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🗓️ 12 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Richard Feynman once said, I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. |
0:08.5 | There's lots of stuff that we don't know about the universe. |
0:11.7 | Even the things that we do know, like the Big Bang and the Age of the Earth and Evolution, we don't know everything about. |
0:18.2 | And we're constantly reminded of this by religious apologists who |
0:21.5 | point to anything that science can't answer yet as an |
0:25.4 | everlasting mystery that proves the existence of God. |
0:29.6 | And everything that science has answered as fine-tuned |
0:33.4 | complexity that also somehow proves the existence of God. |
0:37.4 | And of course, when I say God, |
0:39.4 | I mean their preferred God from their preferred interpretation of their preferred translation, |
0:44.7 | of their preferred version of their preferred holy book. But while we're all able to agree |
0:50.3 | that science has plenty of questions to answer because it is built upon the idea of questioning |
0:56.8 | things, try questioning that God. And suddenly, skeptics are labeled as disrespectful, arrogant, |
1:03.8 | or even dangerous. The very same people who consider their Google searches to be enough |
1:10.0 | to dismiss the expert opinions of the |
1:12.3 | world's most brilliant minds, scoff and scowl at any reasoned attempt to question the |
1:19.4 | unassailable wisdom of a God who can't even foresee his own failure with the power of omniscience. |
1:28.3 | Many of the people who call into our shows have built their entire identities |
1:32.9 | on a doctrine that they have never critically examined. |
1:37.2 | But if your God can't stand up to criticism, then why does it deserve the title of God? |
1:47.4 | If simply questioning whether God is good, |
1:53.9 | whether God is wise, or whether God even exists in the first place offends you, then maybe it's not the questions that are the problem. Maybe it's the fragile answers that you've |
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