Tim Danaher wrote:Damn! McIver beat me to it!

King David wrote:Some wisdom from one of my favorite scientists:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zi699WzAL0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4[/youtube]

ChasM wrote:^ I didn't see God in the zoom-out. Where was he hiding?

ChasM wrote:^ I didn't see God in the zoom-out. Where was he hiding?

The Story of God (2005)

Episode 1:
"Life, the Universe and Everything . . ." (Parts 1-6)

Episode 2:
"No God but God" (Parts 7-12)

Episode 3:
"The God of the Gaps" (Parts 13-18)

[links to other segments]

Professor Robert Winston presents a definitive three-part documentary series from the BBC on the history of mankind's quest to understand the nature of God.

First aired in 2005, "The Story of God" is an epic journey across continents, cultures and eras exploring religious beliefs from their earliest incarnations through to the development of today's major world faiths.

Among many highlights, the series examines the roots of religious beliefs in prehistoric societies and the different ways in which humanity's sense of the divine developed. It takes a look at the divergence between religions that worship a range of deities and those that represent strict monotheism. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are explored in order to understand the ideas they share about God and the issues that divide them. The question as to why mankind started to believe in God at all is investigated, as is another question: If God really did create humanity, why does God allow humanity to suffer? Finally, the series examines how belief in God has been challenged by modern, secular ideas, even presenting a mathematical formula that can be used to calculate the probability of God's existence.

Hugin wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZW13qLD6js[/youtube]

Surely the chimps must have gotten their moral behavior by reading some religious book.