Host seemed to actually give good questions, in my view. Hard Talk is the name of the program, people. Questioning is what made you atheists, even if you disagree with his questions, isn't it good that Prof. Dawkins can answer them?
WAKE UP MORONS! Do you honestly think that there is no superior to YOUR being? ATHEISM says that you are perfect enough not to need God. It's a shame how arrogant many of you have become. Also, Christianity is not like any other religion out there. It is NOT A WAY OF LIFE.GOD IS LIFE.
God teaches us to make the right desicions
He just never lets us go. Even when we ignore him and shit talk him, God will love you
OMG today in my economics class my teacher interrogated a fellow student about his faith in christianity and it was lulz, when it finished (atheist side clearly winning), another class mate said 'they never win', and THE WHOLE CLASS AGREED apart from that one religious kid. WAKE UP, you're becoming a minority. When challeneged YOU ALWAYS LOSE. However I think @atheist382 said it best.
Religion makes no sense...Science is much better at explaining things.
Atheists believe in science, logic, and reason. Religious people believe in weird superstition and other crazy things.
There is no god...There is no afterlife...You are on your own.... When you die, your body will just rot into the ground, and you will become worm food.
This is the truth...Stop deluding yourself with weird medieval superstitions!
The interviewer is intellectually unqualified for this discussion which actually assists Dawkins who's detractors are equally foolish. Dawkins had to lead him through hoops to understand each topic
If you want an interviewer who asks a question, and then repeatedly leaps in discounting what the interviewee is attempting to explain, then this dickhead is your man.
Good thing Richard is smart, I wouldnt be able to handle that prick interviewing him.. Would've probably scream at him "please listen to me!" or smth.
RICHARD DAWKINS - "OUR COLLECTIVE FREE TIME NEEDS TO SHIFT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO EDUCATION. WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG STUDENT OR FINISHED SCHOOL LONG AGO, GET OUT TO THE LIBRARY WHENEVER YOU CAN AND WORK HARD TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THIS WORLD. EACH INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE TO SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. EDUCATION IS AN AMAZING DISCOVERY PROCESS THAT REPAYS US ENDLESSLY."
@atheist382 hav u ever read quran? hop not. i sugest u to read it out. the things which today u people discover through science,were 14 years before present in our book. like the big bang theory.. revolution and spining of planets.. knowledge about celestial bodies.. etc that all stuff which science has discovered recently some years ago.but they were already present in the divine book,holy quran.who wrote them in the time when there was not any science developed as much to know abt embryology.
@MsZaka2010 yea youve obviously also read the quran and aaaall its pretty parts about stoning bitches and killing people who dont want to be muslim anymore
@MrBadApple999 thats ur misconception,i vod like to sugest you to watch dr zakir naiks speeches on youtube,i m damn sure u wil come to the truth. u cant blame islam becoz of what som balcksheep in our community.hitler,a christian killed 6 million jews,should i hold christianity responsible for that. NO..never, religion doesnt teach such stuff. blacksheep r present in our community. and all religious boks hav been changed,except islamic. com to truth people.
@atheist382 Although I agree with almost all of your post, though it isn't very efficient or eloquent, your "atheism is the way to world peace" and the bit about religious people being terrorists is not true, in my opinion. I should preface what I say by saying that I am an agnostic atheist and an anti-theist. Atheism does not in any way guarantee world peace, saying so would be too reductionist. It only removes the religious motivations and exacerbations for evil.
How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, *unknowing and unperceiving *, is his creator and that of all beings?
No?
Then how can the duped and brainwashed atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
What is called science by the *science-worshippers* of the present age and regarded by them as equivalent to the sum total of *reality*, is simply a collection of laws applicable to a single dimension of the world. The result of all human effort and experimentation is a body of knowledge concerning a minute bright dot comparable to the dim light of a candle-surrounded by a dark night enveloping a huge desert of indefinite extent.
All praise is due to ALLAH, the Lord of the Universe.
@atheist382 Wake up morons! Are you a lunatic..? We are not special... All religious people are brainwashed sheep! If you are religious then you are a terrorist... OH BY THE WAY, ATHEISM IS THE WAY TO WORLD PEACE.
Lol, you are a walking contradiction in the very least and just as religious folk can be hypocritical by what they profess and do. The manner in which you profess Atheism (whether true or not) and peace is hostile in tone and very reminiscent of those you accuse, the religious.
@atheist382 Are you saying all violence would stop if everyone became atheists? Violence and conflict are human conditions; people use religion as an excuse for violence.
its not about what you do in life its about love. So simple people can't accept it and the best thing about it, is that its completely free if you don't understand ask The one who put you here.
C.s Lewis said pride is the worst sin of all, a bad religious man is worse then a non religious man. Too much pride In a powerful man is very dangerous.
Religion will change no doubt it may find a different name but it will never go away so my advice to everyone is just Love each other, it doesn't
THe Interviewer's job is to interview and let the person talk after raising a question.Repeatedly cut off but logic prevailed in the end.Nice work Dawkins!:)
1) Lunchtime discussion on Oxford on the 'Oxford Debate'
2) "Is God a Delusion?" lecture with panel response (unless Dawkins shows up to debate!)
Run, Dawkins, run!! Keep running from Dr. Craig, from debate. That's the best thing you can do to keep your followers.
In case you followers don't know, he's been avoiding Dr. Craig, for he... is afraid to death of debating him! LOL... Even an atheist publicly accused him of cowardice!
"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 Jesuits completely altered the education system to suit their evolution agenda to discredit the Bible. They cant have a Satanic society of 'Do as Thou Wilt' if people still follow the Bible.
RD is caught up in semantic nonsense. What the hell difference does it make what you "label" the child, it's your child and you label him/her how ever the hell you want. RD is a communist, a very dangerous man. We all know what communistic/atheist endoctrination produces. The interviewer is doing a great job, he's not letting RD preach his crap.
@cmpresents Any interviewer who does not let the interviewed person finish speaking is a bad interviewer. Pure and simple. It doesn't matter if you agree with what Richard Dawkins is saying or not because not letting him finish is simply bad interviewing skills and bad arguing skills in general. The interviewer keeps putting words into Richard's mouth. Those, my friend, are not good interviewing skills at all. Why have anyone on if you don't want to let them talk?
@cmpresents You must have watched a different series of vids than this one. The interviewer rarely let Richard finish an answer. 1 sided conversations are very boring regardless or which side you root for. I'd much rather watch someone who I do not agree with finish a response, as taking in different views than your own helps you grow to understand others. This "interview" was 1 sided at best.
@cmpresents "What the hell difference does it make what you "label" the child." Oh, so you believe it is perfectly ok to label a child as something it is not? You have failed to understand the simple point that RD is making. Labelling children as Christians when they are not actually Christians is simply wrong. Not only is it wrong it is also utterly stupid. Would you call a child of two racist parents a racist? No you wouldn't, so why is religion different?
He doesn't even allow Dawkins to finish his point. He'll make a statement then attempt to clarify when he jumps in a says "So what you are saying is..". Why don't you let Dawkins tell you what his is saying rather than you trying to paraphrase.
@Misterdave5555 it doesnt matter what Dawkins says to him! his dumbass just moves on to another perspective of the ACTUAL question Dawkins was trying to provide him an answer to! idiocy! he tries to make Dawkins stay on the offensive even though its the interviewer who really is.
@Marlsa You're terribly wrong. Overpopulation is somewhat of a myth. The world's economy is based on scarcity- be it real or artificial. With proper agricultural techniques Africa could feed an entire world population of 15billion. Overpopulation is almost a fallacy in so many ways, and very dependent on accepting other fallacies.
A recent government survey showed that 44% of the UK population are atheist but this rises to 66% among 18-24 year olds. Clearly these kids are working it out for themselves.
Ugh, this guy is driving me nuts with his blabbing about "unfairly picking on religion". Religion has always unfairly picked on everyone outside it's belief system. You have people going door to door always shoving it down your throat, or people telling you you're going to hell because you don't believe in it. Religious people can spill any bullshit out of their mouth, but as soon as anyone who doesn't believe says anything.... WATCH OUT! They pretty much bring out the pitchforks and torches!
@BushidoRei The point of the Hardtalk interviews is to provide the interviewee with difficult questions for them personally. It allows Dawkins to get his point across but makes him deal with logical and intellectual hurdles in order to get there. This interview has the aim of providing as objective a view as possible and in order to do that the interviewer must provide the interviewee with some opposing perspectives.
@TheDavelogan Now I'd believe that and I see the point you're making. I also agree its a good way to get someones point across. However you realise this is a BBC show right? The BBC haven't had any credibility since the 1980's.
@DonJuanV8 That's what he does on his show. This is why he named his show "Hard Talk". He asks pointed questions and doesn't allow the interviewee to control the conversation.
MR. DAWKINS POINT ON CHILDREN , DOES HAVE SOME GROUND , SCHOOLYARD FIGHTS SOMETIMES ARE RELIGION FUELED . BUT GIVING THE CHILD NOTHING , IS STILL COUNTERPRODUCTIVE . FOR INSTANCE RAISING A CHILD AS AN ATHEIST WOULD GIVE NO BELIEFS . THE RESULTS COULD BE NEGATIVE . RESPECT FOR ALL LIFE IS INSTALLED EARLY ,RESPECT IS FEAR, DOING WRONG SHOULD BE FEARED .
@9493760 How did you going from "not labelling children" to "give children nothing"? How can you equal "giving children nothing" to "raise a child as an atheist"?
Good interview. It's the job of a good interviewer to play the devil's advocate and I think he did that well, in a thoughtful and respectful manner, and I think Dawkins responded and held up his arguments extremely well. He really has a strong position.
It seems the chap doing the interview just quickly cast his eyes over his crib sheets someone else wrote for him instead of understanding what is being said.
A proof of evolution is viruses that evolve within their hosts. You can sequence the mutations accumulating in their genomes over generations (of the viruses, not the the host). Some of these mutations being selected because they enable the virus to overcome the host immune system. In human, lactase persistance is a proof of evolution that can hardly be discussed.
@NolanGoldfain You claimed that science says that it takes 5 billion years for a single cell lifeform to evolve to a multicellular lifeform. This claim is complete nonsense as it is scientifically accepted that life on Earth began aprox. 3.7 billion years ago. So as you can see your 'facts' are nothing of the sort.
@ClosedAperture - It's easy to refute arguments that are not real and have no bearing on reality and actually came from people who make up ridiculous rubbish and pretend you have shot down a fact with millions of pieces of evidence.
@NolanGoldfain The issue is that your 'facts' are not actually facts. I have asked you several times to provide any kind of evidence to support you 'facts' and you simply can not.
@closed aperture,my friend,i have tried to help you ,but whenever I state a fact,you tell me it is nonsense.I will say that anyone who has contributed significantly to humanity from Pythagorus to Newton ,Einstein and even those who havent such as Darwin were men who believed in God ,but now you will tell me that Darwin didnt believe in God and that this is also nonsense,so look up what I have said.
@closed aperture,my friend,i have tried to help you ,but whenever I state a fact,you tell me it is nonsense.I will say that anyone who has contributed significantly to humanity from Pythagorus to Newton ,Einstein and even those who havent such as Darwin were men who believed in God ,but now you will tell me that Darwin didnt believe in God and that this is also nonsense,so look up what I have said.I must now bid you good luck and fairwell
@closed aperture,now i must part with these words,you must look and study yourself,dont take anyones word for anything,not my word and not dawkins.Dont think because he is famous it means something,
@closed aperture,now the problem with Dawkins being himself a man of faith and yet denying faith is like this,if scientific evidence points away from evolution and yet it is taught as gospel,the truth is that the world saw fools like this before and they dont stay around very long,i cant give the guy grace if even his old colleages laughed at his arguments since he never studied theology but is a geologist
And Dawkins has faith to believe a whale became a cow since no one saw this yet 3 million people met God at mount sinai and when the jews returned to Israel it was found that communities who had no contact such as the jews of Yemen and the Russian Jews carried the exact same book of law and they were exiled 2000 years ago
@closed aperture,yes certianly,evolution through species,there is no proof for,only evolution within a species,now this is well known thing,for a whale to become a cow it needs to undergo 50 000 physiological changes and yet science science says that it takes a cell 5 billion years to become 2 cells.Yes the human chromosome came to be in the same way humans came to be as i have said
@NolanGoldfain "science says that it takes a cell 5 billion years to become 2 cells." Again this is absolute nonsense. Do you have anything to support this claim?
@NolanGoldfain Scientific evidence points away from evolution? Absolute nonsense. Can you give me a single piece of evidence that disproves evolution? Whilst you are at it maybe you can explain how the human chromosome 2 has come to be without using evolution?
@NolanGoldfain You have either ignored my previous question or simply didn't understand it, so let me put it to you again. Do you think it is right to call a child a Christian child if they are not an actual Christian?
@closed apertureand it is very immoral to continue to teach something when scientific evidence points away from it.By the way,the soldier who discovered tectonic plate theory at the time of ww1 was not accepted by geologists for nearly half a century.They refused to go against their dogma and admitted they would not go against accepted belief untill they could no longer deny this,that the earth used to be one large continent
@closedaperture,i dont see why it is morally wrong to call a child a christian or jewish child,it would be immoral to call the child a stupid child.Dawkins believes in evolution and this is immoral from a scientific view because the missing links darwin spoke of have never been found .Today scientific evidence points so strongly away from evolution
@closed aperture,and why from his other segment does he say that 66 people who had miraculous healing in Brazil is not scientific because millions of people go there for cures to the one catholic place.Would it be illogical for me to believe in plato since i only know about him through 1 person called aristotle.
@NolanGoldfain The question isn't how many people had so called 'miraculous' healing, the question is was their healing actually miraculous? If you want to discuss miracles then you first need to define what a miracle is.
@Closed Aperture,yes sure all of them are weak.why is it wrong to label a child ?what is he talking about?He says its wrong,but in what way is it wrong?
@NolanGoldfain Do you believe it is ok to label someone as something they are not? Do you think it is ok to label a child as a Christian if they are not an actual Christian?
I must say that Dawkins has very weak arguments,anyone with a philosophical or logical mind can hear they are very weak.As King Solomon says in Ecclesiastes that more intellegence can cause greater sadness,and I thought I understood this verse in Ecclesiastes,but after hearing Richard Dawkins speak,I no longer understand this verse
Are thoughts of a God keeping you awake nights,am I really held accountable ,is Hell real,don't lay awake nights any longer,now available Richard Dawkins can rid you of those pesky ideas about God so you can get back to the things you really enjoy,reviling and partying till all hours of the night,no more thoughts or worry's "The God Delusion" now available at fine bookstores or online at Amazon by Richard Dawkins will bring you relief,warning may cause burning for eternity,$24.95
@ajax515 one question for you first so man evolved you say from the the soup of all creatures,my question is ,God made man in His image and gave man dominion over all the other creatures ,did you notice how man has dominion over all the earth and its creatures also,so that means that God said it and it is so,now if man is just a member of the ape family then man is nothing special and this is the trojan horse whereby God can be booted out ,all this is told of in the Bible my friend !
@ajax515 Evidence is like this far away from you,google" archeology proves the Bible true",find all the evidence there ,watch this video i found it with google ,you see if you wanted to find the truth you would find it ,God loves those who love HIM,seek GOD and you will find GOD ,people simply don't find God because in their hearts they don't want to!
you know what i hate about this? I always think i'm such a genius when i think about reasons why atheism is better, and than i watch his debates, and all my points have already been discovered. makes me sad :(
@atheist382 Combined with a basic humanist or similar positive ideology,
Atheism in itself isn't an ideology it is a perspective that there are no gods when confronted with the lack of evidence to support the theory of supreme beings. religions have ideologies built into there structure that on general are more damaging towards society when people take the writings seriously (thankfully most do not) as from a theists perspective its not just an individuals opinion but "the word of god".
@atheist382 What replaced religion in China. The belief in individual power... the murdering of tens of millions who didn't conform to everything that was "new"....teachers, for example. now it's all about money "to grow rich is glorious" as proclaimed by one of their current leaders.
the problem is deeper.....the psychological need to identify with possessions, ideologies, people....ultimately it's the need for love....and if people can accept that they possess the love they are seeking
@atheist382 HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The only thing that brought us close to world peace is capitalism and nothing more. And in what conceivable way could atheism bring world peace?
there is an atheism with a small a and an Atheism with a capital A. There are theists with a small t and theists with a capital T. When major authors take to attacking major religions and claiming the world would be saved or better off being Atheist, that is not a small a. I am not even sure how an Atheist can live with a label of antithesis and not a proactive title of what they do believe in, and thus call themselves . But Scientists are not limited to atheists, that is a fact.
Dawkins says the Muslim will not be criticized for his faith initiative to blow himself up as a "suicide bomber" but he does not offer the same intolerance for the Secular Atheist Anarchists groups that want to save the planet and agree with Karl Marx on killing hundreds of millions of people for the Revolution. They go about with a Phoenix Bird on their chest and a Green Party label and do the same as the Jihadists. Where is the improvement that Science made on impressionable kids ?
@CarmineFragione you do not quite understand atheism is not an ideology or belief system. You can be an anarchist atheist or a viciously conservative atheist. Religion is different as it is an ideology and can be very easily interpreted to justify extreme behaviour atheism cannot be used in such a way
@Fenrirsdoom if Atheism was not itself a belief system, it would be meaningless as a topic of discussion. The unity of Atheists to accomplish a goal, causes it to be a system of belief, otherwise , from what platform do they achieve a consensus of purpose ? There must be a system if a group think exists that has a political will and a social agenda. Otherwise, Atheists would be intellectual loners, a random miscellaneous class with no cohesion , no agenda or reason to be so named.
@CarmineFragione atheists are only joined on one issue and that is the fact that they do not believe in God the fact that more atheists are attacking religion is due to the fact that people believe religion to deserve a respect it does not and because religion is wreaking havoc throughout the world. People do not do things in the name of atheism. People who are atheists do things for other reasons. Once again atheism is simply the rejection of the idea of God nothing else
@Fenrirsdoom I do recognize that Atheists can differ on politics and social matters. But I do not call such people to be Atheists if all they have is no belief in God. To have no belief in God, is like having no taste for the Theater. Okay, so you don't like Music or Art, Poetry and do not like Politics at all. That does not make you an anti- anything. Lacking a belief in God does not make you Atheist, but having a belief that Science proves there is no need for God is Atheist.
@CarmineFragione actually then your definitions are completely skewed. An atheist by definition is someone who believes there is no evidence for the existence of God.
Please do not use Sweden as proof of a successful Secular Scientific Society. Every time a small airplane crashes in Sweden, they send out the Search Party and dig up several thousand bodies.
Converts both to religion or to atheism are total zealots, they make broad sweeping and often ridiculous statements , things are always seeming only black or white. good or bad and there is not a reason to debate them. Richard Dawkins is a Atheist Convert with a Scientific Argument for his own Zealotry, But he cannot show any prior civilization built on his theories and cannot then prove his case about his revisionist world view , and so he is locked in his Ivory Tower.
@CarmineFragione “Richard Dawkins is a Atheist Convert with a Scientific Argument for his own Zealotry.” Richard Dawkins simply does not believe in God. If this offends you in some kind of way then tough, you are just going to have to get over it. You are free to believe whatever you want to believe, just like Dawkins, and many others are free to not believe that a God exists.
@CarmineFragione “He cannot show any prior civilization built on his theories and cannot then prove his case about his revisionist world view.” WTF are you talking about?
@ClosedAperture It is about using humanity as a scientific experiment in progress. To reinvent history, you cause a Revolution. You use propaganda to force people to think differently than was the "convention" and then you pursue an uncharted course. We have had three centuries since Galileo and yet thousands of years since Moses. To just abandon one for the other, takes allot of Zealotry, because there is no record of success that a Scientific Society can create a "New World Order"
Dawkins avoids that fact that children of Atheists are more likely to embrace the same world view, and he claims the children are freer thinkers, because of the parents world view, as Atheists.This is not good Science, the power of Parents to foster beliefs in their children, are the same , whether they are Atheists making their children the same in view, or if they are Catholic orJewish and making their children adopt the view. A Convert to Atheism is as much a Zealot as any other Convert.
@CarmineFragioneIt appears that both yourself and Mr Sakur have failed to understand the point which Dawkins is making. Labelling someone as something they are not is wrong. To call a child a ‘Christian child’ without actually knowing that they are in fact a Christian is not just wrong, but plain stupid.
@CarmineFragione It appears that both yourself and Mr Sakur have failed to understand the point which Dawkins is making. Labelling someone as something they are not is wrong. To call a child a ‘Christian child’ without actually knowing that they are in fact a Christian is not just wrong, but plain stupid.
@ClosedAperture I told you that Christian is an adjective, it means that one has been blessed, to be anointed by a father, who gives wisdom and teaching and assures the life of the child, and so to be Christian, is not a narrow definition , but a very wide and broad term that all ancient civilizations understood, the Christian is a Greek term , borrowing from both the Bible and all Ancient History to mean " Gifted from the Teacher" and thus Christian is a perfect sense term to use.
@CarmineFragione We can debate the definition of the word Christian all you want, but you simply can not be Christian if you do not believe in the Christian God. So I will ask you again, do you believe it is right to label a child as a Christian child if they are not an actual Christian?
this guy is supposed to be a scientist? He commits one of the most elementary errors: confirmation bias. He only points out the worse case scenarios to support why religion ought to be eliminated. The problem is that he is a biologist who is trying to be a philosopher and quite frankly he is not equipped to deal with the issue. I think Daniel C. Dennett does a better job at analyzing the issue.
@hexnyc Do you understand what a confirmation bias is? Having a belief in a God can cause harm, Dawkins is not being biased by highlighting this fact. Yes a belief in God can do some good, but can you give me a single example of something good that can only be achieved through a belief in God? Dawkins doesn't want, nor expect, religion to be eliminated, he simply wants people to think more critically and rationally, surely this is a good thing?
@ClosedAperture yes I believe I do, when a person's bias lead them to find evidence that supports their claims and they willingly chooses not to find evidence that denies their claims. In other cases the person is not even aware that they are doing this. Of course he is being biased because he only sticks to the evidence of when belief in god causes harm, what about the times when belief in god causes good things to happen? That is a fact too. Your 2 question is strange. Right be critical.
@hexnyc I am going to assume that you have read The God Delusion? If so then you would know that Dawkins states several times that religion and a belief in a God can be of some good to some people, however it is undeniable that this belief can also cause harm to some people. How is this being biased?
Just as much, if not more, harm has been done by the name of rational scientific knowledge as the religions.
Religions are not the only subject of faith. So are atheism, rationalism, capitalism, Marxism etc.
What is actually dangerous is to stop critically reflecting on ourselves and what we believe is normal, true, valid, legitimate, lawful etc. All belief systems are equally prone to ridding our practices of critical self-reflection.
@sshiga1 Atheism and rationalism are subject to faith? Atheism is simply the non belief in a God, and rationalism is the very opposite of faith. There is no faith involved in either.
Sackur challenged all of Dawkins's most prominent opinions, and Dawkins backed them up like a champ. Maybe creationists should look at videos like this and steer away from his occasional stumbling on words.
@everymanforu God is Good? Is this the same God that says that homosexuals should be put to death for simply being homosexual? Lev.20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
7)For a god that is supposed to be omnipotent and all forgiving, he sure is one hell of an uncompromising asshole. If your god would torture people in hell for eternity, regardless of their inherent goodness and merits, based only on whether they believe in him or not, I spit on you, your religion, and your god.
@SinnersBurnInHell 5)"Science has yet to be right about anything" Are you kidding me? The LAWS of physics are LAWS for a reason. Science is based on testable, provable FACTS, unlike religion that is based on a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a storybook written decades after the supposed events occured.
6)Of course it matters that I don't like what's in the bible. Would you worship someone with a loose moral code, that endorses slavery? Oh wait you already do.
@wengsiang1 Science is based on testable, provable FACTS, unlike religion ...
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We discover the existence of an objective law from within the totality of phenomena that it is capable of interpreting. If, then, the establishment of scientific truth is possible only by means of direct sensation, the majority of scientific truths will have to be discarded, since many scientific facts cannot be perceived by means of sensory experience or testing.
Your delusions that science has put out the notion of God is purely *rhetorical* and has nothing to do with logical method, because even thousands of scientific experiments could not possibly suffice to demonstrate that no non-material being or factor exists.
Your claim is nothing more than a *fanatical* illusion based on unproven theories. Views such as these derive directly from a system of thought centered on materialism; within it, ....
everything is defined and delimited with reference to materialism.
To interpret materialism in such a sense is in the final analysis strictly meaningless; it would be a superstitious notion involving the perversion of truth, and to regard it as scientific would, in fact, be *treason* to science.
Even if the followers of a religious school of thought had no proofs for their claim, ...
to conclude firmly and forcibly that non- being reigns beyond the sensory realm would be a non-scientific choice, based on imagination and speculation.
Some people try to propagate this *fantasy* in the garb of science and to present their choice as having been dictated by scientific thought. In the final analysis, however, the denial involved in such an assertion is unworthy of science and philosophy, and even *contradicts* empirical logic.
How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
Then how can the atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
that interviewer is really obtuse
jussssig 2 weeks ago
Now I know why this program is called HardTalk. Mr. Sacur is interrupting mr. Dawking all the time, making it hard for him to talk ;)
travelegil 2 weeks ago 2
@orangewarm1 Of course it wouldn't, but let's just get one thing clear. Religion can cause people to do terrible things, atheism can not.
ClosedAperture 2 weeks ago
god is stupid.
atheist382 3 weeks ago
Host seemed to actually give good questions, in my view. Hard Talk is the name of the program, people. Questioning is what made you atheists, even if you disagree with his questions, isn't it good that Prof. Dawkins can answer them?
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That host is so fucking annoying.
Jessica616ify 3 weeks ago 2
Gracias por compartirlo.
sirjuandabicho 3 weeks ago
WAKE UP MORONS! Do you honestly think that there is no superior to YOUR being? ATHEISM says that you are perfect enough not to need God. It's a shame how arrogant many of you have become. Also, Christianity is not like any other religion out there. It is NOT A WAY OF LIFE.GOD IS LIFE.
God teaches us to make the right desicions
He just never lets us go. Even when we ignore him and shit talk him, God will love you
13identity 3 weeks ago
OMG today in my economics class my teacher interrogated a fellow student about his faith in christianity and it was lulz, when it finished (atheist side clearly winning), another class mate said 'they never win', and THE WHOLE CLASS AGREED apart from that one religious kid. WAKE UP, you're becoming a minority. When challeneged YOU ALWAYS LOSE. However I think @atheist382 said it best.
SuperMrKieran 4 weeks ago
I believe in God.
XenomexTutorials 1 month ago
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Religion makes no sense...Science is much better at explaining things.
Atheists believe in science, logic, and reason. Religious people believe in weird superstition and other crazy things.
There is no god...There is no afterlife...You are on your own.... When you die, your body will just rot into the ground, and you will become worm food.
This is the truth...Stop deluding yourself with weird medieval superstitions!
atheist382 1 month ago
It must be so frustrating for Richard to be surounded by such idots with a mind like him
rainbowsandonions 1 month ago
FFS! What a whining little prat the interviewer is. "it's not fair, *snivel* you're picking on religion."
TomVodkaCollins 1 month ago
fairly put. leave the children decide for themself.
krank34 1 month ago
The strongest link survive... Why is religion still alive? I guess there are some flaws.
VaguelyErected 1 month ago
I'm disappointed by Stephen Sackur's questions -- I've seen him perform much more intelligently elsewhere - his questions border on the idiotic
boodistGeek 1 month ago 5
Richard Dawkins. Knowledge of a God.
Richard Dawkins. Patience of a God.
Richard Dawkins. Is God.
yamammiwammi 1 month ago
This interviewer is fucking retarded.
papade11a 1 month ago
I actually found this interviewer highly irritating, stop being dumb dickhead and open your eyes.
azman5998 1 month ago
Richard Dawkins point at 3:55
SH1TNAME 1 month ago
The interviewer is intellectually unqualified for this discussion which actually assists Dawkins who's detractors are equally foolish. Dawkins had to lead him through hoops to understand each topic
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If you want an interviewer who asks a question, and then repeatedly leaps in discounting what the interviewee is attempting to explain, then this dickhead is your man.
Ask me a question, then answer it for me. Smart.
Fully support Dawkins' points.
cappsie1 2 months ago
Haha @1.34.... that interviewer set himself up so bad
StrategicBacon 2 months ago
@cavedog33 agreed, and he never got the point of the "labelling" conversation.
burnett159 2 months ago
Good thing Richard is smart, I wouldnt be able to handle that prick interviewing him.. Would've probably scream at him "please listen to me!" or smth.
djekayzz 2 months ago
BAD INTERVIEWER
jijweethetookniet 2 months ago
Unfortunately for this guy, Richard is too good for him, talking over Dawkins won't ever be enough to get you the upper hand.
h0usesparr0w 2 months ago
Why is the interviewer putting words in Dawkins mouth and asking the same question over and over ?
azuzses 2 months ago
Who the hell is this idiot interviewer? Why won't he shut up?
youknowfour 2 months ago
WAKE UP MORONS! Religion does three things quite effectively:divides people, controls people, deludes people.
Religion is the no.1 cause of violence.
Only lunatics believe in religion.Religion is absolutely ridiculous.Only a crazy person would believe in such fairy tales.
Face it.Chimpanzees are our closest relatives.Humans are in the animal kingdom. We are not special.
Atheism is the way to world peace!
If you are religious then you are a terrorist!
All religious people are brainwashed sheep!
atheist382 2 months ago
This interviewer needed to let Richard Dawkins to finish some of his points rather than interrupting him every time he started to make his point.
KillingFratellisLeon 2 months ago
I'm a religious person, and I salute Dawkins for his determination and his intellect. I know he probably will call me deluded, but I don't care.
myowngenesis 2 months ago
I want to slap Sakur in the mouth till his lips bleed.
yatter1 3 months ago
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RICHARD DAWKINS - "OUR COLLECTIVE FREE TIME NEEDS TO SHIFT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO EDUCATION. WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG STUDENT OR FINISHED SCHOOL LONG AGO, GET OUT TO THE LIBRARY WHENEVER YOU CAN AND WORK HARD TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THIS WORLD. EACH INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE TO SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. EDUCATION IS AN AMAZING DISCOVERY PROCESS THAT REPAYS US ENDLESSLY."
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
WAKE UP MORONS! Religion does three things quite effectively:divides people, controls people, deludes people.
Are you a lunatic? Religion is ridiculous... Especially Christianity and Islam which are the stupidest religions ever...
Face it.Chimpanzees are our closest relatives. Humans are in the animal kingdom. We are not special.
Atheism is the way to world peace.If you are religious then you are a terrorist.
All religious people are brainwashed sheep!Religion is nonsense! GOD DOES NOT EXIST!
atheist382 3 months ago 54
@atheist382 hav u ever read quran? hop not. i sugest u to read it out. the things which today u people discover through science,were 14 years before present in our book. like the big bang theory.. revolution and spining of planets.. knowledge about celestial bodies.. etc that all stuff which science has discovered recently some years ago.but they were already present in the divine book,holy quran.who wrote them in the time when there was not any science developed as much to know abt embryology.
MsZaka2010 3 months ago
@MsZaka2010 yea youve obviously also read the quran and aaaall its pretty parts about stoning bitches and killing people who dont want to be muslim anymore
MrBadApple999 2 months ago
@MrBadApple999 thats ur misconception,i vod like to sugest you to watch dr zakir naiks speeches on youtube,i m damn sure u wil come to the truth. u cant blame islam becoz of what som balcksheep in our community.hitler,a christian killed 6 million jews,should i hold christianity responsible for that. NO..never, religion doesnt teach such stuff. blacksheep r present in our community. and all religious boks hav been changed,except islamic. com to truth people.
MsZaka2010 2 months ago
@MsZaka2010 yea, im good.
MrBadApple999 2 months ago
@atheist382 Although I agree with almost all of your post, though it isn't very efficient or eloquent, your "atheism is the way to world peace" and the bit about religious people being terrorists is not true, in my opinion. I should preface what I say by saying that I am an agnostic atheist and an anti-theist. Atheism does not in any way guarantee world peace, saying so would be too reductionist. It only removes the religious motivations and exacerbations for evil.
CavemanBCE 3 months ago
@atheist382 The atheist Delusion!
How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
1tabligh 2 months ago
Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, *unknowing and unperceiving *, is his creator and that of all beings?
No?
Then how can the duped and brainwashed atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
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What is called science by the *science-worshippers* of the present age and regarded by them as equivalent to the sum total of *reality*, is simply a collection of laws applicable to a single dimension of the world. The result of all human effort and experimentation is a body of knowledge concerning a minute bright dot comparable to the dim light of a candle-surrounded by a dark night enveloping a huge desert of indefinite extent.
All praise is due to ALLAH, the Lord of the Universe.
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@atheist382 Wake up morons! Are you a lunatic..? We are not special... All religious people are brainwashed sheep! If you are religious then you are a terrorist... OH BY THE WAY, ATHEISM IS THE WAY TO WORLD PEACE.
Lol, you are a walking contradiction in the very least and just as religious folk can be hypocritical by what they profess and do. The manner in which you profess Atheism (whether true or not) and peace is hostile in tone and very reminiscent of those you accuse, the religious.
4browsing 2 months ago
@atheist382 Amen! *pun intended!*
yamammiwammi 1 month ago
@atheist382 Agreed.
m0cachin0 1 month ago
@atheist382 Christianity and Islam aren't more stupid than the other religions, they just do more damage.
TheSobek 1 month ago
@atheist382 Im religious and dont have a God TROLOL
MaitreyaOfGaming 3 weeks ago
@atheist382 Are you saying all violence would stop if everyone became atheists? Violence and conflict are human conditions; people use religion as an excuse for violence.
orangewarm1 3 weeks ago
its not about what you do in life its about love. So simple people can't accept it and the best thing about it, is that its completely free if you don't understand ask The one who put you here.
C.s Lewis said pride is the worst sin of all, a bad religious man is worse then a non religious man. Too much pride In a powerful man is very dangerous.
Religion will change no doubt it may find a different name but it will never go away so my advice to everyone is just Love each other, it doesn't
Jordwil82 3 months ago
THe Interviewer's job is to interview and let the person talk after raising a question.Repeatedly cut off but logic prevailed in the end.Nice work Dawkins!:)
karankapur87 3 months ago
Some studies show a negative correlation between IQ and the likelihood of being reliogous.
I think maybe Dawking would beat the interviewer on an IQ-test.
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England - Tue Oct 25, 2011
1) Lunchtime discussion on Oxford on the 'Oxford Debate'
2) "Is God a Delusion?" lecture with panel response (unless Dawkins shows up to debate!)
Run, Dawkins, run!! Keep running from Dr. Craig, from debate. That's the best thing you can do to keep your followers.
In case you followers don't know, he's been avoiding Dr. Craig, for he... is afraid to death of debating him! LOL... Even an atheist publicly accused him of cowardice!
Evidence: cowardice
feanando 3 months ago
Interviewer defends Christianity just like a Christian. I thought this was hard talk.
kaduisaui 3 months ago
this guy went to the shit...
ImDavidBizar 4 months ago
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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 Jesuits completely altered the education system to suit their evolution agenda to discredit the Bible. They cant have a Satanic society of 'Do as Thou Wilt' if people still follow the Bible.
SpencerBenedict2nd 4 months ago
Stephen Sackur is awesome!!!!!!!
mademan4life 4 months ago
RD is caught up in semantic nonsense. What the hell difference does it make what you "label" the child, it's your child and you label him/her how ever the hell you want. RD is a communist, a very dangerous man. We all know what communistic/atheist endoctrination produces. The interviewer is doing a great job, he's not letting RD preach his crap.
cmpresents 4 months ago
@cmpresents Any interviewer who does not let the interviewed person finish speaking is a bad interviewer. Pure and simple. It doesn't matter if you agree with what Richard Dawkins is saying or not because not letting him finish is simply bad interviewing skills and bad arguing skills in general. The interviewer keeps putting words into Richard's mouth. Those, my friend, are not good interviewing skills at all. Why have anyone on if you don't want to let them talk?
Maeryck 4 months ago
@Maeryck He let him talk, he just didn't let him take over the show.
cmpresents 4 months ago
@cmpresents You must have watched a different series of vids than this one. The interviewer rarely let Richard finish an answer. 1 sided conversations are very boring regardless or which side you root for. I'd much rather watch someone who I do not agree with finish a response, as taking in different views than your own helps you grow to understand others. This "interview" was 1 sided at best.
Maeryck 4 months ago
@cmpresents "What the hell difference does it make what you "label" the child." Oh, so you believe it is perfectly ok to label a child as something it is not? You have failed to understand the simple point that RD is making. Labelling children as Christians when they are not actually Christians is simply wrong. Not only is it wrong it is also utterly stupid. Would you call a child of two racist parents a racist? No you wouldn't, so why is religion different?
ClosedAperture 4 months ago
@cmpresents "RD is a communist." And now you resort to simply making shit up... Dawkins is a communist? Where do you people get this nonsense from?
ClosedAperture 4 months ago
@cmpresents "RD is a communist." And now you resort to simply making shit up... Dawkins is a communist? Where do you people get this nonsense from?
ClosedAperture 4 months ago
@ClosedAperture
lol all these religous morons automatically slate all non religous people as communists.
1TheLoneWolf1 4 months ago
He doesn't even allow Dawkins to finish his point. He'll make a statement then attempt to clarify when he jumps in a says "So what you are saying is..". Why don't you let Dawkins tell you what his is saying rather than you trying to paraphrase.
oliwa09 4 months ago
tired of this interviewer!
NitsuaNaed 4 months ago
@NitsuaNaed Yeah, he is a twat
Misterdave5555 4 months ago
@Misterdave5555 it doesnt matter what Dawkins says to him! his dumbass just moves on to another perspective of the ACTUAL question Dawkins was trying to provide him an answer to! idiocy! he tries to make Dawkins stay on the offensive even though its the interviewer who really is.
NitsuaNaed 4 months ago
Talking to this guy must be like talking to a 10 year old for Richard.
No wonder geniuses are lonely people.
MrWalker1000 4 months ago 101
@MrWalker1000 lol
nguyenimproved 2 weeks ago
@MrWalker1000 At least he has a brill wife.
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HardTalk?? Interrupting someone constantly before they are able to finish their point doesn't make it "hard talk"!
67hob 4 months ago
@Marlsa You're terribly wrong. Overpopulation is somewhat of a myth. The world's economy is based on scarcity- be it real or artificial. With proper agricultural techniques Africa could feed an entire world population of 15billion. Overpopulation is almost a fallacy in so many ways, and very dependent on accepting other fallacies.
noogetful 4 months ago
Nice to see the Brits must tolerate the same dolts in their media that we in the States. Leave aside the labeling?
GenghisCohen1 4 months ago
A recent government survey showed that 44% of the UK population are atheist but this rises to 66% among 18-24 year olds. Clearly these kids are working it out for themselves.
lewisner 4 months ago
Terrible host. Real strawman arguments being levelled at Dawkins.
tpr007 5 months ago
Ugh, this guy is driving me nuts with his blabbing about "unfairly picking on religion". Religion has always unfairly picked on everyone outside it's belief system. You have people going door to door always shoving it down your throat, or people telling you you're going to hell because you don't believe in it. Religious people can spill any bullshit out of their mouth, but as soon as anyone who doesn't believe says anything.... WATCH OUT! They pretty much bring out the pitchforks and torches!
shooglymoogly 5 months ago
Fuck this host likes grasping at straws. What Hawkins is saying just doesn't sink in...
BushidoRei 5 months ago
@BushidoRei The point of the Hardtalk interviews is to provide the interviewee with difficult questions for them personally. It allows Dawkins to get his point across but makes him deal with logical and intellectual hurdles in order to get there. This interview has the aim of providing as objective a view as possible and in order to do that the interviewer must provide the interviewee with some opposing perspectives.
TheDavelogan 4 months ago
@TheDavelogan Now I'd believe that and I see the point you're making. I also agree its a good way to get someones point across. However you realise this is a BBC show right? The BBC haven't had any credibility since the 1980's.
BushidoRei 4 months ago
there is no good or bad in this world it is thought dat counts
Yagami018 5 months ago
The interviewer is a rude ass, keeps cutting Richard off!
DonJuanV8 5 months ago
@DonJuanV8 That's what he does on his show. This is why he named his show "Hard Talk". He asks pointed questions and doesn't allow the interviewee to control the conversation.
Backstabbio 5 months ago
MR. DAWKINS POINT ON CHILDREN , DOES HAVE SOME GROUND , SCHOOLYARD FIGHTS SOMETIMES ARE RELIGION FUELED . BUT GIVING THE CHILD NOTHING , IS STILL COUNTERPRODUCTIVE . FOR INSTANCE RAISING A CHILD AS AN ATHEIST WOULD GIVE NO BELIEFS . THE RESULTS COULD BE NEGATIVE . RESPECT FOR ALL LIFE IS INSTALLED EARLY ,RESPECT IS FEAR, DOING WRONG SHOULD BE FEARED .
GIANFRANCO FRONZI AUGUST /15/2011
9493760 5 months ago
@9493760 How did you going from "not labelling children" to "give children nothing"? How can you equal "giving children nothing" to "raise a child as an atheist"?
chen778 5 months ago
@chen778 THE ONLY TOPIC I LABELED IS , DOING WRONG SHOULD BE FEARED .
GIANFRANCO FRONZI AUGUST /16/2011
9493760 5 months ago
Show me kindness than I will believe!
lppoqql 5 months ago
If there is a kind and good GOD than I would believe in him...................... however evidence show the opposite, god please prove me wrong
lppoqql 5 months ago
If there is a kind and good than I would believe in him...................... however evidence show the opposite, god please prove me wrong
lppoqql 5 months ago
Good interview. It's the job of a good interviewer to play the devil's advocate and I think he did that well, in a thoughtful and respectful manner, and I think Dawkins responded and held up his arguments extremely well. He really has a strong position.
CaptainChaos 5 months ago
It seems the chap doing the interview just quickly cast his eyes over his crib sheets someone else wrote for him instead of understanding what is being said.
davidcutting 5 months ago
A proof of evolution is viruses that evolve within their hosts. You can sequence the mutations accumulating in their genomes over generations (of the viruses, not the the host). Some of these mutations being selected because they enable the virus to overcome the host immune system. In human, lactase persistance is a proof of evolution that can hardly be discussed.
fullgenomealchemist 5 months ago
@NolanGoldfain You claimed that science says that it takes 5 billion years for a single cell lifeform to evolve to a multicellular lifeform. This claim is complete nonsense as it is scientifically accepted that life on Earth began aprox. 3.7 billion years ago. So as you can see your 'facts' are nothing of the sort.
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@ClosedAperture - It's easy to refute arguments that are not real and have no bearing on reality and actually came from people who make up ridiculous rubbish and pretend you have shot down a fact with millions of pieces of evidence.
MrAzizMatrix 5 months ago
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@NolanGoldfain The issue is that your 'facts' are not actually facts. I have asked you several times to provide any kind of evidence to support you 'facts' and you simply can not.
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@closed aperture,my friend,i have tried to help you ,but whenever I state a fact,you tell me it is nonsense.I will say that anyone who has contributed significantly to humanity from Pythagorus to Newton ,Einstein and even those who havent such as Darwin were men who believed in God ,but now you will tell me that Darwin didnt believe in God and that this is also nonsense,so look up what I have said.
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@closed aperture,my friend,i have tried to help you ,but whenever I state a fact,you tell me it is nonsense.I will say that anyone who has contributed significantly to humanity from Pythagorus to Newton ,Einstein and even those who havent such as Darwin were men who believed in God ,but now you will tell me that Darwin didnt believe in God and that this is also nonsense,so look up what I have said.I must now bid you good luck and fairwell
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@closed aperture,now i must part with these words,you must look and study yourself,dont take anyones word for anything,not my word and not dawkins.Dont think because he is famous it means something,
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@closed aperture,now the problem with Dawkins being himself a man of faith and yet denying faith is like this,if scientific evidence points away from evolution and yet it is taught as gospel,the truth is that the world saw fools like this before and they dont stay around very long,i cant give the guy grace if even his old colleages laughed at his arguments since he never studied theology but is a geologist
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
And Dawkins has faith to believe a whale became a cow since no one saw this yet 3 million people met God at mount sinai and when the jews returned to Israel it was found that communities who had no contact such as the jews of Yemen and the Russian Jews carried the exact same book of law and they were exiled 2000 years ago
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@closed aperture,yes certianly,evolution through species,there is no proof for,only evolution within a species,now this is well known thing,for a whale to become a cow it needs to undergo 50 000 physiological changes and yet science science says that it takes a cell 5 billion years to become 2 cells.Yes the human chromosome came to be in the same way humans came to be as i have said
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain It would appear that your problem with evolution is simply that you do not understand what it is or how it works...
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain "science says that it takes a cell 5 billion years to become 2 cells." Again this is absolute nonsense. Do you have anything to support this claim?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain Scientific evidence points away from evolution? Absolute nonsense. Can you give me a single piece of evidence that disproves evolution? Whilst you are at it maybe you can explain how the human chromosome 2 has come to be without using evolution?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain You have either ignored my previous question or simply didn't understand it, so let me put it to you again. Do you think it is right to call a child a Christian child if they are not an actual Christian?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@closed apertureand it is very immoral to continue to teach something when scientific evidence points away from it.By the way,the soldier who discovered tectonic plate theory at the time of ww1 was not accepted by geologists for nearly half a century.They refused to go against their dogma and admitted they would not go against accepted belief untill they could no longer deny this,that the earth used to be one large continent
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@closedaperture,i dont see why it is morally wrong to call a child a christian or jewish child,it would be immoral to call the child a stupid child.Dawkins believes in evolution and this is immoral from a scientific view because the missing links darwin spoke of have never been found .Today scientific evidence points so strongly away from evolution
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@closed aperture,and why from his other segment does he say that 66 people who had miraculous healing in Brazil is not scientific because millions of people go there for cures to the one catholic place.Would it be illogical for me to believe in plato since i only know about him through 1 person called aristotle.
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain The question isn't how many people had so called 'miraculous' healing, the question is was their healing actually miraculous? If you want to discuss miracles then you first need to define what a miracle is.
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@Closed Aperture,yes sure all of them are weak.why is it wrong to label a child ?what is he talking about?He says its wrong,but in what way is it wrong?
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain Do you believe it is ok to label someone as something they are not? Do you think it is ok to label a child as a Christian if they are not an actual Christian?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
I must say that Dawkins has very weak arguments,anyone with a philosophical or logical mind can hear they are very weak.As King Solomon says in Ecclesiastes that more intellegence can cause greater sadness,and I thought I understood this verse in Ecclesiastes,but after hearing Richard Dawkins speak,I no longer understand this verse
NolanGoldfain 6 months ago
@NolanGoldfain "I must say that Dawkins has very weak arguments" Can you give me an example of one of Dawkins arguments that is supposedly weak?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
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majorl311 6 months ago
@majorl311 Still worth more than the bible, probably sells better too.
ajax515 5 months ago
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@ajax515 one question for you first so man evolved you say from the the soup of all creatures,my question is ,God made man in His image and gave man dominion over all the other creatures ,did you notice how man has dominion over all the earth and its creatures also,so that means that God said it and it is so,now if man is just a member of the ape family then man is nothing special and this is the trojan horse whereby God can be booted out ,all this is told of in the Bible my friend !
majorl311 5 months ago
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@ajax515 Evidence is like this far away from you,google" archeology proves the Bible true",find all the evidence there ,watch this video i found it with google ,you see if you wanted to find the truth you would find it ,God loves those who love HIM,seek GOD and you will find GOD ,people simply don't find God because in their hearts they don't want to!
/watch?v=4e20Cq5yob4
majorl311 5 months ago
you know what i hate about this? I always think i'm such a genius when i think about reasons why atheism is better, and than i watch his debates, and all my points have already been discovered. makes me sad :(
fourevertwentyseven 6 months ago
Atheism is the only way to world peace.
atheist382 6 months ago 95
@atheist382 Combined with a basic humanist or similar positive ideology,
Atheism in itself isn't an ideology it is a perspective that there are no gods when confronted with the lack of evidence to support the theory of supreme beings. religions have ideologies built into there structure that on general are more damaging towards society when people take the writings seriously (thankfully most do not) as from a theists perspective its not just an individuals opinion but "the word of god".
adi1000 6 months ago
@atheist382 No, cos the powers that be will find another equally as pathetic excuse to go to war.
derekmcgoldrick 5 months ago
@atheist382 Do you have any evidence to support your theory? None? I see…
Backstabbio 5 months ago
@atheist382 what is the world peace?
Rubenrawalisampang 4 months ago
@atheist382 What replaced religion in China. The belief in individual power... the murdering of tens of millions who didn't conform to everything that was "new"....teachers, for example. now it's all about money "to grow rich is glorious" as proclaimed by one of their current leaders.
the problem is deeper.....the psychological need to identify with possessions, ideologies, people....ultimately it's the need for love....and if people can accept that they possess the love they are seeking
sd62t833 4 months ago
@atheist382 Tell that to my hateful atheist profiteering boss. it is not religion that is evil, it is human beings that have the evil in them.
YEELKEED 4 months ago
@atheist382 what about Buddhism?
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@atheist382 HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The only thing that brought us close to world peace is capitalism and nothing more. And in what conceivable way could atheism bring world peace?
Iruth27 3 months ago
Richard knows just how unstable Human beings are so is always careful not to say the wrong things to MAKE THEM GO BIZURK
onofomi 6 months ago
there is an atheism with a small a and an Atheism with a capital A. There are theists with a small t and theists with a capital T. When major authors take to attacking major religions and claiming the world would be saved or better off being Atheist, that is not a small a. I am not even sure how an Atheist can live with a label of antithesis and not a proactive title of what they do believe in, and thus call themselves . But Scientists are not limited to atheists, that is a fact.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
Dawkins says the Muslim will not be criticized for his faith initiative to blow himself up as a "suicide bomber" but he does not offer the same intolerance for the Secular Atheist Anarchists groups that want to save the planet and agree with Karl Marx on killing hundreds of millions of people for the Revolution. They go about with a Phoenix Bird on their chest and a Green Party label and do the same as the Jihadists. Where is the improvement that Science made on impressionable kids ?
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione you do not quite understand atheism is not an ideology or belief system. You can be an anarchist atheist or a viciously conservative atheist. Religion is different as it is an ideology and can be very easily interpreted to justify extreme behaviour atheism cannot be used in such a way
Fenrirsdoom 6 months ago
@Fenrirsdoom if Atheism was not itself a belief system, it would be meaningless as a topic of discussion. The unity of Atheists to accomplish a goal, causes it to be a system of belief, otherwise , from what platform do they achieve a consensus of purpose ? There must be a system if a group think exists that has a political will and a social agenda. Otherwise, Atheists would be intellectual loners, a random miscellaneous class with no cohesion , no agenda or reason to be so named.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione atheists are only joined on one issue and that is the fact that they do not believe in God the fact that more atheists are attacking religion is due to the fact that people believe religion to deserve a respect it does not and because religion is wreaking havoc throughout the world. People do not do things in the name of atheism. People who are atheists do things for other reasons. Once again atheism is simply the rejection of the idea of God nothing else
Fenrirsdoom 6 months ago
@Fenrirsdoom I do recognize that Atheists can differ on politics and social matters. But I do not call such people to be Atheists if all they have is no belief in God. To have no belief in God, is like having no taste for the Theater. Okay, so you don't like Music or Art, Poetry and do not like Politics at all. That does not make you an anti- anything. Lacking a belief in God does not make you Atheist, but having a belief that Science proves there is no need for God is Atheist.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione actually then your definitions are completely skewed. An atheist by definition is someone who believes there is no evidence for the existence of God.
Fenrirsdoom 6 months ago
Please do not use Sweden as proof of a successful Secular Scientific Society. Every time a small airplane crashes in Sweden, they send out the Search Party and dig up several thousand bodies.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
Converts both to religion or to atheism are total zealots, they make broad sweeping and often ridiculous statements , things are always seeming only black or white. good or bad and there is not a reason to debate them. Richard Dawkins is a Atheist Convert with a Scientific Argument for his own Zealotry, But he cannot show any prior civilization built on his theories and cannot then prove his case about his revisionist world view , and so he is locked in his Ivory Tower.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione “Richard Dawkins is a Atheist Convert with a Scientific Argument for his own Zealotry.” Richard Dawkins simply does not believe in God. If this offends you in some kind of way then tough, you are just going to have to get over it. You are free to believe whatever you want to believe, just like Dawkins, and many others are free to not believe that a God exists.
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione “He cannot show any prior civilization built on his theories and cannot then prove his case about his revisionist world view.” WTF are you talking about?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@ClosedAperture It is about using humanity as a scientific experiment in progress. To reinvent history, you cause a Revolution. You use propaganda to force people to think differently than was the "convention" and then you pursue an uncharted course. We have had three centuries since Galileo and yet thousands of years since Moses. To just abandon one for the other, takes allot of Zealotry, because there is no record of success that a Scientific Society can create a "New World Order"
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
The interviewer interrupts too much. I want to hear the guy answer a question without being interrupted.
nlee035 6 months ago
Dawkins avoids that fact that children of Atheists are more likely to embrace the same world view, and he claims the children are freer thinkers, because of the parents world view, as Atheists.This is not good Science, the power of Parents to foster beliefs in their children, are the same , whether they are Atheists making their children the same in view, or if they are Catholic orJewish and making their children adopt the view. A Convert to Atheism is as much a Zealot as any other Convert.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
@CarmineFragioneIt appears that both yourself and Mr Sakur have failed to understand the point which Dawkins is making. Labelling someone as something they are not is wrong. To call a child a ‘Christian child’ without actually knowing that they are in fact a Christian is not just wrong, but plain stupid.
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione It appears that both yourself and Mr Sakur have failed to understand the point which Dawkins is making. Labelling someone as something they are not is wrong. To call a child a ‘Christian child’ without actually knowing that they are in fact a Christian is not just wrong, but plain stupid.
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@ClosedAperture I told you that Christian is an adjective, it means that one has been blessed, to be anointed by a father, who gives wisdom and teaching and assures the life of the child, and so to be Christian, is not a narrow definition , but a very wide and broad term that all ancient civilizations understood, the Christian is a Greek term , borrowing from both the Bible and all Ancient History to mean " Gifted from the Teacher" and thus Christian is a perfect sense term to use.
CarmineFragione 6 months ago
@CarmineFragione We can debate the definition of the word Christian all you want, but you simply can not be Christian if you do not believe in the Christian God. So I will ask you again, do you believe it is right to label a child as a Christian child if they are not an actual Christian?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
I'm sorry but logical fallacies are not Hard Talk. They are Troll Talk.
ZialusPT 6 months ago 42
this guy is supposed to be a scientist? He commits one of the most elementary errors: confirmation bias. He only points out the worse case scenarios to support why religion ought to be eliminated. The problem is that he is a biologist who is trying to be a philosopher and quite frankly he is not equipped to deal with the issue. I think Daniel C. Dennett does a better job at analyzing the issue.
hexnyc 6 months ago
@hexnyc Do you understand what a confirmation bias is? Having a belief in a God can cause harm, Dawkins is not being biased by highlighting this fact. Yes a belief in God can do some good, but can you give me a single example of something good that can only be achieved through a belief in God? Dawkins doesn't want, nor expect, religion to be eliminated, he simply wants people to think more critically and rationally, surely this is a good thing?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
@ClosedAperture yes I believe I do, when a person's bias lead them to find evidence that supports their claims and they willingly chooses not to find evidence that denies their claims. In other cases the person is not even aware that they are doing this. Of course he is being biased because he only sticks to the evidence of when belief in god causes harm, what about the times when belief in god causes good things to happen? That is a fact too. Your 2 question is strange. Right be critical.
hexnyc 6 months ago
@hexnyc I am going to assume that you have read The God Delusion? If so then you would know that Dawkins states several times that religion and a belief in a God can be of some good to some people, however it is undeniable that this belief can also cause harm to some people. How is this being biased?
ClosedAperture 6 months ago
Just as much, if not more, harm has been done by the name of rational scientific knowledge as the religions.
Religions are not the only subject of faith. So are atheism, rationalism, capitalism, Marxism etc.
What is actually dangerous is to stop critically reflecting on ourselves and what we believe is normal, true, valid, legitimate, lawful etc. All belief systems are equally prone to ridding our practices of critical self-reflection.
sshiga1 7 months ago
@sshiga1 Atheism and rationalism are subject to faith? Atheism is simply the non belief in a God, and rationalism is the very opposite of faith. There is no faith involved in either.
ClosedAperture 7 months ago
This interviewer is so frustrating. Typical product of the modern BBC. Sigh.
JZZ31 7 months ago 2
Sackur challenged all of Dawkins's most prominent opinions, and Dawkins backed them up like a champ. Maybe creationists should look at videos like this and steer away from his occasional stumbling on words.
FreestyleFonda 7 months ago
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@everymanforu God is Good? Is this the same God that says that homosexuals should be put to death for simply being homosexual? Lev.20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
ClosedAperture 7 months ago 3
@everymanforu Dream on.
phantommate 7 months ago
@everymanforu coolstorybro. now explain why
emptybookreader 7 months ago
@everymanforu
You are lucky that your conscious will die with your body or else you would be very disappointed...
ihr0ppa 7 months ago
the interviewer shits himself!! haha 3:40
raelnotnot 7 months ago
@SinnersBurnInHell
7)For a god that is supposed to be omnipotent and all forgiving, he sure is one hell of an uncompromising asshole. If your god would torture people in hell for eternity, regardless of their inherent goodness and merits, based only on whether they believe in him or not, I spit on you, your religion, and your god.
Good day.
wengsiang1 7 months ago
@SinnersBurnInHell 5)"Science has yet to be right about anything" Are you kidding me? The LAWS of physics are LAWS for a reason. Science is based on testable, provable FACTS, unlike religion that is based on a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a storybook written decades after the supposed events occured.
6)Of course it matters that I don't like what's in the bible. Would you worship someone with a loose moral code, that endorses slavery? Oh wait you already do.
wengsiang1 7 months ago
@wengsiang1 Science is based on testable, provable FACTS, unlike religion ...
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We discover the existence of an objective law from within the totality of phenomena that it is capable of interpreting. If, then, the establishment of scientific truth is possible only by means of direct sensation, the majority of scientific truths will have to be discarded, since many scientific facts cannot be perceived by means of sensory experience or testing.
1tabligh 7 months ago
The atheist Delusion!
Your delusions that science has put out the notion of God is purely *rhetorical* and has nothing to do with logical method, because even thousands of scientific experiments could not possibly suffice to demonstrate that no non-material being or factor exists.
Your claim is nothing more than a *fanatical* illusion based on unproven theories. Views such as these derive directly from a system of thought centered on materialism; within it, ....
1tabligh 7 months ago
everything is defined and delimited with reference to materialism.
To interpret materialism in such a sense is in the final analysis strictly meaningless; it would be a superstitious notion involving the perversion of truth, and to regard it as scientific would, in fact, be *treason* to science.
Even if the followers of a religious school of thought had no proofs for their claim, ...
1tabligh 7 months ago
to conclude firmly and forcibly that non- being reigns beyond the sensory realm would be a non-scientific choice, based on imagination and speculation.
Some people try to propagate this *fantasy* in the garb of science and to present their choice as having been dictated by scientific thought. In the final analysis, however, the denial involved in such an assertion is unworthy of science and philosophy, and even *contradicts* empirical logic.
1tabligh 7 months ago
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How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
1tabligh 7 months ago
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Then how can the atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
1tabligh 7 months ago
@SinnersBurnInHell
1)Why must there have been a creator? Just because science can't explain everything doesn't mean a fairy created everything from nothing.
2)You do not KNOW god is real. You BELIEVE god is real.
3) You do not know those religions worship false gods. For all you know Allah exists, and you will burn in hell for being a christian
4)The same reason why you risk burning in pasta hell for not believing in the Flying spaghetti monster, because there's no proof to support either
wengsiang1 7 months ago