And as a response against the, then very popular, group selection theory. Dawkins argued that just about every trait, from animals helping each other to being completely selfish, is a strategy that helps their genes survive and replicate.Genes that maximize their own survival are the genes that propagate best, even if they do so at the expense of others.
sorry God in science or theology and I can see how that would be perhaps you Dawkins but the notion that that people who who don't believe in God still believe in something and in the sense of
A few years ago, there was a theme issue in Time Magazine. Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins both weighed in. Francis Collins, the head of the Human Genome Project and now the director of the National Institutes of Health, he actually founded by BioLogos, the organization with which I
Nevertheless, it's surely true that we have this disposition to think in terms of purpose. Richard Dawkins himself says, we humans have purpose on the brain. The mere fact that it's possible to frame a question doesn't make it legitimate or sensible to do so.
So some argue that we don't have those dispositions, that religion is a cultural pathogen that infects our brains. Richard Dawkins says, religion is a virus more deadly than the smallpox virus, but more difficult to eradicate. Others say, well, no.
Well, my mission is to make morality intelligently designed. Professor Dawkins started to attract a lot more widespread attention, for better or for worse, with the publication of "The God Delusion" in 2006, which was sort of more of a full frontal assault on religion.
Without any further ado and with great pleasure, I would like to give you Professor Richard Dawkins . Richard Dawkins : Thank you, Baran, very much. I am delighted that, of course, that so many copies of my book are to be seen in the room, slightly disconcerted as well.
presenter: You want to answer questions? Richard Dawkins : And now I'm very happy to take questions. There is a microphone there I see is that meant for-- presenter: There is a microphone in the middle.
There is a microphone there I see is that meant for-- presenter: There is a microphone in the middle. Richard Dawkins : If anyone would like to ask a question, do come up to the microphone here. presenter: Actually can I start with the first question?
presenter: Actually can I start with the first question? Richard Dawkins :Yeah, mmm. presenter: In your book, you often times refer to online material, at one point you also ask your readers to Google one of the phenomenon that you're talking about, and this means people have access to some times random information on the Internet.
Is it good or bad? Richard Dawkins : Well, I'm delighted that the word Google has become a verb. And I presume it's gotten its way into the Oxford Dictionary by now, hasn't it?
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Well, you question implies that they be allowed to sort of retain their illusions without disturbing them.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Well, I suppose read up some science, look at videos, look at some, look at some scientific findings, And then questions will automatically occur
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Show them films by David Attenborough.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Anymore questions?
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Right. Pretty much the same, actually.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : I found it a little bit harder.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : You're a teacher?
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes. And what do you teach about shells?
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Oh, I got it.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes, as long as it's pointed out, yeah.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : That's an important question to ask actually.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : He taught, he taught what he didn't believe Unknown female speaker 2: Yeah.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes. female #2 : He obviously would have had a bias when he was teaching.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes. Um, I've actually got into a bit of an argument about this, because in America, it's very--.The
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : No, I am not sure it's true that the extremely small, in a way that came up earlier, because the Bohr model of the atom was indeed sort of inspired by
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Oh oh okay, so you're going back much much further than just the first person.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : All right.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : No, I wouldn't say so, no.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes, I do.
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes. Will you pose it as a psychological question, and I think as a question in psychology, you almost answered it because if children are sent to
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Richard Dawkins : Yes. presenter: Professor Dawkins , thank you for joining us today and providing us with such a powerful book to teach science to our young ones.
Genes that maximize their own survival are the genes that propagate best, even if they do so at the expense of others. Or in Dawkins ' words, we are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. Now, you might think this framework isn't all that groundbreaking.
We've kind of come out of a period of time where the new atheism is very very popular. You had Dawkins , Daniel uh Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, uh Christopher Hitchens. And they made a big impact in the early 2000s. I think we should probably just give some color to what new atheism is.
He's an internationally renowned speaker and author on the intersection of science, philosophy, and religion. He has debated Richard Dawkins on "The God Delusion," the late Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism, as well as Peter Singer on the topic of the existence of God. Dr. Lennox's recent documentary, titled, "Against the Tide" deals with his public defense of Christianity and features the actor Kevin Sorbo
So that's something to bear in mind. Now Richard Dawkins said something very provocative-- he often does-- in this film that we were both on called "Super Sapiens: The Rise of the Mind". He said, "It's not obvious to me that a replacement of our species by our own technological creations
Because from their perspective, basically, when I think a couple of-- Dawkins , I think it was or-- I think it was Dawkins . Basically, it was just like, well, morality is basically what's good for everybody is good-- or good for the larger number of people
And we called the up steam drive. It's not Dawkins , it's Dennett.
And what more privileged way to celebrate science than to have Professor Richard Dawkins here with us to talk about his latest book. Professor Richard Dawkins was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He's a fellow member of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature.
So I think, um, I think my view of the world wide web is overwhelmingly positive. male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. When I was reading The God Delusion, I thought of course in the end he's professor, his job
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. male #2: Hi Professor Dawkins , I was particularly interested in the the question aspect of your
male #1: Professor Dawkins , thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. They are Richard Dawkins : By shells you mean snail shells?
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That's the exact argument he makes. It's the argument Dawkins makes all the time and it's the argument that atheists make forever about morality that morality exists outside of religion. You can be moral without religion.
for me in so many different ways because well, frankly, after talking to and reading the athiests, and there is, of course, a whole new viral strain of militant atheists, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins and others who have really taken that position rather forthrightly and presented a formidable opposition to organized religion as well as, along with Richard Dawkins , a very strong and scientific support for atheism. And I found myself thinking about my interviews
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And above all, actually, you see Islam. Islam is -- I don't buy any of those sort of Eurabia theories from the neocons -- but the basic idea is, Islam is posing questions, John Micklethwait: I think Dawkins is interesting. Any time I talk to Dawkins about it, he's obsessed by the big, scientific pictures. But actually, he's -- the idea that the sort
sorry God in science or theology and I can see how that would be perhaps you know where you and Dawkins might have a disagreement and where the preponderance of evidence is and where this could be a