Fundamentalism is a mental disease

I actually liked this video, mainly because I could understand it, lol. I'm still not sure what I think about being able to be an evolutionist and a Christian, but either way, the points were validated. It is hard to see how you can believe in both and still believe in Creationism. But I don't believe that every unit of time in the Bible is exact. For instance, I don't think that a day in creation is 24 hours, but some much longer period of time. I can see animals being put on this earth, and then adapting according to different environments, and changing certain characteristics about them, and having changes in DNA. But I don't believe that we evolved from monkeys, that's for sure.

Truth Lies

Interesting video, some thoughts I guess I haven't pondered in a while. I agree that humans most likely would make up some sort of God, in order to have purpose in life, and to make sense of creation and our meaning. But at the same time, I am still a Christian, and I do believe in faith, and just trusting that something is there, not needing to prove its truth scientifically. I hope that as the older I get, the deeper the thoughts I have are, due to the size of my cerebral cortex, haha. That would be awesome, because I don't really think too many deep thoughts these days.

things that jiggle

Interesting, and weird at the same time. The thing that I did like about the video is that it makes a good point for philosophers. Even with all of our knowledge of physics, we can't know everything, and we will never know exactly how we have life. We know that atoms combined with four forces are important, but not all the intermediary steps. The video needed to be more explanatory though. I'm getting tired of all these random clips and words popping up. It's freaking me out.

inflationary theory

Very interesting, I had never heard of this. I never thought that the world could still be expanding, but the evidence definitely makes sense. Its funny how much Albert Einstein was opposed to this at first, but then eventually gave into reason and accepted that he was wrong.
The question I have is, can the earth ever reach a point where it cannot expand anymore? Is this even possible, or will it keep expanding indefinitely? I mean, it has to run out of room to grow eventually right?

Socrates

After reading his apology, it really makes me thankful that I can live in a world where I don't really have to worry about being put on trial for my own personal beliefs. I like the fact that he stuck to his guns, and didn't give in to the demands of the government. He believed in what he thought to be right. A lot of this writing was very difficult to read, the words were confusing. And it was LONG. So parts were definitely skimmed. But all in all, I admire his heart and steadfast belief in what he holds true.

Wilson

I like what Wilson has to say. It doesn't really matter if he's a Christian or not, the great thing is that he is appealing to his fellow man for help in saving the earth. There is so much separation between the two parties, science and Christianity, and in reality, you can be both.
I really appreciated how he respected a Christian's devotion and emotion that they put into what they do. That's why he thought it was so necessary for evangelicals to hop on board his idea.

Lisa Randall

Very interesting what she has to say about dimensions. I had never even known that there were four! Let alone maybe more. I like her comment that we might just not be physiologically designed to recognize all of the dimensions, we are not able to picture them, but that at some point, we may be able to identify them through experimentation. Her example of the sphere was very good, because I definitely can't picture a 4-D sphere! Crazy to think that gravity could be stronger in a different dimension. This proves Cusa's point correctly that we really know nothing! I wonder how many different dimensions there could be?