Is faith compatible with reason? 

It's the result of the peroxide she uses to make her hair that blond.

What grown ups?

@@jordangayle7794 The ones with the intelligence to mention confirmation bias lol

That's true in one sense and definitely true in response to the New Age nonsense on offer here, but every part of your body operates in a feedback loop so, strictly speaking, the heart does influence thoughts and feelings, then so do your elbows and toes and liver and genitals... the brain doesn't operate in a vacuum.

@@mausperson5854 well said, there a neurons in the heart too. still don't agree with her

It literally isn't, it's got neurons.

+Free Being Again an atheist has it back to front .

Hahahahahahahahahaha are you serious?

+Patrick Parker so we must first assert it as true even w/out knowledge of it? that's religious logic / confirmation bias. syllogistic logic would ask why should I simply assert it as true?

Humans aren't rational, there driven by emotion. Science works on logic. A scientific theory as to be quantifiable and undergo rigious testing my independent, impartial scientific minds. Only when the scientific community as a whole or majority are willing to accept it does it become fact but even then it can be reevaluated if new information comes to light. If those people had been debating dark matter, they would have had no emotional response and asked for a credible, scientific solution. Only agnostic like me, say we don't know if God exists or not. It's only agnostic people who have a absent of emotion upon the issue. If you don't know something, you should admit you don't know. Faith and belief are perfectly acceptable arguments. I can put my cat out in the morning and have faith or a belief in that my cat will come home but I can't say I know that as a fact, until its returned home.

You and me both

I see this comment is 7 years old - do you mind if i ask if you are still an atheist?

@@dawnatkinson7704 Absolutely. This comment still stands. I actually thank you for reminding me of it.

@@tianamaycryGood for you! I wasn't brought up in a religious household so atheism was very natural and logical to me but I can appreciate that people who were indoctrinated can struggle and sometimes are so fearful they return to their faith. My partner was brought up in a cult (The Children of God) and the repercussions of this upbringing was pretty damaging.

That's how I left my "beliefs" behind. And they led me to Hitch, Harris, Dawkins, and reason in general

Guy Potts it’s scary she’s working in a lab. Get her the fuck out of there and get her making sandwiches where she belongs.

That physicist a is real disappointment to the scientific community.

Trust is faith u can't put trust in a test tube or physics lab

Absolutely. She is confusing 2 meanings of faith. One is based on evidence and the other isn't.

You made the right choice.

There are many different denominations contradicting each other but all claiming to be the truth. There are many sects within denominations contradicting each other. It is arrogant to think we know that which we are unable to comprehend. When we think we have the answers will stop asking questions. Questions lead to progress and truth. Religion is the biggest impediment to mankind’s progress. There are billions of arrogant people in this world living their lives based on tenets set by a fraud. The goal is to eventually navigate the heavens and live forever in paradise. We will only be able to achieve this through our ability to reason. Intellect will be our salvation if we are to survive. Religion conditions us to think we have all the answers stifling curiosity and thus cultivation of the intellect. When we have answers we don't need questions. Questions lead to truth, understanding, and progress. Religion is the biggest impediment to mankind's progress, quality of life and survival. There are so many different denominations and so many more sects within and much more than that, that have been forgotten. There is only ONE truth and it is beyond our comprehension and if you don't realize that you are disingenuous or delusional All religions are a fraud except yours of course.

Lol that was hilarious !

Bruh

How dare you.. she have a big heart.. what missing is a brain 🧠

Hahahahah

+Ms10000123 correct... and she was almost invoking that we're all so different because of finger prints. well, we also all have a heart, a brain, lungs, arms, legs, feet, fingers & toes.... which would seemingly make us virtually all the same in that context. and she's trying to connect the dots w/ something spiritual or supernatural. but the problem w/ her scenario (and there's really not getting around this) is that she cannot confirm her god unless maybe she has god's fingerprints. of course that sounds short-sided, but her argument is no less short-sided. red herrings are no way to go about providing evidence or even good examples to a flawed scenario.

Interesting to hear you say that. May I ask what made you first have your doubts and helped you break out? Was it something someone said? Or learning new info about the world that contradicted doctrine? Or a realisation moment? Also, may I ask how old you were? I'm intrigued as to the first step/event that helps people break from the indoctrination. Many thanks in advance. x

Hitch slappin the lot

I can't imagine him being able to sit through this drivel, such low intelligence arguments like the lady just saying "what if x, y, z"...

Every single one of them would get called a fascist crackpot.

Bibi Ayube ... I came here to get away from all the "Oh how I miss Hitch!" replies and yet, here you are.. 😉

I think it’s like the Batman quote, he didn’t live long enough to become the villain. He would not be able to hold his tongue enough to appease the outrage mob. Surely, some moral Puritan of radical left writing for huff po’ or the guardian would “expose” him as a gate way to the alt right. He might fair better than Dawkins or Harris but still be stained with the brush of moral impurity for his views on democrats, gender roles and his harshness on Islam. Although he always had something that others did not, an intimidating unyielding conviction for justice. So much so that I have seen people who would object to what he said if said by anyone else. There’s nothing close to a replacement.

That should be the answer to the question of whether God or gods exist. Until science is reasonably sure of the existence or absence of God or gods, the answer is we don't know. If someone wants to believe in God or gods that's fine, they should be honest with themselves and others and admit its based on illogical wishful thinking, emotion and a desire to explain that which one cant rationally explain. Athiesm is also based on an emotional and illogical response and is also unreasonable.

@@davidvarley1812 I don’t think science can nor cares to prove a god exists, as you say it’s only out of wishful thinking and paranoia.

I agree science doesn't want to answer the question of weather god or gods does or doesn't exist. However science doesn't always start out looking for what it finds. I doubt physicists 70 years ago set out to find black holes or dark matter, it was just happened. However if spirituality or religion was looking to science, which it isn't, for validation, they may have many centuries or perhaps millennia to wait. In the mean time many things considered spiritual today will be explained away by science. For centuries our ancestors thought God caused earthquake but today science as taught us about the movement of tectonic plates.

@@davidvarley1812 You could argue that the history of science is based on proving/disproving the existence of God. For millennia the answers to life's questions have been God. Scientific discoveries have given logical answers to these things throughout history.

@@manwithadronespain yes, you could.

+todd matheson So what , don't you have some weird habits

You have it all perfectly backwards. Faith is the very principle of learning and discovery, not doubt. If we all had a perfect knowledge and understanding of all things, there would be no need for faith, but clearly we do not, so faith is therefore essential. Your definition of faith is merely a secularist definition, not what is actually taught in scripture. Faith is a spiritual gift from God to help guide us to all truth. It is not at all in conflict with sound reason, only with flawed theories. Faith and reason go hand in hand. Therein lies the difference between KNOWING something and UNDERSTANDING it.

+effyleven your talking about blinds faith, blinds faith is saying I believe because I do, faith is based on reason, the reason why I faith is........, but is must be reasonable, don't confuse the two.

101mythbuster You can't have any "spiritual gift" from something that doesn't exist. Faith in its existence with absolutely zero evidence for such belief is not some kind of intellectual superiority. .. it is being an idiot. It is time to grow up, and STOP being an idiot!

+Emenz As already stated... faith is NOT having a reason for belief. That's the whole point of faith... the LACK of reason. Consequently, as already stated, if there WAS a reason for belief, BY DEFINITION it would not be faith. Understanding fundamentals like this is crucial to any discussion on the matter. If you do not know what the words you are using actually MEAN, there is no way we can exchange any understanding, of fundamentals or anything else. Good day.

effyleven​​​​ Faith is the assurance of things for which we have no proof, hence, it is in and of itself a form of spiritual evidence. Faith is not merely intellectual belief as so many atheists define it, it is something you can feel. And yes, it is a very real gift, actually. When did I ever say faith afforded me intellectual superiority? Not sure were you got that from, since the only ones thinking themselves intellectually superior are atheists, always accusing believers of being irrational. Well let me tell you, I have absolutely no need of suspending reason in order to accommodate my faith. Unlike you, I understand that our scientific knowledge of the universe doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. It would be irrational for me to discard the possibility of God. Don't be mad at me just because your tiny little mind can't fathom it.

I Galactic I I’m surprised people don’t mock these idiots for the whole show. I wouldn’t show them or their stupid ideas any respect.

@@Technicallyimright They probably don't mock them on the show because it would be rude to become uncivil during a civil debate/conversation based on a topic. Courtesy and respect when someone else is speaking is often the case (even though there are moments where this show gets a bit heated and a lot of people try to speak at once -- that's not the same as insulting someone for what they believe in).

Yeah, its called heroin, haha

Ye plz join her there

It's a pretty good argument..

THANK YOU! (I wanted to up vote your comment, but that's impossible on mobile, so I'll just do it like this)

and sell it to stupid people

Faith is belief based on zero evidence

Most major groups of the religious make 'statements of faith' where they explicitly say something to the effect of 'we know there's no evidence, faith is just belief'. When you have 'faith' that the sun will arise tomorrow, that's a trust in the evidence based on it's consistent accuracy. It's even a bit of a stretch to call it 'trust'. It's the other way around for the religious though. They've seen no substancial consistent evidence that points to a deity. It's always confirmation bias, personal incredulity, etc. They don't have 'trust' in the existance of a god or their doctrine, they have 'faith' because it's purely unsupported. Some groups support this idea and lean into the 'we know there's no natural evidence for it, but god is supernatural, so ha'.

It's actually spelled,,,, no

That was a rather foolish remark. I guess these people aren't intelligent: Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, Simon Conwy-Morris, John Polkinghorne, etc? I guess you must be more intelligent than these world-class scientists?

I guess I am. If you knew anything about science you would probably know that it relies on facts and not on constructs of the individual's brain. Because let's face it. Faith is just that.

There is no fact that is not already an interpreted fact. To that extent everything "fact" is already to some extent a construct. Light, for instance, can be understood as both particle and wave; but which reflects the nature of light? Well, its dependent on observation. Light is thus a fact- but its already being constructed by perception, which can see it as a particle and a wave. Given what you have said about faith I am assuming that you have never read Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, or any other great theologian?

No. I will read everything about your god the day that he or she or it will decide to come and meet with me in person.

Do scientists believe in dark matter because they can "see" it? No. They believe in it because of its effects- its gravitiational effect. OK. Well, Christians believe in God because of his effects, his actions in history

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