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
Promotional photo for CBS comedy series "Young Sheldon"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."
A brutal analysis of your statements mean scientists must have faith in what they currently believe is right.
Its the same kind of faith people gave that believe in God, because believers don’t have blind faith either, its based history and evidence as well. God doesnt demand blind obedience and faith in him without evidence
Modern secular scientists just prefer to put their faith in ever changing science instead of God. Past scientists saw the order and logic and saw God from their observations.
What it really means is persons interpreration of things based on what they are desirous to believe will influence how they see “evidence” for what they want to believe.
Which destroys his argument because he’s railing afainst faith in the fiest place. He becomes a hypocrite.
This is the final season. It was confirmed.
My believing stepson respectfully asked my militant, atheist brother-in-law what the probability is of life having been formed from basically nothing. My brother-in-laws non-answer? Its 100%, because life exists.
Nice pivot, eh?
Who can study the magnificent precison about us and not see the fine hand and the great mind of the ‘clockmaker’ at work?
God’s existence is a certainty. The NATURE of God is all that is left to discuss.
Young Sheldon is simply explaing the 3rd of 5 ways that St. Thomas Aquinas says our natural reason tells us there is a Creatire.
I believe in God because liberals don’t, and they are literally wrong about everything. Everything. That alone is enough proof for me as if he had paid me a personal visit and demanded my attention.
You do realize Sheldon is a character and not a real person.....right?
:: They agreed that Jesus came to save everyone in the universe but if aliens do not have sin then they do not need atonement. ::
Can it be any more clear? Can we get an AMEN?
Just in case anyone wants to Google it, it is called the teleological principle. From the Greek word Telos which means the end of something. The intricate interplay of physical laws is designed to the end of supporting human life the argument goes.
In John 19:30 Jesus said “Telestai” it is finished/complete/ended.
Nope! Those “equations” are wrong and too simple-minded. ;)
God’s math is beyond the simplicity of the human mind.
Yes, when they crack the irreducibly complex DNA code let us know
Biblical faith is confidence based upon a evidential warrant (the very basis for atheistic denial of a Creator). but which leads to surety.
God made His reality clearly manifest to Israel before leading them out, and then calling them into covenant with Him, as did Christ to Peter and other seekers. Meanwhile the warrant for Matthew's decision to respond to "Follow Me" likely was his tested intuition, which was affirmed as true, while for other seekers such as the Ethiopian Eunuch of Acts 8, it was the supernatural testimony of Scripture, as explained by a God-sent evangelist.
God knows what manifestation of grace is needed for the elect to take a step of faith in conversion, which is then confirmed, and which is to lead to more warranted steps of faith, both for soon deliverance as well as in trials of long continuance.
Meanwhile the lost will be condemned based upon the light they had and disobeyed when they could have obeyed it, (Genesis 4:7; Proverbs 1:20-33) and in so doing they have in essence rejected Christ, "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John 1:9)
Think it goes back a bit further than that...In the beginning God said let there be....
The Earth is enough, and its own story. There are many rooms in the mansion. This room is enough for me.
Should my neighbors visit and want to start a conversation, that’s another matter.
One interesting point raised in the movie Contact: A civilization advanced enough to pull off either interstellar travel or interdimensional travel may regard us at the same level as we humans might regard ants in an anthill.
Another at the table in that scene countered, “And we would give it another thought if we were to step on that anthill?”
Robert Baden Powell recognized that if an enemy had the humility to recognize a creator, something bigger than them that was responsible for their existence, then there was a hope that those to adversaries could find a common peace.
Where there was an enemy that saw their own people as being superior, there was no hope.
Here’s to our neighbors and their humility.
Which is not Biblically true. There is no one without faith, which Biblically is not belief without evidence (as atheistic sources may define it), but as said in my last post, it is confidence based on a degree of evidential warrant.
An atheist beliefs his denial is warranted on the basis of naturalistic explanations, and what he/she sees as a lack of compelling evidence for a Creator, though such may postulate a "space seed" hypothesis.
But such cannot evidence how a universe could exist without a First Cause, and their arguments for its complexity on the basis of naturalistic explanations are far from compelling.
Nothing in the quote says that ones belief is true or must be true. A persons belief can be false and yet their faith in that belief is true will be unshakable.
No faith alone does not make something true, but true faith is unshakable.
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