Bill Maher Is Going To Hell

Bill... you gotta enlighten yourself and drop the bit about otherwise intelligent people believing in talking snakes; it demeans your intelligence! Please, let me, as a scientist, present some facts in a way that a logical, rational man like yourself can hopefully accept.

• Hell is literally 50 miles below us. We float on a ginormous ball of fire - so big and glowing so long as to be close enough to be infinite and eternal to pre-21st century minds.
• Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. You are the composed from the product of ashes from this fire, millions of years' worth of dead organic matter, and water. You will return to this same dust.
• Heaven is through us. Jesus Christ said Heaven is through him, but it is accepted by the church that Christ can be found in each of us. Meditation gurus, Buddhists, and Taoists know that in order to become enlightened, we must also first look within ourselves. Whether you call that inward direction analysis seeking God or Jesus, following your Tao, or meditation, the process is the same no matter what you call it. When you get to the summit, dismount your donkey. It matters not how you got there... it matters you are there.
• Creation myths are difficult to accept. Because we don't have the language to describe the insights achieved through spiritual meditation or deep intellectual thought, they are often difficult to grasp and lend themselves to what seem logically impossible things. Which is harder to believe... at some point a snake could communicate (as one animal to another still can today) or that the whole of creation - the Earth, the solar system, the Universe was contained on the head of a pin? We don't even have models of physics which explain the later, yet this is what is commonly believed! Would not angels dance on such a pinhead?
• The Bible's stories are not incompatible with science's stories. Evolution could be the biological process manifest from the will of God. Before the big bang, there was nothing until something (we don't know what) said, "let there be light!"Science has more unexplained than it has explained, and to guide that gap in knowledge, the best we have is the word from our ancient fathers... which must have some levels of truth to survive this long. (Do you think your show will be in the public consciousness 10,000 years from now?)
• Being spiritual does not mean believing dogma in lieu of the meaning of the message. Nor is it wise to understand the text literally in a context far removed from its creation.
• Our most gifted and famous scientists were not atheist, evidenced by a lifetime of their writings and quotes. The scientists most responsible for enlightening our world believed in some sort of God. Some of my favorites include
• Blaise Pascal: "There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
• Albert Einstein: "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
• Newton: "It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions."

Please, continue to be funny, but use your powers for good... make fun of human folly from politicians and entertainment artists, but don't spread seeds of disrespect toward a creator. Whether to you the Bible is a history book, the word of God, or a children's book matters not, for all are true, but please understand that your views and opinions, like it or not, will shape the minds of millions.

The more science tells us about our world, the more in awe I personally become from the miracle of life. If more people understood this, surely it would go a great way toward making this planet truly Heaven on Earth.