How Science Can Be As Comforting As Religion 

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Nothing brought me more comfort than when I turned on the TV and How is it made was on.

Funny how after knowing all of this, one still manages to slip into spells of anxiety and melancholy. We are truly more intelligent than we are capable.

"The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive, does a disservice to both." -- Carl Sagan

science has helped humble me so much! i feel much lighter being able to say/admit “i don’t have all the answer” vs pretending like i do have all the answers or simply having to have complete faith in someone else’s idea.

Science is in the business of finding facts and getting closer to the "truth". It is not in the business of comforting or discomforting anyone. Whether it is and how "comforting " science is - is entirely up to the individual .

kurzgesagt's voice sounding really strange in this one

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” ― C. S. Lewis

This is a nice coincidence: this morning I watched a TED claiming meaning supersedes happiness in importance. Meaning then has 4 pillars: 1. belonging: feel /seen/, either cherished or hated 2. purpose: work to improve other people's lives 3. transcendence: feel small 4. storytelling: what's our own story? This video looks like a strong pursuit for transcendence through storytelling, whose purpose seems to be to show that we belong to the group of the poor rookie human beings, struggling to make through the next day. It can be more comfortable to ignore the issue altogether, but I'm happy I watched this video, thanks!

This is a wonderful video, so very true. I've been a relatively apathetic atheist for almost a decade now, but when asked about how I find comfort or other "spirituality" without religion, i always bring up things with science. I'm at awe of the incredible range and diversity of life on this planet, the unbelievable power of nature and weather, and the sheer enormity of the universe and how small we are in the scheme of things. I was genuinely blown away a few weeks ago when I saw the Andromeda Galaxy for the first time with binoculars. Even if it was primarily just a bright splotch, all I could think was, "holy shit, that's actually an entire galaxy I'm seeing with my own two eyes". The same with Comet Neowise a couple of months ago. It makes me realize just how small I am in the scope of the entire universe and how ultimately, I'm not going to leave a long lasting mark on anything. Everything I worry about will ultimately be dissolved away, and makes me realize how enjoying there present moment and this life are that much more important than worrying about what lies beyond it.

I like the randomness. Horrible and wonderful things just happen as statistical anomalies rather than as blessings or punishments. Also life is simple if you assume its just random - I used to have a lot of anxiety about how and why things work when I was religious

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that are into it, but the way those atoms are put together" - Carl Sagan

Someone once said that science and religion are two languages trying to explain the same truth.

The thing about science is it always answers "how' but it never answers "why" . Religion is a tool to understand the creator and science is a tool to understand the creation

I’ve always said it: Life and reality is magical enough, is beautiful enough, is sublime enough, we don’t need to seek for something else that, btw, limit our freedom. Be aware of reality and you will see how amazing it is, every second.

How... how do you guys have perfect timing?

this was weirdly comforting.

This guys voice is like ecstasy, so therapeutic. Everytime I have s break down or want counseling on a subject his voice gives me relief, a well needed peace of mind, he is the father, brother, friend and council I never had.

I literally cried from 6:06 to 9:14 What's the probability of all those events happening one after another to give life to us?

The thing about Science I like is that it is constantly changing and has open ends in all sorts of directions instead of fixating so much on the aspect of morality and how people should and should not live their lives. It feels less like an authoritative dictating "must live accord to" and more practical in a way that is strengthening due to the loop holes of deep philosophy contents it provides, which might make others spiral into fear or ease their pain. It focuses on making the conditions of living more bearable through medicine, technology, mental psychology, analysis, etc. Religion might help many people turn away from wrong doings, many corrupted people can also use it to excuse wrong doings because of certain societal beliefs or being in a certain religious group, however in the end it is putting fear into the hearts of it's believers with the ideas of heaven and hell. An eternity of suffering or pleasure, which I think is illogical, because no matter the place, if humans are still going to be humans, dead or alive and keep their so call "souls" in the end they will have desires that will never be satisfied no matter if it was eternity or not. So even an eternity in heaven can become a living hell. If everything was perfect, there is no challenge. No challenge, boredom. Boredom, no direction. No direction, no purpose. What do angels do in heaven anyways, do they have jobs or do they just sit around and watch the suffering and pleasure of living humans like reality tv? Sometimes they are allowed to interfere, sometimes not? Imagine living forever in a society where you can never escape from because you can never die in it due to being dead already. However, you could be given the option to rebirth back onto Earth and experience a new life which is a gamble because you could be born in horrible conditions or good. If a religious woman/man remarries after their previous lovers dies and then he/she dies with her/his new lover, in "heaven" what is her/his previous lover then? Well the previous lover be allowed to feel jealous, envious, forgiving, find a new lover, or spend the rest of their eternity without a lover they waited for their entirety of death? Just a thought, hopefully I did not offend anyone. Though I hope it brings up interesting thoughts to think about?

This is quite possibly my new favorite School of Life video to date. About two and a half years ago, I began the gradual metamorphosis from highly devout Christian to immovable, uncoaxable agnostic. There was no hatred involved in the way that I left, nor was there any horrible inciting incident or scandal that made me storm out on bad terms with the Church. I left on the simple reason that I re-evaluated the facts of the world and the universe as we know it from an outsider's perspective, and there was not any substantial evidence that any organized human religion could explain all the going-ons of creation of the world, afterlifes, or miracles. The Church, as do all major world religions, have ample, positive lessons to be learned for any listening ears, but I cannot bring myself to believe that humans, of any time, devotion, or position, can have concrete answers about existence without some of them being fabrications. So I left, not in anger. But it was a long and painful journey nonetheless, lasting about a year's length, when I finally took those final steps towards accepting that I no longer could believe in a God, I was devastated for months. There was no other term for it. I wanted so desparately to go back to the Church just on the basis that it was some kind of safety net from the harsh truths of reality (death without afterlife prime among them), but I factually couldn't devote my whole faith towards a God without proof of his existence concrete enough to rationally follow, and so I was left with nothing. Over the months, though, I picked myself back up and am in a better position than ever. And I wish that I had seen this video during that turbulent time in my life. And I am more glad than ever that anyone who winds up on a similar path to the one I walked will have this video to guide them. Because, the truth is, that without an organized religion, it is so uncannily easy to assume that you are left with *nothing* at all, except the fact you are bound to die, permanently, and it's coming oh so quickly, too. That overriding assumption, "well, I guess that means that all is meaningless", was what kept me pinned down and unable to pick myself back up. But that's not wholly the case. There is... plenty reason, more scientific than religious, to be inspired and grateful and willing to fight another day, even if you don't have a God or a cosmic plan that you have sworn to. It took me a long time in the absence of a major organization like a Church to see that. My prevailing demon on my back that I couldn't shake was, well, "I guess nothing matters and that everything relevant to me and my achievements will be gone some day. Why try anything anymore?" Full disclosure, there is no way to get this thought off the back of one's mind. I've tried. Instead, however, I've found ways to nullify the painfulness of such a thought, and I've managed to bring myself to see upsides to this outlook, too. Nothing matters, you say? Well then, if nothing matters, then screw it. Have some fun. In the grand cosmic scheme of a universe spanning billions of years, there is no particular reason for anyone to scrutinize over their troubles and worries. They will only come and go with the rain, just like life itself. In the moment, from such a particularly human perspective, yes, it's natural to hang yourself over your worries and dreads. But, with the assistance of hindsight, and a knowledge that time will press on and outlast all of us, well, it's a bit silly to worry about the individual moments along the way. Without disparaging or tossing away your moral compass, there is another relief in the thought, "nothing matters at all", and that is, that you don't have to bring yourself to follow inhuman religious creeds that call for painful experiences like abstinence (and accompanying restrictions on sexuality), fasting, donating your hard-earned money to maintain Church operations, self-flagellation, or any other anti-instinctual decrees that are called upon by your previous religion. Granted, this is no excuse to abandon all mortality, to do so would be folly and immature, but you no longer need lose sleep over Catholic guilt. To all those worried about premarital sex as it pertains to "the big picture", this is your time to let loose! In this present year, there are few places on Earth in which you will be burned at the stake for premarital sex by religious extremists. The Church-ordained command to wait until marriage to have sex is one that goes against primary human instincts in a harmful, unhealthy way, and it teaches people to go against their programming as evolved organisms to reproduce. It also squanders unnaturally homosexual, or "deviant" sexual desires, as described by Churches and organized religions around the globe. So, in the absence of a God or Deity-oriented belief system, do not worry that you are being constantly presided over by an omnipotent deity, who will mark each and every "sin" against you in a lifelong, permanent list of your human faults. Yet a third consolation provided by cold, hard fact, is the amazement at the circumstances that I am alive and have every single advantage and opportunity I do to flourish and achieve as an individual. Most organized religions will instill in you the belief that everything you are - you are a human, with a one in a trillion shot of existing, yet here you are - is thanks to the overarching mercy, love, and plan of a loving God above, and through his individual creation of you, you have the potential to do anything you set foot towards. It's a nice thought, and, fortunately, it is one that is not exclusive to the Church. In fact, it is even more amazing to think about when you *don't* have faith in a universal cosmic plan ordained by an omnipotent force. That implies that you, your reality, and everything in and around it, was not hand-picked, but rather, a one in a trillion cosmic fluke. Yet everything has panned out the way it has, and you are here. Despite being one of a trillion sperms, you are here today and that is not a life opportunity to put to waste. You are, presumably, able-bodied enough to accomplish herculean tasks of any kind (proverbial God, bless opposable thumbs), and you have all the modern technology in the world to help you, too. We simply evolved from apes, through no real plan or circumstance, and yet we have managed to find a way to travel extraordinary distances, communicate globally instantly with anyone of our choosing, we have the ability to read and write and create with inks, ores, metals, tools, and blueprints, and we have houses with functions like electricity to cool and to comfort us. By and large, we live in a time where religious conformity is thankfully an obstacle of the past, as is slavery, crusading, large-scale warfare, the forcing of women into domesticated lives, sexual intolerance, and so much more. We could have been born into those earlier ages of humanity, where there were infinitely more dire things to concern yourself with daily, yet majestically and thankfully, we live here and now, with modern convenices of all kind at our disposal to achieve and to be heard. We do not have to spend sunrise to sundown being hunter-gatherers just to survive until morning, we have all kinds of luxuries and priviliges just as a sheer result of the circumstances of being born into the 20th and 21st Centuries. Regardless of all else, we ALL benefit from being with the times. That alone is an amazing thought, and in the absence of religion, it is a great thought to return to to soothe all earthly troubles away. Now, those are a few of the lessons I have learned since the time when I had to restructure my entire world view from scratch. I hope that if there is anyone out there who similarly, feels shattered and hopeless on account of living in what they presume is a lawless world, without religion, they can take something away from my experiences. Keep watching The School of Life. They have so much to teach that walks that fine line between assisting the challenges of navigating every day life, and not going headlong into religious testimony. Life may not be comfortable, if anything, but it is always moving forwards, it is always teaching, and it is always at your ability to command and to conquer. Have fun with it. Ebb and flow with life, during the small time you've got. Just pick a direction, and confidently go forwards. You've got little time or reason to do anything else, so you may as well achieve. It's a damned good feeling when you're making waves on your way there.

"I find exhilirating to discover that we livè in a universe which permits the evolution of molecular machienes as introcite and suttle as we."

"There is enough in science to give birth to 20 religions." -Alain de Botton

This is brilliant. The part on gratitude - starting off with the cosmic context - deserves its own video. Thank you for this and all the other wonderful videos you create and share with us 🙏🏽♥️

Albert Einstein "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

When religion doesn't make sense of what's going on in my life, I turn to science and makes it a little bit understandable. And bearable.

"we are doing extremely well indeed" i kinda needed to hear this

The whole gratitude numbering is something I had thought of myself some time back. But, when The School of Life reaffirms the same, it just feels a whole lot better

Maybe is weird but i found confort on math and physics, that way i keep my mind busy from overthinking and getting depressed

This video was the only thing calmed me after a long day of anxiety . Thank you.

I really prefer these kinds of videos. Thank you very much for this, it's comforting and perspective renewing.

I love the mindfulness bits - so many things to be grateful for. Have a great Wednesday everyone!

I Love You the School of Life, you’re videos always find a way to comfort me !! Hope you still continue to make articles that can enlighten the young generation and the modern society .!! 👍👍👍

I find it interesting that even within science there is a form of politics. Mainstream science is just popular science, and there could be so many other explanations that rely on systems we yet to understand. If we use science as a tool to model our reality, our idea of what science is needs to change. Strict materialism is the belief that if it doesn't exist as matter then it doesn't exist in our reality. I feel the bottleneck is the human ability to measure and record. We're moving to a time in technology where our understanding of reality is going to change by having new data collection methods and approaches!

Always thought that the one thing I admire or frankly, envy, from religious people in general is the fact that religion helps them cope with life. Growing up in a religious community, I've always kept pretty silent about my beliefs and I used to feel strangely excluded that everyone has a god (or gods) and a holy book they believe so much in that it can help them in the toughest times. The fact that I've pretty much never believed in religion my whole life and has relied on other things to cope with life feels much more comforting as I get older. I now see it as a strength that I've been able to survive by my own. Life is tough, and sometimes nothing (not religion nor science) can give you enough comfort. The key is to just hold on to even a little bit of hope that you have and keep going. The perspective in this video helps though, so thank you😊

I was doubtful my anxiety could be assuaged, not by science any more than religion. But you did comfort me. Thank you. I've always used that "perspective" to keep personal humility and gratitude and to avoid paranoia. So thank you. I was actually staving off an anxiety attack. Thank you.

I think this video changed my life.

That's so kind. I feel the love this channel has to help people

This channel is so important and I wish it were listened to more closely. Your videos are inspirational and extremely well researched and delivered. Thank you.

School of life is just showing off now

Astronomer here. At 1:38 you refer to our galaxy, the Milky Way, but you show a picture of Andromeda. Rookie mistake, School of Life...

I love this take on things! Thank you!!

Science has always comforted me many times more than religion. One of the things it taught me was that I needn't always be comfortable with everything. That gave me comfort. It told me that I also didn't have any monsters that came at a particular time at night to be worried about. I also didn't have to sit and worship and read and chant to get something done. I only had to look at an encyclopedia or a manual and do as it tells me and it automatically happens, there weren't any paradoxical ways and complicated and convoluted sentences in it. And if I had to invent something, I just had to do it by trying till I did it. I didn't have to sit and pray. My results were immediate. And so was my comfort. And my results and my comfort with them and their possibilities of failure and collapse was lasting. About the greatest comfort there is in anything is when we decide to get comfortable or not after we are honestly offered knowledge that is clear, concise, real, and of depth, since we can comfort ourselves to any degree with anything, and whenever help is needed sometimes, all we need to do is give mama a call. You get what I mean. To me, science did all that. And it was always assuring and comforting. I wasn't to be punished for doing something wrong, I didn't have to pray for mistakes to be forgiven. I knew that all I can do is do it again, correctly. What I did wrong was wrong. That time is past and is no longer relevant. All I could do was extrapolate what I needed to and work better and not make the same mistake again. I can't " redo". I can make myself that I did redo, but then, science tells me I can't and that that doesn't matter anyway. Because whatevers it mattered, already mattered. It doesn't continue to matter much. It just happened. What happened, happened. So, I didn't have to bother about a person who will punish me for it. All I had to be bothered about was whether I'd get it right this time or not. Because the punishment was my own natural reaction. Crying. Pain. Disappointment. Etcetera. To even think that someone else is going to punish me after this horrified me. But science told me that nobody is going to punish me like that. People and politicians told me otherwise but then, science also told me that I needn't listen to all of them and that they can be wrong. That was comforting. About the only thing that science taught me that ached is that I may never be able to reach the stars on a gigantic spaceship and talk to aliens. And I was sad but that was what it was. I didn't have to stay sad, neither did I have to be happy. My pleasure and/ or displeasure has little to no probable effect on anything. It told me that I could either increase the chances of me getting there or just sit in pain. It didn't tell me that I'd be punished for either choice. Whatever punishment I get will be whatever mistake I made. Mistake is its own punishment. That there wasn't any impending punishment due to a mistake. Science wasn't as comfortable as religion. It was several times more comfortable. I told me I can't do much but that I can do everything that I am capable of. That was enough for me. Because that meant that the possibilities are almost endless. Mistake was its own punishment. It is its own punishment. And my parents were pursuing careers in scientific fields. Doctors. Those who heal people. And they wouldn't get that when I told them. They told me that I needed to be punished and stayed stuck to their perception. And I was at immediate disagreement. Equally as much in pain and discomfort. But science told me that I needn't make myself subject to them, that I needn't obey anyone. All I needed to obey was all I couldn't defy and therefore, am inherently subject to anyway. The laws of physics. If even the slightest hint of my existence is to survive, it must obey the laws of physics and that's it. Nothing else. It taught me that people can be wrong. Also taught me that people are corrigible. This was a million times more comforting than religion and other beliefs and faiths. It simply made me more comfortable around strangers, it made me more comfortable even with the idea of being in a place and among people unfamiliar to me. And it told me that if a person did something wrong, like murdering someone, be it me or the ones I loved, there was always an underlying mistake, that there was some conciable reason anyway, since even I make and made mistakes. It made me more sympathetic partly because it made me more understanding. This was much better to me than being told that there are just good and bad people. Because I made mistakes and so did those murderers and all those people we call criminals. And they're people. Like me. Prone to mistakes. Prone to correction too. I had little to no fear of them. Neither did I have little to no fear of myself. Why would I fear myself? Simply had to do something and not do something and if something happens in between, I just had to deal with it. Not dealing with it is scarier than having to deal with it. Not being able to deal with it is even scarier. I didn't have to fear god or anything. A particular perception was not necessitated. It also led me to wonder how there can be comfort from and with a person you fear. Because fear is discomforting and disorenting. And all this was when I was a 7 year old kid, 10 years ago, and all this is what I could extrapolate at this moment from my highly fractured memory. So, science comforted and still does comfort me. It tells me that whether I'm comfortable or not isn't a significant probable problem, neither is it a significant probable up, even to me. And that itself is enough for me. If I ever wanted comfort and needed it, I simply had to go sit in a room and cry out in the corner or hug a pillow or just go have a chat with my friends. Because comfort predominantly lies in certainty. The clearer, more concise and deeper and factual the certainty, the greater the chances of being greatly comfortable with it. And that happens when there is an explanation, predominantly. That's what science does. And as this vid and facts, too, point out, religion doesn't do that. Religion does the clear part fairly well, concise part fairly well, depth part very well, but where it collapses at is the factual part. And no matter how deep, clear and concise anything is, particularly notions and hypotheses, if they're not factual, if they can't and don't reliably manifest in reality, then, they are clear, concise and deep holes in reality. And falling in there isn't advisable, surely isn't comfortable much either. Because what cannot materialize into reality but still materialises in our notions clearly, concisely, and deeply, is something that clearly, concisely and deeply, can and will increase our own chances of making mistakes, which are probably probably as clear, concise and deep. And mistakes are something nobody wants to make, that everyone can and most probably will make.

This is how I feel about learning history. So many people have asked me why I study history, and my answer always is "it saved me." I am a Taiwanese who grew up in China. Denials from the surrounding made me question my identity and worth. As a kid, I wondered why I couldn't be who I believe I am (a Taiwanese) and resented the Chinese who mocked me. But studying history helped me realized the very concept of nation-states is a social construct. They and I both live under the influence of historical tides. I no longer hate them or myself for what we believe, I simply began to understand.

As a devout catholic I was taught these before watching this video. I don't see science as a way to find happiness and comfort it's just the way we study our natural world

this channel is uncomfortably necessary for my daily well-being

I was scrolling thru those comments and I realize that most of us are simply trying to find confort into something. Well I dont think religion nor science can really help you understand this world. By personnal experiences I can say that getting to know Jesus bring the real peace to my heart.

Incredible. A tour de force ! Bravo. School of life rocks !!!

why people fear being nothing or insignificant, is it an ego thing or...?

Religion is not bad but what it has done to humanity and this world is something we should be worried about

Thank you for your interesting lectures! From my experience, the gratitude is a human personal feeling and attitude, and it's difficult and pointless to feel it for objects. It is turned from one personality to another. I can't be grateful to some piece of stone or someone's "scientific" conclusion, but to wiser people and to the Primary Source of everything - this is what really need to learn. Thank you so much! Looking foward to your new videos.

i love science so much. i didn’t at first, but after getting a good teacher i started to love science. it’s so cool to look at something and just run the whole process in your mind.

I found so much calmness and meaning in philosophy and science that religion did not offer me

Allah invites me so many times in Quran to think about the earth, the universe, the living things...And science assures me to see how perfect His creation.

It's so weird that RU-vid knows what I feel these days and recommending this video of what I feel exactly right now but I'm confused what it is so this channel put my feelings into words 😂

This made me cry. Bravo, The School of Life!

4:46 "and we were terrefied of everything" oh my god thats me

I think religion tells us that we are “something” and important in the universe, rather than “nothing”.

Thanks for making me feel good about myself

The comfort you seek can be gained through your perspective only.

Great video, though it is frustrating when people try to use science to answer questions that are best tackled by religion. It is equally as frustrating when religion attempts to answer questions best tackled by science. It is plausible to view the two separately.

I'm guessing the response from theists will be "But who created that first bit of matter that was smaller than an electron 13.8 billion years ago?".

Science is indeed much more amazing and spiritual than any religion.

And i feel gratitude that i live in sudan_northeast africa. And happen to know you alain and your channel for a couple of years and being amazed by your jnsight into our lives Such an experience which is happening means alot to me since You and i may not see each other but i saw You and saw You well

religion only exists to massage our own ego (treating like we are special) and explain away our ignorance leading to stagnation or limited progress. we have made religion obsolete in the sense the purpose of religion as a placeholder for belief structure is no longer needed. we need a system and values that are beneficial for Lifestyle as we currently lead. Science may be a part of our values but it does not have a transcendent element but merely a process for achieving instrumental goals. The values we really need today are compassion for life itself and realist that betterment of society is better for the individual as well. or just bury your head in the sand or watch shadows in your cave.

Science and religion have the same goal: to explain what we don't already understand. Science shows us 2+3=5, but religion assumes it's 4 or even 6 at times if that supports their dogma. Scientists also do this sometimes and find that changing their minds to fit reality can be difficult. But science gets it right far more often because it has checks and balances called: evidence. Whereas religion is something people are *told to believe,* through violence if necessary.

Listening to this video brush over such complex and massive concepts in such a brief manner is disorienting and glossens over the point they are trying to make as quickly as the examples they give.

This is a great video. I don't get how can you search so much (in the 4th rule) and not be convinced by the fine tuning argument. Scientists said it again and again "If ONE thing went wrong we would have never existed" Plus all that you said don't have the following: 1) Consolation of a loved one (accidents, intentional murder, disasters...) 2) Judgement ( I live in Lebanon we have the most corrupt politicians and they will die soon. They ruined many lives) 3) Purpose as a Christian my purpose is to love my enemies. No other worldview say this but it's the hardest thing. And God told us to be the light for others. 4) Truth in a world full of gossip and lies the only truth is the Christian one. Why? Because when I see someone I don't like in my heart I want to mock him BUT as a Christian I must love him and if he is living a wrongful life I must guide him or help him because in the end I like my savior want people to go to heaven where NOONE GOSSIP or laugh at others everything there is based on truth. And so many more my dear friend and so many more...

i swear, if he says "we can be grateful" one more time i will go insane

This does not answer the why-question. Science is not comforting, it only explains.

Good thoughts. I would like you to explain “Hope”

It is more the psychology science that is highly helping me since two years. #SchoolOfLife

I don't know, man...I love science, but that was kinda dark. 😂 I'm nothing, murder could be worst. As a religious man and lover of science, I live with the notion that science tells me how it is and was, my religion tells me what to do with that information. We may be nothing or insignificant compared to the grand scheme of things, but why compare yourself to something like that? I'm significant to my family, my friends, my job, and the influences I leave in someone's life...I honestly can't see living by wondering what another Star that's light years away thinks of me. I have plenty of love and thoughts to form and spread right here! I'm greatly interested in all things science, and read about them almost daily, but it's not the only answers I'm personally interested in. I also wish to seek the best ways to use this information for a greater good, and my religions beliefs has help me with this so far.

Thank you for this very interesting video ! You handled the topic very well and explained clearely your opinion. I'd like to share with you mine and I'll try to be as clear as possible (from a muslim point of view, because as I see when you talk about religion you're referring to christians). I've been thinking about the relationship between science and logic with religion a long time ago, and here's a recap of how us muslims view things: we believe that God created the universe and every existing thing, but not in the "magical" way people think. He's like more intelligent and knowledgable that human could ever imagine, and he created everything we know logically. Like in a snap and super easily he triggered a chain reaction that ended up giving birth to our universe. In our holy book, God insists about the gift he gave us which is brain. And orders us to seek for knowledge. We believe that we humans are more special compared to other living beings because we have a brain that helps us understand how our environnement works, and make the difference between good and evil. God says that he's not going to give us all the answers and it's up to us to contemplate earth and space, living creatures, beauty and art and every curious detail of our nature, to remember the greatness of who created that. That's why he didn't stop at creating only earth but made things more complex. I know sometimes there are some weird things -like magical and supernatural- that happen in stories of ancient times, but these things are called miracles, which means that they indeed are supernatural and cannot be explained by science and logic, and that was the point of them: proving to people that God is capable of everything, he can create things from nothing but he has chosen to put rules to our universe on purpose, so that these rules satisfy our logic, because we need logic to believe in him. We also believe that before being born, we were alive and swore to God that we believed in him, but after that we forgot about that, nevertheless, vestiges of that faith remained which we call "fitra" (instinct in english) and that's why we humans are "human" and have that curiosity about the meaning of life and are always seeking for the truth, and also why we always try to avoid doing bad things, and work on ourselves to become a good person. Just think about it that way: in a universe which has created himself by himself and has no God, there's no point to be compassionate, kind, or whatever, so why don't people act like A.I ? In this universe none has the right to put rules to oblige someone to be kind and yet, here we are. All of this to say that sometimes it isn't only about logic, we have to trust our instinct, our "fitra". I also wanted to point out something about mistakes. God says that he has created us imperfect intentionnally and that if we haven't made mistakes he would've removed us from earth and replaced us with other creatures, and that we should never feel disgusted of ourselves, as long as we recognize our mistakes and repent to him (like a sincere redemption not a fake one, and only God knows what lays in our hearts) everything's okay and we shouldn't worry about that. With this been said, I think that people should stop blaming religion. human is evil. Just because religious people act bad doesn't mean religion is bad. If we consider atheism as religion, shouldn't we blame all atheists for atrocities done by others who also consider themselves so ? Shouldn't we say that a human being with no beliefs can do horrible things ? Of course not because every person represents itself, and 7billion people on earth= 7billion different minds and souls. I hope I was able to summarise that well ^^' That's all folks ! Peace ☪️

I am not a believer. But I like the idea that there is a being out there that loves me unconditionally!!! And looks out for me

Fascinating. I don't think I've ever heard religion and science complimenting each other so brilliantly.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. ― Carl Sagan

Ah yes, the periodic table comforted me today. Tomorrow, I will be consoled by quantum theory. Sweet😅

@The School of Life where can I see the scientific references and sources from where you make your videos?

Great content that help us to think deeply and be grateful!! thanks!!!!

his argument for science made me believe in God more because of the probability of life on earth and also conscious aware beings are so incredibly low and listening to him frame it as lucky and that we should be grateful seems to miss the mark. it's kinda like winning the lottery 10 times in a row but saying we are just lucky and that it was a coincidence/random sounds like a pretty childish perspective. I don't know god and I don't know how he works but stuff like this makes me think that there is a life force that is guiding this world and it's inside our being or outside our capable awareness.

Thank you for this wonderful lesson! Here is good news and bad news: We don't need to be super intelligent or understand science deeply in order to get all these great moral benefits. Being always curious, deeply impressed and humbled by science can already make us into better people. The bad news is that strangely enough, sometimes, even the best scientists themselves don't seem to get all these valuable insights. Despite having access to them every single day... For example, I didn't know that napalm bomb was invented at Harvard University and it was first tried there on a soccer field! Imagine this scene that really happened: brilliant scientists who were the best in the world in their fields, discussing for days, which option would do the most harm: to burn the cities down or to blow them up! They even assigned two famous architects to build a typical German town and a Japanese town in the middle of the desert, to bomb them and see. So they organized a competition this way and the napalm bomb won. Then they killed half a million innocent people with it. You can hear all about this on Malcolm Gladwell's wonderful podcast " Revisionist History". He dedicated four episodes to those scientists, who were called " The Bomber Mafia". All this is to say that " emotional intelligence" that we learn on this wonderful channel is something that scientists need just as much as we do. Because for some reason, they don't always seem to get it from science... Personally I especially love math! It is a terribly interesting and safe place. In fact, probably nowhere in the world you can find that much safety and stability. Perhaps for this reason, listening to mathematicians can console you deeply. If you wish to give it a try, here are a couple of profound conversations that are really beautiful. 1. Cedric Villani and Robert Pollie, on a podcast called " 7th Avenue Project, Thinking Person's Radio for the seriously curious" "Since winning the Fields Medal (the closest thing in mathematics to the Nobel Prize) in 2010, Cédric Villani has become a roving ambassador for math and science. He’s well-suited to the role: a patient explainer and broad-minded thinker, passionate about education and social engagement, with a seemingly limitless range of interests . We talked about Cédric’s emergence as a math whiz, what it’s like to spend years exploring a single equation, his fascination with statistical mechanics and entropy, whether math is "real" in some more-than-conceptual sense, what mathematicians do that computers can’t, his love of comic books and his signature retro look." 2. On the same podcast, you can listen to Persi Diaconis too, who is a mathematician and magician! "When he was 14, Persi Diaconis ran away from home to become one of the world’s great magicians. Now he’s a world-class mathematician, and his two professions have more in common than you might think." 3. Keith Devlin on the podcast " On Being with Krista Tippett". The Episode is called: "The Joy of Math: Learning and What It Means To Be Human". The info: "Mathematical equations are like sonnets,'' says Keith Devlin. What most of us learn in school, he says, doesn’t begin to convey what mathematics is. And technology may free more of us to discover the wonder of mathematical thinking - as a reflection of the inner world of our minds." 4. On the same podcast, there is an episode called " Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth", with Janna Lewin. She is an astrophysicist and wrote a book about two brilliant mathematicians: Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. She says: "Both men pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Such questions, she says, help create the technologies that are now changing our sense of what it means to be human. 5- My favourite is the conversation with Mario Livio, on the same podcast. He is the writer of the book " Is God a Mathematician". 6. If you speak Spanish don't miss this wonderful TED Talk on the connection between math and love: " Las Matematicas son para siempre", Eduardo Saenz de Cabezon 7-. Friends who are looking for great science podcasts, you might enjoy Radiolab, Hidden Brain and Short Wave from NPR.

Always interesting! Thanks guys! 😀👍

Brilliant (and great illustrating once again)!

Great efforts and appreciate it team. Indeed "The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive, does a disservice to both." (Carl Sagan). Religion and science have always been in support of themselves. Faults occurs when the scales are turned ignorantly. Curious researchers can have a look at rationalreligion.co.uk if interested in understanding my claim. Take care.

This made me even more religious thank you

I still believe in spirituality (as well as basic science), still I applaud you, School of Life, for making science as a whole more approachable this way. :-) Hallelujah indeed to our life lottery! For if there is really nothing after death, then, by golly, the mere fact that we exist is the best lottery! :-)

How extraordinary that while some may feel disillusioned by science and technology, the *same ideas* actually liberates oneself!

Thank you for the video! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I dont care if im the only one but I'd love to see more insights like this!

Made me more complaisant thank you :)

I think both are necessary to human lives.

‘But science can teach us the art of forgiveness’ As if religions didn’t find that out already thousands of years ago

Bravo!! This video hit my core. Well done !

However science has also given us awareness of us destroying ourselves, but not yet the capability to stop doing that. How can we be comforted in the face of the climate crisis?

Me: Great!! I really need some comfort rn!!!!! This video: You are, truly, NOTHING.

I don’t think it’s wise to believe mankind can be “God like”. Man is not meant to be Gods but be under God. Your wish will be granted but pain and suffering is all you will get.

The female voice doing the after add is just sublime! Her accent, pronunciation and the way she does a perfect hard "S" sound. My God I would fall asleep in a second if she read me a bead time story.

The last part with the randomness of the origin of the universe layed out seems implausible. All by chance creating such beauty. It explains the how but not the why.