Stories like this are why I donate my CPU/GPU time to SiDock/Rosetta/Folding@home. We all can make a difference, even if our contributions are small.
Stories like this are why I donate my CPU/GPU time to SiDock/Rosetta/Folding@home. We all can make a difference, even if our contributions are small.
He is catholic, which honestly given his content I find strange… I’ve never understood how people can maintain their religions in such a field.
I’m not sure how religious he is, but it must be very to maintain it after all of his research and education.
Religon and science aren’t necessarily incompatible. Some religons say a higher power did stuff and it happened “because they’re god, science is witchcraft” Some religions say a higher power did stuff “because they’re god” and science is just figuring out how they did it.
Knowing how stuff happened doesn’t necessarily make a higher power impossible, nor less powerful. It’s just cool.
Yeah I’ve heard that before, it’s just rare to see these days for someone in his field. This specific topic can turn into a massive debate as it always has been, so I’d like to respectfully avoid that.
All I’m saying is, he must have some super strong convictions.
The big bang theory was first posited by a Catholic priest called Georges Lemaître
He also doesn’t necessarily need to believe in any higher power. You can still practice your religion and practice the traditions of your religion and take the parts that feel good or make good in your eyes and still practice science.
You can also believe in higher power but just don’t consider or think about whats contradictory.
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The Catholic Church has been a lot more open to science than other flavors of Christianity. Early biology sciences had plenty of contribution from catholic scientists and the church is by and large cool with evolution. They even teach it in catholic school.
similarly to Zack Nelson from jerryrigseverything, who’s Mormon, that’s not stopping him from making cool tech related content, anyway, I’m (as a non practicing European Catholic) wondering where you got your views on Catholicism, are they different in US? you have a few more Christianity denominations in US i’d call more conservative and anti science, than Catholicism, like Pentacostals, JWs, said Mormons, Baptists, hell, even looking at your politics whole protestant branch related to Republicans seem anti-science
I’m European (nonreligious) but my observation is that religion is practiced very differently in the US. They are way more religious than most European countries (their least religious state are about as religious as our most religious countries IIRC), and they practice a very preachy form of religion to boot as there is seemingly little to no taboo on evangelizing. And yes they have a large proportion of fundamentalists/radical “christians” whose antiquated beliefs (like creationism, to pick a “harmless” one) were already rejected by the Catholic Church and therefore European societies at large in the '60s.
So this leads to a climate where on one side religious people are more open, and often weirder/pushier, about it. And on the other side American atheists tend to be more aggressively antireligious because of the more oppressive environment they grew up in.
I’m American, live in the deep south (about 20-30 minutes from Destin actually, I’ve lived in Europe, and I’m non-religious.
Now that my bona fides are out of the way, I really think that most people have a skewed view of America, and especially on religious topics.
In broad strokes, you’re right. Americans push religion more from both the Atheist side of things and the fundamentalist side. However, this isn’t like a day-to-day normal thing for most people. If you’re on a university campus you will 100% see some religious organization handing out fliers. On a street on a busy Friday, you might even see people proselytizing on the street corner.
But…
I saw all that in Europe as well. Definitely less common, don’t get me wrong, but it was absolutely a thing. There’s different vibes (American fuck you my religion is right; you’re going to hell vs. European Please save our most sacred nation that was founded by GOD!), but it’s really not all that different.
Tl;dr: Humans are human. You can draw whatever lines in sand you like, but it’s really not all that different no matter where you go.
Totally agreed, thanks for the perspective.
Setting aside the loonies on either side of the pond, I do think understanding the cultural difference is important, if only because it sets a standard of social acceptability. Destin’s (mild) religious proselytizing would be off-putting and socially… challenging(?) coming from any of the French-speaking YouTubers I follow for example.
But coming from an American, I still find it personally off-putting but I can just chalk that feeling up to different cultural sensibilities and suck it up.
i think majority wouldn’t dare to show their personal take on eternal-life in public, being afraid to receive bad comments. So, kudo’s to him to do so here and there, in the face of being bullied. personally, i think how he does it is appropriate and not over the top.
Regarding how serious he’s about it; He actually quoted Galatians 5:22-23, at 11:20 with a passion. i.m.o., he isn’t “being religious” but he makes it practical.