Lawrence Krauss (2014) "The Cosmic Origins of Science and Religion"

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1. Science is deeply rooted in mystery school-ism which is essentially sorcery!!! Infact science is a religion at its very core!! It's no wonder that he took a jab at conventional religion each chance he got!! religion has it's holes and weaknesses but that doesn't change the fact that there is an ALMIGHTY GOD creator of heaven and earth, man and all good things!!
2. How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is close to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
   
   Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, unknowing and unperceiving, is his creator and that of all beings?
   
   Some people regard matter as independent and imagine that it has itself gained this freedom and elaborated the laws that rule over it. But how can they "believe" that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
   
   What is called science by the science-worshippers of the present age and regarded by them as equivalent to the sum total of reality, is simply a collection of laws applicable to a single dimension of the world. The result of all human effort and experimentation is a body of knowledge concerning a minute bright dot comparable to the dim light of a candle-surrounded by a dark night enveloping a huge desert of indefinite extent.
   
   http://www.al-islam.org/god-and-his-attributes-sayyid-mujtaba-musawi-lari/lesson-3-god-and-empirical-logic
3. Atheist King xd jk
4. Lawrence Krauss, you said (35:31), "we are fortunate enough, (for what ever reason-I can still say that in the United States) to have evolved a consciousness."  Evolved a consciousness? Do you have any ideas how evolution would produce a mind? You know, like millions of years ago everybody is really, really, really stupid gradually getting smarter from the past up until recent intellects? Sound logical?
5. Doesn't it mean that all explanations are getting closer to hypothesis made by Tesla, about mattera as imagenary gradual "bubbles" inside field which in fact is this real thing. And this smaller density of field makes force of gravity - flow of field, but "bubble"(mater) resistance with the field is the mass. But electromagnetic waves are waves of field. Too powerful waves can produce bubbles(matter)
6. Keep up the good work L.Krauss, love what youre doing.
7. Boring debate
8. I initially thought this was a press conference by Meryl Streep and Richard Dryfues for their new movie Chautauqua. : )
9. One of the best presentation by Professor Krauss. Special applause for the lady mediator, full of genuine passion and understanding.
10. Larry have you apologized to William Lane Craig for deliberately editing an e-mail which backed up Craig's understanding of the BGV theorem and rejected your own?
11. he read the quran !! lol
12. 48:40 Krauss is hilarious!
13. Dr Krauss,
    
    This was most enjoyable. There were so many points raised where you, Dr Krauss, hit the nail on the head. Here's the first which I felt like responding to.
    
    That was great (9:30).  Science gives us all this technology which allows not only what you see around you (I'm paraphrasing) but is what keeps you alive ... and this is true ... but this isn't what so good about it (paraphrasing again) but it's just fascinating (it true).
    
    ... After that, you made too many good points (as you would) to comment on.
    
    P.S. Thanks for your comments on QandA last Monday night: this is the kind of sanity it seems we're so desperately in need of Downunder.
    
    P.P.S. A proton emits a photon with momentum p which is absorbed by an electron, how can momentum be conserved in each interaction yet the photon convey an attractive force?
14. Religion is the belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world. These entities or forces are invisible, inaudible and otherwise undetectable by natural means. Religion tends to dwell on events and judgments taking place after we die. By the above definition, religion has no reality check. Where there is no reality check, no questions or doubts are tolerated. In other words, you must believe, and dare not question anything religion claims or demands. Sounds idiotic? That's probably because it is. - Religion is a disease. Education is the cure. It's time to eradicate this plague from the planet. Humankind has suffered long enough.
15. 39:40 what science has to offer to those who are dying.
16. The Theory of Bing Bang was first developed by a Roman Catholic priest for creationism but later accepted by agnostic and backed by some atheist cosmologists! Hinduism and Jainism always say that the universe is without beginning and infinite! However, Buddhism refused to reply such kind of impossible ontological questions how ever he pointed that there might be multiverse and all the universes go through three stages formation, stability and destruction. Buddha appealed people to focus on this life and planet since our life is impermanent! I think Buddha was right but human mind wonders to find answer of the unanswerable questions!
17. Krauss @ 7:20: "I did physics because philosophy is such a waste of time."
    
    He's trying to make it seem like he's kidding, but Krauss is every bit as anti-intellectual as the rest of the New Atheists (with the exception of philosopher Daniel Dennett). They regularly denigrate philosophy and the humanities, and insist that only the hard sciences are "real." If his audience knew any more about philosophy, particularly the philosophy of science, they'd see through Krauss's cheap scientism.
18. Wow and they claim deepak speaks woo woo, the cosmic origins of science is the most woowoo I have ever heard of.
19. Einstein did not believe in a personal god  but through science an impersonal intelligent being.
20. Reason, rational thought, is like a good fiuck.