Richard Dawkins on The Greatest Show on Earth

Richard Dawkins talks about why it's time for a book setting out the evidence for evolution, when calling someone ignorant isn't an insult, and how the media have made him into a militant atheist

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[onslaught147]

@scottishguy100 Yeah, I converted from the creationist side not to long ago. I am finding so much of what they say, and what is commonly believed, to be wrong. I once thought evolution as a idiotic theory that has no merit. Now I have been constantly studying this wonderful theory, and finding how well it describes life.

[KidShoryuken]

@saborfrancias True, we hold mass in a massive church called "reality". :)

[claudiogn]

Dawkins no less than Muppets show!!!

[Entropy56]

It was reading his books that I understood that Neo-Darwinism is indeed a theory in crisis.

[Asherah26]

I wish he would read to me every night!

[JohnF30Music]

it's the best book i've ever read. highly recommended

[deanmullen10]

I've started reading this book recently, really cool so far, an amazing piece of work :) hope to buy his other books afterwards.

[ThatDifferentDude]

He sure is right about the word ignorant. People use it to mean stupid and they don't even know that's not what it means. But, language evolves and changes so even though it's the wrong usage it's so common it now takes on that meaning.

[MrMiguelRiver]

the interviewer sounds like stephen merchant

[scottishguy100]

@onslaught147 he is very calm and kind it tends to be the creationists who like to paint him out to be some aggressive monster with horns he tells it the way it is and is not afraid to say when people are wrong

[onslaught147]

@wearestarstuffsagan Yes, I'm finding more and more the anger from religious people when you question their logic.Thank you for the response.