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  • lol@ the computer , i am sure its from the times when i was a child and hard-disk sizes came in the order of a few megabytes.

  • so sexy i want to lick this man

  • Wow that computer!!! Good thing it's 2012 now. :)

  • evolution has blessed you with nice legs Dr.Dawkins

  • oh hayyy. he was hot 

  • Aw, when CDs were new. I remember that.

  • nice computer

  • @BelieveandtrustJesus natural selection is what drives evolution,thats a well established fact.I just finished reading richards book "The greatest show on earth",I suggest you read it.Yes the big bang is a theory,but it does have a lot of evidence in favour of it.It may sound like we are talking about somthing with a mind because we are using a mind to think about it

  • @BelieveandtrustJesus the cause: natural selection, the effect: variety of life. Next redundant question please.

  • @FreeeeS It's actually the other way around.

  • He could have been a preacher, but the intelligent designer thought he would better serve as an opposition to His followers, forcing them to sharpen their arguments. :-)

  • oh man I did NOT expect to see those shorts!

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  • @BelieveandtrustJesus

    What is it that you don't understand?

    Let me put it like this.

    The chance of the big bang happening and creating life is so small that i don't even have a reference to go with the statement, BUT... The universe being around for an infinite amount of time also being the size that it is it, it was bound to happen. All life really is, is complex science and incredible luck.

  • If there was a "god" directing man to do his will, those shorts would not exist!

  • 2:07 first time seeing the title "Evolutionary Zoologist" attributed to Richard Dawkins, lol.

  • “The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”

    ― Richard Dawkins

  • DAMN fine legs on Dawkins! I hope he's still got those short shorts!

  • @Adlasyn - So when you die and your body leaves a fossil for our future generations to dig up , they can say with out a doubt, this man was put here by the Devil

  • Richard had nice legs in the 80s!!

  • Can all of this truly happen by chance? Is it really possible for everything to be perfect as it is, by accident?

  • @Bommaritolannalitto

    Nope, it coudlint, good spot.

  • the eye off fait obviusly also see miracles and signs in roadkills :P i found this out on youtube when i found an "strange animal" video of a roadkill

  • yup tht my bible belt....i live in GA sadly

  • How could man possible mingle with Dinosaurs, we would get our asses whooped, WE would have went extinct.

  • OH DEAR, THE SHORTS! THE SHORTS! ;)))

  • hahahahahaha CD´s they are brand new!! XD

    and btw... nice shorts :P

  • Richard Dawkins in hot shorts! Awsome! LOL

  • It's wonderful to see how people can have so many perspectives in life. Science is brilliant although I don't agree at all with some of its methods and still it has much knowledge yet to offer and many things are yet to come to our understanding. Thank you for this wonderful video. Makes you feel less lonely in a society full of dogmatism.

  • wearing his wife's shorts again?

  • nice shorts

    

  • Oh how ironic Texas has become. The evidence is already very abundant in their territory. Evidence such as dinosaur fossils which proves that the Bible is not only incomplete but also ABSURD. Animal extinction DID occur and the Bible never mentioned it. If the Biblical God is ALL KNOWING, he should have mentioned it in the Bible. If humans are really important to God, then why allow dinosaurs to live longer than we humans do? 200 mil. years of less intelligent beasts? Makes no sense.

  • 2:20 haha of course he's wearing a watch!

  • @thesawkid in modern times, this era was called the dark ages, generally starting with the fall of the roman empire in the 6th century: bad stuff!

  • @miretchin we don't call those the dark ages anymore.

  • LOL 6:46

  • I have a theory, what if christians ruled the world? Sounds scary, and it is. If they did, we would be under fascist government, so called "God" as the dictator. Instead of hitler and his nazi's, it would be christians. They would commit genocide to jehovah witness's. athiests, homosexuals, communists, scientists, muslims, mormans, and anyone who defiled their righteous bullshit. Under christian order, we would relive world war 2, except america wouldnt save us. Hail jesus, genoidal maniacs!

  • Jesus is the son of god and god is the son of a bitch. After his resurection he to became a son of a bitch. Praise be to god for he is a bastard.

  • I don't understand how Paley is "an old enemy of evolution." His ideas, maybe. His analogy of the watchmaker was coined long before the Origin of Species, so he was not responding to Darwin. In fact, Paley died years before Darwin was even born.

  • Whoa there, Richard Dawkins! Aren't you so sexy rocking those short shorts ;)

  • DAMN YOU SHORT SHORTS!

  • Didn't William Paley die over 30 years before the argument of natural selection was proposed? Therefore he himself could not have been an enemy of Evolution, but rather his half-baked argument was.

  • Science is to find a phenomenon, try to explain it, and see if the explanation works. If it doesnt work, it dies. If it works, it will live until it is proven false. Creationist set out for evidence for their already present hypothesis, and refuse to admit defeat when evidence takes the side of their opposition. Creationism is not Science, please.

  • "optical disk", lol.

  • Dawkins has sexy legs.

  • @MegaJimenez1234 Because of artificial selection caused by human induced breeding.

  • Dang, that moth eye was creepy.

  • 6:43 Who wears short shorts? :P

  • Happy 70th Birthday Richard <3

  • Are you people seriously too stupid to understand that Adlasyn was being facetious?

  • @Mowglieboy69 It doesn't matter. ;) Difference is.

  • But Shirley there can't still be people believing that dinosaurs and humans walked together by the futuristic date of 2011, right? ....right? ...anyone? ......(Bueller?)

  • Them down home folk clinging to there guns & bibles can't sell those footprints to put some gas in the pickup.

  • Haha, thx for explaining how a CD works. jk

  • The creature @1:01 is surrendering

  • Recently I have become a creationist. Because when I see something just so intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I know it could not possibly come about by chance. Dawkins was put on Earth by the devil to test the faith of believers, just like fossils ... and other facts.

  • @Adlasyn

    Hahahaha! You're funny.

  • @dawkinschannel That's actually a line from a British stand-up comedian, I forget his name but it's here on youtube somewhere.

  • @Adlasyn thank you for making me lol, funny guy

  • @Adlasyn LMFAO! you need therapy. 

  • @Adlasyn retard

  • @Adlasyn Richard Dawkins said, "I have not met one scientist who believes, that evolution is done by chance." Btw im para phrasing

  • @Adlasyn Truth is for itself. It exists, simply, it exists. That there may be no eyes to look upon it does not change the notion of itself for its own sake. Argument, therefore, could be said to be irrelevant.

  • @AuglereDeRosenkinde I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, it seems a little vague... The question of truth (i.e. epistemology) is hardly resolved. Nevertheless I don't see how what you're saying relates to my comment - did you reply to me by accident? :)

  • @AuglereDeRosenkinde heheheh don;t worr yabout it. I'm a poet, and was being philosophically obscure. hee hee. Jsut relax.

  • @Adlasyn again such a simplistic view of the world, it is extrordinary that eleven people actually approve of your comment. Do you think that "God" if he exists will do such a thing. Your asserition is almost as stupid as your religious bretheren who believe that he left behind dinosaur fossibles for humans to find in order to" test the faith of believers"

  • @piddleton If you're referring to that first comment on the top of the page: it's sarcasm!

  • @Adlasyn Duuuuuuude, nice steal =P

  • @Adlasyn Oh my I can already see the devil digging a hole and putting the fossils in it, then of course he laughed and went away tiptoeing, who knows maybe Santa Claus and the toothfairy helped him.

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  • @Adlasyn Nicely plagiarised from Stewart Lee

  • @Adlasyn Sounds like Bill HIcks

  • @Adlasyn At least have the decency to quote Steward Lee, instead of stealing his joke.

  • @Adlasyn A word for word quotation of Stewart Lee, but you are still a legend good sir.

  • @Adlasyn You know without evidence... that is where you went wrong.

  • @Adlasyn

    what's really unbelievable is the ends fanatics(all believers) will go to to support their need for a crutch in life. why not just end it, and leave us that are in awe of what has been wraught to spend our short lives in reverence of the real creator; TIME.

  • @Adlasyn hahahahahaahahahahahahahhahaha­hhahaahahahahhahaahhaahahahaha­hahahhahahahhahhhaahahahahahah­haahhahahahha. It must suck being stupid sorry =(

  • who wears short shorts lol still dig ya richard lol

  • I want that computer so much - some of old ones are vile but that one really is quite attractive (to match my cassette and record players and Remmie typewriter)

  • Read this book...absolutely loved it:)...I really dont get how people can still be clinging to ID.......Look at the human body....is that intelligent?..lol

  • well the yanks are just fucking backwards so who cares what they think.. now what does the rest of the world have to say on this matter?

  • damn Dawkins is young in this video.

  • haha, Who wears short shorts?

    Dawkins wears short shorts!

    =3

  • Moths are... dare I say cute? o.O

  • I never knew Dawkins had such sexy legs

  • Dawkins. Why is your voice so fucking sexy.

  • Nice Legs Dick.

  • wow check out that optical disk!

  • Optical disc, only just been released, lol!!!!!

  • The moth is awesome.

    : o

  • Richard "Sexy Legs" Dawkins debunks creationists in the homeland of scientific ignorance!

  • you gotta love the sorts.

  • @dawkinschannel Erm, you know IQ is based on a bell curve, right? It makes no sense to talk about having a percentage of someone's IQ.

  • I'm face-palming for just being an American! So embarrassing!

  • @2degucitas Just today on the bus I was talking about how ridiculous creationism is with some other people. and this old man suddenly cut in "they found dinosaur and human tracks together in the same time zone." I overlooked that he said time zone instead of time period, and explained that the misshapen tracks had been misinterpreted and were not human tracks but dinosaur, and that no Homo sapien has ever had feet that big. He just repeated himself. We had to ignore him.

  • @shrikechan Ugh. My in-laws used to tell their kids "oh, those evolutionists put those dinosaur bones together any way they wanted!" My poor husband had his first encounter with parental stupidity. If people are taught something they will repeat it until death, whether it's true or not. I'm constantly finding out how outdated my information is when talking with my kids!!! Good for them in telling me I'm wrong!!

  • The biggest mistake of Dawkin's life. . . The shorts he's wearing at 7:00

  • @Rinji It was '87....and he looks goooood

  • @77705000000000000000

    "Suddenly, the wolf appeared beside her. What are you doing out here, little girl? the wolf asked in a voice as friendly as he could muster.

    I'm on my way to see my Grandma who lives through the forest, near the brook, Little Red Riding Hood replied." (Little Red Riding Hood)

  • @dawkinschannel ..In The Name of Allah

    17:(49) They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"(50) Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,(51) "Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),- (Yet shall ye be raised up)!" then will they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say, "When will that be?" Say, "May be it will be quite soon!

  • @dawkinschannel

    so much fucking win

    cue Horatio shades

  • @AkamuSlayer YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!­!

  • @dawkinschannel lol nice answer i likeeee it

  • @77705000000000000000 ...In the Name of the Grimm Brothers...

    "Once upon a time, long, long ago a king and queen ruled over a distant land. The queen was kind and lovely and all the people of the realm adored her. The only sadness in the queen's life was that she wished for a child but did not have one." (Snow White)

  • The Watchmaker was not born with the with the ability to design a Watch. The ability of making that watch is a direct result of toolmaking EVOLUTION over centuries and teaching from generation to the next. The observer only see the end product of that process and assumes it had to be one Creator. But in reality it is the product of thousands of years of learning and trial.

  • Aah..the newcoming of the laser disc ^^ What sweet memories....Rebel Assault..*cough*

  • @baronsengir187 Many an hour wasted playing RA. :-)

  • I gotta get me one of those crazy "Optical Discs"........

    The things we can do with modern technology, eh?!

  • haha the disk stored 500 characters while today bluray can store to 50 gigs. Technology...

  • @duybankai usually its 50GB of bloated software coded by lazy programmers who just assume engineers will design faster and faster hardware for their piece of shit software. msoffice used to be on floppies, then a CD, then DVD....does the same thing.

  • Wedged 80's style shorts! Priceless!

    Sorry, I couldn't let it go.

  • i wanted to discuss some educational stuff. But first thing that came to my mind was ....those shorts are really, really TINY!

  • i think that we atheist should just get our own place and leave the idiots kill themselfs

  • So this is what Dawkins looks like in shorts

  • Haaahhahaha, look at the computers back then. What IS that thing?

  • @ticklemelia its an ancestor to laptops that are around today.. computers luckily evolved to fit our selection preferences of them being smaller, faster, and more clever ^^

  • @dawkinschannel Remember this is the man who couldn't think of one example of a mutation that increases the amount of information on a gene

  • Young Dawkins was so hot!

  • @jodiebug1 Well, I'm a straight male. Hence I honestly feel quite indifferent towards that statement.

    But, heck, it is written, so it has to be true!

  • @jankendorf "Well, I'm a straight male. Hence I honestly feel quite indifferent towards that statement."

    If you're indifferent towards it, why did you respond to it? Just an observation.

  • @KayBeeEee1983 Point taken.

  • @jodiebug1 Fuck yes ;) so glad someone else sees things my way!

  • @jodiebug1 You should look at what his wife looked like back then... see the original Doctor Who series towards the end of the Fourth Doctor's (Tom Baker's) run.

  • @jodiebug1 His shorts are a big plus ^^

  • - i've recently started reading this book

  • LOL disks...I remember when we were cavemen.

  • @lakayna ...

    What?

  • @lakayna What?

  • @lakayna there are some good documentaries on this channel addressing this question. please watch the 5th ape and nice guys finish first.

  • OMG!! It's an optical disk!! LOL. Anyway, great work Richard

  • Good to see 20 years later Texas is still the crux of the problems with evolution in text books. Way to evolve Texas. You are a testiment to hubris of mankind.

  • @petehjr1: I taught high school (World Geography) in the 1990's in south Texas. At the time, I probably taught more about evolution than the biology teachers. Of course, there was nothing in the textbook about the rise of humans but I found a really good video in the library that I used. Once, a student (sophmores) asked me, "Mr H, are you saying we came from monkeys?" I said, "No, apes." Sometimes, they would ask if I believed in God. Usually, I would say: what does that mean? @ TX Freedom Net

  • Richard Dawkins voice- im in love with it!!

  • 2:00 Isn't his head a bit big for his li'l body?

  • Nop.

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  • @waitwhatwasthat

    Oh geez I forgot a letter. Maybe if you would have read what I replied to it'd make more sense. Eat a butt.

  • @TotalKaosE I've been to your channel, I've heard you speak. I revoke my comment and I revoke my downvote. I mispoke kind sir, but a butt I will not eat.

  • @waitwhatwasthat haha thats fine. As long as you've revoked them, I revoke my butt eating comment :D cheers

  • @marvy1118 His brain is cannibalising his body. Moar powar!

  • @marvy1118 I think it's just the hair.

  • whats the song in the beginning called?

  • @DTGskadoosh Haydn`s "Clock symphony" no. 101, d major.  The 2nd movement

  • I was six at the time. How far we've come...

  • The watches components are not alive therefore it cannot make anything, but cells are naturally attracted to each other and can make up something.

  • we love u dawking

  • Wow, I was 2 years old when this was released.

    It's a bit sad that it's still so relevant today.

    Creationists and ID-proponents still use the eye as if it hadn't been explained a few thousand times already.

  • 6:47, Dawkins could make a good model. I love his shorts.

  • It only took 23 years for them to come back into fashion ;)

  • 6:42 Dawkins 1, Creationists 0.

  • Lol, imagne when optical disks where uptodate and just launched on to the market.

    i feel old :S

  • I remember my dad bring our first "compact disc" player home and we all stood around as he unpacked it.. weeeeeeee.. fuck i'm old..

  • As you can all can see, dawkins is not the only one wearing those shorts.....lol

    80´s fashion must be the worst ever

  • @ 6:49, nice legs, Dawkins =)

  • @ensittare I wouldn't say "worst", but we did have our moments. (Anyone here remember parachute pants? :-) )

  • aww, itty-bitty shorts. I almost choked on my drink when I saw that.

  • I hope Dawkins choice of shorts has 'evolved' since the 80's. I swear I saw a testicle.

  • Isn't technology wonderfull! Who needs god.. lol

  • sexy legs

  • He seems kind of young here. How old is this?

  • See info next to the vid.

  • 8:50

    "Its absolutely up to date, only just being released on the market..."

    good old days, :-P

    LOL

  • loll

  • Those are the shortest shorts Ive seen on a guy.

  • Keep in mind, this was filmed in the 80's.