Why are We Here? (3/3) - Richard Dawkins

Third (and last) part from the serie 'The Big Question', produced in 2005.

The great British biologist Clinton Richard Dawkins tries to (and find) an scientific answer to (one of) the biggest questions of humanity: Why are we here and where do we come from?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Africa
• Brain
• Genetic
• Language
• Communication
• Purposes
• Technology
• Behaviour
• Space
• Biology
• Survival
• Humans
• People
• Evolution
• Philosophy
• History
• Darwin
• Species
• Animals
• Science

[MeepullStewray]

Honestly I cried. I love our world so. I just wish everyone was agnostic or athiest so they could feel this feeling too.

[boliboy2299]

Richard Dawkings is the man

[Dkpesmerga]

@MrJeffFort because thats how our bodies work, we need fuel to continue liveing, so we eat, as to why we get scared, i honestly dont know, but why do you think we are robots, machines with no conciousness? i very much enjoy my conciousness, and my ability to think, why does it all need a creator, its not like if god doesnt exist were a bunch of zombies just cruiseing around with blank expressions liveing for no reason or purpose

[crocodylus73]

So basically you get out of life what you put in to it.

[MrJeffFort]

@Dkpesmerga Because i find it hard to believe were robots, machines with no consciousness. You equate everything in our universe as to simple cause and effect. Were hungry so we eat, we dont want to die so we run and hide.thats a very simple way to view things but I see Nature as a series of formulas and programming .The program didnt write itself and even if it did, this still doesnt disprove a creater it does the opposite. So i ask you Why do we get hungry or scared? Why do we cling to life?

[Dkpesmerga]

@MrJeffFort why do you think that someone created evolution? or the "programing of nature" animals get hungry, so they hunt and eat, other animals don't want to be eaten so they run/hide. and from there its just a continuous arms race as different species adapt to there environments.

[MrJeffFort]

He equates our knowledge by saying we have bigger brains and language, well so do dolphins, whales, squids, chimpanzees, not to mention extinct neanderthals whose brains were bigger and had language homo erectus, and a dozen other ape species. He also fails to explain who created evolution, who designed the programming of nature, and what exactly is nature. As a scientist i feel Dawkins is too close minded and has already made up his mind, this doesnt seem too progressive to me

[Flabekk]

how can any1 dislike this?

[MegaYiwen]

lets imagin that we can make a a device of some sort that can evolve overtime by it self to accomodate the enviroment where it is set to be (not impossible ), after we are all gone some kind of primitive intelligent beings just like us come accros this device , would they all come to the same conclusion as dawkins did ? i wonder ...darwin deard to look and think outside the mainstream ,but dawkins seems to be looming in his shadow , a modern imitation of organised religion madness ,

[MegaYiwen]

organised religion is obviously and mostly a human invention or in some cases a distotion of the truth , dawkins is oblivious of the fact that there is a way based on reason that does not contradict sience an nature , and this is called submission , we submitt willingly after invistigation or choose not too but we inwillingly submitt by bowing to the forces of nature like death ,evolution may redicule man made religion but does not desaprove god in any way ,

[Lucassandro25]

@libnene93sheyoo3e thats what's happening right now, the number of atheists is constantly growing and religions are losing their strength. the obvious problem is that most kids these days are still being brainwashed into believing false things which is kinda sad.

[HitandRun42]

The purpose of life is to never stop asking questions.