10 Minutes of Religion being DESTROYED by Sam Harris 

Same, and I am so happy for it.

Lucky you, only my father was a long life atheist my mom is catholic and she always tried to indoctrinate me but since a young age none of the religious BS had any grap on me, it all slided from me

@@AntitheistHumanGood for you. Unfortunately both of my parents have been protestant all their lives. I was unable to help being slightly indoctrinated by my fundamentalist church.

@@AntitheistHuman Same family deal, mom is Catholic and dad an atheist. One preached morality, the other demonstrated kindness. But unlike you, I feel hard for the indoctrination. Until I read the OT. I realized that god doesn’t give us morality, because like my mother, God claims to be the center of morality, but his actions belie him. Atheism doesn’t force me to justify the cruelty in the OT.

Same and happy as fuck for it!!!

I’m an atheist and I have a tendency to be a little more nuanced. After all, I have good friends and family members who believe in god, and I don’t think they are stupid or insane. They are simply misled. I used to believe in god. I know what it’s like to believe. It’s a long hard road out of the matrix.

@@patrickwoods2213 All of that is true. I appreciate the comment because, although I understand, I have never had to deal wtih that myself. It must be a very tough and frightening road. Unfortunately, it's also why a lot of people never dare to question their beliefs - the consequences in terms of family, friends and community of losing faith would be devastating. Those who do dare have my respects - I can only imagine the courgae and intellect it must take.

That’s such an ignorant statement to say. I have religious and atheists friends of mine that are scientists and/or get along. Just because your personal experience was different and not so good doesn’t make Jesus Christ and his teachings untrustworthy or dumb. It’s like saying that because a scientist believe that the earth is flat, then every scientist is dumb. Really ignorant and arrogant to say don’t you think?

@@bointasalexandros6645 Well, one thing it's not is ignorant. That's the wrong word - but I'll let it go because English probably isn't your first language. Yes, it's an extreme view. Yes, it's intolerant. Are there very clever people who believe in God? Sure. Are they completely sane? I have my doubts. The one thing I'll admit here is that many people are religious because they grew up surrounded by it from the age of zero. I concede that it's very difficult to reject religion if everyone you know and love has been ramming it down your throat forever. I never had to find my way out of the maze (as one commentator aptly referred to it in this thread). And I'm not sure I would have been mentally sharp or strong enough to do it. My huge respects to those who managed.

@@scrumpymanjack What about atheists that grew up as atheists and then tunred to God? Are they insane because they believe that a higher intellectual power exists? I can’t understand why you categorizing every single one theist that they are also crazy or something. And yes, I’m a Greek Orthodox Christian and English is not my first language but would I ever be prodisposed to a human being just for his beliefs without ever knowing him? That’s just racist and absurd if you ask me but you do you, moreover, we have the free will to do anything I guess.

Years ago (so the figures would have changed by now, and certain financial goings on were too opaque, and so simply left out of the figures) the US government was *losing $73 billion a year* to "religious" tax exemptions. So people like Kenneth Copeland can con poor little old ladies out of their money and become a billionaire? (I don't think he is quite yet, but give it a few months...). This is NOT acceptable!

Religion was created BY THE GOVERNMENT

Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a long enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people? This is unfortunately the most widely funded religion today. *Did you know that Naturalistic Evolution shares characteristics of a religion?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)

To some extent you are right, especially when it comes to things like buildings! But think of the works many Christian organisations do, helping the homeless, drug addicts, alchoholics & rescueing children from sex slavery. The list goes on & on. And if you don't know much about these things you are very ignorant, as this world would've destroyed itself a long time ago if Christians didn't do anything about them!

There are religions in this country that get financial aide?

Its interesting that while some people can quote Voltaire to support an argument (one way or another), they somehow fail to explain their own proofs; (or disproofs). Perhaps they don't really have any ideas of their own ?

@@electricmanist : I'm not sure why you said what you did, other than being mean spirited, but I felt this quote from Voltaire said it all. Why reinvent the wheel?

@@user-of9qq6op5u Maybe if I suggest that your puppy is just not clever enough to create the universe, you might (upon deep reflection) consider that puppies are really not suitable. However, bearing in mind just how complex the universe is (not to mention the billions and billions of atoms involved) , maybe alternatively you might accept a kitten for the top job of creator. Perhaps not quite as ridiculous as a puppy perhaps. but then if one can only bark, and the other can mew musically, then maybe that idea is worth considering.

@@user-of9qq6op5u An even more sobering thought, your body alone consists of millions of atoms ! Now translate this fact into the (as far as we know) structure of the 'endless' universe itself. Wow --ten million times over !

@@user-of9qq6op5u Perhaps you can appreciate that my use of the word billions and billions was merely a term to indicate the almost unfathomable number of 'bodies' there are in the universe. Indeed, to even think that the universe 'is not endless', really comes down to a state of mind, since we really do not know ! Recent developments in radio technology (let alone visual telescopes) have resulted in images (solar systems etc) from distances far beyond what was thought to be possible . So the actual size (if size is the correct term) of the universe is really only speculative. Humans in general have difficulty of visualizing (let alone conceptualizing) something which appears to be endless. Light years maybe, but we can somehow conceptualize the distance light can travel in an (Earthly !) year. So maybe your suggestion that the universe is NOT endless, is based on the inability of the human mind to visualize/conceptualize something that goes on forever and forever and forever etc etc !.--- and then some !!!

It infects your brain and changes your way of thinking. Religion is truly a mental parasite inside the brain.

Welcome to freedom, atheist jew, hi

I'd take it one step further in adding: Schizophrenia!!

Maybe you would find Christianity (religion etc )more acceptable if your local priest, vicar or Imam etc etc, wore a top hat and pulled rabbits from a hat ? Maybe (on a clear night) you should look at the night sky and try to speculate just how or why anything exists at all ! Believing in a Creator should not affect your "freedom" since it is a belief in "nothing" which which limits your awareness of all that is. (And of yourself for that matter since you are also part of all that is--- remember that ),

​@@electricmanistWhat if someone has no emotional need for a creator?

William Lane Craig destroyed both Sam and Christopher.

Your two prophets of atheism are (were) reliant on substances such as alcohol and prescription for comfort and solace. And one succumbed to its toxicity years back. Is this a picture of peace and tranquillity from your choice of belief? Wait till the day of reckoning beckons, and you will know who your true Lord is, that is Allah the Most High.

@@TBOTSS HAHAHAHAHA that you think that is beyond laughable as not only did he not "destroy" them Craig has been utterly embarrassed every time he debates someone like them - well he would be if he was capable of that level of self awareness. Just wow.

@@libertarian2718 Atheists don't have prophets - that's what you have. Atheists "have" nothing as atheism ONLY means I don't accept the claim of your "god". That's ALL. There is no shared belief after that, no shared culture, no nothing. Just like you don't believe in unicorns - there just isn't a word for that - I don't accept your "god' just like you don't accept the "god" of @tbotss. So I tell you what - when you theists, who believe in totally different things yet are completely convinced you are right - when you guys agree on what "god" even is you let me know. Until then you both need to stop believing in baseless bronze age fairytales that get people to kill each other over it.

@@ross-carlson Sam after his debate with Craig "I blew it". Poor old Chris would not come out for his final response and as a prominent atheist commentator pointed out "Chris was spanked like a like a little child".

Yes! You have certain politicians that LIE to us, when the church they support, as well as themselves, DO NOT PAY TAXES! 💩💩

it's good business

RU-vid where is my COMMENT!?

RU-vid where is my Comment!?

Its a commercial enterprise. Tax it appropriately.

not really SH lives in darkenss and is horribly lost

@@raysalmon6566 yea yea sure Sherlock

@@raysalmon6566 Do you still believe magic is real?

@@raysalmon6566 Typical religious cult member claiming anyone who isn't part of the flock as lost. Pathetic, predictable, braindead theist

​@raysalmon6566 Another person who was brainwashed and indoctrinated as a child.

A person can't be reasoned out of a position they themselves did not reason in.

Religious faith takes our thinking and logic away

IMHO this world would be 10 time better without a God telling everyone different things and God giving land to people so now they are fighting over it.

You have false opinion. For example chin@ peaple at most are atheists, but it don't prevent g€n()csd€ of uyghurs, north korea also atheistic, USSR in period of Lenin and Stalin try kill faith in God, and as you know at that time those who provide that were do terrible things. So don't think so false, it is very stupid to blame religions as you do. You should blame evil,sin for which every people have predisposition. Without God our world will be worse than it is, and history of many atheistic ways show that

How can you say believing in God makes people feel good? Believing in the Lord means that we are responsible for each of our actions, that we are judged for what we do wrong, and that we must tirelessly work hard to hold ourselves to a high standard of morality. How is that meant to serve man's worst desires or make them feel good? Your last statement is a completely faith-based statement. A world has never existed without Gods and religions, so saying you think the world would be better with a faith-dominated world is slightly ignorant.

You are a true self deceiver!! You must becvome honest with yourself before God, so that you will not be lost for all eternity!!

@@wesleygordon1645 Can you be so sure? Many true believers deny the science on man-made climate change. But if it turns out to be true, wouldn't God expect us to act?

​​​@@wesleygordon1645weird how God made millions and millions of people he knew would use their intellect and free will to never believe in him, only to cast them into the fires of eternity. Cool guy, seems really about love and peace

Thats the same thinking as being LGBT, changing your Gender, thinking that women are not equal ( LOL) , pretending that BLM (while ravaging Africa).... It's all man made and doesn't need to be accepted by everyone.

​​@@wesleygordon1645in The age of subscribing to the dictates of Parables, Prose, Fantasies and Fables, prescribed by morality signalling hypocrites who presume to speak on behalf of a Celestial Patriarch, in whose "name" they (you) cast aspersions, judgements, condemnation and prejudices, while claiming that these are "God's verdict", is over. Consciousness has recognised an authentic awareness of progressive knowledge, free from the conceit and contrivances of an ultimatum based superstitious hysteria, promoted by people who claim the authority of fabricated pieces of primeval Myth and Fiction, and want me to believe that these are "Divine", that I won't have, and it is the original repudiation. The first rebellion against mental slavery comes from saying ; it is man-made, it is Not "Divine". What is written in the Bible, Quran and Torah, is clearly not the best that Humanity is capable of in the ethical domain.

Atheists always seem to like demeaning and putting down Christians. The evidence of your works does not match the object of your beliefs. Christian morality has always seemed more effective at producing good people than atheist materialism.

There's seem to be some sense of denial I think, a Christian will claim they are interested in the truth, but won't even bother to pick up a book on evolution and try and learn something, they often just throw the same old excuses...like "Its just a theory" and try and avoid the topic completely. But with a little research they could learn so much about earlier humans, and chromosome number 2, showing that at least adam and eve are just mythological.

So everyone else scrupulously honest ?--- you might care to tell that to all the people in prison for theft, or robbery for embezzlement, for forgery, for falsifying documents , telling lies etc etc !!

@@electricmanist Intellectual honesty is different from what you are describing as "scrupulously honest,...theft, robbery," etc.

If you are honest, tell me how the earth has come about?

Not going to hell, trying to 'convince' you you're going to hell. Now, do you go through life, guilty of some sin you created in your mind because what they convinced of. Or do you know better to not believe in this belief, because of a knowing deep down in you, you know as truth, and this isn't it?

Quit going. Tell your mother the truth. Let your mother figure out her own way to church if it's so important to her. Nietzsche also stated that if you enjoy one moment in life that you say yes to all the suffering as well. The strongest trees have suffered many storms. They grow stronger partly because they endured. They are stronger because they grew deep roots, they bent in the wind and survived. The lesson is not in the suffering itself, it is what is left over after suffering. Choose to be strong enough to tell your mother you don't believe and she should not either.

Anger is the way our body tells us what we don't want or are not. Multiple near death experiences all share similar stories of how we are in fact consciousness and not a material body. This is just a temporary stay to experience and learn. Religion has some truth but is mostly an ancient indoctrination to control and divide humanity.

That's terrible. Can you not just drop your mother at the church then go and grab a coffee and some breakfast, then pick her up after the service?

Always weird to hear menn are superior. If they were, we wouldn't have to remind everyone. Hope your life becomes better and one day, you get away (by going to the embassyy if you have one).❤

think christianity is on the way out but sadly cant say the same for islam

Because we shouldn’t attack religion in itself, but the way people think and get indoctrinated. We need to make them think rationally and believe on evidence. Shed this indoctrination alone, and have something to fall back on after that. You can’t just take it away.

Atheism is also religion!!

@@wesleygordon1645 what do you think religion is?

@@wesleygordon1645 dont be so bloody daft

A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE, when I was struck by lightning during September 1970. Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.

...and you are still a rebelling against God. Prodigal Son.

The anti- Gay rhetoric is limited to Abrahamic religions. They banned and burned people for their sexual orientation. In other cultures, who you have sex with, how you have sex doesn't make any difference to who you are as a Human being.

No religion would be more efficient than one. We need to live in reality not delusion.

@@24KLuxury It is possible that delusions might make for a better world.

Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? That we are all 'just chemicals" or "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care? Because if so, that contradicts your desire for something "better," "kindness," "compassion" - it's all just meaningless chemicals, literally chance chemicals fizzing in your brain about meaningless things. Nothing can be truly "good," "bad," "right," "wrong," etc. you are the cousin of cockroaches, cancer cells, leprosy, and death - evolution does not care about your "kindness" "survival" "compassion," and there is nothing "ugly" about floods, etc. - it's all just chemicals. You're contradicting yourself my friend. Nothing you're saying here makes any sense, from your worldview's perspective - every time you refer to such meaningful and valuable things you are borrowing that not from your meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care, but from the image and likeness of God programmed into you, and I love that He put that into you because that is powerful evidence you can see in yourself that He exists. As for the "anti-gay rhetoric" - have you ever read any accounts of gay people who used to be gay but switched to being straight? Like Anne Heche? Or the growing detransition movement - have you ever listened to the heartbreaking things they have to say? According to the CDC in 2015, 19% of the LGBT+ community has HIV, compared to only 1% of the world community which has it - why such disparity? Surveys conducted among older LGBT+ people also shows that approximately 20% of the community has had over 1000 partners in their lifetime and didn't even know half of them, roughly half have had over 500 partners and didn't know half of them, and about 20% of the population has had over 100 partners in their lifetime and didn't know who half of them were... which explains the high rate of HIV transmission. I'm surprised you are supporting such a harmful and dangerous dehumanizing lifestyle - it's not "love is love," it's more accurately confusing promiscuity with "love." I personally think promiscuity, unfaithfulness to your current/future spouse, spreading life-threatening disease, cheapening the beautiful gift of sex, and perverting God's good design for marriage is what is "ugly" and I'm surprised that you are okay with these things.

There is a religion like this. It is called Buddhism. It is about kindness and compassion. Mindfulness and self awareness. Buddhism is about self exploration and you only believe what you prove to be true for you. The method of doing this is rigorous and has worked for nearly 3000 years. It is more precise than the scientific method. It leaves no doubt only confidence and continuation on the path. It is called the Stream. You need only dip your toe in.

because you think you would have the right to demand an audience with gods, how much huberis can an atheist fit it one paragraph, incalculable!

Here I AM. Worship me.

But he has Jesus is God incarnate. He does not demand your worship. He draws you to himself that that you may experience life in all it's fullness. God's plan is to make Mankind (all of us) in His image. The Gospel is Good News for All people but it has been distorted by those who threaten with Hell (a word not found in the Bible but a poor translation). To be sure we will all be judged but that is a good and necessary thing if we are to become who we were created to be. Jesus said if I be lifted up I will draw all people to myself because he loves us all. Believe the Gospel.

@@user-nz8uy1zm3zWhich god/goddess do you believe in?

@@stephengorman1025 Jesus may not demand your worship but he's going to withhold heaven for all eternity unless you get on your knees and do it. How can it be God's plan to make us in his image? Doesn't the Bible say he already did that? Was that a lie or did God screw it up? God presumably knows everything that's going to happen before it happens so our "judgement" is little more than God stomping on the creations he made over things he already knew were going to happen.

Personally I wouldn’t follow it even if it were real (Christianity) considering how evil the characters (god) are in the story.

The Christian God is an absolute psychopath

Ofc it explains everything, it made that way. It’s a panacea. Fallacious reasoning. Something that can explain anything, explains nothing.

@@Lucifer6.6.6-v6g Yep. The God of Abraham is a sadistic psychopath.

@@UncleKennysPlace Yet billions worship him..its terrifying

The nice stories are few and far between, and while it may have a lot of the gore and violence of a Stephen King novel, it certainly doesn't have the prose. When you read the Bible with a mind not constrained by indoctrination, it's actually quite shocking how bad it actually is.

@@royms2000I don’t understand how a grown ass man can read that book and not come to the reasonable conclusion that it was written by men.

Of course human speculation (as included in most religions) can vary from the fantastic to the ridiculous. Nevertheless, the fact is that you (and all that there is) exists and depends upon the intelligent power of the atomic structure within the core of its being , to exist at all. Maybe it's time to move on from Roman barbarities and graduate to something more relevant such as the existence of all that is (including yourself and the millions of others). -Not forgetting the universe of course !!! Look at the structure of what we call matter-- it is not solid (remember NOT SOLID ) but a powerhouse of molecules or atoms etc. The same right throughout the universe. Now try to formulate some theory that all this creative power came (and continues to exist) from nowhere. One might well consider that everything exists via a Creative power, (God) ---although even that word power is totally inadequate since it does not encapsulate the essence of all that is ! You are part of it remember.

@@royms2000 Exactly! C. fundamentalists read the bible as if they're under a trance or possessed. They already made up their minds and can't see the discrepancies that are written within. Some are unable to see what's directly in front of them.

@@electricmanistBut it’s your claim that everything came from nothing. So first demonstrate that “nothing” has existed, because science doesn’t say that. Most scientists believe that “nothing” is impossible and there was always something. Once you talk about “nothing” and try to explain, it becomes something, something you’re talking about. So even in philosophy this concept is kinda vague.

"If in this life only, we have hope, we are of all men most miserable"! -The Apostle Paul.

I won’t be worshipping no jacked up, lying human being like myself. I need a holy and righteous God who has the power to keep me and when I die resurrect me to Him for eternity. Man has no power that God had, just jacked up lies. I not doing idolatry.

@@gingercake0907I have some unfortunate news for you then.

​@@gingercake0907but your god doesnt exist lol

"morality" morality is something that is very flexible depending on what kind of culture, civilization or time frame you live in. and with regards to atheists and "where did God came from?" question. God is a supernatural deity that doesn't need time, space and matter to exist. you can't create a creator and also put natural and human level limitations on what a God is. God is beyond human and scientific limitations. science can only measure matter. the physical world we live in. the universe.

@@LevisH21You don’t have any evidence for this.

@@LevisH21 It's easy to say that the laws of physics have nothing to do with your god but proving this isn't

@@garlic_greed Actually it's not that hard to prove at all. God is a Super-Natural phenomenon. The laws of nature are obviously "Natural" phenomena. To attempt to limit a Super-Natural phenomenon by "Natural" standards is to commit a simple logical category error. In the biblical worldview, God created these mathematically precise laws of nature (Jeremiah 33:25), including time, space, and matter themselves (Genesis 1:1), and thus He necessarily exists beyond those "natural" limitations. The bigger issue, as an Atheist, is the laws of nature contradict themselves at certain points, making a 'Natural' explanation of our origins impossible. *The only way for "Nature" to create itself, is if "Nature" is Pre-Existent - like God.* The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't allow energy to "naturally" come from nothing. The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) says energy is always being converted into a "less usable form," and it doesn't allow energy to remain usable forever - but our universe is full of usable energy. So if our universe couldn't "naturally" have a beginning from nothing, and if it can't have just existed forever (otherwise all of its energy would be burned up), then *how can you "naturally" explain the beginning of our universe?* Have you ever wondered why Atheistic-Naturalists (evolutionists, etc.) have to invoke such wild and sci-fi sounding theories to "naturally" explain our origins? *Infinite* alternate universes, an *eternal self-existent* singularity, alternate unobservable metaphysical laws of nature, *pre-existent* Phenomena.... you have to suspiciously attribute characteristics of the Supernatural God to "nature" in order to "naturally" (atheistically) explain our origins. Can you see the problem? Atheistic-Naturalism is an internally inconsistent and self-refuting Supernaturally-Natural (!) worldview - it's unavoidable. *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* *'The evidence for God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)

You contradict yourself. All truth comes from God (notice I didn't say religion), and this certainly includes such things as His moral law.What is more, the Bible is a very logical book!!

Unless you're Muslim

This definition sounds synonymous with FAITH. 😂

@@blueandgreenslacks Faith is the mechanism in which you believe in the superstition. Faith is not a virtue. Faith is gullibility. Faith is the surrender of your mind. Faith is the abandonment of logic and reason. Faith is the surrender of your free will. Faith is your weakness.

@@iitywybmad29 faith is a voluntary admission of ignorance. Thanks for mansplaining though.😹😹😹😹

Too bad true believers couldn't care less about word definitions or rationality.

@@jerrylanglois7892 Because they don't care about truth.

I think that was borrowed from Churchill.

remaining a slave to sin is hardly a case 'never give up'

@@raysalmon6566 Ever wonder what it would be like to think for yourself?

what religion? what do you mean by surrender? gotta explain what you mean clearly when you touch on something so complicated. I for one, am christian, and can't put my finger on what you mean by surrender in regards to Yaweh

​@@raysalmon6566 A slave to sin? 1. I would love it if someone could explain what that means? 2. Define sin and tell me what person living on this planet doesn't ever do those things? 3. Elaborate what specifically is supposed to not make a person a "slave" to these sins anymore. 4. If anyone believes they're perfect they're either delusional or insane.

Clarity from a drug dependent thinker and alcohol laden moments of brilliance? Not me.

​@@libertarian2718 Your ad hominem attack is the tell to your lack of cogent argument. Please do better.

@colinellicott9737 I am stating facts that the guy depends on substances to be who Sam Harris is to you. NOT TO ME. To me, he is an alcoholic and a drug addict. I would not rest my life philosophy on a man like that. Plus, his racist views, anti-Islam (he is so ignorant), Genocidal Apartheid Zionist love, and incoherent thoughts (BS) on philosophy and unfettered support of suicidal American foreign policies.

@@colinellicott9737 I am was stating facts, Mr Harris is dependent on alcohol and drugs to be the Sam Harris to you. I will not trust my life philosophy on such a guy. You are free to cling on to such individual.

@@colinellicott9737 Sam Harris is a disgraceful Islamophobe and a strong supporter of Zionist genocidal apartheid Israel. I do not want to go further. A man who fails to be fair and shows humanity and justice in the face of what is happening in Palestine is not worth a second of listening time. And he relies on substances to pacify and justify his inner grief and contradictions, respectively .

And you will confuse your own mind!

Do you say that because you believe instead in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just add enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable; Religions are not. Given its history of constantly being rewritten as it runs into more and more problematic evidence, what would it take to falsify the Theory of Evolution today?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? Early jawed placoderm fossils showing fully developed complex jaws - causing evolutionists to claim that they must have evolved, de-evolved, and then re-evolved those jaws to maintain their story of shark evolution? What if scientists admitted that Human-Ape DNA is down from 99% "similar" to only 84% "similar" and admitted their bias in "humanizing" the ape genome? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)

He still does

So what faith did you end up adhering to?

Belief in yourself is faith in yourself. Time for bigger faith. You are no longer a child, but of something larger. Far larger.

Probably because your IQ is half that of Sam (like most people) and you haven’t spent a good portion of your life studying this stuff. Nothing to be ashamed of, I don’t think anyone could put is better.

His IQ says nothing really. In the end, he wasted years of his life studying something he thinks is made up bs, only to get denied by the ones he tried to convince that it is all bs. How ironic Maybe not wasting too much time on this topic makes everyone's life better.

A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE, when I was struck by lightning during September 1970. Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.

Make your own channel. You still clicked on the video.

@@jacobroddy7939 Two non arguments.

I vigorously agree, having been previously abused that way.

We are all Uncritically Indoctrinated into the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, chemicals can fizz into people if you just wait a really long *Time,* Nothing created everything accidentally with mathematical precision for no reason, and that we are all "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral chemical universe that does not care. Meanwhile we accuse people like Hitler as if what they did was somehow "evil" in this meaningless amoral chemical universe that doesn't care, pretend that things like "abuse" are *objectively "bad"* in this meaningless universe that doesn't care, and we forget that cancer cells, leprosy, and death are our evolutionary cousins - right alongside cockroaches, dirt clods, and pond scum - as we pretend we are somehow valuable. "If you indoctrinate a child with any religious dogma before they are able to read or write and are not old enough to form an opinion on the subject is simply child abuse." I was also force fed this "we're just chemicals" mythology that fish evolve into philosophers as a young child - we all are - very few ever get to hear the other side today. *"But God showed His love for us by sending His Son to die for us while we were still sinners"* (Romans 5:8)

"If God is able to prevent evil, but unwilling, he is not benevolent. If he is willing, but not able, he is not omnipotent. If he is neither willing nor able, then why call him a god?"

Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? Or that the earth randomly clumped together on its own meeting 122 precise conditions required for life - an estimated 1 chance in 10^138 (a number with 138 zeroes) out of something like the Big Bang? (There are only 10^90 particles in our entire universe... food for thought...) Or, when all the necessary proteins required for life formed themselves by chance in a puddle, and then formed themselves into all the necessary cell components inside of a cell enclosure, *how did they overcome the known problem of hydrolysis which inhibits protein formation in water?* Or the Faint Young Sun paradox, which measurably suggests our earth would have been frozen solid 3.5 billion years ago when this was supposed to happen (if it was really billions of years old)? *"we've not made the RNA in a prebiotically relevant manner. It hydrolyzes too rapidly."* (Professor Saztech, Chicago, 2021) [Regarding Abiogenesis] *"Chemistry is actually hard to get to work. The molecules precipitate. The molecules hydrolyze. The molecules decompose. And so it's very much a constraint that you have to deal with.. it's one g-d problem after another."* (Steve Benner, former Harvard Professor, Director of Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, 2019) *"Liquid water is generally considered a key ingredient for life. When the Sun was much fainter, the Earth with its present atmospheric composition would have been frozen solid. If the oceans were frozen, life may not have formed" (Quote: NASA).* God has made His work abundantly clear. For someone to hold to a non-God position (Atheism) is to utterly stare science in the face and reject it a priori in favor of a constantly rewritten mythology that fish evolve into philosophers. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20). Puddles of chemicals don't fizz into people by chance no matter how much *Time* you add to the pot, that's just not how "science" works.

Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a long enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *Scientific Theories should be Falsifiable, Religions are Not: What would it take to Falsify Evolution?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? Early jawed placoderm fossils showing fully developed complex jaws - causing evolutionists to claim that they must have evolved, de-evolved, and then re-evolved those jaws to maintain their story of shark evolution? What if scientists admitted that Human-Ape DNA is down from 99% "similar" to only 84% "similar" and admitted their bias in "humanizing" the ape genome? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)

@@michaelg377 evolution has no relation to atheism. atheism is lack of belief in gods, it does not imply any other belief. your argument is the logical fallacy of "false dichotomy"

@@billjohnson9472 No my friend, as an Atheist you are necessarily making other secondary affirmative claims whether you like it or not - namely that we were created without God. That unfortunately necessitates atheistic evolution, atheistic abiogenesis, information out of non-information (in DNA), that all the necessary cell components had to create themselves inside of a cell enclosure by chance, etc. You're trying to hold a neutral ground where you don't have to accept accountability for the scientifically ludicrous consequences of your belief system - but as an Atheist you are necessarily making Affirmative claims that things like Creation happened without God, so you very much need evolution. And your silence to my question: *"Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable: given its history of constantly rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problematic evidence, what would it take to falsify evolution?"* speaks volumes. Let me ask you this... *As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?"* Objective morality requires an objective and universally applicable source: God. Subjective morality only exists inside of your chemical reaction brain - it's subjective, so nothing can be truly "right" or 'wrong,' "good" or "bad" - such objective standards don't exist for "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care. *"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them"* (Romans 2:15)

and government? Government doesn't really require a lot of belief without evidence. In fact, if the government is done right, it bases all its decisions on evidence. This is exactly why the founding fathers wanted the separation between church and state.

Hitchens did not suffer fools gladly.

You've described man's religion perfectly. But Jesus is no more a religion than you or I. You cannot use science to prove that George Washington existed, because you cannot observe it, cannot measure it, and cannot repeat it. So you have to use the evidence that he existed. Same goes with the life of Jesus Christ, and there is plenty of it. More evidence of Jesus exists than that of say, Plato, Caeser, amd Tacitus. You can even view Pontius Piliates report to the emporer Tiberius about Jesus, in the Acta Pilati (in digital form from the vatican online library). Science is the discovery/revelation into the vastly superior mind of God that created the universe, planets, humans, etc. The mathematics behind it all is absolutely beautiful, the symmetry is astounding. To consider that it was all due to a random happen-stance event, that we're all just a collection of matter and energy requires a faith that even the most devout follower of Jesus Christ would be envious of! Once you put your faith (and it's not blind faith), in Jesus, the blinders come off your eyes, and you can truly see the world for what it is, and what is going on in it. When Jesus said that 'the truth shall make you free', He really meant every singe word! John 8:31 - _“...If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”_ - Jesus

@@martinscrapp7166 Except we can demonstrate that George Washington existed, and it’s neither a faith based claim nor an outrageous claim as with the jesus character. Just because you’re too befuddled with how nature operates, that doesn’t mean you are justified in inventing a fairytale to shoehorn into the mystery. Science replaces religious “explanations” all the time, but not once has religion ever explained nor replaced the scientific method.

@@2l84me8 Science is a methodology, what you're talking about is an Ideology - that's something else, not "science." And Atheistic-Naturalistic evolution is very much a religion. *Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable. Given its history of constantly being rewritten as it's contradicted, what would it take to falsify evolution today?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? *All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12,* and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)

Science has questions that may never be answered, religion has answers that may never be questioned

Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein planed the seeds for me. In time, they grew and completely transformed my worldview.

Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* then puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded... The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time... Some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record... have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information."* (D. Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 50, no 1 (1979), 25) We had to be created somehow - you can either believe that God made man and woman from the dirt, or you can believe that dirt fizzed itself into man and woman by chance - I just don't have enough faith to believe that dirt can do that. Let me ask you this... Charles Darwin met the gold standard of science (a methodology) by giving a testable hypothesis for his theory, saying "if an *organ* were discovered which could not possibly be explained by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down..." *How did male and female evolve?* Before you answer, consider that these are two separate, yet interdependent, precision tuned sets of organs that all have to be working just right or reproduction, life, and evolution fail. For example: The fallopian tubes are lined with millions of these little hairs that all wave the same direction, and their purpose is to guide the egg from the ovaries down into the uterus. If they stood still, laid flat, waved the wrong direction, or didn't exist - the egg would either die or it would implant in the fallopian tube thus killing the mother. Some of these are known medical conditions that prevent pregnancy - "Evolution" had to get these millions of hairs just right.... "by numerous, successive, slight modifications." *Simultaneously* the sperm has a whip like rotor, a motor encasing, a bushing like material, a nutrient transfer system, and several other components that all have to be working *just right* or the sperm can't find the egg. Reproduction and life fails. "Evolution" had to get the interdependent parts of the sperm "just right" ... "by numerous, successive, slight modifications." *Then* you have the placenta which does everything for the baby including keeping the mother's and baby's blood separate, the expanding and contracting uterus and cervix, the mechanism which only allows one sperm into the egg, and numerous other components that all had to be *designed* just right, or reproduction and life fails. "Evolution" had to *SIMULTANEOUSLY* get all of these just right "by numerous, successive, slight modifications." Which gender evolved first, and how did it reproduce while the other hadn't evolved yet? And going backwards in time, which of these critical organs do you gradually reduce first "by numerous, successive, slight modifications" without causing reproduction to fail? *"“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’"* (Matthew 19:4). Such *specified complexity* looks like the product of an Intelligent engineering mind, not the result of chance fizzing chemicals in a puddle. Puddles don't turn themselves into people no matter how much *time* you add to the mix.

Madam; Please kick me. All best.

It's good to use your brains :)

I am christian and I study computer science, the religion is for the people in the world, science is for the world that they live in. What is a soccer field without players?

​@@lrdofwlvs2734 Quick IQ test... Solve: 4, 5, 14, 185, ...

On behalf of every other atheist who has ever made this transition - YES!! Its like waking up from a coma.

Welcome to the higher reality. The question you asked is your answer. Yes!

Blindly believe? Or is it you who blindly disbelieves. You're looking down your nose, instead of up. Simple.

@@mikescollard6499 I would like to try to understand why people (like yourself maybe?) believe literally the words of a book which has been rewritten, rebranded, translated and retranslated countless times over 1500 years. And even then based on accounts which were decades old in the first instance. I honestly do not meant to be combative. I am just genuinely interested as to what people find in this source to consider it reliable as a source for all truth about our reality and the universe. For me, I have read many parts of the Bible (and the Qu-'ran for that matter) - and neither (for me) should be considered any more *absolutely true* than a newspaper article that I read 20 years ago.

@@scp170190 Call on Jesus Christ. You will be answered.

@@mikescollard6499 What's his number?

Off to the celestial graveyard for another one. Can't say I'll shed a tear for this dufus either. We're getting closer to the truth with each and every one.

Evangelical friends? How depressing.

Psalm 14:2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures 1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Romans 3:19-26 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Romans 10:9-11 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. John 3:15-18 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:3-7 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Romans 5:1-2 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Galatians 1:3-5 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Why believe? We don't know any gods exist. (Knowing takes evidence, which we don't have.)

@@majmage Jesus of Nazareth is the evidence!

​@@uggupuggu Jesus was a human. Feel free to present strong evidence he's a god, if you think you can. (I have to suspect that deep down you know you can't.)

@@majmage Hundreds of eyewitness confirmed that they saw Him risen from the dead + he was prophesied in the old testament

God is real on the basis of nuh-uh

Yes, it is the truth, the whole truth, and everything but the truth

In the beginning, Man created gods.

@@denz4133 so true

@@denz4133 Who created the creator? That's easy - man did!

...and yet when you look up at the stars at night, you think that it was all by chance? wow. The evidence is right in front of your face, and you still can't see the forest for the trees! There are far too many delicate balances in the universe for it ALL to have been by chance. It was all by elegant design! Genesis 1:1 - _In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth._ Psalm 19:1 - _The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork._

@@martinscrapp7166 The universe spontaneously created itself by self organisation, no external invisible magical superman needed, it is natural, not supernatural. Just 'cos you don't understand chance processes you are compelled to assume magic.

@@rozzgrey801 *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* And actually, it's not "natural" - it can't be, because nature breaks down at that point. The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't allow energy to "naturally" come from nothing. The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) says energy is always being converted into a "less usable form," and it doesn't allow energy to remain usable forever - but our universe is full of usable energy. So if our universe couldn't "naturally" have a beginning from nothing, and if it can't have just existed forever (otherwise all of its energy would be burned up), then *how can you "naturally" explain the beginning of our universe?* Have you ever wondered why Atheistic-Naturalists (evolutionists, etc.) have to invoke such wild and sci-fi sounding theories to "naturally" explain our origins? *Infinite* alternate universes, an *eternal self-existent* singularity, alternate unobservable metaphysical laws of nature, *pre-existent* Phenomena.... you have to suspiciously attribute characteristics of the Supernatural God to "nature" in order to "naturally" (atheistically) explain our origins. Can you see the problem? Atheistic-Naturalism is an internally inconsistent and self-refuting Supernaturally-Natural (!) worldview - it's unavoidable. *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* *'The evidence for God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)

Like many, you over think and under experience.

Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? See, I think He did program you with that knowledge, and while you suppress it - we all observe it in you. Specifically - *for some reason you live in contrast to the atheistic "we're all just chemicals" belief system, but perfectly in line with everything the God you reject said about you instead as a valuable human being made in His image and likeness - why do you do that?* That is powerful evidence you can see in yourself that God created you, and that you're not just "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless chemical universe that doesn't care about you, and I love that He put that into you so you can see clear evidence in yourself that He exists. God said you are a meaningful and valuable human being made in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:27), with purpose and a capacity for "dominion" over creation (Genesis 1:26), morality and a sense of justice (Genesis 9:6), a sense of respect towards others (James 3:10), and a conscience which reflects the principles of His law (Romans 2:15), among other things. These are observable qualities that we all observe in you, and being made in God's image and likeness makes perfect sense of that. I know you don't believe in God though - so how do you explain these observable qualities in you from your own atheistic "we're just chemical reactions" worldview? "Do you believe meaningless chemicals fizzed together in a puddle, and somehow "human beings are valuable"? Or do you believe that chemicals evolved, and somehow "rape is wrong"? Animals do it all the time, and chemicals destroy each other all the time... and the atheistic worldview holds that we are evolved animals, and just chemicals... what's the difference?" *"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them."* (Romans 2:15)

@@michaelg377 No what I'm saying is that when you are born you know nothing about a god but it's forced and indoctrinated on people that they gain knowledge of a god, every theists loves to tell just how powerful this god is supposed to be, control over life and death can sent you to heaven or hell if he chooses, if this god is so powerful then why not plant awareness that he exists at conception but that doesn't happen and why?? because there are no gods.

@@VisshanVis No, what I'm saying is that you live in contrast to your own worldview as an Atheist, and instead live perfectly in line with everything the God of Scripture whom you reject said about you instead, which is powerful evidence that He programmed you in His image and likeness (see above for specifics) and that He very much does exist. You can see these qualities of His image and likeness in you (again, see above) in your own self-contradictory behavior my friend - even Atheists can see this evidence. What I just showed you is that you are a walking contradiction to your own belief system, but a walking testimony to the reality that God exists. Nothing you're doing right now makes sense in your own "we're all just chemicals" or "meaningless evolved protoplasm in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care" worldview. Re-read the above, I asked some important questions in there that I think might help you understand. In the meantime, I have a question: *As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?*

@@michaelg377 Atheism isn't a worldview, it isn't a religion it isn't a belief, it's a lack of belief in gods that's it. What I just showed you is that you are a walking contradiction to your own belief system, You showed me nothing, no evidence of anything except your own arrogance in trying to tell me what I think and what evidence has Atheists been shown, I am yet to be shown any evidence whatsoever that the Christian god or any other god exists ??. As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral? Well lucky I wasn't born in Nazi Germany because what Hitler did was abhorrent and it was wrong and it was a pity that he never stood trial for his crimes against humanity.

As an agnostic i agree

only YOUR doubt is in between you and whatever god it is you worship. no one is placing anything in between, but yourself.. we all have our own hallucination of reality.