10 Commandments of ScLIEntism - See Ending -MRR

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Okay, let me ask, let me ask Professor Kraus a question. Why is, why is Instas wrong? It's not clear to me that it's wrong. It's not clear to me that it's wrong. It's not clear to me that it's wrong. Okay. There's never, no. No, no, listen to me. Listen to me. If a brother and a sister love each other and use contraception, is there something absolutely morally wrong about that? And that, by the way, and it was once, and they went off and it didn't affect anything else, I'd have to think about it because I don't think there's any absolute condemnation of that fact if they love each other and care for each other. The last thing is culture. Science can provide a culture which is far healthier than the culture that's been provided by theology because it is based on reality. And in fact, involves morals which are laudable unlike the morals of all the world's religions, which are despicable if you read the Gospels. We know that the belief systems of all the world's traditional religions and cultures, the theories of the origins of life, humans, and societies are factually mistaken. We know, but our ancestors did not, that humans belong to a single species of African primate that developed agriculture, government, and writing late in its history. We know that our species is a tiny twig of a genealogical tree that embraces all living things and that emerged from prebiotic chemicals almost four billion years ago. All you have to do, it's, change is always one generation away. And we have the children and exactly. So if we can plant the seeds of doubt in our children, religion will go away in a generation, or at least large will go away. And that's what I think we have an obligation to do. We're left with the realization, of course, that intelligent design while real in the history of science, while real in the presence of sort of philosophical drivers is nonetheless a philosophy of ignorance. And so regardless of what our political agenda is, all you have to say is science is a philosophy of discovery, intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. That's all. Would you know even more astonishing is that you can get physics, you can get matter, you can get everything from nothing? Because it seems like it should violate some law that, you know, as classical philosopher who said out of nothing comes nothing, but that's, the interesting thing is that's based on common sense. But as you point out, the world doesn't care about our common sense. And then we've learned that the nothing of the classical Greeks and of the Bible, and eternal empty void, is certainly not nothing because empty space is a boiling, bubbling, brew a virtual particles. And in fact we discover that nothing can waste something. That's what the, in essence, the Nobel Prize that was given to Brian and his collaborators were here for nothing actually waste something. So the whole idea, there's not much difference between nothing and something. And for some... So that then means that we're not lucky at all. Our existence is inevitable because every possible universe, with every possible combination of physical contents and dark energy and masses of the particles, everyone exists. I'm not only that, but every one of those is being created essentially an infinite number of times and will go on being created into the indefinite future. And that is the inflationary multiverse. So it says our existence is inevitable. How does that make you feel? The reason we love sciences because it's ever evolving, morphing into more and more discoveries of the world around us, I am thankful that these advances include vaccines. I believe in vaccinations. And I believe in vaccinations. If you don't vaccinate your kids, it can endanger their lives. The potential downsides of vaccinations are almost nonexistent. The cumulative scientific and medical communities are an absolute full agreement that there is basically no reason not to vaccinate her kids. No reason. Absolutely. In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see countries... And today is an exciting day because we have a guy with us who has done more, I think, than anybody else in our country to popularize science. Well, that's it. So there are people who make very strong argument to me. These are climate scientists that a lot of the unrest in the Middle East is displaced young men who don't want to work the family farm anymore because the family farm isn't doing as well as it used to because rainfall patterns have changed. They go to the big cities, they can't get jobs, they get disenfranchised. And then they get involved in essentially terrorist operations. Not only are dinosaurs still alive today that you could easily make an argument that they're more diverse than they ever have been. I mean, living birds are dinosaurs. I mean, just like human beings are a kind of primate, birds are a kind of dinosaur. Birds based on the evidence we have, both in fossils and in comparison with living birds, they probably branch off a group of carnivorous dinosaurs we call the therapods. Things that are closely related to animals like tyranosaurus or over raptor, the famous beak dinosaur, and some of these other mediating dinosaurs. Frankly, I have been pushing NASA to revamp its vision. The shuttle did some extraordinary work in low orbit experiments, this international space station, moving cargo. But now what we need is that next technological breakthrough. We're still using the same models for space travel that we used with the Apollo program 30, 40 years ago. I'd go to the moon in a nanosaccent. The problem is we don't have the technology to do that anymore. We used to, but we destroyed that technology and it's a painful process to build it back again. The problem is we don't have the technology to do that anymore. We used to, but we destroyed that technology and it's a painful process to build it back again. I want to see a helicopter like this lifting off from an Australia upside down while the earth is spinning. I want to see the earth spinning a thousand miles an hour while a helicopter takes off and flies around like you tell us it does. It just seems very fucking absolutely ridiculous. Let's rest while I just get a shower that we see the moon. Try your imagination.