44 minutes of scientific poetry on life. “The information on how to handle the present to survive into the future is necessarily gleaned from the past.” This sums it all.. RD is indeed among the giants contributing to our cultural memory shaping the future of humanity and life. Thank you !!!

"We find ourselves perched on one tiny twig, in the midst of a blossoming tree of life. "

@ShadowZZZ

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that part in the symphony of science clip is just lit af

The most eloquently I've ever heard the man speak.

I love Dr. Dawkin's books. He has a wonderful way of making complex scientific concepts so brilliantly simple.

Only five stars for this channel I come here to raise the quality of my life

Dawkins is a mastery of analogies that makes the science accessible to the rest of us. I love the idea of the body's antibodies being "memories" of an illness like chicken pox and anti-biotics being introduced to the body as "false memories", thus tricking the body.

Words etched in the stone of our existence. What a beautiful recitation

What a fantastically inspiring talk.

pleased Prof.Dawkins~ come and visit Korea to spread your words. WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU LONG TIME!

can't believe this one has only a little over 90 000 views so far, considering the fact that the video is on youtube since 2009... anyway, this is a great lecture

Forty five minutes of pure awesome. Thanks Richard Anyone who denies, simply doesn't understand. Which is why you feel a responsibility to educate them. I applaud you.

a great presentation by RD

Inspiring presentation. I feel like studying some science.

Love these videos! Thank you :D

Another great lecture by RD.

Missed you, Richard. I like to see you alone. had such a painful needless cruel day. Have to end my day with you, so I know not all scientists are horrendous psychopaths. So, so sad. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and light. Your light is very bright. A fan. A serious fan.

Brilliant! As always the good Doctor says it better and more clearly than anyone. I'd like him to be compulsory part of every school child's scientific education, especially in the so-called 'faith' schools.

Well said

This is a wonderfully fascinating book, and you should all read it

I'm totally speechless.

I love the pride he tries to hide when people clap to something actually worth clapping for.

Yet one more great talk from Richard and a great end to the AAI videos

I can't even believe Dawkins would waste his time talking to Bill Oriley about evolution - so beautiful and so compelling....

you're right, i remember reading the same recently about the underwater lifeform. so take out my all other forms of life statement. the mode of operation must be very different though than the scenario of more 'traditional' organisms living for a very long time where you start as an embryo and progress into adulthood then die.

@mfunke Thanks for pointing this out! ^^

Richard Dawkins, I love your tie

I always love the way he speaks. His speech skills are top notch. Hes one of the best scientists to go public in such a long time, though I know hes not the only good one. Somebody whos more hyper on the issues of astronomy is Neil deGrasse Tyson. Hes one of the better public speakers on the issue of astronomy.

@Guitarking40 you are a deep thinker , and such a profound comment too. A mind like a stteel trap.

A brilliant academic 👏 ❤

not just a question out of the blue. its made from observations! and theories can certanly be derived from a hypothesis. you observe something, make a hypothesis, you test that hypothesis in different ways, and if you can predict the outcome of the tests, then you can make a theory.. and this was just ONE example, this is not a general one.

If you do a search for 'Hitchens', one of the first vids that comes up is a lecture from authors@google.

Actually, I read about a kind of tree system all connected at the root. When a tree in the system falls, its branches begin growing up into new trees in the system. Additionally, there's a recenty found species of jellyfish that, after mating, reverts to an earlier stage in its own life cycle, meaning it never dies of old age. Theoretically, if they continue to multiply, a lack of food will cause enough to die of starvation to keep things under control.

@RyanTheChristian I think you're missing something fundamental about what is happening with atheism in the US today. For a very long time (let's say the entire history of the country) atheism was a four letter word. It was something you had to hide from people in casual conversation (and not justly so) lest they noticeably become uncomfortable with speaking to you if they found out you didn't believe in God. Now the dynamic has shifted, thanks largely to this man.

I liked his tie better when I thought it had a pterosaur on it -rather than the hawk? Eagle?

Dawkins always has the best ties.

Awesome! So how much should I ask for my soul? It's in good condition, never used, still in original packaging...???

@Parapon3ra I like this!! Well said : )

Dawkins is genius! A brilliant man who ought to be a politician or host his own top-rated TV programme. Sadly, we're stuck with God-fearing politicians and loud-mouthed media thugs.

Surprised to hear Richard Dawkins make the mistake of confusing punishment with negative reinforcement. Reinforcement always enhances a tendancy to do something, whether it's negative or positive. Punishment reduces tendancy to do something.

@iwanttocrashmybike Never think for yourself... Why, that is a very noble thought. People who think only for themselves are selfish characters.

@virtualguitarist I can see your reason to laugh at it, because it is so fun to consider the fact that one of my ancestors were not even a cell. That is the amazing thing about life, it is greatly powerful to adapt to the situaion.

Well, I am talking about the people who say that certainly there is no god, not the ones that doubt it´s existance, otherwise I would be contradicting myself, I agree with every word you said

@AxiomaticInfinity you rule! finally someone who's interesting.

Applause.

at 25:23 he says an organism that does not have the same DNA as everything else... and I can't fain anything on the web about them... someone please help me find them... I spelled it "harem scariotes" or "harum scareotes" along with many other variations with no avail...

NIKE should sponsor Dawkins - one life live it

@RyanTheChristian He has encouraged non-believers to call a spade a spade and openly say what they feel about religion. This is something really unprecedented the collective memory of the US and GB. The religious community has never before had a substantial percentage of the population (10-12% in the US) openly reject it's claims. So, what may FEEL like persecutory hatred to you is really just "You know, that idea really sounds certifiably crazy. I've just never been able to say it until now."

Just because life preservation evolved in the brain for one purpose doesn't mean it's the ONLY reason for the process. The saddest thing I can think of about dieing is to not be able to see and know the future of us beings on planet earth. Complexity is just interesting and life is valuable for this reason. Put me through the worst pain available to man, take away my ability for children but give me the ability to see the continuation of life past my own death and i'll take it 100%.

So much awesome in one men.

great speech but i would disagree about a star being the only source of energy. case in point, Europa uses friction, derived from orbiting Jupiter, to gain heat.

You're in for a world of delight. Go search out his lectures and debates. Fantastic stuff. Makes you cry, laugh, and most importantly, it makes you think. Have fun.

Exactly at minute 25:00 Dawkins pronounces the word Fungi incorrectly. It is pronounced "Fun-Jie." I'm surprised he made that mistake. Oh well.

Just because something is being given away for free doesn't mean the overall goal isn't to make money. Just look at those people who give free samples of products out in stores.

@chipleeiii Why should a creator be unknowable? That seems to be something theists often hide behind: we can't explain, understand, demonstrate, test for the existence of god-- yet the idea is supposed to have validity. If there is a creator, whether it came from somewhere or somehow 'always existed' then it must still be knowable. Everything that exists must be knowable.

Wow, what a witty comment! How clever, I see you have altered the first syllable of Mr. Dawkins' name for hilarious comic effect! How did you come up with that one, what a stroke of genius!

@RyanTheChristian That's the spirit :D just don't forget to read lots of other books too.

@whateverhappenedtogood5338

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And who created the Sun. God himself. Good one.

That's correct. We're all evolving into old people.

@RyanTheChristian My spirituality involves meditation and creativity. It does not require believing in things for which we have no evidence.

agree

@RyanTheChristian And that's a good point, we have both "chosen truth," but obviously we can't both be right. only one of us is correct, and so we must look at our own personal reasons for believing what we believe. So far you have listed such reasons as "billions believe it" and "it's useful and makes me happy," neither of which relate to "Truth." Only doubt can lead to new certainties, and anyone with sufficient skill in self-examination will reject the religions we've invented (Freud)

Oh Dawkins, You're such a dreamboat.

@DishonostyFromHarris Harris likes certain things from eastern religions, specifically their empirical approach to spirituality. He doesn't believe in their gods or superstitions. Read his last chapter of The End of Faith, entitled Experiments in Consciousness (or search for the audio-book reading of this chapter on KZread) to learn more. There is nothing hypocritical about his beliefs.

just saw the new synthetic cell technology on TED

@RyanTheChristian It's not all genetics, there's also how you are raised and how good you are at logic and empathy. Free will happens to be an illusion, since you asked, but it's a working illusion (just like religion) because of the limits of the human mind. We can't experience the 4th dimension, time, because we are restricted to 3 dimensions. And so, "we don't know, but neither do you" is a perfectly logical thing to say when people claim to know things that cannot possibly be known.

@RyanTheChristian Please elaborate. I'm curious how you manage to rationalize such claims.

Why Richard never mentions Nikola Tesla in his speeches of previous minds and accomplished scientists who left their knowledge and genius to humanity? :(

@RyanTheChristian You'd be surprised how much you can answer about the Big Questions if you wait, and keep thinking before making that leap into what you simply hope is true or find useful. I could invent a religion and new gods right now that would be more useful than any religion in existence, and it would still be false. It's just a "useful illusion," like many others perpetuated in human psychology. It feels good to answer the tough questions, even if your answers are wrong.

@RyanTheChristian yes, the Bible tells you not to think, as my preacher uncle reminds me frequently. it tells you to follow blindly. example: Proverbs 3:5-6 : "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." And I agree that everyone has a dark side, but that's what makes it so incredible when you see truly good and moral people. They have defeated that darkness on their own. you don't need God to do that, you just need strong character and integrity.

@TekLok Actually in the Matrix movie there's no proof cited in the plot that when they break out of the Matrix that that 'reality' isn't just another layer in the Matrix!

@STEPHENWRAYSFORD33 well..if i ever were to go, it would probably be to learn more about evolution and history or just to see how he thinks because he seems to be a pretty bright guy..and just listening to his way of thinking might be interesting, just like wanting to talk to Einstein or Stephen Hawking might be exciting just to see how they think. Of course he's probably not on the same level...but anyways in general it would be interesting to me for those two reasons

Awesome. Just awesome! Life is just awesome. So much more interesting and amazing than "God created it".

Just in case, you can get it on ebay or abebooks for a MAXimum of $25, and second hand a lot cheaper, so why not get your own copy ?

"Just as silly as to assume something is not there because you can't prove it is there." But that assumption is falsifiable, unlike the assumption that something is there just because you can't prove it's not there.

I'm half way through O.G Species and he's going to ruining by telling me the last paragraph? I can't watch the rest, but for the record, I think the butler did it.

Then you don´t know as much as you think you do, his arguments for god are TOTALLY rooted in his ideas about substance.

@pyr666 And really the last thing, and this is purely educational: to belittle someone is to take away from his/hers work and accomplishments for greater good of all people and make him/her sound like no one, like just another average Joe. Telling an average Joe (such as yourself) that he/she is an average Joe (and an arrogant one) is not belittling, it's just setting the record straight. I hope you didn't enjoy this, because it's not meant to be enjoyable. Over and out.

29:51, Does anyone find it strange that the guys sign is anti-entropy? I thought creationists like entropy because they think it disproves evolution. If there was no entropy they wouldn't have an argument in that regard.

@RyanTheChristian p.s. I should also add, I'm not a blind follower of Dawkins as you clearly want to frame me. I haven't even read his book on atheism. You know, he's more than just a famous atheist. He was a brilliant evolutionary biologist, science author, and Oxford professor before becoming a famous atheist. Dude knows his stuff xD

you atheists should really listen to john mackay he really makes alot of sense and I know it is always tempting to keep on listening to richard because you guys respect him so much but it is always good to question whether your theory is correct so listen to john when you can he's very good, you most probably will learn some facts which will challenge your theory even more, let me know how you do ;)

@YourUTubeMonitor You are raving.

WOW !!! ALL this happened by pure chance. No Way...

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes x 10 (at least), we can indeed argue that the venture was to make money. It is a marketing device designed to lead people to his money-making ministry, through which he sells the 70 books he's written. That's like saying that since Coca-Cola pays for their commercial to be on regular TV, at their own expense, which costs me nothing to watch, that their commercial isn't trying to make them money.

it is a theory. the hypothesis was made many years ago, and has not been full proven. But because there are so many things that points to the hypothesis about evolution, it makes it into a theory. imo.

@RyanTheChristian I'm talking about real Eastern meditation--freedom from the self. Not just deep reflection, deep thought, or relaxation (the stunted Western idea of meditation). I have already referred you to the last chapter of Sam Harris's /The End of Faith/, entitled "Experiments in Consciousness" (or you can hear the audio-book version on KZread), if you really want to learn more, and experience non-deluded spirituality. BTW this wasn't a debate, it was your beliefs getting trounced xD

Yes I have read all of those and a lot more besides. What´s your point? I didn´t insult anyone, I insulted an idea, a stupid idea and was quite correct to do so.

They are hard on religion as a push back, some more reasonable than others, but in principle what they say is that we should treat religion the same way we treat all other things, with sceptisism until the proof lives up to the claim. They don't say there is no god, they say there is nothing to suggest there is, so we will treat it along the lines of all other ideas and gods that has been around through history. (unicorns, thor, odin, allah, lochness monster, etc.)

@Voodochild2007 excuse me, but I'm a white southern american and I agree with pretty much everything dawkins says.

@RyanTheChristian That's it! you have hit the question: "why would you get bored of happiness?" Of course you would! People in the West have such a naive idea of happiness. You need to experience sadness and pain in order to have happiness and ecstasy, both sides in equal measure. The night is just as long as the day. there is no such thing as eternal happiness or eternal suffering, because one inevitably gives rise to the other. this is a very basic realization

I've evolved to the point where I no longer need money.

@RyanTheChristian Indeed, I can tell you're quite used to it xD

Behold the great prophet Dawkins has spoken,now buy his book,sign up to his business's, and never think for yourself.

@TomFynn : Do family members support your decision to have an abortion?

@RyanTheChristian The fact that the universe is expanding??? that is extraordinary, monumental evidence. The fact that a whale has 5 finger-bones in its fin, indicating a common ancestor with humans? That is some freakin extraordinary evidence. Surely God can come up with something better than an obscene old book.

I do not think I suffer from Bipolarity...Although sometimes I do feel like I am two different people.

If I had a nickel for every time someone said "selection needs intelligence!". The way sediment forms layers is selection on weight and density too, I bet a god is hand picking grains of sand and rocksies. Good to know there's a beacon of awesome in this world of shit, in the form of people who understand things that are talked about in this video.

@subpoprec It's not.. I'm serious about it..

@RyanTheChristian No, the open-minded Atheist would say it's very silly to think there is a creator considering that the idea came from a 4th millenia B.C. desert nomad who knew very little about the world and assumed angels and talking snakes existed. So common sesnse says its more logical to NOT believe it than TO believe it. Or at least its as sensable as flying elephants and tooth-faries.

@TomFynn : I'm here to help you.

G3org3Master, basically, cell house-keeping keeps you alive and it is done at the expense of other functions, thus, evolution doesn't want to put in any more house-keeping then needed.

@pyr666 One more thing: you said "the irony is almost palpable". I'm forced to ask - where is the irony? Do you know what irony is, or do you just toss that word around to make yourself look more knowledgeable? I know I said I won't reply anymore, but you are just too good to be true. And I don't mean that in a good way, in case you feel confused. I was not belittling you, because I don't even know you and "your work". Letting someone know he/she acted in an arrogant way is not belittling.