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  • hey thanks for throwing these up here. 

  • He keeps asking them about the mouse because then the mouse was a very new thing. I didn't see one until 1994, as I recall. Plus computers were more expensive and less common than now.

  • What's interesting is that Christians never seem to have an explanation for the Pitcher Plant desolving insects or the common fly's maggots consuming a corpse or the lion devouring an antelope...in the oh-so perfect and deathless Garden of Eden.

  • Lost their er um (thinks) legs.

  • No shit Dawkins

  • "Have you ever used a computer with a mouse?"... Lol.

  • @akorchemniy That's what I wanted to point out haha

  • ... I wish I knew how to use a mouse...

  • Wow.......The clothing/fashion trend back then looks so giddy.

  • Bananas , are a convergence evolution desginoid + designed

  • HEY DAWKINS! "YOUR CELLS" YOU FORGOT YOUR CELLS ARE DESIGNED SO COMPLEX THAT EVEN WE CAN'T MAKE ONE FROM SCRATCH! e.e Evolution was the method of creation.

  • @AlhiFalaNashoba Idiot detected.

  • @felipeb1234 Trolling again I see. ~Checks the Parental Failure Box on Clip board~ e.e

  • @AlhiFalaNashoba "even we"? you arrogant hillbilly. do the world a favor and dont go to the doctor if you get appendicitis or some other deadly disease. just pray to your god and lets see if you actually have faith or just like to diss people.

  • @frilansspion Yes EVEN YOU! If atheists are such critical thinkers, how come they can't remember NOT to straw man the Bible by quote mining verses without fully understanding what the whole message means. For that matter why can't you think before you make a claim like atheism? Atheism is a stupid, ignorant, arrogant claim. I'd rather be an agnostic. watch?v=nTl4XiHryYg

    Dawkins is nothing but bigoted against Religious people. Plus he's flaming gay. That embarrasses gays.

  • @AlhiFalaNashoba wow now you seem even more mature. imagine bringing peoples sexuality in to the question...how creative and to the point. you dare interpret the "word of god" do you? thats very dangerous business. I didnt mean that _I_ can make cells. I meant its a stupid argument to say that because we humans cant make something (at present) there has to be a conscious entity who can. thanks for the link - point is its as "stupid" being atheist as it is not believing in Santa Claus.

  • @AlhiFalaNashoba You called Richard Dawkins a bigot and called him gay in the same paragraph, wow. Any atheist that uses Bible texts to disprove religion is a sub-species of humanity, one that you belong in as well, called idiots. Atheism just means you don't believe in a god or gods, because there is no evidence for it, there is nothing arrogant about it.

  • @AlhiFalaNashoba .......Go pray.

  • "lol, have u ever used a computer with a mouse" how old is this!!?

  • @greekpanther1 done in 1991 i believe

  • @greekpanther1

    Science is awesome, isn't it?

  • @TheAntitheismus erm, yh.

  • LOLOLOL have you ever used a computer with a mouse

  • 19:27 tie tucked in pants :|

  • @weaselidiotu its a classic look!! it might well have a comeback in 2012...the end of fashion (in the mayan calendar)

  • "Have you ever used a computerwith a mouse" Priceless.

  • If you believe in M-theory, there's an infinite number of universes so this means there will be among all these universes with varying laws of physics a small fraction suitable for life but don't forget a small fraction of infinity is still infinity.

    Anyways if you are alive, you must be alive in a universe which harbours life hence we are here. Now must be the time your alive cause the time before your alive to you never seemed to exist hence that is why you are right now in my opinion.

  • 34 people are creationists.

  • Richard Dawkins should be forced to have more babies or he should be cloned.

  • @6478225 the same for stephen hawkings

  • @6478225 im sorry, but christians are stopping all research on cloning, so we gotta hire some hookers for richard :/ or just have him walk into a bar with money wads in his hands

  • @6478225 uhhh.... i think thats rape. which is wrong

  • @6478225 Or we could just help him get the point across to the world and new generations.

  • 32:00 have you ever used a computer with mouse? BWAHAHAHA!!!

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  • 1991 computers were not fucking cheap

  • @douggw no shit sherlock

  • @6478225 sorry i wrote that at 4 in the morning wasn't thinking and not sure what i was trying to say

  • "Have you ever used a computer with a mouse before?" LOOOOOL

  • @MClollolol you know, it was a legitimate question back when this was filmed..

  • @yamimakaiz I know that, it's just funny to hear that kind of stuff nowadays :P

  • 4:10  she's kida hot :3

  • @Stfuen her name's richard dawkins, and it's actually a 'he'.

  • @yamimakaiz hahaha omg, 40:10*

  • @Stfuen no need to explain yourself. just between you and me - i, too, find this dawkins fellow somewhat attractive :)

    (just kidding, not gay)

  • Great stuff, I must admit I didn't really get what he meant by designoid until the closing word...

  • Have you ever used a computer with mouse?

  • @lollerich no we use it with a stick. lol

  • ... focus less on the evil of religion itself and just provide pure facts that cannot be disputed even by die hard theists, let alone people on the fence but I suppose it says allot that the only reasoned point that would,in my opinion dissuade set in stone creationists is one used in a lecture for children. I find this depressing. Apologies for grammar etc but had to get this off my chest ASAP

  • of all the atheist arguments I have heard this lecture from Richard Dawkins was the one that made me an atheist, the simplicity of the spider web program in particular and the flat fish. this makes me astounded why Mr Dawkins does not simply use these to debunk evolution because its logical easy to understand and does not give a sane theist any excuse to dismiss it in the very least as it just provides raw fact, no emotional attack of religion itself. If I was Richard I would perhaps...

  • Rachel looks like a boy.

  • 34 people are inferior

  • tie tucked into the pants?? come on rich i love ya baby but ya look a lil funny like that lolol

  • How old is Dawkins here?

  • @LeoBioSoul Holy crap! You're right. He's a robot! He knows the secret of youth and he promotes science to keep us from it! Oh, sorry, my head just jumped up my own ass. That smarts. Jokes aside, that's amazing. I had no idea, even though his career goes back into the early 70's, I just hadn't put it together for myself. The man looks to be in his 50s now and looks in his early 40s or late 30s in the video. I guess it's clean living and, yes, "good genes."

  • he should take a tab

  • @missjestrum In the context of the conference, he was a total fool for doing it but certainly not a rapist from what I've gathered. She was out at the bar until the small hours of the morning and a guy hit on her. She refused his advances and he backed off like 99.9% of all men would do. Asking and taking are too very different things. Asking implies a respect of consent. Taking is rape.

  • @missjestrum Oh, you're referring to the 'Skepchick' scandal. I can understand how you feel he was sexist because of that but you might want to look at another perspective. Search for "Don't take this the wrong way" on youtube and watch the video by 'TheAmazingAtheist'. The whole situation is ridiculous and barely worth speaking about.

  • @missjestrum Erm, sexist? Explain your reasoning.

  • Another example of convergent evolution is the humming bird and the hawk moth.

    Two different forms of life from different areas in the world that evolved the same traits to be able to survive in their particular environment. 

  • Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,

    he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!

    The Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,

    he's still smarter than you he studied biology!

  • haha the beginning reminded me of a peter gabriel's music video XD

  • 31:35 Aww, That kid looked very sad about the bulldogs :(

  • how could skepchick say no to that adorable accent!!!

  • he is good looking when he is young.....*sighhhhhhh*

  • @1009541074brb and that british accent......*dreamy look*

  • GREAT intro!

  • What a great teacher.

  • Evolutionist propaganda!

  • Has anyone else noticed dawkins many misuses of the word "is?"

  • @tednugent13 yes, I have. Does British English have different rules?

  • @tednugent13

    I'm a bit of a pedant when it comes to grammar, I listened carefully but didn't hear him misuse the word 'is'.

    Anyway, I think the only way one can reject evolution as a fact, is if you only believe in one sacred text, but I'd rather put my faith in the overwhelming body of scientific evidence, than a collection of edited, cherry-picked writings, that were chosen by a bunch of 4th century religious politicians who decided only those writing were the definitive word of god.

  • @GuillemotWatcher Great point. A few times hes using a plural sentence for but instead of using "are" he says "is." but im just getting too into youtube videos. i need a life...

  • OH MY TEAPOT. IS THAT WINDOWS 3???

  • Have you used a mouse before? haha

  • He's adorable :D

  • tie tucked into the pants, damn it dawkins i love ya but come awn!

  • @omgpuppies0707 Its at least better than that shirt in the first lecture.  Oh the 1990s...

  • @omgpuppies0707 What?

  • Haha I rmbr in 2nd grade (2001-2002 for me) We used a comp w/o a mouse. It blew my mind! Yay for Dawkins!!!! :)

  • sexy dawkins.

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  • re 14min 25: The Empire State Building is 381m and the tallest building is currently 828m (Burj Khalifa) at only just over twice the height.

    According to this talk Termites build structures almost twice as relatively tall as our highest building...

    Wow!

  • Fractioning out Shape. Why are things shaped the way they are in the Universe. What does Gravity (space) have to do with shaping (sculpting) all things on Earth?

  • 33 dislikes... come on natural selection...

  • i find it quite sad that only 89,000 people have watched this and im at least 6 of them

  • I lol'ed at the, "Have you used a computer with a mouse before?"

    We've come a long way!

  • @acherrybalm 33 dislikes from people that nevr used a mouse before

  • have you used a mouse before?

  • he said boot

  • Does anyone know where online an arthromorph program can be found to use as a demonstration to a classroom?

  • @IInsistable To be honest its a little old... circa 1989... there are other freeware programs available to demonstrate this better. Framesticks is one... there are several others. With framesticks you get to save off a zoo of evolved morphs too.

  • Does anyone know where online an arthromorph program can be found to use as a demonstration to a classroom?

  • so who designed the designer itself. if elephant is complex, god is complex too, it has so many powers and everthing. if elephant has a designer than god must have a designer too...something/somebody must have a creator too going by the same logic. if god is eternal and not bound by time etc etc and is there..always been thr then same goes for life its thr in the universe always been thr .one universe after another. its eternal..comes in differnt forms n types with every new universe.

  • @chinamanspeakenlis.Hasn't it ever occured to you that humans are the designers of GOD, Jesus and the bible... not to say im not christian and not a beleiver but facts need to be distinguished from fictional stories and religion has to change its perception to suit the present and stop brainwashing with false stories of sacrifice and penance and heaven. Without a doubt religion can not prove science wrong. science can only prove religion wrong and only improve its current status to an open mind

  • @chinamanspeakenlis.Hasn't it ever occured to you that humans are the designers of GOD, Jesus and the bible...not to say im not christian and not a beleiver but facts need to be distinguished from fictional stories and religion has to change its perception to suit the present and stop brainwashing with false stories of sacrifice and penance and heaven. Without a doubt religion can not prove science wrong. science can only prove religion wrong and only improve its current status to an open mind

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  • I wish I could of been a Child in the audience and been exposed to Dawkins early on.

  • Oh no, not another crappy "evolution " animation.

  • 32 people have not used a computer with a mouse

  • 32 people believe in magic

    

  • @000TSC000 Stop fishing for thumbs up, its pathetic.

  • @000TSC000 Magic? Do want.

  • But the Potter Wasp pot is a product of an animal. It should also be counted as a designed object, since the pot itself is not a living organism.

  • @vishva8kumara I agree, I was a bit confused by that.

  • @rkniffy He gave an answer for that in the end of the lecture. But it is just that his interpretation of animal-nature interaction is different from mine..

  • @vishva8kumara the design process for it was a natural one tho', not like the wasp suddenly thought "hey, build a pot for my larvae"

    so the design of the pod had to evolve similar to animals and such

  • "Have you ever used a computer with a mouse?" Haha, I don't know when this was done but i'm going to place it at roughly..... 1989-1992

    I love the Royal Society Christmas Lectures. They're always so good.

  • Lovely video <3

    Yay evolution! Yay Dawkins!

  • Beautiful introduction showing evolution. Really love that.

    And, of course, a wonderful lecture.

  • Im sorry but I thought there is a specialist species of spider for the pitcher plants that digest most of the insect's insides than drop the carcass to the bottom pot plant? Please correct me if im wrong.

  • @hydro3211 no theres a form of hydrochloric acid in the pitcher

  • un capo el chavón

  • "have you ever used a computer with a mouse?"

    Oh, geez, 80s kids.

  • @jgordon707 what has science done

  • @jgordon707 XD

  • Lawrence likes long legs... LMAO.

  • i love richard dawkins - he is the voice of reason

  • @redshark618 yeah. Brainwashing kids wins. Richard Dawkins is a madman

  • @semitope Richard Dawkins "brainwashes kids"? How, exactly? By showing the evidence?  By making logical conclusions based on reality? If you have any insightful support for your statement, I'm all ears.

    Otherwise, stop making off-hand, lowlife cheap shots at old, harmless scientists.

  • @redshark618 what evidence? What logical conclusions? lol. You guys have no clue how much of this is fact and how much is assumptions. You hear someone say confidently that something happened millions of years ago and you don't even think twice just because he is a scientist. He has no proof of evolution and natural selection was the majority of his talk with the kids (doesn't prove evolution since you are selecting what is already there). He says that then jumps to telling them "No God"

  • @semitope Oh, and your religion offers more "evidence" for God? Please, enlighten us as to what entails evidence. Obviously, fossil records, geographic distribution, and DNA/genome tests aren't enough evidence for evolution. Please stop bitching and bring forth some support to your thesis.

    God talks to you? God reveals miracles to you? God wrote the bible?

  • @redshark618 "your religion"? No. Religion is entirely cultural. I don't see where even Christ in the bible designated a Christian "religion". What is important is God and who he sent to save us. No my religion doesn't "offer more evidence for God", my point was that all religions have reason to think there IS a God because of the world we live in (his creation).

  • @semitope I'm done arguing with you. I just realized how futile it is trying to argue with you people. It would probably hurt your ego anyways, you know, being scientifically educated. Have a nice day.

  • @redshark618 funny. I'm a scientist, you? Believe what you want, its obvious the people who buy into it are different from those who argue against it.

  • 54:21 LOL  This is great!

  • 33:21 "Okay, Lawrence likes long legs..." LOL! innuendo!

    Im sure he does lol... And so do I for that matter.

  • "knowledge(ability to think) is root cause of all doubt"and science is a knowledge and asks evidence for presence of God..

    AND U ATHEISTs WILL NEVER ABLE TO DISPROVE GOD EVER!!

    B'cz You all are using SCIENCE to disprove GOD which ADAM and EVE acquired when they ate that apple...Now disprove GOD and Bible!!??Even science is given by God!!

    why should we go with you all and join sceince ?2 destroy our own eternal life?

    Avaunt atheism!

    **And due to science earth is sufferring from Global Warming!

  • @jesushant you cannot disprove anithing. Why you don't disprove Zeus, Shiva, Alha, Yemaya, etc and other holy books in every of the thousands religions in this world?. Why don't you PROVE the existance of GOD instead? Global warming is a fenomenon that occur since we have fire (previus to science), with out science, we wouldn't discover global warming and without science we cannot solve it. There are other books besides the bible, go and read them and you will learn more about the world.

  • @jesushant: Oh God (hell yeah), prove that Science was given by God, then.

    All you've got is a single book (which probably got mistranslated an upteen times along the way), we've got a hell lot of hard evidence.Creationists are the closed-minded people, not the Darwinists. Look for evidence. Blind faith is rubbish.

  • @jesushant knowledge is not ones ability to think... thats called reason. Knowledge as the name suggests is just information... whether accurate or not.

    So one can retain knowledge that you believe and also explains how the earth is a cube... but 'reason' (applying testing and logic to that knowledge) would tell you otherwise!

    "**And due to science earth is sufferring from Global Warming!"

    Says you, using up more electricity by using a computer...

  • Great show (Y) really like it . But what is wrong with the fucking children ? Laughing like idiots and always coughing -__-

  • @alphakristjan

    Hahaha =)

  • Did anyone pick out the name of the program? I couldn't understand. Is it anthromorph or something?

  • I like that he talked about pot so much

  • Ok, I am not a creationist, But I've watched this entire series and it sucks shit. The experiements, if you can call them that, are cheap and boring. The audience claps after every fucking little thing.  It's so fucking tame and boring i'd rather worship allah and car bomb my own mother

  • He's so fucking hot.

  • @CAtholic29 Founding Fathers who finded this country?  :)

  • Thats who I mean I have an entire blog on them making quotes indicating that this country was built on Christian morals .

  • @CAtholic29 To found =/= to find.

  • SO your responding with a grammar correction? Is this a cop-out or are you accepting my challenge?

  • Ignore this troll named CAtholic29. Everyone else does! Go to the video “Bill Maher Gets Owned By George Will” & see where on March 10th, ‘Catholic29’ had to eat humble pie & apologize to a kid named ‘MaitreyaRocket’, for mistaking him for someone else & badmouthing him for 2 pages!!!! Then go to the video “Christopher Hitchens (Part 1)” & see how EVERYONE there told Catholic29 to “F” off! What a loser!!

  • Hahaha!!! I've looked at CAtholic29's blog website & it doesn't even have any visitors, or any comments or members! He suffers from delusions of grandeur! Hahahahaaa!!!

  • It has visitors comments and I have requested my followers to leave do to Islam threats they have their true identity and I did not want them being attacked because I proved them wrong .This comment you left is a lie and cop-out grow up kid if you dont want to debate me then fine dont be a child about it.

  • @CAtholic29 YOU BEAR FALSE WITNESS. I have also just checked your blogsite, & there's ZERO followers listed, & NO comments. You're a pathetic ass-licking fool who is all alone. LMFAO!!!!!

  • I have a blog that is growing with viewers since i launched my blogs on atheism . Your pathetic for using vulgar language on a public forum .Dont you know that fool? Speak to me as if I was in front of you kid not 1000s of miles away behind a computer

  • @CAtholic29 Chill out! Vulgar language is OK here, cuz it's only a Christian video. We all know the atrocities that Christians have committed, so swearing is nothing by comparison. Up until a while ago, you Catholics were torturing, burning, murdering, & imprisoning anyone who disagreed with you. So don't be a hypocrite & pretend a little swearing is offensive to you. If you find swearing offensive, WTF are you doing in the wicked Catholic religion? They screw little boys, fer cryin out loud!!!

  • Vulgar language ? No what your friends are doing which is vulgar language and lying about me is a bad influence on kids who may be watching . A while ago? centuries ago.And we were not right then. Swearing is offensive to all respectable people and this is more evidence of your kind not having any morals . Condoning vulgar language? Where is humane attitude ?All Christian churches have this problem you biased child . Do your stats on that . Its a growing problem . Its not right. Your an infant

  • @CAtholic29 The sounds we makes with our mouths aren't offensive on their own, it's the context in which they are used that emphasizes how we choose to feel towards them. This is apparent, since language, and the meaning/usage of words changes fairly rapidly. Fags in the US are not the same as fags in Europe. Fags here in the US is a derogatory term for homosexuals, where fags in Europe tend to mean cigarettes. It's context, not content, that is most important.

  • @S0XF0X Thank you for not being vulgar and also for the message sir.

  • @CAtholic29 No reason why we have to be uncivil when sharing opposing views :) Thank you for reading and taking the time to respond!

  • @S0XF0X Your most welcome

  • i am stupid enough to watch all but his point starts at 45:00.

  • Speaking of artificial selection, it's clear Richard Dawkins gives preferential treatment to girls over boys. Bloody bastard.

  • Does anyone know where I can get the program at 33:00?

  • careful with that microscope dude! its OLD!

  • careful with that microscope dude! its OLD!

  • Handsome, intelligent and rational Dawkins is a product of evolution at its best.

  • i want episode 6: growing weed in the universe

  • "Have you ever used a computer with a mouse?"

    Just priceless! :D

  • @maggru91 to be fair its from 10 years ago, and some of them are pretty young.