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A conversation with Richard Dawkins (4/12)



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Richard Dawkins and Paula Kirby sit down for a 40 minute conversation at Eden Court Theater. There, they talk about evolution, religion and the importance of science. This is followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
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UHI Millenium Institute
April 2 2008
http://www.library.uhi.ac.uk/dawkins/
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chris that's like ... ( 3 months ago by xsfslayer)
chris that's like saying I prayed for longer hair. Of course I'm going to get longer hair; it grows. Of course if you pray for wisdom, you will seem like you have it. Everyone gains knowledge each and every day. You also might believe you're getting wisdom just for the fact you're praying for it. It's like a placebo.
No placebo effects ... ( 3 months ago by chris7777777777777)
No placebo effects here, sorry to disappoint you.
i didnt say it was ... ( 3 months ago by xsfslayer)
i didnt say it was a placebo effect. Just stating many cases are. In your case however, you are blinded by your own belief in god. You believe you gain wisdom because you prayed. Try this. Pray for something you know to be impossible, and see if you get it. You won't.
Or instead, pray for wisdom, and isolate yourself from the world. "Live under a rock." You'll see that your praying doesn't work.
thats cool, you can ... ( 3 months ago by chris7777777777777)
thats cool, you can believe what you want. But I have got it... you wouldn't believe me if I told you... so im wasting my time talking to you.
I like on the ROCK son.
If you want to know ... ( 3 months ago by xsfslayer)
If you want to know about the future in a million years, you have better luck with Nostradamus than god through prayer. there's no proof the word of god came from god, and there's no proof there even is a god; so already you're at the bottom of the staircase.
Chris, it's called ... ( 3 months ago by runevirage)
Chris, it's called hallucination. See a doctor, and get an education (a REAL one, not the fake or elementary one that you have).
i mean this in the ... ( 3 months ago by ble86n)
i mean this in the nicest way, c7...it is anti-christ to quote the bible, according to the bible anyway, keep praying if it works for ya...wisdom is crying out for us to see her, according to the bible
I didn't understand ... ( 2 months ago by eduzitcho)
I didn't understand the part of jeans.. does he mean blue jeans?
Haha, I do believe ... ( 2 months ago by segfault42)
Haha, I do believe he is talking about genes and not jeans.
god = no god. ( 2 months ago by Aldelirium)
god = no god.
I agree with 99% of ... ( 2 months ago by beag00)
I agree with 99% of what Dr. Dawkins has said here. I agree that some of the people who teach children about hell understand that it is not a real place, others who teach people about hell really think that it really exists, and they are not teaching it to harm others or make money. While I agree that the act of teaching children about the eternal tortures of hell is an evil act, I believe that calling all of these people "evil" is not accurate and does not further the atheist's cause.
If DNA is a string ... ( 2 months ago by niupaidanui)
If DNA is a string of Genes, how do we know when a Gene starts and ends?
Are there special markers in the DNA to divide up the string into sections of Genes?
Is this what they're using pattern matching for; i.e. compare two or more DNA strings to find which parts are garbage and which parts are Genes?
whats he on about? ... ( 2 months ago by davesni)
whats he on about?
the bible totally accounts for the concept of genes...im sure there are a number of references to Levis in genesis...
And God is Amazing! ... ( 2 months ago by mqrqiq)
And God is Amazing! If you knew God you would not speak for him. Except for in the Bible. True and Simple.
And you know god? ... ( 1 month ago by s4stem)
And you know god? How? Imaginary creations in your brain do not count!
The Bible is riddled with errors and inconsistencies, so god is error-full and inconsistent, sounds more like the bible is man's creation then man is god(s)'s creation.
There is nothing true and simple about the bible.
Why is he so great? ... ( 1 month ago by mrsmilo)
Why is he so great? A being that created people and an earth for them to walk on just to have them bow down to him? Creating hurricanes and famine and plague because we pissed him off or we're not worthy? Then why did he make us just to destroy us if we didn't do what he supposedly had planned for us in the first place?
That's why ... ( 1 month ago by Shalek)
That's why evolution is called 'the origin of the species' not 'the origin of the matter,'... Go to the big bang to find out how matter came to be. Here's a couple of videos to help you. The first is an explanation of how we know the big bang came to be, the second ia poetic explanation.
watch?v=uyCkADmNdNo
watch?v=4qymoktf0wY
I recommend the user who made those two videos to answer many of your questions.
Yeah, that dude ... ( 1 month ago by TheFemaleDurden)
Yeah, that dude sounded like ben stein there. 'how can evolution be true when it doesn't explain the origin of the universe, or gravity!' ...its not supposed to you morons. just as gravity doesnt explain special relativity.
Exacly, we pissed ... ( 1 month ago by TheFemaleDurden)
Exacly, we pissed him off. So instead of taking away his creation- he choose instead to keep them- and make them worship him whilst making them suffer. Sounds like 'perfection' alright. *rolls eyes*
"The atheist's ... ( 1 month ago by Hohlmackenreiter)
"The atheist's cause"
What could that be? It's not like atheism in general had some kind of unifying goal or moral code.
Sounds like a true ... ( 1 month ago by mrsmilo)
Sounds like a true weirdo to me.
what do you mean ... ( 2 weeks ago by egdeltur666)
what do you mean not count? Thats what god is!
critical and ... ( 1 week ago by analubalitious)
critical and rational thinking maybe?
If you were an ... ( 3 days ago by TheHallbjorn)
If you were an extremely lazy god, that is the way you would do it, because you wouldn't actually have to do anything at all. All you would have to do is start the universe going, and then sit back and watch it all happen...It is a rather strange way going about things. You might think that if God were really wanting to make it pretty convincing He exists He wouldn't choose, as a way of bringing us into existence, the one way that would make it look as though he was not there.



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