Dawkins use of the word privilege with respect to our existence is interesting because the word suggests gratitude, but to whom?

The mindless echo chamber represented in the comments is actually more frustrating than listening to Dawkins himself. The mounting evidence against a Darwinian mechanism leading to life makes these statements absurd in the extreme. - the information present in DNA, the fine tuning of the cosmos, even just the formation of stars and the heavier elements, the chemistry necessary for any living cell and consciousness itself all scream out that a natural/materialistic explanation is insufficient, and that it didn’t all just happen by itself.

Religion is a joke.

Religion is intellectual slavery. It highly repugnant to be a willing slave if anything and anybody!

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”

This guy is a joke.. I cannot remember who coined this brilliant statement but this idiot could do with hearing it.. Extreme scientific scepticism and fanatic religious dogmatism are 2 sides of the same coin.. Religion has been deliberately corrupted, but why would that mean something as amazing as the physical universe exploded into being with no power source or intent?.. Laughable. Shame on those who are gassed off this fool

Ok, so I just heard Richard Dawkins's basically say it was selfish of Jesus to die trying to save the world. If anyone can logically explain the reason why all of Jesus disciples died claiming they saw him after he was murdered, be my guest. Or if you can explain Isaiah 53 which was written about 700 years before Jesus died, or if you could explain Psalm 22 which talks about Jesus crucifixion before crucifixion was invented, be my guest. Some internet sources will say that Psalm 22 was written after crucifixion was invented on the basis that "They could not have described crucifixion before it was invented". But if you look at the material the paper was made out of, a lot of sources will say it is older than crucifixion. No one would argue that Psalm 22 was written hundreds of years before Jesus was even born, same thing to Isaiah 53. I am amazed time and time again I hear Christians tell Richard Dawkins's what we actually believe, and then he turns around and tries to tell us what we believe after we just told him we don't believe that. 1. Christians don't believe that non-Christians are completely evil. You can be a Christian and be bitter towards other people, or an atheist and love more people. 2. No one is perfect except for Jesus. God wants us to live in a perfect world and this world is broken. 3. Being bad doesn't cause you to go to Hell, sin causes you to die. Jesus is the only person who can make us perfect again. People will say "Why is it that Jesus is the only way to heaven?", well, if the Christian Trinity is the only God, then who else would you possibly expect to see on the other side if there is no other God. All of us have sinned and if we repent and ask for Jesus to forgive us, then he will. 4. Jesus had to express his love for us somehow. Love always requires sacrifice. If God let us into heaven without someone making the payment for it, it's like he's saying "Oh yeah, you verbally and physically abused people. Ok, no big deal. Come on in." But his utter rage was poured out into Jesus so that we can get to a point of where God literally does not even remember our sins because Jesus paid for them. 5. If God never became man, then it sounds like his struggles were nothing like ours at all, and even if we got to heaven, we never would feel his love, because he can't relate to us and we can't relate to him. We would still feel just as empty as this world makes us feel. 6. God of the Gaps is equivalent to Science of the gaps, the two basically get no where trying to argue with each other. Endorphins and other chemicals in the brain to make us feel good or bad definitely exist, but is that all that love is? Do you only love someone because the chemicals in your brain tell you to? Is evolution the only reason anyone is good or bad to another person? Or are people merely living their lives in a way that it seems like everything they do only benefits them. Science can't explain consciousness. Christianity has a basis - God gave us our consciousness. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp_ddZ6Vgq2ia8k

What has atheist, secularist, social Dawinism, Socialism, Communism brought us? Democide to the tune of 120-220 mrdrd innocent civillians in the last century alone. Source: R J Rummel Death By Government Margaret Sanger Eugenics inspired Ngegro Project Abortion holocaust / zhenO cide glaoba l estimates 63 million unborn babies mrdrd in the uterus in the US alone. Pol Pot's Year Zero. Mao's Great Leap Forward. And now The Great Reset will cost how many million more lives this century? Are any Atheists / agnostics ready to renounce secular humanism yet?

Brainwashing is not acceptable

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The trick is the following: Look at the children: They know, that there is no Santa Claus AND they believe in him!

why don't you go to the forest and start you idiotic empire of your own, you son of a bitch!

George Pell knows all about sin.

Fortunately, dark, depressing old farts like Dawkins and co. are being tossed into the waste-bin of history. Their brand of atheist religion has yelled nothing whatsoever but gloom and a spiraling down of moral decency. The wonderful irony is that they were wrong all along and science itself has had the greatest hand in shining a light on that fact. Good riddance you “cultural Christian”…

Don't forget what his idea of being guided by EVIDENCE rather than FAITH really is. Richard's world view is that of neo-Darwinism, i.e. selection from accidents. The maths behind which ought to give anyone reasonable doubt. 500 years before Christ, Anaximander conjectured forms may have changed. There were evolutionists before Darwin, e.g. Cuvier, LeClerc, Lamarck, Buffon, and Charles' grandfather published Zoonomia in 1794 with some similar ideas to those in On the Origin of Species. But in 1859 we were unaware of DNA. Richard Dawkins now says DNA is like computer code. Bill Gates says it ́s more complex than any software ever devised. Such code arises from accidents only if you accept odds of trillions to one. So today Darwin would have to write, "I do not know what The Origin of Species was. But DNA proves SOMETHING KNEW. (Although from these data we may glean nothing about what did it, how it managed it, nor even why it bothered.")

99% no God but God bless Richard Dawkins.

All the world’s problems are a result of idiots believing their god is more powerful than somone else’s god ? Just nonsense for the stupid masses 😂😂😂😂😂

All religions are poison , best way to control weak minded people

Religion been oppressing to women since the beginning of time but thanks to capitalism that free women from the oppression of religious in the year 1850 to 1900 and I'm not talking about this fake capitalism the government promotes today that the prices keep getting higher but the real capitalism that prices keep getting lower

I just attended Richard Dawkins last show in SF. It is old and feeble now. Natural aging of course, but its sad to see my mentor fade away.

Believing in an imaginary friend

I jave evidence of God

Unfortunately Atheism has become an anthem, seems not to hold forth the idea of non-belief in belief. Atheism is in many ways a monolith of the mind, the singularity which cannot accommodate other thoughts and ideas. That in itself negates the idea of atheism - rational and logical thought. #Ethics is a drive and atheists by no mean hold the keys to that lock.. (read the comment, it is a conversation, which is what science is all about). Secularism is meant to protect people from excesses, it by no means gives anyone the right to negate or oppress others..

I'm a big fan of Dawkins. I don't agree with him all the time, but he's a great man.

I believe God exist but not everything in bible i believe

All religion should be ridiculed and exposed and kept away from children

Thank you for putting out these pearls of wisdom out, from these fantastic educators. Love NDTyson my favorite cosmologist, just subscribed to your channel.

Dawkins,one of the most superficial man in the world!!

Best point ever!!

When you have no logical answer ,go to the only salvation ,Jesus Christ!!

Ideologies,even religious,are out of date! If you look to Jesus ,you will find He is against ideologies,mostly religious ones!!! He is for salvation of the people in bankruptcy!!!

Dawkins ,also!!

Darwin is out of date!!!

I am ,too! Richard is very frustrated! He thinks sex is between his legs,but it' s not true. It's in our brain. This is not evolution.

Richard dawkins ,,BEST points ho ho ho ha ha ha i do like people that say daft things

The god of the gaps gets smaller all the time.

What consists of progress in religion? Like you couldn’t smoke or dance now you can as Christians? Like the Methodists used to be. Catholics couldn’t divorce, ? But other Christians can.

Richard Dawkings is the most silly person i've seen in a while

“I find that impossible to believe.” Sad. Just sad. Some people have a mouth, a mic, and prominent position. And that’s it.

The Bible has never said "holy book".

Donkey, who thinks he evolved from a monkey, now all he has to find are the connecting zebra stripes. 😂😂😂

As an atheist, I can see how somemone religious may have a life which is full of anger: praying to a God that doesn't answer, expecting things to go well, even not understanding tragedy when they've lived a life following rules that must be obeyed. Punishing themselves often comes along. I still think it is harder to be an atheist, but I can't deny the inherent pain of being religious. I also would like to add that many religious people do not follow that path by choice, unfortunately. And, because of that, I make an effort not to judge. Great video. Thanks.

are the same with his worst points

Yes and what about the evolution Theory Patrick Andrews had back in 1995 ? Around 10 years later the science of DNA proved he was right.

Dawkins is one of the good guys. One either understands evolution (and genetics) and thus biology or one does not. One must take the time to resd Darwin and the modern biologists or just not understand biology. That's fine but by taking that path one should not criticize the science that so far explains much of how organisms operate. One cannot assume a religious posture and try to understand reality. It is not possible. The Bible and other holy books are literature and cannot be interpreted as history. Because the events therein are not events. They are stories, like Alice in Wonderland or The Three Bears.

He is wrong about it being an argument from personal incredulity

God exists, and He has given me the privilege to discover Him.

Richard Dawkins won this debate.

There are some very salient points people should know. Mankind as Homo Sapiens, have been around for about 250,000 years, while the concept of god, has been around for only about 6,000 years, some say 5,000. It doesn't matter. Call it 5,000 years since god made itself known to mankind. Some questions need to be asked about that. Why did god reveal itself just to one ethnic group, those that spoke Hebrew? Many of them worshipped other gods. Even towards the end of the life of Moses, as they travelled nearing the end of their 40 year desert journey, STILL the Hebrew people were worshipping other gods. How can such importance be put on a god that bungled its creation and blamed that bungle on man? I refer to the ridiculous concept of 'original sin', which is a downright lie. God bungled the manufacture of man by failing to put in him the knowledge of right and wrong, Man had to take that knowledge by eating the forbidden fruit. Therefore, god was responsible for the fall. So, what we have is, a very young god against a quite old group of hominids called Homo Sapiens or mankind. 245,000 years older to be almost precise. That puts the god concept in the realm of bullshit.

I am an atheist because - none of the books on religion are logical. IMO, they are fairy stories to cause fear, violence, delusion, ignorance. None of it makes sense. I just find it all ridiculous & although I respect the right of others to follow certain faiths, I find it arrogant for these believers to tell me I will go to hell because I cannot accept the laws of belief, worship etc.