WEBVTT 00:00:00.260 --> 00:00:01.839 What is a God? 00:00:04.140 --> 00:00:10.460 What is it to think of something sacred and larger than us and infinite and boundless? 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:17.300 Human history seems to be suffused with this inclination towards a sense of the divine. 00:00:18.940 --> 00:00:21.140 We want to believe that there's something more. 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:26.580 We've wanted to connect with this higher power with this belief that there's 00:00:26.580 --> 00:00:28.780 something greater than ourselves something that 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:31.100 exceeds our capacities to understand. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:37.520 Then we see God's everywhere: myths and metaphors old gods new Gods vengeful gods. 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.160 They rise and fall with the even and flow of all civilization. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.260 For ages Humankind, we've wanted to celebrate what brings us life, 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.400 what is this thing that allowed us to Emerge? 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:53.500 The Sun! 00:00:54.500 --> 00:01:00.000 The star there right there is the source of all of our myths and allegories and hopes and dreams. 00:01:00.740 --> 00:01:03.520 It gave life to the world, gave birth to life. 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.540 Its core burns at ten million degrees 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.420 and it consumes millions of tons of matter per second. 00:01:10.780 --> 00:01:14.080 We ourselves are made of remnants of its fallen siblings. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:20.080 The preconditions for our humaneness that certainly is what God is right? 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:22.580 Let there be light! 00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:39.160 It is larger than a million Earths and it can blind you from millions of miles away 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:43.920 has been for billions and will thrive for billions more. 00:01:54.060 --> 00:01:55.420 I think that's kind of fascinating. 00:01:58.040 --> 00:01:58.800 Melodysheep 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:05.100 Melodysheep + Jason Silva @musicalscience @JasonSilva