I'm ashamed that I missed this on TV. Thanks for posting it!

The look on dawnkin's face at 5:39 is priceless.

I love Richard Dawkins like an older brother. I'm 61 years old, and he's now 72 years old, but doesn't look it. Yeah! I like to call him my adopted big brother, although I'm physically larger because I'm fat. Anyway, I wish I had known more about him years ago, but thanks to the Internet, I'm getting schooled. I also think of Richard Dawkins as my teacher, and my mentor. I wish I could meet him in person and give him a big fat hug! I have many Playlist on my channel devoted to Richard Dawkins.

We need programs like this in the US.

I can vouch for this; I live in the Australian Bible Belt(Adelaide) and most people I know are very light believers indeed.

lol @ the dying clap at 7:16

I swear, I keep expecting the guy with glasses to bust out saying "It's Saturday Night Live!"

I love being australian. Was totally laughing my ass off along with the crowd.

Thanks for the upload! Love dawkings.

@Fromanttodugong No, he's a very nice guy and very very personally likable. Personality is pretty important in Australian politics.

Can you imagine the responce this would have gotten 100 years ago with religous scholars.

As an Australian, I'm curious. What's the difference?

Glad they mentioned a book other than the God Delusion for a change.

Richard Dawkins will be incontrovertibly known as one of the few logical voices of our era.

Man, one of my biggest pet peeves is seeing politicians on discussion panels. Look at this guy! He proves Dawkins' point about creationists seeing the writing on the wall. He won't even say he believes in creation tenets because he knows that his constituency will laugh him out of office if he goes too far. Same goes for shows like Real Time with Bill Maher. I love the show, but it's always ruined when a politician from either side comes on, because they don't contribute substantive commentary, they hold the party line ad tout the successes of their party. Argh!

i dont agree with what dawkins is saying but now i can understand him much more lol

Interesting... How does Eve coming from Adams rib reconcile with the fact of Evolution? Katalyzt

And I still writhe listening to my religious countrymen how they talk to R.D

@Anonyzilla The term is common here, and if you lived down here, you'd see all the churches and realize why.

Amino acids, to proteins, to molecules... Every geek just writhed in disgust there. lol

Invite Bro. Eli Soriano in this program so everyone will be enlightened.

why... WHY do I ever think politicians will change?

Wow did that guy squirm!

Interesting how some poltician's seem almost too embarrassed to state their beliefs openly about creationism. Like they know how ridiculous it sounds. And yet they still cling on to it.

It's mostly just the politicians.

LOOL Steve Fielding should become a comedian that guy is seriously funny

The Australian senator sounds like Nonstampcollector.

The most ancient evolution proponents who live is a Spanian Christian called Francisco Ayala. He debated LW Craig. He thinks that God just "set the machine" and the evolution diversified the life species afterwards without its intervention.

@BoxRoomStudio Yeah... she certainly isn't describing the course of evolution!

@Danvislav What?

I think evolution is not a beliefs It's a fact and you can't ignore the evidence thats support the theory.

Do you found this on anything other than 'most people I know' ? Adelaide has one of thehighest incidences of non belief in any Australian capitol (short of Darwin). 1 in 4 Adelaidians is not associated with a church. Where in most other capitols it is around to 1 in 5. Maybe you should look up the Census results.

Then you didn't see Richard's debate with Cardinal Pell...

So glad they got laughed at... repeatedly.

I'm gonna spoil it for all of you.... Dawkins expects a challenge from fielding, but instead Bishop wipes the floor with him in the end.

wow that guy sidestepped the question of is he a young earth creationist by a mile

@anwyll That's exactly the same as the UK. I saw a recent study that said 70% of Britons are christian. I'm like "hold on, I don't know a single person who actually believes in God". It sounds like they ask these surveys in a cultural context and don't have the 'non-religious' option. Only about 7% go to church so it's a silly statement.

That australian minister is a joke. Seriously, this is not an issue of "coming to your own conclusions" - it's a question of being able to deduce facts from evidence or not. It's a question of being capable of intelligent, scientific inquiry, of being capable of rational thought even. Even worse, he didn't even try to give reasons, but refused to answer the question and admit his ignorance. He is content with being blind and his own uncertainty doesn't bother him at all. That's scary.

True. I have, IIDSSMS, a very highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and I didn't find anything Richard said in the time just before Tony felt that Richard had ridiculed the Christian faith funny. Some of his earlier remarks were, but what else can you do when faced with someone who bases their worldview and their moral code on a demonstratably absurd belief? What if they engage in sort of heavy-lifting denial the maintenance of their belief requires while controlling my future? Yeesh!

I'm gonna spoil it for all of you.... Dawkins expects a challenge from fielding, but instead Bishop wipes the floor with him in the end. She really embarrassed him here.

I don't know the answer so it must be God...right?

Fielding, lol. (:o)

Richard is really the only rationally minded one on the panel. A belief in god can and does exist along with a belief in evolution . . . but that's really a s-t-r-e-t-c-h!!!!!!!!! Complete understanding in evolution obviously leads to the truth, and the wonderful truth that their are no evil invisible dictators like god and jesus, thus no HELL, and that's a good thing!

That you use the term 'Bible Belt' when referring to one point and that you call Adelaide the 'Bible Belt' even though the evidence is to the contrary. If you want to live in the 'Bible Belt' go live in Sydney.

@9revolta Because a belief in a deity is irrational

He was elected with less than 5% of the primary vote, due the way Australian elects its senators.

Why is Steve Feilding embarrassed about his creationist beliefs? Because he knows he can't defend the view. The more he speaks the more the crowd laughs at his statements.

@mysocraticmethod I was on the verge off procliaming that Shelley, Byron, were so smashed that they weren't onto shit, but I pause. Capser David Friedrich, Schiller and the rest of them, in their admiration of the sublimity of nature, may well have brought us closer to a real sense of the divine than anyone else.

Well, I had hoped Fox News wasn't their only "news" program.

@PR0GRAMMING At the same time though imagine how much less dignified this Q and A would have gone if it had been in America.

"We don't know how X happened! Thus, God did it!"

I understand the science.... amino acids to proteins to molecules to cells well clearly not.

The issue I see with the arguement is that Religion and Evolution are not compatible in my eyes. Religion has this power that it can bend and flex in any which way it wants to meet any standards demanded of it by Science. At first Religion just had Creationism, Science nearly proved it wrong with the theory of Evolution and had undeniable evidence.

When people know theyre wrong cannot answer a question

@9revolta I do not believe because i dont believe in things that are just beeing told to me. Why should i believe in a version just because i dont know the answer to something? And by the way. We know why we have moral standards. So there is no reason to believe in god just because we have "morals". I grew up without even hearing this strange story. And when someone told me that later on i thought "are you totaly out of your mind?".

I don't believe in evolution. *Silence* *Squirm, squirm, squirm*

howd i get here from washing rap vidios

the guy at 5:00 is a classic politician. completely spineless

Ignorance and intelligence are always present. Unfortunately, ignorance has a great head start on intelligence. That's why we still have religion. However, intelligence is slowly gathering speed, thanks to people like Dawkins. Hopefully in the next 20 years, we will become much more intelligent and thus much less religious. I could see religion being a very small fringe in the next 30 years and probably almost completely depleted shortly thereafter. It will take a lot of education.

Holy crap!!! we have creationists?!?!?!?

They should have invited Sam Harris.

Lots of churches means nothing. It points more to our origins than anything else. As I already pointed out, less people are affiliated with any religion in SA than any of the other state capitol. Bible belt? - I haven't heard it and I live in Adelaide. Maybe if you are referring to cherry picked suburbs of Adelaide, but that can be the same with any city...

I think that Stephen Fielding is too busy trying to force his religion on other people to actually have even thought about what his own beliefs are.

I'm gonna spoil it for all of you.... Dawkins expects a challenge from fielding, but instead Bishop wipes the floor with him in the end. She really embarrassed him here. Dawkins starts the night well, but then Bishop shifted the pressure onto him, he obviously didn't enjoy this appearance...

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Yea when she kept whining about him being disrespectful when he stated that god is a maniac to have his own son excuted .. a typical female defensive mechanism

Annoys me when Religious people who accept evolution claim the stories in the Bible are not literal. Rather, they are allegorical or 'symbolic'. So then: where is the story that hints at evolution? Oh wait, there isn't one. In fact the Bible claims that God created the world and every life that inhabits it within seven days, which is about as far away from the crazily slow process of evolution as one could possibly be. What is this God trying to do? Purposely confuse us?

I hate that Dawkins assumes that all Christians are Catholic. -_-' I do not worship Saints, the Pope, Mary, or anything like that. I'm a Protestant! Research it, Dawkins.

In America they clap at everything they say.

It's sad to see someone who is embarrassed to state his own views.

This is very interesting to watch however...THAT GUY IS A SENATOR?!?! "God" help Australia! It's like GWB sent his cousin over there to help. Scary!!

Have you ever seen fox news?

lol Steve seems like a nice guy but wow, he should NOT be a politician...

Of course religion isn't compatible with science forever. As science advances, god gets smaller. The more answers we discover for ourselves, the less we need god to answer our gaps in knowledge. Right now it co-exists uncomfortably, it's hard to see how that could continue after we unravel the mysteries of the universe(if we ever do).

Dawking is seated next to a Creationist from Family First! Oh shi--

He believes in Crayshism? lol

@PR0GRAMMING You used a zero in your name didn't you?

Just because we don't have all the answersdoesn't mean that "God did it". When one understands the implications of evolution with regard to the Abrahamic god, then it is clear that the two ideas (creation/evolution) are incompatable. Religion has retarded humanity for far too long, its time ti consign it to the history books.

Damn... this dude won't get re-elected, I think.

@PR0GRAMMING This is Britian no? The US is just as bad man.

lol the HYPOCRISY of Fielding is at such heights. Damn politician, trying to phrase his opinion so that everybody aknowledges it. Well it's a total fail, everybody has seen through his babyish game.

Pathetic answers and demeanour from Steve Fielding. Was this person democratically elected? He isn't still a part of public life - is he? Help me out you Aussies.