Sara E. Mayhew asks Deepak Chopra

Nightline Faceoff: Does God Have a Future?

Sara E. Mayhew asks Deepak Chopra how are we able to distinguish what is true from what we simply want to be true, without science.

Watch the entire program here: http://bit.ly/97MO9G
Sam Harris and Michael Shermer vs. Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston
Filmed 2010 at Caltech.

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Science & Technology

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• science
• skepticism
• Nightline
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• Deepak
• Chopra
• Sara
• E.
• Mayhew

[jfabiani]

Deepak should marry Oprah. Then she'd be Oprah Chopra.

[biofh]

So basically he's saying 'One day I hope science will somehow magically change and make all be BS I'm stringing together correct. In the meantime, here's some double-speak to keep the rubes happy.'

Even just slightly better science education would put bullshit artists like this out of business. :/

[Manyhigh]

Oh, hey look, a quasi-hindu who dodged the question

[qualityrkc]

@Tigranis well said.

[ItzSamzy]

I lold

[JakeDD229]

"How can we tell reality from fiction?"

"I'm glad you asked that. I'm praying that one day science and magic will be the same thing! Does that answer your question?"

[am0e]

To be fair, the direction that he suggests certainly is a tendency within modern science, so it's not complete nonsense. Although his answer certainly does entail a total abdication from his personal responsibility, which is rather depressing but not surprising.

[Fordi]

I didn't quite follow the nonsense. Did he actually mention how to discern truth from desired fiction?

[Spartacus217]

Does he do the voice for the head Lemur in "Penguins of Madagascar"?

[brmadman4455]

Phenomenal question, horrific answer.

[EVLWNS]

He's just repeating Vedic mysticism, that God, the Brahman, is all. Fuck him.

[BorealSolitude]

Deepak is confusing the meanings of subjective/objective (used for opinion based or factual statements) with the grammatical definitions of subject and object (observer and observed).