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  • To me, this whole religion deal is bullshit... Hhmmmm I find very interesting how religious people love to criticize atheist.... I don't need no god

  • the interviewer is Jeremy Paxman. He is certainly not a fool. He is simply playing devil's advocate.

  • Interviewer is a  fool

  • This is one of the smartest guys who interviewed Dawkins.

  • there was no hell in the old testament, and there is no evidence that Jesus lived, as long as you are happy with who you are and what you are and whatever you believe and it makes you ok with this world and life then go on by I agreed with this author.

  • "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one"

    - George Bernard Shaw

    Love his books, Atheist's ftw!

  • Man, everytime I see any debate about this I always just imagine movies where beings are sitting down talking about if all of there gods or the invisible pink unicorn exists and loves them. And the audience is just sitting snickering, thinking these people are so stupid to believe this stuff.

    Well, that's exactly us. It's just shoved down your throats so much that you think it's normal.

    There is no god, no purpose, no meaning. Live your life or kill yourself - simple choice.

  • Those were some pretty difficult questions he asked, I think Prof. Dawkins handled them quite expertly.

  • i guess tonybonez , will have to change is name to tony bonehead, hey moron next time you challenge some one with your smart Alec mouth don't be such a religious poser, do some research and don't depend on your own uninformed opinion , there are to many of you know it all guys that turn out to know nothing

  • The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists,"Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name.

  • So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language?,What Hebrew name was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell? In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel It contains

  • no mention of Satan,in fact Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer." so you can see no such thing as the devil there fore no hell , and wen you attempt to debate me smart ass make sure you know your facts , and not the fairytale you where weened on

  • Belief is understanding and accepting something due to logical purpose or blatant evidence. Faith is accepting something and holding it as the truth while ignoring any evidence or logic that go against it. Faith is for the weak, and if God made us, God would have us use our virtues. Understanding, Doubt, Curiosity, and the ability to obtain and pass on Wisdom, simply and utterly abolish the idea of faith.

  • how can you be so sure God doesn't exist. I throw my chips in with Jesus JUST IN CASE. No offense to atheists, but don't you worry at all about hell even if its a 1 in 5 chance.

  • If there is a God and he would send me to hell for using my curiosity (that he would have bestowed upon me) then i would not desire to spend time in heaven at all, for the creator (God) would be deemed a hypocrite and unfit for the wisdom that a God would require.

  • understand gods mind is impossible and judging his worth is even harder!! its not that u go to hell for HAVING curiosity, but for NOT HAVING faith

  • No. Faith is rejected by all. Faith is the lowest form of any belief or understanding of any concept what-so-ever. Lets pretend their is a God, for a moment. He created us, with certain "senses" or "virtues" like curiosity, doubt, and even understanding. Faith is not one of these.

    "Faith: Not wanting to know what is true." -Nietzsche

    Faith is opposing and ignoring all evidence or even logic that may simply demolish the idea of something (in this case God).

    Belief and faith are different however

  • Christians also have curiosity, doubt, and even understanding, but with the added insurance policy of faith. Please dont tell me you look up to Nietzsche for your morality he openly says that morality needs to be overcome (beyond Good and Evil). Who ignores logic, we may simply have different modes of reasoning, from the christian perspective it is the atheist who fails to properly explain his logic and coherently stick to it. I easily can explain my position and stick to it.

  • Did i suggest christian's were lacking any virtues, no. I also did in no way relate Nietzsche to morality, i have read more than my fair share of Nietzsche and i know his views very well. Including his theory that God is Dead. I also do not care for your position, nor your perspective. Please do not stray from the topic, for you did not respond to anything of what i said, you just simply derived into a whole new discussion. If God existed he would not send people to hell for absence of faith.

  • You and other atheists often refer to Nietzsche as you did below, I was simply pointing out that he believes morals need to be overcome and was a major influence on the Nazis.

    "If God existed he would not send people to hell for absence of faith"

    OMFG r u serious...again I ask HOW CAN U BE 100% SURE OF THAT. please adress my point and the bigger point of the benefits of atheism, considering christians are happier while atheists are more suicidal (statistically), and we get an insurance policy

  • "christians are happier while atheists are more suicidal (statistically)"

    please provide evidence to back up this claim. methinks you might be talking out your ass.

  • @tonybonez I thought god was all loving- surely a loving creator would not damn a person to burn in hell for all eternity to equate to a life time.

  • @RiokaSon

    obviously you have never read the Bible.

    Only through faith can a person go to heaven and avoid hell.

  • @tonybonez and obviously still not a fair judgement- nor a good justification to be damned in hell for ETERNITY. A life time of non-faith is still not equated to ETERNITY. THAT is fact.

  • i have faith that wen you die you will rot in the ground like all of us , and that will be that , to think otherwise is just fantasy and avoidance.

  • no we don't worry about hell, hahah only religious idiots worry about some thing that doesn't exist .

  • holy canarchy, the first human in the existence of earth to be able to 100% prove that hell does not exist....... everybody on youtube hail to the genius mind of adlerbr1. he has once and for all disproven heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The problem is there is no just in case. You either believe or you don't. If you don't believe it carrying around a cross and praising the lord's name every now and then shouldn't fool a divine being of what your actual beliefs are.

  • Hell is unlikely to even exists. And if I were to "place my bet" on Jesus, wouldn't you think that an all-knowing and all-powerful God is capable of seeing through someone pretending to have faith, consequently punishing that person either way?

    It's called Pascal's wager and it's one of the most ridiculous arguments to believe in the judeo-christian god.

  • ♥FSM♥

  • well, that's easy isn't it. let me try. if the truth were known about sunra79 you'd all be very suprised. what he hides would defile his mission. support your claims or shut the fuck up.

  • Yeah, Mister "I know Dawkins' dirty secrets", put your facts where your keyboard is. I wanna know what Dawkins' mission is, other than trying to rid the world of inane superstition and irrational dogma.

  • You know that the proof that Jezus had exists was way better then persons like Julius Ceasar did exist.

  • sorry, not a winner, please try again.

  • sorry, its true

  • i'm sure you've heard that it's true. but that doesn't make it so.

  • its said by almost all historcie. Because its just a fact. About Jezus are really a lot of archeologic places found and a lot of letters. In the bible is just a part of them.

    About Julius Ceasar is a lot less proof about the existence of him.

  • julius caesar is mentioned in numerous secular contemporary sources. jesus isn't. the earliest mention of jesus doesn't appear until decades after his supposed death. and they are most certainlty not secular.

  • nope, there are also hunderds of letters of people who didnt know each other and wrote exactly the same thing about Jezus.

  • when you make outrageous claims like these, please cite references.

  • i got them but they are all in my language. not english.

  • lol. whatever man.

  • The language of idiocy.

  • post them anyway.

  • Plaats ze toch maar hier, dan zal ik ze naar het Engels vertalen voor de mensen die geen Nederlands spreken. ;-)

    Post them anyway, then I'll translate it into English for the people who don't speak Dutch. ;-)

  • bear in mind the population density at that time was a lot sparcer than it is today and with the literacy rates of places outside of islam or greece i highly doubt there would even be 3 letters saying anything about him.

    now SHOW REFERENCES to these letters.

  • there is absolutely no evidence that Jesus lived , there are no original documents ,

    every thing they gave at the Vatican is copies of copies .

  • Dawkins is such a silly man.

  • i seems to me that his major motive is for people to think for themselves and question god. I myself believe that everyone should question god. If you were born in church.. step out for a while and question. What I don't like is someone that is an extreme atheist or extreme religious fool. Dr. Dawkins will not say there isnt a god "God almost certainly does not exist" but why does he think people are crazy who believe.

  • when did he say that believers were "crazy"?

  • he says it in his own words

  • The speaker denies the existence of soul, and therefore he himself is no more than a dead person. He should not discuss about emotion, feeling, happiness and many others because all these things are unjustified according to science and its branches.

  • Islam tells you about the past, the present, and the future. Allah knows exactly what you will say, see, hear ,feel in hereafter though all these have not happened yet. This is called 'the faith to the unseen' and is not blindly grasped without refering to the holy al-Qur'an. This thing makes us different in faiths.

  • keep clinging to your fairy tales. as for me, i need evidence. allah is a figment of your imagination.

  • So tell me exactly HOW did Islam find about the past present and the future? Can Islam tell me what the lotto numbers will be this week? I don't think so. Islam is full of shit mate and so are you you total idiot!!

  • "all these things are unjustified according to science and its branches." they're justified just fine by science.

  • lol retard read his book what he says is only about 1/50 of what he describes in the book, he puts quotes and the soul dosnt exist and he is not a dead person becuase his brain is working, humans are immortal to tell the true, since matter and energy cannot be destroyed so humans are immortal but the brain dies out and our sences die out too so we think we die but only our brain does

  • when exactly did he deny the existence of ANYTHING?

  • I LIKE ATHEIST

  • Love of children *CRINGE*

  • random?

  • u know, not everything has to have a reason or logic behind it,.<> if we do live in a rational world where's the fun in dat<>, life is meant to be exciting, fun and unpredictable, dis guy needs some common sense<>!

  • sure, i suppose you think flying planes into buildings is fun and exciting?

  • good point, but do u really think dat 'their' religion has anything to do with dat? it was bound to happen whether there was religion or not,'not just middle eastern countries hate america u know', religion was just their alibi, and if u r trying to say that religion has cause more deaths than science think again? don't get me wrong science is great but science has done some pretty bad things,> i believe in science nd in God, but there is more to life than what this dude tells ya,'

  • he's not trying to tell you what life's about, he's telling you how stupid the idea of a personal god is. and he's right. when's the last time someone killed in the name of science?

  • i think the problem here is somehow these people think dat religion is the cause of deaths in many cases, and they can not accept the fact that a person is capable of killing for him/herself, stopping blaming others, such as religion, for the stupidity of others, those people choose to do such things and they should be responsible for it 'not religion'.< nd y would someone who truly believes in God kill his own creation<

  • in many cases religion does cause death. if you worship the monsterous evil villan of a god in the christian bible then i don't see why you'd have much of a problem killing just about anybody.

  • dats exactly my point, how is it religions fault if someone decided to do the wrong thing? TRUE religion believes in peace, what i'm saying is u gotta own up to your own responsibilities and actions<

  • who are you to say what TRUE religion even is, much less what it believes in. religion is a detrimental force in our world today.

  • exactly. that's why we need to get rid of religion.

  • well, didn't GOD kill his own creations when the six FUCK flooded the earth?

    dude, there is no god. here's a quote for you: "He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave"

  • ohh yea! microsoft flight simulator FTW!

  • Wow, I like the way this interviewer really took it to Richard Dawkins with hard questions, and I like the way Richard Dawkins has clearly thought about all this and was ready for pretty much all of them (I know it was prolly edited).

  • are you kidding me?

    He interupted Dawkins quite a few times mid-sentence and he asked several questions in a very condescending manner, this guy has no comprehension whatsoever of what objectivity is, and that is actually one of the groundrules of reporters and journalists.

  • Another thing: how can you religious nutters sleep at night? almost all of the wars, mass genocides and mass suicides etc. in history were because of religion. Almost all forms of hatred, racism for example, are started because of religion.

    If you want to argue with me feel free, but i will win the argument. My IQ is over 220.

  • If you want at least a debate in the sense of the word, since christians can't debate well, there are other videos with better debates going on. A good one is on the video:

    Proving that nobody can get into heaven.

  • Those are just a few, but you get the picture. If you bought a bible and ripped out everything science has basically disproved here is what you would be left with:

    The front cover.

    The back cover.

    And if you think im picking on christianity, i hate all religions based around a god.

  • The god hypothesis answers how we got here correct?

    HOW DID HE GET HERE?!?!

    According to the bible the world was made in 6 days, less than 10000 years ago correct?

    Because of the hubble telescope we are able to tell that the universe is older than 6 billon years, and because of archaeology/geology we can tell the earth is far older than 10000 years old.

  • omg that reporter was an arsehole... totally biased... typical americans. I will admit some americans are smart enough not to believe but most of them are shunned by the rest of you retards, unable to get any job of a decent position.

    And yes i am being biased but the truth is: the existence of god not only is it an approaching 0 equasion, but the chances of your god being right are even lower, and the existance of god raises the following questions: (next post :P)

  • Huh?...that host is American?LOL..not with that accentROFLMAO...Talk about delusional...If you're an atheist...don't stand up and be counted among us...if you can't distinguish a British accent from an American....I think you you may have credibility problems

  • That reporter was an idiot, he was being totally bias and more or less picked questions where he could try and defend theism.

  • well you are right but yes i think for some it really is an impossible step to make. its really scary to think of there being no God, for me it is anyway.

  • Then think about the possibility of an infinite amount of equally powerful, equally plausible gods exsisting based on just faith based reasoning. The probability of just one of them being the right one is so close to zero that to claim that this one god is the right one even though the chances are far beyond 1/infinite to be right.

  • That's very hard!

  • what's very hard?

  • Why does he at the end say something like "I don't believe we were put here to be comfortable" - well then who does he believe put us here? And if he rejects the notion of God then surely human feelings play no real role in what he believes to be the meaning of life- the "propagation of DNA?"

  • Is it really difficult to realize that WE WERE NOT "PUT" HERE?

  • I love the truth..science is universal..relegion was invented by prehistoric man that was afraid of the world he lived..

  • exactly

  • This is a really stupid statement. Obviously you know nothing about religion.

  • please elaborate.

  • The church of England (the only one to have an atheist as one of its bishops) states that God is the best working hypothesis at this point. The same way that ether were and electrons are used in science.

    The Dalai Lama says that he is open to scientific progress and will abandon his religious beliefs if science proves them invalid. Until then he will retain them.

    There is nothing prehistoric or unscientific in either of those beliefs.

  • what does that have to do with religion being invented by prehistoric man?

  • he needs to take some speech classes would be the better way to say it. He say ummmm alot in the interview and is having a hard time getting the words out clearly. I love the book and the interview

  • he needs some speech lesson(dawkins) but good interview

  • what?

  • You rational science types need to get off your high-horses. . . . You can't figure out the cure for the common cold I had two weeks ago; yet you've figured out that there is no God. I'm impressed - not!

  • you're a fuckin' moron.

  • well at least they try and society wouldn't be possible without science.

  • Dawkins claim is that god is only about as likely to exist as unicorns, fairys or sphagetti monsters.

    It is the task of those who claim that god does exist to prove it not science to disprove it.

    Viruses are much older on the evolutionary scale than humans. Compared to them we are a 'young species.' our immune systems are not well adapted yet to fighting them.

  • you idiot...the common cold cant be cured because it constantly changes, which is why you cant develop a defence for it. These two things have Nothing to do with each other, adnn trying to link them simply shows how much an imbecile you are.

  • we all knew it. we just needed somebody to say it.

  • Can't we all just get along?

  • LOL HE KNOWS FSM.

    RAMEN!

  • The Government lies to its citizens.

    The citizens are Christians who worship a middle eastern God (of myth and folklore and they believe that crap is real)

    I would say our Government has a good reason to lie to the idiots living in this country.

    JQ

  • maybe not a good reason but.... certainly a good tool hey;) never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

  • Politicians who wish to become President of the United States are not expected to know anything in particular before becoming president. They do not have to be political scientists, economists, or even lawyers; they need not have studied international relations, military history, or resource management. They need only be expert fund raisers, compose themselves well on television, and be indulgent of certain myths.

  • Religious faith is a desperate marriage of hope and ignorance and it limits our scope of reason in our dealings with other human beings.

  • God thinks all people like you are an embarrassment to creation.

  • when did mental patients get internet access?

  • RIGHT NOW.

  • hahaha dont insult mental patients they have a deeper imagination

  • lol. that was so harsh... deserved... but harsh.

  • "Truth" is the furthest thing from Dawkin's mind. He's not even scientific. He believes in the "Big Bang" and the "primordial soup", which he has NEVER seen, and there is NO evidence for. Yet, he'd rather attack others about God, whom they believe in and never seen. Yet, the complexity of life is the evidence of an intelligent, all powerful Creator, and nothing else. Dawkins is a Darwinist, not a scientist.

  • wow, you're a bright one aren't ya?

  • There is plenty of evidence for the big-bang and evolution. If I raped your mother, then she went to the police, and they found my cum in her pussy, then the evidence points to me as the culprit. Just because nobody saw it, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. If Dawkins isn't a scientist then your not stoopid

  • lol XXX u just don't understand christians so what is the point you are making yourself look childish infront of me and i'm younger than you LMAO!

    Toddle pip x

  • i was raised a christian, almost every single person i know is a christian. i understand christians. i don't mean to be rude, but i think you'r arguing a little over your head.

  • Deluded people don't know they're deluded.

  • p.s i'm a girl so yeah your smart NOT!

  • thanks for brightening my day. you really crack me up.

  • Oh grow up how old are u 28? more like if you take off the 2 think about that cause your so stupid. Yes you can be stuck in the middle it's called a devided heart.

    Toddle pip :D X

  • they don't they are like me they just don't know sorry if i'm posting away here my comments aren't coming up

  • first you say you're a christian (unlike your parents) then you say that you (and your parents) "just don't know". whatever man, have a nice day.

  • But at the end no one knows

  • there not anything cause they sort of beleive so you can't say either i guess

  • lol, they sort of believe in what? jesus?

  • I'm not against anyone here before u all start but i noticed in these videos of Dawkins that he says all the time that christians only believe in God because there family told them to that is not true no one is a christian in my family i became one myself and no one brianwashed me i have alwasy thought about God and beleived in him.

  • he never said that "all" christians are indoctrinated by their parrents. but you must agree that the vast majority are.(question) if your parrents aren't christian, then what are they?

  • religion is for the weak minded its all a sham the world would be alot better if thier was no religion...oh and fuck you chrimunteanu4u your a douche bag

  • that wasn't bad at all. i've heard such horrible things about dawkins that i expected him to have horns and long sharp teeth.

  • I'd Just like to point out that some users such as:- praise75 can't deal with comments unless they pre-approve them! I think this goes against free speech and the youtube ideal.

    I've even been prohibited from commenting on praise75

    vidoes!is this what we want from YouTube? It seems to me that if you can't deal with peer review, you should'nt be posting! If you agree please register your disgust with Youtube!

  • i agree with you that it's chicken shit of someone to screen their posts. but, that doesn't mean i have the right to tell them they can't do it.

  • But you have the right to say you disagree with the policy

  • but i don't know if i do dissagree with it. i think he should be able to do what he wants on his own channel. just as you should on yours.

  • Bad things happen when good people do nothing!

  • do nothing about what? i believe he should be able to run his channel as he pleases. just as i believe that you should be able to run your channel as you please. how is that not fair?

  • If you want to really see the power of God, type "Submissive Jesus" in the search window.

  • god prefers an athiest, and Athiests nead to eat too

  • dawkins is a money maker.he is making money out of you fools.

  • i was wondering why they asked me for cash when i got his books, thanks for pointing that out for me. i would have never guessed that he was making any money. you sir are a genius.

  • -please note my sarcasm in the above post-

  • Dawkins will never make as much money as the racket the religions have going, weather or not his goal is money or simply truth. The truth attracts money imo, if he was an uneducated believer in Christ I suppose he'd do better...

  • His an atheist, not a Prophet. What do you expect him to do?

  • what?

  • Just adding to the DUUUH effect to the comment castmalibu left. He's selling a book, not a bible (which also cost money I don't know WTF he's talking about).

  • the man is right

  • good interview. Dawkins is a genuinely interesting man.

  • Genuinly missleading. The intention is obvious for the ones that know to read between the lines.

  • Dawkins believes that the concept of an "uncaused cause" is absurd, while at the same time positing and promoting the idea that matter is that uncaused cause that gave origin to living systems. A parodoxical and self-contradicting fellow indeed.

  • you're putting your own words in the mans mouth. or at very least extrapolating on what you believe his position to be. you should listen to what someone has to say before you start building strawmen.

  • Oh, by no means. Please feel free to clear up the air and try to explain for the rest of us dimwits what Mr. Dawkins believes about uncaused causes. Does dear Richie give room for uncaused causes or not?

  • did you hear him say a word about an uncaused cause? you made the claim, it is your job to back it up.

  • Yes. Many times. He categorizes matter as an uncaused cause.

  • science is continuously discovering new things, and a cause will be found. Science explains things in a way that religion cannot.

  • And what does science explain and religion not? Evolution maybe? Stupid

  • "stupid"

    What a compelling argument. Anyone who resorts to ridicule without backing it up with reason is very likely to end up being ridiculed themselves.

  • "Without backing it up with reason". Dawkins is nothing if not rational and provides his reasoning throughout.

  • dobannon, If you view my comment in the right context (threaded), you will see I'm not commenting on Dawkins, but a previous comment here.

  • Yes, sorry, and you're right.

  • great interviewer. ballsy enough to ask some REAL questions.

  • Real questions...huh. Maybe... But some stupid answers. Don't you think?

  • Great interview! Loved it.

  • What did you love? Share with us! Enlight us, please.

  • umm, i think it was the interview that she loved.

  • I did not ask you. Are you her lawyer? Let her answer. She's not your slave as you are for your masters!

    You are spreading just lies for them. The video is such a proof.

  • chrismunteanu4u, calm down, learn to take a joke. you seem a little high strung.

  • You cannot joke about this. Believe me I have a high sense a humour.

    I'll just post you a video for you and other atheists to think over it.

  • well? where's your video? i'm really anxious to think over it!

  • Not sure what's so ambiguous about my comment. Great Interview! I loved IT.. which clearly refered to the interview. To be more specific though, the eloquence of his answers to tough questions impressed me the most.