He equates our knowledge by saying we have bigger brains and language, well so do dolphins, whales, squids, chimpanzees, not to mention extinct neanderthals whose brains were bigger and had language homo erectus, and a dozen other ape species. He also fails to explain who created evolution, who designed the programming of nature, and what exactly is nature. As a scientist i feel Dawkins is too close minded and has already made up his mind, this doesnt seem too progressive to me
@MrJeffFort why do you think that someone created evolution? or the "programing of nature" animals get hungry, so they hunt and eat, other animals don't want to be eaten so they run/hide. and from there its just a continuous arms race as different species adapt to there environments.
@Dkpesmerga Because i find it hard to believe were robots, machines with no consciousness. You equate everything in our universe as to simple cause and effect. Were hungry so we eat, we dont want to die so we run and hide.thats a very simple way to view things but I see Nature as a series of formulas and programming .The program didnt write itself and even if it did, this still doesnt disprove a creater it does the opposite. So i ask you Why do we get hungry or scared? Why do we cling to life?
@MrJeffFort because thats how our bodies work, we need fuel to continue liveing, so we eat, as to why we get scared, i honestly dont know, but why do you think we are robots, machines with no conciousness? i very much enjoy my conciousness, and my ability to think, why does it all need a creator, its not like if god doesnt exist were a bunch of zombies just cruiseing around with blank expressions liveing for no reason or purpose
lets imagin that we can make a a device of some sort that can evolve overtime by it self to accomodate the enviroment where it is set to be (not impossible ), after we are all gone some kind of primitive intelligent beings just like us come accros this device , would they all come to the same conclusion as dawkins did ? i wonder ...darwin deard to look and think outside the mainstream ,but dawkins seems to be looming in his shadow , a modern imitation of organised religion madness ,
organised religion is obviously and mostly a human invention or in some cases a distotion of the truth , dawkins is oblivious of the fact that there is a way based on reason that does not contradict sience an nature , and this is called submission , we submitt willingly after invistigation or choose not too but we inwillingly submitt by bowing to the forces of nature like death ,evolution may redicule man made religion but does not desaprove god in any way ,
I know evolution and biology is Dawkins's area of expertise but I feel like he should at least play a part in some kind of documentary about global warming. Yes, we have "Inconvenient Truth" but a lot of people have forgotten about that by now and the more awareness the better, and the urgency of this topic is ever-increasing especially since the disinformation from people seen as authority figures is not going away.
Dawkings does not understand what it means to be an animal...but he does know what it means to be a mind...again what is up with the women in the related videos
Why do most people still believe in god and creation although there are no proves what so over. We humans are smart beings, we should evolve into a better and more intelligent society.
@libnene93sheyoo3e thats what's happening right now, the number of atheists is constantly growing and religions are losing their strength. the obvious problem is that most kids these days are still being brainwashed into believing false things which is kinda sad.
'How' could be a better replacement, how can we better enrich our lives and environment for the sake of endurance which our consciousness has enjoyed what it has perceived? 'How' also works better with science, 'why' maybe should be left to the philosophers if it must persist. Science may not be able to give a complete satisfactory answer to 'why' but at least it has given us the comfort of how we managed to embrace 'why' which is purposeful enough.
The ability to study our surroundings more complexly or helping others may give personal purpose, depending on one's ambitions, but it doesn't exactly give ultimate purpose. Understanding the universe is not really a mean for survival, we do it because we can, it makes life more fruitful and passive. 'Why' has sort of become a hollow word, encouraging needless credibility and creates a bottomless pit.
I think what many seem to question more is why is it that we do strive for existence, what does it matter if our species or any other lives on? And is there some sort of an ultimate 'purpose,' destiny or direction in which complex figures like humans are suppose to help manifest? This may be why many tend to turn to the idea of a divine plan, not that it necessarily helps answer the question any better. Natural selection explains 'how' better than 'why.'
Very fact that we are the only living beings who can ask question like meaning/purpose of life means that we alone can create meaning/purpose of life as per our best interests.
The basic message to take away from this, is that *WE* create meaning and purpose. It is up to us to create it, if we so wish to have it. Wondering "why" we are is a bit of a waste of time. A better question is, "Since I *am*, what can I do? What do I *want* to do?"
What a sad man. Before seeing this i thought that only religion could come up with nonsense, but no.
I can picture now, maybe ten millenniums in the future, humanity once more digs up remnants of an ancient civilisation and wonders if people had advanced technology and what that elder race could have looked like - us. And maybe starts to doubt about the existence of gods.
Come on people, the real evolution of DNA has not ceased, it's still going on.
@TheShaunGawler Where did i said that it proves god ? I just expressed my disappointment on this nonsense. I was expecting bit more from atheists, that's all. I never said there is god. For the meaning of life there don't have to be a god. Actually, god doesn't give any meaning to life in the first place. It doesn't answer anything and it doesn't create any depth to life either. Same goes for atheism, but since atheists usually think, i was expecting bit more from them. Peace.
@TheShaunGawler Actually i meant quite the opposite. That we all know why we are here. If we only would stop inventing or guessing the cause, ignoring religion, superstition, culture, political correctness and other shite that is blinding you and making you suicidal, then you could see what's really happening. We can't just make shit up, that's religion. We just have to accept the cause that's already there and it's never going to change (never has).
I wonder if a Gazelle has ever driven those horns into a cheetah's jaw and up into the brain. I haven't seen it on video if it's ever happen. If reincarnation were real I would try that.
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given to the profane masses is another useful idiot for Jesuit machinations-C.O.
Jesuitical: pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system to suit their Evo-Hoax agenda to discredit the Bible. They cant have a Satanic society of 'Do as Thou Wilt' if people still follow the Bible
non-human animals find new water holes during dry seasons. they strategize hunts which is like planing. they store food for the winter. what am i missing?
@MeepullStewray I too have felt this way for years my friend. I live in the heart of the south U.S and every day is literally torture. My only motivation is that I know I will be free one day to leave this oppressive environment. Time is the key
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That's why Buddhists don't try to answer questions like 'why'. The more you try to say about absolute truth the further away you get. The more you rely on relative truths and relative concepts the more elusive absolute truth becomes. There is another way. But just as Dawkins believes humans mistakenly apply their relative concepts of purpose and meaning to a larger universe where there is in fact none, he makes the same mistake of over reaching with his relative truths of the Middle World.
Just as quantum physics is useful in understanding the small events of our cosmos and relativity is useful in understanding the large events of our cosmos, evolution is helpful in understanding the events of the Middle World we inhabit. In this way we can create relative frameworks for understanding. All good. But using relative truths to answer questions like 'why' while venomously denouncing any alternative explanations that do not rely on the relative science of the Middle World is arrogant.
@Logic1916 The "alternative explanations" have to be denounced since the are not explanation but made up bullshit. Even worse they try to pretend that they are not. That has to be opposed at any given opportunity.
-I think this is his attempt to appease people who will incessantly ask him "but WHY are we here?" I think he's realized people just aren't satisfied with his old (more correct) answer, which was (as I'm sure you've seen), something along the lines of: "it's a silly question, and doesn't have an answer" or "yes, I believe it probably is in the nature of humans to ask silly questions" *ZING*
So let me get this straight, Dawkins posits that there is no purpose or meaning except the purpose and meaning humans introduce and create for themselves. In other words, his solution to the question of 'why' falls in the lap of relativism. Using the concept of the 'Middle World' that Dawkins believes we inhabit we can see that the solutions that evolution and all science have to offer are in fact all relative to human concept and perception within the 'Middle World'. Relative truths.
@DefiantAlex If his answer is simply 'whatever you want it to be',then what he means is simply our own life and personal choices.When it comes to personal choices,it supposed to be subjective rather than specific.Since he couldn't give the specific answer,he's basically did not answer the fundamental question.That means by far,he's the one that's missing the point.
No I think he does "get the point". He just happens to realize that there is of course no "specific" purpose, and so therefore doesn't give one. -Knowing that people would be unsatisfied with "there is no purpose, fuck off", and that even if people were, they'd still want something they could call "purpose", he did what many others have done - change the meaning of "purpose" a little, and say that we make our own. In neglecting to give a specific purpose, he is saying there isnt one
@SubtleChaotic Then,is he suggesting that the existence of life in this planet is just as equal as non-existence in the first place?If our existence plays no crucial role in this universe,then why do we exist and keep on fighting for our existance and survival until now?Why do we even bother to procreate if we knew that the child will only live just to die one day?Since you believe that life has no purpose,do you think evolution is pretty much useless too?
Well I don't know what you mean by equal.. Life existing, and life not existing are two very different things. Why do we fight for our lives..? .. Why are you asking me all these questions? I have no qualms about answering any of them. (very basic multicellular life will "fight for it's life", and because that's what organisms do- reproduce) ..What are you trying to do? What's your point?
No evolution isn't "useless". The point is it isn't driven by a "purpose".
@SubtleChaotic I'm asking these questions to you just to know whats your answers and opinions would be and how it would be different from my opinions.I don't mean like getting angry towards you or anything like that so don't get me wrong.But one of your answers seems a bit weird and what i mean is when u suggest that evolution is not useless but it's not driven by purposes.If there isn't any purpose,why bother evolving?
@1buckshort The first self replicating molecules did so because of chemical and electrical properties creating frequencies of behavior, or traits if you will. The scaled up version of this can be seen as the behavior and interactions of animals, one with another, and with the conditions of environment. We are built to love, to fight, to eat, to care for our young, because those are the MOST FREQUENT traits that were passed down based on the laws of evolution. No purpose, just frequency.
We only want to believe there is a purpose to stave off the fact we know we're nothing, and that our lives revolve around pain; leading to an eventual death.
Please debate Dr. William Lane Craig in a public debate. He has debated the majority of your fellow atheists and now challenges you. Please stop running and make your stand. As one of the foremost defenders of the Christian faith, Dr. Craig has challenged you multiple times and you have refused time and time again.
I know,every creature has its own communication network but the kind we have is not with them,suppose which other creature developed writing skill,come on , difficult to believe the theory, too complicated , i agree, there are no easy answers as every answer generates more question.
Purpose implies an item is imbued with a task by an intelligence outside of itself: i.e. a coin is created by a government to engage in commerce--that is its purpose. If the coin appears outside of a manufacturer, supposing it is the result of random processes, then the coin has no purpose. It someone discovers and uses it then a purpose is imputed. Therefore, without an intelligence outside of ourselves, we have no purpose that is authentic; we are the result of random processes of nature.
@Trophimus "Therefore, without an intelligence outside of ourselves, we have no purpose that is authentic; we are the result of random processes of nature."
Not true at all. Nothing about Evolution or Natural Selection is random at all.
I'm 63. And as John Cleese jokes, "Almost dead." I still remember a single moment when I was 7, had to urinate, and was on my way to the bathroom. It's what I call my only "cosmic" experience in my life. It was a voice on my head that stopped me dead in my tracks. It said,"You're purpose in life is to understand. Understand why trees have leaves, why the sky is blue, etc. After rejecting religion at about 15, I felt a wonderful surge of freedom of thought. I majored in philosophy and traveled.
if that comment was meant seriously, then you're not only dim. you are also the perfect example of what we realists have to put up with; an ignoramus looking for a quarrel.
This was brilliant. It saddens me that people think of atheism as depressing and lonely. I am a more complete and fulfilled person now. I have Dawkins to thank.
im sorry "we are the only creatures that evolved enough to plan, a hunt, saving food for the winter ect ect"....umm...dont squirrels bury nuts for the winter...?
@SizarieldoR I know right? I was listening so carefully, my heart thumping arond the last few minutes when Darwin came up, but he didn't sctually say it. Dammmmnit
Carl Sagans quote; "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself", pretty much answers it.
So why are we here? The question wouldnt make sense to ask if we werent here to ask it. So make up your own minds, live life to the fullest. Or not, it doesnt matter. But it is up to you, it doesnt make any philosophical sense to have someone tell you.
I thought about and came to all these conclusions on my own, when I was 17, shortly after understanding the principles behind evolutionary theory, without ever having heard of Mr. Dawkins here. I remember specifically realizing that the reason it seemed like so many people had eye sight problems at early ages was because nature was no longer selecting against bad eyesight thanks to the invention of glasses, and that we had lifted ourselves out of natural evolution almost completely.
@TheIaidoka i feel what that person means is that more than ever there are reasons besides our sexual urges that people fuck. money is now equivalent to survival due to how artificial the economy/society is. for the first 90+% of human evolution, survival of humans was not only based on competition but niceness as well. in fact any form of over-competitiveness at all was not a desired trait in places where there was no scarcity. now we live under artificial scarcity.
I must say that the content is clever and marvelous but the editing and so forth with trendy fast zooms and those irritating electric zap sounds is beneath the dignity of the material. Please Richard, don't stoop to media types who tell you that such cheap devices are necessary to keep the attention of the video game generation.
I think Richard Dawkin's theory that we have evolved beyond competing for scarce resources and the process of natural selection because we have evolved the capacity to create purpose is ad hoc. We are still fighting for scarce resources (people are starting all over the world: their genes are being weeded out) and there is inequity (often based on intellectual prowess, or athletic prowess) which further serves as evolutionary advantages.
so evolution has succeeded in its goal to create a concious life form?is that what hes sayn?theres still tribes and ppl who live like animals but with no birth control,cannabilism,and ppl who need religion to behave etc.and he explains evolution but not the origin of life-like the fisrt spark of life that set the ball rolling.im agnostic,and i wish religion was put away in history books,and ppl worldwide just continued to study the universe with an open mind through science.religions 2 closed.
@fstratzero Hehe, I do believe you've been watching our dear friend Philhellenes, am I correct?
Indeed, these poignant philosophical notions offered by the likes of him and Dawkins here offer perspectives that are not only meaningful to us, but are 100% scientific fact. The Universe they posit to be, is far more beautiful and magnificent than anything cooked up in Bronze-Age mythology. As Phil said, religion promised us a fantasy so beautiful, that it made the world we live in look ugly.
@SubtleChaotic through asking we will find answers. if you want to get a smart public, you have to do more than teach them answers. teach them how to question. its the equivalent of giving someone a fish(answers), or teaching them how to fish(questions). how religious of me lolol
... No I'm sorry that's not what I meant at all. You said "we are here to ask why we are here". -Funny, but. ..Because of the amount of people that liked that comment, I think it needs to be said that that's not the case.
We are here. And we happen to ask why we are here.
@SubtleChaotic i didnt mean it like its some objective truth, i meant in an existential way. Like there is no meaning in life and therefore we paint our own meaning on it by asking questions and such.
"We can set up new purposes of our own and among these new goals can be the complete understanding of the universe in which we live." I believe that is the ultimate way for humans to live, to explore and understand our universe. Unfortunately we must use a form of paper called 'money' to do this, the economy is blinding the human race from its real potential, and we're only going deeper into this useless world.
@Melchior40 lolwat the music wasn't that dramatic. It's not like the music in the zeitgiest or any other crazy movie like that. Just a normal ending theme like everything else.
I am a theist but I don't know why theists tend to refuse to look at Darwins and Dawkins theories in an open minded mentality, I don't believe that their theories actually are true but still those great scientists gave us (theists and atheists) new way of thinking, they actually studied nature based it on facts and their own way of thinking and their conclusion can be in some level true or false, theist and atheist should learn from each other, in the end we want the same think knowledge
@HibbardAlex No what he's saying is, we're here by accident, like everything else, but due to our expanded intelligence and yearning for understanding, we've set ourself a goal: to find out why we're here. But we can already see, we're hear by mistake. So, the next step should be, instead of trying to find a reason, we should rather try and create a new goal. Personally I think we should look into expanding onto other planets.
@HibbardAlex our purpose in life is whatever we believe it to be. We decide our purpose....our lives are shaped by the decisions we make. ...thats pretty much what I got from the message.
In some sense, any other creature can ask "why are we here?" too; just not in the form of speech. For instance, as a snail slide across a huge leave, it thinks to itself: why are we here? Then it realizes, "damn it, here I go again! I dont have time for this. Still need to get to the other side."
Perhaps the larger brain of our ancestors is the result of a better diet. If our ancestors could eat sweeter fruits, then the energy needed for a glucose hungry brain would be there. Cooperation amongst early humans might have shared the info of what to eat and where to get it. What did Dawkins call that, "tit for tat"? Fantastic video and very educational. Thanks for posting.
@eseskay99 My guess is still, that we have to thank our females for our brains. Female choice/sexual selection is a strong force in evo, and obviously women started liking big brains at some point.
IMHO, our ability to produce things like poetry and music comparable to the peacocks tail. There is no obvious benefit in beng good at poetry or music. Exepct, that the ladies really like it. And it's hard to find a good writer or musician who is really stupid.
The evolution of the human brian seems to have stopped in some people. Since the religious people of the world don't believe in evolution, maybe they are right. Evolution of their brains stopped for them as soon as they started believing in fairy tales.
Dawkins always points out that our existence as thinking creatures may be unique, and it may. However, the law of large numbers seems to suggest that intelligent life elsewhere is almost a certainty. Problem is proving it since we only have ourselves as an numerical sample to start with.
I dont understand why people dont thank mother nature and the universe and things like math and so on. The complexity is astonishing. And what we do ? Yup we are praying to an invisible man....
I think the answers are at our feet. I think Heaven is right here. I think we are here to experience all that we do, and to celebrate life. I think we are here to realize what is good, and make more of it happen. And why is it that we are here at all, rather than the universe just be void of existence and life? Because creation wouldn't have it any other way. That's why. I am Pantheist, and this is Pantheism.
personally, im not sure. but i dont cant waste my life praying to some unjust god.
i believe we all should all seek happiness and gain an understanding of nature and how it works. travel the world and observe the natural beauty ..... we have 1 life; a short life ..... live it.
2-Natural selection implies less & less variety because only the adapted ones remain. Where did the inadapted come from? Where did this all variety come from?
3- In the Natural History Museum in NYC there is a peace of wood labeled as a fork.
If in a very simple piece of wood that could look like a fork by mere accident, they see a design and conclude there is a designer. Why don´t they see a designer in nature?
1- It isn't supposed to: it explains how life evolved to give us the what we see today. The origin of life is a something that needs to be looked at separately.
2- It's caused by genetic mutations. Each new individual has many mutations relative to its parent's DNA, some of which cause useful changes.
3- The changes in life are passed along to new generations for a reason: they are useful for survival, there's no reason a piece of wood would be shaped like a fork other than if it was designed.
Going off that, you shouldn't be swayed into a bad perception of what's actually occuring.
We are all part of space time fabric. We are part of the universe, not just in it and we are comprised of energy. The spirit is not really in the sense you make it, but there is an energy that is within everyone. take a thermal scan or an MRI, light is being emitted/transmitted from and through your body and brain.
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The end is so crap. Dawkins thinks he is so clever without ever realizing that in fact he knows nothing at all and that science is just a refinement of our ignorance. I think he read the Gopsels and still he is spouting off this "our purpose is to communicate and set new goals"-shit. Pray to Jesus, he will forgive you.
So basically you get out of life what you put in to it.
crocodylus73 1 week ago
He equates our knowledge by saying we have bigger brains and language, well so do dolphins, whales, squids, chimpanzees, not to mention extinct neanderthals whose brains were bigger and had language homo erectus, and a dozen other ape species. He also fails to explain who created evolution, who designed the programming of nature, and what exactly is nature. As a scientist i feel Dawkins is too close minded and has already made up his mind, this doesnt seem too progressive to me
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@MrJeffFort why do you think that someone created evolution? or the "programing of nature" animals get hungry, so they hunt and eat, other animals don't want to be eaten so they run/hide. and from there its just a continuous arms race as different species adapt to there environments.
Dkpesmerga 3 weeks ago
@Dkpesmerga Because i find it hard to believe were robots, machines with no consciousness. You equate everything in our universe as to simple cause and effect. Were hungry so we eat, we dont want to die so we run and hide.thats a very simple way to view things but I see Nature as a series of formulas and programming .The program didnt write itself and even if it did, this still doesnt disprove a creater it does the opposite. So i ask you Why do we get hungry or scared? Why do we cling to life?
MrJeffFort 3 weeks ago
@MrJeffFort because thats how our bodies work, we need fuel to continue liveing, so we eat, as to why we get scared, i honestly dont know, but why do you think we are robots, machines with no conciousness? i very much enjoy my conciousness, and my ability to think, why does it all need a creator, its not like if god doesnt exist were a bunch of zombies just cruiseing around with blank expressions liveing for no reason or purpose
Dkpesmerga 1 week ago
how can any1 dislike this?
Flabekk 1 month ago
lets imagin that we can make a a device of some sort that can evolve overtime by it self to accomodate the enviroment where it is set to be (not impossible ), after we are all gone some kind of primitive intelligent beings just like us come accros this device , would they all come to the same conclusion as dawkins did ? i wonder ...darwin deard to look and think outside the mainstream ,but dawkins seems to be looming in his shadow , a modern imitation of organised religion madness ,
MegaYiwen 1 month ago
organised religion is obviously and mostly a human invention or in some cases a distotion of the truth , dawkins is oblivious of the fact that there is a way based on reason that does not contradict sience an nature , and this is called submission , we submitt willingly after invistigation or choose not too but we inwillingly submitt by bowing to the forces of nature like death ,evolution may redicule man made religion but does not desaprove god in any way ,
MegaYiwen 1 month ago
The purpose of life is to never stop asking questions.
HitandRun42 1 month ago
These videos made me smile so much. :')
I love understanding, and I only wish to understand more.
AwesomeUser777 1 month ago
Beautiful ..
10zerOne0 1 month ago
I know evolution and biology is Dawkins's area of expertise but I feel like he should at least play a part in some kind of documentary about global warming. Yes, we have "Inconvenient Truth" but a lot of people have forgotten about that by now and the more awareness the better, and the urgency of this topic is ever-increasing especially since the disinformation from people seen as authority figures is not going away.
nthib91 2 months ago
Darwin did humanity greater deal of work then any god/diety ever did, but still gods are more favourable.
TheChosenOne2902 2 months ago
guys, we need to learn how to travel to other galaxies!
ColorfulHyena 2 months ago
Dawkings does not understand what it means to be an animal...but he does know what it means to be a mind...again what is up with the women in the related videos
Mokinono45 2 months ago
Why do most people still believe in god and creation although there are no proves what so over. We humans are smart beings, we should evolve into a better and more intelligent society.
libnene93sheyoo3e 3 months ago
@libnene93sheyoo3e I think the answer is to be found in something Dawkins said himself: "The human mind is extremely susceptible to hallucination."
ignorantswede 3 months ago
@ignorantswede very true
libnene93sheyoo3e 2 months ago
@libnene93sheyoo3e thats what's happening right now, the number of atheists is constantly growing and religions are losing their strength. the obvious problem is that most kids these days are still being brainwashed into believing false things which is kinda sad.
Lucassandro25 1 month ago
'How' could be a better replacement, how can we better enrich our lives and environment for the sake of endurance which our consciousness has enjoyed what it has perceived? 'How' also works better with science, 'why' maybe should be left to the philosophers if it must persist. Science may not be able to give a complete satisfactory answer to 'why' but at least it has given us the comfort of how we managed to embrace 'why' which is purposeful enough.
mindfucked27 4 months ago
The ability to study our surroundings more complexly or helping others may give personal purpose, depending on one's ambitions, but it doesn't exactly give ultimate purpose. Understanding the universe is not really a mean for survival, we do it because we can, it makes life more fruitful and passive. 'Why' has sort of become a hollow word, encouraging needless credibility and creates a bottomless pit.
mindfucked27 4 months ago
I think what many seem to question more is why is it that we do strive for existence, what does it matter if our species or any other lives on? And is there some sort of an ultimate 'purpose,' destiny or direction in which complex figures like humans are suppose to help manifest? This may be why many tend to turn to the idea of a divine plan, not that it necessarily helps answer the question any better. Natural selection explains 'how' better than 'why.'
mindfucked27 4 months ago
Very fact that we are the only living beings who can ask question like meaning/purpose of life means that we alone can create meaning/purpose of life as per our best interests.
purumr 4 months ago
The basic message to take away from this, is that *WE* create meaning and purpose. It is up to us to create it, if we so wish to have it. Wondering "why" we are is a bit of a waste of time. A better question is, "Since I *am*, what can I do? What do I *want* to do?"
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akeello 4 months ago
This programme is quite simply beautiful. Evolution and the way humans evovled is wonderful . Richard Dawkins is a wonderful man.
grahamlive 4 months ago
What a sad man. Before seeing this i thought that only religion could come up with nonsense, but no.
I can picture now, maybe ten millenniums in the future, humanity once more digs up remnants of an ancient civilisation and wonders if people had advanced technology and what that elder race could have looked like - us. And maybe starts to doubt about the existence of gods.
Come on people, the real evolution of DNA has not ceased, it's still going on.
unitasetmagus 4 months ago
@unitasetmagus and how would that proove god
TheShaunGawler 4 months ago
@TheShaunGawler Where did i said that it proves god ? I just expressed my disappointment on this nonsense. I was expecting bit more from atheists, that's all. I never said there is god. For the meaning of life there don't have to be a god. Actually, god doesn't give any meaning to life in the first place. It doesn't answer anything and it doesn't create any depth to life either. Same goes for atheism, but since atheists usually think, i was expecting bit more from them. Peace.
unitasetmagus 4 months ago
@unitasetmagus yes i know what you mean, nobody knows why we are here and i think no body ever will
TheShaunGawler 4 months ago
@TheShaunGawler Actually i meant quite the opposite. That we all know why we are here. If we only would stop inventing or guessing the cause, ignoring religion, superstition, culture, political correctness and other shite that is blinding you and making you suicidal, then you could see what's really happening. We can't just make shit up, that's religion. We just have to accept the cause that's already there and it's never going to change (never has).
unitasetmagus 4 months ago
@TheShaunGawler my name's BUCK and i am here to FUCK
Aldelirium 4 months ago
Anti Darwinian socialism, seems to fit the picture. But I wouldn't use the name because I like the guy too much !
MexxPowers 4 months ago
I wonder if a Gazelle has ever driven those horns into a cheetah's jaw and up into the brain. I haven't seen it on video if it's ever happen. If reincarnation were real I would try that.
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Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given to the profane masses is another useful idiot for Jesuit machinations-C.O.
Jesuitical: pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system to suit their Evo-Hoax agenda to discredit the Bible. They cant have a Satanic society of 'Do as Thou Wilt' if people still follow the Bible
SpencerBenedict2nd 5 months ago
Richard Dawkings is the man
boliboy2299 5 months ago 27
Like very much.
Anunnaki12P 5 months ago
non-human animals find new water holes during dry seasons. they strategize hunts which is like planing. they store food for the winter. what am i missing?
MrCancan21 5 months ago
@MrCancan21 Humans basically got there first.
ThorandTrevor 5 months ago
@MeepullStewray I too have felt this way for years my friend. I live in the heart of the south U.S and every day is literally torture. My only motivation is that I know I will be free one day to leave this oppressive environment. Time is the key
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That's why Buddhists don't try to answer questions like 'why'. The more you try to say about absolute truth the further away you get. The more you rely on relative truths and relative concepts the more elusive absolute truth becomes. There is another way. But just as Dawkins believes humans mistakenly apply their relative concepts of purpose and meaning to a larger universe where there is in fact none, he makes the same mistake of over reaching with his relative truths of the Middle World.
Logic1916 7 months ago
Just as quantum physics is useful in understanding the small events of our cosmos and relativity is useful in understanding the large events of our cosmos, evolution is helpful in understanding the events of the Middle World we inhabit. In this way we can create relative frameworks for understanding. All good. But using relative truths to answer questions like 'why' while venomously denouncing any alternative explanations that do not rely on the relative science of the Middle World is arrogant.
Logic1916 7 months ago
@Logic1916 The "alternative explanations" have to be denounced since the are not explanation but made up bullshit. Even worse they try to pretend that they are not. That has to be opposed at any given opportunity.
TomFynn 7 months ago
@Logic1916 Evolution is not a "relative" explanation.
JohnnyKubark 5 months ago
@Logic1916
-I think this is his attempt to appease people who will incessantly ask him "but WHY are we here?" I think he's realized people just aren't satisfied with his old (more correct) answer, which was (as I'm sure you've seen), something along the lines of: "it's a silly question, and doesn't have an answer" or "yes, I believe it probably is in the nature of humans to ask silly questions" *ZING*
SubtleChaotic 5 months ago
So let me get this straight, Dawkins posits that there is no purpose or meaning except the purpose and meaning humans introduce and create for themselves. In other words, his solution to the question of 'why' falls in the lap of relativism. Using the concept of the 'Middle World' that Dawkins believes we inhabit we can see that the solutions that evolution and all science have to offer are in fact all relative to human concept and perception within the 'Middle World'. Relative truths.
Logic1916 7 months ago
Honestly I cried. I love our world so. I just wish everyone was agnostic or athiest so they could feel this feeling too.
MeepullStewray 7 months ago 50
Richard Dawkins only talks about 'how' not 'why'.Basically,He's not answering this fundamental question.He's changing the subject.
1buckshort 7 months ago
@1buckshort The 'why' is whatever you want it to be ... miss the point much?
DefiantAlex 6 months ago
@DefiantAlex If his answer is simply 'whatever you want it to be',then what he means is simply our own life and personal choices.When it comes to personal choices,it supposed to be subjective rather than specific.Since he couldn't give the specific answer,he's basically did not answer the fundamental question.That means by far,he's the one that's missing the point.
1buckshort 6 months ago 3
@1buckshort
No I think he does "get the point". He just happens to realize that there is of course no "specific" purpose, and so therefore doesn't give one. -Knowing that people would be unsatisfied with "there is no purpose, fuck off", and that even if people were, they'd still want something they could call "purpose", he did what many others have done - change the meaning of "purpose" a little, and say that we make our own. In neglecting to give a specific purpose, he is saying there isnt one
SubtleChaotic 5 months ago
@SubtleChaotic Then,is he suggesting that the existence of life in this planet is just as equal as non-existence in the first place?If our existence plays no crucial role in this universe,then why do we exist and keep on fighting for our existance and survival until now?Why do we even bother to procreate if we knew that the child will only live just to die one day?Since you believe that life has no purpose,do you think evolution is pretty much useless too?
1buckshort 5 months ago 2
@1buckshort
Well I don't know what you mean by equal.. Life existing, and life not existing are two very different things. Why do we fight for our lives..? .. Why are you asking me all these questions? I have no qualms about answering any of them. (very basic multicellular life will "fight for it's life", and because that's what organisms do- reproduce) ..What are you trying to do? What's your point?
No evolution isn't "useless". The point is it isn't driven by a "purpose".
SubtleChaotic 5 months ago
@SubtleChaotic I'm asking these questions to you just to know whats your answers and opinions would be and how it would be different from my opinions.I don't mean like getting angry towards you or anything like that so don't get me wrong.But one of your answers seems a bit weird and what i mean is when u suggest that evolution is not useless but it's not driven by purposes.If there isn't any purpose,why bother evolving?
1buckshort 5 months ago
@1buckshort The first self replicating molecules did so because of chemical and electrical properties creating frequencies of behavior, or traits if you will. The scaled up version of this can be seen as the behavior and interactions of animals, one with another, and with the conditions of environment. We are built to love, to fight, to eat, to care for our young, because those are the MOST FREQUENT traits that were passed down based on the laws of evolution. No purpose, just frequency.
chedillychedilly1 5 months ago
@1buckshort
We only want to believe there is a purpose to stave off the fact we know we're nothing, and that our lives revolve around pain; leading to an eventual death.
Truly, living must require deceiving yourself.
AidanMclaren 4 months ago
@AidanMclaren I believe that we are here simply because God wants us to be here.
1buckshort 4 days ago
Dear Richard Dawkins,
Please debate Dr. William Lane Craig in a public debate. He has debated the majority of your fellow atheists and now challenges you. Please stop running and make your stand. As one of the foremost defenders of the Christian faith, Dr. Craig has challenged you multiple times and you have refused time and time again.
ApologeticsArsenal 8 months ago
So, life has no purpose...we humans just try to MAKE it have purpose? Man....what a disappointment. lol
jejo02 8 months ago
I know,every creature has its own communication network but the kind we have is not with them,suppose which other creature developed writing skill,come on , difficult to believe the theory, too complicated , i agree, there are no easy answers as every answer generates more question.
medusaachla 9 months ago
ok I watched it, dawkins has nothing.
jonesgerard 9 months ago
''Set the goal'' and Communication skill,why no other specis developed this quality over the time, remains unanswered.
medusaachla 9 months ago
@medusaachla Who said they didn't?
Painfulldarksoul 9 months ago
I don't get hung up on these questions, I know my purpose already.
jonesgerard 9 months ago
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lexdimond1 9 months ago 2
Purpose implies an item is imbued with a task by an intelligence outside of itself: i.e. a coin is created by a government to engage in commerce--that is its purpose. If the coin appears outside of a manufacturer, supposing it is the result of random processes, then the coin has no purpose. It someone discovers and uses it then a purpose is imputed. Therefore, without an intelligence outside of ourselves, we have no purpose that is authentic; we are the result of random processes of nature.
Trophimus 10 months ago
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@Trophimus "Therefore, without an intelligence outside of ourselves, we have no purpose that is authentic; we are the result of random processes of nature."
Not true at all. Nothing about Evolution or Natural Selection is random at all.
frightenedsoul 10 months ago
I'm 63. And as John Cleese jokes, "Almost dead." I still remember a single moment when I was 7, had to urinate, and was on my way to the bathroom. It's what I call my only "cosmic" experience in my life. It was a voice on my head that stopped me dead in my tracks. It said,"You're purpose in life is to understand. Understand why trees have leaves, why the sky is blue, etc. After rejecting religion at about 15, I felt a wonderful surge of freedom of thought. I majored in philosophy and traveled.
kauaiphil 11 months ago 2
"the strangeness of sub-atomic particles". Don't forget their charm, topness and bottomness
PhysicsFollower 11 months ago
If the first human was african then how the different races came to existance?
Seduc3r 11 months ago
@Seduc3r
if that comment was meant seriously, then you're not only dim. you are also the perfect example of what we realists have to put up with; an ignoramus looking for a quarrel.
jonsen82 11 months ago
This was brilliant. It saddens me that people think of atheism as depressing and lonely. I am a more complete and fulfilled person now. I have Dawkins to thank.
ThumbprintTheatrics 11 months ago
Humankind : Universe why did you call us over? - Universe: I have no idea what so ever. - Humankind: Well this was awkward.
Norwayflex89 11 months ago 2
longer term memory and and imagination are the attributes what made us so successful, all owing to a bigger brain.
sushanalone 1 year ago
I saw what comes next on this show, all the time, and yet my eyes swelled with tears! Great show!
7lllll 1 year ago
Purpose is subjective - always.
The3nlightened0ne 1 year ago
im sorry "we are the only creatures that evolved enough to plan, a hunt, saving food for the winter ect ect"....umm...dont squirrels bury nuts for the winter...?
Snagrit 1 year ago
I'm sorry, Richard, but you didn't actually say it.
SizarieldoR 1 year ago 2
@SizarieldoR I know right? I was listening so carefully, my heart thumping arond the last few minutes when Darwin came up, but he didn't sctually say it. Dammmmnit
mrtrailerparkbilly 1 year ago
thanks for such informative material.....
iksahir 1 year ago
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Thank you Richard =)
ArturShapiro 1 year ago
Animals DO set food aside from the winter and plan hunts.
It's more that we can plan even further.
Shavarnarak 1 year ago
Why are we all here...? Because we're not all there...
clivemilne1 1 year ago
We are here to proliferate the species and to have fun whilst doing so. :)
dirtydonki 1 year ago
It began in INDIA!!!
dirtydonki 1 year ago
pretty much we are here to LEARN why EVERYTHING is here
jayson0351 1 year ago
sorry, but this is not the answer that I was looking for, this is hardly an answer to the quesion at all..
lifeishelllol 1 year ago
All the little "electrical buzzes" in this program sure got annoying after a while. But good program none the less.
ofthebloodywaters 1 year ago
If you can read this/have the ability to read this/your parents had the ability to read this, you are African in the non-traditional sense
Elvarks 1 year ago
Thats some crazy shit man!
Trum3333 1 year ago
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Trum3333 1 year ago
Carl Sagans quote; "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself", pretty much answers it.
So why are we here? The question wouldnt make sense to ask if we werent here to ask it. So make up your own minds, live life to the fullest. Or not, it doesnt matter. But it is up to you, it doesnt make any philosophical sense to have someone tell you.
MMAoracle 1 year ago
there is no one except us..........god laughs for this. i know,,,
199hussain 1 year ago
I thought about and came to all these conclusions on my own, when I was 17, shortly after understanding the principles behind evolutionary theory, without ever having heard of Mr. Dawkins here. I remember specifically realizing that the reason it seemed like so many people had eye sight problems at early ages was because nature was no longer selecting against bad eyesight thanks to the invention of glasses, and that we had lifted ourselves out of natural evolution almost completely.
Chimerathon 1 year ago
@Chimerathon
yes. people f*ck for various reasons now like money, looks, love or just for the hell of it.
ernzu1 1 year ago
@ernzu1 well no its because our sexual urge
TheIaidoka 1 year ago
@TheIaidoka i feel what that person means is that more than ever there are reasons besides our sexual urges that people fuck. money is now equivalent to survival due to how artificial the economy/society is. for the first 90+% of human evolution, survival of humans was not only based on competition but niceness as well. in fact any form of over-competitiveness at all was not a desired trait in places where there was no scarcity. now we live under artificial scarcity.
AtheistAnarchoRudi 1 year ago
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ernzu1 1 year ago
I must say that the content is clever and marvelous but the editing and so forth with trendy fast zooms and those irritating electric zap sounds is beneath the dignity of the material. Please Richard, don't stoop to media types who tell you that such cheap devices are necessary to keep the attention of the video game generation.
chh5555 1 year ago
We are the means by which the universe has become aware of itself. we seem to be a direct agent in its future evolution.
holydoggy123 1 year ago
I think Richard Dawkin's theory that we have evolved beyond competing for scarce resources and the process of natural selection because we have evolved the capacity to create purpose is ad hoc. We are still fighting for scarce resources (people are starting all over the world: their genes are being weeded out) and there is inequity (often based on intellectual prowess, or athletic prowess) which further serves as evolutionary advantages.
jasonherscovici 1 year ago
so evolution has succeeded in its goal to create a concious life form?is that what hes sayn?theres still tribes and ppl who live like animals but with no birth control,cannabilism,and ppl who need religion to behave etc.and he explains evolution but not the origin of life-like the fisrt spark of life that set the ball rolling.im agnostic,and i wish religion was put away in history books,and ppl worldwide just continued to study the universe with an open mind through science.religions 2 closed.
jamima444 1 year ago
i have much respect for Dawkins
nickthegrizzly2 1 year ago 2
Come help me save these creationists from ignorance... please... I pains me to see them so closed minded...
larryeby 1 year ago
pretty much we are here to ask why we are here
AtheistAnarchoRudi 1 year ago 31
@AtheistAnarchoRudi
We are a way for the universe to "know" its self.
fstratzero 1 year ago 19
@fstratzero Hehe, I do believe you've been watching our dear friend Philhellenes, am I correct?
Indeed, these poignant philosophical notions offered by the likes of him and Dawkins here offer perspectives that are not only meaningful to us, but are 100% scientific fact. The Universe they posit to be, is far more beautiful and magnificent than anything cooked up in Bronze-Age mythology. As Phil said, religion promised us a fantasy so beautiful, that it made the world we live in look ugly.
JJMDude 1 year ago
@fstratzero You stole that from Carl Sagan. Please give credit where credit is due.
pimpymcdougall 8 months ago
@fstratzero You stole that from Carl Sagan. Please give credit where credit is due.
pimpymcdougall 8 months ago
@pimpymcdougall
I love your name. Yeah I did steal it from Carl Sagan I was too lazy to do the "- Carl Sagan". Thanks for noticing.
fstratzero 8 months ago
@fstratzero Ha. Now that I am reading it again I seemed to have been a dick about it, sorry for that, I was drinking a little bit that night. Peace.
pimpymcdougall 8 months ago
@fstratzero carl sagan much?
british123able 4 months ago
@AtheistAnarchoRudi No, it's more to pass on the genes and improve the human species, but we have developed our own "purpose".
onlynameithoughtof 1 year ago
@onlynameithoughtof and both our questioning of the universe and natural selection are a product of: randomness
AtheistAnarchoRudi 1 year ago
@AtheistAnarchoRudi
.. I think we very much more just happen to ask why we are here.
SubtleChaotic 5 months ago
@SubtleChaotic through asking we will find answers. if you want to get a smart public, you have to do more than teach them answers. teach them how to question. its the equivalent of giving someone a fish(answers), or teaching them how to fish(questions). how religious of me lolol
AtheistAnarchoRudi 5 months ago
@AtheistAnarchoRudi
... No I'm sorry that's not what I meant at all. You said "we are here to ask why we are here". -Funny, but. ..Because of the amount of people that liked that comment, I think it needs to be said that that's not the case.
We are here. And we happen to ask why we are here.
SubtleChaotic 5 months ago
@SubtleChaotic i didnt mean it like its some objective truth, i meant in an existential way. Like there is no meaning in life and therefore we paint our own meaning on it by asking questions and such.
AtheistAnarchoRudi 5 months ago
What a load of touchy feely wank.
We cannot evade creation or evolution.
jonesgerard 1 year ago
That's his answer to "The Big Question"? I thought his answer was gonna be "Don't ask that, it's a silly question."
TharosTheDragon 1 year ago
still more questions than answers..
MegaSUPERSUPREME 1 year ago
@MegaSUPERSUPREME The sign of all great questions. It would be a real shame to figure everything out.
Obby16 1 year ago
Wow that's interesting so ur saying there relly is no pupus we provide the pupuse of why were. Wow i'm wondering now lolz:)
sawaugust 1 year ago
@sawaugust Welcome to existentialism
RamZsax2 1 year ago
dawkinschannel keep going with more decomentaries of this great man. Another one I like it :).
Loa4EVER 1 year ago
"We can set up new purposes of our own and among these new goals can be the complete understanding of the universe in which we live." I believe that is the ultimate way for humans to live, to explore and understand our universe. Unfortunately we must use a form of paper called 'money' to do this, the economy is blinding the human race from its real potential, and we're only going deeper into this useless world.
misha33314 1 year ago
Spectacular ending
LikeALeadZeppelin 1 year ago
What a batty ending. Dawkins, indulging in mind-blowing stupidity, needs to resort to dramatic background music to conceal his shallow talk.
Melchior40 1 year ago
@Melchior40 lolwat the music wasn't that dramatic. It's not like the music in the zeitgiest or any other crazy movie like that. Just a normal ending theme like everything else.
smokeak47 1 year ago
I am a theist but I don't know why theists tend to refuse to look at Darwins and Dawkins theories in an open minded mentality, I don't believe that their theories actually are true but still those great scientists gave us (theists and atheists) new way of thinking, they actually studied nature based it on facts and their own way of thinking and their conclusion can be in some level true or false, theist and atheist should learn from each other, in the end we want the same think knowledge
peace
TheGuevarist 1 year ago
So basically we are here to find out why we're here? Wait I'm confused. Can someone please help me understand this?
HibbardAlex 1 year ago
@HibbardAlex No what he's saying is, we're here by accident, like everything else, but due to our expanded intelligence and yearning for understanding, we've set ourself a goal: to find out why we're here. But we can already see, we're hear by mistake. So, the next step should be, instead of trying to find a reason, we should rather try and create a new goal. Personally I think we should look into expanding onto other planets.
northernvoxmedia 1 year ago
@northernvoxmedia That's a very good goal.
GodofCider 1 year ago
@HibbardAlex our purpose in life is whatever we believe it to be. We decide our purpose....our lives are shaped by the decisions we make. ...thats pretty much what I got from the message.
yrsp 1 year ago
Awsome music
cr4yv3n 1 year ago
Has anyone here played Gears of War 2? Its fuckin amazing!!!!!!!!
FrankieSayRelaxxx1 1 year ago
Finding life elsewhere in the universe and extending our own lives are imo the two
biggest goals of humanity.
Ramshobraja 1 year ago
In some sense, any other creature can ask "why are we here?" too; just not in the form of speech. For instance, as a snail slide across a huge leave, it thinks to itself: why are we here? Then it realizes, "damn it, here I go again! I dont have time for this. Still need to get to the other side."
MugenTJ 1 year ago
He makes some decent points, but I can't understand any arguments that don't use bananas to support them.
mritalyboy2000 1 year ago
Brilliant Summation Richard!
SequoiahCherokee 1 year ago
Perhaps the larger brain of our ancestors is the result of a better diet. If our ancestors could eat sweeter fruits, then the energy needed for a glucose hungry brain would be there. Cooperation amongst early humans might have shared the info of what to eat and where to get it. What did Dawkins call that, "tit for tat"? Fantastic video and very educational. Thanks for posting.
eseskay99 1 year ago
@eseskay99 My guess is still, that we have to thank our females for our brains. Female choice/sexual selection is a strong force in evo, and obviously women started liking big brains at some point.
IMHO, our ability to produce things like poetry and music comparable to the peacocks tail. There is no obvious benefit in beng good at poetry or music. Exepct, that the ladies really like it. And it's hard to find a good writer or musician who is really stupid.
smarthandsomeguy 1 year ago
The evolution of the human brian seems to have stopped in some people. Since the religious people of the world don't believe in evolution, maybe they are right. Evolution of their brains stopped for them as soon as they started believing in fairy tales.
Xwowplaya 1 year ago
Dawkins always points out that our existence as thinking creatures may be unique, and it may. However, the law of large numbers seems to suggest that intelligent life elsewhere is almost a certainty. Problem is proving it since we only have ourselves as an numerical sample to start with.
GermanChocolateCake 1 year ago
I dont understand why people dont thank mother nature and the universe and things like math and so on. The complexity is astonishing. And what we do ? Yup we are praying to an invisible man....
TheImmigrantsong 1 year ago 2
I think the answers are at our feet. I think Heaven is right here. I think we are here to experience all that we do, and to celebrate life. I think we are here to realize what is good, and make more of it happen. And why is it that we are here at all, rather than the universe just be void of existence and life? Because creation wouldn't have it any other way. That's why. I am Pantheist, and this is Pantheism.
warmstringcheese 1 year ago
this is the fundemtal question 'why are we here?'
personally, im not sure. but i dont cant waste my life praying to some unjust god.
i believe we all should all seek happiness and gain an understanding of nature and how it works. travel the world and observe the natural beauty ..... we have 1 life; a short life ..... live it.
robaifei 1 year ago
I´m far from convinced:
1-Does not explain the origin of life.
2-Natural selection implies less & less variety because only the adapted ones remain. Where did the inadapted come from? Where did this all variety come from?
3- In the Natural History Museum in NYC there is a peace of wood labeled as a fork.
If in a very simple piece of wood that could look like a fork by mere accident, they see a design and conclude there is a designer. Why don´t they see a designer in nature?
delgadomail 1 year ago
1- It isn't supposed to: it explains how life evolved to give us the what we see today. The origin of life is a something that needs to be looked at separately.
2- It's caused by genetic mutations. Each new individual has many mutations relative to its parent's DNA, some of which cause useful changes.
3- The changes in life are passed along to new generations for a reason: they are useful for survival, there's no reason a piece of wood would be shaped like a fork other than if it was designed.
pyroqwerty 1 year ago
Good news!
We're all apes...
I watched these videos and they didn't make a heck lot of sense to me.
oleh2007 1 year ago
why don't you point out what didn't made sense?
zoina21 1 year ago
Some really deep stuff by Mr Dawkins, which always leaves me spellbound.
I am enlightened and uplifted ever more.
nonoxynol 2 years ago 5
it began in AFRICA
Dgile 2 years ago 28
@Dgile black
BrianTakesValium 1 year ago
@Dgile
...so Hugh Masekela said...It BEGAN in AFRIKA - KA - KA - KA - KA - KA - KA .....or was it the Chemical Brothers
donnyab 11 months ago
@donnyab ..Bob Mortimer said UL RI-KA-KA-KA-KA, if thats any help...???
goonerash 9 months ago
why,godddddddd
georgel19841 2 years ago
I made a mistake in the concept of my post so I removed it.
Why are you not responding to the other 2 comments I have posted?
There's an old quote, I forget who said it, "Mama always said, notice the rose in the vase and not the dust on the table."
wojovox 2 years ago
@wojovox But there is so much wonder to be had in the dust on the table.
tayluhdagreat 1 year ago
yes, on a molecular level, dust is pretty amazing, but the flower holds much more complexity and aesthetic pleasure.
most of dust used to be part of a living organism, you, but you get my point smartass.
Good comment though.
wojovox 1 year ago
Going off that, you shouldn't be swayed into a bad perception of what's actually occuring.
We are all part of space time fabric. We are part of the universe, not just in it and we are comprised of energy. The spirit is not really in the sense you make it, but there is an energy that is within everyone. take a thermal scan or an MRI, light is being emitted/transmitted from and through your body and brain.
wojovox 2 years ago
Perfect
Alkhameiry 2 years ago
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The end is so crap. Dawkins thinks he is so clever without ever realizing that in fact he knows nothing at all and that science is just a refinement of our ignorance. I think he read the Gopsels and still he is spouting off this "our purpose is to communicate and set new goals"-shit. Pray to Jesus, he will forgive you.
Melchior40 2 years ago
Pray to the great pink Elephant , he will forgive you too.
dawkinschannel 2 years ago 49
It feels so good to be delusion free. lOl
SHUSHITA1 2 years ago 5