God Is Smart!

"God is smart: Human sacrifice. Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac. Godless comedy from That Mitchell and Webb Look.



Bible story: Abraham's Sacrifice of his son Isaac.

When Isaac became a young boy, God spoke to Abraham and commanded him to take his son to Mount Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice to God. This was Gods test of Abrahams faith. Abraham loved his son very much, but did not hesitate to follow Gods words for he was a man whose faith in God was strong.

As Abraham and his son reached the place where the sacrifice was to be performed, Isaac said to his father, "Father, where is the lamb that is to be sacrificed?" Abraham replied, "My son, God will provide the lamb."

It is not known how eventually Abraham told his son that he was to be the sacrifice, but Isaac laid on the sacrificial place ready to be sacrificed for god.

As Abraham was taking out his knife, his hands were trembling. He was about to sacrifice his son when heard the voice of God saying, "Abraham, Stop! Do not hurt your son. You have proven your faith and shown how much you love Me by willing to sacrifice your son for Me. Therefore, I shall bless you and your family, and through you, I shall bless all the nations on earth."

Can you trust your thoughts?

Can you trust your thoughts? Yes.



A few notes: Our sensory neurons do reliably transmit information about the world around us. Neurons in higher cortical areas can be quite noisy, but averaging the activity from small populations of such neurons still produces a reliable signal.

Its not just our senses that we trust. You didn't hit your hand because you trusted either your memory (of getting hit by an object like a hammer) or your logical reasoning (that hitting your hand with a hammer, though something you have never experienced, would hurt).

Science is a self correcting system. If a result is unable to be reproduced, it is discarded. New findings constantly reshape our thinking. We are continuously learning about the world around us, and have no problem admitting that we don't have all the answers.

So it is clearly safe for everyone to Think about it.

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The Origin of the Brain

The human brain contains over 100 billion neurons, and roughly 1 quintillion synapses. But how did it all get started? How did the first nervous systems, the first brains evolve? How did a bunch of simple cells evolve into a biological computer?

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The Origin of Intelligence

This is the first in a 3 part series on the origin of intelligence. Future videos will discuss the origin of the brain, and the origin of cognition. In them we will see that human intelligence is not of supernatural origin. It is merely the product of evolution by natural selection.



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And remember to always Think about it.

Christian Apologetics And Critical Intelligence - Sam Harris @ The Science Network

Christian Apologetics And Critical Intelligence - Sam Harris @ The Science Network.

The Science Network: "Facts, Values and a Place for the Profound". A conversation with Sam Harris (Oct. 3, 2008).

This is Why Every Scientist Accepts Evolution

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This Should Keep Us All Thinking-The Atheist Version

Atheist IQ - Faith vs Reason

Richard Dawkins reads The God Delusion on the subject of Science, Religion and Intelligence.