Science and God
15Science and God, or a look at the Science hypothesis or Nature-is-all-there-is hypothesis, versus the God hypothesis. The video considers arguments that might convince an atheist to look again - hard science and logic, in other words. It covers the God of the gaps argument in defending science, the beginning of the Universe and how it could have started, including Hawking's gravitational hypothesis, and Krauss's quantum-mechanical hypothesis, the case of a Universe that has been around for an infinite time, the extreme fine-tuning of the Universe, making it fitted for life as we know it, multiverse arguments, the computational biology of the cell: DNA, RNA, proteins, ribosomes and all that, the idea of 'specified complexity,' that is, the existence of encoded meaning in Nature, the presence of reason and free will, consciousness and the computer simulation hypothesis of reality including Donald Hoffman's hypothesis that we can't tell what's really out there at all.
00:00 Preliminary Explanation
02:50 The Universe had a Beginning
06:00 Pantheism and Deism
06:50 Multiverses
07:25 A Universe that is Infinitely Old
09:15 Extreme Fine-Tuning
14:15 The Cell as a Bio-Computer with Specified Information
25:45 The God of the Gaps
28:00 The Existence of Reason
32:00 Free Will
34:16 The Computer Simulation Hypothesis
BOOKS REFERENCED
Steven C Meyer: a) Signature in the Cell; b) Return of the God Hypothesis.
Donald D Hoffman: The Case Against Reality.
CS Lewis: Miracles
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This channel is about 'waking up' from our matrix-induced slumber, and about leaving the World a better place than we found it. For most of us, our powers and motivation are strictly limited. We are fundamentally alone in a vast and mysterious Universe, but in the struggle to survive, to 'succeed', or to just get by, we sometimes forget the bigger picture, and we sometimes forget to just relax for a while and remember what an amazing World this is. There is plenty to look at: science, Nature, society... And there are plenty of games to help us get away from it all... So on this channel, I vlog about science, Nature, enlightenment, current affairs and much else besides, I upload sightseeing videos showing London, England, or my holidays elsewhere, and I upload gameplay videos. So why not join in for a while and see what you think?
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