Naturalism Is Nonsense: Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

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  • čas přidán 17. 08. 2022
  • Not only is it destructive to tell people they’re nothing more than cosmic accidents-it‘s complete nonsense. Today, R.C. Sproul exposes the insanity behind the naturalistic idea that the universe was randomly produced by space, time, and chance.
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  • @thehuguenot5615
    @thehuguenot5615 Před rokem +16

    This is some high quality audio. Like he's in the room and still alive.

    • @JerynToney
      @JerynToney Před rokem +2

      I don't know about you, but I don't think he ever truly died.

    • @wesleyn4545
      @wesleyn4545 Před rokem

      @@JerynToney his death was faked by the CIA.

    • @HearGodsWord
      @HearGodsWord Před rokem +2

      Reminds me of The D.L. Moody quote, famously paraphrased by Billy Graham, "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone up higher, that is all; out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal-a body that death cannot touch; that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body."

  • @AlexStock187
    @AlexStock187 Před 3 měsíci +1

    “What is the ontological structure of space?!”
    Einstein’s Field Equations: *sips beer*

  • @michaelgonzalez9058
    @michaelgonzalez9058 Před 11 měsíci +1

    That is unbelievable

  • @dougsmith6793
    @dougsmith6793 Před rokem +1

    The definition of the word "random" is ambiguous enough to build whole religions around it. "Circumstance" is a set of conditions that determine what is possible / not possible and likely / unlikely in a given system. So products of circumstance are not random, but also not [necessarily] intelligently directed.

    • @masona.9875
      @masona.9875 Před 10 měsíci

      The origin of the components that make up a “circumstance” still must be explained in order to satisfy the objection. Circumstances cannot exist without factors in place. Where did those factors come from? That is the flaw of naturalism.

    • @dougsmith6793
      @dougsmith6793 Před 10 měsíci

      @@masona.9875
      [masona]: "The origin of the components that make up a “circumstance” still must be explained in order to satisfy the objection. Circumstances cannot exist without factors in place. Where did those factors come from? That is the flaw of naturalism."
      Creationists fix that "flaw" in naturalism by proposing the existence of yet another factor / agent that has exactly the same problem -- where did it come from? If the answer is that it's always been here, that works just as well for naturalism.
      If I prefer naturalism, it's only because it's more real, demonstrable, observable, detectable, measurable, validatable to me than invisible / unobservable / undetectable factors / agents.

  • @MrMartman777
    @MrMartman777 Před rokem

    Kindness to the weak & confused

  • @buddy.boyo88
    @buddy.boyo88 Před rokem +1

    what is the ontological structure of pace ?
    what is the ontological structure of god ?

  • @michaelgonzalez9058
    @michaelgonzalez9058 Před 11 měsíci +3

    It is accurate

  • @isblessed5785
    @isblessed5785 Před rokem +1

    Flat out Nonsense

  • @michaelgonzalez9058
    @michaelgonzalez9058 Před 11 měsíci +1

    That the way is way from time

  • @kurtk8926
    @kurtk8926 Před rokem +1

    What does that have to do with Christianity?

  • @nsp74
    @nsp74 Před 4 měsíci

    absolutely right

  • @chiragadwani1875
    @chiragadwani1875 Před 10 měsíci

    If one believes that ontological existence can be defined using mathematical objects, then I do not think that the theory of spacetime is complete nonsense (as it is completely and properly defined by the mathematical concept of spacetime). But perhaps it begs the question (and shifts the debate) as the 'mathematical objects' themselves need a proper definition.

  • @stuartjohnson5686
    @stuartjohnson5686 Před rokem +2

    Science is about what can be ordered and that is only the present.

    • @karlschmied6218
      @karlschmied6218 Před rokem

      Science is constantly developing. You should not use the term science by not thoroughly investigating what it means.

  • @Matrixqc777
    @Matrixqc777 Před rokem +3

    *“He is infinite, filling all space in the entire Universe, embracing all worlds. In all worlds the Triune Godhead has revealed Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The throne of our Almighty Father is likewise established in all these kingdoms, He rules in all worlds, for He has made them all. His hands had made them all. The earth is only one small footstool.”*

    • @rf7477
      @rf7477 Před rokem

      Sure, Earth is just a holding paddock for squatters where the 'chosen' wait for heaven. What a crock.

    • @Matrixqc777
      @Matrixqc777 Před rokem +2

      @@rf7477 'Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.' Proverbs 26:12.

    • @rf7477
      @rf7477 Před rokem

      @@Matrixqc777 This indicates that "christians" must never consider themselves wise. I concur. Ironically, it is "christians" who think that they have elevated morals, ethical clarity and special acuity enabling them to judge others. How foolish. What a contradiction. What a crock.

  • @rollingstone3017
    @rollingstone3017 Před rokem +7

    Amazing 3 minutes of discussion. I've never heard such a concise and clearly posited destruction of naturalism.
    I'm a Sproul fan now.

    • @pauljensen4773
      @pauljensen4773 Před rokem +1

      Welcome to the club. How old are you?

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před rokem

      How did this destroy naturalism?

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před rokem

      @@pauljensen4773 how did he destroy naturalism?

    • @K0wface
      @K0wface Před 8 měsíci

      @@therick363he said it does so he destroyed it. And then they agreed with him that naturalism was destroyed. So, yeah. It was destroyed!

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před 8 měsíci

      @@K0wface I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or serious.

  • @wesleyn4545
    @wesleyn4545 Před rokem +3

    RC Sproul:
    *simply talks*
    *Queue What Sounds Like Harry Potter music*
    Me: *Feels Like I'm In Hogwarts, about to face down Professor Snape.*

  • @kevinclint7588
    @kevinclint7588 Před rokem +17

    NEVER EVER GIVE UP ON OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,……….WHY?,……BECAUSE HE NEVER GAVE UP ON US,…………. AMEN

    • @ELishaJesus1980
      @ELishaJesus1980 Před rokem

      Why do you keep on posting this?

    • @3IN1SDG
      @3IN1SDG Před rokem +1

      @@ELishaJesus1980 He thinks that's going to help someone. That's not even a theologically sound statement. It's humanistic. "Give up on Jesus?" HIS being or status has nothing to do with our feelings, emotions or weaknesses. His glory is not dependent on us.

    • @HearGodsWord
      @HearGodsWord Před rokem +2

      @@ELishaJesus1980 maybe its attention seeking? Whatever it is, his comments are rarely theologically sound.

  • @Qwerty-lp1fz
    @Qwerty-lp1fz Před rokem +2

    Where is the part where he stops his weird rambling and says somthing substancial?

  • @lynntemlett6035
    @lynntemlett6035 Před rokem +4

    Spot on Mr Sproul. “...we are grown-up germs who have emerged fortuitously from the slime “ had me 😂😂

  • @therick363
    @therick363 Před rokem +4

    I have a question for those of you who agreed with this video. Please tell me what he said that showed naturalism is nonsense.

    • @HearGodsWord
      @HearGodsWord Před rokem +3

      It's explained in the video. If he was wrong then why didn't you prove it?

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před rokem +2

      @@HearGodsWord wow. You went right to NOT answering the question is asked and
      Showed you weren’t ready to have a conversation about this.
      Go back and re-read what the OP was. I was polite and respectful. I asked something. Come back with actual answers to the question or don’t come back. I’m not interested in trolls and playing childish games.

    • @HearGodsWord
      @HearGodsWord Před rokem +1

      @@therick363 you've had my answer multiple times but you don't like it. I guess that's one way for you to avoid proving anything and offering nothing to have a conversation about.

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před rokem

      @@HearGodsWord please tell me what he said that showed naturalism is nonsense.

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před rokem

      @@HearGodsWord your “answer” is vague and “go read the transcript”. That doesn’t answer my question. You offer no specifics whatsoever. Why? It’s a simple request I’ve made.
      I’m not avoiding anything. I asked a question and you refused to answer…..that’s you avoiding and offering nothing to the conversation. Don’t play games here. You’ve been called out.
      Run along now. You can’t answer the question so quit trolling.

  • @JamesRichardWiley
    @JamesRichardWiley Před rokem +1

    Our local universe is an expansion of a black hole that formed within the eternal Cosmos.
    How do I know this is true?
    I have faith.

    • @randykuhns4515
      @randykuhns4515 Před rokem

      , what could this "local universe" you speak of have derived from? From what and where did the material for it manifest? to say you have Faith you must have a durable underpinning to make your statement logical,...

    • @macontreras8032
      @macontreras8032 Před rokem

      see? another example that naturalism is none sense and the follwers of that ilogical thinking end up like this: saying none sense.

    • @angelsanabria4457
      @angelsanabria4457 Před rokem +2

      You have faith in a fool.

  • @tebelshaw9486
    @tebelshaw9486 Před rokem +4

    Just as the one who represents himself in court has a fool for an attorney, so the one who believes in himself has a fool for a god.

  • @MrPatdeeee
    @MrPatdeeee Před rokem +6

    "Naturalism Is Nonsense"
    Kind belated Sir...I say Amen, amen and AMEN!
    End of Story and I rest me case...
    ...In any case belated Sir, Please Pray OFTEN and Praise Jesus OFTEN; for He is the ONLY true "God Almighty"; there will ever have been. And may Jesus bless you and yours always. AMEN!

  • @JerynToney
    @JerynToney Před rokem +1

    Space + time + chance = everything. Including the mandlebrot set. Including the golden ratio. Including infinity. Sagittarius A stands alone as the only explosion to ever happen that created order, whilst every other explosion destroys life and order, creating nothing but death and chaos.

  • @rf7477
    @rf7477 Před rokem +5

    Zero + zero + zero = god. If you desperately need an answer for everything, then superstition will provide it.

    • @misternewman1576
      @misternewman1576 Před rokem

      Zero - the amount of actual research you've done, or time spent looking for God.

    • @e.t.h.559
      @e.t.h.559 Před rokem +2

      First of all,That argument is fallacious because the logic is that every effect needs a cause. God is not an effect.
      The question falsely assumes that God came from somewhere.
      The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated-He simply exists.
      consider the following:
      We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.

    • @rf7477
      @rf7477 Před rokem

      @@misternewman1576 Try me. Perhaps try to explain why jesus had to have a virgin birth. You will fail.

    • @rf7477
      @rf7477 Před rokem

      @@e.t.h.559 Who said that there was ever a time of nothing? What is the point of attempting to answer a mystery with a ridiculous piece of superstition? Do not assume a god. Myth is not proof.

    • @e.t.h.559
      @e.t.h.559 Před rokem

      @@rf7477 First, all matter is changeable, which means it does not possess being or life in itself. This leads to an infinite regress, a transfer of energy, or by way of analogy, think of a series of cascading dominoes. If the dominoes have been eternally falling then they would never reach our current position. In other words, it is a logical problem. There must necessarily be an uncaused cause or something that has life in itself. Thus, all things which exist must necessarily have a material cause from an uncaused Cause: God the Creator. Second, the current expansion of the universe indicates that it had a beginning. A finite universe means that matter is not eternal.

  • @Forkroute
    @Forkroute Před rokem +6

    You don't like it, hence it must be false.

  • @JamesDeese
    @JamesDeese Před rokem +1

    A men!!

  • @baconlon888
    @baconlon888 Před rokem +7

    I'm sorry but he is spot on, I'm sorry cos I giggled at the stupidly of zero+zero+zero makes what God spoke into existence.
    I was like that once, so I'm sorry I giggled as this affects the eternal fate of millions.
    There but by the grace of God go I

    • @JerynToney
      @JerynToney Před rokem

      I'm sorry not only that I believed in the lies, but I led others to believe them also.

    • @baconlon888
      @baconlon888 Před rokem

      @@JerynToney praise the Lord he's got you out of there

    • @randykuhns4515
      @randykuhns4515 Před rokem

      @@JerynToney well, at least you did do some good,..

    • @therick363
      @therick363 Před rokem +1

      Where was he spot on? It seems to me he didn’t understand anything about naturalism

    • @baconlon888
      @baconlon888 Před rokem

      @@therick363 you sir should stop, before you expose yourself as a fool, to the world

  • @josephbrandenburg4373
    @josephbrandenburg4373 Před rokem +4

    2:20 all he does here is make himself seem ignorant. "Space" isn't nothing, and it isn't empty. It's only empty relative to everything else! But it's still full of fields and particles. It's full of virtual particles and anomalous events, too.

    • @reallifelegend4781
      @reallifelegend4781 Před rokem +1

      What do those fields and particles, virtual particles and anomalous events exist inside of?

    • @josephbrandenburg4373
      @josephbrandenburg4373 Před rokem

      @@reallifelegend4781 I don't think I understand the question. Why do they have to exist inside of anything?

    • @thomastyler5582
      @thomastyler5582 Před rokem

      I believe there may be a misunderstanding here.

    • @3IN1SDG
      @3IN1SDG Před rokem

      His point went right over your pseudo-intellectual head. "Particles and fields" found IN space do not give it an ontological status or essence. More to the POINT it does not make it an intelligent being. When the psedo-science community started pitching something CAN come from nothing it was time to pack your bags. Only a desperately delusional person would even entertain such illogical nonsense. Something or someone was/is self-existent...no not self-created. That would go against the laws of logic.

    • @waynehampson9569
      @waynehampson9569 Před rokem +1

      So does space exists apart from matter? Gravity may exist but it is only matter acting in regards to other matter. And where do virtual particles come from?

  • @jessyjonas4988
    @jessyjonas4988 Před rokem +1

    Preacher
    Leave the things of the world to the world
    Focus on the things of God
    What little time we have spend it preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ

    • @daisyleigh777
      @daisyleigh777 Před rokem +1

      So teaching people about Creation is not a "thing of God"?
      What makes you think this video can't touch someone and bring them to Jesus?
      How sad.

    • @puck-te6qk
      @puck-te6qk Před rokem

      Explain nothing created everything?

  • @TheMargarita1948
    @TheMargarita1948 Před rokem +1

    I dispute that Abrahamism and the mythology of Yahweh have any unique ethical insights worth mentioning.

  • @timothywilliams4089
    @timothywilliams4089 Před rokem +2

    He is an example of a cosmic accident, repeatedly spouting bronze age myth from his book of fairy tales,....written by a 'sky daddy',.....just how gullible can people become?

  • @jstube36
    @jstube36 Před rokem +1

    Complete nonsense, My guess is Sproul does not even believe his own BS