George Coyne at Nobel Conference 49
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George Coyne presenting "Quantum Cosmology and Creation" at Nobel Conference 49: The Universe at Its Limits. George V. Coyne, S.J., Ph.D. McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, former director of the Vatican Observatory, and head of the observatory’s research group based at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Subjects: -Beginning of Lecture (6:23) -Summary of Lecture Content (8:50) -The Search For Truth in Science (11:40) -The Search for Truth In Religious Belief (21:42) -A Mutual Interaction: Cosmology & Christian Faith (31:18) -Scientific Evolution & the Quest of Christian Faith (46:56) -Beginning of Q&A (1:02:00)
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It is quite remarkable to me how people commenting here are unable to raise a single argument against this lecture, but fall over themselves to attack the man's age, his religion, and his lecture style. Not one - not ONE - has raised a single, scientific, rational, and logical argument. Sickens me to to see what our universities and schools are producing.
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Very interesting.
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I had to give this up. It's worse than watching paint dry. Retired Jesuits are not the most entertaining people.
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this is the best religious scientists can do am i right? im still waiting for anything of substance. not sure i can stand much more. i always hold out a tiny amount of hope ill hear someone refreshingly thought provoking. doubt that'll ever happen.
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we dont know therefore search your subjective feelings therefore god did it
just another longwinded god of the gaps. bla bla bla bla.... god did it
talking the shit of us is not convincing
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The father is really embarrassing himself here.
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Brilliant I almost never have any time for religiousity, but Coyne's talk was fun!
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OK. So I am a fundamental atheist - not because I can prove Zeus does not exist - but because I accept the convergence of observations that have been made since the Enlightenment which keeps pointing a very strong and muscular finger towards the implausibility of the existence of Zeus. Now those who have "FAITH" do a lot of semantic hand waving trying to point a finger towards the plausibility of the existence of Zeus, as evidenced by Father Coyne in his presentation. On the other hand, Prof. Krauss is equally guilty of the aforesaid hand waving in his dissertation about "Nothing". The only reason I side with Prof. Krauss is because (a) he is submitting his views as a hypothesis, and (b) should sufficient data/observations come to pass demonstrating his dissertation/hypothesis is, in effect, a lot of hand waving, I am convinced he would be the first to admit it being so. That is the essential difference between someone of "FAITH" and a natural philosopher - the latter is always willing to change his/her mind based on evidence. Someone should have asked Father Coyne what evidence would he accept - if any - that his belief in the existence of Zeus is delusional. My answer to the converse of that question would be: I would accept the existence of Zeus if any Biblical miracle could be repeatedly re-enacted in double blind tests in laboratories around the world.
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It is fascinating how people can hold sincerely and genuinely believed, but mutually exclusive thoughts in their heads without imploding into catastrophic insanity.
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Derp.
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I wonder if the way I am just hearing blah-blah-blah from Coyne is the same way that theists hear talks about evolution or counter-theism?
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I find it extraordinary that such an imbecilic moron would be invited to talk at a Nobel Conference. This guy has the hide to put the most violent cult that human kind has ever thought of, on par with science, I just find that offensive. The true objective of the Christian faith is to kill Muslims and vice versa, we see it all over the world right now, not just in the past, and this guy is sponsoring that process and the society is actually paying him to do so. This guy should be in jail for deception for personal gain and for inciting hatred
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Religious Philosophy= bla bla bla bla bla..........
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No one should EVER quote pious the XII, the pope who sold the Vatican and all Catholics to fascism and nazism then aided the likes of Franz stangl and Adolfo eichmann in their escapes from justice.
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ROF (puking) : "religious thinking" IS the quintessential oxymoron.
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And I should listen to a willfully deluded rhetorical mutant monkey exactly why?
Mumbo Jumbo Voodoo Dysentery DooDoo Forever and Ever A -FKN -Men -
I am sure the Priest is REALLY nice man but his apologetic for the belief in his god is pathetic.
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I'm so sick of this "modern" use of the female pronoun "her"...God as "Her" sounds like an exercise in bending over backwards for exactly no point. Call God "It" if you think a male pronoun is misogynistic, but why disregard 5,000 years of history to make yourself sound hip and progressive?
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