I feel that I am very privileged to be living on this planet at the same time as Prof Richard Dawkins.

@HollywoodColt

3 жыл бұрын

I 2nd that!

@markrobertsministries

3 жыл бұрын

He's a fool.

@HollywoodColt

3 жыл бұрын

@@markrobertsministries You would be the expert on stupidity!

Dr. Dawkins, you are my candidate for the top 10 great human beings who have ever lived. I have learned more by listening to you and reading your books than I had in all my years in school and college. Thank you for being a beacon of rationality, courage and kindness for the whole world.

Really lucky to have dawkins on this planet to enlighten us 💕💕

Watching the professor is like a breath of fresh air.

I can listen to this man all day.

Thanks for educating me towards reasoning and science. It's a great prevalage to share some years with you on this planet.

For many, including myself, the fear of death is more to do with losing loved ones than losing my own life.

@markrobertsministries

3 жыл бұрын

Richard better fear death. He's lied to so many.

@danseymour9414

3 жыл бұрын

@@markrobertsministries 🤦🏻‍♂️

I have great respect for him.

I am so infatuated with this man Richard, I can't afford to miss his videos.

Been waiting to hear from Richard

Sweet, I've not come across this talk yet! I love hearing new Dawkins talk and I especially enjoy viewing something of his for the first time so thank you for this video

Very glad to see your channel has not been culled Prof.

@phoenixskeptic7698

3 жыл бұрын

Culled??? Richard isn’t conservative.

@onlyslavesareequal2790

3 жыл бұрын

@@phoenixskeptic7698 Left wingers wanted to cancel him when he wrote on twitter that Eugenics works. Your team called him Nazi. LMAO

Cheers to Hitchens 🥃 I miss that guy.

@VladSWG

3 жыл бұрын

I still watch him almost daily. He will always be a part of my life. I am raising a glass in his memory. 🥃

@drunkrtard

3 жыл бұрын

What fun he would be to watch today.

@davidblackburn3396

3 жыл бұрын

Just imagine Hitch going after The Cult Of Trump loaded for bear. How delicious would that be? In a sense, thanks to KZread, he is immortal. Ironic, no?

@assajventress3204

3 жыл бұрын

🍻 cheers. we miss you Hitch. Ill pour one out for you homie. ✊🏻

@assajventress3204

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidblackburn3396 hitch was a constitutionalist. He would be furious at the fact that the democrats are trying to abolish constitutional rights like freedom of speech under the guise of "making us safe". Just look at how youtube now censors opinions it disagrees with.

Awesome 😀

A no nonsense proponent of free speech and atheism. I admire his stamina in promoting science.

Richard is the archbishop of my church. (I also miss The Hitch.)

@keithjones9546

3 жыл бұрын

Hitch is the Pope?

Great 👊

@s.kdutta8626

3 жыл бұрын

Are u a atheist too?

finally , they decided to upload

Great show

Whaaaaaat this is great! I loved Annabelle in Dinner and a Movie! What a find!

Admire Richard and always glad to hear what he has to say. Interviewer, however, wasn't the best.

Amazing"~"AWES(😀)MENESS!!!!!

I have huge respect for Dawkins and his work is important.

Dr. Dawkins....a human being that "Thinks" as opposed to many others on this planet.

@WayneLynch69

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/qn18r9B9Yqmqlbw.html Dawkins "Thinks" rather than speaks responding to two Nobel laureates in Biology and Craig Venter, atheist/billionaire/organic-chemist whom ALL use the word "IMPOSSIBLE" that humans will EVER know the origin of life. THAT'S ATHEISM'S SINE QUA NON!!!!! AND HE CAN'T OPEN HIS MOUTH IN ITS DEFENSE?!? Dawkins will go down with Nostradamus as the charlatan in which fools see great truths.....

Richard Dawkins is my self-appointed Godfather❤

@knitnkitten

3 жыл бұрын

🤔 He's atheist. Thinking he's not into godfather bs.

@jayro2996

3 жыл бұрын

The role of godparents is to take on rhe responsibility of God children, in tje the event of parental demise? I vote to ask Dawkins anyway. What could be cooler than that?

@louisehaley5105

3 жыл бұрын

My Lord and Guru.🙏

Not sure if she was joking, but Annabelle completely misunderstands the point of the Hamlet analogy

@asecretturning

3 жыл бұрын

I don't see any reason to believe that. I've heard the analogy put forth in many different ways, and she is expanding the one version put forth here which suggests only one monkey is involved. She is reminding people that hamlet was not written in isolation. Life is dynamic. That's all.

@FutureAbe

3 жыл бұрын

@@asecretturning but it's not about Hamlet nor Shakespeare; it's illustrating a model of infinity. It's either an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of typewriters typing Hamlet (at some point) or one monkey with a typewriter with an infinite amount of time, randomly typing, would at some point type Hamlet. So it's not illustrating the unlikelyhood of Hamlet being written, but rather the inconceivable magnitude of infinity (which may or may not be a reality)

For those interested in how to win the conversation I suggest looking into Street Epistomology as presented by Anthony Magnabosco and Nonviolent Communication as presented by Marshall Rosenberg! Please understand that it does not matter if someone agrees with you, it matters if their (and your) beliefs are well founded 🤝

I love Dawkins!!!!

Sad thing is he will leave us someday. mortality is a bitch!😥

Richard Dawkins, your response is very courteous and civil. You are speaking and have the patience to withstand the majority of total ignorant morons. It’s frustrating to even listen the profound stupidity of the audience. Good job Richard.

What a genius 💙

His socks re different 🤣

27:40 has happened to everyone one I’m sure😂😂. Prof Dawkins is awesome 🔥.

Richard is secretly quite quirky with his mismatched socks and bird tie

Monitor tech wasn't monitoring, Richard's lavalier needed moving. *

RD fan🤩

Rise of the religious right? That was when I was a kid.

Ask me about science, not politics Proceeds to ask questions about politics

Science and reason, It sounds like a well established recipe for a good conversation. But if you don't like fast food and soap opera, you have to figure out first what stands for salt and what for pepper among the terms advertised in the beginning of this video.

Some of the worst audience questions I've ever heard. One guy's question about suicide was so dumb, it had me saying, out loud, "Man, sit down. Just go sit down".

How do we stop ignorence, stop censoring the truth. Let it be known & accepted by those who can accept it.

Damn that 3:43 joke......🤣🤣

Richard, did you see the 'left hand of God' documentary?

If you’re live , let’s know

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

It’s nothing to do with secularism, it’s responsibility of the people’s and who’s in a position

Such a shame that you had conversation with professor Dawkins and wasted it to talk about situation in US (that no one actually cares worldwide) instead of other, more important things. Seriously, that lady gave remarks about US government, US presidents and modern situation like every couple of minutes - like it is important subject for discussion.

@briansweda6094

2 жыл бұрын

It is. Especially in this anti science post truth society we find ourselves in.

Sir you are todays albert einstein, we are happy that we saw you alive... there is nobody like you..you are almost my religion 😃😃😃😄😄😄

"Secular people have no place in government." The Constitution says religion has no place in government.

Instinct is genetic memory. Everything I & the mother are & know is compiled in to the child. A lizard fresh from an egg, knows to stay still still while the snake passes by. Because it's ancestors learned this.

I wonder what Dawkins would make of the overt religiosity of Biden’s inauguration, despite supporting him over Trump. I also wonder what he would make of the attacks on science/education now coming from the Left.

@wadeinn463

3 жыл бұрын

What attacks from the left?

@onlyslavesareequal2790

3 жыл бұрын

@@wadeinn463 Left is going after Evolutionary psychology really hard. They hate any notion that genes have influence on human behaviour. They call it "justification of oppression" LMAO.

Looks after our home planet earth

2:18, that's Freud

The way she freaked out one the guy brought suicide to the debate is shocking 57:00

Eternity? - I think I would deal with it, perhaps sleep a lot, but just take it as it comes.

Didn't find you happy when your 2017 Berkeley event cancelled ! Seems like you follow the same concept yourself by removing my comment.

3 years aGO ?

If robots take over, which they already have essentially, the resource extraction that requires them to exist will run out. Thank goodness.

@angieestey2778

2 жыл бұрын

That interviewer would be better as a robot. What a smarmy female.

It isn’t just the oil and gas industry that opposes climate change action, it’s the military complex as well. They need fast acting fuel injected equipment to wage war. Decentralized wind, solar and other planet-friendly technologies are only useful to peaceful populations, and of less value and use for quick conversion and nationalization for war. If this isn’t acknowledged openly and the true costs out on the table, they are very happy to play semantic games and argue about wind turbines and birds. (BTW, Oil tankers kill way more birds.)

It is a curious fact about humans that women like bare legs almost anywhere it seems. Everyone has legs and so there is nothing special about them. It's like," Look at my legs". O.K. Legs. So? You have legs. So does everyone.

As for secular people not being eligible to adopt children reminds me of Christopher Hitchens’ point on the choice of a babysitter. Who would you trust more to baby sit your children, a homosexual secular man or a Christian bishop? Personally, the secular person wins every time!

@lepidoptera9337

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on how much I hate my children, I guess. I can see plenty of parents choosing the bishop. :-)

Mid-roll ads? No thanks!

@ 1:07:00 Civilized humans have so many problems with their teeth (unlike tribal societies) because the lack of fiber in our diet and the disproportionate amount of carbohydrates. By not needing to chew fibrous foods, our mastication muscles don't develop as well and it changes the shape of our skulls, compacting our teeth. With tighter spacing between our teeth (or now commonly misaligned teeth), it's easier for bacteria to grow. Likewise, the transition to granivorous diets gives those bacteria plenty of food. Tribal societies don't have the cavities or misaligned teeth that civilized people do because of their diets and because they start their children on fibrous diets earlier. When civilized people force them to change their diet, they develop the same dental problems we have. This was just one of countless problems that civilization caused that we're still struggling with.

@robleahy5759

3 жыл бұрын

Are you calling all African and Arab societies uncivilized? They're all still tribal, among others. Have you confused hunter gathering people with this? Tribe was a Roman word for the threefold division of the non-aristocrats into three families. Pre-agricultural people's lives were nasty, brutish and short.

@LemurWhoSpoke

3 жыл бұрын

@@robleahy5759 No, I was referring to pre-agricultural societies. Some words have multiple meanings. Life in general was short and brutal until about a couple hundred years ago. In fact, the first civilized societies experienced a dip in life expectancy following their adoption of agriculture. It's only recently that conditions have improved. As for how brutish life was, most tribal people probably lived in egalitarian societies, didn't have the psychological problems that plague so many today, and generally enjoyed life. Civilization creates huge disparities in health and wealth. Even in our ideal "developed nations," not only do we struggle with basic equality, but our wealth comes from plundering the tropical nations.

teori dia mengatakan kalau orang meninggal akan bertemu Tuhan

His code analogy is going to fuel the apologists. Who's the coder? He needs to rethink how he expresses that concept.

I don't think I agree that "Ridicule is a powerful tool". Whomever is correct, all they should need is to present the facts.

This is not anti RD. But does anyone genuinely think he wants the world to become irreligious anytime soon like he says? It’s kinda like the Al Sharptons of the world, what would his place be and would he have stardom and mass financial success if everything did in fact go his way. He would then be obsolete and no longer awed after.

@ManorexicPanda

2 жыл бұрын

So someone can’t be selfless, and want the human race to evolve into a non religious science based society? They only do it for attention? Nah. He would rather the world change and be obsolete, than be “famous” in a poison ridden world

I once read a scientific research about how our brains are actually getting smaller but we are getting more intelligent... This attributed to smaller brain equals shorter neuronal connections thus faster transmission of impulses and in turn faster information processing.... More like the smaller the processor used in mobile phone chipsets the faster and more efficient the phone will run.

@milominderbinder6209

3 жыл бұрын

If the article you quote is correct then it badly screws up my understanding which is as follows:- I heard that when humans discovered fire, the cook food became easier to chew. Thus jaw & jaw muscles became smaller in favour of larger cranial capacity. So the human Discovery of Fire altered our evolutionary path towards a higher intelligence with bigger brains. As a species we dictated our own evolutionary path thousands of years ago. And with gene editing, human machine interface, etc we are again drastically altering our evolutionary course.

@milominderbinder6209

3 жыл бұрын

In regards to the research paper you read, it needs to be seen which parts of the brain are getting smaller. Perhaps those region represent more primitive intellectual functions which are regressing in favor of more advanced centers. Also there has to be a hypothesis which explains that particular shift.

The origin of life is that the water gathered up enough chemical elements in such abundance that biological life was enevitable.

@ChrisLee-yr7tz

Жыл бұрын

That's settles that then.

@markmountain7981

Жыл бұрын

It does. It's short, simple & just genius. Rock n roll simplicity. Woop woop 😁

We should learned how to survive instead of how to live!

Nicholas cage, 1815 cavalry, If the biology is in the shit, it can select the best last Known profile. Nicholas cage 2022.

The reason people do not bother to vote in the USA and the UK is because they are not democracies, 50 something % election participation does not make a democracy and in the UK the reason is the first past the post system in the USA it is the state thing it is pretty much the same as the UK anyway get universal representation, try a proper democracy where peoples votes are actually counted and make a difference no matter where in the country you live.

How much for the girl?$$$

I ❤ Annabelle Gurwitch! ( and of course, Richard Dawkins).

There are six scientifically false assumptions in ALL Radio Metric Dating Techniques. 1. The sample formation found in radioactive rocks is assumed to be a closed system and that there was no daughter element to begin with. For example: in the case of uranium decay they assume there was no lead to begin with; in assuming a closed system that is simply not true. There is no such thing as a closed system in nature. All systems in nature are open and interactive. A closed system is a laboratory ideal it doesn’t even exist in the laboratory! If you take a glass aquarium and put some snails and plants in, plus water and you then seal it, theoretically the aquarium becomes a closed six sided system where nothing could get in and nothing could get out theoretically. The ideal situation is that the snails eat the plants and they give off carbon dioxide, the plants take in the carbon dioxide and give off oxygen to the snails theoretically and supposedly it is a system which will perpetuate itself. The fact of the matter is, if you do that the environment simply goes out of balance and the snails die and the plants take over and they both die eventually, it simply just does not work. Sun light with various radiations pass through the aquarium continually detrimentally affecting the contents so it is not a closed system. It is much the same with contamination of sample products [rocks] used in radio metric dating. The varying amounts of radiation received from the sun upon the earth causes fluctuations in decay rates relative to all Radio Metric Dating methods. Decay rates are not stable. 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. 5. All radioactive dating methods are flawed as they are affected by the spin of the sun’s core. This interior spin of the sun’s core causes fluctuations in decay rates, but this is only one of many environmental things that can cause decay rates to change.

That actors collaborated in writing Shakespeare is a speculation, not base on evidence. Read the evidence about who wrote the poems, sonnets, and plays attributed to "Shakespeare"; that is the question to ask. Until you evaluate the evidence without bias toward the Stradfordian view of English literature departments, you will not discover who wrote Hamlet. The evidence is distributed throughout that body of literature attributed to 'Shakespeare'. It points strongly to a different answer. Enjoy the journey!

@keithjones9546

3 жыл бұрын

We will never know.

These two guys seem to be more interested in each other, trying their hand at humour and acting than playing interview and interviewer.

Ownism?

I saw this event with two women Kelli and Jess who drove North on a rainy evening. Boulder is so Liberal, rightly so, compared to our Colorado Springs. When we lost a very good superintendent of schools a firm from Boulder, Colorado was hired for the search and I described the culture of Colorado Springs as somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun. And I've recently described it as Republicanville and it is much to the right and idiotically conservative. I now live in another Congressional district and I've been able to vote for a more appropriate representative, twice now.

@ 1:20:00 Throughout the 3 recently uploaded discussions, I've shared Dawkins's concern about how so many audience members keep trying to ask him social and political questions he's not qualified to answer as if he has all the answers. People are sounding no different than the deeply religious who seek answers from spiritual leaders. Atheists should think for themselves and research their own values while constantly considering their own biases. To quote the author Frank Herbert: "Oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters." And the bigger problem is that this betrays our civilized assumption that there is one right way to live. But that's another huge can of worms…

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Is it not possible to have any discussion without inserting political nonsense? I came to this to hear Dawkins on science, not a host on politics. Perhaps it’s no longer possible to have a reasoned discussion without jibbering like opposing chimps at the watering hole.

Darwin's words: "I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so, the plain language of the text seems to show that men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished, And that is a damnable doctrine." I do not want to abide in Darwin and his words, his mantra was: "Survival of the Fittest" these words are earthly, sensual, devilish and hell is behind it. There is no hope in Darwinian Evolutionary Religion only death and destruction. Those who preach evolution as a fact of science are irresponsible; as they promote immoral behaviour by the back door.There will eventually be curfews in towns and cities; this is the beginning of sorrows, but it will all end in tears at Armageddon. On the very day of this battle; the Lord Jesus Christ will descend from heaven in order to stop man; destroying himself through selfishness and greed. Jesus will settle his account with mankind, having destroyed the Antichrist and his kingdom. Jesus said, that lightning would flash across the sky from the east unto the west on the day when the Son of man is revealed I willingly abide in Jesus and his words, "Let him who hath ears to hear, let him hear" this was his mantra very often while teaching the people. Jesus made this statement because he knew that the majority were dull of hearing! Jesus warned men about speaking idle words, indicating he never spoke an idle word. Jesus said, love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, spirit and strength and love your neighbour as yourself. What an excellent moral recipe! That sounds about right to me, words of spirit and life. This is good doctrine, sound doctrine, flawless doctrine, sober doctrine etc. If the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a damnable doctrine as Darwin asserts; then where does that leave "The Origin of Species and Preservation of Favoured Races?" Kind Regards

Richard God loves you..better repent

Mark 8:36 “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul Romans 10:9-10 - The New International Version (NIV) 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved 1 Corinthians 15:4 “And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

Richard Dawkins is a good spin doctor, he would have made a good politician!

I live in a world where some contemporary thinkers, unable to understand the meaning of God that humans have found since ancient times, to find the role of this finding to see a structural system of coexistence of the universe. Has been achieved, and the understanding of this word of God among all beings in the universe, including human beings, refers to a unique existence that nothing can measure its limits, although an existence, similar to the nature of the unique existence, surrounds the earth. Which is not visible to any creature, but the breath of all earthly beings is indebted to and dependent on this blessed being surrounded on earth. And now, can the science of human philosophy answer these questions, such as whether the sun, moon, earth, or all the stars and planets are in the position of the vessel, or are they somehow the object of the vessel? Or, with their scientific point of view, have they ever been able to discover the true relation of all beings to a phenomenon such as air, as well as other relations that go beyond the relation of inhaling and exhaling? Furthermore, esteemed scientists should realize that God is not a religion, but a religion of religion and the bondage of human beings on earth, whose laws can be derived from a systematic rule that governs this universe from a single existence, or They recommend any terrestrial idea that the thinkers of any society think for their comprehensiveness that is compatible with the coexistence of the universe.

@lepidoptera9337

2 жыл бұрын

That was the great wall of bullshit on the internet. Just because you can't keep up with the 21st century doesn't create gods.

Haha digital tribals.

19:53 After Richard talked about tribes and after the whamen cried "this is what muh book is about" she put her self in a tribe of "the resistance" lol these people have no ability to self reflect at all.

I love Dawkins but am totally sick of all the Trump bashing in lots of events he speaks at. It's so frustrating. And what is this guy on about? 1:04:46 What happens when you get complacent? Is he referring to Trump as well? That's the beautiful thing about democracy. People should be celebrating that fact that someone you don't agree with and / or dislike can be elected. That's the system working and it's great. It's so unbelievably illiberal to have permanent tantrums because you don't like the elected leader. Pathetic.

I was enjoying the conversation until the Mar-a-Lago comment. What a juvenile thing to say, sitting next to such an intelligent man. Wishing death on the President of our country? Pathetic.

horribly biased host making inappropriate jokes

Out of his own mouth he admits, the complexity of every living system on Earth has a genetic code full of data just like a computer tape and that instructions are written all over that code uh”. As if he was almost trying to say, something or someone had been responsible, logic would say how can a genetic code come from nothing.

@lepidoptera9337

2 жыл бұрын

The entire human genetic code has an information content of approx. 750MByte (uncompressed and considerably less when compressed). That is maybe half a dozen raw images from a modern high resolution camera. The differences between any two humans take up less than 1MByte of space. One could therefor store the entire genetic database of 8 billion humans on a couple thousand hard drives. That's less than 1% of the size of the primary KZread storage.

@j.n924

2 жыл бұрын

You’re missing his point. He is saying that that complexity arrises out of Darwinian Natural selection over a very long time from something simple (say the first life form on earth). To suggest that ‘something’ or ‘someone’ (i.e. God) is responsible for life is a unfathomably complex explanation because God itself would have to arise from a simple beginning through evolution. Still the question remains where did life come from, of which no one knows, even though religious people “claim” to.

Worlds works based on uncirtainty

@mehdibaghbadran3182

3 жыл бұрын

Morality coming from the family and specially mothers

@mehdibaghbadran3182

3 жыл бұрын

If you relayed on yourself, at least, do not ask for help from unknown

@mehdibaghbadran3182

3 жыл бұрын

If you trusted your minds, you’ll become stronger person and you can find solutions for your problems

@mehdibaghbadran3182

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@mehdibaghbadran3182

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect suggestion, thanks

This is just a mocking of God. Lacking in scientific conversations they have become fools. Watching this was so forced. Bad actors

Annabelle Gurwitch is very insightful.

As a long time fan of Prof. Dawkins, I’m extremely disappointed with the conversation always rolling back to bashing the President of the US. You can do better Richard.

Jesus loves you. Repent and be baptized.

@shantimau4702

3 жыл бұрын

That is your belief, not everyone's. Keep it to yourself. There is yet for proof to be found to the existence of a god. Your beliefs delusions & dreams are not proof.

@asecretturning

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 krampus loves you repent and be eaten

@milominderbinder6209

3 жыл бұрын

@@asecretturning no he does not love me, he said "it is either me or jesus". I was torn.

@lorenzsabbaer7725

3 жыл бұрын

@@milominderbinder6209 you know whats markable about religious ppl, they dont know they crazy. you sir are crazy

@lorenzsabbaer7725

3 жыл бұрын

@@milominderbinder6209 alright, then step forward with your equations, observations & experiments, that i have not heard of or ever seen and doubt that they will be ever. as long as you cant provide them, you have not proof, so stick your opinions to yourself and stop comprimising other ppl to some bs.