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The Atheon: A Temple of Science for Rational Belief

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Jonathon Keats: Hearing the Voice of the Universe

03 min 23 sec

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American conceptual artist Jonathon Keats talks about the Atheon, a secular temple devoted to scientific worship. The temple's credo is to make faith rational.
Jonathon Keats: Inspiration for the Atheon Project

03 min 35 sec

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American conceptual artist Jonathon Keats tells the history of the Atheon, a secular temple in Berkeley, California devoted to the worship of science.
Dr. Robert A. Burton: Are We Something More?

05 min 58 sec

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Dr. Robert Burton raises the issue of whether the brain and the mind are one in the same. Do humans have souls? Do we have an essence as human beings, or are we physical?
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Periergeia

Posted: 05.25.10, 11:36 PM

OMG... who let the nerds out? Seriously, can these people watch a video of themselves without turning red like cooked lobster of shame?

socratus

Posted: 12.20.09, 10:14 AM

Has God known the formula: E=Mc^2 ? If God has known the formula why HE / SHE /IT didn't write it in His Bible? # Can God be atheist, governed by scientific laws? Have physicists found the God? I think, Yes. They have. =========.. The people created a God. No one knows what the external characteristics of this God are, a God who made himself known with the name " I am who I am ". Is it enough for us in the XXIc ? Why didn’t the formula E=Mc^2 write in the Bible? ===============. . Each religion uses a system of symbols (images, metaphors, ancient myths and legends , beautiful stories) to explain its truth. But Bernard Shaw wisely remarked : “ There is only one religion, although there are a hundred versions of it.” It means that the source of all religion is one. And I try to prove this idea with the formulas and laws of physics. I don’t invent new formulas. I use simple formulas which ,maybe, every man knows from school. Is it possible? Is it enough? Yes. Because the evolution goes from simple to the complex. So, in the beginning we can use simple formulas and laws. For this purpose I explain what the first law of Universe is, and second law is and ...........etc. Step by step I create a logical system of the Universe. === . Can God be atheist, governed by scientific laws? I think: Yes, of course. Why? Because if God exists, he would necessarily to work in an Absolute Reference Frame and have set of physical and mathematical laws to create everything in the Universe. And we can find and understand this Absolute God’s House and we can find and understand Cod’s Laws of the Nature. ============= . . If I were God, I would give chance to Human to understand who I am by analyzing the physical formulas, equations and laws. Because to create Everything I need them. So, logically, catching the thread of the physics Human can understand Me and My Work. ============== . Science and Religion: Is there a conflict ? Or maybe: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. / Albert Einstein. / Or maybe: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. / Albert Einstein. / # Science and Religion: Is there any conflict? Or maybe there isn’t any conflict. Religion or Physics ? Faith or Knowledge ? Or maybe our stupidity asks these questions. === .

socratus

Posted: 12.20.09, 10:11 AM

Different points of view. 1. In Physics we trust. / Tarun Biswas / and plus millions of other believers . 2. Science is not always as objective as we would like to believe. / Michael Talbot. / and plus few others. 3. Religion or Physics ? Faith or Knowledge ? / some doubtful people. / 4. Science and God just do not mix, both defy each other. Science and religion are like oil and water, you can't mix them together and expect a solution. / most people / 5. Science and religion in tandem can become a great force to liberate the mind and help the humans to a fuller and better understanding of reality. / G. S. Sidhu / and plus some individuals . ===== . P.S. In Physics we trust. Is it correct ? Of course, it is logically correct. Because only Physics can logically explain us the Ultimate Nature of Reality. ==========. Best wishes. Israel Sadovnik. Socratus.

AllieP

Posted: 11.03.09, 09:09 PM

Join us in the Abbey of Thelema! Rabelais beat ya to it, and wasn't quite as pedantic about it.

jemcleod

Posted: 05.18.09, 08:19 PM

"we ain't seen the end of this mess yet!" I truly hope you are wrong. I too had to stop the video only a short way through. I made it to where Mr. Keats stated he would like to see a temple to science. A place to worship science? Why on earth would any rational person ever want to "worship" science, or anything else for that matter. Science is a body of knowledge, not a belief. Ridiculous.

josealonsoleon

Posted: 04.26.09, 11:17 AM

I'm sorry but I could not go beyond the point at which the guy with a bow tie said "if science is to replace religion.....". Where on earth did this weirdo get such an idea? Sciences does not want to replace Religion and it should not. Science only explains how ridiculous the supernatural beliefs are and how to start thinking with our own minds without the use of scriptures and less then presumably holy books that are imposed on us by even less holly people. The problem is that these people do believe their high priests as being holy......we ain't seen the end of this mess yet!

bagtaggar

Posted: 03.03.09, 01:32 PM

This is so profoundly wrongheaded. When one decides to pursue an atheistic, non-believing, rational/scientifically inspired life, by design they are abandoning the comforts offered by religion. Science is like cold breeze coming through an open window, it chills the skin but awakens the senses. It is a fundamentally different way of approaching the world, and to conflate it with religious "utility" is grossly ignorant. Twinhall, you sound like you haven't read terribly much science. Don't I recall a time when the church was offended by Hoyle's discovery of a vacuum? The reasoning was that God cannot exist in a vacuum, and thus a vacuum is impossible. Be careful about making uninformed statements.

dleviwing

Posted: 01.31.09, 06:08 PM

I agree with twinhall except that “absurdly” is hardly strong enough to express such an asinine attempt to inject religious BS into the rigid rules of science. What an insult to science. Wasn’t scientology bad enough? Science must be vigilantly aware of such Trojan horses. Science can only replace the ignorance of religion with truth and knowledge.

twinhall

Posted: 01.24.09, 10:59 PM

I think this is an absurdly bad idea. The whole point of religion is to investigate that which science cannot. Religions exalt a higher being. This Atheon is the worship of humans and their "accomplishments." It seems a bit self-congratulatory in my eyes. Especially given the track record of science and its correspondence to truth I would be hesitant to worship it.