When this man dies, something truly grand will leave the world. But, his lectures and books will give him a little bit of immortality.

@thabomahlaba5193

3 жыл бұрын

His combination with Hitchens will forever be missed. Two beautiful minds of our time.

@jarrygarry5316

3 жыл бұрын

Darwin is with biology and Einstein is with Physics. Darwin and Einstein are one of the greatest scientist

@mohamedazrou1600

3 жыл бұрын

Your comments guys make me laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

@theodore8178

3 жыл бұрын

He is a sniveling malcontent. Every time I hear him he sounds more and more shrill as the candiru swim further up his eurethra. Girls with daddy issues can be fun. Grown men with daddy issues are unbearable.

@NaturalFuture

3 жыл бұрын

You could always clone him.

Thank you Google and mostly Professor Dawkins for promoting truth through evidence. Disproving and eliminating religion worldwide will be a massive step in evolution.

@WayneLynch69

7 жыл бұрын

Dawkins' "Ultimate Boeing 747 Argument" refutes renowned physicist/atheist Fred Hoyle's statement: "Life occuring naturally on earth is as possible as a tornado assembling a 747 in a junkyard." WOW!! THAT'S saying SOMETHING!! THAT'S refuting "The 2nd LAW of Thermodynamics"!! Well, actually, NOT actually. Dawkins 'invokes' "Infinite regress". WTF....that's known to EVERYONE else as "1st LAW of Thermodynamics". STILL!! NO small feat! SADLY...NOT!! NOT EVEN CLOSE!! TRUE, barely; Hoyle cannot have his "junkyard" de novo out of nothing. As Dawkins claims....BUUTTT: 2nd LAW disallows Dawkins having an ETERNAL universe: "It is the principal placing constraints upon the direction of heat." Guilelessly. Impossibly ignorantly; Dawkins invokes the Laws of Thermodynamics WITHOUT ANY IDEA he has done so. AND A COMPLETE FAILURE TO REALIZE what he's done. 1st disallows a spontaneous universe. 2nd disallows an eternal universe. 3rd disallows reconstitution from heat death (closed system=universe) Dawkins' flailing to repudiate the physics of one of history's greatest minds of physics(and an atheist) UNSURPRISINGLY ENDS VERY BADLY! He has defined a universe in explicit opposition to mankind's MOST PROVEN physical LAWS!! "Thermodynamics is the one universal theory I'm certain will NEVER be overthrown."---EINSTEIN In the 100 years since he made that gasper, NOTHING has REMOTELY challenged THE NOW LAWS of Thermodynamics!! -------------------------------------------- THERE'S!! your "truth through EVIDENCE".......

@Playami

7 жыл бұрын

Carl, maybe its the language barrier and i dont know if you are really saying this things but you fail to know basics about the second law of thermodynamics for that it only applies to closed systems do we agree the universe is not a closed system you probably just copy pasted that, if only you had researched you might not looked like a fool talking about the second law of thermodynamics without actually understanding it and drawing conclusions

@moviemechanic1097

4 жыл бұрын

Carl is correct, it's called the universe's heat death m8

@GlowingMpd

3 жыл бұрын

MrKokaneemike 👍

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

Is always beautiful to listen Richard Dawkins. Godspeed.

@SogMosee

7 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, brother.

@mrloop1530

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, very nice speed :p

@Mr.Mark2130

6 жыл бұрын

Psalm 14:1 King James Version (KJV) 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 King James Version (KJV) 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

@Mr.Mark2130

6 жыл бұрын

Psalm 14:1 King James Version (KJV) 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 King James Version (KJV) 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Mark2130 um .....no

I'm flabbergasted... and it's a shame that I only got to know this lovely human being a week ago... I'm watching every video ..loving it and loving him

@reginamilani6415

3 жыл бұрын

@george chapelle thanks for your sugestions - I'll see what I can find here in Brazil

@reginamilani6415

3 жыл бұрын

@george chapelle I've found the books you've talked about - I ordered The God Delusion for now ( books are a bit expensive here) - today I watched a video with Richard and Stephen Fry - I enjoyed very much.....we stil have great music here..bye for now

Sometimes it is easy to take for granted just how wonderful it is to be able to facilitate these kinds of events for young minds, to take for granted the intrinsic beauty of knowledge free from ultimatums and falsehoods. I have a young sister and owe so much gratitude to people like Richard for enriching the world that she will one day live an adult life in. Fighting superstition while recognizing the true pleasures and wonders of life makes the world a better place. It's as simple as that.

@rosea7834

2 жыл бұрын

*Top physicist says atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method* kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3eXo4-kpaS5dLQ.html

@toobalkain

2 жыл бұрын

beautifully said.

@hiraether6209

2 жыл бұрын

Only commenting/replying to myself after all these years because of the above poster replying. Appreciate the compliment but I can say 9 years later I have zero respect for Dawkins and his scientific orthodoxy ministry of truth. Atheists are merely people like I used to be who only go to this orthodoxy for information, apparently, because essentially a lifetime of *believing* the academic/orthodox/"official"/establishment/Gov't OK'd/"The" Science crumbled a few years ago nearly the instant I was exposed to contrary information which has more veracity and integrity to it than anything coming out of so called scientific institutions. Dawkins and Harris and (unfortunately because I love him) Hitchens live and lived in such a sad, narrow, imagination devoid, close-minded materialistic paradigm which is patently ridiculous once you actually take the time to challenge it as I have since 2019. I refrain from deleting my younger self's comment only to show that any of us can change our minds if we have the bravery to do so and thinking in the way these institutionalized scientists do is no less a form of indoctrination than any of the religious persons or peoples they spend so much energy lambasting. I used to hear this argument back then but because it came from religious zealots never gave it credence. I am now very spiritual but agree with the atheists only in viewing religions and religious texts as control systems, but unfortunately the scientists are just another form of that, just in our times. Think freely and question everything peeps, unlike either of these kinds of people. Later.

Just imagine how more scientifically advanced we'd be if people were like Richard Dawkins.

@paulk9188

5 жыл бұрын

We would be far worse off Orgin of information ALWAYS arises from an intelligent source.

@joelonsdale

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulk9188 I know this is a 2 year old comment but I wanted to point out that information can be found from any source, be it true, fanciful, untrue or even a lie. Dawkins is simply explaining the things we have found out that are almost certainly true, based on a wealth of peer-reviewed evidence over many generations.

@paulk9188

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelonsdale You actually didn’t address the fact of my comment whatsoever. Did you want to try again?

@joelonsdale

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulk9188Then I don't understand your point. Can you rephrase it?

@paulk9188

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelonsdale INFORMATION THAT IS FUNCTIONAL, AND THAT IS THE KIND OF INFORMATION THAT ALWAYS INDICATES THE PRIOR ACTIVITY OF AN INTELLIGENCE.... ALWAYS.

I just love this man. He's great at what he does, and is unfailingly pleasant doing it.

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 here you are again. What a douche.

@SuperSmoothSlick

3 жыл бұрын

This man is on a warpath against religion. I fucking love it.

@AFMMarcelD

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 Nothing at all, man created god.

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

yes, great natural philosopher, but did you know he doesn't love jesus? meh, it's probably just a fase.

23:00 is one of the greatest humor all time no one laughs but himself

@fathanahahmad8795

3 жыл бұрын

Context of the jokes, please. I unfimiliar with it

@hancooksaram2312

3 жыл бұрын

Australia is located in southern hemisphere. If people in northern hemisphere think [winter is when it's nearest to the sun in its orbit.] at the very moment, people in Australia think in the opposite way which is correct.

Dear Prof. Dawkins, Thanks for taking on the difficult task of improving the world by the way of scientific explanation, reasoning and pursuing the truth. I hope one day the world would come to the conclusion that the worst mistake one may ever make is trying to persuade oneself to accept a false truth and the fact that It is inappropriate to try to fool others through religion. I know one day we will all realize that when you fool yourself, disaster is sure to follow. Best Regards.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

I like his manner at teaching .... his way with prose is very helpful

@Paula-pr1bo

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly said ❤️

Professor Dawkins is a great teacher too. I love to listen to his lectures on KZread. I wish I could be his student.

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur care to elaborate?

@ResearchThis

3 жыл бұрын

All of us who have had the pleasure of hearing him speak, and learned some of his wonderful wisdom, are now his students 😊

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@Ira Khan that's a very disingenuous statement. I'm sure he knows enough about all those subjects, to hold a conversation. His needle isn't stuck on god, more his crosshairs

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@Ira Khan not knowing how the first cell formed, doesn't mean evolution didn't happen. What a ridiculous comment. Not knowing, it's a perfectly acceptable answer, in science, and way better than just injecting god into the gaps. Oh, he indeed speaks at great lengths, about his area of expertise, yet you guys only care about his god bashing, so that's all you see. Science has all but disproven the good of the bible, but knows it will never be able to fully disprove, and that's OK, we have enough evidence to suggest no god exists. Stop showing how bitter you theists are, it's embarrassing

@ResearchThis

3 жыл бұрын

@Ira Khan he's not predicting the future, he's explaining science and reasoning.

I like how he says that teachers have to believe in what they're teaching.

@2Dylandog

2 жыл бұрын

I take it that you cannot abide the concept of "non-overlapping magisteria". It's the only way I could imagine someone being able to practice something which leaves a Professor Dawkins quite bewildered.

Amazing presentation Professor Dawkins. Thank you Google for this.

Thank you for uploading it!!!

Listening to this while reading the god delusion, this mans words really inspire me and I hope it does to others as well

@maddyboombaddybaddy6532

2 жыл бұрын

It does

@Paula-pr1bo

Жыл бұрын

Me too ❤️

Prof. Dawkins has a nice way of putting the truth across. Long live reason and science.

The day that Dr. Dawkins passes (as with Hitchens) will be a very sad day for humanity. Now, more than ever, we need more Professor Dawkins sharing their brilliance, research, and insights about life and the universe. The only way we will dispel the moronic myths of supernatural beings is through a greater awareness of science. Sadly, I won't see that in my lifetime.

Dawkins is awesome. Clear thinking and able to articulate it well to all ages. So glad he is doing childrens books too.

@thewordisahammer6634

2 жыл бұрын

Actually he is doing a great job of articulating pseudoscience. I just left a post above showing that. If you can refute it, kindly enlighten me with observable scientific data. Are you really a bacteria update as he claims, or much more?

@hecticnarcoleptic3160

2 жыл бұрын

@@thewordisahammer6634 yaaawwwn tinfoil hat 🤣🤣🤣

@thewordisahammer6634

2 жыл бұрын

@@hecticnarcoleptic3160 Yours is a totally typical post from an evolution defender on You Tube, as I have seen over and over for years. First you are nasty and insulting. You seem to think you are saying something. You seem to feel you are defending science in some way. No, you couldn't do that. If you could have, you would have refuted some of the observable scientific data I offered. But all you have to offer are meaningless insults and dumb icons. The truth is you don't understand these issues, so you can't say anything meaningful and data based; (But if you did understand these issues and could think for yourself, you wouldn't believe in evolution.) Welcome to mute as you have zero to say.

So beautifully explained, he is a inspiration as always

it's beautiful to have Dawkins at Google.

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 is that all you have to say. You pop up on comment after comment, showing everyone how idiotic you are. It should read, "about 1900 years ago, man created god in his image"

@garystevenson5560

3 жыл бұрын

Satan asked me 3 questions ( If I could judge him, if God can change then material order of the universe, if He would go to Hell as a human. Answers.It is useless to judge but preferable to understand and know. In the world of illusions God doesn't need to change the material order of the universe, I went to Hell often as a human, as my messenger. *** I saw paradise and the Great conscious Void from which everything comes. I melted spiritually in a mirror looking at myself depersonalised from within outward. I dealt with demons, Fough for justice beeing suspected of blowing up the army recruitment center. among other things. One of God's messages is Respect women , listen to them if you want to get into paradise. God sent me back on earth as promised.

@AFMMarcelD

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 shit!!

Here is a lovely comment made by somebody! Thank you for the very well-thought-out opinion added to this content. I enjoyed reading it.

Dawkins is our modern prophet, I Believe him .

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur of you think that anything Dawkins says, is unquestioned belief, you do nothing but show your ignorance towards science, and your bias ads indoctrination. By definition, science and it's hypothesis, are questioned to within an inch of their lives. Science uses available evidence and facts. Literally your whole comment shows how religion retards intelligence

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur I'm not telling you to do Anthony, other than to learn what science is, and what it stands for. A magic bullet, what, like god? Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

@poozer1986

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur 🤦🏼‍♂️

I am surely going to read this book 📚. Thank you Sir Dawkins for inspiring us to explore and believe in things which are evident.

@kevincasson9848

2 жыл бұрын

A brilliant book! And so easy to understand, to the layman (or thick like me)lol.

@davidbanner6230

Жыл бұрын

@@kevincasson9848 OK , @kevincasson9848, so?

@kevincasson9848

Жыл бұрын

@@davidbanner6230 ?????? What's ya point??0

Richard Dawkins, you are the most inspiring thing on KZread for me

Dawkins' explanation of the ludicrous implausibility of Hell near the end of the Q & A is brilliant.

@AtamMardes

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur It would have been better for you to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubts.

@crbaade

3 жыл бұрын

The only problem is he’s wrong.

It's a shame I don't plan on having kids, I would raise them with this book for sure.

@Aramos082884

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Bush I plan on raising my kid with this book.

@lizardking5602

6 жыл бұрын

WILD BILL Really, hell ! Where is that place asshole?

@lizardking5602

6 жыл бұрын

WILD BILL ok,all is clear now.

@kseke25

5 жыл бұрын

This is the reason why I want to have kids so I can teach them to be contributing citizens to the world.

@kseke25

5 жыл бұрын

Poco Loco 😂😂🤣

I love and enjoy reading his books, he's amazing.

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 People created god ...who was not there ever

@vipulshah3779

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 God did not create anything.

@AFMMarcelD

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 BS that's what man-made gods have created, nothing but guano.

@AFMMarcelD

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 Bull shit!!

Questions gives rise to insights; thank you for this encouraging talk on Science and evidence based truths. Saving Humanity from itself requires Questioning and challenging beliefs, in order to escape the ' human condition ' of repetition. Scientists need Courage! Thank you for being a champion Professor Richard Dawkins.

I am grateful to this man for his teachings. I believe that religion is nothing more than a way to control man.

Charming, simply charming.

Begins at 2:35

@maidros85

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@nylehaywood2471

3 жыл бұрын

Ya

@nylehaywood2471

3 жыл бұрын

@@maidros85 ya

@utubehereafter

2 жыл бұрын

And this is and the beginning

My parents would have taken me to a talk like this when I was a child and I would have found it extremely uninteresting just like all the kids in the audience are but now its so fascinating and I cant get enough..

Thanks, to professor Dawkins, now I’m so calm with your lovely explanation, which I enjoyed to listen your words.thanks

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 Not a damn thing

@Black-Re4per

Жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 wrong in the beginning man created God.

what a wonderful polite serious and heartfelt discussion. . . and i love how he sticks to his guns and calls out faith based crap vs reason and intelligent logical thought

@johnnastrom9400

Жыл бұрын

Sorry... but reason and logic are not your forte. You would not recognize it if it hit you straight in the face.

wow, that was simply brilliant.

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

Fargin A! Excellence! Such a kind, patient, sweet, elegant, caring, comical absolutely DARLING honest man.

Thank you for you brilliant talk and amazing book.

My daughter loves this book!

@jimsolinas491

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning God created ....

@black_jack_meghav

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 Again , nothing ...as men created god and none were there un the beginning

@AFMMarcelD

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsolinas491 Bull shit!!

Fascinating talk!

I REALLY like the product placement in this video with the google sized podium!

Thank you Richard good program

Always a great lecturer

Regarding the segment on 'why can't a prince become a toad?,' I'd say that, in line with Arthur C. Clarke's equating of "magic" to the technology of an extremely advanced civilization, that it's entirely possible. It would constitute a highly souped-up version of the Star Trek "replicator." It's entirely conceivable that a truly advanced civilization would be capable of manufacturing such a device. Perhaps they'd call it a "transmuter." However, such would be the result, not of defeatist, pessimistic thinking; but, rather, continuous advances in science and technology---as Richard said---"a challenge to rise to."

A great mind, indeed. Unfortunately, those who need to listen to him the most are so blinded by stupid beliefs that they don't listen at all.

@winko6908

2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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Great video and I need a copy of this book.

Thank you Richard Dawkins

Hail Science!!!

@Questioner365

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Real science, not today's obedience-$cience which you must obey and not question...

@UnlimitlesslyFunnyDude

Жыл бұрын

science is more than god. god is nothing towards science

Brilliant thanks Richard.

Please share this brief video with other people: Atheists and Agnostics Need This

He's great. Thanks Richard.

"large hard-on collider" I love Professor Dawkins 😂

@davidabdollahi7906

Жыл бұрын

Now that repeated him I can see the subtle point

That first guy was so happy to ask him a question.

I saw this video was over an hour and said Oh, no! Even though I like Dawkins a lot, I've also heard him talk a lot, and read several of his books, so a lot of this hour is going to be repeats. Probably won't listen to more than 5 minutes. An enjoyable hour later, I said wow! Is an hour up already? Great talk and very few repeats.

I love the South Park version of "what if your wrong" question. Thank Richard Dawkins!

@GlowingMpd

4 жыл бұрын

👍Agreed but he never asks, “what If YOUR wrong”. He asks, “what if YOU’RE wrong”!! kzread.info/dash/bejne/X3qYrbJ-cZSdnZc.html

At 53:31 it was suggested to go back even further than the fish and Dawkins suggested an answer. But I feel that the components of life itself ALWAYS existed in a form that was dormant in appeared to be a non life system. When two dissimilar metals as copper and aluminium are touching each other, their surfaces relation cause a reaction. Similarly when iron and water touch each other they cause rust. These "marriage" relations in different forms could have existed even when the temperature of the earth was higher and I would say that in molten steel say in carbon steel the boundaries junction between carbon and iron would hold a relation that could have some reaction about which we do not know. And yet when metals solidify we clearly say that when two dissimilar metals are touching each other, this marriage could produce corrosion, electric potential, and other creations which I may call "children" So at that instant when mass was created in the universe, the beginning of relations and reactions also commenced and marrying metals and other components together were a sign of dormant life not as we know it , but as a reaction between two dissimilar elements, hence marriage. I shall not go into the conditions that if similar metals touch each other, such reactions fo not takes place and so they cannot be the reason for life creation. When the state of our earth or any other planet was right in temperature, moisture, humidity and so on , this early marriage between dissimilar metals /substances well this was the living cells as we know it, but I would say it was dormant and of a different reaction to a marriage relation between two dissimilar components not unlike the disimilarities between man and woman to reproduce further life components..

@peteringram9576

7 жыл бұрын

It's almost as if you are describing the evolution of magical electronics as yet to be fully awakened. Perhaps you have the mind to awaken this sleeping princess.

@carmelpule6954

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was rather fortunate to walk through life in such a manner that I always had time to note what goes on around me and every opportunity was enough to make me conclude as Albert Einstein concluded that either everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle. Even when in Britain, I often drove on my 35cc (yes 35cc) motorcycle to Pitlochry in Scotland from Newcastle to see the salmon trying to jump the dammed river to go and breed further upstream and as the dam was too high, the engineers had made a large pipe with a number of voluminous resting rooms to slow down the down coming water to enable the salmon to rest. There were glass panes on these rooms where I could study the salmon where I became acquainted with all the beauty included within the dynamics of a salmon. A few times I drove to Glasgow and took the ferry to the Isle or Arran where normally the wind blew laterally to the ferry and the seagulls soared on the uplift on the side of the ferry. I fed the seagulls by showing them that my hand contained food and they came close to pick it up and as they did I studied their wing tip motion in relation to the joint in between the outer and inner part of the wing and it was a perfect circle. (Incidentally on my 35 cc moped I often drove from Chatham to Newcastle! ) Considering how the feathers retracted and expanded while the wing tip made the trajectory of a circle that gave the seagull and upward and a forward movement. I might have watched the salmon and the seagulls near to me , but there before me in the distance was the unknown horizon containing much more than I could ever handle. Later when I designed propellers for fast going sea-craft I incorporated all I learnt from watching the side and tail fins in salmon and the wing tip design of seagulls. I published my design in an informal yacht magazine and I must say my design became popular as I introduced that both the leading edge and the trailing edge had to be raked back as nature did all before me. With my propellers imitating nature I increased the speed of a 35 foot craft from 22 to more than 32 knots. Incidentally I called the tips.......The Professor Pule' Power Propeller Tips, where to get a better start from stationary, I made the angle at the boss of the propeller a little shallower than that of the required pitch at the tips, so to decrease the effect of a paddle wheel. So in fact it had a pitch that varied along its blade, It worked so nicely that my colleague whose wife had an incident while berthing at a distant island he made 150 nautical miles in less than five hours with throttles wide opened at full speed to take his wife to hospital on the mainland. I do not have in mind to awaken sleeping princesses, but there is so much one could improve. My students were working on printed circuit board where the distance between the copper connections was about one micron. About 30 years ago the University hosted a Roman Catholic Archbishop and as I was the only one in the laboratory, he came over with the rector and asked me what I was doing. At the time I was working on an operational amplifier which my colleagues had developed for the use of active filters and I described the integrated electronic circuit that the density factor of electronic circuit was becoming higher and higher that I would not be surprised that it will eventually reach the density factor of information contained in sperm and a form of life could be initiated due to the relations and reactions at the multiple junctions. I must say that whenever I talked about the possibility of awakening sleeping princesses with technology, none of higher archy of any religion laughed at me when I spoke of where electronics might lead, as related to life, they all accepted that at the rate Engineering is growing those " life actions due to relations of joint in dissimilar elements" which I described to you elsewhere, have the potential of being miracle makers, but I am now too old to even dream of keeping up with my students, I contributed to society, not in wakening sleeping princesses, but in designing and making surgical equipment, designed better control systems for ferries and many investigations on court cases. I did my bit and though I do not like to say it, I was decorated nationally for my contribution to society. One does not need to do miracles for other people to appreciate one's effort. As I said elsewhere, all one needs to do it to respect others and do one's best. Sometimes the temptations come to me to be more selfish rather than to contribute to society and to respect others, but I find it rewarding to keep respecting others as just now I received an e-mail from one of my students who was given the post of Full Professor. Recently I seemed to enjoy the relaxed typing on these comments, and I would definitely not not go back to my isolated days solving national problems or at Chatham working alone and unknown, in the hulls of submarines to protect the British Nation, I hope that in these long comments, my communications in the meaning of my life will not be misinterpreted to the writing of words,nor misleading people like Richard Dawkins who seems to think that any princess who dies will not live in the after life in the form of Energy which could be resurrected as a plant grows when energy and sunlight falls on it, but certainly not in my lifetime.

Our children’s are future makers, keep them safer and healthy, and freedom to think about anything that they liked.

@judyives1832

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! And don’t indoctrinate and use “god threats” to force them to believe in horrible myths.

@UnlimitlesslyFunnyDude

Жыл бұрын

that will be a end of human race .... lol because humanity will just feel they are useless beings without any great purpose.

I've just ordered this book for my grandson. ( And for me of course )

Of course, when you're talking to people who believe in a talking snake, and people who have been dead coming back to life, logic leaves the room. They simply don't understand the dynamics of how molecules and organisms work, and, more importantly, don't want to. They all have a heavily invested belief in heaven and a life after death. Logic won't convince them of anything.

@rocky5152

5 жыл бұрын

D.E.B. B : Very well said! It is absolutely astonishing that society (including myself before I woke up to intelligent reality) is promoting this mental slavery of religious insanity.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

Security blankets are much like scabs ... painful to rip away . They cannot handle not having a say in death . Thats all religion has to offer to get them to act predictably .

@judyives1832

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully it will happen even if it’s gradually. Religion is a horrible destructive myth and needs to be phased out.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur You are ignorant of science .

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@Roger Loquitur Atoms have been seen

I'm an adult....."The large hard on collider" .....**laughs out loud

@TroyRubert

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we do!

Love this man ❤️

The part about day and night reminds me of a question I not found an answer to. When the theory that the universe, or solar system, was geocentric and geostatic held sway how was the annular motion of the Sun accounted for? The diurnal motion is easily explained, not so the yearly motion.

I find myself in a predicament that is quite different from that of a science teacher who is also a young Earth creationist but teaches evolution as it's currently understood. I'm a teacher in a religious school which explicitly forbids the teaching of evolution or that the universe is older than around 5800 years. This leaves me stuck teaching taxonomy, reproduction (without mentioning sex, try that one day) and general concepts in biology without mentioning evolution. I don't have to teach that evolution isn't real or teach creationism. I'm merely tasked with teaching from the textbook (one of the grades levels at which I teach uses a custom written science book that excludes "problematic" references although thankful does not include bad science) while skipping over anything that could be an issue from the view of the school. Luckily, I've never been asked what I believe and while it's presumed that I'm a creationist of some kind, many know that I'm the "liberal" teacher and hold views that might stray from that position occasionally. It's a tough spot. I will NOT lie to my students, ever! I'll quit before that happens. So I make sure that they get as much information without breaking the rules. Every so often there is a student who knows the science well and will at some point make a reference to something that isn't allowed and while I can't really do much with it, the seeds are planted and will grow and eventually becomes the trees of new questions.

@paulwilkinson1539

8 жыл бұрын

+Ed Gloss Interesting comment. Hard to read though; as a School teacher, don't you teach use of paragraphs?

@h3rteby

8 жыл бұрын

+Ed Gloss Sounds very frustrating, but kind of cool too, like an agent behind enemy lines. A valuable position to have, as you're certainly not just "preaching to the choir" hehe. Btw, ironically here in Sweden, probably the most secular country in the world, we follow a law from the EU that says 'in order to preserve cultural identities' or something like that, religious schools are pretty much allowed to teach whatever they want.

@EdGloss

8 жыл бұрын

Paul Wilkinson Sorry. I hate not using paragraphs but the text input field on my phone is three lines high. It's way too difficult to bother. Interestingly, if I don't use paragraphs I usually put a disclaimer in front but I must've forgotten this time. I watch KZread on my phone and tablet only so this tends to happen quite often. If I think it's really important to have paragraphs I'll type out my comment in the Keep app which makes it easy to see the breaks clearly. Hope that's a good enough "excuse" because it's the truth.

@EdGloss

8 жыл бұрын

h3rteby It's funny that you mention that because that's exactly how I've come to view myself over the past few years, largely because I had no choice. It's not always easy because many of my students are at that age where they're beginning to get it and I can't for a second even allow any "dangerous" conversation to begin, let alone have a full blown discussion. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've told a few select students (with their parents' prior approval) to hit me up after graduation if they want to have some of the conversations they tried to have while in my class. I live in the neighborhood with my students. I'm friends with many of their parents (who are, ironically, far less religious in many cases than they can publicly admit and a couple are super closeted atheists) so see them often. I've seen some of my sixth grade students graduate from college, get married, have children and so on. It's an incredibly emotional moment when a former student tells me that they're majoring in biology in college because of me. I've had many students come over to me at eighteen, nineteen, twenty and older and tell me something they leaned from me that they haven't forgotten or that they've utilized some piece of advice to guide them at times. It makes every second of teaching worth it.

@h3rteby

8 жыл бұрын

+Ed Gloss That sounds pretty great really! I can imagine it'd feel a whole lot worse if you didn't have allies among the parents. Another funny thing btw, it was only in the 90's here that it became possible to opt out of paying church tax (which I had to do by sending a letter to my local church). And even beyond the explicit church tax the church gets hundred of millions of additional funding from the government that pays for the upkeep of their buildings. And those religious schools (more Muslim than Christian these days) totally get the same subsidies as regular public schools, and a few years ago they even took Natural Science out of the core curriculum! As Dawkins says that's basically child abuse.

as a devout atheist, sorry to disagree with RD @ 37:38. There is absolutely no reason to argue with someone who believes in a god as long as they believe their God is benevolent. I watched my 80 yo mother, who was a devout catholic, die with cancer, without complaint because she believed she was going to a better place. She knew I didn't share her belief but we held hands as she died and she was so sure of 'salvation'. Who was I to tell her I thought she was wrong?

@RuthwikRao

7 жыл бұрын

Her son. It's just that you had a very inconvenient situation to tell her she was wrong. Still doesn't mean you shouldn't tell her that she was wrong. You could instead tell her how she was a great mother (if she was), and that this life is all she could devote for her children and family, that it's far humbling to have lived a life with no devout desire of reward after it than worrying about the next life in the current one. If going to heaven or hell is the last thing on her mind rather than her family, her loved ones, the fascination of having lived a life, she was evidently wasting her time in the current life, which to me further exemplifies how short life can be or seem, at any instant in one's life time. You were stuck in a very inconvenient dilemma of having to say goodbye or tell your mother how she was wrong about the afterlife. But mind you, an afterlife is still unfalsifiable as it cannot be tested or demonstrated. So technically, it's just highly highly improbable that an afterlife exists. The same level of untestability extends to the very idea of tooth fairies. Ultimately, it's about what you think is better to say (or not say) in a situation that demands an argument. A dying person is a very personal and singular event where one can easily say this argument cannot come up again between the same two people, hence the person refuting can interchange and prioritize certain things to be said over other. There are situations where telling the truth is more important than catering to emotion and there are certain moments like yours where exposing the truth can be arguably said to be of lesser necessity than catering to emotion. But remember, you are still not evil to tell a dying person what they believed was wrong or based on bad evidence. It's the evolution of culture and family that guides us to value certain things more than others in dire situations. You're still not evil to tell your dying mother that she's most certainly had it with life and she's not going anywhere. It's just human culture that you don't choose to tell it.

@girlwhomustnotbenamed4139

6 жыл бұрын

+that guy I think that's the area that at least merits some discussion. If everyone thought their god was benevolent and they would strive to do good by all their fellow human beings all through their life, then it would still raise the question of truth, but at least the debate could be much more philosophical in nature. As it stands, however, blind belief always carries the risk of being indoctrinated into very harmful and destructive behaviour, with the person concerned being convinced they are doing "the right thing". So while I totally believe there is a spiritual, transcendent side to the human condition, I also think it has nothing to do with the antropomorphic "god" of the big religions, and that it should be explored with a critical mind. You know, very often the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

Devout is an odd adjective to choose

@sherlock9374

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 It was a 'tongue in cheek' choice ;)

@UnlimitlesslyFunnyDude

Жыл бұрын

just joke is death than... if afterlife exists but for atheists life is not a joke because there is no afterlife belief for them, just reality

Thank you Mr. Dawkins

What a great guy to look up to...

I loves Oxford university I wish I was younger to study in Oxford, where too many scientists graduated from there .

@AFMMarcelD

3 жыл бұрын

You and I friend, seem like all of the great minds we admire graduated from Oxford, I wish I were younger as well.

for any religious person to even attempt to argue with people like Dawkins is like arguing that 1+1 is 5. it cant be done and its extremely arrogant just to think its possible

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

I am a rational skeptic by nature but I would remind that apples are not oranges . To compare them is not just unfair , its ignorant . Religion is a reflection of the emotional state that is every bit as powerful to those under its sway as is logic to others

@usaisamess8880

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 so is santa clause believers

@judyives1832

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 I don’t agree that religion is a reflection of an emotional state. That makes it sound as if it’s a natural, organic part of a person and it’s not. Its actually emotional damage that’s created and then a false bandaid of religion is applied. If you keep sticking a pin in someone, you don’t get to claim you are a hero because you give them a Superman bandaid.

Dawkins my hero 💚

I would recommend all young ones to watch and listen to richard instead of the many youtube wannabes who lack the credentials.

Darwin gave to me "The Theory" that explained my "Evolution" Dawkins proved to me "The Fact" , that "My God was a "Delusion" As fell Lucifer from Heaven, The Pope Ratzinger quit the Vatican Thus me and my Religion, shall forever never be... together again

@Jekudo

8 жыл бұрын

+Halabira Lapu-Lapu well said, cheers

@Awibrahor

8 жыл бұрын

+Halabira Lapu-Lapu Nice one, except that 'forever never' is a tautology. Just say 'never'.

@lumeronswift

7 жыл бұрын

Except that it was poetic license, so the tautology was fine.

@CandidDate

5 жыл бұрын

The fallacy of the false dichotomy in metered form. Agnostics exist, they just don't publish as much.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

Meh , religion serves people in ways that never appeals to realists ....but we are not all capable realists , are we ?

10:55 -- I want to see the Large Hardon Collider as well.

@mBUSHattack

7 жыл бұрын

oremfrien you'll have to pay me first.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds impressively painful

British guests are amazingly very talented and much more educated. Britain must have very good schools.

So, we can account for everything because each step was so tiny that it is made highly probable. I've always heard this, it also explains why evolution occurs, but I've never heard the scientific explanation detail how this happened. What triggers an organism, and how does it gradually improve its functioning by morphing its structure?

I can't belive he did that in front of all those kids. "Mommy, what's a hard on?" 😅🤣😂

@montesterling9058

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be ashamed of sexuality

@davebruneau6068

3 жыл бұрын

LMFAO...when you grow up you'll understand...or maybe not...

Is this religious channel? Why so many religious comments? I am currently from Russia(ex USSR), and you know, there was 3 really good things there, for wich I can say big thanks to commies, in historical point of viev. 1. Real multinational tolerance. 2. Mass people education. 3. Religion fight. I hope modern and future world civilisations will take this 3 points from USSR experience, as good points.

@alexanderb.7899

8 жыл бұрын

+48acar19 Unfortunately, we do not have informational and personal freedom. TV Propaganda rules this country :(

@48acar19

8 жыл бұрын

Alexander B. I am also from the Eastern Europe (Romania) and I can say that there are many economic problems over there, but there is more uncensored freedom even than in the USA. That has good and bad consequences, but after the communist dictatorship nobody would want to go back to the previous lack of freedom. I also find it appalling the fact that homosexuals are so badly mistreated in Russia. After all, Tchaikovsky, Gogol, and even Dostoyevsky as well as many other Russian personalities were gay!

@RandomAutomaton

8 жыл бұрын

+48acar19 By what metric do you believe you have more uncensored freedom than the U.S.? Do you actually have a source, or did somebody just tell you this one time?

@48acar19

8 жыл бұрын

RandomAutomaton by the metric of my Russian gay friends that are being put to jail even by saying that they are gay!!

@thoserusskies115

8 жыл бұрын

+48acar19 you don't have any Russian gay friends who are being put in jail blahblah etc. I mean what in the actual fuck. in Russia, homosexuality has been completely legal for more than 20 years, no one can put you in jail for it, if someone abuses you because you're gay, *they* go to jail, not you. gay propaganda to children however is prohibited and guess what - you can find a video on KZread of Dawkins saying that the gene responsible for homosexuality can be "switched on" by the outer environment, by circumstances. so banning gay propaganda to kids is not as barbaric as some morons are claiming, it's reasonable.

Yes, toward the tangled WEB of enlightenment or the tangled WEB toward ignorance and deception !

Just love his expression "of cOUrse" when he states his views on things that so far had been most undiscoverable. Kinda shows the intellectual level)

the coolest uncool bloke ever

@garystevenson5560

3 жыл бұрын

Satan asked me 3 questions ( If I could judge him, if God can change then material order of the universe, if He would go to Hell as a human. Answers.It is useless to judge but preferable to understand and know. In the world of illusions God doesn't need to change the material order of the universe, I went to Hell often as a human, as my messenger. *** I saw paradise and the Great conscious Void from which everything comes. I melted spiritually in a mirror looking at myself depersonalised from within outward. I dealt with demons, Fough for justice beeing suspected of blowing up the army recruitment center. among other things. One of God's messages is Respect women , listen to them if you want to get into paradise. God sent me back on earth as promised.

I would miss this guy when he dies

@sigsrodis

5 жыл бұрын

Naz™ this guy never dies.

Odds of life everywhere else firmly relies on whether or not we are the first

Cosmos by Carl Sagan is a bit old as Professor Dawkins stated but it's anything but out of date. The entire video series is amazing, if you can still get it. Nine discs if I remember correctly.

@toni4729

4 жыл бұрын

@Feiner Fug You'll never make a salesman.

@toni4729

4 жыл бұрын

@Feiner Fug It was a joke.

He’s just amazing ✌️

The world will morn a great man when his time comes

Dawkins is one of my favorite scientists on earth...

Who was it that said “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”: Lord Acton. Do you think that observation might also apply to the academic world, especially science, where they have the power to be able to say the most outlandish things, knowing that there is little chance of them being questioned by lay-people, and many of those who are equipped to question them, have a vested interest in not doing so, because they may not want their own findings to be challenged, at some future time? Or are we to believe there are no charlatans, among men/women of science, quietly having a lend of us?

Wow. You admit that things didn't come into being by chance. You're making progress

he is a leader too he made things happen besides his lecture he set up question time led the question askers to mic managed the other staff wile giving the lecture bravo dawkins is my hero i hope to speak understand and make things understood as well as him one day. ive just started collage people like him inspired me to get my GED and start collage i want to be a biologist geologist historian becouse of him tyson harris hitchens hawking krauss Feynman i could go on 30 letters left lol so many

Watched all of it

Yes. Mind officially blown.

Via audiobook (The Magic of Reality)... through the span of listening at lunchtime... my two teens may just have absorbed--actually processed and retained--more valuable (evolution-based) information in under an hour than they have practically utilized in their current/past high school careers, combined. This would be not only a historically significant, but factually valid basis of content for new grammar/grade school (and higher-level) text book writing. I could literally imagine people being inspired in the pursuit of becoming an educator, just to relay this crucial, if not vital information to the future inhabitants of this globe: Our children. EDIT: "... would've dazzled the socks off me..." I was wrong. I can adore him more. --from the Midwest, US.

We only deal with matter so when we have a problem we can't answer we just make the matter magical.

@UnlimitlesslyFunnyDude

Жыл бұрын

so what is magical? fairy tale spells, tricks, reality curious magic

Good lecture; love these talks :D

2:35 you know when folks give you the good bits on those other sites

I say Hadon sometimes, Hadron sometimes. I think it means fidelity.

Bait and switch with the word 'magic' no doubt. The first two definitions are dismissed as impossible or trickery, then he 'magically' slides in the supernatural as being already known to be impossible and equivalent to the first definition. It's however a different word with a different definition.

@schmetterling4477

3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen anything supernatural? I have not.

@realscientistflanders1688

3 жыл бұрын

@@schmetterling4477 The supernatural is anything that can't be explained by current scientific understanding of the laws of nature. I think it's safe to say that current scientific knowledge is incomplete.

I think there is one very obvious reason that explains the existence of all religions I know of (I do not know all existing religions). Most ordinary people hope for some continuity of their existence and all religions I am familiar with give that hope in some form.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

I have come to the same conclussion . Fear of non existence seems to be the bedrock of religion

When I am homeless in the wet and cold, and when my life seems more then I can hold, where can I turn to ease my plight, I’m freezing still, no hope in sight, yet still there’s evolution…..all that’s left for me…

Does Richard Dawkins set up a Doretha Dix group to ask (easy to answer) questions on his lecture tours?

Starts around 2:34

HE IS A REAL MAN ,I AGREE HIS IDEOLOGY.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

Its science

ok... im from the alien protection agency ( APA) and I have a couple questions!