Michael Egnor Demolishes the Myth of Materialism (Science Uprising EP1)
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- Has science proven we are all just matter? Or does reality extend beyond what we can see and touch? Be sure to visit scienceuprising.com/ to find more videos and explore related articles and books.
This episode of Science Uprising investigates claims by scientists and professors like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, and Daniel Dennett, who try to hijack science to promote materialism-the idea that physical reality is all there is. Hear from experts who challenge this view of science, and learn about scientists who have to hide behind a mask because they face intimidation and censorship from dissenting from materialism.
People featured in this episode include Jay Richards, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America, filmmaker, and author or co-author of books such as The Human Advantage, The Privileged Planet, The Hobbit Party, Infiltrated, and Money, Greed, and God; and Michael Egnor, MD (from Columbia University), neurosurgeon and professor of neurological surgery at Stony Brook University. Dr. Egnor is renowned for his work in pediatric neurosurgery. See www.thesun.co.uk/news/2516312....
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Science Uprising
Well-known scientists have been preaching a materialistic worldview rather than presenting the public with all the evidence. We are here to change that. The objective scientific evidence does not prove our universe is blind and purposeless. It does not show we are simply meat machines. It does not prove that evolutionary mechanisms can completely account for the diversity of life on earth. This is what THEY want you to think. Think for yourself and make an informed decision.
Are you ready? The uprising has begun.
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A viewer below requested more evidence. Hoping this helps others as well... Much more evidence is available and highly detailed in quite a number of different books by research scientists; such as (for starters):
"Signature in the Cell" by Stephen Meyer,
"Undeniable" by Douglas Axe,
"Heretic" by Matti Leisola,
"Darwin's Black Box" and "Darwin Devolves" by Michael Behe.
And there are also some great philosophical treatises considering the merits of materialism versus theism such as:
"The Devil's Delusion" by David Berlinski; and,
"God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?" by John C. Lennox.
Wishing everyone all the best in their search and discovery!
Consciousness cannot be an illusion, because you need to be conscious in order to have illusions.
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"Question everything" - says DeGrasse Tyson, Krauss, and Dawkins, with the caveatS "BUT NOT OUR MATERIALISM! NOT DARWIN!"
I think you will find they wont care if you question those things. If you misrepresent them or misundertand them then you will get corrected.
@@kaineskeptic6484 "I think you will find they wont care if you question those things"
Oh they do. A lot
@@sharpie6888No they don't, it's an important part of the scientific method which ensures the best results. See peer review.
You need consciousness to deny consciousness
I was loving it until I realised my enjoyment was an epiphenomenal illusion created by sodium/potassium gradients in my neuronal circuits. Damn those gradients and their magical powers!
LOL, I really like your reductionist humor! But I guess what's REALLY happening, is that the symbols you wrote down, were transmitted to my neural pathways (though my optics), thus causing a release of endorphins in my brain.
You're right. I'm wondering how endorphins create the sensation of pleasure but that's just probably just my neurons trying to confuse me. Err, not that my neurons have agency or intention though. Didn't mean to imply that...
@D. E. What head? "You" don't exist.
If all of our thoughts are just an illusion because only material things or matter is all we know to be true, then how do we know THAT claim is true, since that claim itself is just an illusion?
in the materialistic world there is no room for feelings, no love, no affection, no faith, no intelligence, no common sense and no hope, only death remains.
Which materialist says that? If no materialists agree with your statement, you are just making a baseless assertion.
The argument for free will here is an appeal to consequences (argumentum ad consequentiam)
Also, the debate over free will isn't just between theists and atheists. There's a theological devide among Protestants (put in terms of free will vs predestination) and Protestantism is just one of the three main branches of Christianity.
Hello Mark Stuber. It is an appeal to consequences, but the very concept of decision and some degree of freedom is necessary for the investigation on the existence of the concept of decision and some degree of freedom. Therefore, it's not a fallacy, but it is a exception created by the reduction (like if some of the propositions for "how to open this lock with this key?" included "destroying the key").
The term "Free will" used on the video hasn't really much to do with the debate between protestants...it has nothing to do at all with the theological debate. There, the debate is whether human's nature is good or evil so that it has or not free will to choose the good.
Here on the video, the concept of "free will" has much more to do with what predestinist protestant call "Free Agency".
I'm really enjoying this series. I appreciate the high quality of your presentations. I'm sharing them as much as possible.
Our Brain is the hardware but our mind is our software
And the difference between the brain and the mind is?
Does one require free will to ask question and challenge established ideas?
it's stupid it's even an argument
I was genuinely happier when I believed this and wish I could walk away from materialism and embrace this way of thinking again.
Sad to hear it, Jody
Science uses "methodological materialism". That's just methods that explore matter (and energy) and the rules it follows only. People are free to explore anything, scientists included. If you are exploring things and going outside methodological materialism, cool, we just don't label that exploration as "science". Science is limited, and stuff outside those limits are called something else.
“Materialism” isn’t science, it’s a philosophical proposition. Believing that there is more than the physical world we can interact with isn’t scientific or anti scientific. What _is_ anti scientific is believing that things outside the known universe can interact with, and affect, the known universe without good evidence.
I'm with you for the most part. I think it is unscientific to believe something (e.g. beyond the physical world) without evidence.
Science provides a way of knowing many things, it clearly doesn't provide the only way! To believe that it does, is when it becomes a form of fundamentalism.
271 thumbs down=triggered
Nicely Done
Romans 1:20-23 KJV
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: [21] Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. [22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, [23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
The video is a bit hacky. The music and double plays and pig masks could / should've been left on the editing floor.
Richard Dawkins: "When I think I have free will, I am deluding myself" Can anyone else spot the blatant self-contradiction?
If you think its a contradiction you don't understand it.
Not believing in free will is NOT the belief that nobody does anything it is the belief that the choice you make is dependent on material circumstances. There is no contradiction in his statement.
it is amazing how a trillion cells can work in unison and create a creature with a neuron cluster that achieved an awareness of self, evolution is truly the most magnificent thing!
Evolution has zero creative power or ability. It acts on pre-existing creatures and is very limited in what changes it can effect.
@@sliglusamelius8578 that is why it took billion of years to get where we are. a human life lasts about 45 million seconds. now stretch every second to a year (crazy, no?!) and you get just 2/3 to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs that opened up niches for the mammals to radiate. animal life is up to 20 times older, and life itself is nearly 100 times longer.
I really loved this. Got me thinking. The topic clearly gets people riled up. Don't let trolls tell you what to think. Opinions aren't facts.
This video is good!👍
So beautiful! 👏👏
Emergence and paradigm shift ~~~ keep dialogue
Michael Egnor and Jay Richards make a great 1-2 punch.
I love this so much. 😁💃❤️
GOD bless U 4 this! I am on your side of the Conflict!
My own analogy: Scientists trying find direct material evidence for God is like looking with your eyes for direct evidence of the Invisible man. You can find and experience the signs of his presence: the carpet prints, the movement of the air, the sounds of his movement, his scent - but you cannot see him directly with your eyes.
Wow! This is terrific! Can't wait to see the next one!
Well done video!
If there is no answer to a question, just admit it. Don't pretend that there is.
This is where science begin.
What is matter?
I love the sign. All matter matters!
Lol. Yep, that's right, magic done it.
I agree. Materialism is magical thinking.
@@LogosTheosdustman. ribwoman. talking snake. talking donkey. talking burning bush. splitting red sea. water to wine. zombification. water walking.
no, no magic at all.
now do the same for materialism
Well done! And I am glad you did not require a 'religion' in order to reject materialism.
Can anyone provide examples of an absolute non-physical?
Mathematics
This is really great!!
I verily wish more thorough ie. Longer documentaries were done. If I'm just unaware , please link me?
Although these particular videos are intentionally short, each video is accompanied by longer interviews plus other resources at the series' website, scienceuprising.com.
I HIGHLY recommend: Revolutionary - Michael Behe And The Mystery Of Molecular Machines. It includes details on the persecution scientists face. I ordered SEVERAL DVD copies, a couple years ago, to share with others. To my knowledge it's now available to watch for free, on this very channel (Discovery Science).
@@DiscoveryScienceChannel thank you!
Nicely done.
Great, simple way to reveal the self-contradiction of materialism!
How do you study a subject to determine cause and effect? You mention in multiple places that you don't agree with something because it feels wrong, is that the method you use to determine what is true and false?
Of course not: how you "feel" about something is the worst method to use. When you're dealing with issues of relationships within the community of man (in the classical sense) then right and wrong have to appeal to some standards. This is where the long history of civilizations and religions come into play with ancient and proven antecedents. Most cultures throughout history have similar standards. The Judeo-Christian world view goes back to the Noaic Covenant which sets down some basic standards we can use to begin with. It includes things like establish justice, don't murder, avoid adultery, bestiality or sexual immorality, stealing. I personally like Micah 6:8: "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. " So, how you "feel" about something should be compared with such standards, since feelings are notoriously volatile, fickle, unpredictable, and, most importantly, unreliable.
Awesome!!! . . . Bring it!!!!
Most Excellent!!!!! RnMT
Using their logic:
Materialism is an illusion
Please fix the typos in the subtitles. Good stuff, but such a detail ought not to be left untended.
Outstanding work! This is an exciting new series. I'd call it: "Let's get real!" -DB
There are many shades of grey in this debate (not every materialist commits to things such as no free will and love being an "illusion")
Just because you want to let off some steam doesn't mean you make straw men to fight against..
Very well presented message. I only wish it was a little longer. Why this channel doesn't have more subscribers and the videos more views is baffling in light of the scientific evidence and sound reasoning presented by the proponents of ID. Thank you guys for your hard work and commitment to fighting the good fight. Please keep them coming.
"everything ... is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom...". Well that is actually true for the material world on its own, when detached from mind and consciousness which gives it direction and purpose. Just like a car is blind and purposeless without a driver. And the mechanical side of the material, as well as the car, is that which makes it possible for mind and consciousness to utilize and control it. But just like a car won't drive without a driver, the material world will remain inactive (entropy) without minds that create activity (negentropy).
"Materialism is the philosophy of the subject that forgets to take account of itself." - Arthur Schopenhauer
I will use this in my English class next year. For summer reading the students are assigned "Call of the Wild," a novel with a very materialist, Darwinian perspective. (Naturalism literary genre) When I follow with this video, it will generate great discussion and writing.
Brilliantly done! Supports Alvin Plantinga's great book "Where the Conflict really lies" - quote from blurb: '... there is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and religion, in particular theistic religion, and superficial concord but deep conflict between science and naturalism.' Congratulations on an exciting presentation!
WOW, the quote you used, REALLY hit the nail on the head! I love it. Thank you for sharing that Blaise. (I haven't read that book yet, but I keep hearing good things about it.)
we are the creators of words ~~~
if our mind are not real, by what means do we know that matters are?
If there is no free will, then we wouldn't be able to delude ourselves.
If there is no free will, then we are not freely choosing to respond in this comments section. LOL. We are simply being compelled by our brain chemistry & genetics, etc to do so :-) Take care Enon.
WHO is the self an illusion to?
isn't that spe cial
signed: The Radical Savadical
Ancient philosophy has it that the Cosmic Mind (God) divided itself into two parts, the energetic or spiritual and the material. The material form of God was considered feminine, from which all life physical forms are born. Hence the word "material" comes from the same root as "maternal." So now you know. Cheers
I believe it takes bravery to not think like the masses and confidence to speak your truth. The world is going to fear less popular beliefs and theories always, so stay strong! Thank you!
Hawk Armstrong - correction, there is only THE TRUTH and belongs to everyone
@@JV-tg2ne correction, Jesus is the way, the TRUTH and the life. Everyone belongs to Him.
It’s a good start. I hope subsequent episodes will put some meat on this endoskeleton. Perhaps we can get a die-hard materialist to attempt to explain consciousness or sentience.
How does this prove the god of the bible? Why couldn't it prove Vishnu, or Odin, or Zeus, or Krishna, or Pinga, or Torngasoak, or... I could go on like that for a while. If there is one true god why are there so many different religions?
Maybe I am just not getting it but what is the reason for the mask? I believe the presentation would be better without the mask and the background noise lowered.
Excellent video. The arguments are perfect.
there's so much editing the video gets hard to watch
Very well done!
Thank you for putting this together.
Woow great video
This is why post materialistic science has to replace materialistic science a science that studies non physical phenomena
Count me in! Awesome.
Richard "two sisters can get married" Dawkins
The production value here is great. Christians are stepping up their games. It’s almost as if our souls depend on it. ☦️🙏❤️
The propaganda game has been upped as if their bank accounts depend on it...
lol.
- "Isn't our reality more than just matter?" Good question, do you have any evidence for anything other than matter, and the forms of energy we know of? eg. solar, electrical, etc. I thought not.
- "Most people and cultures around the world have a profound belief that the world extends beyond the physical." So? It isn't a popularity contest. Everyone can be wrong. Everyone used to think that heavy objects fell faster than lighter ones, until Galileo proved them all wrong. Similarly with Einstein and Relativity. What is your evidence?
- "Compassion, ideas, joy, and sorrow aren't made of matter." Scientists think all these things are simply chemical reactions in the brain, and have evidence to support this, including drugs that can change your mood/emotions, and magnetic stimulation of the brain that can give you these experiences. So unless you have actual evidence otherwise, these things are simply complicated interactions of matter.
- "If we believe this, are we anti-science." If you believe in something without evidence, or in spite of evidence to the contrary, then Yes.
- "What, no free will?" That isn't what he said. Our perception of free will is an illusion, or "not what it seems", not that it doesn't exist. Brain scans have shown that our brains make a decision on a choice before we are conscious that we have made a choice. eg. Your brain has already decided to select heads, when you consciously still think you might choose tails, but then you select heads.
- "Bigotry and intolerance of the scientific community" Requiring standards of evidence is not bigotry. If you, like Galileo, Einstein, Newton, and others, want to challenge the current scientific view of something, then you have to provide sufficient evidence. Wegener had the right idea of Continental Drift, but lacked sufficient evidence. It was only later that that evidence was discovered, and we now have the current Theory of Plate Tectonics. Scientists believed in Spontaneous Generation, until Pasteur proved it was wrong, but while Vitalism was popular, it does not have any evidence to support it and was discarded. So if you want to challenge scientific consensus on a topic, you need to have sufficient evidence to back up your views, and you might even win a Nobel Prize. If you don't, then don't cry bigotry or intolerance, go and get some evidence, or you are just a crank.
- "Where the evidence leads" lol. Sorry, you may not like the conclusion, but it leads to materialism...
- "Materialists are free to practice their religion, but they should stop pretending it is science." "That word you keep using (Science), I do not think it means what you think it means." In other words, Materialism is what Scientists have concluded after following the evidence. It is not a religion. There are no beliefs in supernatural beings, no holy texts that are above question, no prophets, etc. Perhaps I should have put Religion in brackets instead of Science.
- "We are the quiet majority and we will be quiet no longer." So you have suffered in silence have you? How many over the centuries have been tortured or killed for daring to question your dogma? Can you get elected to high office in the U.S. without publicly expressing belief in a deity? Prayer in schools? Putting 'In god we trust' on currency? Billboards, tv evangelists, etc. You aren't a quiet majority, you are the vocal majority trying to silence those who have evidence that your beliefs are wrong. You have benefited from the discoveries of Science (Modern medicine, transportation, communication, etc.), but are trying to undercut it because you don't like the conclusions that the evidence is leading to.
Nothing comes from nothing. No other argument is needed.
Some good points, but I think you missed a few things too. Assuming materialism, like it looks like you do, then you did not actually choose to write the above statement, since free will is a delusion. Assuming materialism, that is, that all that goes on in your brain is just electrochemical reactions, then you can't even trust your thinking to lead you to truth (the whole concept of truth becomes iffy in this view.) So actually, if we accept pure materialism, there's no reason to accept your argumentation! Also, if matter is all there is, then any moral stance is as good as any other moral (amoral, immoral) stance. (Really brief statements of ideas that could be expanded a lot...)
"Where the evidence leads" first leads us to the idea that your consciousness, my consciousness, is real. Evidence that leads to true knowledge is not only repeatable scientific experiments and observations, valuable as these are. There's also historical evidence, and introspective evidence. You can say that everything going on inside our head may be delusion, as some of the folks in this video claim, but we do NOT live that way, and we CANNOT live that way.
The staggering number of "coincidences" such as the moon being just the right size to reveal the sun's atmosphere for observation points to something higher. Physical instruments can only quantify physical phenomena.
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Beautiful and thought-provoking - I look forward to hearing more. It is a terrible lie that materialism has disproved religion or that science has disproved God.
Scince Has Not dis-proven GOD.
Follow the truth where ever it may take you.
"How do they know the cosmos is all there is..." - the first question is the key, especially that little word, *know*.
@@charleyhorse612 The scientists claiming materialism is the only thing...
The equivocation is crippling….yikes
Still waiting for someone to hold and touch my mind.
Excellent video. Just another example of the complete failure of Materialism to explain these unique
human traits such as self sacrifice that comes from love of both family or strangers or the extreme
risk that many will put themselves into save a stranger and 100's of other traits that are counter-intuitive
to a theory that should show humans as selfish , disinterested to their fellow man unless theirs some
specific self rewarding gain, or the lack of traits such as empathy , honesty , caring , humor that are
nothing more then "Weaknesses" which have no use in the purpose specific "Survival of the Fittest" .
Sam Harris's comment really shows the simplistic mindset when he states that it's just an illusion.
Not a surprise though , since much of their explanations are in fact just an illusion.
All of these traits can be accounted for in an evolutionary framework. We are socially adept, intensely planning creatures whose survival relies upon communication and cooperation with other human beings. Your misrepresentation of our nature is baseless.
@@plightweisgoff, a question; why do we have to reproduce?
Neil Degrasse Tyson says question everything but don't try to question his beliefs
He never said not to question his beliefs.
@@computerflight2145 You can question anything about him. Just don't expect to get a chance to talk. (I'm a materialist, but he comes across as condescending and self-important.)
Good points.
This is very interesting!
Excellent start.
Great, but this series needs a real marketing push, with actual ads. These videos and word of mouth are fine, but until a certain threshold, it's just "preaching to the choir."
Still, I'm sure the matter of origins weighs heavily on every mind out there. Most would probably challenge the prevailing evolution worldview, given the resources and a bit of (internal and external) courage.
I agree. TH-cam advertising is relatively cheap. £50 can sometimes get well over 10K views. If they pour £500 into it they'll tens of thousands if not more. I hope they don't waste the big potential of this series
You guys needs to interview Bernardo Kastrup. Heavyweight idealism that knocks out materialism once and for all
Instead of considering matter , it would be better to consider energy because it's only energy that remains conserved even at the subatomic level
Testing.
EDIT: Frickin cowards, not allowing any comments?! But I thought your beliefs had to be tested to prove to Yahweh that you love him more than anything.
I see yours.
"The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in." G. K. Chesterton
There is no thinker, Just thinking, the sense of there being a thinker behind the thinking is just another thought.
You are all that is and ever will be.
This is excellent. I have been looking for a visual resource to speak to my students who struggle to grasp the issue of materialism abstractly; these videos seem to be just what I was looking for.
We will be quiet no longer.
It’s sad people being lead astray ☹️
I’m currently in yr12 learning biology and chemistry. I questioned the theory of evolution stating that wouldn’t it be impossible for a beneficial mutation to occur In a organism. I think it would be beneficial to learn about the For and against scientific arguments against evolution in school.
You already do... There are no scientific arguments against that stand up to the normal scientific scrutinty required for a science classroom. So you do already hear all the scientific arguments for and against.
@@computerflight2145 Somebody needs to stop listening to what ID proponents around them keep saying to each other, and actually do some studying. Look at studies on bacteria and flies - we've evolved new species with beneficial mutations, in front of our eyes.
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
They say, the whole of existence is: Evolution and Materialism, two big lies. On the contrary, We were created with a purpose.
Yes! This made me cry. Silent no more
It was designed to make you cry, that's the point. It's the same old nonsense - appeals to emotion, appeal to incredulity, etc. But not a scrap of evidence that there is anything other than that which is material. Love is a computational process carried out in a biological brain, nothing more. This is what ALL the available evidence shows. But in no way is that a bad thing, knowing that love is just chemicals in no way diminishes it's value to you because you can't change what you are. It will always be the most important thing to you and all of us because we're humans and we can never change that. Our logic and reason will never overcome our emotions because the purpose of our logic and reason is to serve our emotions.
Great Video!
I have had the discussion several times questioning how it is valid to believe in materialism when so much actual observation/experiment based science depends on math which is abstract. There is no geometric point in the physical world - no line, no equilateral triangle...
In this eppisode, the philosophic inquiries about freewill are no more than naive. They are not even philosophical in Socrates' terms for freewill is not put in check. Thus it can not be taken seriously.
Give a example, everyone can make claims
Don't fall into the first trap of materialism: asking whether or not there is anything beyond the material world. This is to already assume that there is some coherent or complete notion of what the material world is. But the fact is that no basis for something called 'matter' has ever been established and it's hard to even conceive of what such a foundation would consist of. Even if you were to conceive of such a foundation that conception would still be a subset of mind, the experience of which is immaterial.
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