Richard Dawkins - NZTV's Close Up 1/2

March 17, 2010 on NZTV's Close Up with Mark Sainsbury

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[olden89c]

@johnnyM809 There is nothing questionable about the Theory of Evolution. It is supported by facts and not a hypothesis.

This month scientists demonstrated actual evolution in a lab! The process takes 60 days.

Citation: “Experimental evolution of multicellularity.” By William C. Ratcliff, R. Ford Denison, Mark Borrello, and Michael Travisano. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jan. 17, 2012.

[Frenious]

@johnnyM809

They were all either primitive men, nutters or ignorant, yes.

[johnnyM809]

Such sneering cynical arrogance from dawkins once again...he homes in on certain aspects of what he considers to be what religious belief is all about and dismisses it out of hand. Millions of people have given their lives over the centuries for God, were they all nutters ? Charles Darwin was a billiant man, but no more than a man nonetheless. He was unable to determine how life started only how it evolved over millions of years and even that remains questionable.

[baronsengir187]

@Sextonius The first question is easy to answer the other two are just stupid question and not important at all.

[forsakendemo]

without ingredients how can even God work, without the genetic "materials" and molecules how can you create human. Change is directed in meaningful manner. Maybe there is no God, but still its belief cannot be truly be called unjustified just because there is science.

[Sextonius]

@badtrunk456 With the facts and proof you seek, there would still be no possibility of answering questions such as"Why am I here? What happens when we die? What is the meaning of life? " and other "whys", you know, the most important questions we humans could possibly ask and investigate.

Good luck with things though, I hope you open up from your dogmatic, narrow views of the creation and the meaning of life.

[Sextonius]

@badtrunk456 You refuse to admit that for lack of what you call 'proof', so this conversation is over. Faith to your Dawkins is worthy of respect but not to you. Probably (and I am projecting here) because you are most likely a considerably arrogant, disrespectful individual about things you most likely have not even investigated, without a hint of 'scientist' within you.

Proven logically false? Not the case at all. I think even Dawkins would debate that horrific bending of the truth.

[Sextonius]

@badtrunk456 well sounds like you have all the answers big guy. Undoubtedly Collins insists on, after analyzing all the facts, one must nonetheless take a leap for faith. Oh yeah, the same is for atheism. Theres no win loss here genius. Attempting to prove or disprove the existence of God with science or facts is pointless, there is no doubt about that. Nonetheless, God is in genetics, amoungst many other aspects of the natural world.

[badtrunk456]

@Sextonius Yes, "refutable", would be the key word..and in my opinion, not worthy of any respect at all..

I have watched the debates, Francis Collins is as worthless on these arguments as the rest of you..

He will readily admit that there is no evidence..All of the apologists arguments have been proven logically false.

Once again, where has Yahweh manifested for sure? You said it, where's the cookies?

The god of the bible is about as likely to exist as harry Potter..

[badtrunk456]

@Sextonius Science does not work by picking a conclusion, and then trying to crowbar facts into the framework to make it appear true...My mind is open to anything there is evidence for...There is not a single bit of evidence for god..As for "no victory for either side", a larger point is that theists don't understand that they already lost. Buddy. Name a single thing through history, that we used to have a scientific answer for, that we now have a better religious explanation..