# Scientific proof for "God"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977 "2015-10-28T15:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/1 "2015-10-28T15:38:22Z")
[This 5 minute Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56IjrcsAtUE) video explained God to me in a scientific way that I find very hard to argue against. Since I am no longer a hard-core atheist I am calling on the SDMB to have a really tough discussion to see if this is a God-concept that atheists can get behind. For me, the answer is yes, and the question that (very much) remains is how THIS god interacts with the manifest and emerging universe. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/2 "2015-10-28T15:39:21Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > [This 5 minute Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56IjrcsAtUE) video explained God to me in a scientific way that I find very hard to argue against. Since I am no longer a hard-core atheist I am calling on the SDMB to have a really tough discussion to see if this is a God-concept that atheists can get behind. For me, the answer is yes, and the question that (very much) remains is how THIS god interacts with the manifest and emerging universe. Give us the gist of what the video is about, please. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/3 "2015-10-28T15:44:21Z")
Please provide a brief explanation of the video. Not everyone has the time or interest to open something that is going to take five minutes to “experience.” [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/4 "2015-10-28T15:45:51Z")
In your last few threads, you have gone a bit beyond being “no longer a hard-core atheist”, implying very strongly that you ARE, in a very real sense, God, and that you are in communication with whatever amorphous spiritual presence you label as God. I find it more than a little ironic that you’re now claiming that “scientific proof” exists, when last time, when you were challenged to provide any such proof, you claimed that you were so far beyond such petty concerns that you couldn’t be bothered, and then ran away and stopped responding. So how about you reply to the questions you got in the last thread before launching off on this one, hmm? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/5 "2015-10-28T15:48:54Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > I am calling on the SDMB to have a really tough discussion to see if this is a God-concept that atheists can get behind. Personally, I feel no need to “get behind” a “god-concept”. I’m happy.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/6 "2015-10-28T15:52:29Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > [This 5 minute Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56IjrcsAtUE) video explained God to me in a scientific way that I find very hard to argue against. Since I am no longer a hard-core atheist I am calling on the SDMB to have a really tough discussion to see if this is a God-concept that atheists can get behind. For me, the answer is yes, and the question that (very much) remains is how THIS god interacts with the manifest and emerging universe. If you really want to have an in-depth discussion about God/gods then you should put a bit more time in your OP than a drive by link. Seriously, summarize the thing and lay out what you think it says and why it convinces you of whatever you are convinced of, and then some arguments you want to discuss. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/7 "2015-10-28T15:54:57Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > This 5 minute Youtube video… …is about one hour in length. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/8 "2015-10-28T15:56:35Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > …is about one hour in length. I think he meant 5(9.45) minutes long… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/9 "2015-10-28T15:56:45Z")
I’m not watching the whole thing–It’s 59 minutes long, not 5–but skipping around in it, it’s just your standard intelligent design arguments that have been debunked a thousand times. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/10 "2015-10-28T15:57:55Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > [This 5 minute Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56IjrcsAtUE) video > [@Czarcasm](#): > > …is about one hour in length. It’s A MIRACLE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/11 "2015-10-28T16:02:21Z")
LOL! Sorry, that was the wrong link. [THIS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQVm8RokoBA) is the correct link! SORRY! ---
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/12 "2015-10-28T16:05:13Z")
> [@XT](#): > > If you really want to have an in-depth discussion about God/gods then you should put a bit more time in your OP than a drive by link. Seriously, summarize the thing and lay out what you think it says and why it convinces you of whatever you are convinced of, and then some arguments you want to discuss. I would love to, but after listening to and looking at that 5 minute video I don’t really feel like I have anything intelligent to add or subtract, so I am basically hoping that more intelligent minds than mine can provide new perspectives, ideas, theories and insights. This guy is a bona fide scientist and explains it much better than I (a bona fide retard) ever could. I’m mainly hoping to listen to the ensuing discussion so to speak. He basically convinced me and I’m curious as to who will refuse or accept this idea about what God could really be. ---
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/13 "2015-10-28T16:07:12Z")
If a MODERATOR could replace the link in the OP with the link that I provided later it would be great, that way newcomers won’t have to get all confused about the videos. I haven’t even seen the longer video that the first link points to, it was a Youtube mixup. (YOutube mixups can be very funny sometimes of course) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-proof-for-god/735977/14 "2015-10-28T16:08:28Z")
Stoneburg, I’ve said this before but you’ve got to bring content. Closed. Don’t do it again.