Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe

http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.

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[PolitismenosAgrikos]

fantastic lecture period

[GetInThaKitchen]

@2002lees That would make u a mental none existant.

[KhadaKuraki]

Brilliant man.

[Hamporkcheese]

its space that defines matter not matter defining space... nassim haramein

[deanmullen10]

Also if there's an infinite number of universe, as M-theory says, all possibilities will come true so imagine anything possible, such as Richard dawkins had described "a statue waving its hand". That is happening in another universe right now, if the theory is correct.

[deanmullen10]

I figure the reason why we can't see the emptiness between atoms is because they're is just emptiness and no light is emitted nor is there anything for our senses to detect including feeling, therefore all the emptiness of the universe around us, is cancelled out and all the matter compressed together to create the illusion that this emptiness isn't there, even though it is.

Therefore we must conclude that the universe and everything in it is many times larger than we see it as.

[sgResIpsaLoquitur]

@arithmatic11 'This is why I find athiests to be the moat ignorant people on this earth.' should be replaced by the sentence 'This is why I find creationists to be the most dishonest people on this earth.'

[sgResIpsaLoquitur]

@arithmatic11 I did a check on the credibility of your source and indeed your assertion is false. The first edition of Charles Darwin's quote (publication date 24 November 1859) was 'having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one'. However, due to creationist interpretation, they inserted the word creator in their subsequent edition (as early as January 1860) to become 'having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one'. This is a misrepresentation.

[sgResIpsaLoquitur]

@arithmatic11 I do not even need to check the credibility of the source and I could still refute that argument. If there was an intelligent designer that created man, then who created the intelligent designer? Ignorance? think again of who is ignorant.

[arithmatic11]

I don't know what your on about, even Charles Darwin said that there had to be a master designer or creator, if the man that found evoloution as.a way of life said there was a master designer how the heck can you not beleive in god... This is why I find athiests to be the moat ignorant people on this earth.

[iomithelegend]

@DebunkingEvolution BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHA! EVIDENCE FOR CREATION? WHERE? IDIOT.

[zeid677]

@zoki256 No he wouldn't. Infact he would have said that he is not genuinly sure if the earth is flat or round given that there is no evidence for it during those times. Just as he did in this video where he said "I genuinly don't know the answer."