Darwin 200 - Dawkins and Harries

[Athrun000]

Sooner or later Religion would come out with something like New, new testaments.

[nsugathadasa]

Richard Harris cannot speak the truth because if he did he would loose his job. Richard dawkins on the other hand, is his job to spak the truth.

[ThanksDoctorThoctor]

51:01 ( get on with it , come on )

[ThanksDoctorThoctor]

in virgin birth, does a prophet just get all their DNA from their mothers side?

[manonthemount]

@ThanksDoctorThoctor great question

[redmanonaroundabout]

Does anybody have any transcripts for the questions asked by the audience, or indeed know what the questions were?

[userwl2850]

it,s a shame all religious people aren,t like the bishop. seems a nice guy.

[badslabber]

sorry" LORDS" ladies and gentlemen ,it would seem there is a LORD amonst the peasants AMEN

[LuciferLBelial]

I don't mind this bishop, unfortunately he believes in a god :(

[MrJurekGG]

@cnestudy1

Guess pal, where I am going?

Also: Guess why I'm going down there?

Also: Guess who else it's going to be there?

Can't fucking wait any longer! :-))

[RichieJohnSauls]

19:00 What exactly is a "spiritual truth", I should like to know.

[greekgod41]

so let me get this right, this dickhead weak liberal so called bishop on our right who wears a collar and claims to believe in God is actually taking the side of Dawkins by maintaining that evolution is true after all!! how ridiculous, what a disgrace to christianity this man is

[mycal64]

@greekgod41 Understanding the fact of evolution is no barrier to a belief in Christianity. Generally, it's only the fundementalists in the US who have this childlike belief in creationism.

[bary1234]

@mycal64 : Evolution is not a barrier, but it is one more brick on that barrier. Like all knowledge on reality and history and human behaviour. Knowledge kills religion, more you know less you are likely to fall for childlike beliefs.

[BANGBANGBANGBBANG]

@greekgod41 let me get this straight... you think evolution is false?

[greekgod41]

@BANGBANGBANGBBANG of course evolution is false....its a THEORY nothing more, nothing less

[ZuluFightrunner]

@greekgod41 Just like germ theory, atomic theory, theory of special relativity, theory of general relativity, cell theory, Plate tectonic theory, theory of gravity, Kinetic Molecular theory etc.

[BANGBANGBANGBBANG]

@greekgod41 ur a fucking moron. from the oxford english dictionary, 1 definition of theory is: "... a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles, or causes of something knowon or observed" this is the scientific sense. YOUR definition is: "a hypothesis proposed as an explanation; hence a MERE hypothesis, speculation, conjecture..."

[treasuredroperX]

@greekgod41 Wait a minute. You need to be careful on how you describe "Theory" especially in science. It's not something that is not proven, it's something that has circumstantial evidence to back it up with rigorous testing, which comes to be the same result every time.

[bary1234]

@greekgod41 : Its a theory, like the sex-theory of reproduction. You still think storks bring babies?

[bary1234]

@greekgod41 : Yes, what a moron. Proper christians keep their eyes and ears firmly blocked so they dont see or hear reality at all. All christians must do is pray for rapture and strive to cause the end of the world. Why dont you go pray, sheep?

[jrleighton]

Good to see an orthodox Christian such as Bishop Harries in action. I think we all find religious fundamentalism odd. Just as some people assert that there the religious fundamentalists hold 'the default position' in religion, and people like Bishop Harries are outliers. Alas, with such views, so wonder there is so much smoke, hot air, scratching of heads and head banging of walls.

[rogan71]

@cnestudy1 - Ha ha....Coming onto a Dawkins debate and coming out with that, shows the idiocy of the creationist mind...Hell is a place made up to make idiots, too stupid to think for themselves, do the right thing.

[groovyengineer]

I guess Richard Harries can't make the next logical step, and discard the whole thing or he would be out of work.

[marwanxyz123]

@cnestudy1 u WILL be condemed to hell too repent to the flying spaghetti monster NOW!!!!! 

[DarkAngel182]

The Mighty Paxo!!!!!

[bary1234]

Creationism is the pinnacle of human stupidity. Religion is an embarrassing relic from the dark ages. Its astonishing that religions still endure. We should be able to shake these useless superstitions.

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 I think it's metaphoric. It seems to not make sense. But it does if it's puts in the right terms,

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : To put religions in right terms: People are superstitious by nature, we have pattern seeking brains that compulsorily seek out explanations. We have such a good imagination we can easily end up fooling ourselves with the ideas we make up. Religions fooled many of us for a long time. Now we understand why that is, now we can let go of these fantasies from humanitys childhood.

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 Well, they are definitely not fantasies, people did see stuff, they did write down what they saw, but they didn't understand it. So it does not make sense to us, until we bring something into it maybe like extraterrestrials.

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : Have you read Harry Potter? Can you understand that it is made up?

Have you ever eaten magic mushrooms? Do you know what is a hallucination?

Have you ever had a weird dream? Can you comprehend that dreams are not real?

There are millions of superstitious nonsense beliefs. You cant believe on all UFO-abductions and conspiracy-theories. People make shit up, thats what we are good at.

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 Yes, people do make stuff up. But just because there is hoaxes and fakes does not make it not true. UFO abductions have been tested for many years, we know for a fact these people are seeing something. There is a experiment we did (to long to go into). I have had a weird dream, yes. But I know it was a dream and nothing else. Through hypnosis, dreams can be apparent, but in reality it's a deferent story. I have read Harry Potter... lol

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : I mean its fun to imagine stuff, I like fantasies as much as the next man. But what can we gain by believing in supernatural if there is just folklore as evidence? Especially if we are talking about myths from bronze age. Come on, bible is the least plausible thing to believe on. You cant seriously think there is anything valuable on those superstitious claims written on it?

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 Well, of course not dude. But I am looking at this as a completely Scientific view, a view of extraterrestrial visitation in which they do have a explanation behind their so called spirits, or supernatural. They would, and I am sure we would to look at it as a supernatural or some form of Spirit because of the advanced they are. Because they are already here, I would've assumed religions would think they were demons. I mean, OF COURSE. They are close minded and dead to the cosmos.

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : If you are scientific, you should look for evidence. Do we have any evidence of aliens visiting this planet?

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 Yes, we most certainly do. It's all over the place.

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : And by this "evidence all over the place" you mean stories and myths and legends told by people?

Again we get back to the "can you understand what is imagined and what is real" -question.

Nonsense babbled by stupid people is not evidence.

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 There is to much to explain on a YouTube video. I could explain it, or you can go look it up. We're already in the middle of the discloser of UFO's and extraterrestrials.

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : Ok, so you are being conned. When you give your money to these frausters, just remember that there is a sucker born every minute. This is nothing new, there have been millions of hoaxes like this, and people like you just loose your money and the thieves dissappear.

What are they selling? Books? Tapes? Or are they just asking donations?

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 Not sure what your talking about. And your obviously not open. So either you can stay as you are, or you can be open minded.

[bary1234]

@treasuredroperX : Just open up your wallet, the UFO-frausters can help themselves from it.

[treasuredroperX]

@bary1234 Actually they are IFO's. They are identified, we already know there is intelligent beings controlling them.

[Teltaminoru]

@bary1234 You should, but you ARE NOT.

[bary1234]

@Teltaminoru : I´m an Atheist. Whats my superstition?