Richard Dawkins 3of3: The Future of Science

[wojovox]

The Dawk is in.

[PianoWallaby]

Thanks for posting!

[mohfoz77]

Excellent.

Professor RICHARD DAWKINS is an inspiration for all of us.

[humanist7117]

Though the mind arose out of the brain, they have evolved different though interelated functions.

[braindoodle89]

Dawkins is just an incredable speaker

[ingensting]

Although religion can be quite destructive, it is strange to think it would spread so much without having any very good point. Which one? Perhaps it is about hope within dispair and about beliefs in morals, without which we might never even have had for example democracy. Fragile faith in morals will kill the aspiration for them, which may be called a soul. If that really dies, there will never be security in anything but power. So look, there are other sides to the problem than too much!

[beebobox]

what a load of crock.

beliefs in morals?

no democracy?

what a stupendous misunderstanding of what religion is.

[marsCubed]

In the horrors of the bronze age religion provided identity and protection in city states, it provided laws and justification for the king and priests, it held knowledge and history in it's books, it was a living thing as the books were often altered and re written as new things were deemed useful. today religion is an anachronism, it persists because people brain wash their kids and because authoritarians and con men make their living that way. it defines ignorance and cultural bigotry.

[fordogtrainers]

@ingensting "it is strange to think it would spread so much without having any very good point."

The same is valid about everything in existence.(Not to say that you are wrong but more that you need to keep thinking about your idea.)

Religion was the very first way humans tried to explain the world with,It was our first philosophy and our first way of explaining morals and give us meaning.

It did not create morals , it explained them .

But now we know it is wrong so we have no need to keep it.

[treycool1]

I think there is hope for kids today. My mom was catholic so she raised me and my sister that way, by the time I was 7 I realized I simply did not belive in a floating man in the sky but I did believe in dinosaurs. :) (fyi my sis is atheist and I'm an agnostic)

[DelusionOrReality]

If only we could find away of getting the beauty and honesty of science across to children before they are blinded by myths and magic. I fear the Christian crusades of the past are already happening in America with creationism and ID, they are verbal and political but when will they decide God has given them the right to cast the first stone to protect there delusion! Thank you for uploading this.

[Nades129]

I have grown up loving religious literature, and science, but i side with science. Because science is weak compared to religious literature. I do not underestimate science, it is weak because religious literature can be taught easily while science needs to be dwelled deeper. Quality can be overpowered quantity.

If u have children let them read science children books. Thats how I started to love truth.

[TaylorThaHick]

wow