young Sheldon is a sitcom spin-off of
The Big Bang Theory another sitcom and I
actually think Young Sheldon is better
than the Big Bang Theory I think it's
funnier more relatable and it's just
written better the dialogue in Big Bang
Theory is often kind of lame kind of
cringe and another big difference
between young Sheldon and the Big Bang
Theory is that young Sheldon deals a lot
more with the topic of religion there
are a lot of clips of young Sheldon
bashing Christianity as illogical and
counterfactual and counter scientific as
I talked about in my video earlier this
week Christianity is not opposed to
science in fact science likely wouldn't
exist if it weren't for the Catholic
church so you're welcome everybody but
go watch that video to check out more
info about that but in this video I want
to go over the arguments that Sheldon in
young Sheldon brings up against
Christianity to see if they have any
Merit to them or if they are just wrong
because this show was watched by a lot
of people and many of them who may not
know a lot about Christian apologetics
and might not know the responses that
Christians might have to Sheldon's
objections might come away thinking that
their belief in Christianity is
illogical and might therefore abandon it
so if you're one of those people who
watched this show and thought maybe
young Sheldon has a point that
Christianity is false and illogical and
anti-science or if you know somebody who
uses similar arguments to those made in
young Sheldon against Christianity then
stick around and watch this video and by
the end of it you'll see that
Christianity isn't wrong but it is
Sheldon who is wrong sometimes people
say to me Pastor Jeff how do you know
there's a God and I say it's simple math
God either exists or he doesn't so let's
be cynical worst case scenario there's a
50/50 chance now as young Sheldon is
about to point out this is a very flawed
argument and not one that I've heard
Christians make in defense of the
existence of God and that is because
just because there are two possible
outcomes to a question doesn't mean that
both outcomes are equally likely
Sheldon's going to give a great example
uh coming up so we'll hear that from him
you've confused possibilities with
probabilities according to your analogy
when I go home I might find a million
dollars on my bed or I might not in what
universe is that
50/50 and that is exactly correct
actually so again this is not an
argument that I've heard Christians make
in the past I've never heard a Christian
say that God either exists or he doesn't
therefore it's a 50/50 chance that's not
how probability works we can think of
many questions to which there are only
two answers and it doesn't follow that
both of those answers are equally
probable like the example that children
gave what Pastor Jeff in this clip might
be thinking of is when you flip a coin
and how there's a 50/50 chance of it
landing on heads or tails that is one
example of when there are two possible
outcomes to a question and the outcome
being a 50/50 shop but that is not
always the case as young Sheldon points
out I do wish they didn't strawman
Arguments for Christianity like they do
in this clip but unfortunately this
happens all throughout the series
there's never really a Christian
character who presents an actual
argument for God as I've heard from
other very sophisticated Christian
apologists what do you think the odds
are that God exists I think there's zero
I belief in science Ironically in this
case it is actually Sheldon who is
making a mistake with regards to
probability because to say that anything
has a 0% probability is to say that that
thing is logically impossible which is
something you'd have to demonstrate if
you're making that claim and there are
very few things that we do know are
logically impossible and therefore have
a 0% probability of existing for example
a circle with four sides because the
definition of a circle is a shape with
no sides therefore it cannot have any
sides so we know that there is a 0%
probability that a circle with four
sides could ever exist however when it
comes to the question of whether a God
exists there is no logical inconsistency
within the idea of a God that
necessarily makes it impossible to ever
exist in any possible world one thing
that atheists might try to point to to
show that there is a logical
inconsistency within the concept of God
is the problem of evil they say that if
God is all powerful and all good and all
knowing then there should be no evil in
the world because if he's all powerful
he can stop evil if he's all good he
would want to stop evil and if he's all
knowing he would know about all the evil
in the world however this simply doesn't
work because it's really easy to defeat
a claim that two things are logically
contradictory we would only need to
posit one possible scenario that can
harmonize these two things coexisting
and necessary logical contradiction is
defeated and when it comes to the
question of God and Evil both existing
at the same time all we would need to
posit is that there was some reason that
God even though he knows about evil even
though he has the power to stop evil and
even though he would want to stop evil
would still permit evil for the purpose
of some greater good that only he knows
about now you don't necessarily have to
like that answer but the fact that it is
logically possible defeats the claim
that there is a necessary logical
contradiction between the existence of
God and the existence of evil therefore
young Sheldon is wrong when he claims
that there is a 0% possibility that God
exists because he hasn't demonstrated
how the existence of a God is logically
impossible and all atheistic attempts to
do so fail think science and religion
can go hand in hand science is facts
religion is Faith I prefer facts I
understand that here's a cool fact for
you a lot of famous scientists believed
in God Isaac Newton Albert Einstein even
Charles
Darwin so Darwin's right about God and
wrong about Evolution now you're getting
it let's give it up for Sheldon
everybody what a good
sport oh that's a hilarious clip
whatever you think about the arguments
going on there it's just funny and again
we encounter this idea that science and
religion are at odds with each other you
cannot have faith and at the same time
have reason and believe in science this
is obviously really dumb and it's an
outdated critique of Christianity
especially if you know any history
because like I talked about in my last
video that I mentioned earlier science
itself would likely not exist if it
weren't for Christians because the
scientific method emerged thanks to its
precursors such as the Scholastic method
which emerged from the very first
universities which were established by
the Catholic Church by the way and also
by the way some of the biggest
breakthroughs in science have come from
Catholic clergy like Catholic priests
and monks for example Gregor Mel the
father of modern genetics was a Catholic
monk the original proponent of The Big
Bang Theory was George's litra a
Catholic priest and if you just go look
up all of the achievements in science by
Catholic clergy the list goes on and on
and it's really endless so obviously you
can have both science and Faith
furthermore the idea that only religious
people have faith in the first place is
simply wrong if we Define faith as the
belief in something without evidence of
that thing then everybody has faith in
many many things for example you cannot
definitively prove that everything that
exists outside of yourself and all the
people you interact with on a daily
basis are actually real and just
inventions of your own mind and any
pieces of evidence that you try to point
to to demonstrate that they are real
could just be dismissed as creations of
your own mind to convince yourself that
they are real yet I would say
99.9% of people do believe that
everything that exists outside of them
is actually real you do believe that I
am a real person you probably do believe
that the people you interact with on a
daily basis are real people and yet that
is a belief that is not based in
evidence or facts or logic but rather in
faith and the last point I'll make about
this clip is that you don't necessarily
have to deny Evolution to be a Christian
so the fact that they're showing this
pastor rejecting Evolution but accepting
Darwin's belief in God while it's
comical it's not representative of what
most Christians believe in fact the
Catholic Church accepts the theory of
evolution and many popes have affirmed
that the theory of evolution does not
contradict the Christian understanding
of creation so again just a straw man
now everybody knows on the first day of
creation God said let there be light and
there was light and when God saw that
light he knew it was
good oh here we go yes Sheldon you said
he didn't create the sun until day four
yeah so how could there be light the
first three days God is light so God's a
photon now in this exchange Sheldon
provides a pretty disappointingly
amateur objection to the Christian
creation story he says how can light
exist if God didn't create the sun yet
but we obviously know that light can
exist without the sun now you might say
that how could there be reference to
days before the sun was created because
the way that we measure days and nights
is using the sun and the moon so if God
didn't create the sun yet how could he
say he's on day four or day x however in
other parts of the Bible we see that God
experiences time in a much different way
than we do for example some verses like
Psalm 90:4 says for a thousand years in
your sight or but as yesterday when it
is passed or as a watch in the night so
the fact that God is speaking in terms
of days even though there is no no sun
or moon yet could just be his way of
helping us understand what he's trying
to convey using our language rather than
trying to describe a literal number of
days and this is why most Christians
don't think that the world was actually
created in seven literal days the first
day had just begun so before the Big
Bang there was no big bang there was
only the word was the word Kaboom okay
do
it now again a straw man the Big Bang is
not contradictory to Christianity and
the Christian idea of Creation in fact
like I mentioned earlier the Big Bang
was first proposed by a Catholic priest
and in fact he was mocked by secular
scientists who said that no the the
universe is static the universe is not
expanding and Einstein even called his
physics quote atrocious and it wasn't
until actual observations through the
Hubble telescope which proved that the
Universe was expanding when everybody
just had to accept that this Catholic
priest was actually right about the Big
Bang Theory doesn't it upset people when
you say you don't believe oh yeah and
that doesn't bother you does it bother
you when you upset people I couldn't
care less welcome to atheism now if you
were an orc would you like this flag
that's funny cuz ironically now it's not
very upsetting to many people to say
you're an atheist even Christians are
just like yeah we know everybody's an
atheist now we get it but on the other
hand if you were to tell your company
for example or even some of your close
friends that you are a Christian this is
a source of a lot of fear for many
Christians because we know that the
world is almost entirely aimed against
Christians so if you're to tell your
company hey I'm a Christian who believes
in traditional
sexual ethics they would say okay
goodbye or even many Christians are
afraid to tell their families and
friends hey I'm a Christian who believes
in traditional morality because a lot of
them would say I don't want anything to
do with you anymore so actually the best
way to make people upset now is to be a
Christian that is actually the most
countercultural thing you can do now
maybe at the time that this show is set
in which is in the'80s I believe back
then it might have been contrac cultural
to be an atheist because most people
were religious at the time but now all
of the most powerful ins tions and
people are atheists so now you're no
longer edgy or cool for being an atheist
you're actually just going along with
the whiter crowd and if you want to
become com cultural you should actually
become a Christian and a very
traditional Christian like a Catholic
for example why are you watching The Ten
Commandments I've just been thinking
about god wow I don't understand how a
God that's supposed to be good let such
bad things happen
oh can you think about it while I watch
y MTV RS sure dope now we talked about
this a little bit earlier but we can go
into a little bit more depth here as far
as why God might allow evil and I'm not
saying this is the definitive reason
that God allows evil but this is one
possible reason and I think it's the
most compelling reason you can let me
know what you think in the comments and
the reason to which I'm referring is
related to the original fall of Adam and
Eve in their original sin and in the
value of Free Will so in case you don't
know what the story of original sin was
that is when Adam and Eve were in the
garden and God said you can have all of
the fruit of any of the trees except for
this tree which is the tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil and there was
a serpent that came along and deceived
Eve into eating of that fruit and uh she
in turn convinced Adam to eat that fruit
now this story is largely believed to be
allegorical so we don't believe that
this was a literal eating of the fruit
necessarily but it could be that Adam
and Eve were taking morality into their
own hands and disobeying God by refusing
his Commandments and saying we're going
to make up our own morality that is one
possible allegorical meaning that some
Christians take the story of Adam and
Eve to be expressing but whether or not
you accept the story to be literal or
allegorical the important part is the
effects of the fall of Adam and Eve and
God warned them that the effect of
eating of the fruit of the tree of
knowledge of Good and Evil would result
in death and I take that to me that in
this act of defying God death was
introduced in its various forms so this
could be natural disasters diseases
accidents murder on the other hand God
allowed that to take place he allowed
Adam and Eve to disobey him and he
allows people to commit evil acts today
because he knows that the value of Free
Will is much more important than the
value of having mindless robots who obey
him all the time a good analogy would be
if you were to propose to your
girlfriend and ask her to marry you you
wouldn't want her to respond yes just
out of fear or out of coercion you would
want her to respond yes out of freedom
because that would mean a lot more to
you her agreeing to spend the rest of
her life with you means a lot more if
she is choosing to do so by her Free
Will than if she's being coerced to by
fear or something else and in the same
way God knows that us choosing to do
good and choosing to worship him out of
our own free will is a lot more valuable
than us being coerced into doing so
however in allowing the exercise of that
free will we also need to accept the
fact that some people will choose to
reject God and reject goodness and
therefore cause harm to others
potentially and in the same way your
girlfriend's Free Will allows for the
possibility that she might say no to
your proposal but if we didn't have the
possibility of people choosing to do
wrong then them choosing to do right
wouldn't be very valuable at all anyways
these are just a few Clips in which
young Sheldon or the writers of Young
Sheldon present very weak arguments
against Christianity in my opinion there
are other Clips obviously that touch on
religion but they're more so just poking
at religion in ways that are not really
arguments but just Jabs so they're not
really worth responding to at least
these clips represented solid arguments
that I could interact with let me know
in the comments did you watch this show
and if so were these arguments initially
convincing to you or did you always know
that they were wrong did you watch this
video with someone who agreed with
Sheldon and thought his arguments were
really solid if so send them this video
and see what they say otherwise thank
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