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Everyone, thanks for tuning into test tube plus today. I am Trace, this is episode two of five on our series about God. We take a big topic here on TestTube Plus and we break it into a bunch of different chunks so we can all understand it better myself included. Yesterday we talked about how God might be a real thing even under science and how science and God might go hand in hand. But today we're gonna flip that and we're going to talk a little bit about how science and God might not go hand in hand and scientists that don't think that science and God can coexist as easily as we think so.
If you're talking about scientists one of the first scientist you're ever gonna think if you talk to a layman about science is going to be Albert Einstein. Everybody knows Albert Einstein's name, everybody in the world would seem like and Albert Einstein is often thought of as a religious man because he uses the word God a lot in his writings. A handwritten letter sold for three million dollars on eBay which clearly states though and Einstein does not believe in God, in the letter he wrote the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness. The Bible a collection of honourable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish, some folks have issues with the translation of this message in the truth of its validity.
But the letter did sell for three million dollars on eBay so there are people who believe that this is a real opinion of one of the most famous scientist after another famous scientists one of the most famous ones still live today is Stephen Hawking in his 1988 book a brief history of time talking rights then we should know the mind of God. This is something that's set a lot when it comes to Hawking but Mr Hawking said during an interview, “what I meant by we would know the mind of God is we would know everything that God would know if there were a God, which there isn’t, also I'm an atheist”. He was very explicit about his opinions and he added religion believes in miracles, but these are not compatible with science.
So is there scientific proof of no god? No there's not. There's not any scientific proof that there was or wasn't as we said before, but there is definitely room to imagine a divine character science has not revealed why the universe came into existence what preceded the big bang and so on and so forth. But there is historical proof that some of the religious figures that we talked about in relation to God existed. But first let's talk about one of the most famous ones at least here in the united states and that is Jesus. Jesus in the Bible absolutely hundred-percent, but outside a specific religious texts from after his death, there doesn't seem to be any historical evidence did Jesus exist. The Romans kept track of everything and I do mean everything, they weren't a huge empire with no organisational scheme, they had bureaucracy they had all of these public buildings with records and construction records and military records and so on and so forth we know what time of day Mount Vesuvius erupted, because there are records that survive to this day that said so. was lunch time you think we have tons of stories about a magical profit guy who can walk on water come back from the dead heal the sick and cure the lame and but there doesn't seem to be any verifiable primary source proof of this man's existence, that being said, historians would probably tell you there are a lot of secondary sources letters written from people by other people to other people things talking about Jesus but nothing that says hello I am Jesus and here is my writings nothing that says hello this is Jesus and me and Jesus are chilling out nothing that they can show as a primary source.
I was surprised by this, I'm engineer, also surprised by this if you haven't done this research before we have tons of art and books and documentation from before during and after the lifetime of Jesus if he allegedly lived but we don't have anything about this very important person is debated by modern scholars and historians if these folks existed at all. Jesus being one of a group of people who are religiously important because it's really hard to say a lot of religious experience is by word of mouth in there. It's very difficult to link across references and writings from one religious group to another one person to another for religious purposes only real references to Jesus that we have our by his friends and of course they all wrote very positive things that he was this incredible dude. Don't you think there would be counter texts or supporting evidence or you know evidence defaming him especially considering he was a pretty polarising bro. Alternatively Buddha is widely agreed to be a real guy named Siddhartha Gautama and scholars and historians all kind of agree on this probably lived around 500 BCE and that's before Jesus. And there are biographies there are accounts their ancient texts all that cross reference to the same Siddhartha Gautama. He gave his people the Word of God so if you believe that Siddhartha Gautama is a sigh of God or is telling you about God teaching you about God and you believe he's real and what he is saying is real men God is real to you for that reason which also sheds a little more doubt on whether or not Jesus could be a real place nobody wrote about it. Muhammad has records Jesus doesn’t. Very strange.
But all that aside just because Jesus did or did not exist does not mean that God does or does not exist we're not trying to say that, what we're trying to say is that it does cast doubt on the whole religion thing from a scientific standpoint. It doesn't mean that Jesus was a prophet wasn't a messiah doesn't mean that Jesus was or was not anything what it what we're saying is it's difficult to prove that he was really there in the same way. And there are still people working on finding that proof and maybe will find it someday. Maybe we'll find something interesting in the future but as of right now we don't really have any primary sources said there is no God under science, there's no profits, then why are we talking about it why does it dominate the news the culture and politics. It does so because it incites passion in people in the same way that science insight passion and a lot of people it's an impassioned argument and it's an impassioned word to invoke the name of God when talking about something. When Hawking says we shall know the face of God it sounds awesome and makes you wanna know that thing but he's also not saying we'll know the face of God he saying 10 the face of this caricature in this idea this feeling this emotion in this paper everyone down in the comments i'm sure you are down there typing away feverishly but let us know what you think down there and do you believe in God do not believe in God let's continue the discussion from yesterday's episode and subscribe for more tests you plus you get tomorrow's episode as well more about God coming then and if you haven't watched yesterday's make sure you do that thanks for watching today we'll see you tomorrow.
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