Religious Faith Morality & Epistemological Absurdities

A little montage of Sam Harris - V.S. Ramachandran & Richard Dawkins on the perils of the religious dogmatic world-view.

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Science & Technology

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• atheism
• theism
• christianity
• sam
• harris
• Ramachandran
• Dawkins
• morality
• faith
• stem
• cells
• indoctrination
• biology
• medicine

[timetraveler2006]

Goodness do I love Ramachandran!

He had a shorter clip but total OWNAGE!

[Andreazor]

What this guy says, completely and utterly destroys the religiious argument.

Lo and behold what ignorance and religous bullshit is stopping us from even to this day. The church stopped men and women from believing the Earth was round several hundred years ago, and now they are stopping us from taking leaps and bounds in medical research.

When will we put our foot down and obliterate this superstition once and for all?

[ttwilkable]

love the video man

[ThinkingInGray]

@Andreazor the idea that the church enforced the idea that the 'world is flat' is a fallacy, very few people have ever believed that - it is too easy to disprove due to horizon.

A little more of a concern is that you use the word 'obliterate', why is it some hardline anti-church types are so quick to talk about eradicating something? I guess Stalin must be their guide, after all his secular state killed more of its own people than every religious state combined in the last century.

[KnowKnot]

@brannen8 This country has never supported relativism? In choices of war? Or pork barrel funding? Or criminal prosecution? Or divorce law? Or...? And it's interesting that "importance" is limited to embryos. Been to a major children's hospital lately?

[KnowKnot]

@franciszek8D Please. Your doctrine empowers your intuition (the "spirit"). Your intuition empowers your doctrine (circular?). Both witness to God's enormity, and your inability to understand his "mystery." So his ways AND their results are a mystery. But after that tangle your intuition after a shower is conclusive? Please.

[KnowKnot]

@franciszek8D Um... yeah. Unless you were born blind. Or with partial brain function. Or with an incompletely formed face (especially if you can't afford the surgery). Or nanocephaly. Or maybe so genetically mangled you died at birth.

[oliverjre]

@brannen8 brilliant counter argument :s

[test123ok]

MASSIVE PWNAGE by each of these three scientists.

[fromstart2finish]

God, shut the fuck up stupid religious ppl.....

[GodTheHypothesis]

@franciszek8D

It's not a product of blind chance. There's your mistake. The monkey/typewriter thing was demonstrated (with its solution) in one of dawkins' documentary. Think it was "the blind watchmaker". You should watch that! OR you should react in disgust at reading the word "dawkins" and crawl away muttering something like "antichrist" ;-)

[franciszek8D]

If you want proof of God's existence look at the mirror! Do you think that such mysterious beings as we are may be the products of the blind chance!

Never never never.

Human body and psyche is such marvels, such mystery! Without previous design it is impassible unless you believe that monkey pressing typewriter's keys blindly is able to write a scientific book.