Brian Greene asks Richard Dawkins ... Does God Exist?

if you don't mind can we spend a few talk to you about about God that's okay so I'm just wondering I too get asked at many lectures my view on God and my typical answer is that sure there could be a God that's behind it all and what we're doing is physicists chemists biologists working out God's laws and if that's how it is I am thrilled to be part of that noble journey I then add by saying look there's no evidence for that I don't see any reason to believe that and if what we're doing is just working out the laws of physics or chemistry or biology and that's all that you need for a universe I'm thrilled to be part of that journey so the bottom line is you know from a sociological from historical viewpoint religion is very very interesting but it's kind of profoundly uninteresting to answer the deep questions because I feel like all I'm doing is replacing one mysterious set of words frame scientifically with another set of equally mysterious words that are framed non scientifically now I should say after I say that I always apologize because I am all for hedging your bets I'm not beyond that all um what do you think of that view well I think that the sort of Newtonian that we knew Newton thought that he was he was working out God's laws and he was demonstrating the glory of God's mind when he worked out the laws of the laws of mechanics and so on I I'm not so at ease with that as you seem to be because it does seem to me that if there is a super natural superhuman intelligence that worked it all out in a way that undermines the entire scientific enterprise because we are maybe it may be an evolutionary biologist and feel this more strongly the whole enterprise of evolutionary biology is to explain how you get prodigious complexity and design from virtually nothing I mean we hand over to physicists when we can go beyond the virtually nothing to the absolutely nothing but um but but if you if you start from if you if you say start from quite an advanced level bacteria and work up to to mammals and and here in humans we have a working theory which we know is true which explains how you can go from great simplicity to prodigious complexity and and finally to the sort of complexity which is capable of designing things of creating things of working out how to do things well if you are suddenly going to insert a designing machine a creator an intelligence of the root of the universe you've just undermined your entire enterprise because your entire enterprise has been to explain how you get to something complicated enough to do the to do to do design but even if that being just set in place the laws and then stood back even that even even the deistic god who sets the laws in place and withdraws if those laws if the implication is that those laws were cunningly designed cunningly crafted as many people think they were so that atoms should come into existence so that chemistry should come into existence so that stars are coming to existence so that nuclear reactions in stars could produce the elements so that they didn't explode and and and we'd get a suitable chemistry to make life and then the origin of life and so on if the if the deistic god thought all that through and set up the laws of physics then he would have to be damn clever he would have to be a physicist to end all fit all physicists i don't care if he then with withdraws he needs an explanation in his own right and it seems to me that the noble scientific enterprise is to is to start from as near nothing as you can get

Channel: World Science Festival

Views: 1,097,255

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Keywords: Brian Greene asks Richard Dawkins, Does God Exist, physicist to end all physicists, theology vs science, New York City, NYC, world science festival, short, World, Science, Festival, 2014, Joe Rogan, JRE, Powerful JRE, The Joe Rogan Experience

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Length: 4min 32sec (272 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 16 2013

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[u/reprobatemind2]

If, as the physisist asks, science is just discovering the laws of the universe that were created by a god, why the hell didn't god bother to have those laws written down in scripture?

How much quicker would humanity have progressed if the bible had have explained the germ theory of disease, the existence of atoms etc, rather than containing all the crap on slavery?

[u/pennypacker2021]

"god also requires an explanation" is an inescapable problem for religionists.