Teaching critical thinking skills will help combat any belief based craziness.

@normanwolfe7639

2 ай бұрын

Still remember in jr high (1980’s) we had a guy come in for one class to teach us “crap detecting”. Never forgot it. Should have been a whole course.

@WayneLynch69

2 ай бұрын

In The God Delusion Dawkins has a bullet proof repudiation of God which no one to his knowledge has EVER been able to conflict: "infinite regress". 'Any god must itself be created due to infinite regress'. No where is it evident Dawkins knows the etiology of his infinite regress; perhaps Aeschylus or Archimedes or Thucydides or Hippocampus... he's literally too ignorant to know. IT'S 1ST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS! "Heat NEVER derives from cold"--ergo THIS universe of heat cannot have begun...only regresses therefore are possible. BUUTTT.... In the 1st chapter of The God Delusion Dawkins stipulates that he will be addressing his arguments against ONLY "supernatural" gods. WTF!! WTF!! Supernatural is BY DEFINITION not constrained by the natural---thermodynamics is "THE MOST PROVEN OF ALL NATURAL LAW" (Einstein). Perhaps knowing the origin of his infinite regress would've helped the c**t....but then again it would fail to explain his myriad and many other prima facie failings of intellect. OF WHICH I HAVE CATALOGED MANY.....

Two of my personal heroes, well deserved, beautiful speech by Dawkins.

Never clicked on a video this fast.

@carmenmccauley585

2 ай бұрын

Ditto .

@Survivorguidetv

2 ай бұрын

Same

Good morning Richard and Bill Exciting sensemaking stuff. Truly grateful for your enthusiasm. Sanity brain gym, indeed. 💜

I read the Ancestor'sTale a month ago. I loved the presentation.

Thank you all so much!

The camera work here is unnecessarily amateur.

@tooluser

2 ай бұрын

camera on a stack of books on one of the dinner tables.. . invest in a tripod

I wish I had Nye's optimism, but reality favours the pessimist.

It’s too much Nye and not enough Dawkins.

Wondering to what extent they would collide on the conversation around trans-identity

@astir0412

2 ай бұрын

Dawkins has a lot to say Mainly it's rubbish

@sujoygupta2922

2 ай бұрын

Can you unpack that a bit though? Cheers@@astir0412

trump on wind energy: "what happens if the wind doesn't blow". Bill Nye for President.

Bill should unbutton his jacket for crying out loud. Otherwise, pure genius from them both, constant enlightening brave-making genius.

All scientists are skeptics.

NotSees those whom refuse to see evidence

the 2 parties are the same on climate, break the duopoly. Bill won't say it. I will.

49:00 yes, I’ll vote, third party. I’ll vote Dean Phillips on Super Tuesday, but primary is clearly rigged for an incumbent who couldn’t debate a chair.

@aresmars2003

2 ай бұрын

52:00 if you want a protect, stop gender ideology. Stop lying to kids and medicalizing for life. Get males out of female sports, women’s prisons. Protect sex based language. Stop letting insurance pay for breast implants to confused men!

@karagi101

2 ай бұрын

Much better than a candidate that refuses to debate his party’s challengers. 😂😂😂

@rocky5152

2 ай бұрын

If you listen to truth you would understand that Biden has done a fantastic job in the last 3 years. And he will not destroy our country! Thats always a plus. Trump is a danger to the world.

1:00:00 “…there are trees over 10,000 years old”. No. -- The oldest living tree is believed to be the Methuselah tree, a bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) located in the White Mountains of California, USA. The Methuselah tree is estimated to be more than 4,800 years old, making it one of the oldest known living organisms on Earth.

@karagi101

2 ай бұрын

Sorry. You are incorrect. Old Tjikko is a 9,550 year-old Norway spruce, located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

@aresmars2003

2 ай бұрын

@@karagi101 Sounds like a cheat "Old Tjikko is, however, a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age. Old Tjikko is recognized as the oldest living Picea abies and the fourth-oldest known clonal tree."

@karagi101

2 ай бұрын

@@aresmars2003 It’s a bit of a cheat but the fact remains, it’s one tree that keeps regenerating. There are other lifeforms that are practically immortal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms

We are only here bc of dino extinction . Maybe a future race of perfect beings won't be here if we DON'T destroy the planet . 🤯

Unfortunately, the word science has no meaning or understanding. The word should be abandoned. Yet, science simply means asking a question and turning to a particular method to find. the truth. The kids from K onward should be taught the method that we know to discover the truth and to be able to say I Don't Know and go to the method we have discovered to find the truth. We do not need to facilitate the idiots like the speaker of our house who think all the answers to human troubles can be found in the Bible. Teach the scientific method from all years to all children and their parents.

So sad that people believe in religion

Nye is a believer in radical trans politics. What the hell Dawkins is doing in the same room as him I do not know.

@chocopuddingcup83

2 ай бұрын

You can agree with somebody on one subject and disagree on another and still get along. This 'all or nothing' mentality only serves to divide us further. Was everything he said about climate change, science education, and creationism flat out wrong because he doesn't agree with your politics or said something you don't agree with? All you're doing is alienating people who might otherwise be on your side on certain issues.

@TJ_USA

Ай бұрын

Ordinarily I'd agree with you but I take moral exception to trans ideology - as it harms third parties. Also the notion of "public scientist" has always been silly and misleading. Usually I'm not at all all or nothing. Also I guess I find Nye cringeworthy.@@chocopuddingcup83

@chocopuddingcup83

Ай бұрын

@@TJ_USA My point still stands. Is he wrong about climate change and science education?

@TJ_USA

Ай бұрын

@@chocopuddingcup83 I don't buy that we understand properly the relationship between human CO2 production and climate change. I tend more towards Bjorn Lomborg's response.

@TJ_USA

Ай бұрын

@@chocopuddingcup83 I believe on climate change there has been much manipulation of data. He's likely just repeating talking points retailed to him. Science education? I guess..

Bill Nye comes across as stupidly arrogant, strawmen flung left and right. I’m pro-science but if I listened to him I’d think it creates fools. Carl Sagan was a true scientist, true skeptic.

@karagi101

2 ай бұрын

His aim is a more general audience and he doesn’t hold back when it comes to displaying his disdain for anti-science idiocy.

@carmenmccauley585

2 ай бұрын

Wow. U are one insecure troll.

@blugreen99

2 ай бұрын

What about Bill Nyes embrace of extreme trandgender pdeudoscience?

@aresmars2003

2 ай бұрын

@@blugreen99 I've not seen Nye's support of trans lately, but deGrasse Tyson has also been a blowhard idiot on the subject.