Richard Dawkins On The Source Of Morality

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Richard Dawkins On The Source Of Morality (Richard Dawkins @ Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia; October 23, 2006).

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Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker", he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.

Richard Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief.

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[CornishRicky]

Religious people make my brain hurt :(

[Bernardatious]

@420HashSmoker You're right. Good and evil don't exist in any absolute sense. "Good" and "evil" are just terms we use to describe what we subjectively view as beneficial or harmful. They are just personal biases.

[lloydgar01]

@ChainsawGutsFuck i agree mostly with you.

it's great for people to let their ideas out and have them argued upon. that's one of the ways we evolve our ideals of where we come from and how we should morally act.

[ChainsawGutsFuck]

@lloydgar01 Ultimately, i've always thought it more important that an individual believes in what they truly believe in. By that I mean not believing what they are told is right even if they don't agree with it, or just going along with whichever group's largest - but asking questions and trying to find what makes the most sense to them, no matter how "utlandish it might sound to anyone else. And then keeping that to themselves, not trying to "convert" others. I see that as a sign of weakness.

[lloydgar01]

@ChainsawGutsFuck you could be bisexual, absolutely. fence sitting is fine.

and it's not that science is holding reality together: it's that science is holding our understanding of reality together. science isn't the universe, it's just a measurement of the universe.

and as it's true that there are those who practice upon their own beliefs (such as yourself) and those who follow an organised religion; and it's true that certain atheisms are becoming organised in their ways.

[ChainsawGutsFuck]

@lloydgar01 You could be bisexual? Just thought i'd throw that in!

I'm not atheist, I think you have to be incredibly bleak to say there's absolutely nothing but science holding reality together. I'm not religious either, it doesn't seem to promote thinking outside "the box". I practice astral projection and lucid dreaming and I have to say both have had a profound impact on my spiritual insight and beliefs. It has to be experienced.

Atheism is still a cult, albeit aimed at "logical" thinkers.

[SpencerBenedict2nd]

@lloydgar01 Do you always make a habit of showing people how uninformed, misinformed, and naive you are?

[lloydgar01]

@ChainsawGutsFuck that's not true at all. if you're not homosexual, then you're heterosexual.

If you're not atheist, then you have another take on reality.

Atheism's stance isn't against the idea of a deity, it's against the idea of a mass controlling, moral demeaning theocracy.

[lloydgar01]

@SpencerBenedict2nd you know what? you're right. the theory of evolution was set up to disprove god and the teachings of the bible...ROFL

[ChainsawGutsFuck]

@lloydgar01 Atheism is the new homo - if you're not atheist, you're BANG WRONG!

[lloydgar01]

@bowiemott i'll disagree with atheism because hipsters are heavily involved...when you disagree with christianity because of the red necks that are just as heavily involved. geher!

[lloydgar01]

@WILLTHEWGMAN and fyi, science was founded by fundamentalist atheists to disprove religion and god, and to ONLY let us see and accept things within the 4 dimensions we perceive. lol