Category: Cosmology_Physics

https://youtu.be/6CulBuMCLg0 Does God exist, or is the material universe all that is or ever was or ever will be? One approach to answering this question is the cosmological argument. It goes like this. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause. Is the first premise true? Let's consider. Believing that something can pop into existence without a cause is more of a stretch than believing in magic. At least with magic you've got a hat and a magician. And if something can come into being from nothing, then why don't we see this happening all the time? No; everyday experience and scientific evidence confirm our first premise. If something begins to exist, it must have a cause. But what about…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ohuG3Vj_48&ab_channel=IllustraMedia A lot of things went right on earth to have yielded complex life. The number of factors that have been postulated has grown. Currently, the typical number you would see in a typical list would have something like 20. We find that we need to be at the right location in the galaxy, that were inside the circumstellar habitable zone of the star, that we're in a planetary system with giant planets that can shield the inner planets from intimidating comet impacts, that we're orbiting the right kind of star that’s not too cool and not too hot, that we're on a planet that has a moon that can stabilize the tilt of its axis, that we're on a planet that's a terrestrial planet, a planet that has a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHp_LWGgGw&ab_channel=100huntley On pages 157 to 158 of his book “The God Delusion”, Richard Dawkins outlines or summarizes what he calls “the central argument of my book”. And when you look at this argument, the conclusion to which is “therefore God almost certainly does not exist”, it is a patently logically invalid argument even if you grant all six steps in the argument. The conclusion that God does not exist doesn't even follow logically from the argument. So on its face, it's logically invalid. But when you look at the argument more closely, I think it has a number of premises in it that are false. What are these premises? Dawkins says that you cannot infer a designer of the universe based on the complexity in the universe because this raises…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Vm0FDEzSE&ab_channel=GOD%3Anewevidence Peter Bussey is a physicist who specializes in the search for the Higgs boson, the so-called “god particle”. We asked him what kind of things the Large Hadron Collider experiments are finding. The Atlas experiment at the LHC at CERN is going to be one of the two big experiments which is certainly going to discover the Higgs particle and maybe other things as well like supersymmetric particles, if they exist. We don't know whether they will exist but we do know that something must exist because the theory tells us that the theory that we have isn't going to be good enough at higher and higher energies. What about the Higgs boson? If it's discovered will it disprove God? It doesn't tell you anything about God except that…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQVm8RokoBA&ab_channel=SinaiSpeak Before the Big Bang, there was no time, space and matter. Therefore, the Big Bang has to be caused by an entity that is non-physical, timeless and possess the knowledge to create a finely-tuned universe. That fits the description of God. My name is Gerald Schroeder. I have a strong science background from MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Bachelor's, Master's, Phd, seven years in the physics staff, seen a whole range of atomic bombs detonated, moved to Israel, met my wife Barbara Schroeder, a great writer, and then teach torah and science. I'm lucky that I have the two that come together. One of the questions that I'm asked as a scientist is: how can a scientist really believe that there's something that we refer to usually as…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR51OrawqIg “If you were designing a universe for life, I suspect you might design it differently. There is no evidence of designer purpose to our universe.” Lawrence Krauss. Are we really just insignificant specks in an accidental universe? Do we really just suck? Those are some dramatic claims but not everyone thinks that way. In fact, some very distinguished scientists disagree. Freeman Dyson, world renowned physicist and mathematician, says “The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.” So maybe it's not an accident that the Earth is habitable. We caught up with physicist Bijan Nemati, who was a senior engineer at NASA's jet propulsion lab for over…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klf6747I9Ok As Christians we believe that God created the world. As soon as you talk to a non-believer and say God created the world, there's a question that almost always comes up next. Then who created God? One of the great atheists of the 20th Century known as Bertrand Russell wrote a book called Why I am not a Christian. He said “If the Christian says God made the world, then he has to be prepared to answer the question ‘Who made God?’” This question commits what we call a “category fallacy”. What if I asked you “How much does a musical note weigh?” You think “Musical notes, which are sound, and weight, these are distinct categories” and you're confused. “What does the color pink taste like?” Color is something…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWhHt4pshyo Some detractors of design will say that the design hypothesis is in fact implausible and just as implausible as physical necessity or chance. For example, it is sometimes said that on the design hypothesis, the existence of the designer himself remains unexplained. It’s said that an intelligent mind also exhibits complex order so if the universe needs an explanation, then the designer also needs an explanation. And if you say “well the designer has no explanation” then why not say the same thing about the universe, that it has no explanation for the observed fine-tuning?  This objection I think however is based upon a misconception of the nature of explanation. It’s widely recognized in the philosophy of science that in order to recognize an explanation as the best, you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m82PmE6oASo How does something come out of nothing? How do we have a universe that comes out of nothing? Astronomers believe there are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Scientists are still trying to figure out how all of this arose seemingly out of nothing. It turns out if you apply quantum mechanics to gravity, then in fact space itself becomes dynamical and universes, spaces themselves and time can pop into existence where there was none before. So you can create whole universes where there was no universe before. Indeed in that way, you might imagine creating a universe from literally nothing. Our universe popped into existence from literally nothing? There is no cause for all of this? So straight up nothing, no matter, no creator, then “poof” the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHXXacBAm2A&t=153s Today we're going to be looking at a short interview clip from Justin Brierley where he talked to Richard Dawkins who ended up admitting that there's evidence for God.  Dawkins: I believe that's very profound. I mean if somebody was going to convince me of the need for a God, it would be there. It would not be in my own field of biology and I've read the Language of God and indeed I reread it today. I really read it first when it came out. When you come on later to the origin of the physical constants, now that's getting warm, that’s getting close to a good argument, unlike the morality one.  Brierley: Is it mainly because it is essentially a scientific argument? Dawkins: No, it's obvious that…