A Universe From Nothing (with Lawrence Krauss)

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🗓️ 18 December 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Professor Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, director of its Origins Project, bestselling author, and he shares the screen with Richard Dawkins in the new documentary, "The Unbelievers."

Krauss' most recent book is called, "A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing."

In this podcast, Dr. Krauss joins Seth Andrews for a discussion about science, religion, apologists, and a universe from nothing.

Opening speech at Brisbane event, "Has Science Buried God?": http://youtu.be/-b8t70_c8eE?t=24m

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.6	Assume nothing.
0:08.4	Brash, bald, fake, black, blue.
0:10.6	Question, everything.
0:12.4	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.2	Open your eyes.
0:16.6	It is quite alright to be an atheist.
0:18.8	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.2	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.6	or who are atheists.
0:25.0	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.4	Challenge the opposition.
0:29.0	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:33.0	And start thinking.
0:38.0	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.6	We are winding down the final days of 2013.
0:47.6	I don't know about you, but this year just seems to have flown by.
0:50.8	I look back and I just, it's all a blur.
0:53.6	I heard somebody say once that, um,
0:56.5	life is like a roll of toilet paper.
0:58.1	It just goes faster and faster and faster as you get closer to the end.
1:03.1	Every year it seems to be just rolling by faster.
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