John Lennox (bigquestions.com)

Interview with Dr. John Lennox (a mathematician and philosopher).

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[denimdnmd]

philosophically sophisticated videos like this one get only 1000 views per year while the bullshit coming from lady gaga's mouth gets 10 millions? what the..?

[Oallos1]

Excellent video. I wanted to see more, so I went to BigQuestions (dot) com

The videos there are great, but was hoping I'd find their videos on youtube. They seem to prefer vimeo.

Here's to hoping they make their way over to youtube so us youtubers can add them to our playlists.

[oscaringoliling0]

Notice how he alludes to the importance of the supposed probability of the Universe being designed in 3:30 only to contradict himself in 42:26

[oscaringoliling0]

@denimdnmd I don't see the sophistication... it's all brut sci fi as far as I can see...

[m1chae15]

@denimdnmd S. Augustine eviscerates the whole shabang. He goes into great detail about the stupidity of 'fictional spectacles' and the gladiatorial games. It takes exactly zero stretch to see that nothing being nothing new under the sun.

[m1chae15]

@denimdnmd Because it doen't take a chef to run the fry vat. Because there is more carrion at a land fill. Because we don't need to tell a dog to return to its vomit. Because we are the sort of critter that needs to be told not to lie, and answer by saying that we're good people. What sort of critter needs to be told the ten commandments? The kind that insists it doesn't need to be told the ten commandments, because it is a good person. yadda yadda yadda...

[j4manasseh]

@VibrantNTingling 99.9% of species are extinct only if you believe in evolution and there is no real evidence for that

[Teltaminoru]

@VibrantNTingling Indeed. But there is something we can´t do: deny that the only universe we know, in which we live, posseses actually the specific conditions to support our existence. Let´s keep searching for answers!

[Teltaminoru]

@VibrantNTingling Oh, very simple, we have two choices, as I said before: God or chance. God is, to me, a better option. Even if the multiverse exists, where did it come from? The problem of the origin of the universe, only grows up when we talk about the multiverse. Chance or God? The argument is simple: laws, order, development of intelligence, life, conscience... is this all a result of many (really many) accidents, or it is an Intelligence behind?

[Teltaminoru]

@VibrantNTingling Hello again. 1. I´m not saying that humans were meant to exist. I say that humans exist, despite high improbability. As far as we know, no other specie has developed intelligence, so that "could have"... is useless. 2. I didn´t say that God exists because we know one universe. I say that the multiverse hypothesis can´t be put forward as a proof against the fine tuning of the physical constants in our universe, actually, fine-tuned for us, by God, or by chance, no more choices.

[Teltaminoru]

@VibrantNTingling About question 1: Yes, is fine tuning because we exist, despite high improbability, we are in this 1% that remains. About question 2: We only know ONE universe, we have no evidence for another universes, that´s a science fiction resource, a valid cosmological hypothesis, but only that. Is funny that many people deny -some of them furiously- that God created the universe (our universe, of course), but at the same time, they embrace the multiverse as a divine truth.