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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1522 total appearances

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The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And it's not exactly comprehensible. It's certainly not It's an atheist game. Is God real like a table is real? Well, the insistence of the entire biblical library is that God is not real in that manner. God is outside of time and space, for example, and all material objects are inside of time and space. And so God is a reflection of the substrate that makes time and space themselves possible.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And it's not exactly comprehensible. It's certainly not It's an atheist game. Is God real like a table is real? Well, the insistence of the entire biblical library is that God is not real in that manner. God is outside of time and space, for example, and all material objects are inside of time and space. And so God is a reflection of the substrate that makes time and space themselves possible.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And it's not exactly comprehensible. It's certainly not It's an atheist game. Is God real like a table is real? Well, the insistence of the entire biblical library is that God is not real in that manner. God is outside of time and space, for example, and all material objects are inside of time and space. And so God is a reflection of the substrate that makes time and space themselves possible.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Well, so one of the issues that I wrestle with in this book is actually something I derived from Dawkins, because Dawkins is at pains, not least in his new book, to establish the proposition that every organism is a microcosm of its environment. And I think that that's actually key to solving the mystery that you just described.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Well, so one of the issues that I wrestle with in this book is actually something I derived from Dawkins, because Dawkins is at pains, not least in his new book, to establish the proposition that every organism is a microcosm of its environment. And I think that that's actually key to solving the mystery that you just described.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Well, so one of the issues that I wrestle with in this book is actually something I derived from Dawkins, because Dawkins is at pains, not least in his new book, to establish the proposition that every organism is a microcosm of its environment. And I think that that's actually key to solving the mystery that you just described.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

He said that not only is that so, this is Dawkins, but it's necessarily so. So, for example, if an alien ever got a hold of a bird, an earthly, a terrestrial bird, it could derive a tremendous amount of knowledge about the constituent nature of the earth from analyzing the bird. The bird's DNA has encoded its entire evolutionary history, for example.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

He said that not only is that so, this is Dawkins, but it's necessarily so. So, for example, if an alien ever got a hold of a bird, an earthly, a terrestrial bird, it could derive a tremendous amount of knowledge about the constituent nature of the earth from analyzing the bird. The bird's DNA has encoded its entire evolutionary history, for example.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

He said that not only is that so, this is Dawkins, but it's necessarily so. So, for example, if an alien ever got a hold of a bird, an earthly, a terrestrial bird, it could derive a tremendous amount of knowledge about the constituent nature of the earth from analyzing the bird. The bird's DNA has encoded its entire evolutionary history, for example.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And the ratio of bird wingspan to body weight describes the atmosphere. And the fact that the blood is oxygen dependent describes the chemical nature of the air through which it propels itself, et cetera, et cetera. Its eyes speak a certain language about the sun. So every organism is a reflection of the environment to which it is adapted.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And the ratio of bird wingspan to body weight describes the atmosphere. And the fact that the blood is oxygen dependent describes the chemical nature of the air through which it propels itself, et cetera, et cetera. Its eyes speak a certain language about the sun. So every organism is a reflection of the environment to which it is adapted.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And the ratio of bird wingspan to body weight describes the atmosphere. And the fact that the blood is oxygen dependent describes the chemical nature of the air through which it propels itself, et cetera, et cetera. Its eyes speak a certain language about the sun. So every organism is a reflection of the environment to which it is adapted.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And there's an ancient medieval idea that the human soul is a microcosm. And I don't see that those ideas are different at all. And so, you know, the Genesis insistence is that we're made in the image of God. And I don't see that that's any different whatsoever than Dawkins' claim that every organism is a microcosm of its environment. And what that would mean, Ben, is that possibly,

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And there's an ancient medieval idea that the human soul is a microcosm. And I don't see that those ideas are different at all. And so, you know, the Genesis insistence is that we're made in the image of God. And I don't see that that's any different whatsoever than Dawkins' claim that every organism is a microcosm of its environment. And what that would mean, Ben, is that possibly,

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And there's an ancient medieval idea that the human soul is a microcosm. And I don't see that those ideas are different at all. And so, you know, the Genesis insistence is that we're made in the image of God. And I don't see that that's any different whatsoever than Dawkins' claim that every organism is a microcosm of its environment. And what that would mean, Ben, is that possibly,

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Imagine that there's a layer of reality that's divine. and it's outside the realm of human conception. And you don't believe in that the same way that you believe in the existence of an object. I mean, that's just an idiot atheist game anyways, because what the atheists want to do is they want you to say, well, I believe in God like I believe in a table.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Imagine that there's a layer of reality that's divine. and it's outside the realm of human conception. And you don't believe in that the same way that you believe in the existence of an object. I mean, that's just an idiot atheist game anyways, because what the atheists want to do is they want you to say, well, I believe in God like I believe in a table.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Imagine that there's a layer of reality that's divine. and it's outside the realm of human conception. And you don't believe in that the same way that you believe in the existence of an object. I mean, that's just an idiot atheist game anyways, because what the atheists want to do is they want you to say, well, I believe in God like I believe in a table.

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And then the atheist says, well, there's no material evidence for your God the way there is for a table, so you're a fool. It's like, no, you're a fool because the game that you're playing is the game of a fool. So there's a divine level that's beyond human understanding. And I would also say that's potentially the realm, let's say, that people contact when they're...

The Ben Shapiro Show
We Who Wrestle With God | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And then the atheist says, well, there's no material evidence for your God the way there is for a table, so you're a fool. It's like, no, you're a fool because the game that you're playing is the game of a fool. So there's a divine level that's beyond human understanding. And I would also say that's potentially the realm, let's say, that people contact when they're...