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  • 1:38 is that a female dawkins in the bottom right??

  • as far as i see from yourube vids americans who believe in evolution are more than religious ones.is it wrong? (im not fom usa)

  • @thcci Yeah I'd agree with that. Certainly seems true from what I've seen - though it may be that its rarer for religious people to be viewing this type of material....or searching for it possibly.

  • kids dont need to be "convinced" about science being fun. kids LOVE space, dinosaurs, tech...anything like that. it just needs to be presented well. (and it often is already) kids love fantasy but they also love things that make sense and are real. if anything I think kids have an intuition AGAINST religion, its just that theyre forced into it.

  • I think children should be indoctrinated into science in skepticism. It sounds bad when you say it like that, but science is different to religion, as it isn't a belief, it is healthy and logical way of gaining beliefs(in a matter of speaking).

  • science camp sounds sooo awesome.

  • You want to reach kids ? Go for videogames and comics! Anime series, anything of those sort would be great.

    For example i play Mass Effect 1 and i remember a part when the main character treath like a weird her co-partner because she believe in a God (no Christian God, just some sort of God ). And that was a really best-selled video games and the ME3 is very VERY awaited for millons ! Got that ?

  • The CBS comedy Big Bang Theory is doing a pretty good job of bringing science into the mainstream. It's a good start, anyway. There are many thousands of people who are now familiar with Schoedinger's cat because of that show, for example.

  • I'm surprised that Richard had apparently forgotten that "The Virus of Faith" was the 2nd part of his documentary "The Root of All Evil".

  • you know what we need in american television to attain the very goal that they are talking about and is also the thing that England has that we are missing? Fucking Doctor Who.

  • Jesus Camp is nothing short of frightening and blood-spurtingly enraging.

  • The USA has become the major exporter of STUPID!!!

  • Science can inform our decision making best because it's the closest method we have to reality. We will instinctively use it to help us and so should not be feared as having no morale bases.

  • Well in the Netherlands, intelligent design is not a big issue. It was spoken about in the papers for a few short weeks but nobody was interrested a part form some intellectuals that have left the real world decades ago.

  • At 2:20 he says he tries to make science a bigger part of our daily lives, introducing it to major motion pictures and popular media.

    I would like to ask them both: Have you ever heard of the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement? These organizations advocate the scientific method should be the center of all our planning and decision making. Getting rid of politicians and lawyers and economists, people's opinion in general, and instead of making decisions, arriving at them through science.

  • To the questioner at about 2 mins in, the game Spore was an excellent point for evolution (not so much as cosmology in the realm of black holes).

  • I keep thinking the mic is a wart on Dawkins' cheek..

  • Is there a children's game that teaches the fundamentals of Evolution? If so, I need it.

  • @mizunakat Search for "evolution playmat"

  • look up enemies of reason. american virus of faith was one of the titles - only 3 or 4 episodes available on youtube here

  • If that film is ever made, they should have Richard Dawkins narrate it throughout. 

  • Wonders of the Universe by Prof Brian Cox, is a great series to watch, showed here on the BBC, but should be available somewhere on the net. A great story of the origins of the universe shown in a very dramatic and cinematic style. Highly recommended.

  • @ParanoidAndroid90 I thoroughly enjoyed that series. You can see he was really inspired by Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

  • @drummerkid1993 Yeh, definately. Sagans cosmos was amazing, years ahead of his time. Brians doing some great work too. Really trying to inspire the next generation of scientists, and explorers. He highlighted a major point last year on the UK goverments spending on science and technology, we only spend 3 billion out of a total budget of 620 billion which is a major shame. Even more sad when you consider theyve spent 250 mill so far on patrolling the no fly zone in Libya.

  • I have the answer Wendy Wright...It's called bacteria...like she is...a walking bacteria!!

  • btw they talk abit about films and books for kids aso. ther is an old frensh animated series from 1978 about earth,evolution and the history of humans called "ones apon of time-the adventure of our time" (free translate from the swe titel!) original titel is : Il était une fois... l'homme..

    Check it out, me and my daughter watches it often and she always have alot of questions for me. Its really fun.

  • Al Gore?

  • Lightbulb: Introduce southern baptism or methodism to U.S. politics, let the idiots be exposed, then let baptism/methodism die in writhing agony.

  • Professor Richard Dawkins M.A., D. Phil., Dr. Sc., FRS, FRSL

  • @Th0masWarner the Wellcome Trust does alot of sciart. My girlfriend was doing science based art with them. They do help to include science as part of our arts.

  • Wait... did that guy just say Al Gore was a scientist?

    That's laughable.

  • @Ryushihotshot No he did not say Al Gore was a scientist. He said Al Gore was an evangelist for science.

  • @Ryushihotshot He clearly said and the subtitles say evangelist lol you're attention to detail is laughable

  • Intimidation of teachers is a horrible problem in America. It isn't just about teaching evolution, its about all manner of teaching methods, parental desire to bully their personal opinions into the curriculum, and the power of high marks in later life.

    This is a big part of why education in America isn't as good as it should be.

    If teachers are well trained (most are) and valued as more knowledgeable on the methods of education, we'd be doing much better.

  • @drfoxcourt I totally agree with you. Let our educators do their job without feeling threatened.

  • that's one cute physics grad :)

  • IMHO: need to get better teachers to schools. They should sell ideas.

  • if you dont believe in Darwin you'll be sent back to bacteria motherfuckers!

    i think that might just work lol

    :D

  • The guy at the end was talking about Cosmos by Carl Sagan. I'm stunned noone mentioned it !

  • i'm working in a kindergarten and i'm so gonna buy dawkins' children's book! :D

  • very interesting. but americans do applaud way too often. they seem to applaud everything.i dont get it. 

  • Bahahaha heredity for Wii.

  • @slipshodcoqbgg according to all current theories in physics that is impossible. however that could change. Also according to most reviews the free magnet motor is a fake. An interesting fake though.

  • These guys should watch GunBuster, DieBuster, and Gurren Lagann. Evolution and physics + anime.

  • @CarlozN

    Good idea, but again it falls under the limited audience trap.

    Anime just isn't popular or maybe a better term would be ''mainstream'' of a genre in the U.S.

  • herding cats!!! lol

  • If you don't believe in Darwinism, you're going to hell

  • @glenndar

    if you beleive in god ur already in hell

  • @glenndar hell doesn't exist, therefore your comment = pointless

  • Anyone seen "Moon (2009)"? ...as a sciency film, its awesome!

  • Jesus Camp is indeed a terrifying documentary

  • Perhaps the synchronization could be corrected starting in part 4. It's really annoying.

  • Perhaps the synchronization could be corrected starting in part 4. It's really annoying.

  • the comment he made about the seperation fo church and state was a fascinating one, which I'd never thought about before. it does make sense though in a way.

  • I'd hoped that the game SPORE would be of use in teaching about variation and natural selection, but alas they dumbed it down so much that instead you are god designing creatures. SHIT!

  • "Pirates of the SS Beagle" or "Heredity" for the Wii - what fantastic ideas!! :D

  • to answer that guys question they should rerun Carl Sagan's Cosmos...every year ......oh! or make a new Cosmos 2.0

  • dawkins is from Cretin.

  • @darkfur35 you really are a dickhead, Hey everyone this dick is a creationist ignorant fool

  • @psycoelement ...Poor baby, do you need a bottle? Stop crying.

  • @darkfur35

    No, he doesn't need a bottle. He need a big daddy in the sky who is going to give him a fluffy cloud to sit on fore eternity after he's gone from this world.

    Lol you are hilarious. By the way, who did Adam and Eve's kids get married to? hahahahaha

    Excuse me while I piss my pants laughing.

  • @darkfur35

    fucktard!!!!!!!

  • @peteshuk A rude and ignorant comment.

  • If anyone is having a problem with the sync on this posting here is the solution...sit back, close your eyes and just listen...

  • Why the hell is it so out of sync

  • maybe insteal of hell we shoul say if you don't belive in darwin you will end up wasting you life LOL

  • @granyte lol genius XD

  • too true. the closest thing to the proverbial hell is living your life as a deluded, god-fearing religious nut

  • Jesus Camp was SCARY and I have no idea why something like that is even remotely considered legal.

    Odd thing is, I went to catholic school from 1st to 12th grade and I was taught both evolution and theology, but then again every catholic school I went to was dominated by "lay teachers" anyway.

  • So true. I mean I have seen some pretty horrible gore movies, but while watching Jesus Camp, I actually felt physically sick.

  • @aaKonda agreed. I force myself to sit through the entire move. and that was one of the sickest things I've ever seen in my entire life.

  • you receive a text message from a friend in san franscisco, write a script on a laptop, fly from London to do a podcast sent out across the net on how technoligy damages your religious views

  • I wonder who is going to take Richards place as "Prof. public understanding of science"?

    I hope it's someone like a Sagan/Hitchens hybrid, maybe even a woman! A black woman, now there is our Trojan Horse!

  • Apologizing for simply saying evolution? That's just rediculous!

  • Carl Sagan - Cosmos

  • Evolution wasn't mentioned more than once when I was in high school or as I was going to college. It's very sad, indeed.

  • I went to a catholic school and we were taught evolution. There may be church run schools that actually may not but I have never met a person who came from one. There never was any controversy about evolution in school. It was simply good science.

  • The obvious reason why science is not part of our

    "culture" is that our culture is imaginary and exists only within the subjective. It is why there are so many cultures and they change like the seasons. Science is impersonal and objective and non human and the two will never meet.

    One will always be in control and that of course is culture. We are subjective causal events.

  • When you put it that way it's no wonder why religion is such a large part of many cultures. Like the culture, religion is imaginary, subjective, and for the most part is nothing but personal.

    I would disagree that science is non human, however. Sure science is not influenced by human opinions or actions, but it is still a vastly significant part of our life, more so than any religion could be.

  • the fact that we have separate of state & church is what SHOULD give us freedom. No way should it be solely STATE. That is just another STATE RELIGION.

    how about NEITHER State or Religion - NEITHER!!!!!!

    freedom!!!

    truthknowledge. com

  • My 10-year-old cousin who goes to a public school in Long Island, NY created a dinosaur diorama for show-and-tell, and he talked about how these creatures evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, how they then went extinct, and how they are related to the reptiles living today. At the end of his talk, the students applauded, but his teacher said, "That's very good. But we need to keep in mind that evolution is just a theory..."

  • @vp1981ad

    That's truly disgusting.

  • @vp1981ad That's really sad. A perfect response to this jackass of a teacher would be: "Gravity is also 'just' a theory. Would you care to test it by leaping out of a ten story building?"

  • Wow yeah... you could really hear the silence. Let us all have a moment of silence for the poor school board official in TX who recommended an event on evolution with interesting speakers. It is scary... sad, really...

  • Dawkings says "education" in a funny way :)

  • He also says "individuals" in a funny way :)

    Must be an English thing, eh?

  • Obly others to belive in a faith or teory is not a way to proff or disproof a subject.

    Just consider that nature does not need to proof any thing for it to exist...

    It was there before all of us , and possibly it will be ther after all of us, when we pass.

    So every one reached this world with others allready there. Does it make sense to consider that the past written or not is could be just not considering the future understanding?

  • mind-boggling!! this kind of fundamentalist hijacking of science in the US, i see a very sad, sorry future for this country! absolutely pathetic - wait until china and India take over, completely with their more liberal and rational educational policies!

  • In Washington state all of my science teachers apologized for even talking about evolution and only taught it for about 2 days. And, for religious reasons, kids could opt out (my parents made me opt out!). So yes, teachers are intimidated and scared to even talk about it, even in the liberal Northwest.

  • I live in Australia, cyranothe2nd, and evolution was taught in our science class as a fact when I was in Year 10 in 1978. One girl complained that it went against her religion, and she was basically told that she didn't have to believe it but she'd have to know it for the exam.

    She had no objection to reading The Hobbit during English classes though. Admittedly that's accepted as fiction, so I'm arguing against myself here. I should stop now, just in case I lose the argument...

  • LOL, I would love it if a teacher here would just say "Suck it, I'm teaching science, not religion!" Unfortunately, that doesn't happen often. I think that's the point of Dawkins zeitgeist--he wants to change the conversation so that it becomes less acceptable for religious bigots to push their agendas.

  • I am from Vancouver and I had a simmilar experience from my early years at school.

  • Mabye it's because I live in Toronto, but when I was in kindergarten my teacher taught us about evolution. He had a picture book that talked about how the world is billions of years old and (in a super simple way) described how animals evolved. ^^

  • Being a Brit, its true, in High School biology, its mainly about cell biology, chromosomes and all that sort of 'dry' material. Evolution is ironically taught in R.E. (Religious Education) Go figure? lol

  • I don't think it's because you live in Toronto, Werewolf. I grew up in Milwaukee and I remember evolution being taught to me at a very young age as well. In my childhood, it was never seen as a contradiction to religious belief.

    These guys need to read Teilhard de Chardin. :-)

  • Same here

  • I live in Switzerland and here it's practically the same... we just learned it in elementary school. We started with the cavemen and those before and then went thru all of history. No-one even questions evolution here (at least that I know of). (Probably because it just makes perfect sense)

  • The movies this guy mentions he wants made I have.

  • Post name?

  • Pre name?

  • .... 'post' as in write the name.... >.O

  • Everything they mention in this video. Carl Sagan's Cosmos. The Ascent of Man. Everything from that one guy they mentioned, forgot his name... Just go to piratebay and search "science", "history", "physics", "universe" or "quantum".

  • Neat, thank you!

  • Did no people who went to church watch jurassic park?

  • My bio teacher told me "You don't have to believe evolution, but you do have to answer questions on the exam AS IF it's true. Otherwise I will fail you." I was theist and pissed about it then, but now I'm glad she did it that way.

  • Jurassic Park is a film that touch Evolution

  • Doesn't it touch evolution inappropriately?

  • It touches evolution in its special place.

  • I lol'd

  • @OneShotPaddy LOL

  • The questioner at 8:00 was very funny.

  • Yeah I lol'd too

  • this is a very good point... the exposure of science to the majority, which is clearly the most influential. these videos is a perfect example of that. where it deeply disappoints me, the lack of views on these particular viideos.

    it seems, alomst all of who is exposed to science, excepts it.

  • "It's very good, you should look it up. There's a link on your website."

    hahahahahaahahaha

    Funniest exchange I've seen in a very long time. :)

  • I LOL'd.

  • Hehe, the 'look it up' was pretty funny indeed. But the person asking the question was just confused, 'The Virus of Faith' is the name of an episode of 'The Root of All Evil' series by Dawkins.

  • It seemed my high school biology teacher was very intimidated into not talking about evolution. We never even discussed evolution, but she made a rather long speech when we were discussing genetic mutation. It was basically saying it was alright not to believe the subject matter, just be able to explain it.

  • whoever is in charge of this channel please don't be retarded and upload this properly, it's all out of synch and unwatchable. For people trying to promote information, you're doing a horrendous job.

  • Right on, Dinesher! You go!

  • lol the virus of faith was episode 2 of the root of all evil i think

  • The last question was from a man calling himself Wells. He wanted a video presenting the big bang to us in a layman format.

    Here it is (potholer54 informs that it can also be downloaded for copy to DVD and openly distributed under creative commons)

    From Big Bang to Us -- Made Easy

    Found under the user potholer54 here on YouTube

  • This is a great video.

  • Thanks I agree and it is now available for download in NTSC format. Please help seed the made easy series by downloading and seeding this torrent. Again it directly addresses the request by the man named Wells at the end of the video who was asking for a layman's presentation explaining what we know about the origin of the universe to what we know about how we are here today. Thanks again Dark1777.

  • "Pirates of the SS Beagle" hahahahahahahaha, absolutely brilliant!

  • lol.

  • lol.

  • The guy with the film question is cute!

  • "There is a link in your web site"

    ROFL

    This is absolutely hilarious!

  • Intimidation happens. Here in Katy texas my Evr. Sys. teacher apologized for having to teach it. Ridiculous.

    Cypress springs highschool, I know the school looks themselves up on youtube, and if someone who works for them reads this, the school is fucked up, fix it.

  • Intimidation does happen, and it should, why

    ?? BECAUSE NOT ALL ACCEPT EVOLUTION- EVERYONE should be given both evolution and any contrasting vith it- especially when biologists admit that nothing makes sense--- i can't believe these men are flabbergasted by intimidation going on when they hear about the Texas incident---- the woman wasn't fired concerning evolution, but because both sides weren't given-that's not intimidation on not teaching evolution but on desiring for the other side

  • There is no arguement, evolution has MASSIVE amounts of evidence for it, just because you dont WANT to belive it dosent mean it isnt true. Religion, creation, intelligent design, whatever, has NO place in public schools and is NOT SCIENCE.

  • yes there is an argument- yet you guys don't seem to want to begin to accept it- you're so biased it's ridiculous

  • Religious zealots just want their form of dogma taught in schools, if Jesus gets a shot in public schools, so does the flying spaghetti monster, they have an equal amount of evidence (Zero) Creation has no scientific evidence for it and they dare argue with one of the most robust theories of any scientific field? Im damn proud of the usa clearly seperating church and state and as long as creation has zero evidence for it there simply is no arguement, keep your faith to yourself.

  • 1. don't we all want our viewpoints spread ?

    2. be original. i'm sick of hearing of the flying spaghetti monster, you atheists are all little puppets of dawkins

    3. creation has evidence, it's called a cell- complex and containing encoded information that doesn't "just happen"

    4. of course i argue with evolution, i don't care what's popular among even the best scientists- at one point most scientists believed in a flat earth

    5. I also support separation of church and state

    6. no,Jesus=Lord

  • Puppets of Dawkins? He didnt create the FSM, what if I called you a Jesus puppet? Evolution has been tested constantly for over 100 years by the worlds greatest minds, do you know how much publicity there would be in disproving the foundation of biology? And evolution DOES explain the complexity of modern organisms (cells, the lot) and evolution dosent say it ''just happened.'' Feel free to state your beliefs, but claiming to have scientific evidence is laughable.

  • well i have no idea who coined that term, but he uses it, and so do all atheists- it's overused. Puppet of Jesus? That's an honor, my goal is to be conformed by Christ into his image- it's what we strive for. Well i haven't heard yet as to how evolution actually explains date encoding or complexity that is interdependent to the point where evolution fails to see that such complexity can only reasonably be claimed to be the work of an intelligent mind- plus probability kills evolution

  • Probability does not kill evolution. Genetic mutations at a low rate do not destroy animal populations, because reproduction occurs fast enough to overcome harmful mutations.

    Date encoding? What is this a time stamp of creation by God? Or are you asking about the various forms of isotope dating?

  • And it was the church holding onto a flat earth, not scientists, hell the catholic church didnt even officially recognize that gallileo was correct untill john paul II iirc. And there are passages in the bible that can be interpretated as it saying the earth is flat. (Along with pi being 3, the earth in the center of the universe, bats being birds, among many things)

  • i agree, the Church put it's foot in its mouth and it embarrassing- my family in the faith made a blunder there.  Yet scientists also believed, it you act as if that controversy was bewteen church and science- and it wasn't, read up on your history there. True, but those are bad interpretations, responsible reading takes into acoutn the genre of language used in Scripture, not to mention its historical context, where species classifications were not the same- they were simpler about that

  • you can't stand the claim of many fundamentalist Christians, yet you seem to agree to a fundamentalist intepretation of Scripture, where literalism is stressed at all costs and unresponsible reading occurs. the Old Test. was written in Hebrew, a much more fluent, flowery, poetic picture language. You read Scripture and claim it's wrong from a modern mindset, not realizing the paradigms of thought comging through a completely different language of the ancient east- be responsible historically

  • I cant summarize hundreds of years of work in youtube comments. There are fantastic videos on youtube detailing the subject, from the rise of the first self replicating systems to the gradual steps taken to get to modern beings. And if you claim an intelligence did it instead, youve got to explain the origins of the intelligence, and then manage to prove your particular deity is the 'true' god/lord.(over everything else) Its ironic that creationists claim that WE say things ''just happened''

  • then don't-i'll take your word for it- and look into it myself when the time is alotted- as for ID, actually man, you do not need any information about the source of a "design", ID doesn't speak of the designer him/her/itself- it logically concludes that the work itself is designed, the only thing claimed is intelligence-it is ridiculous to reject Id on the basis of not having info. on the designer himself-that's like rejecting that a car is designed cause you don't know anything about the maker

  • Yes your religion evolved from previous primitive superstitions. Is it correct yet? Or you gunna evolve it some more?

  • Yes scientists believed in the flat earth. However church has God giving his true word that the earth is flat. Yet the earth is round. Therefore God is a liar or is ignorant of his creation. Which is it?

  • Have i not already stressed a responsible reading of Scritpurew, noting hte fact of its genre in many places as that of poetic and symbolic? The Bible is not intended to be scientific by the modern sense, it's writers were had agendas far different from adhering to lawyer like precision on all things concerning the physical world--- be responsible in handling Scripture historically. btw, certain aspects the church and doctrines have evolved yes, but the essentials are still the same

  • OK teach Jesus, Mohamed, Bhudda, Zeus, Thor, Axelotactl in science class. Lets put equal time to creation theories.

  • um i don't want any religious figure being the center of science class, it's about the physics, not metaphysics- yes i see connections, but if science pertains to matter then the primary subject of sciencew class chould be the created order, the physical universe, not its creator. I would challenge any teacher who attempted to teach "Jesus" in science class as the primary subject- that is not the goal of the ID movement

  • Well ID is all about avoiding seperation of church and state. They want God in science class, thats why they say it must be designed. So they can jump out and shout here is the creator. Well if we allow christians in science class..... We have to not discriminate and allow voodoo, islam, wicca etc. Where does it end? All the bickering over superstition will leave no time left for science. Unless you have proof of a creator he has to stay out of science class.

  • good point, what they want and what I want might not be the same and i haven't read a ton of ID material enough to agree or disagree with you on their view of relationship of church and state--- but the claim itself of intelligent design has not agenda concerning that issue, it is the adherent that has the agenda, whatever that is-- my agenda is actually good and i could, before a group of scientists, show that i've thorught through my reasons for supporting this theory- might not be for ID'ers

  • btw, i think there's one thing you could agree with me on, is that this lawrence Krauss guy is annoying- really really annoying

  • We know that mindless evolution by mutation and natural selection, gives rise to our "design". There is nothing to indicate a designer. No evidence at all for a designer.

  • First of all...8:00 is hilarious..LOL...couldn't stop laughing! Second, I can't believe the great Richard Dawkins is retiring this year!! Say it isn't so!! Although Hitchens and Harris are good...they serve different purposes in getting the word out and Dawkins was one of a kind....his humor and like ability can't be matched!!

  • YEAH, he's 67, even though he doesnt look like it.

  • Dawkins has done so much already. I'm so amazed that he feels like he has to do even more. Full respect!

  • i have a chemsitry teacher from oxford to(im in portugal) and he works aroudn the clock, hes almost retiring , he doesnt earn the money he should and he isnt reognized has he should, still he doesnt quit what he does, this british old school is hard and own :)

  • äbout the last part of this video, i wonder if part of the reason i am an atheist is because of growing up watching star trek TNG and the others. i am speaking a little bit in jest, but honestly, i think there is a good bit of truth in that.

    What do the rest of you think?

  • i'm kinda like that too but i attribute my initial leanings towards atheism towards Arthur C. Clarke's books. his books painted this awesome future created by science and i found them so much more exciting than anything religion could give. hell, i even cry when i read those books becasue there is just so much hope for our race if we can just pull through this dark age with science and reason at our center

  • I became an atheist after watching Star Trek. It is the best medium next to the internet in educating people about the various fields of science.

  • Creationist troll Hunkola?