You should’ve seen the wonderful standing ovation Sir David Attenborough received when he arrived at Wimbledon the other day, Joel! Everyone was cheering & clapping for him for several minutes, it was the greeting he so deserved and was lovely to see
@@kingy002 He made Wimbledon worth watching on TV when he was controller of BBC2 and director of programming. *David Attenborough is the reason why you can actually SEE the ball* Painting tennis balls yellow was his solution to a long-standing problem which made watching tennis a pain in the A - back when the broadcasting world was in black and white. I'd say that alone was worthy of a round of applause.
The world will be a much poorer and sadder place when this remarkable man eventually says goodbye to us. He is most definitely one in 8 billion and we'll never see his like again ❤❤
… I say this ALL the time! I’m welling up as I write this at the sheer thought! I’m filled with dread! My heart will beak and … I feel (sorry) hope is lost! Sir David … a magnificent, utterly remarkable human being! 🙌🙌🙌
What a sad sad day it will be, i’m not a person who really attaches myself to celebs at all but this man shaped my childhood, my teens and continues to be my hero to this day. And it’s heartbreaking that the battle he has fought all his life, seems to be a losing one. 😢
The older I get, the less this becomes an issue. There's moments when I'm in awe of nature, this planet and how everything seems to have a place and a use (function). How this came about exactly becomes less important. It's just there...and it's beautiful
Science isn’t arrogant, it’s about following the evidence until proven otherwise, to think that you know is arrogant, because then your mind is closed to new evidence
Science means to always be prepared to being falsified, to know that you don‘t know thruths but will seek your life for the next question and viable answers. That needs humble minds.
Sir David Attenborough is one of my heroes. I’ve been a fan of his for many years. His natural history programmes are truly remarkable and insightful. He is a worldwide treasure.
JT ... You have become the most mature young American it has ever been my pleasure to watch for WAY over a year now (maybe two) ... I also have vague memories ( I suffer memory issues) of commenting on one of your early videos with a somewhat similarly impressed response (Although I can't remember exactly what I said, nor when) Keep up the good work/content/understand those algorithms mate ;) lol
David Attenborough is an exceptional and remarkable individual, a real treasure of a man. Joel, did you know he had a famous brother called Richard, who was an actor and director? He was a Sir as well. Did you know that when David and Richard were young back in 1939, their family fostered 2 young Jewish girls fleeing persecution in Germany, who arrived in Britain via the Kinder transport? So, I'd say all in all, a remarkable family.
Sir David ... always so respectful of the beliefs of others, and logical in explaining is own with a wonderful command of phrase. A wonderfully unique gentleman
Thank you for this very interesting video. I wrote to Sir David Attenborough about a local wild life matter, and he took the trouble to reply, which I did not really expect, because he must get a lot of mail. He is a very polite man.
Joel, you keep delivering for us. You have a wonderful mind and you prove it regularly with the material you choose for your reactions. Sir David is an international treasure. The Brits have to share him with the whole world. Thank you very much for a wonderful reaction.
I don’t believe in god and have and never will believe in god but listening to other people’s opinions on it, rlly fascinates me as long as they aren’t like trying to push it onto u.
I responded to someone who said she was so glad a particular post was to celebrate god. I pointed out that many people have a faith that calls for the same goodness ( didn`t say I was not a believer). I got a huge paragraph all about her faith ,saying that she did good things `because it makes God happy'. I left it at that ,although I was sorely tempted to say that other faiths in the past had human sacrifices for the same reason !
Same, it fascinates me how people believe without good evidence, I've come to the conclusion it's down to what people consider as evidence, for some just "look at the trees" or "how can an eye just appear by chance" is evidence. I think we should be teaching kids critical and sceptical thinking at as young an age as possible, belief without evidence doesn't advance our society it holds it back, replacing understanding with dogma 🙄
@@jeffknott1975 If this deity is everywhere - as is often claimed - then it's interoceptive dysfunctionality is the only extraordinary thing and is as blind and ineffectual to the happens of the world and of the individuals it supposedly made as we are to the functioning of individual proteins from which we are made.
@@reidwaanwookay482 Exactly what I told the godloving person, but all I received back was a great diatribe about her own faith . No acknowledgement of what I tried to put across .
Remember saying at a dinner with my siblings and others, in response to a question about religion, I said, "as far as I'm concerned, they can't all be right, but they can all be wrong". Lifelong atheist.
There are quite a few of us in the US who live our lives appreciating the natural world without ascribing its "creation" to an Iron Age/Bronze Age deity. If others choose to believe in manmade religion, that's fine, if it brings them comfort and peace. But there are more of us who choose to place our trust in reason and science, and not accept religious beliefs as facts. Americans with higher education are more likely to be atheist/agnostic, and those with less education tend to believe in a heavenly deity. We do need a greater emphasis on education here, especially in the South. The US also needs to observe "separation of Church and State", and keep religion out of politics. (That's my big one.) The US does have a way to go before we can be a truly secular society: to keep religion in churches and private homes, and out of everything else. But we're trying, and I am ever hopeful.
i think is wrong, we always think that if someone is very good in one field then he is wise talking of every field... a master of all matters. Thats what fans do with their idols. HE was good covering animals and nature and thats it, you dont put him to cook ...
@@francesco5581 Sir David Attenborough is primarily a nature documentary maker first and foremost,his astonishing career has allowed him to learn from countless experts from around the globe in many scientific fields, giving us the viewers an unmatched understanding of the reality of a natural/factual evidence based insight into how all life evolved on this planet,he is the most important person so far in educating the masses on the factual evidence of scientific evolutionary theory. Ps if you care to understand the difference between a "theory" and what constitutes a "scientific theory" , it's a real game changer, happy learning 🖖
If this deity is everywhere - as is often claimed - then it's interoceptive dysfunctionality is the only extraordinary thing and is as blind and ineffectual to the happens of the world and of the individuals it supposedly made as we are to the functioning of individual proteins from which we are made.
Equally, don't force your blindness on other people and their children. Meanwhile, enjoy the courts, hospitals, schools, and colleges we created for you to share.
@@neuralwarp Blindness? That's rich, when you only have blind faith, with no proof of anything. As for children... they're brainwashed religiously at their first school.
The interviewer is professor Laurie Taylor who presents a weekly programme on BBC Radio 4 called Thinking Aloud - worth a listen. David Attenborough has been such an influential part of my life. In his long life he has seen the dreadful changes, humans have wrought to this planet.
@@alansmithee8831 Don't think I mentioned a platypus. Are you telling me that ants, koalas and kangaroos CAN swim? Why would you talk about other creatures that can swim when I only mentioned creatures that can't? Anyway I could add that koalas if they made it past Asia, would have died without eucalyptus leaves being available. If you wish to debunk my comments, best to address the ones I actually made.
David Attenborough is just wonderful. I][ve followed his career for many years. I have never heard him say anything in anger, never heard him insult or belittle anyone. Now 98 years old he is still filled with enthusiasm for the wonder of this world. SUGGESTION: Would you react to The Bands of HM Royal Marines: Gladiator. It is truly beautiful and a masterclass of military precision.
i feel so nostalgic :D this man was my childhood hero. how many years i spent watching him traveling throu whole world and showing me wonders of mother nature
Hi Joel greetings from England 🇬🇧 Sir David Attenborough truly is a National Treasure to the people of The UK and he is so respected for his beliefs on the natural world and he always speaks the truth!!! But did you know that his brother Richard Attenborough was a famous Actor and Movie Director as well!!! His movie "10 Rillington Place" when he played a serial killer is so spine chilling.
The joy in hearing a person of measured substance speak, is that you actually listen, and yes, too often, we forget that we are limited in both our senses, and knowledge.
I think, as a person from Northern England, we tend to pronounce his last name as, "Attenbrur" 🤔 at least it is around where I'm from, the North West of England.
He said something about "what if we don´t have the senses to experience it?". It is well known that animals and plants have some extreme senses, and even some that we don´t have at all. It doesn´t proove anything, but it is a VGQ - Very Good Question. Any good research start with a VGQ.
@@dan.j.boydzkreationz That would be crazy cool! Some blind folks actually seem to have some echo-location going on, but not like bats or dolphins. And then, viewing the world of color like a mantis shrimp, that´d be cool too. Or the hearing of elephants or the eyesight of some raptors. The reflexes of a cat or a fly. And the nose of a dog, or perhaps even better, the "nose" of a moth. For connecting this to there being a God or not, I can´t say it is proof of any God. But it sure makes me wonder if it is just haphazard. I simply can´t grasp that it "just" would be natural selection. But please don´t ask me to identify the eventual divine being I am imagining. :D
The amazing thing to me is that he can show us things in the natural world that existed before the word of god was written about, so how did god create the earth if it’s already older than the bible says? And what about dinosaurs etc…?
My 18 year old daughter wrote him a letter asking about his work on documentaries. Immediately she received a handwritten answer by this nearly hundred year old national monument. He responded so friendly and even apologised for not working on that things anymore. She keeps the letter like a treasure. He is of such incredible decency and kindness, making one believe again that our species might be a good one. Thanks for sharing, Joel. Always like your reactions 🙏
New subscriber and really enjoyed listening to this, David has been my hero pretty much for my entire life, he was one of the first people I remember from those grainy TV shows back in 50s UK, wandering around in baggy shorts and khaki shirt exploring various exotic places such as Australia, where I now live. His views on religion are absolutely aligned with my own and I didn't realise this until watching your reaction .. thank you so much. Can I just add a personal quirk here, I have a bit of a problem with the word 'agnostic' which is literally defined as "Unknowing" .. in other words we are all (including people of faith) agnostic because none of us know for sure that there is a God or there was a "Big Bang" ... we don't have any proof, only theory.
If you write David Attenborough a letter, he WILL write back. I wrote to him and a got a hand written response a week later. He’s so modest he didn’t even call himself sir. 🙂
Hi Joel I hope you are well, for many years I have dreamt my life before it happens not all of it just small parts I’ve met people before I have in real life and been place before I have in real life this doesn’t prove there is a god or some divine power but it definitely says there is more to life than what we know which in some respects provides hope and that’s what I’d like to convey that we don’t know everything on this planet far from it and there is something bigger than this reality. Thanks for the content and I hope you keep posting
Having a scientific and curious mindset leads to discoveries. Believing in the absoluteness of something (like a god or a religion) is so limiting and leads to nothing.
@@JeremyParker072 but you said a belief in God leads to nothing.... Maybe not all did believe in God. (probably 90% plus did) But certainly the ones who achieved and gave us most did believe.... So your first claim was false. There are many scientists today who believe in God. I doubt they talk about it much because they don't get funded unless they go aong with the general evolutionary/ atheist concensus. Which is the real shame, as free thinking and debate gets silenced by mockery and derision.
The Ancient Sumerian from the Middle East in what is now Iraq predated the Abrahamic bible. Their theory of how humans were formed were very similar to the one in Genesis and involved the Garden of Eden which was a fertile area between the two main rivers of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers with humans made from clay. These ideas are discussed in the Epic of Gilgamesh well before Genesis in the Abrahamic Bible was written down, it is now thought that the Sumerian stories passed down the generations in the Middle East until written down by Jewish Abrahamic scholars. The story of the Flood was also written down by the Sumerians as were many of the other Biblical stories. Bible simply translates as 'Book' by the way.
I often agree with someone's opinion to a degree even if I don't share the same opinion simply because we all have our own life experiences that bring us to that conclusion. Respecting another person's cultural heritage is a very good example of why we have no idea why they do, say or think the way they do unless we were brought up in that environment
I absolutely wish there were more interviewers out there like this. Most talk over, go yeah yeah, again which is interrupting, having to have there voice heard. No just shhhhhb.Sir David just straightforward.
You need to visit Leeds, no one ever mentions Leeds on places to visit but we have many attractions including the Royal armouries, botanical gardens at roundhay Park.. Temple newsam house, Harewood house, Leeds /Liverpool canal, a market that the old part is over 100 years old. Plus many more places to visit.
I nearly got in a fight with a christian this morning, arguing about interpretation of the bible. He got really annoyed that i thought alot of his beliefs were fantasy (that god has a son, vigin birth ect) and things got slightly heated and then he starts getting aggressive and cursing me with his 'shake the dust off your feet' nonsense, so i grabbed him by his jacket to give him a piece of my mind. Luckily it didn't go any further and we parted with him still cursing me. It seems being a christian doesn't exclude you from being an idiot, although i was a bit of idiot myself letting myself get heated. It's the condecending attitude they have where THEY are going to tell YOU 'the truth'. - I mean i've had some deep mystical experiences but i also have a mind to critically examine them and not take them so literally and at face value and i know what a dream, a waking vision, and a hallucination are, - basically the contents of your mind.
Joel...youre missing something here : OK,you like the way Richard Attenborough communicates/articulates. You are a very good communicator. You approach even really serious stuff in an articulate,light and humourous way. When an uncontrolled laugh escapes when your in midsentence,its very,very attractive and it makes me listen more to you. I bet lots of people would agree with me. From Kevin, Manchester UK
Excellent video, and it's refreshing to see a young american intelligently critique the view points of others and not be afraid to speak their own mind. I've always thought there's no God, certainly not one that listens to our prayers - humans are just not that special. We are one of the most destructive species this planet has ever known - and we are supposed to be in God's image, and all this wonder provided solely for us, to use as we see fit? I think not. I love how you commented on our imperfections - yes indeed. How can a perfect God be responsible for us, when we are so imperfect, not to mention cruel, murderous, and in far too many cases, downright evil. Homo sapiens have only been around 200,000 years or so. Someone please explain to me 60 million years of dinosaurs, an era that would in all likelihood have continued if not for a rogue meteor? Only this massive destructive event allowed for small mammals to evolve, ultimately arriving in where we are today. My sister is a bible-thumping religious nut, and according to her I'm going to hell for not believing in 'her' God. Well that's just fine, seeing as there's nothing after you die, just like there's nothing before you are born!
Thank you Joel for this video. Sir David is very much my personal hero and as always talks perfect and positive sense. Yes, of course we all have our own personal beliefs and we should respect other persons beliefs and boundaries. And I do believe in fairies.
Thanks Joel, for posting this tribute to reason. Dawkins, by the way, describes himself as an agnostic atheist, he keeps that those two words don't contradict each other because they refer to different attributes: Knowledge and belief. And he created a scale where 1 is gnostic theist and 7 gnostic atheist, and all numbers in between are agnostic to varying degrees. And he places himself as a 6, because he can't claim to be 100% sure that there is no God, even though he's close to that point. Thanks again, Sir David is beyond being a national treasure for Britain, he's a treasure for the whole world.
Yes, Attenborough is certainly worth listening to, and his analogy of the termite hill is very thoughtful. I can’t help thinking both he and - with respect - you yourself are being a little unfair on Richard Dawkins and on what he says on the subject. I know Dawkins sounds rather acerbic at times and can ruffle a lot of people’s feathers, but he has always been very clear about his position regarding atheism. He has never said that a god (or gods) doesn’t exist; he says that would not be a logical position to hold, as no human can know. Therefore he is still an agnostic, but profoundly suspicious of the God hypothesis, as the only rational position to take. He also is deeply concerned about the social and intellectual influence that religion has on mankind, which he judges to be largely negative. Attenborough may sound more mild-mannered than Dawkins, and less inclined to pronounce on religion, but as biologists I think they are essentially both articulating the same thing about the possibility of a deity existing, in particular a deity which is any kind of designer.
Yeah, but that implies you should be agnostic on the existence of unicorns, leprechauns, etc. as you can't *prove* they don't exist. My view of gods is similar to my view of leprechauns: I can't *prove* that they don't exist, but based on what we know of the world around us it's unlikely enough that "leprechauns don't exist" is a perfectly reasonable view to hold.
@@Michael75579 There is no evidence for a god as you are probably aware escept personal revelation and that's only good for convincing yourself not others and the Bible is the claim for god not the eviidence so you can't use the Bible to prove the Bible is corect that's a circular argument.
@@WinstonSmith19847 So explain to me why your argument doesn't apply equally to unicorns or leprechauns? Changing "god" to "unicorns" doesn't change the argument in any way, but most people would disagree with the "unicorns" version.
@@Michael75579 Because unicorns or leprechauns are not invisible spirits like god if they existed people would have had good chance of having seen one or in this day and age taken a photo or video of one you can't do that with a being that does exist in the physical world, I thought that would have been obvious.
The thing is we may lack some sense organ but we have made a lot of measuring and detecting machines and the question is; where are all the events we can't explain? The sort of questions science is stuck on are things like inside black holes, inside protons, dark matter etc. ie not a bunch of daily magical interventions.
Archeologist that study life on Earth have stated the odds of us being on Earth 1:...400,000,000,000. I think life is mystery, and I am thankful for the greatness of this mystery. I stand in awe.
Archeologists don't calculate odds. Yes, the conditions for life are very rare in any particular point of the universe, but the universe is so big that earth like planets are likely to be numerous. Which is pretty similar to the odds of winning the lottery being incredibly small, yet people win the lottery all the time
I love the way that David Attenborough makes little use of the first person pronouns with these questions, unlike many celebrities who say 'I think this' or 'that'. His spoken narrative has objectivity but unsurprisingly because his subject is science. He uses it to urge US to look at the world, and take notice of what is there when comparing what religious text claims, against the reality of what WE observe, such as the example he gave of studying rocks. Yet, he has taken the time to delve into the stories of religious world cultures, giving rounded and thoughtful answers to the questions posed, and refused, politely, to be pinned down to one side or another. In these days of worrying fakery this is no bad thing.
Like Edinburgh, Peterborugh, Attenborough they are all pronounced the same, and that is where Americans go wrong and typically always say BORROW or bro when it's BURRA. Edin-burra, Peter-burra, At-en-burra.
Sir David is correct. Personally I'm an atheist with agnostic tendencies......... That is I don't believe in god but there is a higher authority..... ...call it nature........We are all governed by natural law but nature is always changing & evolving.We sometimes see it in our lifetime,other times it takes numerous generations or millenia to be noticed. We are all born,we grow,breed then die.Nothing follows for us except the generation we sired.You only exist until the last person who remembers you dies also.
David hit the nail on the head when he described the limitation of our senses. If we can't see it, touch it, hear it, smell it, taste it... we won't believe it exists. But there is so much in the universe, and even throughout our own daily lives, that we don't have the senses to perceive.
But, the failing of all religions is, just because we don’t know doesn’t mean we need “invent” an answer. We can get on perfectly well either not knowing or find some proof.
Another legend from The past you might like is Desmond Morris, especially his series "The Human Animal". I also Watched Jacob Bronowski "The Ascent Of Man" when I was growing up. Don't get that kind of stuff on TV any more.
This was a fascinating video for a few reasons...1/Your face watching Sir David was classic..in awe :). 2/...I'm an agnostic, who really gets upset with people trying to 'force' their belief onto me. 3/..I have always felt we are such a minute part of this space called 'the universe...are we just amoeba in a vast sea called space? Just because , as Sir David said, We aren't aware of what lies beyond 'the universe', doesn't mean much more 'out there' doesn't exist. Imagine our every move being monitored by some-one far more 'intelligent' ..as if we are nothing more than a Tardigrade in the Pacific Ocean.
My husband died seven years ago, I sleep in the bed he died in. Since then I have numerous taps on my head my back , and my shoulder so I believe there is an afterlife.
If you are interested in religion and philosophy I would recommend Alex O Conners podcast “within reason” hes a good interviewer and has a range of topics.
It blows my mind that so many Americans believe in god. It’s really disturbing that those in charge believe in a man in the sky and make decisions based on that.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany sure but it’s 2024 not 1850. It’s time people grew up and stopped believing in rubbish stories that were created by people who didn’t know better. We’re smarter than that.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Yes, but the people who live in the US are American, its their nationality, hence when talking about them you say Americans. It was though settled by the Puritans and others of a more fundamentalist nature, but in this day and age that's irrelevant. Almost all European countries have been founded on such devout Christian principles, yet there is not many left that with a ruling Government so influenced by them. They still to this day allow the Church to interfere in their education system, which results in them not being taught its history or that of the European nations who suffered under its rule. They refuse to even acknowledge its mistakes let alone learn from them, which as the original poster said is very disturbing.
@@Michael_from_EU_GermanyWhich continent? North America or South America? There are two Americas, are you referring to both? There does seem to be both a geographical and geopolitical distinction between the two. Those from the North as known collectively as North Americans and those from the South, South Americans. Presumably you are North American then?
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Oh i understand perfectly, not all the hardcore Christians left my country, in fact most of them stayed. The Presbyterian Kirk ruled us with an iron fist for a few centuries. How do you think hardcore beliefs are passed on exactly? That's exactly what has happened over centuries in my country as well. In EVERY country worldwide. They almost always come from your parents! Which is why we allow them very little influence over state education. Its why the Church also has very little influence over our education. There is ZERO reason this cannot be implemented in the US.
The Jatravartids of the planet Viltvodle VI believe that the universe came into existence when it was sneezed out by a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.
Sir David just basically said what I feel we exist in. I believe but I don't know what I believe in. Some things when you think are too miraculous to comprehend and it feels like a design. I think things could be designed to evolve or adapt. I don't feel it was an accident but I don't believe in organised religion. Though I do believe in something. I just don't know what .
Being questioned I think by Laurie Taylor who was the Sociology Professor at my old University in York in the 1970's! Old York in England, not New York! 😉 He must be almost as old as Attenborough. 88 in fact according to Wikipedia so 10 years younger! Attenborough will soon be 100, same age as the late Queen.
Sir David Attenborough is a national treasure who has mellowed in attitude in his still resolute belief that for many reasons there cannot be a loving God. The fact that there are many false religions, with false gods, in the world it does not mean they represent the true God. Jer 23:32 I've heard many arguments why a person can't believe in God. Some of those reasons are based on what they think is in the bible but isn't, so is not proper evidence. Rejecting biblically revealed knowledge from the 'manufacturer' leaves the enquirer without proper evidence with which to make a judgement about how or why life exists. Ecc 11:5; 1 Cor 2:7 Most reject the bible as God's words, His instructions, in print. That's our choice. It's human choice to instead do what we want. Therefore we have a tendency to worship anything except God. We steal, commit adultery and or murder. Politicians lie to us, profusely, selfishly yet we vote them in. We do the opposite of what is required for happiness and joyous living then wonder why we mostly have only poverty, death and destruction. All have repercussions that last for years or even a life-time. Our world, our choice, our problems - for now.
I think there's a much bigger leap between saying "I believe in the Bible" and "There might be some sort of creator I don't understand", than "There might be some sort of creator" and "There is no creator".
You choose your heroes wisely, sir. David Attenborough's (most English people pronounce it, "Attenbruuh"), termite hill comparison is his polite way of reminding scientists that there are always limits to our knowledge. We should never claim that there is certainly no deity/creator even though most of us personally are convinced that there is not. Science, however does offer us tools to think about and test issues that might arise if there was a creator. Whatever, the debate is fun ..... mostly
I find this a bit (very) weak... Intelligent design is not about life only... Is about the existence of a first cause, of laws, of physical constants, their values, of the presence of elements, of the right quantities, of pressures and temperatures, of the 3 basic forces and o on. Limiting intelligence design to perfection or imperfection of life is limited. But surely the presence of consciousness, so of an agent capable to experience reality IS an indication of a so great complexity (and so fundamental) that cannot be labelled as "chance". Also there is no evolution of a deterministic idea of the universe... things could not have gone otherwise.
I am in a constant dilemma. I was christened a Catholic, so do have faith. However as I watch these marvellous documentaries I do at times question the Creator. Having read Stephen Hawkin's autobiography I also wonder at his stance on this approach. We probably will never know. Fascinating world.
Listen to David Attenborough. He's thought it through, which is what we should all do, especially those still bogged down in the fantasies of religious belief.
Belief is very different from what one knows, one could quite easily suggest given the information one has they don't believe and therefore are atheist but have the honesty to admit they couldn't prove it and unless the information they're in possession of alters being agnostic would seem entirely logical.
You should’ve seen the wonderful standing ovation Sir David Attenborough received when he arrived at Wimbledon the other day, Joel! Everyone was cheering & clapping for him for several minutes, it was the greeting he so deserved and was lovely to see
I was just thinking, whilst watching this video, I have to check if Sir David is still alive. So your comment was great to read. 👍
Why was it "the greeting the so deserved"? Please explain it to me.
Are you sure he wasn’t talking about his brother Richard Attenborough? Not Richard Dawkins?
@@kingy002 He made Wimbledon worth watching on TV when he was controller of BBC2 and director of programming. *David Attenborough is the reason why you can actually SEE the ball*
Painting tennis balls yellow was his solution to a long-standing problem which made watching tennis a pain in the A - back when the broadcasting world was in black and white.
I'd say that alone was worthy of a round of applause.
@@dmob881 Okay, I didn't know some of that. You have taught me something. But I don't believe that that is why he got the standing ovation.
People saying he's a GB/English national treasure. No my friends, Sir David Attenborough is a worldwide treasure.
As a dane, I agree 100%
@@shaneb4612 we Brits had him first so he is our National Treasure ☺️
@@sonofmargit A Dane & an Aussie (me), saying it. It's got to be true.
@@robcannon9165 Don't be greedy accept the fact. He worldwide, the Dane agrees with this Aussie.
Ok, we’ll share him!
The world will be a much poorer and sadder place when this remarkable man eventually says goodbye to us. He is most definitely one in 8 billion and we'll never see his like again ❤❤
@@DarkSister. only a week ago I turned to my wife and said I will openly cry when I hear dear David has left us.
@@johnnyuk3365 I will be the same, he's an extraordinarily special person ❤️
He’s a globalist and signed up to the WEF and all that ideology. Not a nice man at all.
… I say this ALL the time! I’m welling up as I write this at the sheer thought! I’m filled with dread! My heart will beak and … I feel (sorry) hope is lost!
Sir David … a magnificent, utterly remarkable human being! 🙌🙌🙌
What a sad sad day it will be, i’m not a person who really attaches myself to celebs at all but this man shaped my childhood, my teens and continues to be my hero to this day. And it’s heartbreaking that the battle he has fought all his life, seems to be a losing one. 😢
The older I get, the less this becomes an issue. There's moments when I'm in awe of nature, this planet and how everything seems to have a place and a use (function). How this came about exactly becomes less important. It's just there...and it's beautiful
What an intelligent, nuanced answer from David Attenborough !
Science isn’t arrogant, it’s about following the evidence until proven otherwise, to think that you know is arrogant, because then your mind is closed to new evidence
Science means to always be prepared to being falsified, to know that you don‘t know thruths but will seek your life for the next question and viable answers.
That needs humble minds.
Sir David Attenborough is one of my heroes. I’ve been a fan of his for many years. His natural history programmes are truly remarkable and insightful. He is a worldwide treasure.
JT ... You have become the most mature young American it has ever been my pleasure to watch for WAY over a year now (maybe two) ... I also have vague memories ( I suffer memory issues) of commenting on one of your early videos with a somewhat similarly impressed response (Although I can't remember exactly what I said, nor when)
Keep up the good work/content/understand those algorithms mate ;) lol
i could listen to this mans voice forever, its so so smooth, his knowledge is extraordinary
David Attenborough is an exceptional and remarkable individual, a real treasure of a man.
Joel, did you know he had a famous brother called Richard, who was an actor and director? He was a Sir as well.
Did you know that when David and Richard were young back in 1939, their family fostered 2 young Jewish girls fleeing persecution in Germany, who arrived in Britain via the Kinder transport?
So, I'd say all in all, a remarkable family.
Richard Attenborough starred in the original Jurassic Park (as the owner of the park)
@@EmptyGlass99I think that was John Hammond
@rebeccaclark9755 and he was brought up in Leicester. 😊
@@icedminttea2934 Yes, I believe his Dad was dean at Leicester University?
They say in Zen, waking up to life requires three things: great faith, great doubt, and great effort.
The love of nature, demonstrated by Sir David, is so much more beneficial to humans than religion, which harbours some awful horrors around the world.
Christianity is the foundation of all our laws and morals. Before Judaism they were sacrificing babies and children to gods.
Agreed
Sir David ... always so respectful of the beliefs of others, and logical in explaining is own with a wonderful command of phrase. A wonderfully unique gentleman
He is one of our wisest of men. He never disappoints.
David Attenborough is WEF. An advocate for depopulation. Nasty.
And this is why he's my favorite national treasure.
Thank you for this very interesting video.
I wrote to Sir David Attenborough about a local wild life matter, and he took the trouble to reply, which I did not really expect, because he must get a lot of mail. He is a very polite man.
Joel, you keep delivering for us. You have a wonderful mind and you prove it regularly with the material you choose for your reactions. Sir David is an international treasure. The Brits have to share him with the whole world. Thank you very much for a wonderful reaction.
David Attenborough is everything a human should be and more, the greatest human ever
I don’t believe in god and have and never will believe in god but listening to other people’s opinions on it, rlly fascinates me as long as they aren’t like trying to push it onto u.
I responded to someone who said she was so glad a particular post was to celebrate god. I pointed out that many people have a faith that calls for the same goodness ( didn`t say I was not a believer).
I got a huge paragraph all about her faith ,saying that she did good things `because it makes God happy'.
I left it at that ,although I was sorely tempted to say that other faiths in the past had human sacrifices for the same reason !
Same, it fascinates me how people believe without good evidence, I've come to the conclusion it's down to what people consider as evidence, for some just "look at the trees" or "how can an eye just appear by chance" is evidence. I think we should be teaching kids critical and sceptical thinking at as young an age as possible, belief without evidence doesn't advance our society it holds it back, replacing understanding with dogma 🙄
@@jeffknott1975 If this deity is everywhere - as is often claimed - then it's interoceptive dysfunctionality is the only extraordinary thing and is as blind and ineffectual to the happens of the world and of the individuals it supposedly made as we are to the functioning of individual proteins from which we are made.
@@Jill-mh2wnyou don’t need to prove to a God that you are doing good. You should good irrespective of whether god exists.
@@reidwaanwookay482 Exactly what I told the godloving person, but all I received back was a great diatribe about her own faith .
No acknowledgement of what I tried to put across .
Remember saying at a dinner with my siblings and others, in response to a question about religion, I said, "as far as I'm concerned, they can't all be right, but they can all be wrong". Lifelong atheist.
Thanks for this video. You are very introspective and probably smarter than most USA Americans.
There are quite a few of us in the US who live our lives appreciating the natural world without ascribing its "creation" to an Iron Age/Bronze Age deity. If others choose to believe in manmade religion, that's fine, if it brings them comfort and peace. But there are more of us who choose to place our trust in reason and science, and not accept religious beliefs as facts.
Americans with higher education are more likely to be atheist/agnostic, and those with less education tend to believe in a heavenly deity. We do need a greater emphasis on education here, especially in the South. The US also needs to observe "separation of Church and State", and keep religion out of politics. (That's my big one.)
The US does have a way to go before we can be a truly secular society: to keep religion in churches and private homes, and out of everything else. But we're trying, and I am ever hopeful.
@@LibraOwl Well said - I agree completely.
@@LibraOwl , a 2023 poll by the Pew Research Center found that 4% of Americans in the United States self-identified as atheists.
The whole world needs to listen to Sir David talk.
i think is wrong, we always think that if someone is very good in one field then he is wise talking of every field... a master of all matters. Thats what fans do with their idols. HE was good covering animals and nature and thats it, you dont put him to cook ...
@@francesco5581 Sir David Attenborough is primarily a nature documentary maker first and foremost,his astonishing career has allowed him to learn from countless experts from around the globe in many scientific fields, giving us the viewers an unmatched understanding of the reality of a natural/factual evidence based insight into how all life evolved on this planet,he is the most important person so far in educating the masses on the factual evidence of scientific evolutionary theory. Ps if you care to understand the difference between a "theory" and what constitutes a "scientific theory" , it's a real game changer, happy learning 🖖
If you believe in fairies, hobgoblins or angels, that's fine. Just don't force your beliefs or prophets on everyone else.
If this deity is everywhere - as is often claimed - then it's interoceptive dysfunctionality is the only extraordinary thing and is as blind and ineffectual to the happens of the world and of the individuals it supposedly made as we are to the functioning of individual proteins from which we are made.
Equally, don't force your blindness on other people and their children. Meanwhile, enjoy the courts, hospitals, schools, and colleges we created for you to share.
@@neuralwarpCleverly worded but ultimately weak! Say what you mean please!
@@neuralwarp Blindness?
That's rich, when you only have blind faith, with no proof of anything. As for children... they're brainwashed religiously at their first school.
@@neuralwarp Blindness? Says someone with absolutely no proof, and only blind faith to cling to.
Respect to Joel 👊
Keep making the vids, love the content.
The interviewer is professor Laurie Taylor who presents a weekly programme on BBC Radio 4 called Thinking Aloud - worth a listen. David Attenborough has been such an influential part of my life. In his long life he has seen the dreadful changes, humans have wrought to this planet.
Hello Joel. Keeping an open mind is essential to being able to learn new things.
Strongly agree but also way too often those that claim they have 'open minds' are just wolves in sheeps clothing.
@@WookieWarriorz Keep an open mind for them too.
I have an open mind, and I'm not going to fill it with talking snakes and donkeys and seven headed dragons with 10 horns. 🇦🇺🦘
@@RickyisSwan Next you will tell us you don't believe in a mammal that swims, has a ducks bill and venomous claws, plus lays eggs.
@@alansmithee8831 Don't think I mentioned a platypus. Are you telling me that ants, koalas and kangaroos CAN swim? Why would you talk about other creatures that can swim when I only mentioned creatures that can't? Anyway I could add that koalas if they made it past Asia, would have died without eucalyptus leaves being available. If you wish to debunk my comments, best to address the ones I actually made.
David Attenborough is just wonderful. I][ve followed his career for many years. I have never heard him say anything in anger, never heard him insult or belittle anyone. Now 98 years old he is still filled with enthusiasm for the wonder of this world.
SUGGESTION: Would you react to The Bands of HM Royal Marines: Gladiator. It is truly beautiful and a masterclass of military precision.
i feel so nostalgic :D this man was my childhood hero. how many years i spent watching him traveling throu whole world and showing me wonders of mother nature
Well done Joel. Nice video with a solid reaction. Cheers, John in Canada
Hi Joel greetings from England 🇬🇧 Sir David Attenborough truly is a National Treasure to the people of The UK and he is so respected for his beliefs on the natural world and he always speaks the truth!!! But did you know that his brother
Richard Attenborough was a famous Actor and Movie Director as well!!! His movie "10 Rillington Place" when he played a serial killer is so spine chilling.
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Americans might know him more for Jurassic Park.
Also a wonderful director. Check out "Gandhi".
The joy in hearing a person of measured substance speak, is that you actually listen, and yes, too often, we forget that we are limited in both our senses, and knowledge.
I think, as a person from Northern England, we tend to pronounce his last name as, "Attenbrur" 🤔 at least it is around where I'm from, the North West of England.
And in London, too!
Exactly came here to say this. It how he's been introduced by generations of TV presenters
Attenburra like we pronounce Edinburra here in Scotland.
Attenbruh or Attenburruh both fine for me.
Omg my two favourite people thank you for this interview
He said something about "what if we don´t have the senses to experience it?". It is well known that animals and plants have some extreme senses, and even some that we don´t have at all. It doesn´t proove anything, but it is a VGQ - Very Good Question. Any good research start with a VGQ.
Imagine having echo-location
@@dan.j.boydzkreationz That would be crazy cool! Some blind folks actually seem to have some echo-location going on, but not like bats or dolphins. And then, viewing the world of color like a mantis shrimp, that´d be cool too. Or the hearing of elephants or the eyesight of some raptors. The reflexes of a cat or a fly. And the nose of a dog, or perhaps even better, the "nose" of a moth. For connecting this to there being a God or not, I can´t say it is proof of any God. But it sure makes me wonder if it is just haphazard. I simply can´t grasp that it "just" would be natural selection. But please don´t ask me to identify the eventual divine being I am imagining. :D
The amazing thing to me is that he can show us things in the natural world that existed before the word of god was written about, so how did god create the earth if it’s already older than the bible says? And what about dinosaurs etc…?
Hey Joel. Great video. And you have some great insights.
My 18 year old daughter wrote him a letter asking about his work on documentaries. Immediately she received a handwritten answer by this nearly hundred year old national monument. He responded so friendly and even apologised for not working on that things anymore. She keeps the letter like a treasure.
He is of such incredible decency and kindness, making one believe again that our species might be a good one.
Thanks for sharing, Joel. Always like your reactions 🙏
New subscriber and really enjoyed listening to this, David has been my hero pretty much for my entire life, he was one of the first people I remember from those grainy TV shows back in 50s UK, wandering around in baggy shorts and khaki shirt exploring various exotic places such as Australia, where I now live. His views on religion are absolutely aligned with my own and I didn't realise this until watching your reaction .. thank you so much. Can I just add a personal quirk here, I have a bit of a problem with the word 'agnostic' which is literally defined as "Unknowing" .. in other words we are all (including people of faith) agnostic because none of us know for sure that there is a God or there was a "Big Bang" ... we don't have any proof, only theory.
Such a great man. Always interested in his views. 🎉🎉
If you write David Attenborough a letter, he WILL write back. I wrote to him and a got a hand written response a week later. He’s so modest he didn’t even call himself sir. 🙂
I never reply with 'winner of the district under 11s 100m 1976' even though I have the trophy on my mantelpiece.
THAT'S how modest we are
🙃😇😜
@@pd4165 you were?! Which district?
Unlike Dicky his brother. Huge snob.
@@paulashe61 False modesty. Wrong way round.
He is a WEF champagne socialist. His parents and family were old socialist University lecturers. Advocate for depopulation.
Joel did you know he also has a Famous Brother? His name is Richard Attenborough
Everyone knows him as John Hammond!.
Sir Richard Attenborough please.
@@daniellewis4226Or even Lord Attenborough - he got a peerage.
Was…Richard died some years ago. Great actor.
@@ninamoores Did not know that, but I have spent the last 10 years out of the Country
Hi Joel I hope you are well, for many years I have dreamt my life before it happens not all of it just small parts I’ve met people before I have in real life and been place before I have in real life this doesn’t prove there is a god or some divine power but it definitely says there is more to life than what we know which in some respects provides hope and that’s what I’d like to convey that we don’t know everything on this planet far from it and there is something bigger than this reality.
Thanks for the content and I hope you keep posting
Interesting that snakes appear so often in different stories of the origins of mankind. Attenborough just doesn't close doors.
Having a scientific and curious mindset leads to discoveries. Believing in the absoluteness of something (like a god or a religion) is so limiting and leads to nothing.
@@JeremyParker072 except all the great scientists believed in God.... It didn't hold them back
@@veilbreak5867 well not all and I would think the majority of great scientists today do not believe in god.
@@JeremyParker072 but you said a belief in God leads to nothing.... Maybe not all did believe in God. (probably 90% plus did) But certainly the ones who achieved and gave us most did believe.... So your first claim was false.
There are many scientists today who believe in God. I doubt they talk about it much because they don't get funded unless they go aong with the general evolutionary/ atheist concensus.
Which is the real shame, as free thinking and debate gets silenced by mockery and derision.
We have recently been let down by science and experts do not blindly have 'faith' in them either.
They are going to make demands of us again soon.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany what? I haven't mentioned anything about conspiracy theories. What did I write that was nonsense?
I love David Attenborough , ok you to JP 🔥❤️🇬🇧xx
Also apparently he has one of the most relaxing voice ever and I agree it's so soothing!
Great video! David Attenborough is one of my all-time heroes. Keep on being a critical thinker, America needs more people like you.
The Ancient Sumerian from the Middle East in what is now Iraq predated the Abrahamic bible. Their theory of how humans were formed were very similar to the one in Genesis and involved the Garden of Eden which was a fertile area between the two main rivers of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers with humans made from clay. These ideas are discussed in the Epic of Gilgamesh well before Genesis in the Abrahamic Bible was written down, it is now thought that the Sumerian stories passed down the generations in the Middle East until written down by Jewish Abrahamic scholars. The story of the Flood was also written down by the Sumerians as were many of the other Biblical stories. Bible simply translates as 'Book' by the way.
Great review of a great man. Cheers!
I often agree with someone's opinion to a degree even if I don't share the same opinion simply because we all have our own life experiences that bring us to that conclusion.
Respecting another person's cultural heritage is a very good example of why we have no idea why they do, say or think the way they do unless we were brought up in that environment
I absolutely wish there were more interviewers out there like this.
Most talk over, go yeah yeah, again which is interrupting, having to have there voice heard. No just shhhhhb.Sir David just straightforward.
You need to visit Leeds, no one ever mentions Leeds on places to visit but we have many attractions including the Royal armouries, botanical gardens at roundhay Park.. Temple newsam house, Harewood house, Leeds /Liverpool canal, a market that the old part is over 100 years old. Plus many more places to visit.
I nearly got in a fight with a christian this morning, arguing about interpretation of the bible. He got really annoyed that i thought alot of his beliefs were fantasy (that god has a son, vigin birth ect) and things got slightly heated and then he starts getting aggressive and cursing me with his 'shake the dust off your feet' nonsense, so i grabbed him by his jacket to give him a piece of my mind. Luckily it didn't go any further and we parted with him still cursing me. It seems being a christian doesn't exclude you from being an idiot, although i was a bit of idiot myself letting myself get heated. It's the condecending attitude they have where THEY are going to tell YOU 'the truth'. - I mean i've had some deep mystical experiences but i also have a mind to critically examine them and not take them so literally and at face value and i know what a dream, a waking vision, and a hallucination are, - basically the contents of your mind.
I met Sir Dave. At a book signing, back in the 1980's. Nice bloke, very friendly.
Joel...youre missing something here :
OK,you like the way Richard Attenborough communicates/articulates.
You are a very good communicator.
You approach even really serious stuff in an articulate,light and humourous way.
When an uncontrolled laugh escapes when your in midsentence,its very,very attractive and it makes me listen more to you.
I bet lots of people would agree with me.
From Kevin, Manchester UK
Excellent video, and it's refreshing to see a young american intelligently critique the view points of others and not be afraid to speak their own mind. I've always thought there's no God, certainly not one that listens to our prayers - humans are just not that special. We are one of the most destructive species this planet has ever known - and we are supposed to be in God's image, and all this wonder provided solely for us, to use as we see fit? I think not. I love how you commented on our imperfections - yes indeed. How can a perfect God be responsible for us, when we are so imperfect, not to mention cruel, murderous, and in far too many cases, downright evil. Homo sapiens have only been around 200,000 years or so. Someone please explain to me 60 million years of dinosaurs, an era that would in all likelihood have continued if not for a rogue meteor? Only this massive destructive event allowed for small mammals to evolve, ultimately arriving in where we are today. My sister is a bible-thumping religious nut, and according to her I'm going to hell for not believing in 'her' God. Well that's just fine, seeing as there's nothing after you die, just like there's nothing before you are born!
Considering the way God treated a lot of people in the Bible, I would say we are created in his image. Murderous, etc.
Thank you Joel for this video. Sir David is very much my personal hero and as always talks perfect and positive sense. Yes, of course we all have our own personal beliefs and we should respect other persons beliefs and boundaries. And I do believe in fairies.
Thanks Joel, for posting this tribute to reason. Dawkins, by the way, describes himself as an agnostic atheist, he keeps that those two words don't contradict each other because they refer to different attributes: Knowledge and belief. And he created a scale where 1 is gnostic theist and 7 gnostic atheist, and all numbers in between are agnostic to varying degrees. And he places himself as a 6, because he can't claim to be 100% sure that there is no God, even though he's close to that point. Thanks again, Sir David is beyond being a national treasure for Britain, he's a treasure for the whole world.
In practice, Dawkins is an atheist, because there isn't a single person that could be a 1 or a 7 on that scale.
Yes, Attenborough is certainly worth listening to, and his analogy of the termite hill is very thoughtful. I can’t help thinking both he and - with respect - you yourself are being a little unfair on Richard Dawkins and on what he says on the subject. I know Dawkins sounds rather acerbic at times and can ruffle a lot of people’s feathers, but he has always been very clear about his position regarding atheism. He has never said that a god (or gods) doesn’t exist; he says that would not be a logical position to hold, as no human can know. Therefore he is still an agnostic, but profoundly suspicious of the God hypothesis, as the only rational position to take. He also is deeply concerned about the social and intellectual influence that religion has on mankind, which he judges to be largely negative. Attenborough may sound more mild-mannered than Dawkins, and less inclined to pronounce on religion, but as biologists I think they are essentially both articulating the same thing about the possibility of a deity existing, in particular a deity which is any kind of designer.
When the necessary evidence for a god is missing the most honest answer is always " I don't know."
Yeah, but that implies you should be agnostic on the existence of unicorns, leprechauns, etc. as you can't *prove* they don't exist. My view of gods is similar to my view of leprechauns: I can't *prove* that they don't exist, but based on what we know of the world around us it's unlikely enough that "leprechauns don't exist" is a perfectly reasonable view to hold.
@@Michael75579 That is why I sad a god and not unicorns or leprechauns it doesn't imply anything except what I said.
@@Michael75579 There is no evidence for a god as you are probably aware escept personal revelation and that's only good for convincing yourself not others and the Bible is the claim for god not the eviidence so you can't use the Bible to prove the Bible is corect that's a circular argument.
@@WinstonSmith19847 So explain to me why your argument doesn't apply equally to unicorns or leprechauns? Changing "god" to "unicorns" doesn't change the argument in any way, but most people would disagree with the "unicorns" version.
@@Michael75579 Because unicorns or leprechauns are not invisible spirits like god if they existed people would have had good chance of having seen one or in this day and age taken a photo or video of one you can't do that with a being that does exist in the physical world, I thought that would have been obvious.
The thing is we may lack some sense organ but we have made a lot of measuring and detecting machines and the question is; where are all the events we can't explain? The sort of questions science is stuck on are things like inside black holes, inside protons, dark matter etc. ie not a bunch of daily magical interventions.
Science can't explain everything but we are getting there,
Archeologist that study life on Earth have stated the odds of us being on Earth 1:...400,000,000,000.
I think life is mystery, and I am thankful for the greatness of this mystery. I stand in awe.
Archeologists don't calculate odds. Yes, the conditions for life are very rare in any particular point of the universe, but the universe is so big that earth like planets are likely to be numerous.
Which is pretty similar to the odds of winning the lottery being incredibly small, yet people win the lottery all the time
You're a cool guy. I like your videos, very open to learning and not judgemental.
I love the way that David Attenborough makes little use of the first person pronouns with these questions, unlike many celebrities who say 'I think this' or 'that'. His spoken narrative has objectivity but unsurprisingly because his subject is science. He uses it to urge US to look at the world, and take notice of what is there when comparing what religious text claims, against the reality of what WE observe, such as the example he gave of studying rocks. Yet, he has taken the time to delve into the stories of religious world cultures, giving rounded and thoughtful answers to the questions posed, and refused, politely, to be pinned down to one side or another. In these days of worrying fakery this is no bad thing.
Like Edinburgh, Peterborugh, Attenborough they are all pronounced the same, and that is where Americans go wrong and typically always say BORROW or bro when it's BURRA. Edin-burra, Peter-burra, At-en-burra.
Jps, you got it!
You are so grounded young man!
Sir David is correct. Personally I'm an atheist with agnostic tendencies......... That is I don't believe in god but there is a higher authority..... ...call it nature........We are all governed by natural law but nature is always changing & evolving.We sometimes see it in our lifetime,other times it takes numerous generations or millenia to be noticed. We are all born,we grow,breed then die.Nothing follows for us except the generation we sired.You only exist until the last person who remembers you dies also.
...unless you have an out-of-body experience....that changes quite a lot.....
@@yourtransformationgenie I had one of those after dying from a heart attack .......there's nothing there...... sorry.
We don’t know what we don’t know until we discover it. That is the foundation of science, discovery. I’m an agnostic.
Joel , well said!!!!!! 💕💕
David hit the nail on the head when he described the limitation of our senses. If we can't see it, touch it, hear it, smell it, taste it... we won't believe it exists. But there is so much in the universe, and even throughout our own daily lives, that we don't have the senses to perceive.
But, the failing of all religions is, just because we don’t know doesn’t mean we need “invent” an answer. We can get on perfectly well either not knowing or find some proof.
@@mickymillersson4376 Yes, very true.
Another legend from The past you might like is Desmond Morris, especially his series "The Human Animal".
I also Watched Jacob Bronowski "The Ascent Of Man" when I was growing up.
Don't get that kind of stuff on TV any more.
This was a fascinating video for a few reasons...1/Your face watching Sir David was classic..in awe :).
2/...I'm an agnostic, who really gets upset with people trying to 'force' their belief onto me.
3/..I have always felt we are such a minute part of this space called 'the universe...are we just amoeba in a vast sea called space? Just because , as Sir David said, We aren't aware of what lies beyond 'the universe', doesn't mean much more 'out there' doesn't exist. Imagine our every move being monitored by some-one far more 'intelligent' ..as if we are nothing more than a Tardigrade in the Pacific Ocean.
Life is a mystery. Everyone must stand alone. I hear you call my name and it feels like home.
Lol
My husband died seven years ago, I sleep in the bed he died in. Since then I have numerous taps on my head my back , and my shoulder so I believe there is an afterlife.
If you are interested in religion and philosophy I would recommend Alex O Conners podcast “within reason” hes a good interviewer and has a range of topics.
Sir David is a true scientist.
"You don't know until you know, until then I'll say maybe we're missing something!"
It blows my mind that so many Americans believe in god. It’s really disturbing that those in charge believe in a man in the sky and make decisions based on that.
I'm not surprised. It explains a lot 😂😂
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany sure but it’s 2024 not 1850. It’s time people grew up and stopped believing in rubbish stories that were created by people who didn’t know better. We’re smarter than that.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Yes, but the people who live in the US are American, its their nationality, hence when talking about them you say Americans.
It was though settled by the Puritans and others of a more fundamentalist nature, but in this day and age that's irrelevant. Almost all European countries have been founded on such devout Christian principles, yet there is not many left that with a ruling Government so influenced by them.
They still to this day allow the Church to interfere in their education system, which results in them not being taught its history or that of the European nations who suffered under its rule. They refuse to even acknowledge its mistakes let alone learn from them, which as the original poster said is very disturbing.
@@Michael_from_EU_GermanyWhich continent? North America or South America? There are two Americas, are you referring to both?
There does seem to be both a geographical and geopolitical distinction between the two. Those from the North as known collectively as North Americans and those from the South, South Americans.
Presumably you are North American then?
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Oh i understand perfectly, not all the hardcore Christians left my country, in fact most of them stayed. The Presbyterian Kirk ruled us with an iron fist for a few centuries.
How do you think hardcore beliefs are passed on exactly? That's exactly what has happened over centuries in my country as well. In EVERY country worldwide. They almost always come from your parents! Which is why we allow them very little influence over state education. Its why the Church also has very little influence over our education. There is ZERO reason this cannot be implemented in the US.
Regardless of the subject, his use of the language is exemplary. He also speaks a lot of sense.
You have been reading my mind, my take on religion is exactly the same as your own and very much in line with Sir. Davids!! Most enlightening!😁😁🙄
The Jatravartids of the planet Viltvodle VI believe that the universe came into existence when it was sneezed out by a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.
Sir David just basically said what I feel we exist in. I believe but I don't know what I believe in. Some things when you think are too miraculous to comprehend and it feels like a design. I think things could be designed to evolve or adapt. I don't feel it was an accident but I don't believe in organised religion. Though I do believe in something. I just don't know what .
Sir Attenborough is my role model (although I sm sure he hates that word). Smart, nature-loving, humble and friendly. I hope he lives 200 years!
Tithonus
Even the animal kingdom will morn when this legend of a human leaves us. ❤
Being questioned I think by Laurie Taylor who was the Sociology Professor at my old University in York in the 1970's! Old York in England, not New York! 😉 He must be almost as old as Attenborough. 88 in fact according to Wikipedia so 10 years younger! Attenborough will soon be 100, same age as the late Queen.
Sir David Attenborough is a national treasure who has mellowed in attitude in his still resolute belief that for many reasons there cannot be a loving God.
The fact that there are many false religions, with false gods, in the world it does not mean they represent the true God. Jer 23:32
I've heard many arguments why a person can't believe in God. Some of those reasons are based on what they think is in the bible but isn't, so is not proper evidence.
Rejecting biblically revealed knowledge from the 'manufacturer' leaves the enquirer without proper evidence with which to make a judgement about how or why life exists. Ecc 11:5; 1 Cor 2:7
Most reject the bible as God's words, His instructions, in print. That's our choice. It's human choice to instead do what we want. Therefore we have a tendency to worship anything except God. We steal, commit adultery and or murder. Politicians lie to us, profusely, selfishly yet we vote them in.
We do the opposite of what is required for happiness and joyous living then wonder why we mostly have only poverty, death and destruction. All have repercussions that last for years or even a life-time.
Our world, our choice, our problems - for now.
Not sure if you know but he had an equally famous brother. Richard Attenborough was an actor, director and producer.
And is probably these days best known by many people for his role in Jurassic Park.
What a bloke.
There is perfect design in every thing natural,perfectly made by Creator .😊
Joel has got a copy of my Yellow Book Of Poems. See page 74 for my poem about David Attenborough.
7:03 Concerning intelligent design, you should watch a TH-cam video by Cool Hard Logic called "Flies: Intelligent Design?"
Cool Hard Logic is a great channel - the videos are well worth a watch.
I think there's a much bigger leap between saying "I believe in the Bible" and "There might be some sort of creator I don't understand", than "There might be some sort of creator" and "There is no creator".
Joel , well said!!!!!! 💕💕✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
Great choice of video.
You choose your heroes wisely, sir. David Attenborough's (most English people pronounce it, "Attenbruuh"), termite hill comparison is his polite way of reminding scientists that there are always limits to our knowledge. We should never claim that there is certainly no deity/creator even though most of us personally are convinced that there is not. Science, however does offer us tools to think about and test issues that might arise if there was a creator. Whatever, the debate is fun ..... mostly
Our tiny ,weeney, pale blue dot. 💙
beautiful man. i was curious, now i know.
I find this a bit (very) weak...
Intelligent design is not about life only... Is about the existence of a first cause, of laws, of physical constants, their values, of the presence of elements, of the right quantities, of pressures and temperatures, of the 3 basic forces and o on. Limiting intelligence design to perfection or imperfection of life is limited. But surely the presence of consciousness, so of an agent capable to experience reality IS an indication of a so great complexity (and so fundamental) that cannot be labelled as "chance". Also there is no evolution of a deterministic idea of the universe... things could not have gone otherwise.
I am in a constant dilemma. I was christened a Catholic, so do have faith. However as I watch these marvellous documentaries I do at times question the Creator.
Having read Stephen Hawkin's autobiography I also wonder at his stance on this approach. We probably will never know.
Fascinating world.
You do have the option of making up your own mind about stuff rather than following the indoctrination.
The trouble is my mind is challenged at times!y@@Phiyedough
Listen to David Attenborough. He's thought it through, which is what we should all do, especially those still bogged down in the fantasies of religious
belief.
Belief is very different from what one knows, one could quite easily suggest given the information one has they don't believe and therefore are atheist but have the honesty to admit they couldn't prove it and unless the information they're in possession of alters being agnostic would seem entirely logical.