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The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (http://richarddaw...
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The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (http://richarddawkins.net/)
Taped live on Feb 4, 2012 by http://www.youtub...
In conjunction with the Origins Project at ASU http://origins.as...
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Join critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss as they discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics.
The authors will also discuss their new books. Dawkins recently published The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True, an exploration of the magic of discovery embodied in the practice of science. Written for all age groups, the book moves forward from historical examples of supernatural explanations of natural phenomena to focus on the actual science behind how the world works.
Krauss's latest book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing, explains the scientific advances that provide insight into how the universe formed. Krauss tackles the age-old assumption that something cannot arise from nothing by arguing that not only can something arise from nothing, but something will always arise from nothing.
Founded in 2008, the ASU Origins Project is a university-wide transdisciplinary initiative aimed at facilitating cutting edge research and inquiry about origins questions, enhancing public science literacy, and improving science education. Since its inception, the Origins Project has brought the world's leading scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, to Tempe to explore origins questions. The Origins Project has hosted workshops and public events that have focused on questions as fundamental as the origin of the universe, how life began, the origins of human uniqueness, and the origins of morality.
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Yes, many of those thinkers to whom I owe my mental freedom were religio...
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Yes, many of those thinkers to whom I owe my mental freedom were religious, like Newton, a Christian, who believed God made the Earth but who then showed me why the Earth would have formed without a god's help. Or Plank and Schrodinger, two more Christians, who believed God ruled the Universe but showed me how God could not control a single electron. The discoveries these and many other people made, the laws they are famous for, are the very things that make gods getting humans pregnant, or angels whispering to prophets in caves, look infantile. I could never and would never question their intelligence. Their honesty and intellectual consistency are a different matter.
Weird...
I can stand on the shoulders of giants and see what even they seemingly could not.
I'm not against the Creator(s), if they exist, if they ever existed. I'm not against the search for the Creator(s). What blows MY mind is that people think religion has anything to do with it at all.
Wanna see "the grey-blue mist"?
http://www.astros...
Music used: "Adagio in D Minor", from the "Surface of the Sun" soundtrack by John Murphy.
Closing montage: "Wake up" by Arcade Fire, from the album "Funeral".
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Lost my beard today. Here's a short film of it for your viewing pleasure...
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Lost my beard today. Here's a short film of it for your viewing pleasure. Camera work by Ben Hutchings, Music by TV on the Radio.
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Are you sick of blaring TV's? Wish you could do something about it?
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Are you sick of blaring TV's? Wish you could do something about it?
Well you can with the this devious ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone. Get yours at www.makershed.com
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