Into the Impossible With Brian Keating - If You Believe In God, Do This! A Conversation with Dennis Prager (#246)

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

Dennis Prager and Brian Keating discuss the findings and impact of the James Webb Space Telescope. Brian's Prager videos: Prager U-What's a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse?: https://www....prageru.com/video/whats-a-greater-leap-of-faith-god-or-the-multiverse Prager U-Follow The Sciene: https://www.prageru.com/video/follow-the-science Brian Keating on The Dennis Prager Show Ultimate Issues Hour, Sept 24 2019 https://youtu.be/uvU0FFt2rIY Dennis Prager interview with Professor Brian Keating: https://youtu.be/3E_6pIsQTjM Be Brian's friend: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php Join Shortform through my link Shortform.com/impossible and you’ll receive 5 days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discounted annual subscription! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast! On Apple devices, click here, scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast https://apple.co/39UaHlB  On Spotify it’s here  on @audible_com it’s here and other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast  Please join my mailing list; click here https://briankeating.com/list for your chance to win real space dust!! A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:04 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Open the five-bed doors, please, help. The third hour on the Tuesday show every week is the ultimate issues hour. You might say that a major reason for the crisis in America of truth, of values, is that there are no ultimate issues hours anymore. There were all of my life, because I had a religious issue. education. We mostly talked about ultimate issues. The meaning of life is there a god, what is good and evil, what is purpose, and that is completely lacking in college, in high school, and an
Starting point is 00:00:57 elementary school. So this is the ultimate issues hour. On occasion, I have a guest. I've had this man on before. He's a delight. He's a treasure trove of knowledge. And he's a He is a pursuer of wisdom, despite the fact that he is a professor. They're usually mutually exclusive, but not in his case. He's actually a distinguished professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, Brian Keating. And Professor Keating, welcome to the Ultimate Issues Hour. Great to be back with you, Dennis.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Thank you. The reason that I invited you on, aside from a moment. selfish and it's just fun to talk to you. Putting my selfishness aside is I have been mesmerized by this new telescope and how far into the universe it sees. So let's get a few facts and then I'll ask you some questions. So this is the James Webb Telescope. Is that the name?
Starting point is 00:02:08 Yeah. It's called the James Webb Space. Space Telescope, known by a winsome acronym, J-W-S-T. Yeah, everybody knows that. So how, let me understand just the facts, as they used to say on Dragnet, just the facts, please. How far into the, I guess, into space is it where it's taking its pictures? Well, it is located a million miles from the Earth. has a camera that is not quite as powerful as the new Fuji camera you talked about last week.
Starting point is 00:02:49 So actually, NASA contacted me to ask you if they can park. That's correct. The PST, the Dennis Prager space space. That's right. So I'm just curious, why is it a million miles into space advantageous over 500,000 miles into space? Well, there aren't that many options when it comes to space. So what you need for a telescope is to be in orbit. When something's in space, it's an orbit around something.
Starting point is 00:03:16 So the Hubble Space Telescope was in orbit around the Earth. It was in what's called low Earth orbit, which means it's only 250 miles above the Earth's surface. And that was done in particular to make sure they could service the telescope. And I don't know if you remember back in 1990, right after it launched, it had some stigmatism. And it actually did need to be repaired or else it would have been, you know, a billion dollar waste of money. But it was repaired. And it did phenomenal work for now 32 years.
Starting point is 00:03:46 And it's been returning this information. Now, the problem with that is that it's in low Earth orbit, meaning that it goes around the Earth every 90 minutes. So the space station, anything in low Earth orbit, takes only 90 minutes to whip around the Earth. And so in that sense, it's in either the Earthlight or the sunlight, 45. minutes out of every 90-minute period. So it actually has what we call a duty cycle of how much it's actually taking data that's not as high as desired. Now, the web telescope also needed to be farther away from the Earth because the Earth is also a great source of heat. And that source
Starting point is 00:04:24 of heat contaminates what the main signals that the web space telescope is looking for. It's not looking for light necessarily. It's looking for a form of light called infrared radio. which goes by the other name of heat. So it basically has to be as cold as possible. Now, to go to some place that can orbit in a stable place for decades at a time, there are only about five or so different options that are convenient for a space telescope to be located. And one of them happens to be located at what's called the L2 Lagrange Point, which is a million miles from the Earth. So it's beyond the moon's orbit by four times the distance to the Earth to the Moon. So this telescope is quite far away. So there is no
Starting point is 00:05:05 To answer your question, there is no really stable orbit at half a million miles. And it wouldn't be that much more beneficial compared to a million miles. And so all these reasons cause them to put this telescope in this particular orbit. I know nothing about telescopes, but I know something about cameras. It's so cold a million miles from Earth. How does the camera operate? Well, that's the idea. So it has to be cold.
Starting point is 00:05:34 So when you go into a dark movie theater and you come out, your eyes are blinded. Even when it's at night, your eyes get what's called dark adapted. In this case, the telescope wants to see not light, but heat. So it has to get cold adapted. So the more cold it can be, the better. And so for that reason, this telescope is actually cooled to just a few degrees about what's called absolute zero. So it's almost 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Starting point is 00:06:01 And that's where the sense is. How does it operate? So it's not take, wait, wait, forgive me. Is it, if it's looking for heat or is it still a camera or is it a heat assessor? No, it's basically like an infrared camera. So there are these apps you can get. I know I'm interrupting, but only because each point needs to be clear to me. I don't understand how a camera could operate it 350 degrees below zero.
Starting point is 00:06:30 Okay. So, and it's fine to interrupt. Dennis, you get extra credit in my class for class participation. You can even record my lectures. I let my students record my lecture. Okay, anyway, the camera is by design. It has technology called silicon camera technology that works better. These detector pixels.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Amazing. Work better when they're cold, not worse. Wow. Okay. So the gamble is in sending it to an ideal location to, to get these photos this far back in the universe's history, which is, of course, what I want to talk about a lot. But the gamble is we can't repair it.
Starting point is 00:07:14 Exactly. And it was recently, so this telescope not only had to go to this distant vantage point, Dennis, it had to assemble itself. It had to put back together what was too large to fit inside the rocket. So the telescope is 20 feet in diameter, but the rocket's only about 15 feet in diameter. So how do you get a 20-foot peg in a 15-foot hole? So they made it assemble itself like origami in space.
Starting point is 00:07:41 So it couldn't be repaired or even assembled by astronauts. And there was no remote control. No, it's 100% remote control. Oh, it is, even though it's a million miles away. Yeah, that's not that far. I mean, the sun is 93 million miles away. Yeah, but we don't control it. Well, no, we do send space space.
Starting point is 00:08:01 craft there and we haven't spent astronauts there yet but there's a plan to do it at night in a little one I know I knew the at night line was coming I was prepared to say it my dad jokes you can trump me your granddad jokes exactly right so are are you are you are you by you I mean the the astronaut the astronomy community are you pleasantly surprised at how well this is working Oh, yeah. This is really exceeded all expectations. If you're watching on video, which you can watch at Salem News. That's how I watch Dennis every day. I'm showing a video of some of the first images, which comes from my YouTube channel. And my YouTube channel did a special episode about this very discovery and the images that it took. And these images are noteworthy, Dennis, for many reasons, one of which is that they are both scientifically interesting chock full of data, but, But they also have tremendous visual. Oh, it's gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:09:06 That's gorgeous. That's the one the ridges that you just showed. It shows you how interested I am in this, that I knew that. You even learned Redshift in my first book, Dennis. My second book, you learned about Shift, and now you're learning about cosmic clips. I'm too blessed. Thank you, yes. I'm the non-distinguished professor of physics. So when I see those photos, aren't they artificially color?
Starting point is 00:09:31 Yeah, but all your cameras, your Fuji pixel, they're all artificially colored. The way these things work is you have just basically a white light sensor, and then in front of each camera, each pixel is our three different filters, three different colored filters. I happen to have one that's what's called neutral density in front of me, and one has a little shut in front that filters out so you get RG&B, red, green, and blue, and then the computer inside the camera or on your computer processes it and interprets it as if it would be what you can see. But none of these wavelengths are visible to the human eye. They're all much, much longer than we could possibly see.
Starting point is 00:10:08 I see. All right. Back with Professor Keating. Tell me would you please. Hi, everybody. Ultimate Issues hour. Every Tuesday, third hour, Professor Brian Keating is my guest. We're discussing this incredible.
Starting point is 00:10:28 insight into the almost origins of the universe because of this telescope in much deep outer space. Professor Brian Keating is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. And I have him on Skype at the Salem News Network, right? Salem News Channel, sorry, Salem News Channel, you can see him and his pictures. I've been absolutely mesmerized by this story about how deep. So we've discussed the telescope. We'll get back to that if we have the time. How far away is the furthest picture?
Starting point is 00:11:11 Well, it is actually not any further than in principle you could see with your naked eye, meaning that light travels unimpeded until something gets in its way. So you actually don't see things necessarily. that are farther away. In other words, if this telescope looked at the sun, it would see the sun just as you see it instantaneously, not instantaneously, but it would see instantaneously, it would be seeing the way the sun looked eight minutes earlier,
Starting point is 00:11:37 just like you would with your telescope. Now, don't do that out there. I'm an astrophysicist telling you don't look at the sun with your eye or a telescope. But, you know, just disclaimer. However, but it can amplify by virtue of its massive 20-foot diameter mirror. So imagine a camera whose aperture 20 feet in diameter, it can collect fainter light.
Starting point is 00:11:59 So it is able to see things that are only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, which we astrophysicists, we think of as the origin of the universe, possibly the origin of time and possibly, you know, the existence of all reality, starting at that one moment. These galaxies are only a few hundred million years younger than our universe itself, which is a great mystery. Yeah, so obviously that's why this is on the ultimate issues hour and not, as it were, the science hour. It's both, obviously, but I just wanted to explain why it belongs in the ultimate issues question.
Starting point is 00:12:37 So I was wondering, it now sees things far more clearly, correct than any other previous telescope. That's right. And it can see things clearly that were only, that were, that were, that were in existence just a few hundred million years after the birth of the universe, the Big Bang. Did I have that correct? Okay. That's right. So is there anything different about what it's seeing than if we saw something 500 light years from the earth? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:16 It's much different. way, it can do more than that. It's like asking Galileo, is your telescope good for looking at anything other than craters on the moon? It can lead to, yes, eventually space telescope. So what this telescope is designed to do is multifold. One is to look back at the origin of the first objects in the universe, the earliest stars, the earliest galaxies. And those are at great distances. Those are billions of years of look back time away from us, closer to the origin of the universe. tens of billions of light years away from us. And then there are things, Dennis, in our cosmic backyard, literally.
Starting point is 00:13:54 We actually saw images this week of the planet Jupiter, which is in our solar system. I'm showing animation from my YouTube channel of some of the images that the James Webb Space Telescope saw of what's called an exoplanet. And one of the things an exoplanet could possibly do for science and for the ultimate, most ultimate issue in my mind, is confirm or potentially refute. the existence of life elsewhere in the universe. So it can do much more than just look at that, but it would be good enough to justify if that's all it did was look at this. Right. By the way, on the Jupiter issue, did you see any of the photographs of Jupiter?
Starting point is 00:14:33 Yes. And what did you learn, you collectively? We learned that Jupiter is the Hebrew planet. They speak Hebrew there. It's Jupiter. Okay, I got to get in a couple of dad jokes, Dennis. You must indulge me. me and some dad jokes. I'm reeling, actually. So what do we learn? Well, the importance of looking at Jupiter was not to really learn. We've sent spacecrafts into Jupiter.
Starting point is 00:15:01 We've crashed things into it and its moons and landed. Oh, yeah, that's right. So why is this different? Because we need to do what's called calibration. We need to know if there is another Jupiter out there or another Earth. Could we detect the signs and the signals and distinguish those natural? signals from non-human-made or alien-made production. In other words, not the product of agriculture on some exoplanet or some technology
Starting point is 00:15:27 or global warming on another planet. But instead, we need to calibrate our detectors and our models of how the web telescope will illuminate, no pun intended, the discovery potentially of life. So if we do see life, how do we know that we can distinguish it from something nearby that isn't life, that we know no life is on Jupiter. And so we need it to calibrate it. And that's how we do it. It's like taking a dark claim. Right. But it's hard for me to believe that there's been a serious inquiry into life on Jupiter. I understand serious inquiries at other solar systems. Your summer starts now with Memorial Day deals at the Home Depot. It's time to fire up
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Starting point is 00:16:44 It does? It has 69 moons? Yeah. All right. Name 14 of them. Okay. Eo, Europa, Ganymede, Castillo, T. I can do this all day, Dennis.
Starting point is 00:16:57 No, no, no. That's why I said 14. Sean is giving you applause. I'm sorry, Sean. It was unearned. He stopped at five. You remind me. You remind me of the rabbi who had 40 grandchildren.
Starting point is 00:17:15 This is the truth. And I saw them. We were at an event together. And I said, can you name them? And he looked at me. He said, are you kidding? How many moons does Jupiter have? Over 68, 69 that we know about.
Starting point is 00:17:34 And it probably has many more that we haven't seen. And many of them are the size of our moon or even bigger, meaning that they, and some of them have atmospheres and volcanic activity, tectonic plates. And I want to get to that, Dennis. I know we're running out of time. All right, yeah. We'll be back in a moment. Professor Brian Keating, distinguished professor of physics, UC San Diego.
Starting point is 00:17:53 The Dennis Prager Show. That's what he do. Brian Keating is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of California, of San Diego. I've asked them to come on again because I wanted to understand what's happening with this remarkable telescope, a million miles from Earth, taking pictures of light that started its journey, how many billion, how many light years or how many regular years ago?
Starting point is 00:18:29 The Earth, 13. So it's one, it's seeing things really, isn't it 14 billion years that they, that scientists assume the universe is? Okay. Yeah. So again, I want to just return to this question. Are you seeing things that are different from what you would see at half the distance? Yes.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Yes, absolutely. And, you know, again, the, you know, there's a tendency with your camera, right? You want to see you have a telephoto lens and then you have a wide field lens. You do stuff that's called macro photography and you do micro photography. And all of them have different roles to play in the scientific endeavor. So it is possible to see things that were essentially coming into existence shortly after the origin of the universe. Now, what I study is not this. You know that I study the heat left over from the Big Bang itself called the cosmic microwave background radiation.
Starting point is 00:19:31 And because of the red shift factor, which you were an unofficial Ph.D. in, the older the light, the more it has been redshifted, the more it has been colored, it's way. wavelength has been stretched out, just like when you hear an ambulance coming towards you, the pitch goes up and then it goes away, the pitch goes down. We've all heard that. So the same thing happens because the universe is expanding. The universe is dynamic. It is not static. So we can see things that were coming into existence, just as soon as they came into existence. Their light has been traveling since the entirety of the universe. Okay. So, but I understand that. But does it look different? The galaxies, the objects do not look different.
Starting point is 00:20:13 The universe as a whole looked very different. In other words, the kind of the container that contains the objects was very different. It had a very different composition. For one thing, there was no carbon, there was no oxygen, there was no iron to make up things like we are made up of in the first 100 million years of the universe's existence. And speaking of iron, I do want to make an offer. to your listeners, that is exclusive to the first 100 listeners in the U.S. at least, I'm giving away a piece of 4.5 billion-year-old material created in the region of our galaxy
Starting point is 00:20:49 where our solar system is before our solar system even existed. It's called a meteorite, but it's really the leftover composition of an exploded star. Now, where did that star come from? It must have come from an earlier generation of stars, which themselves blew up eventually, and that star, those stars are the types of stars that this telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is designed to see. You didn't tell the, how did they get the meteorite? Yeah, so if you want to get my meteor right, again, the first hundred people in the U.S., I'm a poor public school professor, as you know, Dennis. I can only send out in the U.S. go to Brian Keating.com slash list.
Starting point is 00:21:27 And you join my mailing list, and you put in your address, you can join my mailing list if you don't want to get a meteorite. but the first hundred people that respond to that website will get this actual meteorite sent to them. This is 4. Point. It's authenticated and I will send you data and how to see meteor showers on your own. There's a big one that I've arranged for just after Dennis's birthday in August called the Perseid Meteor shower. I'm going to include some information about that. I'm very touched. I'm very touched. Briankeet.com slash list.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Briankeeting.com slash list. Okay. Okay, so what has really, really hounded me this whole time reading about this is if this telescope could see even further, what do you think it would see? In other words, virtually at the Big Bang, what would it see? Right. So that is the domain of what I actually do. So we build telescopes that are seeing redder light. So redder, again, means the universe has expanded more since it was produced.
Starting point is 00:22:30 That light was produced not in the first 100 million years, but in the first 100,000 years after the Big Bang. And it traces the properties of the universe in its first few seconds because it is made up primarily of light left over when hydrogen and helium were formed. The hydrogen and helium make the first stars that James Webb can potentially see. and then those stars blow up after four billion years and make these meteorite samples, and et cetera. And those happen after. So the whole chain rests on a bedrock that the universe was started much, much earlier by some process. Brian Keating is a professor, distinguished professor of astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego.
Starting point is 00:23:12 By the way, he has two Prager U videos, both of which you would find very, very interesting. Three videos. Three? Wow. Book Club. I've got two prega. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. We think of the videos and book club a separate aspect. That's how I got tenure. By doing your Prager You stuff? Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:34 The day a University of California branch honors people who do Prager You videos will be called the Messianic Era to give you a very scientific description. Anyway, I do look for them. They're terrific, including one of my favorites. Well, they're both the follow the science, and what's a greater leap of faith, God or the multiverse. Okay, so I'll tell you where the ultimate issue lies with me in this. So we're now seeing to with, because of this telescope, we're seeing light that was transmitted less than a billion years after the beginning of the universe. Is that correct?
Starting point is 00:24:19 Correct. Okay. Is what we are seeing further argument or proof that there was a Big Bang? Oh, it's certainly further substantiation for the Big Bang. Now, I have to tell you that we've only had these images for less than, you know, seven days, right? And I am not, just to be clear, I'm not involved with the JWST team. I did interview on my YouTube channel, Dr. Brian Keating, the elite. scientist for it, who's a Nobel Prize winner, and we can talk about that. But this, and he received the Nobel Prize, Dennis, for confirmation that the cosmic microwave background, which is the precursor to everything that the Webb Space Telescope can see, requires that there be pre-existing material to form the first stars, right? How do you get the first, it's not even a chicken or egg thing. We have to have material in the form of hydrogen and helium to make the first stars in order for there be to be a James Webb Space Telescope to have any targets to look at, but more than that,
Starting point is 00:25:22 for us to exist. Now, I think that's sort of the least interesting thing that James Webb will be looking for. I think it's far more interesting on all the big bangs that you and I have talked about in the past. We talked about the actual big bang, the existence of the universe X Nileo from nothing, the existence of life from non-living matter, from that hydrogen and helium that produces the cosmic signals that I study, those materials then went in to create life. Now, just simple life is interesting, but it's not at all as interesting as the formation of conscious life from non-conscious life. Those are the three big bangs. You and I have talked about this a lot. And I think the niche that the web space telescope will play is between the niche of consciousness and forming
Starting point is 00:26:09 conscious biological life like we are subset of, and the origin of the universe, which I see, study in terms of the formation of the first elements on the periodic table. Why will it have anything to do with consciousness or life? No, it won't. I'm saying it will with life. Okay, so in order for there to be life, we believe that there have to be a set of different contingent conditions. There has to be some sort of planetary surface for material to coagulate on. We don't believe that there can be life free floating in space made of pure hydrogen clouds. Although it wouldn't surprise you to know, there are people that believe that is true.
Starting point is 00:26:48 So ask what are the conditions for life? And we only know of one example here on Earth. But it's interesting, Dennis, as I speak about in my first Prager U video about the God or the multiverse, 93% of the National Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious entity of all scientists on Earth, do not profess an active belief in God. And the similar number is dwarfing that number. And that's the number of scientists who believe with full faith in conviction almost that there is life in the universe, and there's probably even more life that's more advanced than we are. And those conditions James Webb can actually weigh in on. And I've said it before that I'm actually a pessimist. I don't believe that the web is going to reveal evidence for life. For one thing, again,
Starting point is 00:27:33 these meteorite, your fans are the most brilliant, second most, I mean, I have to tout my fans in my podcast, Dennis, but we've already had, you know, 10 people subscribe to my mailing list from this wonderful appearance that I have, and so more people can subscribe. This meteorite could have been a billion times bigger and spelled death for the inhabitants of Earth billions of years ago. In other words, we believe life existed on Earth about three to four billion years ago, and the Earth is only 4.2 billion years old. So this meteorite, which I will send to people, Brian Keating.com slash list, that that meteorite, could have been end of life on Earth, and yet we exist.
Starting point is 00:28:12 And we assume that there are other places in the universal life will exist. And would they not be bombarded by these same types of meteorites that I'm giving away to your brilliant listeners? That's a question that has to be addressed. And guess what, Dennis, it's just one of about 100,000 questions we can ask about the existence of life, which I think is the key mission of the James Webb Space Telescope. how would it determine that there was life elsewhere? What would it see? Okay, so there's obvious things, right?
Starting point is 00:28:42 If you saw, and you look at here, I'm showing on the video for people that are watching coming from my YouTube channel, there's a spectrum. It's a spectrum of an exoplanet. So they did see an exoplanet. It has a beautiful name. I considered it for my second kid's name. It's called WASP 96B. And WASP 96B is a half-chupiter-sized object that orbits around a sun-like star. that's in a thousand light vapor.
Starting point is 00:29:06 So you ask that seeing things close by. This object has an atmosphere. The planet has an atmosphere. And we can see in its atmosphere the presence of liquid water vapor. It's fascinating because we scientists believe that water is a perhaps necessary condition. Right, exactly, but it may not be sufficient. But Dennis, what if we did see? There's a radio broadcast called Pennist Drager.
Starting point is 00:29:31 I shouldn't have said that. I should have thought that better. But there's some guy brought up on K-C-B-Q or KRLA here. And that's one obvious way that Web could detect it. Now, I think nobody thinks that's likely. But that's just one example. It can see with the sensitivity of unmatched sensitivity signals that are the result of technology. And that would be immediate proof of life outside.
Starting point is 00:29:53 So, okay, I have one more. I have a million more as a well, many more, not a million. but I want to know if this gives more evidence for a Big Bang, will it move any of your colleagues to contemplate a creator? Brian Keating is a distinguished professor. It's not an adjective I made up. It's part of his title, Distinguished Professor of Physics. University of California, San Diego.
Starting point is 00:30:24 So I asked you if this telescope peering in. to the truly earliest part of the universe we've ever seen and giving more affirmation that there was a big bang. You said this place was steps from the water. We just haven't found the steps yet. How much did we save? Enough. Enough to get lost.
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Starting point is 00:31:13 Does that, do you think, move any of your colleagues to even meditate on the notion that there's a creator? I'm going to answer your question, Dennis. I'm not trying to be evasive, but I've always wanted to ask you kind of the inverse of that question. So if you'll permit me, do you think that these images, I'm showing, them now from my website, briancating.com slash list. Do you think they'll convince religiously affiliated people to take science more seriously? Well, you know how religious I am and how God-centered I try to be. And I take, look, the fact that I'm having the whole hour with you shows, I take it seriously.
Starting point is 00:31:53 What I don't take seriously is the notion that science will teach me good and evil or meaning. I agree. I think, though, that, Dennis, that this should be a vehicle of science, because I think, you know, it says, heavens proclaim the wisdom of God. Right. Right. It also says, Dennis, it also says, as you know, Abraham, and you know better than anybody, I learned this from you, Hebrew has a command for. God tells Abraham, go and count the stars. Now, I take that personally in my life as a command to do what I do, to get more appreciation for the work. of the Creator by studying his handiwork, which to me is what I do. So do I care that somebody else doesn't have a belief in God who's an atheist? I'm not going to try to convince them, but why waste my time with those people, Dennis?
Starting point is 00:32:47 Why not start with people like your listeners and say, look, if you want to deepen your amuna, your faith, your tenacity of your belief in the existential existence to be repetitive of the ultimate being, then study sign. It's the only language that we get that he speaks that we can speak, Dennis. We don't speak whatever language, other language God speaks, other than math and science. So I encourage... Math, science, and Bach.
Starting point is 00:33:14 And music, right? I mean, you could ask, why did God make so many colors? Why did he make infrared? I couldn't, right. What is galaxy, Stefan's quintet that I'm showing behind me in the video? What does that have to do with daily life on Earth? No, it's about more than that. Brian Keating.com.
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