The Intersection of Science and Religion with Neil deGrasse Tyson
What would a wormhole actually look like? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down a grab bag of questions about nothingness, the nature of miracles, the role of AI in scientific discovery and more!
What would a wormhole look like in space, if one existed? Learn about the math of spacetime and how the idea of a wormhole came about. Is the idea of a wormhole connected to blackholes somehow? We also discuss Superman and what it would be like to have instantaneous travel.
Has Neil ever had a spiritual epiphany while studying science? We discuss so-called religious experiences and what it means to be “in awe” of the world. We also explore how science ruins miracles and how true miracles are actually just new laws of physics. Plus, what would Neil say to someone if they contacted him from beyond the grave?
Is it possible for there to be nothing? Learn about nothingness, virtual particles, and vacuum energy. Does artificial intelligence have the ability to make scientific discoveries? Find out about what AI can and cannot do, plus, how quantum computing could change the AI game. All that, plus, we break down how to foster a love of science in a young person.
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00:00 - Introduction: Grab Bag
1:48 - What Would a Wormhole Actually Look Like?
5:47 - Superman Looking Back at Krypton
11:48 - Have You Ever Had a Religious Experience While Studying Science?
22:11 - Near Death Experiences & The Afterlife
27:22 - Is “nothing” possible?
32:28 - Can Artificial Intelligence Make Scientific Discoveries?
39:45 - Planet Houston
42:33 - How to Get Young People to Like Science
Have you ever had an unexplainable experience?
Plenty lol 😂
Existing. I'm not a believer in religions but just Existing is a bit strange.
There’s nothing unexplainable whatsoever, but there are certain things that need to be properly explained yet.
I’m sitting in my bed at midnight, I blink, I see sunlight, and it’s now six o, clock
Closest thing i had is deja vu, but thats pretty explainable
When I was 34 I went into cardiac arrest due to an unknown genetic issue. I was "dead" for a bit in ER, but they obviously were able to bring me back. After I recovered I was approached by a number of religious people I know asking if I saw god or had any experience, and would I like to join their church? Yes I had an experience, but I explained that what I experienced was nothing more than a dream. Because my brain did not die my consciousness was simply thinking within my brain. So it did not make me feel any differently about god. It did however make me extremely grateful for modern medical science.
glad your back
fr glad you’re back too haha
How do you know this isn’t the afterlife?😅
How do we know this isn’t a simulation, or this person is just lying
so when someone presents the most logical explanation, we have to counter with either a wild fantasy or maybe they're lying?
I think Chuck Nice has low key become my favorite comedian over the last few years. Thanks to everyone who makes this fantastic show!
He's quick and hits you from out of the blue.
He is a damn fool!!!!! 😂😂😂
@@irrefudiate Some of it is rehearsed or at least thought about beforehand.
@@FLPhotoCatcher, No need to think of jokes beforehand if you have a sense of humor.
@FLPhotoCatcher a rehearsed joke, won't make a person like Neil laugh
Seeing the genuine passion of an educator flow through Neil on the final question/segment was beautiful in of itself and deserves its own video everytime
I'm not very religious myself, but I have found myself sometimes when looking up at the night sky or when looking at images from space, I get an overwhelming sense of oneness and my body feels lighter and I get chills run across my body, and that's what I've always imagined a religious experience feeling like
Religion and science help explain each other, they are not polar opposites. This is common knowledge at least for Catholics
I have had the exact same feelings/experiences. Although I have a science degree and 45 years experience (in Advanced Technology) studying science, I am religious because of those experiences. Science can not explain religious experiences and religion can't explain physical science.
@@johncombest6180 and what is the religion that you follow? Assuming that it corrilates with science (I am also religious).
@RizmaLaban I am not seeking correlation, but purpose and causation. If science could answer the questions "what is the purpose and what caused the universe to first spring into existence" then I wouldn't need religion. But science can't answer the purpose.
@@johncombest6180 that's understandable but if some religions dont align to scientific understandings like hindu scriptures that talk about the earth being held up by deities, than isn't it reasonable to have some correlation to the very least scientific facts that are easily presentable and understandable in relation to some religions? I'm not saying all religions are wrong but what I'm implying is some most definitely shouldn't be followed. Science should be used as a "spare tool" but not a key factor in religion right?
Neil-splaining! Chuck, I'm dead!!! And I love the idea of Neil reaching out to people who don't normally think about science. Win them over, and maybe that critical thinking switch will turn on. Neil-splaining. I love it.
Neil-splaining - that’s what we need in our high schools to keep kids interested in STEM disciplines
A good Neil-splanation always starts with SO…
@@koosdutoit6356 And every time you say water, you have to say worter.
Maybe there's also Chucksplaining.
More Neil-splaining! Less feelings or people being offended by information they didn't know previously. Things we should strive for to help heal the modern world, imo 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Neil, not just for the education and work you do, but for showing the respect, ethics and effort you put in to your position. Science and society requires more than theory and speeches, and you truly deliver. There are many problems in our country today, but you are one of the very few heroes people can look up to and try and emulate. Our generation were raised on science fiction, most of it a vision of equity and cooperation achieving greatness and open to any possibilities. Thank you for showing everyone the path and dream can come true !
Your PFP is my Desktop Background!
@@LePedant Fascinating isn't it? Saturn as seen from the Cassini probe. It's been on my home screen for about eight years.
Chucks impression of a preacher is so accurate and spot on. So hilarious. 😂
I need to make it a ringtone or something. 😁
can I get a WITNESS!😂
God bless Chuck, amen.
😂😂😂
Mannnn just sent me!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
If Chuck had a science preacher show I would binge it all in one weekend
Can we get an amen?!!
13:40 Chuck you need to develop a “preacher” character and turn it into a full bit. It would be awesome!
Yes a half hour sitcom! With Neil as your Speech writer!
Preacher of science ... maybe some kind of pastafarian denomination
The good Rev. Dr. Chuck Jakes
Yes, Lord! 😂😂😂
Love how Niel goes from fall-over laughing so infectiously, to proceeding with explainations as though there was no joke in the last 2 seconds 😂
I consider Dr. Tyson so brilliant and love so many of his videos that it is difficult to decide which is my favorite. But now I think I have found it and it is this video right here. I loved it and laughed many times with the things that were said. Chuck performing the scientific priest was hilarious. Thank you, guys.
Agreed, love all his work and all the episodes of Star Talk but this is one of my fav of all time too 🙏
That was my favorite part too 😅
Yeah this video is one of the bests. It’s my favorite so far too
The convergence of science and religion is what inspired and motivated Einstein to stick out his tongue in order to put an end to the speculations about his true nature (Not A Sematic Rabi). However, it never hindered Einstein from seeking out any source of information that could help him solve the problems he was facing (the equation), and he eventually succeeded. As for us, including Dr. Neil, we often lose sleep over the things we don't understand about the world around us, but we tend to overlook a valuable source of information that could help us achieve a better understanding.
I first saw Superman II in a movie theatre in Washington, D.C.. When the Krypton judge sent the criminals into the (2D) "Phantom Zone", someone in the audience yelled out, "Look at that! They made 'em into an album!" :)
Thanks for the update I thought it was the ENP of the blast not the shock wave. Guess I wasn’t paying enough attention
😅
Emp plies?
Loved your "sermon", Chuck! Too funny!
Let’s be honest: if that’s how scientific inquiries were initiated, I think we’d have a lot more people interested in science.
This is my absolute favorite Chuck... 🎶 I TALKIN....EMPIRICAL EViDeNcE!!🎶
Some parts made me burst into laughter. Watching your show is a perfect way to to end of my busy day- curiosity satisfying and funny! Love Startalk, love looking up. Thank you, Dr. Tyson and Chuck!
If church ever had a preacher scientist I would tune in Saturday and Sunday. 13:29
I have a KZhead lol but I'm not a priest. I'm a Bard and a Hindu Guru, I walk the path of bhakti yoga, but all faiths and even lack thereof are welcome. I am always available. CherrysJubileeJoyfully
I'm pretty sure that's what science conventions are to most people.
That intersection has no lights... no stop signs... not even a nice lady with a vest.
Every time I hear him speak, I find several rabbit hole worthy topics that he just mentions in passing. Googled Hume's philosophy, and off I go! He is content dense. Even his comedic sidekick's jokes are rather well informed with a small measure of low brow humor attached. This is why Neil is the best podcast producer on this planet.
I am a physics student and so, obviously, I'm a huge fan of this show. I intend to watch as much of the videos as I can (in fact all of them, one by one) and just garner knowledge on not only physics and science, but also beyond because Neil is all-rounded. One question that I have for Neil is: you have been involved in science for the majority of your life and, knowing that tremendous amount of discoveries and innovations have been made due to science, it is no surprise that you incline to think that every question that we have on different aspects of the Universe can only be explained in science. But, have you ever considered that may be science is just one of the tools (may be limited in number) that exist out there to explain certain, but not all, aspects of the Universe? I would love to get your answer on this, even if it's a single word :) Or take it as one question in queries like this, if you like. You and Chuck make a GREAT team. Keep up the good work! We are learning from you.
I wanted to ask the same question but differently, I am curious to know if he does believe that because our genetic code, the universe, our conscious etc. Does he ultimately believe that we are the creation of a higher intelligence? Not necessarily a God from religion because there we might be wrong or right, but something that we could not comprehend, a higher intelligence.
@@adim236 I think the 'intelligent being' phrase was only coined so that it won't seem like they are believing in God, just not to mix up science with religion. But for people like me who believe in God, (not like westerners though, I'm an Ethiopian so we have deep history and knowledge on this, no offense) trying to investigate God himself using science would be like a dog trying to bite his own tail. And for most scientists like Neil, this is what I think one of the ways that would lead them not to believe in God. Finding and practicing the other tools is, therefore, important.
That's awesome! Mr. Tyson Neilsplained to Superman.
Neil is hitting my science receptors and Chuck is hitting my humor receptors (and helping to fully activate my science receptors)
You two impress me with your scientific queries and make my day with laughter...Thanks a bunch for your show!
13:29 was priceless! I would join that church in a heartbeat.
OMG Chuck!!! “Can I get some data!!” “Empirical evidence!!l hilarious af 💀🤣😭😂
Love your content! Always watching 💙 I must say I do prefer this more casual format over the more recent edited versions. The more organic flow is a bit less distracting. Not that they are bad at all, just like more of these. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦
Hi from cape town
This was an amazing show,I laughed so much and learned something new. Thank you Neil and Chuck(the science preacher 😂)
I’m a trucker and I listen to your show everyday!
Makes conversations around late night coffee and pie difficult, doesn't it?😅
While drinking a beer
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk coffee, pie, beer, and science? OK. I can deal with that.
LOVED the episode, I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in any other! Loved the content and humor! Also had a serious epiphany when you described a child’s curiosity.
Ngt is quoted, as saying, a scientist is a person that never lost their curiosity throughout childhood. I haven’t got to the part that you referenced yet, but I wonder if that’s what he said again. 😮
I wish my parents were like you. They squashed my curiosity and told me what I couldn't question. I'm still curious in spite of them, but I have missed out on so much learning I could have done in school. To be fair, they took me to science camp as a kid. But there were still things I wasn't allowed to questions and opinions I would've been punished for sharing. I didn't escape from religion to finally begin learning the truth about reality till I was 30, and I'm bitter for all the time I missed.
Hey its ok, I'm 30 and only realized a few days ago that it was ok for me to throw religion and everything I learned from it out the window. We aren't too old to learn from the cosmos what was hidden from us all this time. Its gonna be ok.
@@Stardust_Wizard I'm proud of you. That takes courage. If it gets rough, I can recommend a couple of great communities on Facebook that are very supportive.
@@imagomonkeiCarl Sagan’s books especially “Cosmos” is great for reading and to feel more connected to the cosmos when it does get rough. That’s my beat advice. All of Carl Sagan’s books are wonderful
Hey guys, I'm a forever atheist as were my parents and pretty sure theirs too. Whilst my parents (now both gone) had all that old fashioned respect about them (and corporal punishment!) we use to all laugh whilst driving past churches on Sundays whilst going on our outings - good times. So definitely a non religous family. However, for the past 2 decades (possibly more really) I have conversed with 10's of thousands of theists (most Christians) helping to recover them from religion. In doing so I've learned every Christian (theist) fallacy poor reasoning, and heard all the nonsense stories of unsubstantuiated claims of each (contradictory) version of their claimed God. Even becoming Moderator on an atheist forum, I have since left Moderation as it actually doesn't enable input to the vids or threads at the time, its merely constant policing of members, ie Moderating is not cracked up to what I thought it was. Its not glorification its just work. There's no doubt you guys are still trying to get through your decades of being deceived. Recovering From Religion could help there. But what I find most helpful for (somewhat) new atheists is to go watch those LIVE theist call in shows (ie The Line with Matt Dillahunty, who has obviously met with Neil Tyson and everyone else). And listen to these Christians call in with: I believe because of numbers or love or the trees or because what else could it be? ABSOLUTE ridiculous poor reasoning. I feel watching these shows will help you to be proud of yourself and not feeling (Christian) unworthy of losing so much time believing in utter nonsense.
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I recently lost my dad and naturally had a lot of dreams about him in the aftermath…it’s very compelling to believe that those dreams are other dimensional encounters…what I started doing was making it a point to ask questions in those dreams that I didn’t have answers to but knowing my dad should…1 of 2 things always happened in those instances…either I couldn’t form the question at all…or he couldn’t answer the question..it either wouldn’t come out or it came out as mumble…I think the way to solve this in every trip would be to make it a point to experience something that your conscious wouldn’t be able to draw a true or logical conclusion for with the information that it has available in any state…it’s kind of expressed when talking about put a phrase on a piece of paper on a ledge…but it’s not at all expresses in other post life consciousness situations
totally cracking me up in this episode, you guys are having such a great time!
Feliz Ano Novo Professor Degrasse, muita saúde, paz, e felicidades pra vcs e familiares ! Abraçãoo , trabalhos incriveis ! 😊👏🏻👏🏻♥️🌏🌲🌳🦕🦖🌴🌍♥️♥️
45:52 "Hard yet fragile" My nephew learned that with a Lenox porcelain hourglass. The kids were allowed to play with it because it was $0.50 at a garage sale and they're usually very careful. He happened to be holding it when he was told no about something else (like "no popsicle until after dinner, go eat") and threw it down in frustration. He was in total shock.
“Can I get some data?!” “Is your data corrupt?!” I love it 😅
13:27 Pastor Chuck had me dying. 😂
My husband and I are both huge fans of learning. We are not educated people but smart enough. As a trucker he would definitely be against worm holes and definitely have the bumper sticker to prove it. 😂
I used to be very religious as a teen because of a tragedy that happened to my family, but eventually i had questions religion couldnt answer. I didnt supress those questions, because it felt dishonest
None of our existence is out of circumstance there is a meticulous designer behind all of it, let me ask you this what was the first thing to ever exist in the Big Bang?
What question(s) did you want answered?
And oftentimes religious folk will say that your answers will be revealed in due time, or upon your passing. Some people can be okay with that, others cannot. I never understood why religious folk can’t accept that others are okay with not having a personal belief in religion that’s based on faith, which is a personal believe and perspective.
What religion can't answer, science often can, that's why I choose both.
When one starts looking for honest answers, and has the kind of brain type that can tell reality from fantasy, religion will have to be left behind. Specifically anything Abrahamic. Honesty requires an open mind. Beliefs in non-demonstrable supernatural are anything but open.
'My name is Neil, and I'm an Astrophysicist.' 'Hii Neiil.' -Your support group 😂
Explaining mind boggling subjects in layman terms , now that's how you would know Sir Tyson knows what he is talking about . He is the real deal .
Interesting that Mr. Nice hails from Hoboken, NJ. I met Dr. Tyson at a book signing for his "Universe Down to Earth" in Hoboken in 1995. He was being hosted by the Elysian Chamber Orchestra, of which I was a member. The ECO was planning to perform Gustav Holst's "The Planets" at the Hayden Planetarium in nearby (just accros the Hudson River) New York City. The concert never actually took place - but I still have the book - and still live in Hoboken. :)
Made me think of _Across the Spider-Verse_ "At Princeton," said the guidance counselor. "New Jersey!? No-no-no-no-no-no-no. That's too far," said Rio. "New Jersey is too far from New York?" asked Miles. "Princeton has the best quantum researchers in the country...."
I found this podcast a couple of weeks ago, and I'm enjoying every bit of it. With two of my favorite people, especially professor Degasse Tyson.
You guys are great, love your content and wittiness! 🙌🏻
i enjoy growing up with you. love from Croatia
One of the best things about science is that it's never burned anyone at the stake. Or at least I haven't heard of any such experiment.
No, science just experiments with biological and nuclear weapons to "burn you at the stake"
Non religious people have thought ,: so how does science prevent that!
Well, there has unfortunately been a long history of blatantly unethical experiments being performed on people, the most notorious examples being the work of German SS doctors like Mengele and the infamously cruel procedures conducted by the Japanese biological research group Unit 731 during WWII. Then again, all of those guys were desensitized or at least enabled by national ideologies with their own mystical aspects to begin with (N@zism for the former and the beyond-fanatical imperial nationalism in the case of the latter), so it was still a case of science being subordinated to unsubstantiated ideas in the end.
Well, faith isn't going to do it, that's for sure
Um, don't atomic bomb blasts and radioactive fallout count? How about Chernobyl and Fukushima? Poison gas was invented by scientists.
I love Neil’s consideration of “I don’t know if my knowledge of what’s possible in the universe has precluded me from having a religious experience.” It leaves room for further reflection.
I think if Neil deGrasse Tyson were a high school teacher, every kid graduating that school would become an astrophysicist.
Well, one of the best trucking games imho is actually set in space and has a wormhole like mechanics. It is an old game called freelancer. I loved playing it. Great episode as usual❤
Chuck is so funny 🤣
Great episode! One of my favorites in a minute and that's saying something. Appreciate you guys as always and have a good 2024! 🙏✌️
Would be amazing to get this in different languages. This is so important in 2024 to get your message. Thank you for your amazing work
no matter the topic i just love listening to Neil. He's just an awesome dude and puts his heart into whatever he talks about, always!
The preacher bit with chuck reminds me of the robot preacher from Futurama
Chuck! Oh man so much fun!
Fascinating discussion! Love it!
These guys are so entertaining, besides being smart. What a great combination.
Chuck! I love it when you get Neil laughing so hard her can't breath!!
It's so informative and funny to see your show! Happy New Year! 🙏🇦🇱
OMG Chuck Nice is a total riot! I was so hoping he had a choir to come out and back up his show!
Thanks!
Send me 10 bucks
Dr. Tyson's mind was blown! In 2023! I mean, that is pretty awesome to know that it can still happen. I love this show!
By what?
2024*
@@pogolaughby potentially wormholes entangling virtual particles
I love your show. Much love from 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
I really love when I see or listen to these two talk, they always make some funny jokes and teach you about very interesting things at the same time.
I just love how Chuck just jokes himself into tears. And intersperses that with serious insightful commentary. Love you two. May you continue this till you have a religious experience 😬
😂😂😂
such a great mix, you both funny. science + comedy. wow, great job guys
I am 14 years old but obsessed with the universe, galaxy and the aloneness in the space. I love it
Yesss finally my favorite topic
Same!
Chuck is hilarious
Neil is always amazingly funny and informative. Always brightens my day.
This is so much fun, you guys are awesome!
"Is there BBQ?" Asking the important questions here!
God bless you.
Brilliant 11:48. The same expereince, and issues faced regularly. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your experience with others' value systems parallels mine. How can, anyone rationalise with another individual's decision based on emotion, if the basic knowledge base is absent, let alone values? Thanks for that grounded world and cosmological view. I'll leave the quantum entanglement issue for a future comment.
Thanks for the last one, reminding me as a parent to enable my children’s curiosity and to never dampen it, where applicable of course! It’s so easy to get into a groove of instant reactions of no no no
"My new God would be Jack Daniels." -----the "witness" conversation, Chuck was killing it! Very funny and interesting ----and Im only 19 minutes in.
I kid you not, after the segment with JD, KZhead played for me an unskippable Jack Daniel’s ad! KZhead working extra hard there haha
Wow ---- eyes everywhere.@@jianpanglam570
Another relevant quote about miracles that I've always loved. "Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time." -Thomas Paine
I bet that’s what they said to Ignaz Semmelweis 😥😓
Religion and science help explain each other, they are not polar opposites. This is common knowledge at least for Catholics
I don't know if you care about my next message but I am going to say it anyway. As a heavy ex atheist myself, I threw myself in nihilism because I couldn't grasp the concept of life. We know nature as it is, because we have a conscious mind that sees things logically, but there are some things in our lives that we don't realize are not so logical. The order of the cosmos points to some type of intelligence. Love, the only way that love could be real, it would be if there is more to reality than matter and energy, if it's lacking life turns very sterile, humanity would be very different otherwise.
That black preacher was insane!!!😂😂😂 Y’all are so much fun!!! Love from NC
Now this talk is a truly remarkably futuristic talk. Thank you Neil for these wonderful ideas.
The preacher bit is so hilarious! 😹
I can imagine Chuck: "Dad, put Jesus on the phone. I've got a tub full of water here and at this New Year party we've run out of wine. Jesus is the one we need right now, I'll talk with you later."
Nice episode❤
This is the best Podcast ever!
If they are indeed the literal fabric of SpaceTime itself, I hold out hope we can one day use Wormholes to visit the distant regions which are far past the horizon of our visible Universe.
The way I picture it: You rip down the wall to our universe and behind that you can see the wall to the other universe/other end of ours. I'm tryna explain it simply, but thats hard when I dont understand it fully.
Neil hit the nail on the head with his take on generative AI. It is a powerful tool, and it can be trained to do things we already know how to do, and even find ways to do it better. But we should be skeptical and think critically of what it's really capable of. The face of AI that most of the world is seeing these days is ChatGPT, and it's merely a language model. It can't produce any new ideas that aren't already present in its training data, and it can't solve any problems on its own. If an answer exists to your question, it can regurgitate it, but we shouldn't confuse the reproduction of that text with an understanding of its meaning. You can ask it a math question, and it can tell you the procedure to solve it, but it cannot run that procedure itself. It doesn't have the infrastructure or knowledge of how to do so any more than a text book does. Any conversation with ChatGPT is one-sided, because the only meaning behind its words is what the human interprets. We should be careful about creating meaning where there is none. An AGI it is not.
Well, someone at StarTalk is reading the comments here. Glad to hear Chuck pick up on Neilsplaining.
This is one of the most enjoyable series. Chuck brings really some funny stuff to liven up the show.
Neil-splaining and Science Witness should be popular expressions after this video hahahah Thanks for the great show. What a fun way to understand science. By the way, I remember an old video with a panel with researchers, and one of them was a woman researching the ocean below the ocean. I got very interested on that. Can you please invite her individually to talk more about it?
Chuck, where's your church? I want to join!
😂
I need to see a whole episode with Neil discussing Rick and Morty please
same
"The task of properly relating science to transcendental knowledge is a great and holy task"
I always love the way you explain everything, and the banners with Chuck are pure gold. I do understand your perspective on religion, being a sciency person myself (physics teacher); it's enlightening to see how you, as an atheist, wrap your head around religion that is fundamentally different from how I approach religion.😅 Love your contents!
A religious or spiritual experience related to something you feel is an emotional experience that a person relates to religion or spirituality respectively. It is not unlike other emotional experiences people have that they may relate to being out in nature or events like a concert, political rally or a sporting event. That experience is internally generated in reaction to external stimuli.
It might be internally generated, but there's techniques like "priming" that bias you toward that specific reaction. That's why there's so many "worship songs" and low-budget religious movies pumped out to fill every corner of life with the religion's motifs. It's for the day you experience something you can't readily explain, and the first thing you think about it to likely be of that religion.
Religion and science help explain each other, they are not polar opposites. This is common knowledge at least for Catholics
@@MaxRamos8 Sorry, but that statement is ridiculous. The catholic church excommunicated, and imprisoned Galileo in his home till his death for the HERESY of his claims that the Earth revolved around the sun. Of course, the church is taking a much more liberal stance since then; they’re not like many evangelicals that deny evolution. Their position is that evolution could be a process God used. Of course, they realistically change their position as evidence comes to light unlike many evangelicals for the purpose of not further losing their members and thus their wealth and influence.
@@MaxRamos8 "help each other", doesn't really describe holding scientists on a leash and forcing them to make up reasons why what they're studying (or the results of the study) isn't blasphemous/heretical and deserving of excommunication. Religion is an abuser of science, not a helper.
@@Vaeldarg Agreed, religion and science cannot be together. One uses faith, and the other understands faith is an unreliable method. Professor Kauss of astronomy or I prefer the label cosmology as he speaks more about Origins rather that measurements of planets! Is quoted as saying he feels in awe of the universe when he looks at the Milkyway at night. Growing up in the suburbs then finally moving out to the country, and then finding myself living in a small camper for a year sleeping in the most isolated parts of the country (its like I've had 3 lives) and viewing the clear moonless night sky, I had no idea how beautiful it is. Unsure when I first saw it but I'm definitely hooked on the awe and beauty of our galaxy (well at least 1 arm of it) the pictures online are really true; its amazing. Religions such as Christianity spoil this wonder with their natural goosebumps and ridiculous unsubstantiated claimed God. All of them with a completely contradictory God to the next Christian! Its unbelievable how sad their muddied view is.
Chuck just kept topping himself with the joke in this one 😂😂😂
The superman bit is sooo cool. Completely geeked out over it. Wonderful stuff Dr. dG T.. And the "NO!" answer is 100% the only answer to religion question.Chuck very well done as well... Styrofoam sandals indeed Dr. A NY
Neil was wrong!zod landed in a pond and he said this is a strange surface this must be planet Houston
Nice episode You've blown my mind talking about nothingness and micro wormhole and Virtual particle
So we should be able to calculate the distance to Krypton from Superman's age. Although, from the forces he was evolved under, a different sun, gravity his own density, he may well age differently.
Well, his biological age wouldn't tell us much, but his chronological age (or Earth-time elapsed since his arrival) would, in fact, tell us the light-year distance between Krypton and Earth. Units of measure are always based on something we can measure related to the earth, so it would be Light Earth-Years.
Yeah, Krypton is close to exactly [superman'a age in years = lightyears distance] away from us. Gravity difference between any host planet would have virtually zero effect on aging in a relativistic sense. At most an hour over a lifetime based on any possible level of gravity in a terrestrial planet.
Chuck's Science Preacher killed me...
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