Prager U Says Atheists Have Faith in the Multiverse

Praeger you recently made another foray into the world of science this time discussing the multiverse beyond that they examine whether it takes a greater leap of faith to believe in the multiverse or God in Prager you fashion they pack a lot of claims into a relatively short video so take a breather and we'll take it one piece at a time how did we get here I mean literally not just you and me but the whole shebang how is any kind of life possible the universe is a hostile place solar flares cosmic rays asteroids flying about the odds against our existence are truly astronomical hmm not exactly first we need to understand that the probability of any specific material feature developing in the universe is astronomically low the Great Red Spot on Jupiter developing into exactly the shape we observed Pluto having a giant heart on its surface etc why isn't it remarkable and indicative of design that each of our planets have the exact features they do is it perhaps that we're not assigning any value to those features like we do to the development of life further a lot of things do have to come together in order for life exactly like us to be able to develop but given our understanding of the universe was it really unlikely that they did even once in reference to this question Steven Weinberg once said the answer we would give today is that there are billions of planets in our galaxy and billions of galaxies in the universe and it's not surprising that a few of them out of all those billions were positioned in a way that's favorable for life take it from me I'm an astrophysicist my job is to look out into space at stars and galaxies trying to answer these basic how did the universe come to be questions well those who have a religious faith have an answer god it's an answer sure but just because an answer can be imagined doesn't mean it's actually correct you can make up an explanation for any observed phenomenon but just because you have an idea that could explain a phenomenon if it were true doesn't mean it is true after you develop an idea that could explain an observation you then have to test it to be able to actually verify it break the cycle Morty rise above focus on science the Earth's distance from the Sun the size of the atom and a thousand other things large and small that allow us to live and to breathe and to think I'll seem perfectly tuned for our existence to many this design suggests a designer an issue at this line of thinking is that it presupposes an end goal to the formation of the universe it thinks as if everything in existence formed to allow for life maybe instead life formed to fit the universe at least at the biological level we know this to be the case that's basically what evolution by natural selection is all about now I'm sure my atheist viewers have heard Douglas Adams analogy over and over but it's a good response to the idea of fine-tuning a Puddle wakes up one morning and thinks this is a very interesting world I find myself in it fits me very neatly in fact it fits me so neatly I mean really precise isn't it [Laughter] it must have been made to have me in it but from a purely scientific point of view the faithful have a big problem they can offer no indisputable proof for this belief well I actually agree with something in a priori video nicely done guys Oh God what kind of world is this I didn't ask to be born I need you because of the lack of hard evidence it's probably not surprising that over 70% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences declare themselves to be atheists but they have a big problem too absent a creator how did they account for the existence of the universe of planet Earth of human consciousness how do they account for the existence of anything well it turns out they have an answer and it's become all the rage in scientific circles it's called the multiverse yeah no scientists aren't citing the multiverse to explain any of those things because each of those things have a well substantiated theory explaining them already for the origin of the universe it's the big bang for planet earth it's the solar nebula theory for human consciousness it's biological and psychological evolution this video makes it sound like if you ask a scientist where these things come from they'll cite the multiverse but that never happens and according to many scientists our universe isn't the whole ballgame far from it these scientists argue that there's an awful lot of universes out there not just one or two but an infinite number of them let me explain 13.8 billion years ago there was a big bang from something unimaginably small we don't know exactly what it was a point of essentially infinite mass and density that we call the singularity the universe exploded into existence how did it happen the singularity rapidly expanded due to internal quantum fluctuations so it wasn't really an explosion it was an expansion of space-time backward traceable by the expansion we can measure today why did it happen why is not necessarily a scientific question I've answered how the video has answered when but why is a fundamentally different question more philosophical than scientific if you're looking to scientists for that answer and they're not delivering it's because they're doing their jobs I'm not speaking as a scientist so let me give my thoughts here the question of why presupposes that there is purpose assigned by some being great enough to create the universe can we justify that presupposition with evidence by this video's own admission no so is why even a valid question it doesn't matter because it happened I can't tell it this is just trying to say that it happened in a matter-of-fact way or is implying that scientists don't know how the Big Bang happened and just accept it dogmatically I'm not sure but the latter fits the videos overall message as the audience will soon learn immediately after the Big Bang the universe underwent a rapid expansion think of a gush of bubbles exploding from a seriously shaken soda cam just after its popped open cosmologists call this the theory of inflation as the universe inflates and expands the bubble universes grow and separate to become their own distinct entities each with their own unique properties in other words new universes are spawned and not just a handful an infinite number of them some of these universes will be too cold for life and some too hot but with an infinite number surely one is bound to get it just right and short you and I are just an accident that given enough universes was inevitable does the implication that the universe would grant you no objective purpose in this case negate its possibility my bet is that those that Prager you would agree that the answer is no if that's the case then why include the statement was it just an appeal to emotion what is my purpose you and I are just an accident that given enough universes was inevitable oh my god oh wait there's more because there are so many universes it's very likely according to the multiverse scenario that everything that could possibly happen does happen in one universe or another that girlfriend who broke up with you you're married to her in another universe does this sound a bit far-fetched a little too science fictiony well not two Nobel prize-winning scientists like Stephen Weinberg or the famed cosmologists Stephen Hawking as well as a myriad of others who wholeheartedly endorse him I am NOT a proponent of the idea that our Big Bang universe is just part of a larger multiverse it has to be taken seriously as a possibility though Stephen Weinberg in quantum magazine 2015 meanwhile Stephen Hawking's latest paper published posthumously challenges the most popular concept of a multi in the first place stating in its abstract we conjecture that the exit from eternal inflation does not produce an infinite fractal like multiverse but is finite and reasonably smooth where Prager you are you getting this information it's simply false and took me 10 minutes to fact-check get your stick together get it all together and put it in a backpack all yours so it's together but here's what's really surprising they endorsed it knowing there's not a single shred of hard scientific evidence that supports it and how can there be there's no way we can access another universe in short a vast number of the world's most eminent scientists believe in something that hasn't been and in all likelihood will never be proven like I already said the two scientists they choose to list are not actually proponents of the ideas it currently stands here's the biggest thing Prager U is getting wrong which changes the entire discussion the multiverse is a scientific hypothesis and is treated like one this is how far believe from the multiverse goes within the scientific community eternal inflation the phenomenon necessary to create the multiverse is itself not a consensus as it isn't considered to be experimentally tested or testable right now it's beyond a stretch to say that a vast number of the world's most eminent scientists believed in the multiverse how does that sound to you probably the same way it sounds to the distinguished physicist Paul Davies invoking an infinity of unseen universes to explain the unusual features of the one we do see is just as made up as invoking an unseen creator the multiverse theory may be dressed up in scientific language but in essence it requires the same leap of faith or as G K Chesterton quipped when men stopped believing in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything for multiverse believers this is literally true the same scientists who reject God's existence due to the lack of evidence pin their hopes on a theory so all inclusive and vague it could never be refuted here's the big lie in all of this scientists are not depending on the multiverse hypothesis to explain how we got here it's not meant to be an explanation for our origin it's simply a hypothesis and prediction of another hypothesis which is not treated as a fact within the scientific community also the way the phrase pin their hopes is used here makes us like atheist scientists entertain the possibility of the multiverse simply for a sense of comfort or for some emotional reason at least but that's not how science works there are no science communicators out there attempting to persuade people toward their position on the multiverse through appeals to emotion you know like the one that Prager you used earlier those who believe God created the universe are intellectually honest enough to admit that they do so on the basis of faith but those who believe in the multiverse are also keeping the faith they just don't admit it so let me ask you who's taking the bigger leap with our understanding of just how much scientists believe and the multiverse as previously explained this point is revealed to be a total false comparison there is no leap in the case of the Atheist scientist even if atheist scientists really did have faith in this way though how would that help your case Prager you both of you would assert something is true without any hard evidence for it and you would just have the guts to admit it how does your honesty about that excuse the fact that you'll believe things regardless of evidence why not instead set an example for others of what a more solid epistemology looks like if you really think that belief in the multiverse is based on faith why don't you advocate for everyone to suspend judgment entirely until it can be reliably demonstrated to exist or not you know what I think we both know the answer to that it's because if you demanded that others suspend judgment about things they don't have hard evidence for you would be a hypocrite for not doing the same with your belief in God thanks for watching I've been drew of genetically-modified skeptic praise be unto Adam Mike top patron and personal Lord and Savior for making this 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Length: 11min 40sec (700 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 15 2018

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