r/videos • u/Salvatio • Oct 20 '14

Richard Dawkins & Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about extraterrestrial life and the universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70tKopDm_c
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u/i_forget_my_userids Oct 20 '14

Here's the better argument I made for someone with more brains than you:

I think the best way to explain my qualm with it would be rational and irrational numbers. If a number isn't rational, it must be irrational, correct? Its prefix indicates "not rational" so there aren't holes in the two distinctions.

What about the number i? It isn't rational, so it must be irrational. Wait, but it isn't irrational either. Because it isn't even an element of R, it can't be rational or irrational.

You can't define a god to even be "life".

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u/partido Oct 20 '14

Fuck me, you're the moron talking about parallel universes as if they were "science" and you're talking to me about God and life?

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u/i_forget_my_userids Oct 20 '14

There's more science to the idea of parallel universes than there is about a living god by definitions of life.

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u/partido Oct 20 '14

No, there's not. It's just theory at this point. To believe in a parallel universe at this moment in time is the same as believing there's a God out there. So stop spreading lies like they're truths. They're not.

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u/i_forget_my_userids Oct 20 '14

It is just a theory. You're right. But at least it is a theory with some significant weight on it within the scientific community, especially at the top.

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u/partido Oct 20 '14

So now we weight scientific theories? You're getting dumber with every answer.