Comrades In Faith - Richard Dawkins @ American Atheist Conference

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Comrades In Faith: George W. Bush & Tony Blair Foundation - Richard Dawkins @ American Atheist (AA) Conference 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia (Part 6)

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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.

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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[AtheistxNinja]

I don't understand how the pope can say condoms spread AIDS and people still listen to him. Who is the idiot there?

[Etimos]

Not to support the conspiracy guy, but he did say one thing correctly. The US did cause 9/11. When the US sent aid to afghanistan during the soviet invasion, they aided the wrong people. They armed highly religious, fanatical fringe groups and tribals, and then made no effort to stop those religious fanatics from coming to power after the soviets were gone.

Before the invasion, Afghanistan was a moderately liberal, forward thinking nation, where women were free to become doctors and lawyers.

[TheKcsmithy]

brilliant video

[jjclassjj]

some sweet info here

[prchecker]

good work here

[ericajjful]

interesting video and very informative

[breaneainn]

@Andy97009814 LOL! (had to google it)

[Andy97009814]

@breaneainn Not for the Ginosaji!

[breaneainn]

The pen is mightier than the spoon

[l0rd0f0blivi0n]

@thegreatfearblog

i don't have a source to quote for that i must admit, though it is what i know from personal education. i could quote figures like 98-99% transmission barrier in practice when not ripping ..etc (wikipedia) that was just the first result, clearly you can get extremely varying quotes, often because of biased studies. The point i'm trying to make is that people are responsible for condoms failing; good quality condoms are themselves very good.

[thegreatfearblog]

@l0rd0f0blivi0n I'm still waiting for your your answer to my question: where did you get that "99.(something)%" probability thing?

[l0rd0f0blivi0n]

@thegreatfearblog most often ripping is due to the wrong size of condoms being used; the typical guy thinking "oh well it's a bit big, but everything is still covered", but that is bad to think like that only the right size condom will work properly. So if the condom doesn't rip there is a very low percentage that the HIV can go straight through the condom, less than 0.1%, but yess that HIV can still get through.