It would be great if some people like Richard Dawkins lead the world !

Two phenomenal speakers. I'm a professor in biology at a mid sized university in Canada and regularly teach ecology. Sometimes I feel as Richard is one of the giant's whose shoulders I stand upon. I thought this such an excellent conversation and immensely enjoyed it. I can only aspire to the influence these two speakers have on society. Great job gentleman!

Yes, I really enjoy listening to him. It really makes me feel well.

I've watched this all the way through, it's definitely worth it ; if I had had exposure to this kind of exciting discussion and this calibre of people when I was younger I might have just gone into scientific pursuits. Inspiring and beautiful, thank you very much!

Thank you for posting this, richarddawkinsdotnet.

Thanks for posting this! I missed the live discussion last year.

What a fascinating discussion! Thanks for posting this!

love the format of the discussion!

I like this new format. Fookin awesome.

Simply incredible.

This is great. Loved Dawkins conversation with Dr Tyson too.

I ate Italian food with Lawrence Krauss. After he spoke at my college the honors program took him out to dinner. It was so much fun! We had a huge table in this tiny restaurant and split big portions of several different dishes. I still remember one of the professors insisting I take the leftover pasta home- she was so nice, I felt kind of bad when I forgot to eat it :) Aaaaah, memories. Also, he gave a great lecture! Evolution is so beautiful, it is sad some people choose not to understand it.

Awesome Video! :) VERY interesting and thought provoking...

LOVE THESE GUYS

Excellent!

This is how you're supposed to have a conversational discussion ... no time allotment, no ad hominem arguments, no screaming matches, no mic's being cut off, no unnecessary interruptions, no sound bytes ... allow the fluidity of discourse to direct the flow of the speakers' conversation, so that a single topic is discussed at length to when all reasonable potential possibilities are exhausted and agreements on the conclusion are made before moving onto the next topic of conversation ...

God bless you too brother

Thanks.

Two brilliant men!

Keep up the good work.

I wish there were more people like Richard Dawkins, a LOT more, hes lovely

Thanks Lawrence! I was at a bar recently when some on-call emergency helicopter pilot drunkenly dropped a snide remark at me, saying, "Oh, that's just what the world needs, more physical geographers," and I responded, "Just as the world needs more drunk pilots." I'm sick of having to justify the type of science I study.

I like the format of this discussion--who needs a moderator! This discussion should be seen by any high school or college science students.

Agreed.....although I started watching it at 2am, I could not not finish it.

While I cannot answer your second question, the equation E = Mc^2 means that energy is directly proportional to mass, the constant that makes them equal is the speed of light squared. Therefore the algebraic rearrangement M = E/C^2 is also correct.

I definately agree with you on that

I came for Dawkins, I stayed for Krauss

thank you so much for everything you do!

Epic Win

How fortunate we are to live in an era where scientists like Dawkins, Krauss and Dennet are alive and still effective.

It isn't a debate, but a discussion as the title says.

I read that as "Tim Keller is interesting as a coffee table."

so badass \m/

i love the first 1:30, I completly agree with Richard on my hatred of the debate format lol

I have to say, As a young kid, I was always been fascinated about science. I have a mother who is religious, and just let her believe what she wants to believe, because in my sense, religion should have a place of thought in a scale!! But when I have conversations with ppl about how evolution is real, and they insist it isn't thats when I take the phrase "ignorance is bliss" into play!!! Queens, NY Now I gotta run to Tisch!!! Ciao...anybody wanna reply, feel free my utube pals!!

@XGralgrathor Interesting. Well I still dont think that it would be great to lose all the forests, because I dont think that will decrease the polution in the water at all. I think we need to focus on both then.

@Botie2 ... In my experience it is very often the case that there is a general acceptance of death/mortality in that it appears to be understood and the fear isn't the same. The bigger question underlying is why we are here; for what purpose can we be here...if any of course.

@thechessstick no that's in there i have read it

magnificent, is it 360p or is it still precessing in youtube?

where is the original dialogue between the two that Krauss was talking about around the first minute in or so? (link?)

So, to take this dicussion seriously. I have opted to listen to it only without any visual distraction. Then and only then, I believe, I will percieve the purity of thier conversation... You hear me? send me a message. Thanks

@Botie2 ... Could be, I am interested in whether it is our primary consciousness or sub-conscious as well that is prevalent in our conditioning and acting, and when we are formed in the womb as to what we actually "know"... Hope things are going well down under

So the answer to the question as to the origin of energy and matter is?

"there are an additional 50% that think the earth is 6,000 years old". owned.

its 2:02 and I'm in the same boat, lol

great discussion, youtube has to make a like button that allows a person to like all videos attached in a playlist simultaneously. it's bothersome to have to stop and like each vid individually. thank you

@seansalvador1 Yes. Debates, first and foremost, are meant to raise awareness or consciousness of certain issues and to discuss them. We discern truth from not when we do our own investigations, we read books and papers on the issue, then we weigh the evidence and come to a conclusion. I love debates for their ability to raise people's consciousness and get them to ask questions. I just wish more people did their research instead of shrugging things off and going back to religious doctrine.

Mmm... i love the english accent of Dawkins. ^^ Great stuff.

@CamoKhan2000 PS Punctuated equilibrium IS evolution, it does not refute it in any way, merely it was an idea about a small part of the mechanism.

Who ever gets Richard's job, has a lot to live up to

im an irish catholic and some one gave me a copy of , Martin rees- just six numbers- audiobook, i curled up in bed and played it , and let me tell you iv never been so awe inspired in my life!

The reason he mentions it is that when you tell someone you're a physicist they're not interested in delving any further into the subject and swiftly move on to something else. ;)

@thechessstick Good for you!

@Botie2 ...... Been on hols and missed your reply, I was asking about what time in history you felt/thought that "man" became self aware? I know that children can become aware of their self and refer to themselves in the 3rd person from 2 years onwards

@JeremyBarandela Thanks, Jeremy. Glad someone finally got it (or at least thought it was funny.)

Love it... "the non-stick frying pan approach" vs. "the Carl Sagan approach". Entirely agree with Dawkins on this. Science *is* useful, but that's not why we do it.

Dawkins has NEVER suggested extermination nor indeed any kind of harm to anybody. That is not what he is about.

strange how my yearn to learn only happened after graduating high school.

I suggest you listen to the context of the statement again. You seem to have missed his point. He is saying he is in the school of though that Sagan taught.

(1/2) The "accidents" (called mutations) are very slight though. It doesn't mean something drastic or harmful, it could just mean that an individual is born with slightly longer legs than usual which allows it to run away from a predator better. That means it survives better than the shorter-legged normal ones and goes on to reproduce, and its babies are likely to inherit the longer legs.

@Th3Wab3 Meaning you would 'like' them even without having first watched them.

Anyone care to explain why a physicist would be asked about the baseball season? I am not getting the connection. Thanks!

@InnerFood "My point is that I would expect 50% wrong answers to yes o question when ALL people don't know the answer, just due to a even distribution of answers" That is only taking into account those who would simply randomly tick an answer, which is a very good example of 'skewing the statistics'. You are not taking into account those who would choose different answers for different reasons.

@seansalvador1 clearly u don't understand the mechanism of playlists.. upon reaching the end of a vid a next starts. as a result the watcher doesn't get to like the previous vid without stoping the current and returning to the latter.. that is what the complaint is about

Why do many drops of water form a liter of water? Why, when walking up a hill, will you eventually reach the top?

@bando8000, where does it say that the earth is 6000 years old? Ive been hearing of that story but still cant find a source of it, just like wars on Iraq, The soldiers are sent to fight, but no one is responsible for the war. I would like to know where and who claims that the earth is 6000 years old.

why, exactly?

who can tell me what do they talk about?

For example on what?

Charles Darwin was indeed one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived. Not only was he not demotivated by his religious peers, he also went against his own religious beliefs.

Teaching Physics with Cosmology (Astronomy) is like teaching Economics and the Currency.

@seansalvador1 Sorry excuse the typo. It should be "We discern truth from not, when . . ." I forgot the comma.

The respondants to the poll referenced at the beginning of the vid can be found in the video here: jhe1fpw0JP8

A guy goes on a fishing vacation in Georgia, he rows out to the middle of a lake and is horrified to see a guy wrapped in chains in the water. He runs back to the sheriff who investigates and laughingly remarks; "That there's our town atheist, and ain't that just like an atheist to take more chain than he can swim with?" LOL!

Mocking is a good substitute for evidence. Well done. Peace

When we speak of law, we must understand that there must be a lawmaker. The material scientists can discover laws of nature, but they are unable to recognize the lawmaker.

@Botie2 ..... The idea of immortality is more than just a religious phenomenom, film stars of the modern day are obsessed with maintaining their youth and this is apparent throughout history for those who want to live an eternal life here on Earth.

@Botie2 .. Hi B, There are a number of issues in your reply there. In my experience dealing with people dying, many are at ease when the time comes, almost as if the body or mind has an inherent relaxant making the actual passing easier. Does this come from nature or is it by faith or belief is hard to determine, all I see is the evidence.

@48acar19 What's that got to do with anything? Do you often comment on conversations you have not read?

This was one of the first (possibly the first) public discussion between Dawkins and Krauss. I thoroughly enjoy their discussions without the moderator but have noticed the evolution of Krauss's contribution. Of late I have noticed he interrupts RD to often and therefore doesn't let RD elaborate on his answer to questions. RD is a serious person and always wants to be clear and precise. He never used unnecessary terms or makes things more complicated than they need to be. LK sometimes tries to be funny (which is ok with me as I love humour) but I wish he wouldn't do it with RD. Other than that their discussions always fascinate me. It is staggering that in the year 2016 so many American people still believe in Bronze Age myths and superstition. It is a terrible indictment of the US educational system.

I like how the day Dawkins retired ever single public appearance is in a Hawaiian shirt.

@seansalvador1 Yes, you just don't know it. As P.T. Barnum said "There is one born every minute".

If the totality of energy and matter changed at the beginning of creation then what makes you think it wont change again ,at the end of creation.

@harmonykrieg just to say a mathematician wrote to him with the figure of 7 yards or so.

@tafftastic I'm sorry but what was the point in your comment

Not to mention the fact that evolution can be applied as an analogy to things like programming, baby universes, etc.

@version191 It is your mistake.

@allthingsarelikethis ...and the success of science as a method of observing and explaining reality is all around you in every technical device you own and see, and all the current science based knowledge you and we all have. It is not perfect as a method at all, but it has been outstandingly sucessful and fruitful as a method. Perhaps someday someone will improve upon it. For now it suffices quite adequately.

@CamoKhan2000 It's strange how many creationists do not understand the meaning of the word and confuse it with hypothesis, even though the first definition in every dictionary i have ever looked at is the scientific definition, not the colloquial, which in science is called a hypothesis.

@harmonykrieg Dawkins in one talk corrected what he said and even admitted his arithmetic isn't that good and mentioned a mathematician told him the correct figure. He admitted he was wrong and he was happy to admit it

@thechessstick Punctuated equilibrium is not the same as the 'hopeful monster' hypothesis. In fact, it is entirely different! Punctuated equilibrium is a hypothesis as to the graduation of evolution, not another theory entirely! Also, you will note that in modern evolutionary synthesis, punctuated equilibrium AND the 'hopeful monster' hypothesis the fact that animals evolve is what they are all attempting to explain.

Can someone point out any religious leader who is as funny and likeable as Richard Dawkins? We don't worship him. We don't idolize him. We appreciate his intelligence and wit. Not to mention all the positive work he is doing promoting rationality and reason over ancient scriptures and superstition. I don't always agree with what he says but when I don't, it's never about something I would consider significant. Just minor points here and there.

@Botie2 became Jupiter in Roman. Heracles became Hercules, etc. Unfortunately, the names have become crossed up over the years and are used interchangeably. See 'Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece', or Bullfinch's Mythology.

Yes I'm telling you that the kinds of cells are the same. If you were to take an individual human cell and an individual fish cell and look at them under the microscope you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. What's far more important is how those cells work together in organs and in systems. It makes much more sense when you understand the immensity of geological time that these processes have had time to work to create these huge differences.

@Botie2 Zeus was not Roman, he was Greek. Jupiter was the equivalent god in Roman theology. Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship the same god. The God of Abraham. The three faiths are referred to as 'children of the Book.

@XGralgrathor But I didnt say either or did I? Just because the goverments limits the amount of fish you can fish, does not mean you cant fish at all. Look at Norway and Sweden. We have some of the strictest rules when it comes to how much fish for example we can fish, or how much we can polute. But yet, every single person in norway could have fish 5 days every week if they wanted to. Its not a question of either or, its a question of goverment limiting private industries destruction.

Religion has never been a part of my life, my parents worked 7 days/wk, they had more important things to take care of. I don't need religion. I was never brainwashed. I am forever grateful for my parents, my childhood & upbringing. I can see the insecurity, fear, and conflict when I look at my religious peers. You can see it just looking at their eyes. Makes me sad bc there's nothing I can do. Religion really is a poison.

I don't see how that addresses anything I said. You just repeated what you said earlier, which is no more than crazy talk.

@Botie2 ...Where in the process of evolution do you think man became aware of himself ?

@DuTriDu This is highlighting the point; many people are willing to give up their lives to defend their country. There is an argument to say the 7-7 bombers in UK were acting in defence or striking back at the actions of UK and US in Iraq, so the question would be is this strictly a "religious driven" act?