Richard Dawkins Oklahoma Intro

This is Richard Dawkins' special introduction to his lecture at the University of Oklahoma on March 6th, 2009. Uploaded to YouTube as suggested here: http://richarddawkins.net/article,3646,n,n

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[originosity]

I fucking hate Ben Stein.

[Lynn15]

Go Richard Dawkins!

[MrJohnnyrace]

Dawkins beat Stein up and took his lunch money.

[moronfifty]

@adlerbr12 Ben Stein talks with a monotone slur with no substantiation to back up any of his moronic assertions for his cause. Just tear away the pseudo intellectual facade and all that Stein is saying is that the Christian God exists and that the Christian God created everything and to question it is blasphemy. Richard Dawkins is saying that you must use critical thinking and reason and if you teach God when explaining science, you are oppressing progress, because God has no place in science.

[Truthiness231]

Wow, so far 11 baby-delivering storks have YouTube accounts...

[DoctorNociceptor]

@iabdiswhyilive ID proponents only misrepresent evolution, make it look silly, and then discredit the silly caricature. They have no legitimate arguments against evolutionary theory. The also have no testable hypothesis for what ID is supposed to be. It's mainly a negative argument; 'evolution isn't true, therefore we win.' But they have no actual theory other than 'evolution isn't true', so there's no theory to replace evolution. ID is intended for the lay public, not the scientific community.

[Sahrinzs]

@iabdiswhyilive The problem is that ID doesn't conform with scientific process and hence can't be worked on scientifically (the current ID theory cannot be scientific). Teaching it is one thing, but to teach it in a science class would kinda be like teaching pottery in english class. :)

[dtsbmx]

@iabdiswhyilive What ID course should we teach then? There are over 38,000 different domination's of Christianity all saying that they are the only correct way. What side do we teach? Then what about Islam,Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, etc. All with their different domination's. What side will we teach? If we side with one religion we constitutionally have to side with every religion that has ever existed. Or we can just teach that which has evidence to back it up, such as evolution.

[iabdiswhyilive]

I am not a creationist. I believe ID should be given a chance. For anyone in the scientific community to say what you can and cannot believe is where I have a real problem. You say that about religion but it is right outside your scientific bubble to believe anything other than what is in the textbooks.