Joel Greene - Erin Sharoni

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[3:30] Joel used to be an atheist.

[5:30] You can go to church and not have a relationship with the Lord.

• It often becomes a social club for some people and does not yield spiritual fruit for the attendee.

[7:00] Is there a difference between religion and spirituality?

[10:40] how do you get to the point where science and spirituality or religion do not conflict with each other?

• Joel realized that the science that he was taught was more of a narrative than an absolute truth.
• The science that he looks into for himself actually confirms things for him.
• Prayers are sometimes answered through scientific discovery.

[16:20] Is prayer programming the brain to expect an answer and become hyper-aware of external signs?

[20:20] Where does authority come from?

[21:44] Can prayer be projected onto others?

• There is a common “checklist” belief that equates prayer to magic.
• Prayer is not actually about what you want at all.
• It is open communication to the Creator to confirm what He wants.

[33:31] Science is just a method to approach the truth.

• It is not the only method.
• The quantitative aspect of science is extremely important.
• The computational complexity of a cell can be quantitatively closed in on.
• There is a digital encoding of thought and information in DNA that cannot be binarily encoded.
• The only inferable explanation to this is that a mind has to create this. It cannot be produced through materialism.
• The chances of getting one functional protein by chance without guided chemistry is just too small.
• This complexity is compounded by things such as time denaturing, protein folding requirements, chirality requirements, etc.
• That is all for just 1 functional protein.
• ATP synthase has ~99.99% efficiency and spins at roughly 6000 rpm.

[54:44] Creation vs. evolution?

• People turn this into a false dichotomy.
• A created system can still use evolutionary algorythms.
• Case in point: a computer program.
• Epigenetics are also an analogy.

[1:12:00] Reductionism vs. wholism.

[1:15:30] Ten OTC ingredients that are shown to improve health span.

• Quercetin
• Fisetin
• coQ10
• glucosamine
• green tea extract
• sulfurophane
• pterostilbene
• curucumin
• resveratrol

[1:22:10] Glucose signaling triggers cellular senescence.

• Resveratrol counters this without blunting the protein synthetic effect of mTOR.