The Story of God 3/3

The Story of God
Documentary, Part 3. host: Lord Robert Winston


THE GOD OF THE GAPS
[tags: Religion, Science, Interpretations...]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/

Excerpts:





God Particle


Miracles

Dr Dr. Duncan MacDougall
wanted to find out if soul is material or in-material
he wanted it to weigh.
He took 6 patients dying of tuberculosis
and put them on special weighing bed
and wighed them for last 3 hours of their life
as they were dying.
And what he noticed was, as they expect*,
each one lost weight, on average 21 grams.
.. and concluded therefore that the weights of human soul
was 21 grams.

What he then did, he did the same experiments with dogs,
... when they died, he weighed them, what he found was
that unlike the humans the dogs did'nt lose weight.
So he concluded the Humans have a soul dogs don't.



Pascal, Principles of Uncertainity.
His conclusion became knows as the Pascal's Weigher
it is entirely rational argument for taking an irrational leap of faith.

It is NOT CERTAIN that EVERTHING is CERTAIN.



Galileo Galilie vs Bible

But the idea the science could describe the universe
better than scripture, was harder to suppressed.
By the time Galileo dided,
educated people were turning to scientists not priests for answers.



But nowa days the Vatican even has its own astronomy.

CERTAINITY is science's Original Sin.



A science expanded, God retreated,
He became the God of the gaps,
occupying those parts of the universe,
that are unexplored and unexplained
the science don't get around to yet.

Then in the middle of the 19th century along
came Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution,
and the God pushed so far back that for many people
He disappeared from the map altogether.

Noah's Flood = 4500 years ago.

According to a recent poll
45% of Americans believe that
the Genesis says one thing and
science textbooks say another,
Genesis must be right.

Galileo must be spinning in his grave.



God Gene (VMAT2)
According to Dean our capacity to know God is genetically determined.



Meseum of Creation, Kentucky

Arch
74 ft wide 450 ft long boat.



In America today
Science and God seems to be on collision course.



Perhaps the scientists can take confronts from the words of Sir Isaac Newton
who was a man of God as well as a man of science,
He said this,
"It seems to me as I am like a child
playing on the beach by the the sea
of the vast ocean of truth lies unexplored
before me."

The Story of God 2/3

The Story of God
Documentary, Part 2. host: Lord Robert Winston


NO GOD BUT GOD
[tags: Monotheism:  Judaism, Christianity, Islam]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/

Excerpts:

Abraham tomb is in Hebron
a Philistinaian control town in the west-bank.


Monotheism began with the choice...
gods.



JUDAISM

And this God has complex and intriguing character...

But He is first and foremost a jealous God.


Accroding to the Bible,
3000 people were killed that day (calf worship)
it was monothesim first recoreded massacre.

It was here (Jerusalem)
And here alone when God was Israel
could be worshiped to full extent.
This was the monotheism taken to the ultimate conclusion.

One God worshiped by one people
in one city in one temple.

There's nothing quite like it
before or since in the history of religion.

They were afraid the Temble will become the object of worship on his own right
a kind of golden calf build in bricks and water.

... The pattern of invasions, defeat and exile were
played out again and agian in the land of Israel
for more than 700 years.
After the Assyrians came the Babylonian,
after the Babylonian came the Persian,
and then the Greeks, and finally the Romans.





CHRISTIANITY


Christianity is the direct descended of Judiaism,
it started out as Jewish Cult,
and the first Chrisitains were Jews.

It was Paul - one of Jesus's disciple,
who took the Jewish cult of Chrisitianity
and brought it to non-jewish or gentile world ...

Constantine was the first Christian emperor.




ISLAM

The word Islam means peace,
it means surredner, it means acceptance...
it means a lot of things.
But essentially it means 'surrender.'
So the essence of Islam is submission to the will of God.



Shiite's believe that the example of Ali
and his martyr son Hussain provide the only
certain pathway to Allah.

Shitte's believe God chose prophet's son in law Ali
to succeed Muhammad as Imam - the spiritual and political leader of Imam.
But in the power struglle of following the Prophet's steps
Ali and his family were pushed aside.

... that's the question that devides the Islam this day.



Ashrah commomorates the decisve phase in struggle of control of Islam
The Death of Ali's son Hussain
in the battle of Karbala,
outnumbered, surrounded, and dying of thirst,
Hussain and his followers refused to surrender,
and was slaughtered.

YA HUSSAIN YA HUSSAIN YA HUSSAIN ...



Jurisdiction interpretation and Spiritual interpretation of Islam
There are two trends of Islam
the juristic interpretation of Islam and the spiritual interpretation of Islam.
The juristic interpretation - people who emphasise the rule of conduct
the form of your life, you have to pray in particular fashion,
sit in particular, eat in particular fashion, sleep even in particular fashion,
and the many of these jurists are the ones who become the fundamentalists,
who become insistence try to control other people's conduct.
The mystics on other hand say O look ... .... used to Islam in mare forms with no sincerity
we accept the rules of conduct, but they're not as important as the real sincerity,
because what is the meaning of going up and down if you don't believe.


Every religion has its sacred book
but it's almost impossible to overstate
How sacred the Quran is to Muslims.

It is not just about God,
It is directly from God.

The Story of God 1/3

The Story of God
Documentary, Part 1. host: Lord Robert Winston


LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
[tags: Caves, Babylonian, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrian]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=518650186849943758

Excerpts:

CAVES - First churches of humans.

"Awareness of death is another by-product of our consciousness."

"One of the mankind's fundamental religious beliefs
is that everything shares a common soul
animals, trees, even the rocks.
Humans also share this soul,
but somewhere along the line we lost
the contact with devine spark within.



"Farming hasn't just given us food,
it may also given us the building block
of organised religion."

The farmers relationship with nature is more complicated
than hunters. And so is the relationship with gods.
The hunter prays for the luck of day's hunt,
but farmers is in a long hold, untile the harvest is safely gathered in,
...
Farming forges a long term contact,
between men and the gods.
PRAY NOW EAT LATER.

Aztec were giving human sacrifices, by taking his heart out alive.
"But human sacrifices are common in many religions."

The Aztec's practices human sacrifice almost at industrial scale.



HINDU

The asnwer to that question takes you to fascinationg paradox
that lies into the very heart of Hinduism,

the more gods you have,
the less they acutally mean.

According to some hindu traditions
the total number of gods is
330 million.
The number is so vast, its almost impossible to grasp,
which is the whole point.

Like the sun reflecting the countless glimps of lights from the surface of the sea.
One extreme of hindu thought even argues that
human soul and Barhaman are the same.
and ultimate religious truth is this, we are all gods.



BUDDHA

"The Buddha didn't denied the existance of gods
he just thought they are irrelavant to the problems of humanity
trapped in the wheel of life."

"To be FREE from the PASSIONS is the most excellent WAY." Buddha


"(Buddha) he concluded this, all creation is trapped in the wheel of life
a life means suffering, in-escapeable suffering, and thanks to reincarnation
endlessly repeated suffering.
But the gods were no real help, they too were trapped in the weheel of life.
and so it is upto every individual to achieve Nirvana - the ultimate reality.


LIFE IS SUFFERING
DESIRE CAUSES SUFFERING
NIRVANA OFFERS AN END TO SUFFERING
IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE NIRVANA BY FOLLOWIN THE BUDDHA'S WAY.


When Enlighted died, he never born agian, end of suffering.



ZOROASTRIAN
Iran

When Zoroastrian died, they could not be buried or comitted,
as this could defy the sacred elements of earth and fire,
so they left the dead in hill toping enclosre called
Tsar of Silence.

Zorostrain in Iran don't expose their dead anymore.
Islam insists its own rules on how the dead should be treated.



Zoroastra taught that
the life is preparation for death.
a bliefe that become the corner stone
of many monotheistic religions.
One God, One Life, One Judgement Day.


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