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  • Well said!

  • damn...

  • also, if we are matter and energy and our brain consists of a uncouncious mind and a councious mind than the uncouncious is a general component of matter completed by the conscient that is every human being. Therefore upon death, the human being continues to live in matter and energy in an uncouncious level until reassembled by ramdom in a concious conterpart...

  • So if god is matter and energy, then god is the universe it self and therefore "god" is the personification of the big bang and the creation of matter and energy and space. Since there is positive energy and negative energy (and both add to zero), then the positive is eaven and the negative is hell and so... omuniverse !!

  • @jhaz climbed up a tree at superhuman speed*

  • @jhaz89 your brother is a dumbass and you are even more naieve for actually believing him..so a little girl defied the laws of physics and climbing up a tree? your a jackass and you obviously shouldnt be commenting on this video. with your intelligence im positive an athiest child at the age of 9 could completely demolish you in an arguement

  • god doesnt exist and all of the religious people are naieve to believe everything off of a book..anybody can write a book that is common sense. Its a grown mans fairy tale

  • God is my savior I don't care what you guys say I will always love Jesus

  • They left out that they still need the god-of-the-gaps.

  • Oh sure dude just ask an atheist if god exist or not well done...... Here's proof that he dose exist to those who walk by site and not faith watch the video Sid Roth interviews dr Caroline leaf.

  • If god exist, where did he came from?

  • @cardinalcool

    haha i don't know man, all i know is maybe you should go take a bunch of biology and chemistry and physics classes and look at how ridiculously complex it is. to me i look from a statistical standpoint and the odds of all these billions of processes working out so perfectly, needed all these things to work in perfect harmony... the odds are not even comprehendable

  • @cardinalcool

    also... so i'm assuming you don't believe in god, thats chill. but let me ask you some questions, would you prefer when you die to be just gone forever or for there to be an afterlife. also even if you're right that there is no god, well you'll find that out when you die.. well actually you won't because you will be gone into oblivion. also my brother saw a little girl climb up a tree at superhuman speeds because there was an evil spirit in her, if evil exists... good exists

  • @jhaz89 Whatever I prefer does not make it true. And no it didn't happen your brother just wants people to listen to him for once, or once more.

  • you sound smart, BUT you have no evidence, stephen does.. so.. umm.. yeah... YOU LOOSE! haha

  • This is a top quality vid. My opinion, God doesn't exist. God is just a made up being by young humans who tried to find something which could explain everything.

  • if we cant prove there is no god, you cant prove that there isnt a magic teapot riding on the dark side of the moon with a purple gnome inside that shoots rainbows from its nipples while reciting poetry....

  • @gabbalabbawoop and thats why all your friends loves you james. XD

  • @gabbalabbawoop Why does a teapot have nipples?

  • If something can appear out of nothing, then why do we observe stable laws, not completely random laws? If the stable laws appeared by chance, then random laws can appear by chance too. Actually think about this logically.

  • @37376868 Look at the troll type on a computer the insinuation that quantum mechanics is not real. If he answers, you will see deny he meant any such thing.

  • Where did the properties of space and time come from?

  • Wait a minute, this guy wants me to believe that the universe came from nothing ? If i apply all law of physics it may explain the existence of eveything ? Is he talking serious ? Is it what we call logical ? So at this point, God is part of this process of this out of nothing theory ? And you expect that 95 precent of the world population believe in this ballshit ? Amost 6 billions people in the world beleive in some kind of god. And frankly i don't see any difference in believing in a God or

  • i dont understand why we should have to argue that hes not real, it is now the least of our problems, i think e need to leave it behind and explore the universe

  • 1:32 Than God DID create the universe because he "CAN", & the proof to your inquiry is all around you.

  • @Dustar007 His point is that there need not be a source outside of the system to cause this. Read Rowe's Cosmological Argument and familiarize yourself with the kinds of arguments presented and provide relevant counterarguments. Remember Hawking can easily counter-argue that "the proof [...] is all around you" that chance has influenced existence. Existence of life does not imply proof of a God.

  • @37376868 Look at the troll pretend you are too ignorant to answer him unless you read some obscure book no on has ever hear of.

  • Realistically speaking, one would consider infinite possibilities regarding God, or any circumstance pertaining to thought. Imagination, and science coexist. If it wasn't for imagination than who's to say technology, or the human brain would have developed into what it is today. To believe, or not to believe is not a scientific equation to figure out, it is a personal choice that one should make not from others point of view, but within ones self.

  • @1man2chances It is not a personal question. If religions are claiming events happened in history in our world at some point in time and making opposite claims, some of them will be false. If someone is claiming we are here because of God and someone says we are here purely by chance and nothing else, someone has to be wrong, because it is making a claim about us and a shared space of existence.

  • the word GOD itself is S**t...just invented to avoid reasoning

  • @jainutkarsh94 the word or concept of God has been used in many pieces of literature full of sound reasoning. By no means does the presented theory in this video excel in critical reasoning compared to the mentioned writings.

  • @jainutkarsh94 the concept of God was hypothesized as a result of people attempting to reason the observed conditions in their environment. Here I am arguing that the concept or theory of God was not invented to avoid reasoning, but rather as a result of attempts to reason. I am not arguing whether God exists.

  • @37376868 what a fucking troll!

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  • Thank you so much! I've been trying to explain how he didn't say that there wasn't a god, just no need for one. I really liked how you explained this, by the way. Kudos. :3

  • If a god let's 1-5 year old childern die horrible deaths from cancer, and a mass murderer live in comfort for 50 years in jail, and as long as he repents, he will be saved..... No fucking god of mine. People are so delusional, if every bible thumper did something good  for people on sundays for 1 or 2 hours, instead of giving time and money to a church, the world would be better place. I find the word atheists very troubling, when believers can't even prove a god exists.

  • Very good point. 

  • An arguable conclusion to arrive at from finding a Theory of Everything is that if we ourselves as mere observers of our world are able to understand the maths behind 'everything' why would a sufficiently advanced entity not be able to create by applying this maths from a remote vantage point e.g. from elsewhere in a multiverse. OUR universe could have sprung from a scientifically balanced 'zero' state. That is not to say that all universes in a multiverse would do this.

  • So who cares about what around us care about what u have and be glad u have it

  • Think about it thus way without god we wouldn't be here so we praise him to thank him for giving life to us

  • man thats right god hasn't created the universe but what i think that god iz step mother of universe who controls all this.

  • @squidwurrd someone needs to read up on quantum fluctuations

  • GOD DOSENT EXIST IDIOTS!!!!!!!

  • Or God made the science and the laws ya know that could've happened too.

  • too long winded.. get to the point

  • Genesis 1:1

  • You sir... are a Awesome

    Thank you for your inspiration

  • god = i dont know how

  • if you dont believe in science then dont use the internet, your phones, your car, medication or anything that took science to create

  • Great video

  • God's imfuckingpossible

  • It's a shame that religious people are just to stupid or ignorant to understand this, or want to, and..... That's the problem!

  • Let me make it simple. In order for anything to happen there has to be a cause. God is the first cause and the universe as far as we know is the first effect. You have to think what created the rules the allowed for the universe to be created from nothing. If the universe was once the size of a pin then what was outside the universe and who or what created that? Your theory is limited because you assume that the universe is all there is. Sorry but you can't deny that.

  • Okay, there is no proof that there is a God, but there is no proof that there isn't a God. So you can either choose to believe in whatever you want, but consider the consequences of your belief. And I think we can use supernatural as a tool to argue that their is a God, because Scientists can't explain why supernatural events happen. Their is a whole world of daemons, ghosts and their has been countless of Religious experiences. And scientists try to say their is no God, without going near that

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  • God created physics, y don't fin a place for god in science. Theres god, now let's try to understand why he does what he does.

  • @Judahsch Any God that you have to WORK to find a place for in science (i.e. you have to hide and change what he says) clearly does not exist. If you read the Bible and look at science you can see how primitive the minds that created God actually were.

  • @Judahsch What evidence do you have that suggest to you this god exists? "Theres god" is a positive statement, It needs evidence and explanation. What do you have?

  • @HConstantine Where did the universe come from then? There is a point where an uncaused cause of everything needs to be found. You might respond the Big Bang. Where did that come from?

  • @HConstantine not knowing how the universe began is not evidence that it was created by something with recognizably human traits ("fully god, fully man"). You have to make the case for that separately.

    You might want to google "quantum fluctuation".

  • @HConstantine No but not knowing reconginzes that there is the possiblitiy that it was created by God. Not knowing how the universe began is not evidence for the Big Bang either. It eventually comes down to what you believe was the uncaused cause of what the universe is today.

  • @123bookworm247 It is however, a fact that the initial inflation of a singularity (called the Big bang by Hoyle in mockery) is the first event in space time. That is not in dispute. The only question is what, if anything existed before (not that before makes any sense outside of space time). that what that unknown might be is a human being (Jesus), is simply incredible-there wouldn't have been matter and energy as we understand them, or space and time at all.

  • @HConstantine ....some people think stephen hawking and others are brilliant men ....funny they can say that God doesn't exist yet stephen wasn't brilliant enough to find a cure so he isn't wheelchair bound...others can't find cures for cancer etc....not so smart after all

  • @torontofan36 The point is not that he can't cure his wheelchair bound condition. The point is he believes he proved his condition was caused by chance, along with his existence. You are not going to win over his argument by reminding him of his physical impairment. Try to take this as a logical, objective comment. Try by beginning to question why there is gravity, or something relevant like that.

  • @37376868 Look at the troll not only continue to mock Hawking for his illness (he will deny it if he responds), but then look at him dismiss causation without anthropomorphic agency as chance.

  • @37376868 .....yes i can use my reasoning....if he is such a brilliant man then he should have found a cure for himself...exactly my point.....not be able to do that yet but able to say that god doesn't exist with such certainty....all i know is that the answer for me is in the bible and it has been pretty accurate so far up to this date in history...most predictions in there have come true and wayyyy too many to be considered coincidences or lucky guesses

  • @HConstantine Hawking answers to "Why is there something instead of nothing?" by saying because according to chance, the universe could possibly come into existence from nothing, therefore given enough time, it would. So then why not ask: "Why is there a possibility instead of no possibility?"

  • I am man of faith as a Roman Catholic. I do believe that science is necessary for humanity to understand reality much more deeper than what we need to. Religious people shouldn't see science as a threat but as an opportunity to find the solution to ignorance. Einstein once said that all religions, sciences and arts are the branches of the same tree. I really hope that science proves the existence of a deity. For me God is much more that we can ever imagined that what we see or prove.

  • @ortebalm09 its really easy to say that but you need to realize theres too man variations of religion they will never work with eachother im not gonna go into wether god exists or not but what i will tell you is that someday in the near future there will only be one religion only then can we truly debate wether god exists or not as for now people need to stop assuming that science either has to answer everything or its blasphamy we understand it only one step at a time

  • @pimpofdoom we can trust truth ;)

  • @ortebalm09 thats one way of putting it

    but we need to look at all the options i think both sides of the arguement are confused i agree in that we should work with them both but i dont like it when religion tried to put science down i dont think thats fair

  • @pimpofdoom I don't think either too, my suggesgtion is that religion and science need to work together. It is just my theory, I know that religion has created many things to promote a faith, but as well sometimes science crosses the line with high complexity, they both have bad side of the story. Of course there are so many variations of religion but I find out that almost all religions follow a similar concept...(1)

  • @pimpofdoom Plus My conclusion to this idea so at least we could find some great truth an probably discovering something great is if all sciences and all religions get together we maybe could find some sort of greatness. And to be honest it is way much better than just using science to bash religion because they could discover something great and even religion has discovered grea things about science. The conclusion is, wheather we like or not they need each other. (2)

  • @ortebalm09 I'm Roman Catholic too, and I believe in science and not a being that created everything. Here my point of view, when you're starring down the barrel of a gun and you're praying for some type of miracle to happen and save you, well guess what......the only thing that's going to happen is your head's going to turn inside out and it's contents will be all over the ground. (note: I'm not saying this towards you as an individual, I'm simply giving an example and my opinion/point of view)

  • @BruceJBCpaintball that will be an example of quantum theory. In other words metaphysics, in my understandting, it is the science that bridges science and religion. When we pray (send and energy signal to the universe, aka God) the entire "world" as some say, accomodates to the point where a circumstance influence another to settle the "prayer's command" on the moment that it is needed by the indvidual. In you notice most religious people use this tecnique.

  • @ortebalm09 I see your point, and like your conclusion.

  • @ortebalm09 Dude, that is brilliant.

  • @ortebalm09 I believe god created the Universe and science did the rest

  • @ShalemariTV Nice point I like that

  • @ortebalm09 Science is as likely to prove the existence of a deity as it is likely to prove the existence of the toothfairy and Santa Clause.

  • @WolfySnackrib666 you don't say?

  • @ortebalm09 Yeah, people are just obsessed about God because that's what is popular to believe and to be in favor of. Just like how everyone seem to think that the life of a human is by default worth much more than the life of a little rabbit, but so far any attempt to motivate why that should be the case has failed.

  • @ortebalm09 oh yes...that could be The Theory Of Everything...but in the end...its only Math that explains the universe....God is Mathematics...

  • @jainutkarsh94 on that note. What are numbers? Just an interesting question.

  • @ortebalm09 religion is something that every race in the universe has to contend with..its a natural state that a species goes through...ultimately there is no god..and even if there is..its only a more evolved species that could possibly create them..even us as a type 0 civilization can almost create life

  • @QuantumThought22 So you are saying that we can create life. Then let that be dependent species X, then perhaps X will make Y, and so on. Going backwards on this timeline, someone created our parents, someone created their parents, someone created human existence, someone created chance/universe/whatever it may be. Since these are all dependant beings, we need an independent being/process to explain why these dependant beings are here.

  • @QuantumThought22 you could say that we are here because the universe doesn't need anything to come into existence, it just can, and will. So then who/what created that rule?

  • Fuck this, Gimme Some Whiskey And Beer And I Tell You God`s Birth Date. ;)

  • bull-trash

  • Interesting...........

  • how can somthing come out of nothing? its dosent possible in our universe. how could universe it self could come out of nothing.

  • @Superman10202 you got that right!

  • @Superman10202 that is exactly how i look at it.

  • According to the law of conservation of energy, energy can neither be created nor be destroyed: it can only be transformed from one state to another. So how can there be zero energy from the beginning?

  • @masoum14 i think that's what quantum mechanics are trying to explain things differently from classical physics.

    scientists thinks that they can get away with anything, as long as they apply quantum mechanics to everything they see.

  • Every human should prove the existance and the no existance by him self to be satisfed for his life not waiting to stephen hawking to tell us the existance of god....

  • @Don8Maverick As long as people recognise the evidence and not create separate opinions based on nothing.

  • Muslims & Conservatives want to jihad the owners of youtube.com because this "jew conspiracy" video has been posted.

  • What's with the shelve of books as a background. Are you trying to make a point?

  • make your videos in a room with drapes, padding, or other sound absorbing material.

  • Hawkins commits the classic category error like Dawkins does in a different arena.

  • what if god is the universe  MIND FUCK!!!!!!!

  • To all creationists watch the following videos:

    Then where did the big bang come from?

    /watch?v=34-1W_9BhoU

    A brief history of time.mov

    Best part starts at 4:17-8:34

    /watch?v=ZlcKiZluhjk

    Enjoy :)

  • Hi Sean. I'm a Ph.D. molecular biologist, fascinated with cosmology, a recovering Catholic, and athiest. One RC priest, Robert Barron, has posted a video on YouTube that berates Hawking. I've been doing my best to counter his arguments, but you are FAR more knowledgeable than I. I'm wondering if you would be willing to write a few response? google: Barron+YouTube+Hawking

    Thanks!!!

  • I completely agree.

  • @alanjeddy Please understand I dont mean any of this to be taken as personally offensive. We are both just staring at a piece of glass. It's a beautiful day so I am going to go out and enguage in making the best of it! particularly with a long bike ride. I hope you have a wonderful day as well :)

  • @GiffyPooh Ie we regress all the way back to the big bang one comes to a singularity or origin of the universe. Now here is my point as you paraphrased it so well. There was nothing before the big bang. ZILCH! NADA! tHEREFORE WHAT INITIATED THE UNIVERSE WAS A FORCE OUTSIDE OF TIME AND SPACE AND ALL THE PHYSICAL LAWS. Sorry I accidentaly left the caps keys on. Not shouting. Hey I hope you enjoyed your bike ride.

  • @alanjeddy IF you wanted me to address your specific issue, I would have said something like: How can I argue with your logic? You basically state "You cannot disprove this claim, therefor I accept it" = "You cannot answer how there is no matter before the bigbang, therefor my personal idea of God is the answer"... OK ... I would reply "You cant prove there is no invisible unicorn in your room, therefor I accept it exists"  Do you see this is nonsense? or has "faith" shackled your mind's freedom

  • @alanjeddy Ok... So I dont think you got the point I was making. I was not trying to argue with you about anything. I was only pointing out the discrepency in your LOGIC. You are stating personal REASONS to believe there is a God and I said, in matters of FAITH, you inherently dont need reasons to back up the claims. Thus there is no arguement. I only suggesting you to be open to questioning your beliefs. I am open to the existence of "god" where as you are in faith/certain/close minded/etc...

  • He's disabled, hes effected by the drugs they give him, making his mind illusinate God is real.

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  • @suprajazz mate, he is the most brilliant man you will ever come across in your lifetime, and he is obviously not hallucinating because he has the most scientific evidence to back it up. so in conclusion god isn't real.

  • No one ever proved the existence of God/Gods. Period. No offence, but that is scientific enough form me.

    The rest is just verbal and logical twist that lead nowere. Still, I'd give my life to let people freedom to belive in what they want, even if I disagree with them.

  • @alanjeddy So you are the lucky first post at the bottom of the video and you had to state something ridiculous. According to you, it SHOULD(personal value judgement) not matter if thousands of people witness some mystical experience in order to validate it. This is because in matters of FAITH, you can BELIEVE whatever you want without any justification external of your own dumb brain. I would stop being afraid to question your own foundational beliefs. U might just GROW!

  • @GiffyPooh Thousands of people who have seen the apparitions in Zeitoun, Egypt didn't imagine it. Answer this question. How do you get matter from non matter? How was there nothing in the universe before the big bang? Atheists and scientist have no clue. I am sure you don't either.

  • God is dead.

    Science killed god.

  • U were good until you said the energy was zero.

    Hawking also in another interview stated they are on tracking to some understanding of how the universe works, but to know all the details would be, "to know the mind of God." which he states, is far greater than the greatest human mind can conceive.

  • Instead of trying to prove God Doesn't exist.Prove iF God exists..!!How can You..??Show some supernatural things.Everyone would believe then

  • May God bless you.Thank God.All these sentences become absurd one day..!!

  • This is a good video, but I must say religion has never been about the essence of the universe, but about the essence of what it is to be a responsible human being and act like one.

  • @jcmmanuel I'm sorry but that's morality and ethics, religion is about humans falling onto something because they don't understand the world.

  • @gusluxury202 Sure. Altering word definitions on people's account is fun. I'd not want to dispute that. Can I ask you to ask for my attention only if it's not to educate me on the kind of oneliners I've seen on too many banners? I'll be grateful, thank you.

  • Wow what esoteric pseudo- intellectual rhetoric! The law of causality dictates that motion cannot dictate itself but must be moved by something already in motion. An infinite chain of movers is impossible for then there would be no first mover and thus no motion at all. Self causation is contrdictory for you would have to exist before yourself to cause yourself. Therefore there has to be something outside of time and space, a non contingent force or first principal, God ,

  • @alanjeddy typical christian mentality goddidit......well by your definition of god which says god is infinite , makes God non existent because infinity is non-existent existence is a finite quality by definition.To exist means to present an appearance of some kind,it means to be relative to that which is not the existing thing

  • @kurozaki45 The heir apparant of Einstein Hawking, an atheist, admits that the big bang came from nothing. It heralded into existence rudimentary chemistry. From nothing there was suddenly matter. How do you explain this????? Every effect has a cause. The law of causality. There id no such thing as self-causality. kurozaki45 could not cause his own existence. Therefore the universe had to be created from a non-contingent being outside of time an d space.

  • @alanjeddy God created the universe? Then who did create God? It makes no sense that you would accept that God can just exist without a cause, and the universe can't exist without a cause. And even if this is true, why would you even bother to name it God? Because it is written in the Bible? Because God is responsible for all the good things in your life? Or because you can feel Him with your "sixth sense", your sixth sense that exceeds all your other senses? Hmm...

  • @logmeinwtf You need to learn about the law of causality and how there are not an infinite number of subordinate regressions. There is no such thing as self-causality, You couldn't create yourself nor couls I or anyone else. First cause or result must be a non contingent being taht exists outside of time and space. There was nothing in the universe before the big bang. Then suddenly there was matter. How do you get something from nothing? Science cannot answer this nor can an atheist.

  • @alanjeddy That's where God comes in? I don't want to say that reality is logical, I just want to say that logic is the only way to cope with reality. You can only prove the things you can measure and observe, therefore you will never be able to prove the existence of "God". Something that can't be measured or observed can't affect reality and should be labeled irrelevant and unreal.

  • @logmeinwtf human logic is deficient in matters of faith. There was complete emptiness in the universe, nothing not one molecule. How do you get something from nothing? Is that LOGICAL???? How do you get matter from non matter? Does that make any sense to you? Look up the apparitions in Zeitoun, Egypt in s which thousands of peop;e witnessed the apparitions of the Vergin Mary. If you believe that we got here by mere random chance then it is like believeing that a cow can jump over the moon.

  • @alanjeddy I'm just trying to say that logic is the only way to deal with the world we are living in. As soon as you accept something that isn't part of logic as an argument, you can prove and disprove everything. I'm not saying that reality is completely reducible to logic, but it's just the only thing that will be able to approach our reality. And I try to only rely on my own senses. Some people lie and are illogical. Jesus walked on water, Heracles captured Cerberus and Harry Potter...

  • @logmeinwtf To believe that we got here by random chance after matter appeared from nothing is a greater leap of faith when you factor in the odds against this ever happening. You are being absurd to believe in random chance! It is more probable that a deck of cards be thrown into the air during a hurricane and they land all face up in a royal flush. You can't answer the question how matter appeared from non matter. Then you belive that somehow against odds of 36 billion to. How naive of you!

  • @alanjeddy Well, I really can't understand how you define "God". If God is almighty, then God will logically be all-knowing and know that there will be a lot of people that die as an atheist or with another religion. He knows this even before these people are born, because He is almighty and all-knowing. You can't punish people that don't have free will... meh

  • @logmeinwtf You have free will to accept or deny the existence of God. If you don't know God in this life isn't it fair to say He might not know you in the next life which is forever. He is going to exist whether you believe it or not. Eternity is a long time to be in the wrong place.

  • @alanjeddy and that has to be god right? your magical god? thats all there is to it right? you dont aspire to get more intelligent answers youre just going to leave it at that gotdidit and thats it?

  • @alanjeddy lets suppose there is a god(could be an imaginary unicorn who knows) where did it come from?

  • @alanjeddy but i mean the creation of the universe couldn't have been caused by anything because causation requires time as a condition and before the big gang time as we know it didnt exist ?

  • @kurozaki45 There are not an infinite number of regressions and you are right first cause was outside of time and space. God is not contained within the strictures of time and space. He is a non contingent being. Molecules do not invent themselves. There had to be intelligent Design.

  • @alanjeddy my question is why does it have to be YOUR god? what if its something else? yea it could be anything since all we're doing is speculating theres nothing that says its specifically the god of the bible is there? so why do you assumer that force/energy whatever it is is the god of the bible when it could be anything?

    it would be like if i found a new species of animals and i said it isnt a cat or a dog so it must be a rabbit see what im trying to say?

  • @kurozaki45 I hear you and I am glad you are considering the possibility of some kind of Intelligent Design. There is too much order in the universe for it to be random chance. I have to keep coming back to that compelling question, how was matter created from nothingness? How illogical is that? Science has no answer and atheists believe we are inventing a God to answer this question. Something outside of time and space initiated the big bang. Then there was matter and the clock of time began.

  • @alanjeddy I have to keep coming back to that compelling question, how was matter created from nothingness? How illogical is that?

    not very ,

    the universe began from a quantumn fluctuation a phase transition from potential energy to kinetic energy before the big bang the universe was in a quantum state and there is no need to ask what came before that since causality breaks down at the subatomic level ,the condition the universe was in in the beginning

  • @alanjeddy because the universe was in a quantumn state before the big bang it adheres to the quantumn uncertainty principle = there can be no such thing as nothing in this universe as long as the generation of energy via virtual particle pairs does not violate the law of energy conservation

  • @alanjeddy it requires no miracle or supernatural act to create the energy in the universe infact because energy is created all the time via virtual particle pairs the universe was not caused bychance but by a process that occurs with regularity and consistency

    because there can be no such thing as 0 energy in the universe the universe also adheres to the laws of thermodynamics which basically says absolute 0 is unobtainable

  • @kurozaki45 I think you need to do your homework on quantum cosmology and particle physics. Before the big bang there was nothing. Space and time did not exist. It was only after the big bang. Therefore that which initiated the big bang was a non contingent force existing outside of the strictures of time and space. Given the present state of the universes, if we regress all the way back to the big bang, one would come to a singularity or origin outside of time and space and all physical laws.

  • @alanjeddy the universe is defined as all that exists........

    " Before the big bang there was nothing. " that doesnt make any sense because creation ex nihilo is impossible

    Something existing causing something non-existing to begin existing is not only without evidence or support but logically incoherent .

  • @alanjeddy Saying that god is an efficient cause does not solve this logical impossibility , it only delays what you cannot show, which is how a being like god can create something from nothing.

    An efficient cause by definition the agency that brings about the change , an agent has to have something to change before it can bring about said change to begin with,reduced even further ,you have to show how space can come from non-space , how does time come from non-time? how does

  • @alanjeddy how does energy come from non-energy? how does the physical come from that which is non-physical?

  • @alanjeddy also "Before the big bang there was nothing." why do you think the bing bang tells us the universe had an absolute beginnig?

    he single greatest mistake that Christians make in cosmology is that they erroneously think that the big bang theory shows the universe had an absolute beginning.

  • @alanjeddy This is simply false , and is as ignorant and uneducated as a creationist who thinks evolution shows life came from non-life. Creationist confuse evolution with abiogenesis , evolution does not explain or entail how life originated , but how life diversified AFTER it originated.

  • @alanjeddy you confuse and bastardize the big bang model as evidence that the universe had an absolute beginning , when the big bang theory never told us how the universe began , but how the universe developed and cooled after the big bang .

  • @alanjeddy The big bang theory never told us how the universe began because it couldnt as its based on general relativity which breaks down at the subatomic level.To explain what happened prior to the big bang requires quantum mechanics , especially a solid and working model of quantum gravity .

  • @alanjeddy if time space matter and energy had an absolute beginning then the creator of them would have the exact side post of what educated people understand as god .

  • I realllly ADMIRE Sean Carroll for posting this, I think he is Incredible! I really admire Stephen Hawking for thinking, feeling and stating his thoughts and findings. ANYBODY can be a critic but how many people are BOLD enough to go against the popular thought and look deeper or further? Numbers and metrics never lie, but how they are interpreted makes all the difference. In a TRUE debate, praise do not demean your opponent, state the facts as you believe them, and let the audience decide.

  • Initiate a=1; a=b, a^2=ab, a^2-b^2 = ab-b^2, (a+b)(a-b)=a(a-b), reduce, a+b=a, 1+1=1, 2=1 IF the plain sense makes sense do not look for any other sense lest you end up with nonsense. Wheeler-Dewitt Presumes an expanding universe, the direction of the time coordinate has NO intrinsic meaning: it can be changed by a coordinate transformation. Think outside the box, but back in the box see if it really applies! Sometimes the equation is pretty, but defies definement. I LOVE diving by Zero! Next...

  • @AnupuCerberus Man you have RUINED any Credibility, you can't ever spell "dividing!!!" EVERYONE else wins! :-) Oh well, don't cha love how Sci-Fi/SF creates a Black Hole as a 2D Circle in a 2D Fabric of the Universe, but how about a 3D Sphere in a 3D Universe, eliminating the need to Flatten out the Universe and Warp it. Back to calculating Big G. The other Big G, God with a capital 'G', I believe in because I WANT this SUPER SCIENTIST who Created Cool Stuff to be REAL! You need not :-) IDC

  • Stephen Hawking is a brilliant man in the field of science and math. However, if you read his proof text regarding God, it is sad it is based on speculation and his personal hope, and NOT facts. No name dropping permitted, sorry. Perception vs Reality, when perception matches reality it is useful, when it does not align it is, at best, faith, and merely becomes one more type of religion. When you read what Stephen says about God, you see he has deserted the Scientific Model. He hath not Proved!

  • Offer never thrust a concept upon anyone. We willing to listen and learn as you teach, the greatest teacher is the wisest student as he pays attention to both what the student says and does not say. Men of religion learn from science and men of science learn from religion. Einstein: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." My offering, which you may certainly reject is that, each points to the other. LOGIC is NOT a Law of Nature and two logical men may disagree.

  • @AnupuCerberus Right but most "new atheists" think they are smarter than Einstein, and as a result have resurrected the "science vs. religion" red herring for no particular reason at all.

  • @Johanan Anyone who has done basic physics using MS Excel realizes EVERYTHING must take Time into consideration. Time is merely a dynamic series of reference points and nothing lies "outside of time", unless it is science fiction which normally has very LITTLE science. Theologians love red herrings and the straw man. Given the right persecution and 'word pictures', many quarrels and divisions occur as we build our God, after which we call names if anyone disagrees. Show me proof not prejudice.