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Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth

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Dawkins Compares Creationists to Holocaust Deniers

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins compares Holocaust deniers to the creationists who are waging battle against teaching the theory of evolution in public schools.
Richard Dawkins Explains Darwinian Selection of Universes

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics.

He also presents the theory that universes are bound to Darwinian selection, passing on traits to daughter universes birthed from black holes.
Dawkins Answers Why He Refuses to Debate Creationists

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains he no longer debates creationists because his presence only validates their status. He compares the situation to a reproductive scientist agreeing to debate an advocate of the "stork theory."
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Robert Rucker

Posted: 11.24.10, 09:50 AM

Dawkins believes it's possible that accidentally-created aliens with a higher level of intelligence designed our creation. It's sad to see people actually pay a guy to promote absurd anti-theism. Just skip to the 2:32 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_ZF8r5e7w ---Robert Rucker Nashville, TN

kenny

Posted: 11.24.10, 09:29 AM

@anselmiano What kind of moron are you? Are you actually claiming not to have heard the proofs and evidences evolutionary finding have revealed...or have you been so inculcated with fear that the cognitive dissonances simply blind-spot your faculties? Almost any museum has the necessary evidence for you to see, sometimes even touch. Does the fact that 90% of christian religions accept human evolution as fact not bear any weight? Dont think this is said in 'atheist anger', (we know how you like to imply this) for the opposite is true, by virtue of the fact that it is the willing ignorance and stupidity from you and your ilk which sparks the interest of those that think. Two minutes listening to your tripe adds more to the ever-growing number willing to ditch the evil book and its imaginary beast. You are thus our greatest asset. However, thats no reason to treat your beliefs, evil books and blood-thirsty monster with anything but contempt. GOD B.LESS

onizero +

Posted: 11.07.10, 02:55 AM

you cant have a reasonable argument with religious people. if they were reasonable, they would not be religious. -House- I love Dawkins, cant see why anyone would be angry at him. he is kind, respectful, elegant. and his basic argument is that no matter how much you believe in fairies, tinkerbelle is still fiction. IF your a wingnut and IF you need to hate someone, read Hitchens or Dennett. or better yet turn your holy other cheek. hypocrites...

Max Steiner

Posted: 10.28.10, 08:41 AM

I am unable to watch this. All I get is a object error message. any help anyone?

Saqib09

Posted: 09.13.10, 03:53 PM

Did anyone else notice the earthquake around 01:15 :00?

naturalpreservation

Posted: 09.02.10, 02:47 PM

Aaberg, (Indeed anyone and everyone) here is a question for you. Do you think it is possible for peoples over time and place to express God in the same way? Think about it because that is how history unfolds. To be in 2010 and look around and back on multiple expressions of God and say that they all contradict each other is to 'frame' history through a grotesque inversion of history, and shows a pretty uncritical thinking approach to this area. Answering that question of course doesn't prove God but Richard used this schoolboyesque point as his primary argument against God while he was out promoting 'The God Delusion'. Richard's career (and this includes his lifestyle) is rooted on not only crude gene-centrism but the idea of replication when culture (and religions are a cultural phenomena) are profoundly relative. Richard's genetic evolution is founded on duplication while culture and meaning are founded on difference. Richard has a pretty deep and unconvincing history in trying to account for culture. His memetics theory of culture doesn't even have an on-line journal despite being his Universal Darwinian theory of culture trying to square the (neo) Darwinian circle into the social world of humankind. Anyone with a grasp of history and/or theology can see that religious belief in the main over the last 2,000 years has been understood allegorically (although there are exceptions, relativity has its fringes like all human movements) and it was the maturing of science that framed religion in more literal terms as the new knowledge that science sophisticated challenged traditional belief. Dawkins goes on and on about the incompatibility of religion and science and yet for the major religions the process of evolution is assimilated into religious teaching as uncontentious knowledge. In that sense Dawkins is arguing with himself there. It's important to note that after 'Origin' in 1859 there were noted theologians who saw the theory of evolution as deepening the power of God. God can be seen as great in creating species himself, but could be seen as even greater by making species that make themselves. If you can't critically think through the notion that evolution COULD be part of God's divine plan then you can't critically think deep enough. That doesn't mean that you have to accept that idea, it's not easy but to simply brush such notions aside as inconsequential says a lot (or rather it doesn't) about any critically thinking faculties you may/not have.

SalSanMar3

Posted: 08.29.10, 10:07 PM

I wish I had a greater appreciation for science. I've been interested in people like him and Hitchens for their work on religion primarily.

mszlazak

Posted: 08.25.10, 07:50 PM

A pot calling the kettle black. Dawkins is another cultist that belongs to a group of so-called skeptics that are really philosophical materialists but forget the philosophical part. Typical tactics involve ridicule, dodges or suppression of evidence that contradict materialism or orthodox science -- which itself is under a similar spell. Although Dawkins maybe telling us the facts about evolution, he has his own blinders and would use Kantian-type evasions to say "true" statements that are meant to misdirect his audience. All of his kind do, so "buyer be aware". One thing you see constantly with these groups and Dawkins in guilt by association with them, is suppression of evidence that human qualities of consciousness, intention, emotion, mind and spirit cannot significantly affect a well designed experiment in "physical" reality. They just plain lie about these findings in many cases. Another shameful dodge that they try is calling anything unorthodox as unscientific. They of course do not define science as a methodology but as an expression of materialistic philosophy. So in the latter sense, one could actually take being called unscientific as a compliment. Of course these "de-bunkers" mean it as a put down.

Daryl Kirpalani

Posted: 08.15.10, 08:47 PM

Uh. Football = evolution? I don't think so. Does winning a game lead to inherent and commutable modifications in the structure and/or function of subsequent teams? No. I really don't think so.

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