THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR GOD I Rational Religion

Is there any evidence for God? This is such an important question, we're making a whole series on it! In this video, we show that the major scientific discoveries of the 20th century in physics, chemistry and biology, all point to the existence of God!

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[aaronbennett]

You clearly have no understanding of the scientific method if you think this is scientific evidence.

[LamirLakantry]

“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'”
- Douglas Adams

[azazel]

I want those 6 minutes of my time back.

[caseylee]

it's funny.. how do you even know this? bunch of assertions with absolutely no evidence.

[TonecrafteLuthiery]

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but this video is chalk full of bad arguments, logical fallacies, non sequiturs and strawmen. For example, the creator claims in passing that the big bang theory says that the universe started from nothing. Well, the big bang theory makes no such claim. "Before" the big bang, all of the matter, space-time and energy that composed the modern universe was contained within a point of infinite mass and infinite density. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, and the big bang theory does not refute that claim. The energy that formed the modern universe was already in existence.

Another bad argument was the assertion that atheists can stare at the universe all they want, and it will never give you a hint as to its beginning. That statement is demonstrably untrue, but even if I were to assume it's validity, you do not simply get to assert that an omnipotent being must have caused the phenomenon in the gaps of our scientific understanding of the universe. That is a logical fallacy known as "the God of the Gaps", that philosophers and even theologians recognize as a falsehood. If I were to see a rock, and wonder where it originated, I could assert that God must have placed it there, and leave the question to be, giving up on my scientific pursuit. Or I could vaporize a section of it, analyze the gasses it emits and conclude that this particular rock was composed mostly of iron, hematite in fact, from which I can draw the conclusion that this rock was formed by the crystallization of iron dissolved in water with a high oxygen content as a result of cyanobacteria. If I were to ignore the observations and experimentation that could have lead me to that correct conclusion, and just assumed that God must have formed this rock, I would not actually be pursuing the truth. I would be pursuing what J wish to be true, and placing it in the gaps of my knowledge.

If your God is one who occupies the mystery of the universe, God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance, to loosely quote Neil Degrasse Tyson. Your God once occupied the origin of species, the origin of the planets, the origin of the oceans and of humans themselves, but we no longer require an omnipotent being to explain those phenomenon.

And lastly, back to the assertion that we can't know the origin of the universe just by staring at it. You know that to be false just as well as I do, within the context of any other scientific field of inquiry. I can indeed stare at a rock, experiment with it and observe it, and tell you of it's origin. I can stare at the moon of Saturn Enceladus, collect samples from it's guizers, and tell you how it formed. I can even tell you what materials reacted with one another to form it's composition, and tell you that stellar remnants and supernovae, powered by nuclear fusion, formed the elements from which those molecules formed. And can even tell you the origin of the hydrogen atoms that formed the stars, that formed the elements, that formed the molecules that formed you. With quarks and bosons, protons and electrons, neutrons and neutrinos, I can explain almost the entirety of the universe, back to trillionths of a second after the big bang (not me personally of course, I'm not an expert, I mean science in general can explain these things). Now, would you like to hedge your bet on the God of the gaps who has lost his gap in the vast majority of cases thus far, leaving him only with what was before the big bang (which is a stupid question in itself because time did not yet exist before the big bang, so there was nothing that anything could exist within)? Or do you think it is statistically more like that, just as with the 'God particle', yet another one of this gap God's intellectual dwellings will be list to science? My bet is on the latter.

[TheyCantAllBeTaken]

This has to be satire. Surely he can't be trying to make any serious points with such tired, ill informed and weak arguments?

[TheMursk]

One can ask, is the universe fine-tuned for life, or is life as we know it fine-tuned for the universe?

[nevanderson]

"Us religious folk have always had an answer" Yes, and you had that same answer when explaining rain, thunder, lightening, disease, death, floods, earthquakes, and you were always wrong then too.

[MasterZealot]

"I don't understand, therefore god."

[Mariomario-gtoy]

this is comedic gold. this is your brain on religion

[aloysiusohare]

I love how every single one of the top comments is destroying him

[Steelmage]

I have yet to meet an honest religious apologist.
This video didn't change that.

[Sinclairelim]

Scientific proof of god:
1) I don't know where the universe came from, therefore I know it came form god.
2) If the universe behaved differently, the universe would be different. Therefore god exists.
3) I don't understand how complexity could build over time, so it must be impossible.
I believe we have different ideas of what "scientific" means.

[roxi]

Just another person who has no clue how science works...

[BombalurinaAI]

Didn't know we could make up our own definitions of "Rational".

[dr.catherineelizabethhalse]

He still can't prove HIS god exists. The same arguments could be given for any god like Zeus or Brahman

[cinxkjn]

Still waiting for scientific evidence.

[TheMursk]

Saying religion provides an explanation is like having two pupils trying to solve a math excersize they don't have the basics for. If one of them just makes up one(or several) answers, while the other admits he doesn't have the means to solve it, why would anyone accept the made up answer?

[π-θ]

Therefore from this video I learnt that the flying spaghetti monster actually exists.

[aleksandarrotar]

It's ironic how you mock bears having a house while trying to prove the existence of god.