Satellite interview with Richard Dawkins - Royal Society of New Zealand

Richard Dawkins is interviewed via satellite and announces the Royal Society of New Zealand's Science Book Prize.

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Science & Technology

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• atheism
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• god
• delusion

[trident3b]

Dawkins is doing a great job. Religion is one of the last massive fallicies that needs ot be corrected and brought upto date. (ps this can't be a satellite link if it is with the UK as the response time is far too fast. Suspect a fibre link... at the risk of sounding to smart). Had we stuck entirely to religion we would not have this technology either. We'd be praying hoping to get a connection between NZ and the UK.... and not succeeding at all.

[JaniLPU]

bad audio but great interview.

[ericajjful]

some really good stuff here

[jjclassjj]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[khijasmith]

very interesting thanks

[paulspydar]

Go on Richard! give us a SCI.Fi book that would be very interesting,,

[MrFaisoly]

This man English is ridiculous but Dawkins one is amazing.

[freiheitsalv]

I love Richard............and his interesting ties XD

[chebob2009]

@dancingwithcalvin

Well since I seem to agree with everything you say, I have to wonder why you're actually defending religions. It seems to me that once you accept that there's no literal truth to a religion, keeping it going (perhaps for sentimental reasons) stops 'spiritual' progress and also gives cover to millions of people who believe nonsense.

[dancingwithcalvin]

@GodTheHypothesis Thank you. Yes well the traditional way that people view it is very silly and primitive,and causes allot of unnecessary guilt. I personally dont think that god is bound by time, so I don't understand how he can personally decide when he wants to send his son, at a certain time. So how Jesus fits into the big picture is very confusing to me. But it is archetypal to have a figure like him in religious writings; Buddha is also told to have walked on water, etc.

[GodTheHypothesis]

@dancingwithcalvin

Ok well that seems a slightly more sophisticated view than most, if I may say. Although I still don't think you can escape the rather horrible fact that this supposed God had his son literally (if you believe that) sacrificed in answer to a kind of metaphorical sin. As dawkins himself has said, it seems rather ridiculous that the creator of the universe couldn't find a better way to forgive humanity...