American Atheists 09 - Richard Dawkins (w/ Q&A)

[@B4IRUTUARU16]

Mr Dawkins thank you for making these videos open to the public. It has really helped me broaden my understandings on religion and logic.

[@pincessdogg5222]

I ask you: If you were able to hire the entire human race, and have unlimited funds, unlimited research, could your "team" design and build a living male and female dog? It is a simple yes or no question, and commentary would be pleasing.

[@poozer1986]

@@pincessdogg5222 ok I'll bite. I won't answer, but I will ask why you asked

[@david77james]

Yes mr Dawkins, thank you for your long winded stream of endless stacks of conjectures, stacked on top of old conjectures! When will you ever give the world actual science, instead of conjectural science. Not even God is based on such flimsy trash like what you spew out on a daily basis, without ONE specific fact to support any of it, according to the scientific method. .

[@hifibrony]

Snarky Richard may be best Richard of all. Wonderful man and a truly great mind.

[@stickyrubb]

I love snarky Richard

[@TheBlackmentos94]

Absolutely enjoyed every second of this talk...made my day.

[@kiakia6617]

Dawkins thank you. I'm proud to be a human being when I think that in this world there are men like you. With your bright and wonderful mind. Thank you.

[@Frisenette]

That shirt! Dayum! That's one hell of a Hawaiishirt. Underplayed yet recognizeable as a specimen of aforementioned. Perfect pattern and colour.

[@science4rookies]

uhhhhh sharp shirt, Professor ;-) and sharp speech... I love I love ;-) greetings from Germany

[@wrongthinker4475]

ScienceBitchNr.1 Hätte ehrlich gesagt nicht damit gerechnet, dass hier noch andere Deutsche sind.

[@ShadowZZZ]

was geht

[@gaillewis5472]

I fell in love with this man's mindset when he described Christians as " barking mad." Funniest thing I've ever heard.

[@ticoreeves5920]

Mmmmm mmm 😋 😋 of his

[@ticoreeves5920]

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[@david77james]

The old angry Dawkins is "barking mad" on the opposing side of Christianity, mostly because he never had enough interest to take the necessary time to delve into its astounding tenets. So, people commonly reject things out of ignorance, as does Dawkins, but such decision is based on free volitional choice. A minority (35%-40%) of scientists know many absolutes of God, which are available to all, including Dawkins, but it requires a desire to know such things. .

[@david77james]

Anfo - Sources regarding???

[@david77james]

@@anfo_4241 Sources on what? Neil deGrasse Tyson's quote of a popular science publication?

[@arbenitasahini2817]

Dawkins is like a stand-up comedian of science. Love him😂

[@anandsuralkar2947]

I hate standup liberal comedians but i love richard

[@david77james]

Comedian, INDEED. He doesn't need the reality of valid science to invent the most preposterous claims, which come nowhere close to becoming a part of valid science, based on the scientific method.

[@bubbercakes528]

Richard Dawkins is a highly respected professor of science at one of the finer institutions in England. I’ve heard nothing he sais which was as “preposterous” as religious claims.

[@david77james]

@@bubbercakes528 - That's simply because you are not looking to denigrate his stacks of conjectures, while you ARE looking to denigrate claims about God. For example, if you understood basic science, and knew how to do critical analysis of claims, you'd listen to such as this 4 minute video, wherein he gives a list of conjectures (guesses) that the audience claps over, AS IF they are based on science, BUT they are not, even after all the decades this clown has been "teaching his preposterous unproven claims" - Listen closely, and tell us how many FACTS you hear him state, which include: "something like a ..... PROBABLY evolved from....., etc" : kzbin.info/www/bejne/b57LiWWBlthoa5o .

[@bubbercakes528]

Atheists, including Richard Dawkins, will be the first to tell you that no one can prove god does not exist. However, through science we can show that almost all of religions claims about our universe have been proven false. You cannot with good conscience say Dawkins is a fraud while every teligious man incliding Jesus has been proved to be fully fraudulent.

[@atheistmommy3710]

Since Hitchens died (peace upon his soul), Dawkins became my new hero, he is 'THE MAN' in today's atheist movements. Hitchens's (peace upon his soul) style was completely different than Dawkins' , but Dawkins was more knowledge because of simple fact he is evolutionary biologist. I am fascinated with and have a lot of respect for professor Dawkins, I wish I could meet him one day.

[@dollarbill2208]

I love Dawkins, but I have found Aron Ra to be better at explaining evolution through the Phylogeny Explorer Project in his KZbin series "Systematic Classification of Life." Highly recommended. Cheers!

[@jimjimson9124]

Soul lol

[@pdworld3421]

That's fascinating. Peace upon the soul of Chistopher Hitchens. I'm afraid most likely not but I didn't think atheists believed in souls

[@akshat9252]

@@jimjimson9124 Atheist means one who does not believe in God. Does not mean he has to be very materialistic

[@davidkamqwerty2346]

I thought only believers had a soul

[@PredatorUnit]

One of the things I'd like to do before i leave this earth is to attend one of professor's Dawkins conferences. My hero!

[@interlake2043]

Mr. Dawkins thought Bush was bad... fast forward 8 years later.

[@beskoner]

Landon Wiebe Bush is looking pretty good about now...

[@Paretozen]

lmao yea. fucking hell bro.

[@shanehull6235]

Let’s see if Syria and Israel go any better 🙄

[@Teamcashola]

I agree. Thank Christ for Trump because that Obama was a real Twat. :)

[@Teamcashola]

Shane Hull.. No.... you found one of the Democrat Atheist Trump supporters. Well not a Trump supporter as such but one who likes to bate SJW's with their 'Obama could do no wrong' assertions.

[@fictionmyth]

This must have been filmed on casual friday.

[@malachykinney1598]

Hahahahahahahahaha. That kills me.

[@hughmangus2324]

Sir, i take my hat off to you. I appreciate your intellectual reasoning, sense of polite humour and educational values! As an ex- religous person i can relate to everything you stand for and appreciate your lifetime dedication to the athiest cause. Thank you

[@Eric-xt8nd]

My life is were I've allways wanted it to be. And Richard Dawkins has led the way. God bless you Richard Dawkins. No wait, um oh that's not right. Sorry, old programming. Thank you Mr Dawkins. Your wisdom has helped set me free.

[@iamhopkinse]

"I bring greetings from that little known region, the rest of the world, in congratulating America in getting rid of the worst president in living memory." Hang on.... *checks upload date Ahhhhhh

[@mattrg1111111]

Evan H my exact reaction.

[@svendtang5432]

Evan H Richard was wrong.. the worst was yet to come .. lol

[@calocalhero]

@@svendtang5432 And now you may repeat the mistake

[@shanehull6235]

Lol right 😂

[@mr.mcbeavy1443]

America: "Hold my beer"

[@tedthesailor172]

I'd no idea he despised Tony Blair almost as much as I do...

[@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853]

Can i join your queue? I'll bring some wine and a cricket bat.

[@DC-rn1fc]

@@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853 I'd like to add a heavy version of Origin of Species. One that you can either read or slam onto someone's head, hoping a little bit of reason may fall out and join the head who took the hit.

[@akshat9252]

@@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853 if there is a cricket bat

[@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853]

@@akshat9252 Tks Asshat

[@klumaverik]

"Sir, why do you take such pains to hide yourself?" Excellent point as always

[@wrathofme03]

"hey I've got a point against Richard Dawkins.. he's having me think about my beliefs and how wrong I am and I realize it as his words hit my ears ...so I'm offended because I'm embarrassed for having fallen for a rouse and rooting my identity in something i really should drop right now....there...I'm offended and that's my point...take THAT atheists" this is basically the best argument anyone has against this brave and intelligent man.

[@unholygod4895]

you my friend are not a very clever person are you pmsl

[@glutinousmaximus]

It's 'ruse' not 'rouse' Never mind. It's good that people are capable of being offended. Sometimes they need to be!

[@roder51]

Ignorance is always offended.

[@roder51]

Ignorance is always offended.

[@shanehull6235]

There are no good reasons for faith (faith) believing in something without any evidence. I’m more of a fan of logic reason and evidence but each to there own

[@shadyganem5448]

i love Dawkins

[@rkeytek1]

He would embrace God once he was convinced of it. To date, no argument has been able to do that. His open mindedness and ability to reason is exceptional. I am Christian, and I hold tremendous respect for Richard.

[@fazergazer]

Shady Ghanem and he loves you!

[@KbcBerlin]

"Highly intelligent life might not be bothered to visit us" The principal of non interference makes a lot of sense in the light of Western civilisations effect on other less technically advanced civilisations or groups. Which is optimistic , because it says they are concerned not to harm us.

[@gordonclemmensen]

I have always wondered why more Psychiatrists and Psychologists aren't calling out the Creationist and Fundamental religious folks as suffering from some form of mental illness and having them comitted (or something), because many of them are obviously deluded about the reality of the world around them.

[@jonesgerard]

Mental health professionals see what you will not, they know God helps people with sanity.

[@gordonclemmensen]

jonesgerard God doesn't help anyone. Religion simply blinds people to the reality of the world they are part of. If mental health proffesionals would point out the delusional thoughts proposed by religious leaders maybe we could save a few more people from being brainwashed.

[@thebigjul]

Because they need them to pay their bills.

[@johndavis9591]

when more than 80% of the worlds pop, think there is a big daddy in the sky the odds are against one.

[@thebigjul]

WHy? Some thousands years ago we believed in thousands of différents gods, all abandonned with no conséquences, modern monotheistic gods are just the last garbage invented by insane mind terrified by life and death. We knew the world was a globe rotating since antiquity them we forget it and then rediscovered it. Sanity will be found and stinking gods will be where they should, in the great dumpster of history.

[@johnshen4569]

Man, that worst president ever trophy got passed around quicker than anyone anticipated.

[@gwwayner]

I'm going to join George Carlin and worship the sun! It is truly a miraculous entity. Lots of proof that it is there; you can see it! You can always depend on it to provide light every day, it provides benefits like warmth and food crops, and best of all IT DOESN'T JUDGE ME or make false promises. IMO we don't thank the sun enough; the least we can do is worship it! Maybe I'll put a little sun-god symbol over the front door.

[@sellout87]

+gwwayner I think I'll stick to the REAL God. Joe Pesci.

[@scheerBOM]

+sellout87 How can it be REAL if it does not manifest itself in REALITY any way shape or form? Amazing...

[@shanehull6235]

I have been enlightened by the sun god lol

[@shanehull6235]

sellout87 what ones that ? Lmao

[@atifakhtar3942]

the sun wont judge you...God will

[@johnmagee810]

Richard Dawkins, a wonderful exemplar of reason, respect and tolerance without a hint of mockery, intolerance and arrogance. A true liberal, enquiring and humble with no sign of certitude or intellectual haughtiness. Richard’s dazzling intellect only marginally less garish than his shirt. What a wonderful gift to respectful public discourse!

[@lorenmcleod2816]

Thank goodness for Richard Dawkins, a true revealer and a leader, you have helped me understand the truth of life that I've been given, wish we had longer to learn more as most of us are rather slow, but we don't...thanks for the direction

[@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853]

"Richard Dawkins,... you have helped me understand the truth of life that I've been given" "Given"? Don't you mean "life that has evolved"?

[@david77james]

Thank God for exposing the fraud of evo-illusion, through Dawkins, who is the epitome of evil, for spreading fake science, and duping millions with his conjectures stacked on top of conjectures, concerning what he THINKS evolved from and/or into this or that. No science, just guesswork, like a child might put forth.

[@kzinful]

Sadly when it comes to politics ... devolution is real (sigh). It was years ago when I read ' The Selfish Gene ' and his writing shown me that it was science and not some 'divine entity ' that is evolution ( I was still on the fence you might say) So thank you Sir Richard

[@jadivods]

Imagine my shock when I found that not only is he a genius, hes a comedian.

[@kieselsteinchen9795]

My English is not that good to get everything. But I read some translated books of Dawkins. He's great. Also his sense of humour.

[@DmKrispin]

I had the same experience! Before I really knew much about him, I was prepared for him to be shrill, unpleasant, and rude. How pleasantly surprised I was to find him to be an eloquent, passionate, educated man with a razor-sharp wit.

[@ShivamPhysics1]

Theism badly beaten down. Great Job Professor ! Live Long !

[@Jonayofsweden]

HOLD ON!!... what the hell did you say about Thor?

[@igorhiperactivo2446]

+Jonayofsweden Thor is too cool for School, right?

[@anandsuralkar2947]

Lol

[@eb60lp]

Praise Thor 🙌🏿🙏🏿

[@cheetahrawr4463]

Richard Dawkins No Suit Q&A

[@MTBScotland]

ha ha ha getting rid of the worst president in living history - fast forward 8 years......

[@barbaraannen3340]

At least he's not religious

[@alpinejim2816]

Obama did suck, didn’t he?

[@jeffreyallen3561]

@@barbaraannen3340 of course Obama is religious. But he's a gay Muslim so he had to keep it on the down low.

[@docwobbles]

And now we have the best one, Donald Trump!

[@molnez]

@@barbaraannen3340 Although he tries hard to pretend to be. Luckily for him a lot of religious people are absolute suckers...

[@toni4729]

Fact is we could be visited every second Tuesday for all we know" Just something Carl Sagan said some decades ago. It's true of course. Would we recognize life from some other galaxy if it were to arrive on our doorstep? Would it in fact even be visible?

[@thebeautifulgame17]

this man is genius...thanks so much for posting

[@lmos26]

Richard Dawkins truly is one of a kind. If I were to choose a person to be the singular universal teacher of every child on earth, then my first choice would absolutely and undoubtedly be Richard Dawkins.

[@curonevans]

Me too. Hours that I will never get back. Even back then I thought it was a load of rubbish, but there was no spokesman out there, saying what I thought. Thank God for Richard Dawkins (!)

[@transAmos654123]

nice shirt.

[@sixteeschyl]

Snazzy shirt.This man is an utter gem on every level. The irony in Blairs mission statement is torn to shreds by this Professor 👌

[@estellaedwards7120]

Brilliant man. Love his speeches

[@HarryNicNicholas]

20:00 dawkins might say this, but my understanding is that flew was advancing in years and was surrounded by believers trying to convince him to convert, and sadly his mind was in a state that he would just go along with the last thing anyone said to him, i love the way "moral" believers not only misrepresent dawkins debate (i watched it on video) but then not only lie about flew, but after trying to fuddle the guy into saying he had converted. religion deserves no respect at all, lennox isn't misunderstanding, he's lying. 31:00 i'm with you mr dawkins, mathematically yes, there *must* be more life, realistically, i don't see why we can't be unique, when you consider that there are numerous subtleties that made life possible on this planet, then i think it is possible that we are the only "self aware" life in the entire universe, intelligence itself might be unique for all we know, life might be on every planet, but basic. not a popular idea i know, but until we can talk with other beings it's an incentive to survive and get out into the universe asap. imagine the wealth to be had if we *are* the only ones....

[@adrianjanssens7116]

Thank you Mr. Dawkins. You are a good teacher. I respect you.

[@daedalron]

That question at 28:25, asking what would you say to god if you met him after death... I think Dawkins is too nice. My first word to god would be "which one are you ?", and only after that ask about why he was hiding himself.

[@213SEMPERFI]

This man is a legend!

[@mikebuchanan3018]

Only in his own mind.

[@Liam-Carlson]

This video quality is impressive for 2009. This looks like it was filmed yesterday.

[@michaelclough2462]

pretty good comedian

[@jpingage]

He's coming to Australia some time this year for the Atheist Convention in Melbourne. Unfortunately the tickets had sold out by the time I heard about it. :(

[@CraigCline]

Blair and Bush, a cosmic fluctuation in time to the dark side

[@mikemattis1204]

Fuck off

[@PBSmithy]

I'm a true believer in Christianity, and I gave this video a thumbs up. Brilliant video, The only thing worse than a slave is a slave who thinks he's free. There's a good boy, Dawkins. Time for walkies!

[@jimlawton4184]

Hey Dawkins: If you're so smart, how come you're using Yahoo to search?

[@bnipmnaa]

Hush, child. The adults are talking.

[@horses102488]

The world needs more respectful people like you. Thanks for giving me some hope people such as yourself exist.

[@albertrogers8537]

Oh dear! Now we've got one worse than the Bushes.

[@barbaraannen3340]

At least he's not religious

[@nupraptorthementalist3306]

Mindless comment.

[@jeffreyallen3561]

But miles better than Killary even at his very worst.

[@Avidcomp]

Quote mining - Thanks for mentioning it. I've on occasion looked for out of context quotes but using a mining index reveals so much more.

[@voLumez]

dat shirt doe

[@iamthem134]

Many Muslims would argue that this passage refers to the duty of husbands to protect their wives, but there are two points. One, it is worded very strongly, and two, if religion was compatible with human nature, it would know that humans naturally like to be somewhat authoritarian. Afterwards, it says that wives must be "devoutly obedient". Meaning, they have to do their husband's will, whether they like it or not. This and similar injustices in other religions was the first step in my atheism.

[@svendtang5432]

The mining part it’s incredible that a man of science like a mathematician will twist words to fit his world view. But that just shows how religion and dogma poisoned everything.. to borrow a quote.

[@FudududuMr]

Svend Tang ...what do you mean by that?

[@SmemesYT]

"I bring greetings from that little known region, the rest of the world, in congratulating America in getting rid of the worst president in living memory." That didn't age well

[@mauriciogago4465]

I just thought the same thing...

[@mkAYY825]

i was going to type something similar

[@Cordman1221]

Yes, it's a ball of cells. Pre-second trimester, it wouldn't even show up on sonogram, because it would be indistinguishable from the uterian wall.

[@time4sanity]

Sadly, when Dawkins was congratulating the US for getting rid of the worst president in recent memory, he had NO IDEA how GOOD Bush would look in our rear view mirror as compared to TRUMP!!!! How we could have devolved from Obama to Trump truly boggles the mind!!!! (Huge fan of Dawkins here, by the way!!!!)

[@pervasivedoubt150]

It’s such a shame to know that the majority of voters voted the other way, yet we still got stuck with him. Let’a stay motivated for this next election!

[@madmanjshum]

Professor Dawkins is not just intelligent he is always extremely funny and humorous. Respect

[@STRANGEJAMES85]

Festive shirt.

[@Grizzly_2776]

"Congratulations on getting rid of your worst president in living memory..." 2016: "Hold my red hat."

[@wildmansamurai3663]

Brilliant man

[@stt5v2002]

After hearing the opening about getting rid of the worst president, I had to check to see if the video was one year old or 14.

[@MsKariSmith]

Indeed, I agree lets worship the sun as it can always be counted on to be there and not try and control us pitiful little humans. While we are at it, why not stop worshiping the almighty dollar and of course the various soul sucking religions and just try to better ourselves with knowledge that is scientific based and concentrate on treating humans and our planet with more respect. In other words, why not act like responsible adults and use our brains instead of being lazy and following what is the easiest path? We really don't need any kind of religion to give us rules to live by or morals that should be taught by again...responsible adults that are grounded in reality.

[@evilemoboy]

55:55 I had to rewind there, because I thought that I missheared the person speaking. I wish he was kidding too.

[@rseneck100]

we love u richard.... marry me... lol. xoxoxox

[@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside]

Yuk dude

[@Jspore-ip5rk]

@@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside 🤣🤣🤣

[@malenedietl3369]

55:26 Why can God as the prime cause of every existence and creation not be an answer? Does Dawkins have a scientific explanation to that answer? I would have asked him that question.

[@Vuizendrecht]

Dawkins: the only person to use the Yahoo search engine.

[@glowingunknown5625]

heyyyyy. I use Yahoo.

[@zeljjko70766]

cant wait to see him again..month and half to go only :)

[@Skcorps]

"Oh mighty magical man in the sky, I'm sorry for being human, exactly how you created me without my species having any say in it, then putting you to the trouble of punishing us for faults that reflect your own since we're apparently created in your image!" - Generic prayer

[@2fast2block]

Come on, here's your real prayer. The atheist prayer to their god of nothing. "Oh, god of nothing, we deny you exist, and you don't, but we have no choice to declare you our true god if we're honest, but we're not. Please god of nothing, help us to continually grow in offering no science to support you because there is none, but nonetheless, we devote our lives to you and will do the best act we can, no matter how pathetic, no matter how embarrassing, no matter how much evidence is against us, we will use the various tactics to deny the CLEAR science against us like our biggies: ---"god-of-the-gaps", ---"invincible man in the sky", "sky daddy", etc. ---"we don't know yet but science is working on it"---"no reputable scientists believe that"---"religion vs science"---"the bible says...."---"creationist/creatard"---"people used to believe the flat earth"---"that's not part of evolution"---"atheism is not a belief"---"burden of proof is on you"---"religion causes most wars"---"I used to be a Christain" "We praise you god of nothing for such phrases (and whatever else we can make up) that answer nothing, but you gave us these word farts to help us deflect what we refuse to face because all us are really stupid wimps and don't want to think, we want to be lazy and act as if we're smart, all thanks to our god of nothing that makes us all a worthless nothing yet we still think somehow we're really something from our brains that came from the god of nothing all by random chance from chaos we evolved from."

[@DavidmByrd]

Even if a extremely more advanced species made contact what makes one think the populations would ever be allowed to know about it ?

[@beskoner]

Got a new worse president now! Lol

[@donnyboy891fred6]

i have not 1 but 2 "gods" i refer to them as mum and dad, there real,have lasted a life time and have always been here guiding and teaching and loving me, just like all free minded people.

[@kennorton1478]

My turn, Mr Dawkins, as far as you are concerned, would there be any civilization out there in the universe that do not have this concept of "god" coz they got it all figured out? Thank you

[@babyeater2336]

I grew up in Gateshead. What school was he talking about that in 2002 taught the world as being 6000 years old?

[@robadubi]

Blaq, what would you call a line that connects up to itself eventually if you turn completely around while following it? I'd call it a circle, wouldn't you? I never heard of a straight line that connected to itself. Do you even think before you type stuff?

[@DeadFishFactory]

In the primordial soup, there is a blur between the what counts as life and what does not. Are nucleic acids and phospholipids life?

[@r3lgen]

sorry i meant explanation*. well essentially all theories and hypotheses are explanations of the universe some with just more reason behind it.

[@hwd7]

As a YEC, I was looking forward to part 4. How to deal with creationists, but he avoided the topic, as he does creationists who have invited him to debate but refuses such invitations.

[@ApothecaryGrant]

Argument is wasted on creationists . They have no morals .

[@hwd7]

@@ApothecaryGrant Well why are you arguing with this Young Earth creationist?

[@ApothecaryGrant]

@@hwd7 A statement of fact is not arguing the fact . Which I wonxt do .

[@hwd7]

@@ApothecaryGrant How did you arrive at those conclusions?

[@ApothecaryGrant]

@@hwd7 experience

[@normanthrelfall8313]

2. It is assumed that the system contained none of its “daughter” components. Again in the case of uranium it is assumed that there was no lead to begin with which made up the rock. First of all how do you know that? Were you there when the decay process started? Did you see that there was absolutely no lead in the rock to begin with? How do you know how much uranium has decayed into lead? 3. It is assumed that the decay rate must have been the same continually. However we know from laboratory experiments and the natural world that decay rates can change and be influenced by environmental conditions such as the earth’s weakening magnetic field. Therefore the concept of a constant decay rate without fluctuation is simply not true. 4. It is impossible to say that sample radioactive rocks used for dating have not had any natural contamination and that any other elements producing the same “daughter” elements could not have been initially present but have now disappeared without trace. This simply shows why all radio metric dating processes don’t work! Let me explain further: In the case of for instance the decay of uranium 238 into lead 206 there are 13 intermediate products which are produced and all of them are radioactive. So obviously if you start with thorium and polonium and so forth, these are all radioactive materials which are produced by the decay of uranium into lead. There are actually 14 different elements that radioactively decay to finally produce lead! If any of the other elements were created in the rock they would have decayed so quickly you wouldn’t even know they were there! All you saw was the lead, so you assume that the lead only came from uranium; this is a false assumption because the lead could have come from other radioactive materials that were created in the rock and yet by nature leave no trace of their existence.

[@eb60lp]

Why is it so funny when he says “twiddle the knobs” never mind me my mind is in the gutter. 🤣😂🤣

[@MegaAlvarojavier]

Love this guy need more people like him

[@robadubi]

>if you turn around 360 degrees it would look more like a rectangle than a circle which would give an appearance that the earth is flat not round Otherwise people wouldnt have believed that the the world was flat in the first place. So you consider a pita bread round and not flat, despite it often being called "flat bread"? Thinking the horizon was rectangular assumes that some of the horizon was further away at some places than others in a precise pattern rather than being the same distance.

[@OneWorldHistory]

AND SO, as Richard Dawkins explains here, for now I am an atheist amongst those that oppose knowledge, learning and basic truths... ...and, like Steven Hawking, a 'non-theist' amongst the like-minded. Richard Dawkins is correct, we MUST fight. Or, as Carl Sagan so eloquently relates, we, like Hypatia, 1700 years ago... ...are consumed. Our works obliterated by those that oppose the beauty of science. "We MUST not let it happen again."

[@jemborg]

@IschysDynamis That boot you are talking about is petrified NOT fossilised.

[@zombiehampster1397]

When he says "congratulating America for getting rid of the worst president in living memory". Oh dear sweet Mr. Dawkins, if only you knew what was in store for the US in 2016...

[@blacky_Ninja]

„Where is everybody?“ Well, we didn‘t really come that far around in the Universe, and since life is believed to be so improbable, while not even considering the probability of that life evolving as long as it did on earth (there can always happen something that destroys all progress towards more complex life forms on a planet in seconds), the probability to find a second planet with very complex lifeforms in our ‚planetary neighbourhood‘ is even lower. Due to the Universe being so big, we will probably have to go WAY further from our ‚home‘ than we can at the moment to find such a thing.

[@chebob2009]

@retroguy02 You missed my point. It doesn't matter what their profession was, the fact is we don't listen to Beethoven because HE wrote it, we listen to it because it's incredible. The same with Darwin, we don't give a shit who he was. It's all about his works.

[@DeadFishFactory]

The definition of life is for life as we see it today. If we're talking about 3-4 billion years ago, then we're going to need a definition for what constitutes for life for then.

[@AlanKey86]

Whoa, whoa, whoa... 23:27 where did THAT slide come from?!

[@Kuvajokeri]

It depends on the audience. This lecture was given at an atheist conference, where there probably weren't religious people around. Therefore, it's a good place to make jokes about religion and religious people.

[@tosvus]

who is the author he refences late in the video? Daniel Galloy, Daniel Gallo, Daniel Gallow? Can't seem to find a sci-fi writer with any of those names.

[@voicevitality7197]

There's more evidence for God than there is this supposed Gallo fellow

[@Avelyn18]

Agree. At the same time I prefer to puzzle myself with questions for which answer could be obtained in the future with use of science. This way appeals to me much stronger than resting on the chosen figment of imagination for which there is no evidence at all, that is religion.

[@Angelslayer007]

What does Richard mean @ 45:00? "That just pushes the problem back one step"? Is it the same as: "god did it. But who made god?"

[@dztrbdgod]

Can you please release the 4th section of this lecture.

[@PowerOfTheMirror]

as for "where is everbody": considering earth is over 4 billion year old yet only had life for a fraction of its age. It may be that the universe is too young to have a lot of civilizations in it and it may be that we are some of the universes "first born". another theory is that faster than light travel may be completely impossible and so all life that evolves in the universe will be stuck in its little corner of it and that we haven't been able to detect their radio transmissions so far.

[@Mad_S]

00:35 you spoke too soon my dude

[@berlinbrown03]

Loved the Dawkins talk But why did the people in the QA start with a bunch of long stories and finally a question?

[@pplr1]

Thank you TanikAyanna. While I wouldn't declare all of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and so on corrupt without knowing more than I do about each, I am certain that there are corrupted versions/types of each around today (some of these are quite scary too). In relation to what you're trying to explain let me say it is a good thing to be able to look around and ask where is or where could this be headed. The ability to do so may end up serving you well at some point.