Great Minds: Richard Dawkins - 'We Are Going To Die!'

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Great Minds, Great Words: Richard Dawkins - 'We Are Going To Die'.

In March 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on "The God Delusion" during his US Tour. The event took place on the UC Berkeley campus in Wheeler Auditorium.

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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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[PaladinswordSaurfang]

Thumbs up if you stood up and clapped.

[jesussmokes1]

i just like weed

[Jinglepify]

this final statement of Sir Dawkins made me cry. Epiphany. You know when you come to a point in your life where you realize that you did not ask a any man in the sky to create you and yet you are created and you have to make the most out of your life while you still live. It is striving to be more of who you are presently and I really like the fact that there is no afterlife in the sense that I can live a more fulfilling life because I live my life to the fullest.

[iLIKEtotallyL0VEit]

@freethinkerer - It's the number one instinct, "stay alive". In fact it's so ground in us that we have very little control over it. Oddly we do when we feel others depend on us, which i find fascinating but also sad by it as religion hijack thats vulnerability in a way that you couldn't do using plain logic and reason alone.

[blobvision]

@Zwemer100 Science came from philosophy. It is a system of knowledge attained through experimentation and observation that guides us through the world and see it as it really, truly is, and not as we wish it to be. It is the greatest idea that philosophy gave us. There are no boundaries that keep this kind of reason at bay, only other than that of religious stupidity, a rejection of what one wishes not to hear., which grants us not only little benefit, but hardships more than anything

[freethinkerer]

@Zwemer100 Same answer for consciousness, as that is what I was thinking of anyway.

I disbelieve in gods for hundreds,if not thousands of reasons. Science being on my side is just a bonus and can back up many of my reasons with actual evidence.

Care to show what I claimed as fact and not opinion?

Your religious beliefs are all of opinion, and none have any evidence to show it is at all factual. Most are of the following of opinion of ancient, unscientific, superstitious, barbaric, men.

[Zwemer100]

@DerrenBrown100 Also, one issue the programme rather glossed over was regarding the results of experiments which have to be interpreted. The results are interpreted according to a scientific method or philosophy, which outside of itself, does not work. Thus, it is the interpretation of the facts that are so often faulty, not the facts themselves.