Justin Brierley is a broadcaster, writer and speaker on apologetics and theology. He is the author of 'Unbelievable? Why, after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian'.
If I were a fly on the wall, what ID mechanism would I observe as regards the appearance of new species? Is it along the lines of a reptile lays an egg and hatches a bird?
The Real Being - is the Real Being ----- no one more Real - in an absolute way. Words - are dancing around - the Great Mystery. Fare thee well - in life's journey.
The gospel in itself has the power to impact society, culture the human heart. Christiandom is also aware of the rise of the one world religion which is taking root, I believe Christian’s have to speak the truth about God and Jesus and the gospel of hope, unwatered down in all its power
Stephen Meyer is about50 years out of date, Evolutionary science as moved beyond neo-darwinism. He needs to read a few more papers at catch up. Creationism has only ever been talk about in conceptual terms. If he want to presented as credible science it needs to includes some hypothesis that can be tested and verified and. Stop straw manning evolutions or mis quoting what scientist have said and come up with something credible, even falsifies evolution.
When my teachers first tried telling me DNA came from lightning striking primordial ooze I thought they were crazy. Luckily I was able to go to a Christian school and learn about creationism. If one looks logically at both and at all the relevant data. There is only one that even comes close to making any kind of sense.
What is a conversations? Yes, silent unseen nor seen can be heard from thy shared ears to HEAR. Scattered noises can be filtered = clarity, so clear as water! Students will say, given New ears to HEAR let them hear! Students shared "i" AM will say, come longing to LEARN unto all the wise and world views! What is an AIM?
A little LIGHT a CANDY as an offering to comfort the COMFORTER! Why? Angels who persevere and heard the WORD and HOSTS shared "i" AM will say, if the SON ABLE TO BE SATISFIED WITH THE CANDY OFFERED? WHY a candy is worth more than all these.....? Keep watch!
while the universe is expanding and the rate of expansion is accelerating, these phenomena are consistent with, not independent of, the Big Bang theory.
@LGpi314 while it may be consistent with, it is not dependent on a big bang. The universal expansion is accelerating. If it was dependent on a big bang for expansion, gravity would see a deceleration of expansion over time. Acceleration indicates an independent mechanism is causing expansion. Further, with a universe that inherently expands, we no longer need a big bang to explain it. We also have a much better explanation for cosmic microwave background radiation than the current ridiculous one. A better explanation is stars so far away that universal expansion has shifted the red light of hydrogen into microwaves.
@LGpi314 you're not understanding me. Maybe I should call you on your assertion first. With the expansion of the universe accelerating, if we assume a constant rate of acceleration (which is what we must do until we can determine if the rate of acceleration changes), there is no singularity. We end up with a vertex above 0. In order to end up with a big bang, we need to insert an inflection point, and we have no basis for doing so, other than to maintain the big bang theory - and that's speculation, not science. How do you prove an inflection occurred? James Webb is not bearing that out, with mature galaxies spotted less than 700M years after the theoretical Big Bang. Therefore, I suggest the theory is on very shaky ground. Now, that doesn't necessarily rule out the big bang theory, but it does leave plenty of room for other theories to exist, such as continuous creation and a horizon of visibility.
@@vannersp "If it was dependent on a big bang for expansion, gravity would see a deceleration of expansion over time." Read my comment again. Big Bang is just one of the theories for the origin of our universe timeframe. If you want to use it then no matter of acceleration Big Bang is responsible for the beginning of our timeframe. The idea that the universe’s expansion would decelerate if it were solely dependent on a Big Bang and gravity is based on earlier models of cosmology. However, this concept has evolved with new discoveries. ### Background: - **Big Bang Theory**: The Big Bang theory posits that the universe began from an extremely hot and dense state and has been expanding ever since. Initially, it was assumed that the gravitational attraction of all the matter in the universe would slow this expansion over time, potentially leading to a decelerating universe. - **Gravity and Deceleration**: In the absence of other forces, gravity, being an attractive force, would indeed slow the expansion. The greater the mass in the universe, the more significant the deceleration would be. ### Discovery of Accelerating Expansion: - **Accelerating Expansion**: Observations from the late 1990s, particularly those involving Type Ia supernovae, revealed that the universe's expansion is not slowing down but is actually accelerating. This was unexpected and led to the introduction of the concept of **dark energy**. - **Dark Energy**: Dark energy is a mysterious form of energy that permeates space and counteracts gravity, causing the acceleration of the universe's expansion. Its precise nature is still unknown, but it constitutes about 68% of the universe's total energy density. ### Current Understanding: - The current understanding is that while gravity does exert a decelerating force on the universe’s expansion, the presence of dark energy dominates on large scales, leading to an accelerating expansion. ### Conclusion: If the universe's expansion were *only influenced by gravity,* we would indeed expect a deceleration over time. However, *the discovery of dark energy* has shown that other forces are at play, leading to an accelerating expansion instead.
@@vannersp "Now, that doesn't necessarily rule out the big bang theory, but it does leave plenty of room for other theories to exist" And there are. Here is a short list of major theories about the origin of the universe: 1. *Big Bang Theory* : The universe began as a singularity and has been expanding ever since. 2. *Steady State Theory* : The universe is eternal and unchanging, with continuous creation of matter. 3. *Oscillating Universe Theory* : The universe undergoes infinite cycles of expansion and contraction. 4. *Inflation Theory* : A rapid expansion occurred immediately after the Big Bang, smoothing and flattening the universe. 5. *Multiverse Theory* : Our universe is one of many universes that exist simultaneously.
The energy consumption system for my body designed by God has as its output stinky, smelly poop. My car exhaust is much less objectionable. Detroit human engineers are better at design than God, who is a really crappy designer.
This is such wishful thinking by Justin. I see so many Christians and even Christian Scholars leaving the faith. Untill there's actual numbers on anything he's saying, he's just practising oberserver bias
So your saying that , 1 in 10 to the 80th chance that I would select the right molecule in 10 billion Universes is improbable?, none the less ,there is still one chance? That explaines it. So why fight it , thats all the information I needed to forget that I may be wrong. Thank you for your efforts. I am going back to the rock I crawled out from. ZZZzzz,,,,.....
I believe we will know, in fact it is inevitable. As Stephen Hawking said: "The Theory of Everything would be the ultimate triumph of human reason, for then we would truly know the Mind of God". Consequently the Thing-in-itself will be revealed, in all of its beauty and simplicity, and all the Supernatural Sky-Gods will vanish in a puff of logic.
@@donthesitatebegin9283 In his 2010 book "The Grand Design," Hawking argued that the laws of physics, particularly gravity, can explain the creation of the universe without the need for a divine being or creator. He famously wrote, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."
@@LGpi314 Yeah, well, I've read everything he ever wrote. He wasn't a patch on Roger Penrose. Hawking's views were complex and evolved over time, sometimes appearing contradictory. Initially, his strict Logical Positivism led him to acknowledge the utility and apparent inescapable power of the Statistical Interpretation of the Wave-function. This interpretation seemed to explain quantum weirdness, but it was meant to be seen as a limit on observation, not a foundation for unfalsifiable, speculative theories. However, Hawking's perspective shifted, and he began to take the Statistical Interpretation more literally-leading to accepting the idea that "Nature is Uncertain." From there it is a short step to embracing more speculative ideas like Many-Worlds interpretations and treating virtual particles as real entities, rather than as mathematical artefacts (see: Hawking Radiation). By the way, in the same book, he also said "no such thing as nothing," reinforcing his earlier view, the No Boundary Hypothesis ("the boundary of a boundary is zero"): there was no "before" the Big Bang. Without a prior time, the concept of a creation event caused by an external entity becomes meaningless. Time and space are intertwined and only come into existence with the Big Bang. That view does not require quantum weirdness, literal interpretations of QT or virtual particles becoming physically manifest - it's just a restatement of the General Theory of Relativity: the Universe is One-thing, a Totality, a Whole, the boundless sum of existence - a non-Euclidean hypersphere with no "edge" and no "outside". So in a sense he had two Cosmogonies: one beautiful and based on the General Theory of Relativity, one pug-ugly and based on a literal interpretation of the Statistical Interpretation of the Wave-function. I know which one I prefer, and it isn't just a matter of taste. In any case, do you think he actually wrote that pop book, or did Leonard Mlodinow write it?
Rebirth? One of the biggest reasons religion still persists is the fact that people are born into them without having a say in the matter. Being conditioned to have faith in something before you have the logic and reasoning skills to accept on your own what is being asserted is an insidious way To exert peer pressure and confirmation bias over an individual. I mean if everyone in this building believes the things being said by the man behind the altar I guess I The child, taught to trust what the adults say, should too. Over time this conditioning sees people just accepting on faith The magical assertions men make on behalf of characters from holy books.
An INTELLIGENT Designer gave you only two sets of teeth, one set that you lose even before your teens, with all the accompanying agony of getting rid of these useless things from your mouth at a very young age. These are then replaced by another set that will not be replaced again and will not last you the rest of your life unless routine Human Intervention takes place in the form of a Dentist, and even then it is not guaranteed. A Very "Intelligent" Designer Indeed!!!
A common consensus on here, but again, a shout out to these two! No “Alex destroys”, “Justin obliterates”; two people discussing, debating, critiquing, showing each other respect and humanity. I am a Christian and I think Jesus enhanced our understanding of what it means to be truly human, but Alex also shows how one does not have to be a practicing christian, or any religion for that matter, to show kindness and respect. Well done both!
The great jewish philosopher Martin Burger wrote that " The modern mind since the enlightment is a homeless mind" in other words we are here and there but we are nowhere rooted in belonging. It is that sense of been known by name, been safe, been safe enough to choose futures all these claims seem to be connected with a place of belonging, a place some to call home.
As muslim, I love listening to Stephen Meyer. He expresses things with great clarity. May God guide him to study the Quran with similar intelligence and honesty.
Meyer is a pseudo scientist that the whole scientific community rejects. My question to you. Why do you worship a god that is okbwith underage girls' marriage?
@think-islam-channel lmao. Why should we believe in your. You don't have any evidence, and neither does he. Your god is fictional as much as any other gods. Why does your religion support under aged marriage?
Alex O.C. is totally disingenuous about slavery, always falsely using the issue as a stick to beat Christians. First, arguably the worst slavers of all were the Moslems under MohamMAD and his successors; centuries later, the Ottomans positively rejoiced in enslaving the white-skinned SLAVS (note the linguistic connection!), and a while later yet, the USA in its formative years post-independence was forced to fight several brutal wars against the (Islamic) Barbary Coast pirates. Second, the trans-Atlantic slave trade would not have come into existence if non-Christian Africans had not been enslaving other non-Christian Africans for ages, long before white dudes appeared on the dark continent. Third, Thomas Sowell has produced evidence that the number of white slaves in N.A. exceeded that of blacks. (!) Fourth, there is still egregious slavery around the world, but almost entirely in Muslim nations, and in communist dictatorships such as mainland China (their persecuted Uyghurs), North Korea, and Myanmar. } No Christians, those thugs...
God is wishful thinking more. It is sad that people in 21st century are relying on goat herders' understanding of the world from 2000-6000 years ago. To me it is insane.
All the bible had to say was Anything that anchient people could not have known ... Like this is how many planets in this solar system this is how far we are from the sun and moon anything to prove with evidence that the old book wasnt written by man ... But theres nothing ..... In fact the evidence all through the bible proves its written by men only definatly NOT a creator Too many contradictions dates are wrong places and geography is inncorrect children being tortured Horrific wars and murders .... Its quite ridiculious that anyone would be so scared into believing its more than an old book ....maybe the poor children who have been told their going to Hell if they dont believe ..but adults?? ...cmon ...time to grow up folks.
Rebirth? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! I guess it’s not enough that you have an imaginary friend that you pretend is a supreme being - you also have to pretend that there are not less of you with each passing day. Question: why do Xtians hate evolution so much? Answer because they’re going extinct.
Religious dogmas is not uniting but dividing us in separate groups. Religious organisations is biggest scams ever invented. Use your heads open your eyes and don't listen to religious propaganda.
Can god create a rock that it can't lift? LMAO “I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.” ― Bertrand Russell
@@Alithios "Make not God in your own image?' What does it mean? gods is a man-made concept. Men created god because they could not understand their surroundings. It is sad that people in 21st century are relying on goat herders' understanding of the world from 2000-6000 years ago. To me it is insane.
This is one of the only angry yt comments Ive ever written. I just clicked to tell you that cheap click bait thumbnails like this are contributing to making the world ugly. and displaying a lack of faith. If you think you need to display ugly cheap advertisement in order to trick people into clicking on something which you think is deeply beautiful, you're wrong in every way. The real enemy is not what you think are incorrect facts. The real enemy is this ugly salacious disposition which you are feeding with your clickbait thumbnails. Please don't do that in the name of God
The fact that the universe is clearly designed proves nothing regarding that designer taking an interest in violent desert people in the middle east and proceeding to lay out laws governing every aspect of thier life.
I said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So that doeant mean much lol. I would never normally say this about anyone but im glad the fbi raided Scott. He is one hel of a douche j
