If God, What's Evolution? | Episode 1810 | Closer To Truth

Assuming the existence of God, what is evolution? If God does not exist, evolution is a full explanation of human origins, without deep meaning or purpose. But if God does exist, what is evolution and how did it happen? Here are possibilities. Featuring interviews with Michael Ruse, Nancey Murphy, Celia Deane-Drummond, Francisco J. Ayala, and Michael Murray.

Season 18, Episode 10 - #CloserToTruth

Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

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[amityaffliction]

Love this series although, technically, we never end up actually getting any closer to truth

[jasonaus]

Philosophy YouTube video essays are much indebted to this man and series, be it directly or indirectly. He's been doing it for decades

[JC-wpvj]

to me, it doesn't matter if we are eternal or not, to me, all that matters is the capability of thinking about it, that's the true gift of life or god if it exists

[sammysam]

Personally, I like the mystery of it all. And I'm not ashamed to state that if an unimaginable force created the universe and regardless of it guiding or watching what we call evolution or not; I honestly don't care. Don't get me wrong, I'm interested and ask myself what, how, when, etc and I'm perfectly fine knowing I don't know and even more so knowing a little mystery in life makes it all worth experiencing. That's just me

[gmotionedc]

This should be on all network stations it’s so good. 👍👏

[blindlemon]

Kuhn consistently implies throughout this series that the explanatory model that is preferred by the majority of current scientists is most likely the correct one. However, science is not a democracy or a popularity contest. The best model should be selected based solely on the fit of the evidence to all possible models, not on the basis of current trends or politics. Scientists are very prone to confirmation bias and “peer pressure”.

[DeconvertedMan]

with or without god, evolution is still true.

[josephkneipp]

I absolutely love this channel! Please don't leave youtube! It's so good, I'd even pay for it! It's unbelievable that it is free!! Thank you!

[Rfighter]

Am I the only one that gets the chills during the intro?

[becut]

The first person he interviews reminds me of the phrase "if a peacock could speak he would boast of his soul, and would affirm that it inhabitated his magnificent tail" (Voltaire)

[Jesusismykin]

God don't have to align with science, God lives in the spiritual dimension.

[genesky]

Is simple, God started it, evolution keeps it going.

[iain]

I'm a theist. First the origins of life then the universe and finally consciousness forced me to consider the likelihood of a religion being true that finally led to theism.

Evolution is strongly in favour of theism as well because of epigenetics. The majority of evolutionary biologists now believe that morphological evolution is primarily driven by epigenetics. The algorithmic like power within epigenetics is found in every organism in the world which means this information was fully in place with the very first organism which supports a deity over blind chance. Geology shows that life started pretty much as soon as the earth was capable of supporting life. So the abiogenesis concept of slow chemical evolution (proven impossible by chemistry) forming millions of years later the formation of a proto cell (proven impossible by chemistry) which over millions of years formed DNA and then millions of years later epigenetic information that happened to develop exactly the same independently in each and every bacteria that already existed due to DNA (again impossible).

As to evolution, God is rational, anything with omnipotence would be. As such he used rational approaches to the creation of the universe and life (terraforming). Billions of years to a deity outside of linear time constraints is the same as seconds as the past, the present and the future are one.

God would then have the ability to nudge if he so wishes. Either through the image of God, miracles, etc. I do not see such a figure creating something with a exact determined end already in place (what is the point? A bit like playing a game of chess with yourself having determined the moves and outcome up front - fairly meaningless) but a destination that evolves as the complexity and wonder unfolds giving man free will to participate in this destination.

[merrybolton]

No Adam no Eve No SIN [ Hallelujah ] Evolution rules thank god

[roblovestar]

The problem in this video is the presupposition that God exists. Evolution doesn't need God, and in fact argues against a benevolent God.

[anthonycraig]

I listen to Nancy Murphy and just can’t believe someone can have that in their head and is still considered sane.

[rumidude]

It all sounds so serious and earnest until one takes just a half a step back from it and then it all disolves into silly sophistry.

[quantumdecoherence]

How much more mental gymnastics do theologians have to create to fit their model in with evolutionary theory?

[johnnowakowski]

The reason I like Thomas Kuhn is because he is a seeker of truth and recognizes that physicalism cannot answer certain fundamental questions, because it is not set up that way by the limitations it "must" constrain itself to...

[jonmeador]

Wrong question: "If religion, what's evolution?" If you're looking for god, you'd ignore religion.