PZ Myers Discussion (10/10) - Richard Dawkins

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DURING HIS U.S. TOUR in 2008, Biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins met with some of the world's leading scientists to discuss topics such as Quantum Physics, Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Science education, religion, atheism and more. This video brings you the fascinating unedited discussions between Richard Dawkins and Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg, Physicist Lawrence Krauss, Biologist and blogger PZ Myers, and Evolutionary Psychologist David Buss.

From a public conversation at Stanford University to private conversations in Austin and Minneapolis, this collection offers a rare and inspirational opportunity to observe some of today's top scientists as they discuss some of the big issues without interruption.

Produced by The Richard Dawkins Foundation and R. Elisabeth Cornwell
Edited by Josh Timonen
Camera by Josh Timonen and Wayne Marsala

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[HeroesFail]

What's with the glowing aura around them?!

[richarddawkinsdotnet]

The windows were so blown out, we had to try and bring them down. This creates a bit of a 'halo' effect around them, but is better than a huge bright window. Or I could be wrong, and it really IS the "Light of Awesomeness, as paceetrate said. :) -Josh

[VoteNixon2008]

I'm an undergraduate in biology and I've gotten sick of "Framing" science to people I meet. Creationist just cannot compare to the volume of information and discoveries coming out of biology and related fields.

Religion may bring benefits to some people but when's the last time you heard a Bishop discover a new drug?

Has the Pope released any papers on gene therapy lately?

Have creationists given any lectures on the conservation of wildlife?

[bdf2718]

One of Dawkins' most important insights, expressed here, is that a gene has to be beneficial not just in an individual but in the wider gene pool.

Dawkins is one of the most important thinkers in our time.

[tadeckert7]

I love this. Mostly because there is no argument about whether evolution is true, but the ACTUAL controversies in evolution. It's a beautiful scientific discourse.

[reznor12]

@SeeProfileForDetails Shit! I'm gonna get hit by a car? Should i dump my bf? Or just stop crossing roads? :P

[perderabo11]

this is one of the most interesting discussions i have heard with dawkins, i love the theoroetical side of evolution discussed between two academics , while watching creationists try disprove evolution is like watching them try bring down a jumbo jet by throwing shit at it. mildly entertaining but pointless

[SeeProfileForDetails]

@VoteNixon2008 inventing drugs go against god. when god gives a person cancer this is god punishing the sinner. when a man gets in a car accident and dies, this is god torturing him for sinning and having gay sex.

[dawkinsr0ttweiler]

@JesusGodDamnRocks I guess that was a slip of the mouse - and someone somewhere probably feels really bad about it...

[JesusGodDamnRocks]

Is there anyway to find out who the one person is that gave this a thumbs down?

[Poleschs]

@richarddawkinsdotnet I knew there was something divine about (around?) those great people.

[TheSupercool19]

@HeroesFail science

[bullpup1337]

@ctvwr better to compare it to Turing Machines than assembler. The idea is, that the instruction set ( ~Aminoacids) is very limited, in comparison with the high level language. You can do the same thing, but the constructs involved in higher level languages are far more complicated (e.g. loops, functions, polymorphism etc.) in comparsion to "read one byte/write one byte/move left/move right".

[ctvwr]

@v4lgrind

Yeah I've heard of it. There is even a LOLcatese language or something like that.