Science and Religion || Mayim Bialik
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- It's time for my next vlog! Last time we talked about cats; this time I'm discussing how I can be both a scientist and a person who participates in a religious life, and how both make me who I am. I also discuss what God is and what God isn't in a way that makes for a deeper love of the scientific world. Sounds impossible? It's not! Check it out!
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You might know me as Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory or from Blossom but there are so many other parts of me that you might not be aware of! I’m trained as a neuroscientist, I'm a passionate activist, an observant Jew, a perfectly imperfect mother, and I'm a complicated human being like many of you. This is the place where I wear all of those hats - and none of them have a flower on them! ;)
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Hi Mayim, I am a science teacher at a catholic high school; and while our faith is different, you used almost the same understanding as I to explain it. I hope you don't mind but we watched your video in class and had a discussion after. It was great, thank you!
"...the hope you feel when you know that you will love again."
You can't tell me her voice didn't almost break. Mayim is so emotional...and it's a beautiful thing.
I am muslim, and I want to be a scientist.
And you let daylight into very mental taboo.
Thank you Mayim.
They're were many Muslim scientists during the Islamic Golden Age.
• Níke: Just do ít • But Ibn Sina was a creationist....
Johnny Rocketz But not a creationist in the typical Christian sense
Johnny Rocketz No he wasn’t
Go for it hun! I am Christian but have a respect for all faiths. I believe there is no field of academic study that God or Ala would tell us to stay away from. Why give us this knowledge just to forbid the learning of it, or pursuit of deeper understanding. I hope you explore this path that your heart leads you.
As an atheist who experiences all of those emotions completely independent of any organized religion, I only have one question: Why do you feel the need to claim those things as "God" instead of just letting them be what they are? I am brought to my knees in awe of science and the universe and mathematics constantly but it isn't from a vague source of "spiritual connection" but a real, visceral, emotional connection with the knowledge I'm discovering. There's no need to try to claim this kind of sensation for yourself as a religious or "spiritual" thing (whatever that actually means). People are capable of experiencing these emotions without any ties to a god belief and it's a little intellectually dishonest to take things that definitely exist, like gravity, or the feeling you get when you look into a lover's eyes, and say "that's God" because you know there's no distinguishing between whether it actually is or isn't, and no one would disagree that those things exist.
It's like saying "Yes, I worship God and God is the Sun!" I mean, fine, that's all well and good, I guess, since the sun exists and I do believe in it, but why call it God and worship it in the first place? You can still be in awe of the sun without it being a deity.
Because it puts men on the center of the universe and this is extreme dangerous.
I think the same question could be made to you. What about: because people are different and believe in different things.
Chalegre Goulart You seem confused. My point is that we do believe in the same things, but she labels them "God" for some reason when it's unnecessary. I'm asking what makes those things "God" and not just what they are and how you can distinguish that.
Hey! Let's Do A Thing! I am not confused. The difference is you are an atheist whilst she is not. Thereof, she attributes those "same things" you believe in as a force or presence that created it all, called God.
Chalegre Goulart That isn't a response to what I said though. I know that already.
As a Muslim, this video has actually helped me in some ways to sort of make sense of religion, thus I must thank you for being courageous enough to post this to the world. The issue with religion and the many people who follow it is that everyone takes everything so literally, when it's main purpose is meant to teach us certain morals and life lesson with their guidelines, stories, and (what some I believe to be) metaphors.
Being Muslim means necessary that you believe in angels , the devil and that god answers prays and he is an actual intelligent being living somewhere in the sky.
If you don't believe any of that then you are not a Muslim.
And that god has nothing to do with the higher power she is talking about
@@kiralight6661 Then what higher power is she talking about then?
@@kiralight6661 Also I didn't say that EVERYTHING in the Quran was metaphorical. I still believe in God, angels, etc. It's more spiritual though. The Quran is interpreted in different ways because they had to write things in a way that the people in that time period would've understood (since we as human beings weren't scientifically as advanced back then). It's good to keep that in mind. You'd probably have to read to Quran to know what I mean though, along with historical context. Keep that in mind before dictating who can or can't be Muslim on the internet. 🙂
@@kiralight6661 Allah says in Quran 1400 years ago -
“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)
What Great scientists say about Quran---
Professor Keith Moore, one of the world’s prominent scientists of anatomy and embryology. University of Toronto, Canada It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur’aan about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or 'Allah', because almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of Allah.
Professor William W. Hay is one of the best known marine scientists in the United States. satellite photography and emote-sensing techniques. Professor Hay replied: I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scripture of the Holy Qur’aan, and I have no way of knowing where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting that they are there and that this work is going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the passages. Professor Hay: Well, I would think it must be the divine being!
Professor Yushudi Kusan: Director of the Tokyo Observatory,
I can say, I am very mush impressed by finding true astronomical facts in the Qur’aan.
Professor Alfred Kroner who is one of the world’s most famous geologists
"Thinking about many of these questions and thinking where Muhammad came from, he was after all a bedouin. I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods that this is the case.
Dr. T.V.N. Persaud is a Professor of Anatomy and Head of the Department of Anatomy, and a professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author or editor of 25 books, and has published over 181 scientific papers. In 1991, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada. "It seems to me that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read or write. In fact, he was illiterate. We are talking about 1400 years ago. You have someone who was illiterate making profound pronouncement and statements and are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. I personally cannot see how this could be mere chance. There are too many accuracy’s and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind in concerning that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to these statements."
Joe Leigh Simpson, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the North Western University in Chicago in the United States of America. Professor Simpson said: It follows, I think, that not only is there no conflict between genetics and religion, but in fact religion can guide science by adding revelation to some traditional scientific approaches. That there exists statements in the Qur’aan shown by science to be valid, which supports knowledge in the Qur’aan having been derived from Allah.
Professor Palmer a scientist from the U.S.
We need research into the history of early Middle Eastern oral traditions to know whether in fact such historical events have been reported. If there is no such record, it strengthens the belief that Allah transmitted through Muhammad bits of his knowledge that we have only discovered for ourselves in recent times. We look forward to a continuing dialogue on the topic of science in the Qur’aan in the context of geology. Thank you very much.
Professor Tagata Tagasone, formerly Head of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Shiang Mai in Thailand. He is now the Dean of the College of the Medicine at the University. From my studies and from what I have learned throughout this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the Qur’aan 1400 years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the One Who is an eligible Creator. This Creator must be Allah, or Allah. Therefore, I think this is the time to say ‘Laa ilaaha illallah’, that there is no Allah to worship except Allah, ‘Muhammad Rasool Allah’, Muhammad is messenger of Allah...
Professor Armstrong, Scientist works at NASA, I am impressed that how remarkably some of the ancient writings seem to correspond to modern and recent Astronomy. There may well have to be something beyond what we understand as ordinary human experience to account for the writings that we have seen.
Professor Dorja Rao, It is difficult to imagine that this type of knowledge was existing at that time, around 1400 years back. May be some of the things they have simple idea about, but do describe those things in great detail is very difficult. So, this is definitely not a simple human knowledge.
There is no God but Allah and Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him is last messenger of Allah and Quran is the Final revelation from Allah
Read Quran
@@AhmadKhan-mg8xz why have we found skeletons of dinosours but not the skeletons of adam and eve or qawm a'ad ??
how do you reconcile religion and evolution?
I think for a lot of people old fashioned religion doesn’t fit with them any more but they still have the sense that there is something more than just us. Wonderfully said
I'm Christian (raised Catholic) and this is the God I believe in too. I have always had issues with the things Catholic church (which means people, not God) says about heaven and guilt and all that stuff. And I am glad to see that we, people with different religions, can perceive God the same way. This was beautiful Mayim Thank you so much for sharing!!
I agree as well!!
You are not a Christian then. You are deist.
+Álvaro Lopes I believe and will die for Jesus Christ, that makes me a Christian.
you're not christian then
In fact is very Christian, I´ve studied christian/catholic theology and Andrea hasn´t said nothing that contradicts basic christian pillars. Do not confuse traditions, mithology or rituals with the deep true philospphy that integrate the core of christianism and specially catholicism.
I'm a muslim and you've described the spiritual sense of science very beautifully! thankyou so much! love ya!
This is so refreshing. There are many identifications that are misconstrued and the definitions are hijacked to represent a narrow list of differences. If we took a little bit of time to look back on why a certain way of life came about, how it was shared with its people, what can be learned from it, etc., we’d realize just how beautiful and magnificent it all is. It’s very humbling and empowering at the same time. None of us know it all. We’re all just learning, travelling through an infinite source of knowledge and experience, grasping onto whatever we can manage to, taking along what resonates and leaving behind what doesn’t. But it’s when arrogance and ignorance enters the picture and two travellers holding onto their respective treasures claim that they have it all. What they hold is the ultimate truth and the other is incorrect. They throw on labels that instead of helping them create enough order to build a boat to cross the sea as they should, end up becoming jail bars that confine them behind rigid manufactured boundaries. Both of them hold a piece of the truth, mixed in with whatever crap the last traveller left behind. But none of them hold the whole truth. We are of source. Have access to source. But we cannot confine all of source. And there is always more to learn and it is ever evolving. We can know that it exists and feel it but we can’t know it all. So maybe we try to take every opportunity to absorb. Observe what’s going on around you with as little judgement as possible. Try to understand its core. Take the diamonds that come your way and scrub away the dirt that you perceive. Don’t throw away the diamond entirely and hate on the fallen over pieces of treasure that’s glory has been lost in time. Pick up the artifact and try to understand it. Don’t hate on the artifact that someone else’s holding because it has a little dirt on its handle. It may help that person fetch water and keep them alive. Your learning is to experience. Cherish it like a treasure? Sure. But don’t throw it up on a pedestal to never be experienced again, only feed arrogance into its followers and hate on every other treasure that you never had the blessing to experience. I’m not talking about embracing acts against humanity. I’m talking about embracing humanity and loving on each other just the same regardless of which Hogwarts house they decided to join.
As an atheist, I find this explanation of religion the most interesting and plausible.
Then you are an agnostic :)
Then you are not an atheist
I too am an atheist
and
I too find 'acceptance' of her choice to define "God" in that way.
and
I too find resonance with it.
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Atheism just means "does not believe in a literal deity".
What Mayim is describing
is known to some as "agnostic theism".
There is wiggle-room, for which terms we apply here.
All agnostics are atheists; by default.
An agnostic doesn't have a conviction that a literal deity exists.
They are, then, "without" theism (aka "a-theistic").
Mayim may not identify with the atheist tag
but
she is somewhere in the blur between where the lines are drawn.
She lacks a belief in a literal deity.
She calls what she believes in "God",
but that lets her keep a place (a belonging; relevance; connection) with a culture
that bonds over (and identifies with) those certain words and phrases.
There is some sameness, to what a more common Jewish theist means when they speak of their "God";
but it's not enough the same
to place her in the same religious category.
Humans tend to have a love for sharply defined lines;
but the deepest truths
often defy these conventions.
She has taken the best of both worlds
and found (forged, in fact) her own place;
her own identity;
her own vantage point.
She's even taken certain words themselves
and (rightly) assumed ownership of them;
while still taking the time to do so responsibly,
to avoid being misunderstood;
-to whatever extent that's possible,
In a world where most people listen for a chance to respond
rather than listening to understand.
I was already a fan (but not a fanatical fan).
Though, after watching this,
some part of me felt far more endeared (connected; spiritually resonant) to her as a sentient and emotional being
than I was before.
Someone has suggested to me that she is, instead, expressing
"Pantheism"; or maybe Panentheism.
I'm partial to Pandeism, myself; but only as a theory.
If they are right about that, then that's fine.
Obviously, my thoughts were not dependent on those particular distinctions.
Though, I'd love to learn more about her views, at some point.
LOL...probably because it's not actually an explanation of any "religion." Least of all Judaism. She's describing Einstein and Spinoza's pan-deism, not any sort of theistic system.
As someone studying science at university coming from a secular Jewish home I am constantly questioning how to be find my connection to Judaism while perusing my passion for science and I think your explanation of your own interpretations genuinely helped me to reconsider my own.
There is an excellent book written by an Orthodox Jewish Scientist called “The Science of God” by Professor Gerald Schroeder. It will blow your mind.
I am glad for listening to this. This video reminds me of one of my favorite tv programs by Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud which ran from 70s until late 90s talking about the science in everything around us and how it is related to faith.
"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the Universe." Is one of my favorite quotes (I have it hung in my classroom) and I feel it marries my science/math side with my religious side. It all is interconnected and it's beautiful.
I am a Christian and my religion teaches that even though the Bible isn’t a science textbook, it doesn’t conflict with science. In fact, it’s fascinating to see science confirm things that the Bible already explains. The shape of the earth, for one. The water cycle, for another. Even the human diet. I watch “experts” try to exclude certain foods or make dietary recommendations based on evolutionary theory, only to come around to adding back things that the Bible long described as being good to eat.
This video from 4 years ago has reached me in 2020 at a time when I need to hear it. Thank you so much! I'm in such a unhealthy place because of emotional conflict, but your message has helped me to rethink certain things.
With tears in my eyes I was feeling the same hun
I love that explanation of God! I am Catholic and believe very strongly in science. Finding someone else who has the same thoughts/ feelings is very reassuring. I love you, I could watch your videos all day.
But, here's the thing for me - WHY are you Catholic and not a Sikh, Hindu or Mormon?
You believe very strongly in science, but is it possible your Catholicism is the result not of studying 'the underlying science of Catholicism', but of more mundane causes; such as taking on the faith of your family members, parents or cultural group?
While I realise that many people can and do simultaneously hold scientific views AND a particular theistic belief, you can't pretend to say that you hold those religious views to the same scientific scrutiny as you would any other novel and untested claim about reality.
Thank you for this! I am very religiously inclined, emotionally, but also very skeptical and scientific in my thinking. I struggle with these two sides of myself, one wanting to bow down and worship God while the other side is saying God can't really exist. Your video really helps me to incorporate these two sides of myself. A BIG thanks!
I love what Mayim says. I also love the place where spirituality and religion converge. It's how Einstein and Spinoza viewed the world. It is an understanding that all life is connected (we are all atoms living in a soup of atoms) and that there are creative forces at work (Darwin & genetics to name a few) and so much we still don't understand. There is both chaos and elegance in the universe. It is amazing that life knows how to make life. When you mentally step back... it's all astounding.
I don't think Einstein ever went as far as believing in any particular religious faith. As far as I am aware, he used plenty of flowery, poetic phrases to describe '...knowing the mind of God', but I don't think he was supposing a deity, but instead likening science to the continuing quest to probe further into the operation of the Universe.
Leaping from a deity to a specific religious faith is, I feel, incompatible with a scientific mindset.
It's refreshing to see this. There's so many toxic atheists vs religious debates. People need to understand both ways of the argument. Why are people atheists, and why are people religious, instead of just arguing
SAM M pity it’s just word salad, wishful thinking, platitudes, playing to her audience, deepity and plain old nonsense.
I agree, Sam M, it is refreshing. I'm glad to see somebody being open-minded about the topic.
Random-Animezing what’s good about it?
She's basically an atheist, but calls nature "God".
toxic atheists?? Atheists have every bloody right to be against religions and the biblical god. Just look at this world and what religion has done and is still doing. The biblical god character is the biggest mass murderer and evil of all time and says it loves us but threatens eternal hell to those who dont do as it wants, and people worship this character and cause wars and kills others etc etc hmm And thats just the very tip of the iceberg ...
I'm quite sure I am not the only one that's said this but as a Jewish man, who's also vegan, that works in the medical field as well, I have tried a plethora of times to explain this and have come up short handed. In 4 minutes, you explained it perfectly and rationally. For that, I thank you greatly. Chag sameach!
but why are you vegan? You can say I will try not to eat much meat, but in your case you don't want to eat any.. By evolution we eat meat, so if you don't eat meat at all I guess it's not normal for us...
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one1 for moral reason. You acknowledge use evolution to make a moral claim (that's an appeal to nature).
I’m a Christian and I love and appreciate this so much. Mayim, thank you for allowing God to communicate through you how he’s working in the science community. I’ve always believed that science is the explanation of God’s existence and the intricacies of the things he’s created, not the explanation of why he doesn’t exist. Thanks for bringing peace to my scattered mind on this issue.
I view science as away of understanding God and his Creation.
@@MrFossil367ab45gfyth how so? explain.
@@scrobag1 , well, science deals with the physical world and how it works around us. If God made the universe and everything that exists in it, science is helping us understand it. Therefore, we are understanding his creation and how it operates because that is what science does, figures out how things work in the world and universe.
This was the most beautiful thing I’ve even heard. No joke.
read more.
I feel like apart from being an actress and being an actual scientist you should make educational crash courses! you explain things so well!
You inspire me so much as a Muslim growing up in the west and getting a degree in computer science. I believe in god and love science ❤️ Thank you Mayim
if you're implying that that these natural universal functions are the result of an agent of some sort, then I don't think you've really shown that to be the case.
You can speculate that if you want, but it's just that,... speculation.
I also don't really think discipline and structure have to be tied to religion, and at times, this "discipline" often takes the form of arbitrary behaviors that can range from useless to harmful.
Your last paragraph is a pretty cute fallacy.
Religions structure discipline
I'm disciplined -> therefore I am religious. This is wrong.
Because Religions structure disciplines, but not one said all disciplines are derived from religion.
She states her religion as being an example of a boundary to have and disciplines to adopt, nowhere did she say that's the default example for discipline, otherwise you're a tacky rude jerk.
No side here. I'm being a very objective atheist.
I'd also add that "arbitrary behaviors that can range from useless to harmful" isn't exactly true either. Some of the behaviors can be useful and positive.
I think Mayim's definitions of "god", "divine", etc. are clearly fundamentally different than those of most religious people. The video sounds good. It has emotion. But I don't think her concept of "god" is like that of most theists. I am reminded of the person who claims to be spiritual, but not religions.
She is not monotheistic- but a pantheist.
I'm a religious jew, and this is exactly how I see god and how many religious people around me see him, most of my community. And in Judaism there are so many different beliefs about ehat exactly God is so you can't really say that "most" theists don't think like her...
@@הדרפסחברלינגר What I said was that her concept of God is different when compared to the concept of God held by most theists. I think that observation is true.
@@AttRandyReynolds I think that there are many different beliefs about who exactly God is and that there isn't "most"
@@הדרפסחברלינגר I can assure you that there is a "most" as in "most common" representation of God and I do not think that is articulated in the video.
It's so nice to hear a person of science, especially one with such a high public profile, talk about religion in such a positive way. As a Christian who loves science, I think that you are a true inspiration.
True, there is nothing wrong with being a scientist and being religious or spiritual.
I've been a nurse for over 40 years, and I am also a person with strong religious beliefs. I have come to reconcile my feelings by realizing that the Bible is an account of what happened and what will happen. Science is the "how and why".If you read Genesis, the order that the animals are listed in is the same order that they supposedly evolved in. And who knows how long a week is to God? The two are not mutually exclusive.
This brought me a lot of comfort. Recently my inner skeptic has been screaming and freaking out about what happens when our physical bodies die and I’ve been terrified thinking that I might lose myself and cease to exist spiritually. It’s a thought that’s been deeply troubling. “What if there’s nothing after? Is it realistic to believe in an afterlife?” I have terrible anxiety so my brain likes to latch onto these thoughts and not let me sleep or enjoy anything. But then I remembered seeing this video somewhere and I thought that maybe if I watched it and heard from someone who has a realistic sense of the universe but who is also religious I might be able to put that skeptic anxiety voice in my head to rest. And it worked. Thank you so much for your explanation and the time you took to make this video. It is much appreciated.
Do you believe in heaven.
@@taisonbertalam2832 that wasn't her point. And not every religion teaches that there is one. For example Mormons believe there are seven levels to heaven, jehovah witnesses believe we are just reincarnated over and over. Her thoughts were about spiritual death. She doesn't have to believe in heaven to believe that there is an afterlife.
Loretta Lewis did I?
Watch some testimonies regarding Near Death Experiences and I assure you, you won’t be so scared of death again. On another note..
In the beginning(time) God created the Heavens(space) and the Earth(matter) -Genesis 1:1
A as a scientist or medical researcher myself, my faith has only strengthened as my scientific understanding has increased and discoveries have put me in profound awe. Most certainly their is a spiritual realm outside of our observable physical world.
There is limited evidence of those who have been to heaven without experiencing a hallucination. Dr. Eben Alexander III is a neurosurgeon who saw Heaven. He was previously agnostic but now believes. The portion of the brain that produces hallucinations was shut down during an infection. I believe in an afterlife, but I really think the scientific community should do way more research. It should come from those of all backgrounds who believe; final resting place (Heaven), reincarnation, lights out (death is the end), becoming a star, etc. to avoid bias. NDE research is a field that we understand extremely little about.
Absolutely spot on. I can never explain myself completely and understandably on this subject. Well said.
I am a Christian. What you say about God, the universe and how we feel and see each other really struck a chord with me. Thank you.
You are all lunatics it's like I'm in a never ending nightmare where people still believe in fairy tales when you learn in public schools of other myths just as unplausible and made-up-sounding..
How can you not see that that's how a dead religion is referred to? as a myth? Which will also happen to all popular religions that exist today
It is shame that other people living their lives with their own beliefs and systems that shape their life distress you so much. Perhaps you should seek help? Maybe some tolerance classes? Or even seeing professionals if the problem stems much deeper. Or you know, you could just get a life?
CorporealGinger Yea, religious people always kept their religion for themselves throghout history. Even today, look at how tolerant muslims are to gays and atheists..
Creationists wanting to teach children their nonsense in public schools... I see you religious fucks creeping in politics all the time, wanting to control how others live based in some mythology so don't play the victim ok? Try to put yourself in my position imagine some complete lunatics trying to force you how to live
The same could be said about you, it's a meaningless statement, since you responded to me, why don't you get a life?
How about you realise that deep down all religions are the same? It's all made up..
People are catholics because mom and dad are catholics, people are muslims because mom and dad are muslims people are hindus because... etc etc
the list goes on. Can you guys stop the insanity? There is enough of it already out there. I did it, I'm from a religious family, you can do it too just think about it for some time and you'll realise how silly it is
Have you ever heard the phrase, "you shouldn't assume because it makes an ass out of your and me?" No where in my comment did I state my own beliefs. Just that its sad you find so much distress in other people living their lives. You have the audacity to make general sweeping comments about others then cry that religious people do it too. So to clear up some things, let me address each part of your argument.
1. Islam has some very extreme people who believe gay people should be killed. Joseph Stalin committed many atrocities against people he saw as abominations too. People don't need a religion to be bad. You just got me a human.
2. I support the separation of church and state. Also, like Mayim, despite my religious beliefs I don't reject science. I fight against those who would use the schools and the government to indoctrinate children and force their beliefs on others. I believe that ever human has a right to learn, discover, and make their own decisions.
3. I have a life. Its not me who apparently lives in some nightmarish landscape where the mere existence of people with religious beliefs have me wallowing in anguish.
4. How about you realize that while many people do believe what they believe because of mommy and daddy that just have many have come to their own conclusions. My parents were strict Southern Baptists. I do not hold any of the same beliefs that they do because when I became an adult I began to make my own decisions. Just like the many people who converted or fell away from the faiths they were raised.
5. Again, I suggest getting help on your own prejudices before you try taking a moral high ground. You're right in that religious people can be dicks. Religious people can also be kind. Just like atheists can be kind or than can be raging dicks. This world doesn't have a religious or a nonreligious problem. It has a people problem and until we start fixing ourselves we can't hope to fix the world.
CorporealGinger oh god.. Oh dear.. how many times have I heard the same bs? what the actuall fuck honestly. STALIN? lmao
You missed the points, but honestly, I have better things to do.
Even though I am an agnostic Atheist I admire your perspective ma'am.
@Vik Murty . Stop spreading fallacies. Atheism isn't a religion: It's a position when it comes to a claim. It is also a lack of belief.
People can be atheist in the sense that they don't believe in gods, but agnostic when it comes to not knowing if one or many exist: *Otherwise known as an agnostic atheist.*
*(P.s. please don't reply saying atheism is the belief that there is no god, because that only shows that you have no idea what atheism is)*
@Vik Murty . Yep, and thats what i thought: *You have no idea what atheism is.*
Well, I suppose if I have nothing to learn here then I'll just be on my way. Have a good day.
I'm an agnostic atheist too and I respect her beliefs too. And yes atheism is NOT a religion oh GOD. Let me define agnostic atheist from Richard Dawkins' scale of faith from the God Delusion: "I can not be sure if God exists, but I live my life based on the assumption that he does not." (Until proven)
@Vik Murty . wow..."atheism is religion"...really???
Is not believing in leprechauns also a religion? Does not believing in Zeus make you a religious person in that regard?
Also...atheism is NOT necessarily the belief that there is no god. You should read up on things before making these ignorant statements.
I am tired of hearing that shit
@@derwolf9670 Atheists say it means they "lack a belief...." Can you scientifically prove to other people that is true?....lol...jk
Trollin trollin trollin keep them shoes for bowlin'...
This is very interesting to me, the way you think of God. I’m an atheist going through an existential crisis after leaving Christianity, but your perspective is so amazing that I almost envy it 😊♥️
Jesus is still fighting for you. He loves you so much!
Britany Kunzler is that why he permits the abuse?
I don’t think comment will have much influence on your life, nonetheless, I am a Christian who studies philosophy and to be honest live constantly on the edge of what I guess you could call an existential crisis to!! I have come close to giving up my faith a few times now, and contemplated what my worldview would be like if I did. However, I also thought I’d share answers I am working on to your question, which ultimately boils down to the following: if God existed, His goodness would lead us to expect to a very high degree of probability that He would not permit such HORRENDOUS evil in this world. But there is truly horrendous evil in this world. Therefore, God likely does not exist. Now, one dispute this line of reasoning by claiming we could not fully understand the mind of God, so we cannot day we would most likely expect Him to prevent horrendous evil because how could we have a good enough understanding to make that claim! I find this unconvincing because it seems, though we clearly couldn’t fully understand God’s mind if He were to exist, a believer must admit we can PARTIALLY understand it, because otherwise we could never recognise His work in the world (be it design, miracles, anything! We’d have to say ‘we couldn’t understand the mind of God so cannot day we’d expect Him to do any of these things)! And if we cannot do that, how could anyone have any reason to believe in God?! Nonetheless, it seems to me plausible to say that if we could not comprehend God’s reason for permitting evil (or that there was a very good reason for God not to tell us it), we may instead expect God to either indicate that to be so or at least give us a clear sign (or signs) of His love (to indicate that there must be some reason He permits it, even if we don’t know what). And perhaps the life of Jesus (and/or the book of Job) provides either or both of these signs: signs we may expect a loving God to give that there is an answer to why God permits evil even if we are unaware of it. Perhaps it is Christ’s passion that provides this, in addition to His teachings. As I say, this is a work in progress of an answer, but I hope it at the very least lends good for thought!
Happy Guy well thank you sir. I appreciate the time and effort (and nice username, but not very fitting for a guy perpetually on the verge of an existential crisis eh? XD). First and foremost my apostasy was not initiated due to any suffering in the world, although I did struggle with the concept, ESPECIALLY the idea that some of my friends would be burning for all eternity because they didn’t believe what I believed. BUT I have not left Christianity for that; I left because of rational reasons: lack of evidence, lack of consistency, the fact that there have been literally thousands of religions throughout history, the wishful thinking and sheer predictability of religious thought, fallacious Christian arguments, etc. etc. And for the first year or so I was digging in researching trying to reaffirm my beliefs because I wanted to assure myself they were true... but i was not impressed. Needless to say I have since left. Oh yeah, and my cousin is a huge fucking hypocrite-he’s in seminary school to be a priest but he’s also a sexual predator-so I have a lot of beef with Catholicism as you’d imagine. It’s also weird because you don’t realize how cultish your family is until you forsake their patterns of thought and think for yourself. I’m happy for you though. It sure does feel nice to have things all figured out (especially if you’re at peace along the idea that a heaven awaits). And you seem like a pretty cool dude.
Natalie Elskamp Ahahah thank you very much, you seem like a pretty cool girl!!Yeah I get the idea of friends suffering for eternity in hell - most my family and friends are non-religious! However, I think you can be a Christian without believing in eternal conscious torment. Long story short, I believe damnation consists in some kind of destruction rather than eternal conscious torment for various reasons though... perhaps the so-called ‘problem of hell’ (how could anyone be tortured for eternity) can be solved, but it’s not something I feel obliged to deal with given my beliefs. Although, I can see how distressing that would have been for you!! And it sounds like you’ve really done your research, which I really admire!! I have spent years researching these things, and to be honest the evidence I have at the moment perhaps seems like a real mixed bag!! Though it’s still a work in progress me examining it all. And the idea of when belief without evidence clearly pointing for or against a claim intrigues next at the moment (e.g. could someone convince themselves their next date is going to go well because doing so may have practical benefits, despite the fact all their prior dates have gone terribly and they aren’t a psychologist so don’t know about self-fulfilling prophesies? Similarly, should be believe in free will for the practical benefits even though the evidence is arguably pretty dubious? Or believe any moral claim, given differences in moral beliefs etc?). Anyways, I have hope and faith my examining of the evidence won’t lead me away from Christianity (do I smell a confirmation bias?!), though what I will say is that I have genuinely discovered surprisingly good pieces of evidence for it, as well as pieces against it. Sorry for such long comments - I wonder if anyone else will read these?! And I hope your relations with your Catholic family are okay!! And that’s awful to hear what your cousin did!! Even if it were to turn out God did exist etc, I can honestly say what he did severely contravened Jesus’s teachings about love and non-hypocrisy, so it deeply disturbed me that he would do such a thing as a priest who is supposed to follow such teachings!! (And the same goes for the many priests who unfortunately have done too...)
♡ these thoughts. if more ppl viewed religion this way & not just blindly follow this world would be so much more peaceful xo
Oh my gosh we exist!, Damn i feel that everyday. This one line made me even bigger fan of you ma'am!
How did I miss this? I love everything you said! To me appreciating the natural world brings me closer to God. I'm a Christian and a BBC documentary hosted by David Attenborough feels a lot like church! Beauty, truth, life, death, right, wrong, and love are all there if you are just willing to see it.
What is wrong with calling it 'The Human Experience', plain and simple?
Nothing. But what's wrong with calling it Religion?
Mijochda
It could help to bring a lot more people together, that are divided with 'group names, and group loyalties'.
Given what most religious people world wide believe in it is very harmful to associate oneself with the label religious. Because most orthodox Jews(in Israel) are more in the business of preventing other Jews driving buses or cars in Saturday, gay marriage or some basic essentials like divorce for "Agunot", women that their husbands disappeared/don't want to give a "Get", or castrating cats which is necessary for major cities to prevent them from spreading(not even joking, google "Uri Ariel", MK in Israel) and the list goes on. When you have this offshoot intellectual who takes some very elastic form of religion it has almost nothing to do with modern orthodox Judaism or with how most people view religion worldwide, or even in the west(where most religious people don't believe in evolution) it is more harmful because now you have more people who view religion as this good harmless thing which it really isn't
+Mijochda crusades, Isis, middle East (in general), KKK, westburough Baptist Church... those are just some reasons wrong with calling it religion, I have never heard of anyone getting killed/maimed/tortured/Discriminated against in the name of the Human Experience.
Johnny Gadget
You understand. :-)
I loved this video, although I myself am not Jewish I know it to be a beautiful faith in a beautiful God. I totally agree with you that science and faith don't actually have to be in conflict with each other and seeking an understanding of both can in fact help form us into a more whole human being. You are wonderfully thoughtful Mayim Bialik, keep doing what you're doing!
I really appreciate this perspective. As a logical personality raised in a heavily religious household, I've spent a lot of my adult life trying to reconcile my faith with the concrete scientific facts of the educated world. The general attitude toward me from my family, teachers, and peers, is that these two viewpoints can't harmonize. So I really appreciate when someone else is able to face this tension and retain their beliefs AND logic - a religious believer who still wants to figure out how and why the world works with a goal of making it a better place.
I love this woman. A brilliant, bold, and beautiful mind with a spirit to match. That she is able to put into words what I have come to discover and believe on my own, is a true blessing. It's nice to have such words available when I come across these same questions. Thank you, Mayim.
I love this lady. Gorgeous, smart, genuine, down to earth, humble, and funny. She's like the antithesis of most of the people in Hollywood. Hope you keep making vids.
As a Metrologist, I really love your definition. I have always felt like I was doing God's work.
Seeing as I work directly under engineers, I absolutely love science and engineering, I am the keeper of the units in which they use to measure, it makes it difficult when the people I look up to try their hardest to break down why God cannot exist. I looked up "God and science", and you are what I found. Thank you so much.
'...doing God's work...'. Does that mean all this time you've been predicting weather patterns when a God should have been rightly doing it?
Sorry, just playing with words.
But seriously, I just flat-out don't understand.
How and where is this 'God' thing that people keep mentioning? Why can't all the rest of us touch, see, feel, hear or in any way probe this entity? What possible satisfaction or succour does it provide your mind to something that is forever out of bounds of skeptical enquiry? What possible scientific tests can we design that might help prove or disprove your particular hypothesis where it comes to these deities?
I find the notion of gods and deities so frustratingly ethereal, like something billowing past made of something finer than the finest silk. It's like something we think we see out of our peripheral vision and when we turn to face; there is nothing.
There MUST be an explanation for why so many find these notions around something so nebulous to be also such a source of comfort and peace. I could never be convinced of a particular religious faith as an adult, but perhaps if a parent or teacher had taught these ideas to me at an early age; might I have been 'vulnerable' to them? I'm not being deliberately provocative here, it's well known that any number of ideas can become deeply-ingrained if introduced to us at the right age.
To all the religious people, I'd say this.
Imagine you grew up without any notion of god, gods or religion. No iconography or cultural or art or anything like that in your life had ANY linkage to any religious concept.
Instead, you grew up and learnt the basics of reading, writing, how to spell, mathematics and arithmetic, before moving onto things like how to construct logical arguments, what it means to prove or disprove something. Then maybe you'd learn about logical fallacies and the many ways we can fool others or indeed; fool ourselves. You'd go through the experience many times of having a previously-held belief or view about the world proven wrong as you learnt more, and more.
Given all that, now imagine that with all that under your belt, someone tells you about the faith you now profess. How would your advanced and experienced mind process these new claims? What prior standing would you give to the notions within those claims? Would believing these new ideas force other ideas you considered part of well-understood science to be re-classified?
What sort of rules would you apply to your new religious ideas in terms of standards of falsification? How would you compare the claims made by religion X with the claims made by religion Y? In comparing religions, could you come to decide if one is 'more likely correct' than the other and on what basis?
"There is a force in this universe that underlies all this beautiful chaos"
Best articulation of my concept of Intelligent Design
There isn't a shred of evidence for that nonsense.
@@scrobag1 thankfully we live in a country where people can have their own views of reality.
@@braggsean1026 sorry sean reality and logic do not work that way.i believe in an objective reality and if you have evidence of "forces" "beautiful chaos" and any more verbal nonsense, you are going to need some evidence. Because this will allow any nonsense to be an acceptable belief of reality. i can claim unicorns created everything and you should accept that in our free country.
@@scrobag1 k cool... so it's America so I will say and believe whatever I want
then yes, any nonsense is allowed. this has leaked into our politics and the moral compass of society. you should then be accepting of anything (e.g. racial superiority, leprechauns, santa claus etc, . I could on). keep up the ignorance sean. society needs it???
It is always a bit disappointing for me to hear that people need religion to be responsible, decent human beings. I believe that human morality precedes any religion, that it is interwoven in our inner compass. But, in the end I think it is quite obvious, why people need god, why people believe or need to believe in supernatural. So I can imagine why some (rare) scientists are also religious. My belief is that religion opposes science and that most religious scientists adjust 'god' to their worldview, like in this clip, so, god becomes whatever we want/make up. First, god was this magical man on the cloud, then it was a human being (Jesus), then it was love/nature/good, what is next?
Tatjana Glasnovic you arent describing religion - youre describing christianity. mayim is jewish.
yes indeed, religions infantilze people and usurp everything good humanity has developped over centuries : science, morality, justice etc. Quite sad to hear her wishy washy arguments, especially from someone who claims to be sceintifc...
@@julia.24 I was reacting to what she said, she is ascribing all that is good in humans to something supernatural. She also says she is guided by her faith to be a good person. I cannot say this is Christianity or Judaism, but the history of religions teaches us that most of them are taking undeserved credit for the good in people and for inventing 'morality'. Also, claiming that the universe is governed by something bigger is the most unscientific thing. I know people need illusions (and they have every right to have them), I am just extra confused when I stumble upon this rare oxymoron of a religious scientist.
This is easily the most impressive articulation of how to reconcile science and religion I've ever heard. Regardless of our current religious leanings, if we could all embrace this core perspective, what a wonderful world this would be. I'd say you are certainly doing your part to repair the world. Thank you so much for this, Mayim!
So... you're a humanist. I have very similar experiences and feelings. Why call it "God"? Why not give yourself credit for your self-discipline and good morals?
Laura Byers Thank you. Finally a person with a brain
Among her first words were "Im jewish and believe in the tenants of Judaism.Having said that I think she is a polytheist and universalist
Why NOT call it god? :)
@@livingroompickersclub6358 Wrong , listen again without your preconceived view. Judaism relates to God as those things we feel and see because God Himself can not be known by finite beings like us.
Christina Roeters My preconceived view of what?And If you think God cannot be known buy finite beings like us then I would say you are the one with a preconceived view which has error.In Judaism the Torah-in fact the entire Bible reveals that we can in fact know God to a lesser or greater degree depending on the depth of our relationship with him. Adam was a finite being and knew God and in fact walked with God every evening. Moses knew God, Abraham was called the friend of God by God himself.God always intended that we should know him, that was one of the primary reasons God created us.
why is everyone freaking out about this? religion and your degree of religious practice is something very very personal that differs. i think it's brave&great to make a video about your belief because it is important to you.
Yes, you can be a scientist and be religious or spiritual. She is entitled to that, and she has a right to talk about it and believe it.
This is inspiring. I personally am going to school to be a physicist. I like to think about the world, and how we have came. It’s fascinating to see all the buildings, roads, and cars and picture what it was like to see the world without any of those things.
You have put it in the best way that you can. "God is all and in all".
But who or what made all?
@@jessebryant9233 G-d is outside of time, has no beginning or end & has no creator.
@@kenyettarenee1029
Sure. But I didn't ask the irrational question of who made God. And that hardly accounts for all of time, space, and material anyhow. God is not those things; God made those things. Zane seems to believe that God is everything.
That’s basically pantheism
That my friend, what you described is called Pantheism. Everything she is saying goes against what Jesus Christ said. Jesus is not religion lol. Ill take Jesus and the apostles words over anything or anyone.
Spiritual connection doesn't require one to be religiously affiliated or have a belief in the existence of a god/s,
Cheers to you, Ms. Bialik, for your eloquent and passionate explanation of your views on God. You sound like a very enlightened and wise person. Exactly the opposite of so many of your Hollywood peers...and this is quite refreshing!
Remember every child ever born on this planet was born an atheist. The particular version of religion that someone is taught is determined by their parents and (or) there geographical location.
I would say it is safe to assume that there are very few southern baptist living in China. So it should be obvious that your location on this planet for the most part does dictate the type of religion you are exposed to first.
You are completely redefining the term 'god'. This is of course ok providing you make it clear, but why call it 'god'? This is just confusing because to pretty much everyone else your definition of 'god' is what most people would call 'nature' or something like that.
Akaakaaka ak At the same time, it means the same thing to her that God means to others.
Many pagan religions already have this definition. Granted it's different in some ways but still it's not totally unheard of
Perfectly stated. It feels really insincere to refer to nature as god. It's essentially nonsensical.
When I was 12, I was kicked out of the youth group at my church for writing a school paper about the Big Bang. I wrote that I thought God and science were both responsible for the beginning of our universe. All the literature we read in school, circa 1990, said no one knew what ignited the explosion that created everything around us. I surmised that god was the spark. That He created the rules and building blocks, set things in motion and then let science/nature take over. My church was not happy, but I aced the paper. I still, at age 40, hold to that belief. I think science is the way we explain the beauty that god created because, as humans, we have to quantify the things around us. It’s in our nature. Thanks for this video, and all of your videos. I follow you avidly, though I’ve only recently discovered your channel. Stay true and amazing :)
This is EXACTLY how I've felt my entire life, but I always find it so hard to articulate to other people. Thank you for putting the relationship between science and religion into such a beautifully described nutshell. :) x
This is the first time i've ever heard of someone mentioning the feeling of awe one experiences when they realize they are alive, and that they exist. I've only ever been met with confusion.
My mom is a religious person and every time she hears about something fascinating scientific about our world she says this what makes her believe in God as it fascinates her how complicated the world is and there must be something extra to create this :)
Sounds like emotional thinking, that brings gratification. Non-religious people have love too.
She start's off by saying that god is gravity and everything in nature etc and that she doesn't believe that god is some old guy sitting on a cloud. She then ends the video by saying that observing her Jewish religion she doesn't eat certain kinds of foods, I assume she only eats kosher as well as the other Jewish observations she doesn't go into much detail about. So my question is. Does she believe the Torah because it states quite clearly that man was made in god's image but she believes god is everything in nature and not some old guy. I think she is contradicting herself.
I think she means the stereotypical view of God, yes we were made in his image, but we still cannot imagine the complexity of him.
She was discussing discipline at the time, using it to an example on how her religion contributes to how she structures her life. She’s also a strict vegan, perhaps eating kosher helps her achieve her goal of maintaining a vegan lifestyle, she’s previously discussed how being a vegan is built of her desire to be more compassionate and aware of her actions, much like the teachings and practices of Judaism
Thank you! I'm a United Methodist pastor, and I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. Shalom!
I’m a devout Christian and I also have a degree in biochemistry. I think religion and science so so well together
Katelyn Whitaker the study of science was started by the church, so they should go together! It’s all about learning more about God’s world 🌎
A favorite quote of mine "Math (and science) is the language in which God has created the universe"
"The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshiped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful."
- Francis Collins
Cognitive Dissonance: Holding 2 conflicting beliefs.
Equivocating God with the universe.
Argument from ignorance: Attributing our existence and human qualities to the fact that one finds it incredible it exists
This is the summary of what she explained.
I am a deeply religious woman with no particular religion in the last 10 years, although many of my values and family's values reach back thousands of years also. I deeply appreciate you Mayim. Controlling forces at work, work vert hard to separate ppl into camps; "PICK A SIDE" they preach and the general population follows the orders,giving up intuitive sense, and dynamic thinking in exchange for simplistic and destructive/divisive thinking. Religion and culture is deep and only those who have it can truly know that. Much love to you, woman to woman. Anshin
So essentially god is a placeholder for those things that you don’t understand?
Religion is a social cultural construct that gives structure and discipline to your life?
Is that a bad thing?
First of all, thank you for talking about that topic in such an open way.
Nevertheless there is something I don't quite understand yet tho. I mean, ok, I get the spiritual part. I think I understand how you can believe that there MUST be something out there, just because our existence is so incredible, unbelievable, etc.
The part I honestly just don't get: Why sticking to only a certain religion? Why do you only perceive Judaism as "true" and not, let's say, Islam, Christianity, etc. (And vice-versa)? Don't they fundamentally believe in the same thing?
To me it just often feels as if religion is more of a cultural thing. I'm genuinely just trying to understand and not being offensive to anyone. Hope somebody can help :)
I crossed paths with this searching for science vs religion debates. As an atheist, I like your description of God and your reason for participating in religion. I have no idea how our Universe was created which, to me, makes the whole thing more awesome. I suspect humanity is not an end result but another step in an ongoing process. I see myself as one with the Universe. If there is anything to call spiritual within me, it's when I gaze upon the stars at night and think, "That's me I'm looking at. I am the Universe become conscious. When this body dies, it'll be okay because other bodies will arise, and I will gaze upon myself in wonder once again."
isn't that god you just described a very diferent god from the one described in the old testament? How come nowadays people can just creat their own religion and call it judaism?
Fernando Bastos They just pick and choose what precepts the wanna follow like it’s a fcukin’ salad bar because they don’t have the mental fortitude to admit to themselves THERES NO GOD
Yeah, it is different. That's why it's called The New Testament.
@@stevensmith3118 Pretty much. It feels like a cheat to refer to things you can't explain as "God."
I thought I was the only one who asked that very same question while watching this. Lol I was like hold up, you claim to believe in a God but you don’t believe in your God? The God in your Torah, the God of Moses, Abraham??
I’m soo confused. She said she was Jewish but believes in a God that makes more sense to her but not the God of her ancestors believed in?
Are you saying "the old testment" as what was before "the new testament"? Because that is christianity, not judaism in any kind of way.
Keep it up Mayim. Ignore the haters and keep on keeping on.
Yes Chase, by propagating inaccuracies and fallacious arguments. Support of this argument (her beliefs) is denial of science and common sense.
@@scrobag1 how so? elaborate please
@@stevendoty9408 If you gonna call gravity God and the title of the video called Science and religion??. Is Gravity a religion and God now??. Why not Just call it Gravity??!!. We are all owed by the natural wonders!!. So you see Mt Everest and go Kum ba ya on your Knees??. What is that all about??.
@@tomfoolish5202 your comment make no sense! gravity is an effect of mass on space! more mass, more gravity! does not mean it was not God who created it all! science only shows what he did!
@@stevendoty9408 Oh boy. "Science only shows what God did"??. How do you know that??. Did God reveal that to you in your dreams??. I think is some kind of mental illness you people have. That we perfectly understand how rainfall happens... Evaporation, condensation.. Or rainbows... No spirits!!. can't we perfectly explain the system(s) without your vudu magic ??. Is like looking at a beautiful mountain Like Everest and say "Ooh come on. It can't create Itself.. God did it"!!. So does God create lightening and Rainbows according to you??. Or mountains??. why is it soo hard for you to extrapolate the same on the big bang and whatever??. Only that in the big bang we may not understand or know all the forces involved... but what we know about it so far, doesn't indicate some magic, (God) did it. That God created Gravity??. I can't believe this!!. Are you still living in the same century we are??.
As a very religious person who also loves to learn, I believe God to be a being who simply understands the laws of the universe we call science better than our mortal brains can and has the power to control those forces.
tl;dr, version: she's culturally Jewish but doesn't believe in the Abrahamic God. Seems like more of a pantheistic belief system.
i agree
nyc86718 this describes most younger American Jews.
Or the *deism* of many of the American Founding Fathers.
Either way, I say "phooey" to both.
Agree
Just another Self hating and God hating liberal Jew
Somehow watching your videos feels like having a conversation with a friend, you have such a beautiful way of looking at the world - thank you for sharing it.
Great vlog.....I am Christian ( practicing) with both Christian and Jewish friends attending church and synagogue. I am enriched by both. I am also in the healthcare field. In that field I took organic and inorganic chemistry, physics, microbiology, anatomy and physiology, biology...... The more I studied these subjects the more I became closer to G_d in knowing there indeed is a Creator.
Thank you for putting how I feel into words.
The two most important days are when you were born and the second is finding out why Mark Twain
We need celebs like you to put through the amazing combination or connection of science and religion.
Keep it up.
Just because someone is disagreeing with Mayims points, doesn't mean they are in any form, belittling or mocking her beliefs. TH-cam has a comment section to record viewer's opinion about the content and hopefully to reach their opinion to the content creator.
As an atheist, I don't require a god to embrace the beauty of us, love, the universe and absurdity of it. Many people don't.
I can understand what she calls the inner world without labeling random things as god. I get it. There are beautiful, beautiful things to experience which, might not need or have a scientific explanation. But that doesn't make them divine or god itself.
They are beautiful, and they obviously makes our lives a hell lot better and livable. And I can certainly enjoy them with a scientific, atheistic mind.
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Hi,
I love this and I completely agree with this !
Do you have any advice on choosing a religion?
I was born into an Islamic family but had such a horrible experience that I stopped being religious all together. I never stopped believing in God.
Now that I am older and have a little girl, I have this desire to return to some thing that is more than ME. But I am struggling to find a religion.
Any advice ?
"God is gravity, and God is centrifugal force."
Trillions of definitions. None the same.
Tu es fantastique Mayim ❤️💫 Merci pour tes belles paroles !
👍🏼
Complètement ! :)
Serieusement vous croyez vraiment que la religion et les sciences ne sont pas contraditoires, vous faites vraiment pitié !!!!!!
As an human.We each have the right to choose what we believe in and how to conduct our lives.Each person deserves the right to make their on choices without fear, be treated with respect, and live in peace.Use your common sense.Only deal with folks that know what respect and boundaries are.Blessings to each of you.
Okay, after hearing your explanation - Why call it God?
Cultural association maybe? I don't know, all these "nuanced" theists are too damn shallow.
But of course why not.
I agree. It's silly to stick to that term. If you have to redefine it then maybe you don't believe in the concept.
@@topoisomerace Yes, they are simple deists who appreciate tradition, they are in no way religious in a typical sense; which actually quite a good thing in my humble opinion.
@@topoisomerace she doesn't redefine good, this definition of this concept exists for quite a while, also in religious Jewish communities.
So basically, she was born in a Jewish Family, and tried to fit her cultural beliefs in something that sounds better than the old testament.
She basically fits her cultural religious roots in the theory of the architect (something external that designed our world and the rules that governs it), that sounds quite better than the humanized god, with the same problems of a human being (hateful, vengeanze, judgement).
Is cool calling god to the design of our plane of existence but I think is just not very thought off, fitting judeism or anything else into it.
I’m so sorry people are being so disrespectful here...Religion is such a touchy subject, especially for people who don’t believe. They think it’s their duty to brainwash and break the spirits of people who are believers. Thank you for being so clear and civil!
This is just a way of not taking sides by saying the least offensive thing to everyone. Everyone is commenting "well said!" without realizing that she hasn't actually said anything. You just feel good because you think Mayim validated your belief system with a bunch of platitudes. Saying "God is gravity and centrifugal force" is not saying anything - it is just assigning an arbitrary name to something based on where and when you were born in human history. That's useless. Stop calling things God just to make yourself feel better. If you want to observe a tradition because it makes you feel good, that's fine! But this video is just devoid of any meaningful content - it simply serves to make people feel good about believing in one particular God when there's no reason to do so in the first place.
_"You might be wondering: How can you be a scientist and also be a religious person?"_
Easy.
A) Don't apply critical thinking or scientific rigor to your religious beliefs.
B) Just label any old thing as "God." Feelings. The universe. Love. Physics. Rocks. Just define "God" into existence using any old thing.
Another one is don't bring your religious beliefs into your scientific work.
Amen! I am a Christian and an academic and my true belief is that All things are G-d. Every scientific is created by G-d. It’s only our need to be special that allows for separation and that’s an illusion. The problem begins when we limit G-d to our understanding , instead of stretching our understanding to G-d.
What is God?
“God is the Supreme Intelligence - First Cause of all things.”
Thank you Mayim. I have had many doubts and worries about becoming a religious scientist and this has help a lot..you are amazing💚
It's an age old problem; science vs. religion. Why can't God be the ultimate scientist? Madeleine L'Engle who was the author of A Wrinkle in Time was not only a Christian but was the child of two scientists who were also Christians. Her books explore the time space continuum from a religious perspective. Steve Martin once said that it was hard to know what to believe in. On one hand, religion can seem mythological and arbitrary but science, which is pure empiricism by virtue of its method it excludes metaphysics. My question is, why should we have to choose one or the other? I believe that God created science--He meant for us to explore the wonders of our minds, the objects in the heavens, disease and everything else to help us to understand how complex creation is.
You say this is a way I never could have thought of. God bless you; and He has blessed you.
I don't believe in a god. I also don't see human life as amazing. I don't believe that there is any purpose to being alive except for the false purpose that our society gives us in order for there to be a society. Every feeling has no real meaning we just give it meaning because we need it to have meaning. I have always believed humans to try and find meaning in everything because that's how we function. In a way I believe our universe is like a rock or a cloud that looks like something we recognize. It only has meaning because we give it meaning and because we falsely believe in these feelings that we have. Any feeling that I actually do get is an illusion of my own mind, because I am not thinking logically about everything 24 hours a day. I don't see any problem with living in my own subconscious lie, although ,every once in a while, I do recognize the meaningless of everything. Id like to try and explain myself more but I don't believe anyone would read all that.
Mr.SomeDonkus I have a similar system of beliefs. But to live life on a day to day basis with that is so isolating and depressing. And in the end it still begs the question: what is this? What is us? Where did it come from and why is it? It is hard to leave that space blank.
For me any isolation and depression only comes from me forgetting that everything is, in the long run, meaningless. I believe that what is this, what is us, and where did it come from are all questions likely to be answered through reasoning and science eventually. Although there is also the less important human take on these questions, which is usually something that I like to separate from science. In away I believe the universe is like a grain of sand, completely pointless and meaningless, but of course humans come along with there fake perceived "free will" and they might want to know where this sand had come from all the way back to the beginning. Maybe what these humans find out about this grain of sand is "very cool and eye opening". Of course it is only perceived as "cool and eye opening" because we feel like we have free will when we don't. So any sense of knowing what is this what is us and where did it come from is still just as meaningless as it has and always will be. It is only our "sense" of adventure that makes us go do all these meaningless things like trying to find out where the universe came from because of the false meaning we put on to it because we are able to. Every description of anything that has ever existed is only described like that because we made it that way, like we are trying to put our false meaning onto this thing that has no meaning in the first place.
And here is my last attempt at explaining why it is meaningless to ask where the universe came from.
If something is completely meaningless how could the beginning have any more actual meaning.
Anyway that was me trying to explain how I see things. Boop! :D
Mr.SomeDonkus wow, what a warm fuzzy feeling I got just now....
Daniel Spaniel it is nothing. We are nothing. It is nothing. It came from nothing for absolutely no reason. Obviously.
TheWizardDumbledore just because it is not unicorns and rainbows doesn’t make it not true.
What people fail to realize is that, up until fairly recently, most scientists were driven by their belief in God. They asked the questions like “why did God put this here?” and “what did God want us to learn from this?” I very much believe you can be religious and be a scientist. I am and I also have a deep interest in science.
This is such a cop out.
Yeah, it is.
Yep
ok so I feel the EXACT same way, but I'm having trouble to commit to one religion, as I didn't grow up religiously and I think all major religions are just interpretations of the same god and the are all almost equally flawed... also I don't like the cultural assumptions attached to it. It's so weird to be spiritual AF and be considered a non-believer by followers of major religions.
I also cannot believe that god would, frankly said, give a crap, If you call him by the "wrong" name, or call yourself a jew, christ or muslim. No, god isn't vain
The difference between Jews, Christians, and Muslims is so strange to me. We all believe in the same God. Muslims and Jews start to separate at Abraham's son if I remember correctly. And it's pretty obvious where Jews and Christians separate. Even Muslims acknowledge Jesus they just say he was a prophet and not the Messiah. So basically, if you are going with those three, you can start with your belief in Jesus. Messiah or not? If not the Messiah then who did Abraham offer as sacrifice, Issac or Ishmael? Islam I think says it was Ishmael while Jews and Christians say it was Issac. If you believe in Jesus as the Messiah that gets more complicated. I am Catholic, my personal belief stretches back to the first Pope who was Jesus' disciple Peter. Different Christian faiths have branched off from Catholicism for one reason or another. Am I a perfect Catholic? No, not even close. Could I be perfect in some other Christian faith? Probably. But why should I make a faith conform to me? Have I used contraception? Yes, I used it for personal reasons that had nothing to do with sex, but sex did happen while it was in use. I have one of the seven deadly sins eating away at me daily, sloth, and I fight it as much as I can. Do I go to church every Sunday? No. But I believe in the core tenets of Catholicism. So I follow it. I've studied other religions. I know that there are beautiful beliefs and people to be found in the majority of them. They just aren't for me. I chose to be confirmed in my faith. I stand by that choice. I chose to marry an Atheist. I stand by that choice too. If you want to join any religion I suggest you study it and see what speaks to you. Don't look at what rules the religion has, unless it is a "Godly" rule. Because at the end of the day the people at the church are not why you are there. I mean yeah it's a nice bonus to not be alone, but you don't need them to believe. As a person of a Christian faith I follow the gospels. My main meaning I've taken from them are Matthew 7:1-3 and 22:36-40. Judge not and love everyone. It's as simple as it is hard to do.
Einstein said that "science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind," so you are in good company. The more of your videos I watch, the more convinced I feel that you and I would be great friends. Yasher koakh for elevating the purpose of TH-cam as you do.
I want to be best friends with you and converse everyday. . you are beautiful and I love your energy. You are so awesome! ❤❤❤
Isn't this the definition of pantheism? Not trying to hate I just thought that's what it was.
I see your point, but she's stating something that's different to pantheism. It's closer to panentheism. I know, very similar words, but there is a distinction
You dive into my brain and somehow come out with a perfectly eloquent way of describing exactly how I feel. It’s amazing!
it's so weird that I'm not religious I'm careful not to gossip, I respect other people, I don't like swearing, I don't hate people and I try to understand people that are angry.I love science and I love choral music sung in echoey churches :D