God is not a Good Theory: Questions and Answers (Sean Carroll)

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1. All religions are pyramidal systems. At the top: a small number of psychopaths: amoral manipulators taking advantage of the others. Next, a larger number of lunatics. These are the ones who actively believe the crazy shit. Fanatics. At the bottom, the largest number, are just idiots. Fools. So is god explanatory? Sure. For the psychopaths it explains to them how they can get filthy rich without working.
2. He looks like somebody. A British actor? Oh yeah. That guy that was on that show with that other guy where they were like antique hustlers. No, not old hustlers. They were hustling antiques. And that other guy was the guy in that Western show where he was a pimp or something and all the dialogue in the show was like "fuck.. fuck.. fuck.. blah blah blah".
3. These smart people are really bad at formulating their questions. lol. 
   "so um... um so um sort of um.." 
   the questions themselves are not bad .
4. Suspending disbelief for a moment (which is an element of a good mystery novel), would it make sense for God to preface his book with a spoiler? You wouldn't buy the book, would you? It really makes me wonder at the hubris of naturalism vs. the audacity of faith, that God by necessity cannot be at least partially explained by human nature, or nature in general, in the same way that we at least partially understand artists by their art.
5. Each nationality has their own culturally specific God. The British God is the more understated, less grandiose God Alrighty.
6. I'm a big fan of Sean Carroll - Of all the books on time that I've read From Eternity To Here is probably my favourite, and his back-to-back, time-symmetric cosmology fascinating. Generally though I just like the way he thinks. He shares a common trait amongst my favourite scientists and philosophers, which is an impatience with, and a disdain for, woolly thinking, obscurantism and sophistry coloured by wishful thinking. 
7. No offense to the young lady, but I don't understand why she thinks there could possibly be a capital G god that isn't expected to be the explanation for everything everywhere....if she's thinking of some lifeform more powerful than us which is responsible for a few things here or there around us...that isn't a God, that's a godlike lifeform that doesn't need worship or respect or reverence.
8. you know i was joking? right.
9. Love Sean Carroll. Anyone who hasn't read "The Particle At the End of the Universe" really needs to do themselves that favor. Amazing book. 
10. no
11. its god showing that sean is an agent of the evil machine, proof of the existence of he allmighty? 
12. Look at Sean's eyes at 1:36. The video glitches and he has robot eyes lol