(1/2) Richard Dawkins on the Ron Reagan Show - 16 November 2009

Ron Reagan interviews Professor Richard Dawkins on Air America, talking about evolution and creationist attacks against it.

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Science & Technology

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• Dawkins
• Reagan
• evolution
• creationism
• intelligent design

[linbetwin]

Why is he "dogmatic" ? If you say that a teapot exists in the intergalactic space and I say I don't believe it because there is no proof, am I dogmatic ? Aren't you required to substantiate your claim ?

[fatestbastard]

Thank god for atheists like Richard Dawkins !!

[theredblueblurr]

Your argument is incredibly ignorant. Just because you can't prove or disprove a god doesn't mean that belief in a god is equally valid when it isn't.

[JerezJulio]

@GodTheHypothesis

But he had not seem the debate between pseudo physicist, biologist, andmathematician, William Lane Craig and a top theoretical physicist Lawrance Krauss.

WLC takes the bait put by Krauss where he stated that 2 + 2 = 4 even if with absurds and erroneous arithmetic tricks it can be made look like something else, and the moron fall in the trap and go on for about five minute trying to convince an audience that in fact logic can prove that 2 + 2 = 5 trumping mathematics.

[JerezJulio]

@GodTheHypothesis

my comment came out wrong, I speak ESL English.

I meant Dawkins put the 2 + 2 != 4 example as a case that not one will dare to disagree with.

[GodTheHypothesis]

@JerezJulio

The point of Krauss' t-shirt isn't that 2+2 doesn't equal 4. The point is that our basic logic and intuition just doesn't apply at the extreme points in the universe (e.g in relativity or quantum theory). It was really just a refutation of philosophers who think they can make logical arguments about the beginning of the universe- evidence is the only thing that can be relying on in such matters.

[JerezJulio]

Dawkins say it is like having to convince some one that 2 + 2 = 4

He had no heard the late debate of William Lane Craig and Laurence Krauss, When Krauss mention it and Craig actually debate that out could use Logic to prove that 2 + 2 in Fact be equal 5

Craig was actually was serious about it, he still is .

[gregrutz]

@fatestbastard It would be better is he was a Christian and an evolutionary biologist, He gives fuddies an atheist target, God vs atheists rather than bible vs science.

[Hanahleia]

@Edu2503 By the way, did you even listen to that link I suggested for you?

[Hanahleia]

@Edu2503 Likewise, I could say the same thing for you. It is no reduction of the psychedelic experience to say that it is caused by drugs and that because they are material atomic systems we therefore know everything about them — every electron is the yawning mouth of a wormhole that leads to quadrillions of higher dimensional universes that are completely beyond rational apprehension. You want to have an opinion about this stuff, but you don't want to have an experience for yourself?

[Edu2503]

@Hanahleia Well, if you see it that way, there's nothing I can do to make you change your mind. You have to remember that the subconscious plays a very important part in N,N-Dimethyltryptamine experiences. In other words, your brain makes you see what it wants you to see.

Goodbye.

[Hanahleia]

@Edu2503 Well, you're right in that people can interpret it how they like. Usually, these people only have one experience to examine. You can smoke N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and have this experience on-demand, as I have. My experiences forced me to Hinduism, so my idea of the "supreme being" is closer to a Hindu's. If you're interested in a good listen, I'd like to make a suggestion for you. Alan Watts compares west and eastern religions:

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