Ann Druyan & Richard Dawkins - Science &The Unknown

Thoughts on religion in general. None of these videos are meant to belittle anyone's personal beliefs, but to give a perspective on religion in general. Religion has created many problems throughout the ages, and from time to time we seriously need to question it. The search for sanity and reason starts with people questioning things. On a personal note, I have my own reasons for believing in God, but I fully recognize religions faults, as they do not employ the scientific method for forming their beliefs.

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[LoquaciousApe]

@mallingask Hah... your argument is that we humans need to be supervised and so there must be a god? I don't understand how any honest person can believe that implies anything other than the need (and not the existence) for a rigorous counterchecking mechanism, which science has fashioned for itself. And like Verruckter said, reality is the standard to which real scientists adhere. It seems to me you think the universe is required to satisfy your necessities, unfortunately it isn't.

[Verruckter]

@mallingask Based on what standard? Based on truth! How do scientists know if they make a mistake? They verify their claims with observation. That's it. The only standard science needs is nature. Science is not ethical.

[Stadtpark90]

Thanks for uploading this. Do you have more interesting videos to share? (Originally I came here in hope for a higher quality version of the Albert Bartlett lecture on the exponential function, but I found your other uploads also very interesting, especially this one.)

[rodswebdesign]

good work here

[renegade7017]

I would love to see the full videos :)

[vijayanand875]

What a stupid question..Is god exists? religious people almost destroyed our planet we've lost our love and compassion in this stupid monitory system modern society.

[DjRalfy]

This should be quoted, excellent.

[waspsoul95]

@Verruckter than don't listen to any of what science has to say,just go prostraight before your god and wait for him to come,and let him worrie about what we say,be a good follower and follow,

[LoquaciousApe]

@mallingask ...but I wouldn't be surprised if you rejected evolution. However, if you did understand and acknowledge the truth of it, you'd realize that no population of organisms cannot coexist without having some primitive set of rules that govern their cohabitation. These rules are a necessity if such populations are to survive, and any population that lacks them causes its own demise. It is natural selection weeding out the dysfunctional communities, while promoting the functional ones.

[LoquaciousApe]

@mallingask My comment about the counter-checking mechanism was addressing the implications of your perceived need for supervision. Your argument is predicated on the premise that we humans have "intrinsic value". How did you determine that we have this "value"? Until you can prove that we're "valuable" to anything outside of our own species and the handful of animals we have domesticated and/or exploit, that argument remains terribly weak. Our morals are rooted in our evolutionary history.