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  • very interesting video thanks

  • So nice to watch Dawkins interview someone with clear thinking skills!

  • I think my 90 year old aunt has those same horrible curtains!

  • in the british system, alternative medicine seems stupid. why would the government pay for stuff that doesn't work?

    in the american system it should be allowed so that the hospitals will either lower their prices or convince people that it's crap.

  • @ListenConfirmAct I looked up the study concerning Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund and concluded that the study itself is irrelevant to proving god's existence. It shows that the majority of scientists do not believe in god whereas the amount the believed had doubts and reservations to their belief. Regardless, this study in general is irrelevant to actually proving god's existence. (I hope this is the study you are referring to as it is the only study I could find using the name you provided).

  • @ListenConfirmAct The universe doesn't revolve around us. that's an arrogant claim to say you know where the universe comes from when one has no evidence, has no studies, and has not gotten a single revelation or information from the gods. The gods don't favor you. and never have. Its a group dynamics. Next time you go to church, notice the group dynamics and psychology which forces people to stand, forces people to chant, etc. I went today with my family. God wasn't in the building.

  • @ListenConfirmAct I am not picking and choosing, if you look up einstein's literary work and interviews, its pretty clear that he doesn't believe in any deities. Jesus included. but see this doesn't matter, because argument from authority doesn't work or argument by number doesn't matter. evidence matters and until you can bring that around my avenue, you won't see me seeing Christians like rational people. They are just as deluded as any other religion with gods.

  • @ListenConfirmAct Your assertion holds no evidence behind it. Einstein was an atheist because he didn't believe in any gods, yahweh is a god, science doesn't "come" from christians. The scientific method is what started science, the inspiration to learn about the world is what makes science work. God only fills in blanks that doesn't explain anything. evolution disproves creationism. Yahweh tries to steal the accomplishments from human effort, when it shows that he doesn't interfere with humans.

  • @ListenConfirmAct Why else do you think steven hawkins, einstein, and a bunch of scientists are atheist? Because they want to know, they cannot be satisfied in knowledge, there is more to learn, God hypothesis needs more evidence, etc. No one seems to agree if there is one god, two god, animal gods, alien gods, human ancestor gods, human on earth gods, such as Kim Il-sung. No one agrees, but science doesn't use bias and that is why it leads to truth, not religion

  • @ListenConfirmAct Education leads to atheism. This is demonstrated in college teachers, scientists, theologians, philosophers, doctors, etc. The more educated you are, the less religious in general. Same with premodern countries. The less science, the more religious. The less industrialized, the more religious. The more suffering, the more disease, the more religion. Religion even correlates with doing worse on the global peace index. Religions are based off of ignorance and hope

  • @ListenConfirmAct in general yes

  • It would be great to have Prof. Bruce Lipton (a biologist) in on this discussion because he could refer to a lot of scientific studies that actually support the case for homeopathy and not just anecdotal evidence. Dawkins is perhaps over simplistic in his understanding and representation of homeopathic principles. If you are interested see the Bruce Lipton on Homeopathy interview on you tube. In fact I would also recommend you see Lipton's interview on his book The Biology of Belief.

  • @zwaksification And I recommend you wear a nice warm tin-foil hat...sorry but Liptons claims of "Intelligent cells" are right up there with BS like alien abductions, hollow earths and, yes, creationism.

  • @zwaksification They discussed how low sample amounts tend to have higher correlations with it working. They also discussed how the more samples, the more it shows it doesn't work and that the small studies are cherry picked

  • ok, this guy assumes that medecine and science doesnt make moral rejections. for example marijuana would be an alternative medecine because it is illegal (because of political, moral reasons)

    Science faces moral barriers(sometimes it's a good thing) due to the societies. Just think of stem cell research.

  • @malithe00 hmm at first i thought you were some close-minded troll, but then you called dawkins a douche and talked about another persons mom, so i know you're not a child throwing a tantrum because his ridiculous right wing beliefs are being torn down by intellectuals.

  • @parkersucksdickslikehismom, you atheist gremlins are douchebags through and through, speaking of "through and through" hows your mom? she didn't feel too good the other night. Apparently grilled cheese and cum don't mix. LOL

  • ..

  • Some useful sites on cancer prevention/treatment

    stopdoingcancer. com

    cancertutor. com

    cancersalves. com

  • Has anybody noticed that Prof. has chimpanzee-like features?.

  • @hinatah89 hahaha ya i thought that

  • @hinatah89 you don't?

  • December 220, 2008? How did I miss this?? Absolutely wonderful, best interview ever on “alternative” medicine in general and homeopathy in particular.

  • atheism was created by old white pedophiles who worship lucifer. like dickie dawkins. his real first name is sedgewick, he just loves "dick" so much............

  • @malithe00 What about those priests who are paedophiles and the pope does nothing except relocate, and the prophet mohammad who married a 10 year old girl?? Atheists are not paedophiles.

  • @alteredtator91, LOL atheism was created to encourage sexual deviancy like pedophilia which is a natural occurrence from the gay agenda that comes from atheism, you dunce, LOL

  • @malithe00 (bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-1­2222612) really because that source tells a different story.

  • @malithe00 The majority of pedophiles are heterosexual white males, at least in the US. Many are themselves victims of sexual abuse in early childhood. Can you cite a single peer reviewed study that supports your claim? Simply search through Google Scholar and include the link in your next comment. Remember, I'm just looking for one study (published in a reputable journal) that shows a correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia......"gay agenda", lol....

  • @critter89, you're a typical atheist douchebag, the average pedophile is a school teacher. All gays and lezzies are pedophiles as well. you're just....... you. LOL

    What you're attempting here is proof of atheist stupidity and dishonesty, after all what marxist would ever admit anything? LOL

  • Richard Dawkins: Biologist, Teacher (Full Professor at Oxford) and public educator, Activist for science, Outspoken Atheist, Author, A Master Debater, and even a good interviewer, AND coined the term "meme" what a badass!

  • @theclewless, what's a "meme"? Sounds like an old woman with a sweet of some kind. LOL

  • Always a question of thruth... Your thruths they question my efficienty. Impact the words you can't hear. Shocking the words I can't write.

  • Pero si registros la historicos, te daras cuenta que hubo hace ya 3000 años manipulación genetica(Otro tema apologético) pero si hablamos de aparente de similitudes mira: Gallina: 78 Cromosomas Perros: 78 Crom. Ameba: 50 Crom. Chimp:48 Crom. Tabaco:48 Crom. Humano:46 Crom muercielago:44 Crom. Trigo:42 Crom. Frijol:40 Crom. Gato:38 Crom. Francamente mi intelecto racional humano NO ME PERMITE CREER EN LA EVOLUCION y si creo,evolucionaré a una GALLINA(jaja) y TU?
  • right off the bat he failed at something middle schoolers can do :he defined something using the same word...

  • the camera man is all Battlestar Galactica

  • Science must be freed to study cannabis and psychedelics.

  • @FeelOfFriction It has been studying marijuana for a long time now. We've got some great studies under way too, like one that shows that THC can significantly reduce cancer cells in mice. :)

  • There is a huge confusion going on on this issue. "Alternative" Medicine is a term that really applies to name the so called "official" School of Medicine, based on synthetic drugs therapeutics. Traditional Medicine has been established for about 5000 years, and includes both Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine, as well as Homeopathy and Nathuropathy which are simply a Neo-Hippocratic approach, assuming the Hippocratic view is in line with what is called today, quite wrongly, "alternative".

  • bloody hell... a pwoff who can't prownounce his arrs, wearly... I don't know.

  • Why the fuck are you nuts preaching religion here? Listen and learn something, this is good information, but your God on hold Im sure he'll forgive you.

  • cancer sucks.

  • Mission statement Richard Dawkins, "I am going out to expose all th errors and superstions of human thought. I am standing on such strong evidential ground myself" Does the guy have a sense of humour?

  • @peterthesongman Yes, if you watch enough of his lectures you will find that out very quickly indeed.

  • @freesalvation7 Do you know what nemesis mean? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me. (Bricktop. Snatch)

    Yes we can all quote fiction. Doesn't make it real life or even appropriate

  • @TheRegulator81 if your god is more important than science then get the fuck off your computer and get rid of other technolgical devices science has given you

    dumbshit

  • @TheRegulator81

    Religion deems life meaningless to my eyes.

    I don't want to live eternally, it would cheapen everything.

    If I live eternally I will experience everything an infinite number of times.

    Everything will be common, nothing will be special and existence will become a blur of greys.

    Life is special because it only lasts so long. Its good enough for me, and it is as much as I make of? it.

    I make a lot of it.

    so you can eat me

  • @B4IRUTUARUTHEASSHOLE16, who told you to post that stupid comment? Get off his lap right this minute! LOL (I'm suggesting ur a homosexual)

  • @malithe00 I'm suggesting your a pasty little shit who bitches at a 1year old comments get a life kid

  • @B4IRUTUARUTHEASSWIPE16, every comment you make is douchey, time notwithstanding. LOL douche

  • nice to see the bullshit fairies out in force !

    next time you fall seriously ill lets see where you end up, the mumbo doctor or a real one.....

  • Yes and Robinson really gave Friday knowledge and civilization. Good for him poor savage man. Long live the evil queen of England. Worship to an evil ugly woman is much more smart than worship to God. Right Englishmen?

  • Do you think eating veggies and fruit will remove a brain tumour?

  • it will help your body so its a good idee don't go after it like that

  • @JohnnyKubark - supplment that with cannabis. better to use a vaporizer. keep everything that is acidic to the body such as chemcials and toxins found in processed / junk foods & drugs.

  • i must say,that a lot of this is basic common or should that be uncommon sense

  • they_dont_use_certain_medicine­s_that_work._i_know.

  • herbs...,pills etc are all medicines...chemicals ..that havew different effect on different people.

  • Stick to writing your comments in Portuguese.

  • Yeah, you're so smart you've started a whole new language that nobody except you can understand. You should call this new language "jibberish". Fuck Jesus and God, nobody cares about your religious rambling.

  • theres been trials done on it its a completely discredited idea. hovind go the idea from some salesman who peddled it as a miracle cure about 80 years ago

  • Baum is incorrect on at least one point. Anecdotal evidence and circumstantial evidence are two very different things.

  • He was comparing the use of anecdotal evidence in a study to circumstantial evidence in a court case. He didn't say they were the same thing, just that they are equals in their separate fields of use. Anecdotes are used in case studies and circumstatial evidence is used in court cases.

  • Can I please please PLEASE have a cookie? Please? I'm begging you. Just one cookie please! Thank you, I love you very much.

  • YOU NEED BRAIWASH

  • Unfortunately a lot of people do believe such rubbish and i think the source was a quack named Ernest Krebs and is reinforced by kent hovind is his creationst propaganda videos where he makes the ridculous claim that the bible contains the cure for cancer by postulating that seeds contain vitamin b17 and that it is an anti-carcinogen. Meanwhile, in reality "b17" is a glycoside called amygdalin which is about 5% CYANIDE by weight and is LETHAL in even modest dosages

  • hehe gail

  • bullcrap

  • May I ask your experience in the treatment of cancer and the papers you have published on your research into the use of vitamins in curing cancer??

    I'll bet you have none, your "knowledge" is purely anecdotal. In the UK we have a national health service, so there is no profit in using expensive surgery when there would be a cure in an inexpensive pill.

  • No. Cancer is NOT a vitamin deficiency. How could anyone actually believe such rubbish.

  • Cancer is an abnormal/out of control cell divisions due to a gene mutation from a carcinogen or even family genes. Normal cells possess contact inhibition that stops them from dividing once they reach a certain state. Cancer cells will form tumors or eventually overtake and kill the person if it spreads (metastasis). Chemotherapy can help by killing the fastest dividing cells, but will cause many terrible adverse effects.

    Cancer is not vitamin deficiency.

  • Who on earth said it was a vitamin deficiency?!

  • @DSAhmed Please tell me you are joking. You literally believe chemotherapy and drugs do anything for cancer? This is the problem with conventional medicine. They only treat symptoms using toxic chemicals. Instead holistic and integrative medicine focuses on healing the body as a whole using nutrition, detoxification, exercise, etc. Surgery and drugs should always be a LAST RESORT. Brian Clement from Hippocrates heals people of cancer using the raw food diet, infrared saunas, and exercise.

  • @7TJBarba Healing cancer with raw food? Are you for real? I'm amazed you can even read and write...

  • @7TJBarba In your understanding, you would rather send someone with cancer to the gym then feed them (with raw food) before giving them chemotherapy or radiotherapy. I hope you never get near the medical profession, it would be a catastrophe for public health.

  • @7TJBarba

    Please tell me YOU are joking. Propose something, peer review it, present the evidence, test it in animals, then in volunteers, then sinthetize the drug, then gain support... all of this are things real scientists need to put thru to then come find people like you that state they should "know better", sit in their couches and let the so called "alternate medicines" heal people? Seems like we ought to close our universities!! wow, arguments like yours make me want to burn my library!.

  • @DSAhmed

    You "scientists" take all the joy and wonder out of life. What good is cancer if we can't believe it is divine retribution from a magical sky daddy, or an evil punishment from a red troll under the earth?

    Keep your "facts". MAGIC is more fun!

  • @Callitgross1, What?!?! A bus load of atheists flipped over!!?? after colliding with a Prius from vermont driven by a chinese guy!??! then exploded!!?? on a marxist, gay-pride, pro-choice, parade?!!? that was being sponsored by the democrat party?!!? with security provided by the black panthers??!! and was covered by the liberal media?!!? outside msnbc studios??!! on May day!??! and burst into intense flames??!! and no one survived AT ALL?!?!

    Don’t make me laugh, my lips are chapped! LOL

  • @malithe00 Well your obviously a KKK member, but im surprised you have internet in your trailer

  • @MrSkidaddle, your logic is "douchey" at best. PS your mom said to clean your room, PRONTO! She's kinda mad, I ran out of KY and had to use Vaporub. Geez she's mad! LOL

  • @malithe00 None of that really made any sense, or made you look very intellegent.

  • You must be a troll.

  • Secondly you do realise that the so called expensive treatment is provided in other countries, such as mine (the uk). If you understood the first thing about cell division you would know what you just said was absolutely ridiculous.

  • I disagree, I think most people know about ancient religions of the greeks, egyptions and what not, i may be confusing my dates but if you look into prehistory or early history you can find gods and religions that predate the Big three, some more than others, but i think generally people know that they existed. I think the big problem today is that people only think of the big three when in the west we alwasy forget about henduism janism and other eastern religions

  • NegativeNick, people know OF ancient religions, they do not know ABOUT them else they wouldn't be claiming that Christianity/Judism/Islam were morally groundbreaking.

  • Hinduism is pretty much an ancient religion and is followed by over a billion people today. The gods of Hindus have one to one correspondence with Zeus, Mars, Hercules etc...But equally pervasive is a tone of Monotheism. Contrary to the west, which spun off altogether unique regions on Mono, in the east, the newly developing concept was ingrained into existing setup...

  • The drunk cameraman is sober today

  • Great interview as always man!

  • Parallel Universes

  • In the teeth of these stupefying odds, It is you and I in our ordinariness that are here and alive. We privileged few who won the lottery of birth against all odds. How dare we wine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred"

  • We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains in the Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, greater scientists than Newton. We know this beacause the set of possible people allowed by our DNA, massively outnumbers the set of actual people.

  • Their level of intelligence is just breathtaking to listen too.

  • Dawrin believes he's an Ape,you call that intelligent lol?

  • You must be American without even looking at your profile. lol When will you weak people accept there is no higher being or grand design or supernatural force, there is just us, the earth we live on, the moon, the sun, the stars etc. Natural Selection. We are no more special than bacteria who we descend from. Evolution is a fact not a belief.

  • americans aren't all brain dead -- we have Sam Harris and Hitchens (now american) too :) !

  • Granted earthypig - Sincerest apologies. Its refreshing to know that not all Americans are as delluded as GodsSoldier666! There are actually intelligent primates amongst us - lol

  • Long live Intelligent Primates :) !!

  • I'm kosher,you're the one that believes that you share a common ancestor with chimpanzees and that you're a hominid . So shouldn't you be walking around nude ,and eating banannas and biting people ? [;.

  • who said we are a chimpanzee? do you even know how to read? :)

    in case that you are denying your "animalhood" are you denying that you take a dump that you fart and snort and snore? are u saying that you never pick your nose? :)

  • Just because we take a dump that doesn't mean we're Apes lol. No we're not chimpanzees,but athiest believe that we share a common ancestor with chimpanzees,and that this ancestorwas more apelike,than humanlike lmao ..No i never pick my nose,thats not kosher or respectable lol. I hope you don't pick yours either .

  • so when stuff comes out of your nose, you just leave it hanging? yucky!!

  • just because we found out that we have common ancestor as chimpanzees does not mean that we have suddenly become like those from the movie "the planet of the apes" and became less human.

    where the hell did you get that idea? LMAO. only a chimpanzee would think that ;)

  • And you believe Jesus Christ will rise again?? lol

  • Jesus is going to return,noone knows when he will return but(YHWH)God. The theory of Evolution is by no means a fact . Plus why can't anyone come up with a naturalistic theory that explains the orgin of life,that refutes God? All athiest have is a flawed hypothesis called abiogenesis lol.

  • How do you know Jesus is going to return you raving lunatic?? Evolution is based on plausable evidence that has been presented. If you want to search a little deeper from a science perspective as to the origins of life then I challenge you to read a book by the name of Morphic Resonance or hypothesis of! It is as far reaching in its implications as Darwin's theroy of evolution. The book is by another prominant biologist called Rupert Sheldrake. I would consider that more probable than God

  • Everyone understands that Jesus was a Jew . Now i know that you're the kind of person that believes anything you're told lol. There's absolutely no evidence that proves that Jesus was married with kids . (Even if he was that wouldn't refute the fact that he's the Son of God). Still no natraulistic theory exist,that really explains the orgin of life. It is an irefutable fact that Yahweh exists.You're just irrational and delusional .

  • "There's absolutely no evidence that proves that Jesus was married with kids"

    There's absolutely no evidence of Jesus. Period.

  • "Dawrin (sic) believes he's an Ape,you call that intelligent lol?"

    said the ape who calls himself GodsSoldier566, as he scratched his still hairy apey ass and snorted. He thought of talking to his imaginary God, hoping to get some brownie points for his putting down of the one who denies this non-existent Abrahamic God's existence, but unfortunately he had to put it off as he had a sudden primeval urge to go to bathroom and relieve himself.

    Oh the simple joys in the life of a primate :)

  • You should be ashamed of yourself,denying Yeshua when he died on the cross for you,and you should be even more ashamed of yourself being a female athiest .Because Yeshua loved women,he took up for women all the time.

  • I am not into the barbaric practice of offering sacrifice of innocent beings to cleanse my sins (yes, this practice went on WAY before christianity ever began, and was adopted christianity to convert as many of the superstitious masses as possible)

    I stopped being christian because i could not take the barbarity of everything committed in the name of God and by God. I know the bible better than you, so no need for you to preach :)

  • You're blaming God for other peoples actions,actually noone is more loving and kind than God .Noone deserves to go to heaven really,Yeshua chose to die for us because He loves us .Long live the brilliant and wise,revolutionary messiah and Son of God Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!![;

  • "you are blaming god for other people's actions"

    no, i'm blaming people for creating a god after their own imperfect and superstitious image.

    i do believe in God, but my God is Spinoza's God.

    zero superstition

    zero resemblance to humans.

  • when you have no hanky handy i'm sure you pick your nose -- or at least i hope you do.

    as *civilized* apes, we have learned not to pick our nose or masturbate in public, but in private, yeah, we do all the stuff that primates are supposed to do -- just as homosexuality is a normal phenomenon in nature (in other primate animals) as well as in human nature

  • We're not animals,and animals are not our role models.Yes homosexuality is common amoung bonobo's and other mammals,but so is alot of other weird and strange stuff. Some animals eat their young,so we shouldn't try to be like any animal . But i pray for all homosexuals,just like i pray for you.God says hate the sin,not the sinner.

  • i will also keep hoping that true rational thought and the absolutely awe-inspiring beautiful wonders of the natural universe move your cold heart one day, and thaw the coldness within that makes you see all non-christians as "enemies" and all homosexuals as "sinners"

    :) ciao -- for real this time :)

  • You're admiring Gods desighn,the beautiful world that we live in,our universe and not to mention the exosolar planets etc are all what Yahweh desighned. Paralell Universes might exist,by studying science,i understand that our creator is so brilliant and creative. Take care,remember that you're not an animal and that you have a wonderful creator,that has given has blessed you with life .

  • Dude... c'mon man. Think! Then. Think harder!

    I've been there... if I can do it... you can do it.

    Question your beliefs. Then... challenge them.

    Look THOROUGHLY for evidence to support what your parents, peers, Pastors and Priests have taught you.

    Then read up on modern science. Especially the Theory of Evolution. It IS what happened. The Theory of Gravity IS what keeps us on this planet.

    The Theory of Evolution DOES explain our lineage and the diversity of life... in ASTOUNDING detail.

  • But no naturalistic theory exists,that explains our orgin of life from the beginning .You should think about that,matter cannot be created,nor destroyed. So if matter/energy can't be create itself ,what does that mean? The answer is simple,God created both.You should think about the laws of Thermodynamics before you deny God.

  • Listen man... no we don't know the origins of the universe... yet. But that does NOT imply that we should attribute the origins to a "creator" of ANY sort. There is NO evidence to support it. NONE. So although we may not know the answers yet... neither do you... and therefore your argument is bankrupt. At the very least... we have SOOOOOOOOO much evidence pointing to the HIGHEST PROBABILITY that there is and never has been... a deity.

    And you do NOT want to debate Thermodynamics with me.

  • Here's the BEST question I could ever ask you. The following question is SO very important please think rationally before responding to it.

    Is it POSSIBLE that God does NOT exist?

    I say YES... it is POSSIBLE... that God does NOT exist.

    What do YOU say?

  • I just wanted you to answer that question... and you did.

    There is nothing to debate here because you KNOW things that nobody else does.

    And I do not fear an eternity in a MYTHICAL place called "Hell".

    I'd like to also add that I probably fear ETERNITY in a MYTHICAL place called "Heaven" - even more.

    Eternity. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,­000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00­0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,­000,000,000 YEARS.

    Multiply that number by... that number.

    ETERNITY.

    Doing what?

    No thanx.

  • people also used to think that negative numbers were an impossibility. we used to think that all objects were infinitly divisible. we also used to think that the stars in the sky were stationary because we don't see them move when we look at the sky.

    The amount of things that we used to think that seemed "logical" and necessary are almost too many to count. We believe them, until someone comes along and proves them wrong.

  • Not all of the matter in the universe was created at the time of the big bang either. only something like 97%. the other 3% came from god i guess.

    Every single thought or idea or problem that used to have god as the answer, has since been given a much more sensible... not metaphysical explanation.

    just going by odds here, you're chances of being right THIS time, are more than slim.

  • And you think believing in god doesn't have disadvantages ? You should be glad that there are people in the world who don't really believe in god. Imagine all those people throughout history who have made great leaps in science and understanding because they thought the response " god did it " was not a good enough answer.

    you doubt the scientific process but you live with it's truth's everyday.

  • oh, and time can be destroyed btw... they're called black holes

  • That contradicts the law of thermodynamics. How do you know the matter and energy was always there and was never created.

  • just letting you know that this is my last post :) in case u think i'm ignoring you, but i think there's not much more to be said, since all you are going to do is to deny your ancestry and sing praise to your imaginary celestial friends

    have a good life -- so long as your superstittions don't get in the way of other peoples'rights, (like homosexuals, women etc.) and humanity's progress, i don't mind if you keep hanging onto your security blanket :) ciao!