(Screenshot: CBS.com)Mary holds her song while in prayer, during season 2, Episode 3 of "Young Sheldon," aisr date Oct 4, 2018.
Posted on 10/14/2018 8:00:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
(Screenshot: CBS.com)Mary holds her song while in prayer, during season 2, Episode 3 of "Young Sheldon," aisr date Oct 4, 2018.
A new episode of CBS' "Young Sheldon" offers a scientific explanation for why belief in a creator is logical.
The spinoff of the hit series "The Big Bang Theory" aired last Thursday in an episode titled, "A Crisis of Faith and Octopus Aliens."
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
The show began with a family visit to their home church. During the service, nine-year-old Sheldon interrupts the pastor to ask if Jesus came to save the octopus aliens in other planets as well? They agreed that Jesus came to save everyone in the universe but if aliens do not have sin then they do not need atonement.
As the episode progresses, we see Sheldon's overly protective and loving mother, Mary (Zoe Perry), who's an evangelical Christian, battle with news she received that the teenage daughter of her friend was killed in a car accident.
Her pastor advised her to serve others as a way to get out of her grief. Mary also created a faith garden to pray outdoors to help her healing process, but when she finally made her supplication to God about the death of her friend she comes to a head with her sadness and spirals downward.
The woman of faith finds herself doubting why it would be in God's plan for a young girl to die. She begins drinking, and stops praying at supper or even going to church.
Eventually, young Sheldon noticed something was wrong with his mother and although he doesn't believe in God he had always respected her values.
"Mom I'm scared, you didn't go to church you stop saying grace and I don't understand what's going on," Sheldon told his mother in season two episode three.
His mom revealed that what she is going through is hard to explain, but when Sheldon indicated that he thought he is to blame, she admitted that she's having a crisis of faith.
"Faith means believing in something you can't know for sure is real, and right now I am struggling with that," Mary told her boy.
He asked, "So you don't believe in God anymore?"
Sheldon then insisted that he wanted to help his mother by providing a fresh perspective.
"Did you know that if gravity was slightly more powerful the universe would collapse into a ball? Also if gravity was slightly less powerful the universe would fly apart and there's be no star or planets," he explained.
Adding, "Gravity is precisely as strong as it needs to be and if the ratio of the electromagnetic force to the strong force wasn't one percent, life wouldn't exist, what are the odds that would happen all by itself?"
When asked why he is trying to convince his mother that there is a God when he doesn't believe himself, Sheldon responded, "I don't but the precision of the universe at least makes it logical to conclude there's a creator."
Still a skeptic, Mary confessed that her issue is not a logical one but more so a heart one.
"Well there are 5 billion people on this planet and you're the perfect mom for me. What are the odds of that?" Sheldon concluded.
His final remark compelled his mother to grab him and pray to God a prayer of thanks for her son. The episode ended with the family back at church.
In both "Young Sheldon" and "The Big Bang Theory," Sheldon is portrayed as loving his mother but at odds with her creationist views.
Sheldon is a senior theoretical physicist in the first 10 seasons of "The Big Bang Theory," and is pegged a "skeptical agnostic" because of comments made on the show like, "Oh, deity, whose existence I doubt, why has thou forsaken me?"
Nevertheless, the character's religious upbringing is reflected in the adult version of the show from time to time. In another episode, he praises God after making a strike in bowling by shouting "Praise Jesus!" Then sheepishly adds "as my mother would say."
LOL.
Out of the Silent Planet! I love CS Lewis references.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. (Psalm 19:1)
Then the question must further break down to whether the Creator is personal or created and stepped away having no interaction with the creation. That is where the Biblical God comes in. A personal and active presence that chooses to relate with His creation.
Agree. God has given us ample evidence with His recorded history, His over 300 prophetic utterances that points to Christ, the miracles that Christ performed, the resurrection, the testimony of hundred of witnesses who saw the risen Christ, the acknowledgment of the Jews that they had killed the Christ, the testimony of the soldiers and the thief who acknowledge Jesus was the Son of God, the willingness of the apostles to die for this testimony, the evidence of Christ existence through the Last Supper, and the testimony of believers down through the ages.
Christianity is the only religion when its founder (Jesus Christ) claimed to be God. It is the only religion where heresy exist within the church (as predicted) to try to lead people from the truth. And it is the only one that is constantly being confirmed by archeology when many other religions have ended up in the dust heap. The scriptures which were put together by shepherds, kings, high ranking diplomats, a tax collector, a doctor, a murderer, on and on all had the same message of one great and holy God which pointed to Christ. And Christ confirmed this that they wrote about Him and no one ever challenged Him on that assertion.
Faith isn't believing in something you can't know. Faith is believing in what is plainly provided. Its just that God must open our eyes and hears to see and hear what is before us. We pray that others may come to know this great truth that Jesus Christ is indeed Lord of heaven and earth.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Perhaps they react this way because to believe in a personal Creator God requires not only recognition but respect and obedience to Him? That is a bridge too far for some. They enjoy having their own autonomy and no "higher power" to answer to.
Something like that is my guess.
It’s funny that Sir Fred Hoyle was left off of that list of ‘objectors’, since he’s the one who coined the term The Big Bang.
Hoyle hated and rejected the Big Bang expressly because he spotted the eerie similarity to the opening lines of Genesis.
But...
later in his life came this:
“As part of this work, Hoyle invoked the so-called Anthropic Principle to make the remarkable prediction, based on the prevalence on Earth of carbon-based lifeforms, that there must be an undiscovered resonance in the carbon-12 nucleus which facilitates its synthesis within stars. He calculated the energy of this undiscovered resonance to be 7.6 million electron-volts, and when Fowler’s research group eventually found this resonance, its measured energy was remarkably close to Hoyle’s prediction.
“It was also this work that caused Hoyle, an atheist until that time, to begin to believe in the guiding hand of a god (what would later be called “intelligent design” or “fine tuning”), when he considered the statistical improbability of the large amount of carbon in the universe, carbon which makes possible carbon-based lifeforms such as humans.
https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/scientists_hoyle.html
AMEN!
I would suppose because it is illogical to believe it all could start any other way.
And just what illustrates that any better than...
Au contraire; mon ami
Undoubtably you've heard of Einstein's famous equation:
E=mc2
And we ALL know that equations can be written in another way and still be correct.
Therefore, Albert's equation becomes
E/c2=m
Mass is created; not from Nothing; but from Energy.
I know; you ask, "From where did this energy come?", right?
Well analyzed!
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
--John 1:3
Possibly from Paul...
Romans 1:18-20
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
GMTA
Otherwise known as: tatwd
Turtles; all the way down.
I do not how hard it was to WRITE this; but it has proven difficult to actually illustrate what he was referring to.
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