Richard Dawkins: 'Weird And Deeply Mysterious!'

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'Weird And Deeply Mysterious!' - Richard Dawkins On The Origin Of The Universe.

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Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday, August 11, 2008. The interview was conducted by Paula Kirby.

Many thanks to Douglas Bogie Gray and Mirage Television for filming the event!

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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[warren52nz]

For a Biologist, Dawkins certainly has a handle on Astrophysics and is very good at explaining it in terms that are easy to understand.

People who marvel at the Universe to the point where they blow their mind and conclude that God MUST have done it are essentially blowing the whistle that ends the game of Science. That conclusion is a dead end and goes nowhere. Religion is the end of discovery, it's where you go if you blow your brain fuse. From that point you THINK you have all the answers.

[tipoomaster]

@Diomedes01

Twiddling his infinite thumbs?

[torontoBluejays87]

@Mschocolalicious I could just as easily say (if you suppose that I am a Muslim), that I cannot wait for you to die and meet God and Muhammad to find out how wrong you were in believing in Christ as the only revelation (provided you are a Christian, which is what I suspect. If not reverse the Muslim-Christian analogy here).

[ndrthrdr1]

@FrozenPetrolPie FTW!

[FrozenPetrolPie]

@DuNyceBeats Oh, thanks for that little gem of information Captain Obvious.

One last joke: Do you know the difference between God and nothing? Trick question! There is no difference!

[FrozenPetrolPie]

@DuNyceBeats Want to hear another one? Do you know what Harry Potter and God has in common? They both have fanatic followers and can do magic. And they are both obviously fictional!

[FrozenPetrolPie]

@DuNyceBeats lol ofc I haven't met met him, just like I have not met Batman.

[kos]

@Mschocolalicious No offence, bro, but if it's a choice between believing a bunch of Bronze Age goatherders who thought the entire world was within walking distance of Noah's front door or believing the guys in lab coats, I'll go with the men in lab coats.

At least they don't want me to get up on a Sunday and apologise for being human to a wizard who lives on a cloud in the sky and will have me tortured forever after I die because he created me flawed - but who loves me and needs my money.

[Mschocolalicious]

I can't wait until Dawkins meet God like Hitchenson will be doing shortly. I don't want them to go to hell. I don't wish hell on my worse enemy. But I wouldn't mind expediting their deaths. I apologize for any one who is offended by this comment, but the day they discover they are wrong They will not be able come back and tell their followers that believe their nonsense to prevent them from going the same place they are headed, they were wrong and for that I am angry.