The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens (1/12)

On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.

All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion - some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public's reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face to world today, and propose new strategies for going forward.

Credit:
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
http://richarddawkins.net/

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[SeedsOfHatred]

The 4 Horsemen:

Dawkins: The Evolutionary one

Harris: The Theologically-savy one

Hitchens: The Muscle

Dennett: The Philosophical one

R.I.P Hitchens. We've lost the muscle, but I'm confident someone will step up to the task.

[drazzellstarfish]

At around 5:30, Harris points out that physicists aren't offended at rational criticism; after all, that's how we make progress toward truth in the secular world. Why are religious practitioners so easily offended?

It's difficult to avoid concluding that religion is not engaged in an authentic search for truth but in a reinforcement of beliefs whether they happen to be factually true or not. That's why in debate we see people asserting "I BELIEVE X", as if that was sufficient justification.

[ElMufro]

Amazing minds, thanks for uploading!

[desasterz]

He wonders how religion got to this state of not being criticized. Observe how culture does. English culture especailly. Cultures wether its spanish, sweedish, french, german get treated like opinions tend to, not really as having content and being real human emotions and thoughts and vews when they do and should be seen that way and being treated like ceramic vases rather than like flower pots. All cultural expression can be seen upside down to what it is, after passing time.

[ocarina2boy]

This got boring pretty quick. I'm gonna go back to watching Monty Python clips.

[moshonkel]

if i could be one of those...... "heaven"

[shadowsburnme]

@boothesquirrel Read Biology 101 text book. Tons of evidence in it that evolution works to enhance survival and reproduction.

[boothesquirrel]

@shadowsburnme Where's your evidence, your claims started this

[shadowsburnme]

@boothesquirrel Your deluded belief. You have not provided any evidence of that.

[boothesquirrel]

@shadowsburnme Well as long as you're a sociopath.

[bechamimi]

Dennett got hammered for being rude and aggressive. Hitch just got hammered.