Why GOD Is The Best Explanation Of The Universe (Using Science)

In this video, Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer discuss the Origin of the universe and the various cosmological models referenced to explain it. I hope you enjoy!

[joshua]

“Inference to the best explanation” is a method of reasoning that we all use daily. It involves evaluating competing hypothesis to explain a given set of observations. We weigh factors like simplicity, explanatory power, coherence with existing knowledge. The idea is to deduce or infer the explanation that offers the most comprehensive account of the observed phenomena.

[JudeSpurlin-pgri]

Amen and amen brother in Christ. Thank you brother for bringing the focus back to the truth of who we are as fallen humanity and what God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ has done to reconcile us to the Sovereign Creator.

[theg-men]

Thanks for posting the link to the full video!

[lloydharris]

Gods ways are infinitely higher than our ways. The creation will never attain all the infinite knowledge of the Creator!
Praise and Glory to almighty God!!!🙏

[ChukMeier]

"The nothing is the odd thing and it gets too unstable..." My man is speaking is if nothing is something. Don't let complicated ideas get in the way of simple untrue statements.

[Raeodor]

What i think is amazing is how the bible says the heavens declare the glory of god. And as we have developed scientifically, we see and learn more about the universe. Then when you take all our observations of it and zoom out, you get an image of what looks like a brain for tue cosmic web.Something we wouldnt have been able to make these discoveries without. You cant have more of a "declaration " without direct intervention.

God truly is amazing!

[RodMartinJr]

*_Amen! Great message! Profound in its simplicity and more important than ALL the Stars in the Heavens._*
😎♥✝🇺🇸💯

[MkDiver]

This was great. I’m happy that some, despite it being few, are willing to debate the Christian. Because almost every time it occurs, they look somewhat foolish, as though they’re trying to find a work around to avoid God. Their theories, 99% of the time, are infinitely regressive fallacies. Of course some debates go the other way, but it is usually due to lack of debate skill, or lack of knowledge on something brought up and not on the core argument(word games and diversion essentially). I pray this man, was it the editor of Skeptic Magazine, finds Jesus. Wow that would be an amazing witness to the world. Save him Lord! Amen.

[TheButteredToast]

Love that. The information transcends the energy or matter of the thing.

[HouseofDavidonscene]

The quote by stephen meyer on information is trippy deep...i had to digest that one.

[Stuart.McGregor]

Nice one Brandon. It casts a wider net than your usual content. Keep experimenting.

[NikoAmeristar]

“I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up.”
― George Carlin

[ghxfit]

Shermer seems to never be skeptical about his own skepticism

[LoveYourNeighbour.]

Skeptic magazine's founding publisher Michael Shermer?! I used to sometimes read the magazine, way back in the 90s! Wow, you really cover all the bases on your channel!

[comeasyouare]

My best guess is natural processes that we don't understand. It's the most logical explanation based on the fact that we still experience them. No invention required.

[kpkpm]

So, there was apparently a beginning of the universe. The mathematical equations point to a big bang some billions of years ago. Since we cannot answer the question "who did it", the religious folks conclude that "God did it". When the ancient Greek saw lightning and heard thunder, they did not know who did it. They concluded that Zeus did it. Nothing has changed.

[PumpkinHoard]

I'm an atheist and very much a layman in both science and theology, "let there be light " has always had some rather glaring parallels to the Big Bang in my eyes.

[dataforge]

The fine tuning argument fails due to three unproven assumptions:

1. The range of potential values for the physical laws and constants is high. In reality, we don't know what values there could have been, let alone how likely each are.

2. Other values could not have created self aware life. We don't know what would have happened if, for example, the laws of physics wouldn't allow atoms. Would some other form of atoms and particles exist instead? Would these other atoms form different life?

3. That there were few opportunities to form these constants. Even if the odds were one in a googol, it would mean little if there were a googol different universes or cycles of a universe.

Proponents of cosmological and fine tuning arguments like to assume things about what is outside the universe, things that are completely unknowable. You cannot know if there are other universes or not, what the functions outside the universe are.

[stephenwatts]

Imagination - Process of Pure Creation

The process of creation starts with thought
- an idea, conception, visualization. Everything you see was once someone's idea. Nothing exists in your world that did not first exist as pure thought.
This is true of the universe as well.
Thought is the first level of creation.
Next comes the word. Everything you say is a thought expressed. It is creative and sends forth creative energy into the universe. Words are more dynamic (thus, some might say more creative) than thought, because words are a different level of vibration from thought. They disrupt (change, alter, affect) the universe with greater impact.
Words are the second level of creation.
Next comes action.
Actions are words moving. Words are thoughts expressed. Thoughts are ideas formed. Ideas are energies come together. Energies are forces released. Forces are elements existent. Elements are particles of God, portions of ALL, the stuff of everything.
The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating - or God experienced.

Hang on. There's one thing more I have to tell you. You are always seeing what by your terms you would define as the "past, " even when you are looking at what is right in front of you.

I am?

It is impossible to see The Present. The Present "happens, " then turns into a burst of light, formed by energy dispersing, and that light reaches your receptors, your eyes, and it takes time for it to do that.
All the while the light is reaching you, life is going on, moving forward. The next event is happening while the light from the last event is reaching you.
The energy burst reaches your eyes, your receptors send that signal to your brain, which interprets the data and tells you what you are seeing. Yet that is not what is now in front of you at all. It is what you think you are seeing. That is, you are thinking about what you have seen, telling yourself what it is, and deciding what you are going to call it, while what is happening "now" is preceding your process, and awaiting it.
To put this simply, I am always one step ahead of you.

My God, this is unbelievable.

Now listen. The more distance you place between your Self and the physical location of any event, the further into the "past" that event recedes. Place yourself a few light-years back, and what you are looking at happened very, very long ago, indeed.
Yet it did not happen "long ago." It is merely physical distance which has created the illusion of "time, " and allowed you to experience your Self as being both "here, now" all the while you are being "there, then"!
One day you will see that what you call time and space are the same thing.
Then you will see that everything is happening right here, right now.

This is....this is....wild. I mean, I don't know what to make of all this.

When you understand what I have told you, you will understand that nothing you see is real. You are seeing the image of what was once an event, yet even that image, that energy burst, is something you are interpreting. Your personal interpretation of that image is called your image-ination.
And you can use your imagination to create anything. Because - and here is the greatest secret of all - your image-ination works both ways.

Please?

You not only interpret energy, you create it. Imagination is a function of your mind, which is one-third of your three-part being. In your mind you image something, and it begins to take physical form. The longer you image it (and the more OF you who image it), the more physical that form becomes, until the increasing energy you have given it literally bursts into light, flashing an image of itself into what you call your reality.
You then "see" the image, and once again decide what it is. Thus, the cycle continues. This is what I have called The Process.
This is what YOU ARE. You ARE this Process.
This is what I have meant when I have said, you are both the Creator and the Created.
I have now brought it all together for you. We are concluding this dialogue, and I have explained to you the mechanics of the universe, the secret of all life.

Okay.
Now as energy coalesced, it becomes, as I said, very concentrated. But the further one moves from the point of this concentration, the more dissipated the energy becomes. The "air becomes thinner." The aura fades. The energy never completely disappears, because it cannot. It is the stuff of which everything is made. It's All There Is. Yet it can become very, very thin, very subtle - almost "not there."
Then, in another place (read that, another part of Itself) it can again coalesce, once more "clumping together" to form what you call matter, and what "looks like" a discreet unit. Now the two units appear separate from each other, and in truth there is no separation at all.
This is, in very, very simple and elementary terms, the explanation behind the whole physical universe.

Wow. But can it be true? How do I know I haven't just made this all up?

Your scientists are already discovering that the building blocks of all of life are the same.
They brought back rocks from the moon and found the same stuff they find in trees. They take apart a tree and find the same stuff they find in you.
I tell you this: We are all the same stuff. (I and the Father are One Energy)
We are the same energy, coalesced, compressed in different ways to create different forms and different matter.
Nothing "matters" in and of itself. That is, nothing can become matter all by itself. Jesus said, "Without the Father, I am nothing." The Father of all is pure thought. This is the energy of life. This is what you have chosen to call Absolute Love.
This is the God and the Goddess, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. It is the All-in-All, the Unmoved Mover, the Prime Source. It is that which you have sought to understand from the beginning of time. The Great Mystery, the Endless Enigma, the Eternal Truth.
There is only One of Us, and so, it is THAT WHICH YOU ARE.

[greahall]

Ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy 3:7. What does it really matter, what your origin is as an atheist, it's always the same result, you.become fertiliser.