I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I enjoy listening to esoteric science and he makes it very accessible. He is also very affable and entertaining. He was hysterical opposing Joe Rogan’s attitude that aliens probably exist. So when I saw he was on a talk show with Gayle King I had to watch. He was fascinating as usual but stumped me when he was asked his feelings about god.
As impressive as he is to me about science, I found his ideas about the existence of a god surprisingly facile and unsophisticated, and frankly, hackneyed. He said he believed that if there was a god, he would be – ”all-powerful and good”. (Right off the bat this limits him to an anthropomorphic god, excluding all other concepts of god) And if he was good, how could he allow such suffering and misery in the world. And said that if scientists, all so objective, find evidence of “the bearded man”, were ready for it, “we’re good to go”
But I suggest that he may be looking for evidence of God in the wrong place. So let’s set out to search for “the bearded man”.
The average human adult has about 78 organs, depending on the classification criteria. They are composed of about 60 trillion cells, which are called the basic units of life. But each of these cells has a host of constituent parts, called organelles. There’s the nucleus, the golgi bodies, the mitochondria, the cell membrane, lysomes, ribosomes, and many other weird things. And each of these guys are made of billions of molecules of many different varieties, all of which are constantly changing into different molecules. Molecules are of many millions of different kinds. Any signs of god yet?
Molecules are built out of about 100 different flavors of building blocks called elements. Each particle of these elements is called an atom. And each molecule is made of anywhere from a few atoms to thousands of atoms. But you may know the atom. The atom isn’t really there. It’s mostly empty space. You’ve got your electrons orbiting around the nucleus in clouds of probability. And the nucleus is only a very tiny thing, virtualy so small its not there. But, finally there it is, the nucleus and there’s a proton. finally solid ground. Let’s hone in, and touch down.
But hells bells, look, the damn proton – at the center of the atom that is almost not there – isn’t there either. Its just a mess of zillions of things flying around called quarks, antiquarks, gluons, virtual photons, pi mesons, neutrinos and old rubber boots. Can you see god yet? (just kidding about the boots)
Okay, you particles. If you can, stop for a sec so we can take a look at you. You can’t? Well, okay. That’s too bad because scientists say that their instruments indicate that gluons, and non-valence quarks “go in and out of existence” and therefore we don’t know how many of these babies hang out in a proton. God, what a mess.
Okay science has found the very basic particles. From this we know that god, or the universe or something has a very basic unit of building, the quark, right?
Chat GTP: Hold on, butthole. I have something to say about this ridiculous statement.
” Preons are hypothetical particles proposed as subcomponents of quarks and leptons. The idea is that quarks and leptons are not fundamental but composed of these even smaller entities.” Several scientists have proposed this. Preons, if they exist are like really small, man.
Personal editorial: Can you see god, yet? How about the forest? No? How about the trees. Funny that the traditional attitude is that god may exist but certainly science has no evidence of it. Or him. Or her. Or them. For me science is (nearly) the ONLY evidence of god. Just saying.m
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I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I enjoy listening to esoteric science and he makes it very accessible. He is also very affable and entertaining. He was hysterical opposing Joe Rogan’s attitude that aliens probably exist. So when I saw he was on a talk show with Gayle King I had to watch. He was fascinating as usual but stumped me when he was asked his feelings about god.
As impressive as he is to me about science, I found his ideas about the existence of a god surprisingly facile and unsophisticated, and frankly, hackneyed. He said he believed that if there was a god, he would be – ”all-powerful and good”. (Right off the bat this limits him to an anthropomorphic god, excluding all other concepts of god) And if he was good, how could he allow such suffering and misery in the world. And said that if scientists, all so objective, find evidence of “the bearded man”, were ready for it, “we’re good to go”
But I suggest that he may be looking for evidence of God in the wrong place. So let’s set out to search for “the bearded man”.
The average human adult has about 78 organs, depending on the classification criteria. They are composed of about 60 trillion cells, which are called the basic units of life. But each of these cells has a host of constituent parts, called organelles. There’s the nucleus, the golgi bodies, the mitochondria, the cell membrane, lysomes, ribosomes, and many other weird things. And each of these guys are made of billions of molecules of many different varieties, all of which are constantly changing into different molecules. Molecules are of many millions of different kinds. Any signs of god yet?
Molecules are built out of about 100 different flavors of building blocks called elements. Each particle of these elements is called an atom. And each molecule is made of anywhere from a few atoms to thousands of atoms. But you may know the atom. The atom isn’t really there. It’s mostly empty space. You’ve got your electrons orbiting around the nucleus in clouds of probability. And the nucleus is only a very tiny thing, virtualy so small its not there. But, finally there it is, the nucleus and there’s a proton. finally solid ground. Let’s hone in, and touch down.
But hells bells, look, the damn proton, at the center of the atom that is almost not there – isn’t there either. Its just a mess of zillions of things flying around called quarks, antiquarks, gluons, virtual photons, pi mesons, neutrinos and old rubber boots. Can you see god yet? (just kidding about the boots)
Okay, you particles. If you can, stop for a sec so we can take a look at you. You can’t? Well, okay. That’s too bad because scientists say that their instruments indicate that gluons, and non-valence quarks “go in and out of existence” and therefore we don’t know how many of these babies hang out in a proton. God, what a mess.
Okay science has found the very basic particles. From this we know that god, or the universe or something has a very basic unit of building, the quark, right?
Chat GTP: Hold on, butthole. I have something to say about this ridiculous statement.
” Preons are hypothetical particles proposed as subcomponents of quarks and leptons. The idea is that quarks and leptons are not fundamental but composed of these even smaller entities.” 3 or 4 scientists have independently such. Preons, if they exist are like really small, man.
Personal editorial: Can you see god, yet? How about the forest? No? How about the trees. Funny that the traditional attitude is that god may exist but certainly science has no evidence of it. Or him. Or her. Or them. For me science is (nearly) the ONLY evidence of god. Just saying.
