and "proof", they don't even recognize the truth any more. The bible says that it takes faith to believe it, but admitting that now is seen as a negative. Why is that?

@lanaistyle

10 жыл бұрын

Cognitive dissonance is a bitch...

@lanaistyle

10 жыл бұрын

C'mon: Firstly, there has been over 14 billion years of rapid, and accelerating, expansion since the time frame you mentioned, so your "evidence" statement is seriously flawed. Secondly, how is it "evidence" for your "god" in any case? It's evidence of the big bang. That's it. Unless you have some knowledge that no one else on earth has access to? Define your god, firstly, and we can deal with the probability of that. But a non-sequitur like "rapid expansion, therefor my god exists" is inane. It's called the argument from ignorance. YOU can't conceive of a possible explanation, therefor you fill the gap in our knowledge with your make-believe being. It's not "evidence enough", because it isn't even evidence. But, you have faith, you don't care about evidence. Why are you afraid to be honest about that? Don't be ashamed, admit you want to believe things without basis in reality, nobody will have a problem with that. But when theists try to claim there is evidence, they are being dishonest and will be called out for it. If there is "evidence" for your god, why does anybody need faith?

All the thumbs up I can muster to that Priest. If only they were all like that.

@hanstun1

9 жыл бұрын

Dharmaa RS Most of them are actually. Even the pope laughs at creationists. I am an atheist but lets give credit where credit is due. A vast majority of people who believe in god are not standing up on a soap box yelling that there were baby dinosaurs on Noah's Arc and the earth is 5k years old, or some comparative nonsense from another religion...the 77 (??) virgins (that are not in the Koran at all) for example.

@DharmaaRS

9 жыл бұрын

Hans Tun Fair enough, but if someone is a proper Christian, there wish for death and destruction is just as strong (if not stronger) than muslims. Wasn't it 72 virgins? By the pedo who rides a winged horse to the moon or something lol. I can't believe in this day and age people buy this, but hey, if it's in the privacy of their own home then more power to em.

@hanstun1

9 жыл бұрын

Dharmaa RS Ironically the one thing most christians know about muslims, the 70++ virgins, isn't in the Koran at all. It is mentioned briefly in some 3rd rate appendix by a source that is not held in high regard by most muslim scholars. Just that sex sells and especially when your target group for blowing people up is teenage boys so....bring out the virgins! Comforting that jihad is based around the same principles as Hustler magazine...... :)

@DharmaaRS

9 жыл бұрын

Hans Tun Well when you put it like that! :P

@timspangler8440

9 жыл бұрын

Dharmaa RS wish for death and destruction? I'm thinking your viewpoint is just a tad tainted.

On the one hand he's absolutely correct. Don't teach children things we know are not true. ...and yet......can you guess what I'm going to say next?.....and yet...he teaches children about a mythical character, God, who he learned about from the same book that teaches creationism, Adam & Eve, Noah's Ark..etc. How am I supposed to know which bits of the Bible are true?

@moregasmthepowerful2959

8 жыл бұрын

Not so. He does teach people however if your going to Church it means you believe in God already or have a wish to (or in rare cases want to see what it's all about and have a good laugh at it). He is saying that the mandatory education in certain areas of the USA and other places teaches impressionable children about stuff that isn't true. School education and religious education should be kept firmly separate in all forms and that is what our Leicestershire Priest is saying.

@malcite

7 жыл бұрын

Shove the constitution in their face and point out the obvious fact that even the founding fathers of the US declared that the very nation they live in was built on and was to be built up on the principles of natural laws (science). Doesn't matter what religion they themselves had, they agreed that both secularism and actual science was the best foundation for their nation.

@malcite

7 жыл бұрын

***** "Evolutionism" is not a religion. It is however evidence-based facts.

@amvCBG

7 жыл бұрын

+Trond Gjeset i dont think evolutionism is even a thing. since it can be accepted by everyone religious or not. while creationism is entirely christian.

@amvCBG

7 жыл бұрын

he is a Christian that sees it as symbolic.

There is nothing wrong with being religous and loving God and in the same time have passion for science and universe. No, I dont mean creationism like Kent Hovind. I know that there are rules in universe and law of physics. But it never stopped me from beliving in God. After all, "God" can have a lot of shapes and meanings.

@petermills542

3 жыл бұрын

Haylash. There's a great deal wrong teaching children mumbo jumbo & claiming it to be scientific.

@reverseengineer9620

3 жыл бұрын

I think creationism is very justified even from a scientific point of view. You can’t really call it mumbo jumbo when Albert Einstein himself approved of a creator.

@petermills542

3 жыл бұрын

@@reverseengineer9620 Einstein was agnostic. He believed in 'Spinoza's God' ie the Natural & Physical Laws of the Universe. He had NO belief in a 'personal God' as an individual creator or entity! He believed that the total sum of everything that exists in the Universe could be termed 'God'. But he had no Religious beliefs whatsoever, certainly not 'mumbo jumbo'! magic stories, myths & legends such as the Bible is founded on.

@reverseengineer9620

3 жыл бұрын

@Lactose Intolerant Cow Can you show me where the Bible explicitly says that the Earth is 10 thousand years old?

@readysoldier6799

3 жыл бұрын

@@petermills542 Atheists are also religious

I don't know where people get this idea that you have to be Creationist to be a Christian. Hell, the Catholic Church teaches evolution.

@HawaiiKnut

10 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. I used to be Christian, but I never believed in creationism. In fact, I was baffled when I first learned that there still existed creationists. The far majority of christians I know believe in evolution.

@starstunna1000

9 жыл бұрын

HawaiiKnut To be honest, there's not really solid evidence against creationism. Scientists use this statement to get people to be confident in what they're saying, "there evidence that suggests that...." But really a more accurate statement is, "We have observed hints so we have decided to conclude....". Until more solid evidence is brought forth, there's not much of a reason to laugh at creationists. It is perfectly correct to say ,"some believe that the earth was created billions of years ago and some believe it is a few thousand years old" because the difference between the two is faith, none of both sides have actually observed the creation of the earth or have lived long enough to claim to know for sure. We can't rely on "science" at the moment because it is not as simple as mechanics, this "science" requires you to believe in it because you don't know for sure that what you're substituting for a constant has always been a constant.

@grizzlee358

9 жыл бұрын

Lance T Stunta you've never heard of radiometric dating obviously. The earth is not 6,000 years old. That much is a fact.

@moshemyym4627

9 жыл бұрын

Lance T Stunta I agree Lance. Both are faith-based ideas using the same materials to support their positions. They simply interpret the data differently. Even with radiometric dating, it has problems, assumptions are made to begin with and not all tests are favorable to one's position.

@grizzlee358

9 жыл бұрын

MosheMYY M Ummm no. Radioactive decay is quite easy to measure and accurate. Plus we can verify various methods of radiometric dating by comparing the results to other independent methods, including dendrochronology (among others.)

I'm an atheist and I applaud this man. Believe whatever you want in the privacy of your own home. And let children children decide for themselves. Indoctrination is child abuse.

@Osafune2

3 жыл бұрын

Indoctrination bad unless they're indoctrinated with atheistic nihilism

@greenmachine5600

3 жыл бұрын

@@Osafune2 nihilism is a philosophy, so no. Just science

@joshuacarroll7046

3 жыл бұрын

lol now they’re being taught that biology is a lie and they can be whatever gender they choose regardless of the cock in their pants

@gonufc

2 жыл бұрын

@@Osafune2 Strange to tag Nihilism on to that. Who, of famous atheists, represents a nihilistic view? I certainly can't think of any. You clearly misunderstand the term.

@Osafune2

2 жыл бұрын

@@gonufc all of them, whether they like it or not, are close allies of nihilism

That's a bit hypocritical of him

@timothyhaines556

7 жыл бұрын

Science and religion are not at war. The ideologies behind them might be. There is nothing in the Bible that is against Science. In fact, Science perfected is Divinity.

@getschwifty1197

7 жыл бұрын

Catholics are pretty much open to science as long as you say it was God's will all along. Big bang and evolution you say? They would just wage intelligent design so that it won't be contradictory to their belief. Being a former Catholic here's all I can say, average Catholics are not that religious and they don't care about the church, they'd just turn to God on their desperate times and needs. Heck my family only goes mass once a year and that is during Christmas eve.

There are Christians who concede just about everything but the resurrection of their god-man corpse back to life. When they concede this didn’t happen either, that morals and ethics are based on human values, they they can put their religions aside, and stand with humans.

Give that man a cookie

@Lavos2007

8 жыл бұрын

+the bish and make sure the Altar Boy is holding a package of cookies, that priest deserves praise, and im an atheist! but hes 100% right about that! we dont teach bullshit in schools to young people, but people can beleive and practice whatever the fuck they want in the privacy of their home!

@Lavos2007

8 жыл бұрын

the bish i love how you are such a little bish and think of all catholics like that sorry to say but catholics have no more pedo activity than any other sect of christianity...but they get more shit for it cus of how they shuttle all the priests around to keep the Pedo ones hidden/undiscovered its fucked up i know...its 1 of many reasons i became an atheist you little bish now stop being a little bish and start being a little man!

@AkshayKumarX

8 жыл бұрын

+ked4 oohh I think he deserves more than a Cookie ;) but seriously though...

@thepretender9140

8 жыл бұрын

+ked4 TWO cookies!

@kyzercube

8 жыл бұрын

stupid clone posts. Not sure how those crop up. I edited this one out :P

More priests need to be like that. I have no problem with religion when your beliefs don't go against science and what we know about the real world. If your belief is the God of the Gaps approach, I'd disagree, but at least you're accepting facts and forming your belief around them, instead of the other way around.

@ScubaDude79

10 жыл бұрын

Lol, but science goes against science all the time...science isn't nearly as bullet-proof as you think it is little pony. BTW it's so nice of you to let people be religious...so long as they don't truly follow the religion of course.

@SwoobatFanatic

10 жыл бұрын

ScubaDude79 The difference between the religious and the scientific is that people of reason *know* that we don't know everything. Science is improving every single day. There may never be a point where science knows everything, but we don't claim that we do, unlike your holy book. And honestly, following one's religion completely without any breathing room for real knowledge became obsolete a long time ago.

@Akita538

10 жыл бұрын

ScubaDude79 If you reject all observable evidence, then you have no way of knowing what the bible says. Think about that.

@yashuafly6342

5 жыл бұрын

@@ScubaDude79 👍🏿yes sir.

@yashuafly6342

5 жыл бұрын

@@SwoobatFanatic so where does evolution fit into science? Or that is just one of those scientific facts yet to be proven ..athiests are dumb.

And I'm supposed to believe the words of a faithless priest

The *good* Catholic priests of this world are under appreciated for their insight.

@dedeferreira98

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah i am a catholic amd never denied evolution. In fact i never saw a priest or a catholic person here denying it.

A religious man with logic...how intriguing.

@AChapman1997

7 жыл бұрын

ESA There are quite a few of us out there

@flipwright1138

5 жыл бұрын

@Michael Brown Are you actually saying that you don't understand that evolution is a proven fact?

@flipwright1138

5 жыл бұрын

@Michael Brown It sounds like you believe that the evolution theory is a lie and the peer reviews of evolution are just a conspiracy theory. Do you also believe the Earth is flat and that the Earth is only 6 thousand years old? The evidence for evolution is overwhelming. When 98% of Scientists believe evolution is true we shouldn't just write it off as a conspiracy theory. These are the brightest minds in their field. The research performed to determine how life came to be is ongoing but make no mistake, evolution is the best answer we have.

@brandonturner4902

5 жыл бұрын

@hatter00 I just love how butthurt, and pissed off you are as if those people just vandalized your own house. It's quite laughable how you just keep saying Christianity is a cult for no reason other than to make you feel Superior, and to make you feel as if you won an argument. Tell me this, would a cult go to a different state to help the homeless, would a cult donate money to charity, or would a cult member help a few friends out, with whatever troubles they have. That is what my church has done. What have you done to help people...bitch about religion. Wow that is some good thinking. Maybe if I were to mock Catholics that would totally save the world. You have truly inspired me, you deserve a round of applause.👏👏👏👏👏👏

@PyroVesten

5 жыл бұрын

Selective logic ;)

If the pope can quit, you can too

“The lady wants to carry on speaking” Did he try to offend him by calling him a lady? I’m not a feminist, but that still tells a lot about the priest mentality

@nickb1762

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Everything he was spewing was wrong, and the other guy was correct that he was strawmanning.. he’s comparing symbolic language to the moon being made of cheese

@animamundii

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickb1762 Grow the hell up. Are you one of those postmodernists who are insulted over everything someone says? Everything has to be about gender and race, right? The priest was making perfect sense, the dude rudely interrupted him and priest served it to him as a form of humiliation. Grow up man, don't be miserable.

@pkj2148

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't know it was a man speaking. You can see him looking the man's way when he was told it wasn't a lady.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

@@animamundii You got to be joking, what he said is absurd. Intelligent Design is the paradigm of reality and science. It's what birthed modern science. The model of naturalism is what needs to go, it's a mythology of magic, it doesn't work and never has it's nonsense a hollow model predicated on a deus ex machina mechanism that does not exist and never will. Why? Because if you had a mechanism that produces rationality from irrationality that is reality breaking. That invalidates all human achievement and personhood because the universe created everything at that point. This is why the multiverse is such an absurd theory. Does a programmer who creates a video game or an author that creates a book create those things from magic? No. It's a mind. Mind is the paradigm of creation for reality not magic. This is a very basic concept that apparently you don't grasp. Naturalism/Atheism is a mythology of magic that is the most egregious belief anyone can hold or pair with science. Mind>magic

@wai828

6 ай бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep Did you literally call the foundation of modern biology "mythology of magic" and the idea a guy in the sky created the world "modern science"? That is exactly what the priest was talking against. When it comes to your "arguments", the universe doesn't care about what you *feel* is validating humanity, or what you *feel* is the paradigm of creation, so does science.

For many centuries, most students of the Bible considered much of what's in it to be symbolism and metaphor, not to be taken literally. It's only relatively recently that the trend took hold to defend it as factual. Science and faith are not mutually exclusive. I knew a cosmologist who said his empirical exploration of the universe helped him gain insights into the mind of God.

my favorite kind of Christian :3

@davidbeaty8250

7 жыл бұрын

1 that doesn't really believe

@badideass

5 жыл бұрын

no true scotsman fallacy... The Gospel is a disgrace, any fool to believe such fables should have his brain examined

@badideass

5 жыл бұрын

@Michael Brown atheist favorite creation myth is creationism ... Lol .. Evolution and atheist have nothing in common One is a fact of how life developed other is lack of belief in gods

@badideass

5 жыл бұрын

i cant tell if you're being serious or not... it's the trouble with text sometimes... A. You dont know what you're talking about. B. You dont know what you're talking about. and C. You dont know what you're talking about. Do you realize how long it takes for such changes to occur? tens to hundreds of thousands of years... Evolution is a very well established fact, we dont call facts myths Atheism and Evolution are 2 different subjects, Atheism has nothing to do with evolution.... Evolution isnt a religion, nor is Atheism a religion. Natural Selection is very much true, again not a myth... Do you know what myth means? it's like a legend, a story that never happened... a fictional story... almost like King Arthur... Creationism is a myth because absolutely nothing supports it. I'm puzzled by your response, you're probably just trolling.

@badideass

5 жыл бұрын

The amount of errors in your reply is through the roof, You dont have the slighest education on the subjects to which you're speaking out against. You have NO IDEA what the hell you're even talking about... There is no such thing as creationism, it's disproven garbage. Evolution is a fact Natural Selection is a fact. Seek an education please, touch yourself up before replying again.

The priest spoke well.

@tedgrant2

8 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right. More and more priests are becoming educated and realise that in order to save the business, they have to learn the same facts that their congregations are taught in school. They need to catch up and get ahead in order to make a living out of the spook business.

@tedgrant2

3 жыл бұрын

@Sanctus Paulus The Catholic Church used to deny that the earth moves. Galileo was shown the instruments of torture at the Vatican. He confessed that he was mistaken, so he was given a reduced sentence. House arrest for life instead of being burnt at the stake.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

No that is exactly what he never did. He promoted a mythology of magic, naturalism, instead of the paradigm of reality and what birthed modern science intelligent design which actually works.

I wish all preachers were as reasonable and as sensible as he is. The only reason that evolution is taught in science classes is because it is a scientific theory based on hypothesis that have been proven true by close observations and data collected from the various studies on the subject. No one has ever seen a god come down and create stuff out of dust.

@steverodak2230

3 жыл бұрын

To TAYLOR Shelton: The theory of evolution has not been proven. You don't have to listen to me, but please check out the websites on this subject. It still remains only a theory.

@taylorshelton3267

3 жыл бұрын

@@steverodak2230 in science a scientific theory is a hypothesis that has been proven true because all of the attempts to fail it have not succeeded and when you can't fail a hypothesis then it becomes a theory and we have a lot of theories such as the germ theory, the theory of relativity, and the theory of gravity. I am a geologist and I have also taken some ecology and biology courses in college including a class that teaches evolution to graduate and undergraduate students "in fact the name of the class was evolution".

Where is the part where he mocked creationism?

@norbertfleck812

3 жыл бұрын

He did all the time, by comparing it with complete nonsense (like a moon consisting of cheese).

@Miatpi

3 жыл бұрын

Creationism is the thing they debated.

@lagrangiankid378

3 жыл бұрын

@@norbertfleck812 But creationism is complete nonsense, just like a moon made of cheese.

@norbertfleck812

3 жыл бұрын

@@lagrangiankid378 I did not deny that.

@lagrangiankid378

3 жыл бұрын

@@norbertfleck812 Ok, cool, we have an agreement. I just misinterpreted what you said.

Can religion and science coexist? Yes. And this is how.

@dirhido9665

8 жыл бұрын

it could have, its to late now

This gentleman said it all. I will not force my views on someone else. What you do at the privacy of your home is none of my business

Some atheists in the comments seem to be confused as to how this Priest can reconcile his belief in Religion (specifically the Christian Holy Book) with not being a literal 6-day Creationist. The first thing to understand is that Christian Denominations exist for a reason, different Christians believe different things. One of those things is a theology called "Sola Scriptura" which is translated to "The Bible Alone," this idea in some Christian denominations means that these Sola Scriptura Christians believe that the Bible is the ONLY trustworthy source for absolute Truth. Sola Scriptura was developed around the 1500's during the Protestant Reformation. Christian denominations who hold to Sola Scriptura can include Lutherans, Evangelicals, Baptists, etc but Christian denominations who don't hold to Sola Scriptura include Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism, Orthodoxy, etc. Christians who don't hold to Sola Scriptura generally believe in something called the "Three Legged Stool" which is Scripture, Tradition, Reason. To interpret Truth these non-Sola Scriptura Christians use these 3 things to interpret Truth. Another thing to consider when looking at the Bible itself is that the Bible is not 1 book but a collection of many books that span many authors, genres, literary styles, audiences, time periods, and more. Not only that but a book of the Bible may even blend different genres together. Genesis, where the story of Creation is written, can be seen as having elements of both Poetry and (supposed) Historical Oral Tradition (the Story of Abraham). TLDR; Some Christians have a more nuanced approach to Truth & the Bible than others EDIT: A random addendum + fun fact is that the scientist who first theorized the Big Bang was a Belgian Catholic Priest, named Fr. Georges Lemaître. Non-theists in the scientific community at the time scoffed at Lemaître's theory stating that it sounded too "religious." In fact, the reason it is called "The Big Bang Theory" is because that was the mocking name given to it by the Non-Theistic Scientific community at the time and unfortunately for Lemaître that name stuck (if you understand that the Big Bang Theory posits an expanding universe and not an explosion you'll understand why that name is less than ideal or descriptive). The Big Bang Theory is taught as True in the Catholic Church.

@uncle7162

3 жыл бұрын

Well im a Christian and I’d like too thank you for not blatantly attacking our religion like most other people in the comments here. But what people don’t seem to understand is that religion is extremely important in keeping society going as we know it. I believe it was Napoleon who said “Religion is the only thing to keep the poor from eating the rich”. And in today’s society where religion is being pushed aside the world is becoming a worse off place too live where morals are trashed and whoever has the most cash can do whatever they please irregardless of consequences. On a side note Almost 100% Atheist society’s have occurred in the past before a few examples are The Third Riech and The Stalinist USSR and look what happened in them. Without the belief in a divine person who can destroy their souls and curse them to a eternity in hell people generally get power hungry in high ranking situations abuse their power resulting in millions of deaths. And in order to believe in god you must believe in evil as well and the devils best trick is too fool the world god doesn’t exist. Pontuchus pilot was real Julius ceaser was real and you think it Jesus Christ wasn’t Devine due to his enormous following a shine would have been erected in his honour?. The reason why people say religion is dumb is because true religion is similar to the Middle Ages no vanity living off the land basic living and the church. that’s all you need to live

@AliothAncalagon

3 жыл бұрын

@@uncle7162 "And in today’s society where religion is being pushed aside the world is becoming a worse off place too live where morals are trashed and whoever has the most cash can do whatever they please irregardless of consequences." So thats why the super religious US has so little of the problems you just named while the much more secular scandinavia is drowning in blood? Excuse the irony, but you have literally rejected reality to even get to such a ridiculous conclusion to begin with. Nobody needs fairy tales that are thousands of years old. We live in times where we have enough fantasy literature that can entertain us to choose from. To seriously suggest that some specific, especially dogmatic, fairy tales are of essential importance for society is really just sad.

@jvjv8093

3 жыл бұрын

True. Religion has its pros and cons, truths and falsities but the good from it outweigh the bad. I'm Christian but started having doubts when I started learning about evolution. Despite that, I'm keeping it simple and choosing to believe in both evolution and God. I am just like a walking contradiction, coughs Diavolo coughs

@dr.klausschwab6184

3 жыл бұрын

@@jvjv8093 look into Darwin himself and his family, then you wont believe in "evolution" as they say. While there is definetly Adaptation of Animals there has never been proof of one species turning into another and especially not every living thing randomly coming out of a randomly existing Single cell lol, the similarities between Animals does not have to be "one animal/cell" turned into all living things, it can vd that all that lives has the same Creator, therefore similar structure. What Darwin his family and the "Royal Society" goons have been doing, is selling a worldview not a scientific discovery, they want you believe you are a monkey because you will act like a monkey then, just following your Desires and being led to domestication.

@blaustein_autor

3 жыл бұрын

But "sola scriptura" was a concept for dialing back all the additional philosophers, especially Aristotle, who were used to "interpret" the bible. In a nutshell, "sola scriptura" meant that only the bible should be object of interpretation - not a wide set of ancient Roman and Greek literature. It was linked to the idea of providing a Bible in the mother tongue of the common people. In other words, sola scriptura meant: You don't need the Bishop's library to be a good Christian - just the word of God. Of course it was only a matter of time until some moron turned this principle into: "The only written letters you should ever see should be from the bible." This is not sola scriptura, this is sola stultitia.

The blind mocks the deaf.

Some creationists believe the Earth is only approximately 5000 years old. But how come, in that case, tree growth rings go back about 10,000 years? They're argument is like believing four is the sum of one plus one.

@LincolnTwiss22

9 жыл бұрын

Actually creationists believe that the world is 6000-10000 years old. And by the way believing that the universe was created is far less stupid then believing that nothing combined with nothing and exploded creating everything. Neither Creation and evolution are not truly scientific because the origin of the universe cannot be observed, repeated or verified. So they should really both be taught in schools as theory's for how the earth came to be. People who have been taught both should then be able to choose based on evidence, and quite frankly there is more evidence for design than for evolution.

@petertravere5080

9 жыл бұрын

But religious people think God came from nothing and some believe any RC priest can turn a wafer in to flesh (something that has been proofed incorrect. As for intelligent design, some Afroo-Caribbean people have a unique disease in which their blood cells are the WRONG shape - Sickle Cell disease (is that intelligent design?). 15% of pregnancies fail to come to term for biological reasons - intelligent design, bad workmanship or is God the greatest abortionist in history? If God made man, are genetic diseases intelligent design or cruelty? The Big Bang theory comes from logical thought (first proposed by a scientifically educated priest), not a saga.

@petertravere5080

9 жыл бұрын

There is also plenty of evidence for evolution, for those with eyes to see it. Even Pope John Paul believed in evolution. Professors of Biblical history (rather than theology) say the Bible is historically flawed anyway.

@LincolnTwiss22

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Travere The idea that a RC priest can turn a wafer into flesh isn't even biblical. As for your second point this is were the religion starts to come in. I believe that when man first sinned things started to go wrong and death was allowed, because man had turned away from God and things began to degrade. Which actually conforms with the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Next point. How does the big bang theory come from logical thought. It is entirely based on the idea that nothing exploded and turned into everything, which goes against the law of mass conservation which states that mass cannot be created or destroyed. The very idea of the Big Bang theory is like believing that 0+0=4. Now for your next points. In fact the bible its the most proven and accurate historical document known to man. It was written by many different writers, most of them would never even have met, and yet it follows one storyline. The human genome is the most complicated bit of coding that there is, how could it be written by random chance. The idea that mutations can create new creatures is very unscientific because mutations are very very rarely beneficial, and even if they are they can't create new information. Evolution and Creation are both faith based theories about the origin of the universe and so neither should be taught at schools as definite fact. Instead they should be treated as theories and evidence should be given without bias for both.

@flamboyantpinkkitten324

8 жыл бұрын

"Which actually conforms with the 2nd law of thermodynamics." No it doesn't. "Next point. How does the big bang theory come from logical thought." Because it has evidence. " It is entirely based on the idea that nothing exploded and turned into everything, " That is a strawman, a fallacy. No credible scientist has ever described the big bang as "nothing exploding into everything" know why? Because that isn't what the big bang explains "which goes against the law of mass conservation which states that mass cannot be created or destroyed." So you know what the conservation of matter is. Brilliant, it's one of the many reasons why the big bang is a credible theory rather than the creation story which if I recall has God saying "let there be light" and it coming into existence from nothing. " The very idea of the Big Bang theory is like believing that 0+0=4. " More like 1+1=2, since matter and energy already existed all that needed to happen was for them to react. God is a different story however. Could you tell me what did god use to create the universe? "Now for your next points. In fact the bible its the most proven and accurate historical document known to man" Now you're just straight up lying. "It was written by many different writers, most of them would never even have met, and yet it follows one storyline." The old testament follows the stories of numerous different characters which by the way sometimes contradict later parts. The new testament tells the story of Jesus in the first three books and each time they say something different about happened, it's not reliable. "The human genome is the most complicated bit of coding that there is, how could it be written by random chance." DNA is like the instruction manual for writing a code. It has promoter & repressor regions, modifications, introns & exons and many other elements which serve to alter precisely what mRNA is produced in response to a specific stimulus. DNA is like a book of ciphers that tells you that on 10th July 2013 turn to page 246 and use like 17 as the ciphertext for the message. The fact that DNA contains many of the same letters as the code is no more remarkable than the fact that a code book uses the same alphabet as a coded transmission. Can we please stop with the crap about DNA somehow being a code or that it is only interpretable by intelligence? DNA can interpret itself just fine. "The idea that mutations can create new creatures is very unscientific because mutations are very very rarely beneficial," So what? Beneficial mutations occur frequently enough to make it viable. "and even if they are they can't create new information." Sigh, just get off answers in genesis or whatever creationist nonsense that you're obviously reading of, this stuff has been explained ages ago. By any reasonable definition, increases in information have been observed to evolve. We have observed the evolution of increased genetic variety in a population (Lenski 1995; Lenski et al. 1991) increased genetic material (Alves et al. 2001; Brown et al. 1998; Hughes and Friedman 2003; Lynch and Conery 2000; Ohta 2003) novel genetic material (Knox et al. 1996; Park et al. 1996) novel genetically-regulated abilities (Prijambada et al. 1995) If these do not qualify as information, then nothing about information is relevant to evolution in the first place. "Evolution and Creation are both faith based theories" Evolution is a theory, creationism isn't. Evolution isn't faith based, creationism is. " about the origin of the universe" You're an idiot. Evolution does not and is not intended to explain the origins of the universe, it is a theory designed to explain animal diversity and if you had done *any* research into this you would have known. " and so neither should be taught at schools as definite fact." Creationism isn't as it is a load of nonsense, evolution is taught because it has been proven to occur. " Instead they should be treated as theories" Evolution is a theory! A scientific theory! Stop saying that word because you obviously have no idea what it means.

Anyone else checking out the blonde?

The thing is we can observe the Earth orbiting the Sun. We can't observe the formation of life, whether it was creation or evolution

@anon8638

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, he made terrible arguments.

@Kyle_G1993

9 күн бұрын

You observe the Sun moving over Earth. There hasn't been an experiment done which exclusively proves that Earth is doing an elliptical orbit of the Sun.

@anon8638

8 күн бұрын

@@Kyle_G1993 everything logically points to the earth orbiting the sun. Whereas macro evolution is founded on dozens of unproven assumptions.

*Dude uses a metaphor* Idiot: That's a strawman!!

@marvelsomething1952

3 жыл бұрын

@Francesco Il Coglione THAT'S A STRAWMAN!

We need more priests like him. Religion should be kept in privacy, to indoctrinate young kids with such harmful bollocks is a crime against humanity, and anyone who commits crime against humanity have a one way ticket to the grave

@MrKaffi

9 жыл бұрын

You don't think it's a little bit harsh to kill someone because of that ? Killing anyone that does something against your will sounds a lot like religious medieval practice. "We are half a chromosome away from chimpanzees and it shows" - Christopher Hitchens

@SMGJohn

9 жыл бұрын

marvin marvinson I forgot a comma in my comment, now it should be correct and make more sense.

@MrKaffi

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yeah but killing someone for having a religion isn't that a crime against humanity also ? But i do agree that it's a problem, religion should really have no power in schools and over education in general. I mean i agree with you but killing is never the answer.

@SMGJohn

9 жыл бұрын

marvin marvinson Well I did not say that we should end them because they have a religion but because they indoctrinate children with religion

@MrKaffi

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yes that was a mistake on my part, sorry.

Actually, a scientific theory is a collection of already proven and constantly verifiable facts. The problem arises from how the word "theory" is used in the common language compared to how it is used in science. Most people, use the word "theory" when what they mean is "hypothesis". Charles Darwin may have presented an hypothesis when he wrote Origin of the Species but his hypothesis--or proposal for further study--has been, in the past 170 years been substantiated as a scientific "theory", or a "body of facts'. There is no cause for a disclaimer on biology textbooks for a body of fact.

@ross-carlson

7 ай бұрын

100% THIS - one of the things that demonstrates someone's utter lack of understanding of science is to say "it's just a theory" - demonstrates their ignorance of both the top and what a theory vs. hypothesis is - just as you've said. In short hypothesis = basic idea/concept | theory = fact.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

The model of naturalism is what needs to go, it's a mythology of magic, it doesn't work and never has it's nonsense a hollow model predicated on a deus ex machina mechanism that does not exist and never will. Mind>magic

@Nictator42

6 ай бұрын

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep bro knock it off with the copy-pasted replies. If I see a 4th one of these imma report spam

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

@@Nictator42 cry me a river, keep believing your atheistic nonsense all you want it's just as absurd of a mythology as it always will and has been lol

That wasn't creationism he was even talking about lol

That’s rare: to actually go to somewhere called the big questions to argue if a known fallacy should be taught in schools because a book from thousands of years ago says so. Most people would think it was a literal joke

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

Which is naturalism. Evolution and the prebiotic pool struck by lightning goes back to Babylonian myth it was pulled from. It's utter nonsense. There is a reason modern science was birthed by intelligent design, because it actually works and isn't based on magic. The reliability of the biblical text is exemplary. You do realize its the only source in human history religious or scientific that got the start of the universe correct, no one else came close. It's where we get the big bang theory from. It's also correct in saying we have information based life. To believe mindless matter and mutation can manifest code is a mythology of magic. The paradigm of creation in this universe is mind at the source not magic. Mind>magic

0:37 "Sorry does the lady want to carry on speaking?" Fucking owned that guy. Shut the hell up & let the vicar speak!

"If the lady want's to carry on speaking..." "It wasn't a lady, it was a gentleman..." I was half expecting the priest to reply "I'm sorry, I have cold". I wonder how many people get the reference. :P

@DerekKerton

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I was half expecting that, too. I certainly wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition.

@Swordfishstick

10 жыл бұрын

Well, that's no wonder. After all, nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

@avok23

10 жыл бұрын

Swordfishstick Please share the reference

@clarenceclutterbuckiii7568

6 жыл бұрын

Our main weapon is surprise, surprise and fear

@chrisarcher6972

3 жыл бұрын

@@clarenceclutterbuckiii7568 ...and an almost fanatical devotion to... damn, I forget who now!

This priest is such a breathe of fresh air and I don't know why more of those with religious backgrounds can't follow him in his outlook, as he said nobody is saying you can't have your beliefs in the privacy of your home and personal life you are free to believe in all kinds of ridiculous things but when it comes to the education of young minds there is simply no place for teaching childrens things we simply know to be wrong. I am an athiest but I would have far more respect for those who have religious beliefs if they could simply accept provable facts backed by evidence and kept their business out of the education system. If we removed all the scientists and documentation from existence that explained why we have a system called the internet that is letting is all speak to each other right now religion would have children believe it is was a creation of god, and no that is not a joke.

@jessiemeisenheimer8675

6 ай бұрын

Interesting enough, many Christians did not believe the Earth's creation in genesis to be literal. As we now know, the Catholic church was the biggest sponsor of scientific research and advancement in Europe and they did not halt science in the Medieval era.They believed discovering how creation worked allowed them to be closer to God, closer to understanding his nature. A Catholic priest was the founder of the big bang theory. The problem today is so many protestants taking everything in the Bible literally and disregarding any science that disagress with their interpretation.

The majority of Christians are embarrassed to be associated with the nutty Creationist movement.

@luvdomus

10 жыл бұрын

Warren Blunt Not all Creationists believe the world was created in 6-7 days-- the only belief most Creationists hold in common is that life was created by their favorite gods, that it didn't happen "naturally"-- but they haven't given any thought to the details, such as whether or not all living things descend from common ancestors-- that is too complicated for them.

@chuckrose3894

9 жыл бұрын

luvdomus God/higher power/sky daddy created the universe. Evolution is simply the mechanism by which it was accomplished. The vast majority of Christians (including the priest in this video) believe both of the above statements are true. Athiests, agnostics, etc believe the second statement only. Creationists on the other hand apparently not only believe in God/higher power/sky daddy, they also claim to know that evolution was definitely NOT the method that was used. That is just self righteous to the max!

@davidjackson6152

5 жыл бұрын

No we arent.

@yashuafly6342

5 жыл бұрын

@@luvdomus naturally? Everything about the athiests creation belief defies the laws of nature..but you morons say naturally..lol dumb atheists..everything from nothing ..its just natural..😆

@d.dedrick7991

5 жыл бұрын

@@yashuafly6342 Actually, they obviously would believe IN the laws of nature, PERIOD...duh

@beaub152

6 ай бұрын

Lol

“Does the lady want to carry on speaking?” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I like this type of religious people. He's a rare gem that grace the public eye. I'm sure there are many more who don't come into the spotlight and instead the nutcases come forward preaching 'creationism'.

@normanthrelfall2646

7 ай бұрын

How can you educate an evolutionist? Scientific investigation of the Turin Shroud In 1978 a group of scientists became involved in the project STURP from a number of prestigious institutions from around the world. They were given unprecedented access to this burial cloth for 120 hours at the end of a rare public exhibition. Scientific and medical research was conducted on the shroud with remarkable results indicating the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, unfakable evidence that could not be forged by an artist or any other natural means known to mankind. A negative image had been encoded on the inside of the linen cloth which could only have been caused by “particle radiation” emanating from the body within the Shroud. Linen naturally consists of cellulose and has nitrogen atoms which are an indigenous element of it. Many scientists who were involved in this project in 1978 have come to the same conclusion, that “particle radiation” in terms of neutrons from the inside of the body had defused and attached themselves to the nitrogen component, by means of neutron capture which then converted it to C 14. If this occurred at the resurrection of Jesus Christ it would invalid all C 14 dating done on the Shroud in the 1980’s. A small group of scientists in the 1980’s excluded the original scientists from further involvement who knew more about the findings than them. They excluded the world wide public also from the information that would have been acquired from 25 other areas of testing. When it came to the C 14 dating the underlying differences were not shared with other scientific institutions, as had been agreed. They ignored; suppressed and disregarded samples that noticeably had different amounts of C 14 content, which correlated with their distances from the cloth. They selected their own C 14 date that suited their purposes. [Does this sound familiar when it comes to evolutionists? They also ignore, disregard and suppress the insurmountable evidence against evolution]. To explain, the nearer the body parts were to the cloth the more C 14 was detected, so different parts of the Turin Shroud give different C 14 data. Not reliable at all! Investigation at the atomic and molecular levels will further prove the authenticity of the Shroud and completely invalid the erroneous C 14 dating presented, that indicated the Shroud dated to the Middle Ages. This was a total stitch-up by this small group of scientists who wanted to hide evidence that goes against their agenda that points to the authenticity of the shroud. These people are probably dedicated Darwinian Evolutionists themselves. Today certain scientists are trying to suppress the undeniable evidence that a supernatural event occurred beyond our complete understanding that encoded an image of a man, corresponding to Jesus Christ and his sufferings on a linen cloth known as the shroud. Humanists like to play the role of God, but the job is already taken. The religious hierarchy namely the Pharisees and Sadducees at the time of Jesus sought to suppress, ignore and disregard the evidence in terms of the testimony of the Roman soldiers, relating to the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The climax of their rejection of Jesus as Messiah came after part of a terrified watch of soldiers witnessed an angel of the Lord descend from heaven and then roll the stone away , sitting upon it. His countenance was like lightning and his raiment as white as snow and for fear of him they did shake and become as dead men. Part of the watch went back into the city and told the religious hierarchy what had happened, but they did not repent of their sins, but hardened their hearts giving large sums of money to the soldiers in order for them to tell a lie saying: Tell Pilate that his disciples came by night and stole his body away while we slept and if what really happened comes to Pilate’s ears we will persuade him and secure you. [Matt 28:1-15] This is in essence what they said. This Anti-Christ spirit manifests itself in all walks of life wanting to suppress, ignore and disregard anything that is supernatural in orientation. God has not left himself without witness and the Turin Shroud is evidence of a supernatural event beyond the realms of science. Other scientific and medical evidence on the shroud can be trusted as far as authenticating this cloth is concerned. Science is about things we can observe, test and study, you would agree and thereby the truth is manifested for the benefit of all mankind

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

You got to be joking, what he said is absurd. Intelligent Design is the paradigm of reality and science. It's what birthed modern science. The model of naturalism is what needs to go, it's a mythology of magic, it doesn't work and never has it's nonsense a hollow model predicated on a deus ex machina mechanism that does not exist and never will. Why? Because if you had a mechanism that produces rationality from irrationality that is reality breaking. That invalidates all human achievement and personhood because the universe created everything at that point. This is why the multiverse is such an absurd theory. Does a programmer who creates a video game or an author that creates a book create those things from magic? No. It's a mind. Mind is the paradigm of creation for reality not magic. This is a very basic concept that apparently you don't grasp. Naturalism/Atheism is a mythology of magic that is the most egregious belief anyone can hold or pair with science. Mind>magic

What is funny is that the priest's entire belief system is based on a book that he admits is bullshit from the first page!He seems like a guy I would like, but if you can't believe the "Word of God" when it tells you how the Earth and life came to be, why believe any of it?

@seanarmstrong1156

8 жыл бұрын

+Pat Doyle well...the argument from Catholics is that you can't take Genesis at its literal word. Genesis, they would argue, is meant to be read as a poetry.

@MrKennyBones

8 жыл бұрын

He actually has a better view on the bible than most Christians. He's taking what's good in it and practicing it. It gives him meaning in his life. That's nothing but a good thing. It's those who take the scriptures literally that is the problem. They don't use them as moral guidelines in their lives, they use them literally. Which damages more than it does good. Look at Christianity in Scandinavia. Christians there use it purely as a moral guideline and very few actually believes everything in it. And why should they? You don't get more from your life if taking the bible literally anyway.

@pdoylemi

8 жыл бұрын

MrKennyBones It would be "nothing but a good thing" if he accepted the bits of good philosophy in the Bible without subscribing to the idea of faith, and without holding a job that requires him to indoctrinate new generations of children into a belief system when they are too young to evaluate it. And if the Bible were a "good book" from a god, how could taking it literally be bad? Why would god's book be filled with so much bad moral guidance, and accuse he himself of so many horrible crimes both in the past and threatened for the future?

@pdoylemi

8 жыл бұрын

the bish None of my priests molested me when I was an altar boy, so maybe he wouldn't like me. I find this very offensive, I think I was a cute kid...

@pdoylemi

8 жыл бұрын

the bish Oh dear! That might explain why I get an erection whenever I shit! Wait! Did I just say that? :-)

Take a look at this video on KZread: #atheist #atheism

@FOVoid

8 жыл бұрын

+tpr007 still too many people teaching children stuff that is not true.

@mariopellegrini5152

8 жыл бұрын

+FOVoid This is the least problem facing children today. Check your priorities. And teaching children religious myths is NOT child abuse. Child abuse is when you beat your children, starve them, throw them in the oven because you got aggravated with them, crack their skulls open in a fit of rage, belittling them, depriving them of nourishment and other basic needs, and all that other evil shit you hear these scumbags doing to kids on the news. This is parental preference. It hurts no one, and it can be unlearned just as we all unlearned what our parents had taught us.

@FOVoid

8 жыл бұрын

Troy Ster this is not quite true. i give you an example: the hitler youth existed for indoctrination. you teach a child some stupid bullshit and it will (or most likely) belive it. these people mess with the heads of children and yes i do think that is an abuse.

@mariopellegrini5152

8 жыл бұрын

FOVoid The Hitler Youth are a rather extreme case...far different from what everyone is discussing about teaching children the earth was made in a week or that dinosaurs lived just 6000 years ago as opposed to millions of years ago or that there's a God or Jesus or Swami or something.

@seanmurphy1984

8 жыл бұрын

+Mario Pellegrini you are wrong. it it proven that people who believe in creation have an underdeveloped brain, specifically the part of the brain responsible for critical thinking. this is because religion teaches kids not to question their world and therefore they do not develop critical thinking skills. and deprivation of development is abuse, just like if a parent didnt let their children go to school is abuse, so is not allowing their minds to be developed, like religion does

I didn't actually hear the priest mention creationism in his comments but something perhaps more common in hinduism perhaps.

@HongKongEclectic

6 жыл бұрын

bob w. The discussion was about creationism, as per the heading at the top of the video

Where did he mock creationist’s?

Eman Puedama I'm not sure why you keep making new posts, instead of keeping replies in the same thread, but as I said your opinions mean nothing to the scientific community unless you have evidence and publish your findings. Simply asserting your views is not a scientific argument, it's a waste of time for you and us. Publish or perish. If you don't know enough to write a scientific paper, then perhaps you don't know enough.

@timefororbit

10 жыл бұрын

And in response to your edited post, evolution is not my belief. I only *believe in evidence* and all the available evidence confirms evolution. If you think you have a better theory, publish. If not, your opinions are meaningless speculation.

@krissuyx

10 жыл бұрын

Eman Puedama Assertions, eh? Who are you to blame someone for making an assertion? The whole Bible is a big assertion, supported by no facts, no proof, no nothing. Just a book of stuff, which somehow has made countless people believe in it blindly. And all that because of pretty words, promises of paradise and threats of Hell (aside from all the violence, incest, slavery and torture)

@gerontodon

10 жыл бұрын

Kristjan Kangro I didn't mention the bible, dumbass.

@krissuyx

10 жыл бұрын

Eman Puedama That's great, but it's not the answer to my question.

my kind of priest

Well if only they'd apply that logic to radical gender theory.

A priest arguing for logic to be taught within school, and to keep religious beliefs at home, at church and to your fucking selves where it belongs. Now that is fucking refreshing.

The Ten Commandments state that the worst thing you can do is to believe in a god other than the Christian god. With humans worshiping roughly 2000 deities around the world throughout all religions, Christians should understand that atheists only believe in one less than they do. Religion served a purpose when we didn't understand how the earth/people/natural systems came about but it's not needed anymore. It seems almost insane to me that one would believe in a fairy tale such as Christianity.

well i actually appreciate this guy. im atheist

@dylonjinkins2680

3 жыл бұрын

tinwoods I made this comment before I graduated high school😂

What does that have to do with creationism?!

I foresee that priest becoming an atheist within the decade. He seems smarter then the others.

re fucking spect

‘We knows it’s true’ that human intelligence emerged from rain pounding on rocks for millions of years. Yeah sure dude.

@doulos5815

2 жыл бұрын

These people think they’re smart but there views are supported by every corporation and education center

@Pikkabuu

2 жыл бұрын

No-one has ever stated that human intelligence came from rain pounding rocks...

@garethwest9069

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pikkabuu - According to evolution, your thoughts are the products of the atoms in your brain obeying the laws of chemistry, therefore, free will isn't possible. You must presuppose the Christian worldview in order to be able to think ... which you don't appear to ever actually do. Public school brainwashing ...

@Pikkabuu

2 жыл бұрын

@@garethwest9069 The only one who has been brainwashed here is you! Just because our brains work by chemistry doesn't mean that we cannot think freely.

@garethwest9069

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pikkabuu - "Just because 1+1=2, there's no reason it can't equal three!"

To quote the late, great Bill Hicks….. one word ‘fossils’ If you want to believe the world is 6000 years old then go right ahead, just don’t expect anyone rational to take you seriously for one minute.

Unfortunately for him this means that he has to selectively decide which parts of his book are true or not, which undermines the entire thing

@is17a985

7 ай бұрын

No.

@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King

6 ай бұрын

​@@is17a985 yes. Its either the divinely inspired word of god and every word of it is true, or its just another book from just another religion and there is no good reason to believe any of it. There is no in-between that is intellectually respectable. You can't say "This part is wrong.... but this part over here about getting to live forever in paradise is definitely right." Once you acknowledge that there are untrue claims in the bible then you have no good reason to believe any of its claims that can't be proven another way.

@is17a985

6 ай бұрын

@@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King Atheists pretending to undestand the Bible is stupid. No Christian believes that the Bible was handwritten by God. Not every part of the Bible is a quote from God. The priest was talking about Flat Earthers.

"I'm sorry. Does the lady want to carry on speaking?" "That wasn't a lady." Comedy gold.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

6 ай бұрын

Here I thought it was him promoting a mythology of magic, naturalism and pretending it's a logical science based worldview. The guy is a hypocrite.

“Sorry the lady wants to carry on speaking….” was the power move.

I recall watching this programme. His comments were music to ones ears ... This priest was, Absolutely Bang-on, and stood his ground, in making his views/opinions heard! 👍 👏😊

Good to see SOME people grow up and accept basic common sense

"creationist: making all other christians looks bright since 313 A.D. "

If the religious people who try to make up theories to match literal biblical text just for a moment looked at the beauty of mathematics and the world around them they could still argue with some dignity that there is some higher power behind that beauty. I personally don't believe that is true, but the reality is science has a long way to go and is still somewhat in it's infancy even though it has made tremendous strides over the last 3 to 4 centuries. Religion did enough to hold humankind back by using threats and silencing those who dared to look at the science behind their reality, let's not take steps backwards, there is a place for religion to exist within a scientific world for now until someone comes up with proof mathematically for the existence of God or the non existence of God which is what I think some people in Religion are afraid of, math has no agenda and does not lie so if it can be proven one day it will and frankly I believe there are equations to prove the existence of everything. Smart religion would realize that is a better argument for the existence of a all knowing being, it's really a shame that they resort to making shit up.

@gerontodon

10 жыл бұрын

Scientism is the new religion. I don't agree with the idea of a young earth, but the fact that the public are still expected to believe that undirected mutation and natural selection can build animals from a primordial cell- just because some people like that idea, is frankly surreal-- and yet, lo and behold, most people that care about the issue at all still assume that it's the 'educated' view... mind-bogglingly bizarre. God cannot be proved with maths anymore than opposing views such as atheism and naturalism can be. At most, maths can provide the basis for philosophical arguments for or against. Maths can't even definitely 'prove' that one and one equals two, or anything else- not without relying on something that just has to be assumed to be axiomatic.

@BeeBumper

10 жыл бұрын

Eman Puedama You don't understand the depth of his research or the predictability that Darwin's Theory of Evolution allows and has been verified over and over. The fact he knew there was a creature of some kind that fed on a particular kind of orchid, because nothing is random, and he described this organism over 100 years before it was seen feeding on that very plant and cataloged as true. He knew it would have a way of extracting pollen over 12 inches deep in the orchid and it has been seen feeding many times since. At the time it was a hole in his theory so there was no benefit in him denying it existed if he actually saw it for himself. Because he knew his theory was correct he was able to use the knowledge it gave him to describe this animal very accurately without ever knowing for sure if it even existed because it had never been discovered. That's the power of it. He witnessed the same species of finch have their beak change shape in order to accommodate them and their dwindling food supply, evolutionary changes that occurred in a short period of time in order to allow the species continued existence even though it required this habitually driven bird to change it's body and behaviour in order to survive longer and not die of starvation. The problem with those that deny evolution is they don't really know anything about it other than it supports we evolved from primates, or ape like creatures, although it's true power is so much more than that rhetoric the naive try to propagate as the only thing it states. It can't be proven at this time, but there is certainly a mountain of empirical data across all life on Earth that supports it. What observations can be made today to help support the existence of God, Hate, War, Disease, Death, Murder, Adultery, conflicting religions, well none of that supports a God that cares about anything. That football player prayed to God before the big game and won, but then again so did the other team and lost.

@BeeBumper

10 жыл бұрын

Eman Puedama PS math describes everything, saying it doesn't isn't proof that it doesn't. It will prove how, when, why of everything in our Universe as we learn to use it better. It is used to describe every aspect of Physics and the natural world, without it we wouldn't understand a thing.

@gerontodon

10 жыл бұрын

Angel Gd Yes I do understand the arguments for Neo-Darwinism- slightly arrogant, though not surprising that you assume I don't. Are you some kind of psychic? I didn't know about the orchid story but it's not really surprising that an insect would be able to feed on the pollen- it's key to how most flowering plants reproduce after all. It doesn't at all demonstrate the truth of Darwin's theory unless you assume his explanation is correct in the first place. Those different finches can actually interbreed, and even if they couldn't, small-scale adaptation is not evidence for macro-evolution by natural selection. ''Naive''? Haha...... What's ''naive'' is thinking there's something sophisticated about assuming that there's little reason to question the neo-Darwinian paradigm, when in fact it's actually bog-standard and incredibly unsophisticated. Even some biologists that are committed metaphysical naturalists and committed to methodological naturalism are now openly saying that natural selection is just not powerful enough to do ''uphill work''- Stuart Newman and Eva Jablonka amongst them. Yes, I know that virtually all of them accept ''evolution'' as defined as ''common descent''- so please don't bother 'triumphantly' pointing that out. Re your equally naïve beliefs about maths, look into David Hilbert, who also, along with others like Bertrand Russell thought that maths could 'prove' everything nice and tidily- and Kurt Gödel who showed that it couldn't. Even if that was not the case you would still be wrong- unless you consider the contents of sentient experience, such as the 'redness of red' or what it's like to be a bat, as being outside of 'physics and the natural world'- in which case you might have a point, however, you would still have to concede that there are some things that maths can't describe. I won't even bother to address the tiresome Dawkins-by-numbers 'arguments' against God that you proffered.

@BeeBumper

10 жыл бұрын

Eman Puedama Saying you do and actually looking at the work in the field and what it can do are not the same thing.

He's in the wrong line of work.

proof that not all delusional people are equal.

the arrogance of believing to be of divine origin is somewhat ape-like

@ginokwick6057

9 жыл бұрын

***** I think believing that a "a perfect being made you in his image" is rather arrogant than humble

@fxrsniper1

9 жыл бұрын

We could easily say that believing The he didn't make us from his own image is arrogant when the only proof we have shows he did.

@ross-carlson

7 ай бұрын

@@fxrsniper1 HAHAHA - and what "proof" is that? In the history of the world there has NEVER been ANY evidence for any "god" that could be tested, verified and repeated by others. Never. There have been many claims, but never evidence let alone "proof". And which of the 2000+ "god(s)" are you proving? And finally you say "he didn't make us"- he? Seriously? Your god has gender? How did you determine what gender it is? Does that me it has sex? It would then be possible for god to be trans, right? I mean it has gender so it could realize it's not one gender but another, right? Is there a female god? Do they have sex? Where did they come from? So fascinated when people ascribe gender to a fairy tale we have ZERO evidence for.

I HAVE A DREAM . Though it maybe to hard to ask these days . Back when I went to school , During holiday time . Christmas, Hanukah and Quanza were celebrated in all classrooms . I learned the Dradle song , Jewish Customs , and Jews all knew the Christmas Carols , yet nobody said their religion was anymore righteous then the other . What they believed was what they believed . Now it's a crime of ones religious . We are nut jobs . Lol . Um.... but this was back when we had the glaciers , gas was below a doller and we didn't have a hole in the ozone layer . We in the Reagan years were worried about HIV and aids. There was still guitar rock . No Miley , or Bieber , We had Tiffany and Debbie Gibson that never needed to be almost naked in pervocative poses . Brittney and , Gaga , Rianna, and Beyoncé weren't there to sell out to the illuminati . All I'm saying is we need go positive of the new , and the best of the old.

Absolutely! It's unfortunate that we so often hear from the vocal minority of Christians who take an uninformed literalist approach to the Bible. As a priest myself I do my best to teach my congregations that: 1) there are actually two Creation narratives in Genesis 2) they don't actually align with each other 3) that this is okay because they aren't meant to be taken literally - they are philosophy/parable, not history.

@slevinchannel7589

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, but cccoountterrrargumment: Ther no-true-scotsman-FALLACY was used so maassively often by Christians that it all sounds kinda stupid now

@playdiscgolf1546

6 ай бұрын

I didn’t hear him say anything that was mentioned in the Bible….

@hadorstapa

6 ай бұрын

@@playdiscgolf1546 did he need to? He wasn't trying to give an exegesis on Biblical creation narratives, he was criticising the teaching of creationism as history.

Of course the moon isn't made of cheese; it's a conglomeration of various dairy products.

God bless that priest... Agnostic speaking. But still; I mean it.

"when a priest says the religious belief is nuts" umm, he never said that religious belief in general is nuts.. just this particular one.

Most of the fiercest enemies of God are IN the visible church. To this false "leader"....REPENT!

@RodneyKamusiime2004

2 ай бұрын

So the earth IS flat?

He didn't mock creationism

THIS PRIEST FOR POPE!

@norbertfleck812

3 жыл бұрын

He exactly reflects the official position of the Vatican on this issue.

When the Church totally Lols at itself hahahha

@ActaNonVerba1776

10 жыл бұрын

Michael Brown Good point smh

@kennethhendra9106

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, you dont need to be creationist to be a christian lmao. The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church itself declares that big bang theory & evolution theory can be compatible with Catholic Church’s teaching. Pope Francis once said, “The Big Bang, that today is considered to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the creative intervention of God; on the contrary, it requires it. Evolution in nature is not in contrast with the notion of [divine] creation because evolution requires the creation of the beings that evolve.”, and ”When we read in Genesis the account of creation [we are] in danger of imagining that God was a magician, complete with a magic wand that can do all things. But he is not.”

The type of belief set one might have isn't a reliable measure for intelligence, or lack thereof, since it only directly measures one's proficiency at rationalisation, and less directly self-deception. Edit: this isn't a comment on the priest, but rather everyone.

Tell me which church you are in, and sign me in as well.

@lespaul5734

5 жыл бұрын

He's in the Anglican Church I believe.