this is basically a dawkins special. and i love every minute of it! he oozes rationality.

100 years from now, we will have a similar panel discussing about how stupid we were for believing in god.

LOL he handled the Santa Clause question perfectly!

Great video the Q and A with Hitchens is good as well.

Also, I do disagree with people who like to say that Dawkins is self-righteous and strident. He is not strident. It’s just that the general population is afraid of intellectuals and intellectual debate and discussion.

"The weird thing is.............. that children manage to grow out of Santa Clause" Lol

Is steve fielding going to answer a question or just talk about the diversity of opinion?

2:59

NB: 1tabligh goes around reposting the same comment, word-for-word, all over KZread. He/she's so scientifically behind I don't reply. For example, it's not "matter-energy", it's "mass-energy", and when you measure the positive energy of everything against the negative energy of gravity they cancel out, leaving the total energy of the universe as zero - and, since E=MC2, ie. mass & energy are interchangeable, the question of where all the matter(mass)-energy came from has already been answered.

@anwyll Not anymore!!

How about they just get the Politicians out of there and have Dawkins and the Rabbi go at it? I think that the politicians are kind of out of place here....

Steve Fielding= the politically convenient agnostic

@95Ingy Its good aye! =]

8:08 “I happen to BELIEVE the Bible is one of the all-time best sellers... and that’s a FACT” Someone teach this lady some semantics.

@desasterz , whereas if religion was not the cultural norm (no social/political pressure), than the mind of the believer would be mentally suspect.

put richard dawkins in the title and you give yourself about two thousand atheists rushing to the video!

@fruitikay Bishop eventually turns the audience around and "wins" this debate. dawkins looks pretty livid at the end of the hour....

@AtheistInsight She did inadvertently lol.

Its impossible for a religious person to block it from their mind when doing non religious activities, and they WILL make decisions based on their religious morals because they believe they are sinning if they do not. No more religious people for offices of power I say, theres no way to make sure they act rationally and nor religiously.

Looking at that senator... It's like the entire discussion is going completely over his head. He's surrounded by smart and rational people, yet when he get's asked a question, you know just from his tone that he's going to say something asinine.

Richard Dawkins made us Aussies look rather dumb.

Lol, that creationist is so aversive, it's amazing

@bayesianconspiracy lol, if you're being sarcastic, then 'You go girl', if you're being serious....then no!

Richard Dawkins PWND!!!!!

Is it me or did she say religion should be taught with other fiction? :D

Hes a member of our senate! yay for men like Fielding... (vomits)

Charles Darwin, From So Simple a Beginning, Norton, 2006 page 1482 [Darwin called the gospel of Jesus Christ a damnable doctrine] So Darwin didn’t like the idea of worshipping God that made heaven and earth; who also commanded us to love our neighbours as ourselves, in other words to serve one another in love according to the 10 commandments. Darwin utterly rejected Christianity, not because he saw any evidence in the natural world around him that made him remove himself from Christian doctrine. He never cited anything that could possibly prove evolution to be true, and what is profound and perplexing is that there is still no evidence in any field of science, but to the contrary much evidence against it! This is why many former evolutionists have become creationists: because they recognize current scientific evidence does not support the Big-Bang theory or Darwinian evolution. Following on from Darwin, evolutionists use imagination to recreate our past; a prehistoric history of which there is no record of the event; because present data indicates a brilliant design and order to the universe, which would indicate a designer; this has to been ignored, disregarded, suppressed and dispatched. These evolutionists have the same mind-set as Charles Darwin. In the book Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells, B.D. Dyer and R.A Obar admits to imagining history. They state: “Cell and molecular biologists must construct cellular worlds in their own imaginations. Imagination, to some degree, is essential for grasping key events in cellular history.” [FACTS] For those who have been dogmatically told that evolution is a fact by teachers and professors, this statement above, when coupled with paleontological imagination related to fossil descent should be very offensive. The audacity of the evolutionary scientific community; to claim that their guesses on human origins are Fact and unquestionable even though they are based on hypothetical origins reveals arrogance that has no boundaries. Reference: B.D Dryer and R.A. Obar, Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells, Columbia University Press, 1994 pp, 2-3 Pre-historic is a word that has been invented by evolutionists; in order to describe an imaginary history of which there is no record of the event. They placed dinosaurs in this imaginary history of the world. The early pioneers of evolution dug up the first dinosaur bones around 1800 and then later invented the pre-historic time by placing dinosaurs in that period of imaginary- millions of years. Remember all they have done is dug up a pile of bones and then built up a story around them. Evolutionists are really good at story telling. Sir Richard Owen “The Father of Paleontology” was a biblical creationist who was for ever at odds with Darwin and did not support his evolutionary views. He was the one that renamed dragons’ dinosaurs in 1840, which means great and terrible lizard! In the book Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells, B.D. Dyer and R.A Obar admits to imagining history. They state: “Cell and molecular biologists must construct cellular worlds in their own imaginations. Imagination, to some degree, is essential for grasping key events in cellular history.” [FACTS] For those who have been dogmatically told that evolution is a fact by teachers and professors, this statement above, when coupled with paleontological imagination related to fossil descent should be very offensive. The audacity of the evolutionary scientific community; to claim that their guesses on human origins are Fact and unquestionable even though they are based on hypothetical origins reveals arrogance that has no boundaries.

A bunch of people in the crowd don't clap for Dawkins. Angry Christians? lol

It's fun to have this insight into the ridiculously brainwashed mind. Go Dawkins!

Out of your own mouth are you condemned! You just compared religious people to children who believe in Santa.