A Good Question for Professor Richard Dawkins

[PrimericanIdol]

That's awesome. I asked him once about Ray Kurzweil and his view on the future of human evolution taking a technological twist.

He said it was interesting science fiction.

[sorry8140]

the person asking the question sounds just like kermit the frog

[Sylvine]

It's an interesting question when stripped of its initial entertainment value. The essence of the question is: Would a singular finding that appears to contradict the theory of evolution be significant enough against the mountains of evidence for it to actually shake it?

Given how solid it is, I'm inclined to think that it wouldn't. But it sure would be great fodder for creationists! =)

~Sylv

[c6gunner]

@Sylvine

Absolutely - such a finding would be a good reason to re-examine the theory of evolution, IF we first ruled out all sorts of other factors, and even then, the theory would still hold; we would simply end up with an anomaly which needed to be explained.

[Ripley747]

@wspol624 He basically said, "That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that but that would certainly be something to consider but it hasn't happened and it's not going to happen."

[skdjhfkdhfa]

Hahaha, brilliant.

[Ghost0630]

If that were to be found, it would likely be the result of yet another Christian hoax. Given their spectacular tradition of such dishonesty, they should be required to go to quite amazing lengths for it to be considered otherwise.

[jony1710]

ahhhhh!!! youtubes changed!

[guyverdio]

Depends on how far in the future we are able to time travel humans, the skeleton could possibly be different from ours at present.

I also have a question for people, if time travel were to start an alternate timeline, would that be alternate which is parallel to ours, meaning both are in existence or would it override/alter ours to be the new one where that person existed in our timelines past?

[evi3lynni3]

Dawkins believes we were designed by aliens, is THAT not insane?

[sl3ya44]

@evi3lynni3 wtf are you talking about go read a fucking book u IDIOT

[evi3lynni3]

@sl3ya44 Very intelligent, logical and tolerant response there "44", have a nice day.

[sl3ya44]

@evi3lynni3

theres no tolerance for idiotic comments

[evi3lynni3]

@sl3ya44 Perhaps you should read a book on grammar and spelling. :)

[kickmeout1]

@evi3lynni3 @sl3ya44 Dawkins merely used the "alien design" hypothesis as a hypothetical. He said something similar to "If humans were created via intelligent design, there is no reason to assume it was by a deity. One could consider the idea that beings who have reached a much higher level of intelligence than ourselves: 1)designed us along with the rest of the organisms on Earth, or 2)simply initiated life on Earth. This is extremely unlikely, but it is possible, unlike Creationists' theory."

[whydontyouremember]

you'd more readily believe in time travel than evolution?

wow. you creationist people truly are fucking insane.

[TheJohnskinner]

Those who believe in evolution have nothing but blind faith and only bits and pieces of scientific evidence.....In no way do they have a complete picture and the whole story....Mostly speculation.

[doyoublush]

@TheJohnskinner I agree partially (as an archaeologist), but the picture becomes more complete every few years, and that's something religion cannot claim. for example (!), the Bible is static; it is not changing at all. within science there is no progress at all. and since the discovery of DNA, our understanding of the past has improved substantially.

[doyoublush]

@TheJohnskinner I agree partially (as an archaeologist), but the picture becomes more complete every few years, and that's something religion cannot claim. for example (!), the Bible is static; it is not changing at all. within religion there is no progress at all. since the discovery of DNA, our understanding of the past has improved substantially. using science we gain knowledge.

[sl3ya44]

@TheJohnskinner especulation that has lead us to improve the human condition with some things like vaccines ever heard of that?? u ignorant fool,now lets go look at the bible for answers:earth is flat we were created from dust -_- yeah that makes sense

[alessandrozerbone]

Was that old guy being serious? haha its funny but i just hope time travel creation doesnt become a hostile religion any time soon!

[kimflie]

lol all creationists say evilution!

[100percentrekkie]

That's hilarious... very very nice. In reality, I don't think a lot of creationists would be happy if we had to incorporate the inevitability of time travel into our premise for the absence of a God.

[jesuskopp]

Here a question- who first came out with the charts depicting Ape to Man?

[Livelyanv]

Listen, when Dawkins says "It hasn't happened, and won't happen", he is

exposing his 'nothing could ever convince me against Darwinian evolution' mentality, because he "knows" there will never exist evidence to the contrary!

Amazing!

Hail to Dawkins' Omniscience!

[TheEnchantedCereal]

@Livelyanv he was only stating the obvious likelihood, he never actually said that if it WERE to happen, that he wouldn't see it as proof of man's coexistence with dinosaurs... and no, this argument would never be used, it was hyperbolicly ridiculous, that's why it was seen as a joke and laughed at, the irony is, an argument of this caliber most probably would be acknowledged in creationist circles...

[Livelyanv]

Intended to be facetious...

oh but how it wouldn't surprise me IN THE LEAST if evolutionists actually use this argument in the scenerio that we find fossilized or skeletal human remains in deep strata. In fact, I should expect it.

[ashman102]

funny shit

[Blingy98]

Awesome.

[samrobson123]

Fantastic question, clicked on this link ready to see some creationist mumbo jumbo, and oh what a pleasant suprise.

[ssramroop]

nice camera

[Steffenhead1984]

Probably,This question will be my thesis statement...

[bdk1234567]

lol, sure, look at the comment below. I'll post it in the description too. ;)

[samuelmorrison]

I can't hear the question. Is this in Toronto?

[bdk1234567]

Sorry about the sound quality, the poor old gent was a bit infirm but had a great statement/question. The question was essentially, (I'm paraphrasing) "Given the strength of the theory of evolution, if we were to find a human skeleton in the same strata of the earth as we might find a dinosaur's bones, would this not be evidence for the possibility of time-travel, rather than a point against evolution?"

[Haizum74]

@samuelmorrison Is it difficult to hear questions in Toronto? ;-)