Richard Dawkins On The Origins Of Life

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Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday, August 11, 2008. The interview was conducted by Paula Kirby.

Many thanks to Douglas Bogie Gray and Mirage Television for filming the event!

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.

Richard 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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[sbergman27]

The volume of the Earth is about 2 thousand billion times the total volume of every human who has ever lived. The Universe is at least a thousand million million billion trillion trillion trillion Earth-volumes in size, and contains about 70 thousand million trillion stars. And we're finding that a goodly percentage of those have planets. Are there really people so foolish and vain as to think all that was created just for them? Sadly, the answer is yes. And our planet is suffering for it.

[daddyleon]

maybe we haven't been visited because it's too friggin' far apart.. It can't be all like Spore (R).

[msjessypp]

love the video really good

[ttwilkable]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[newfagscanttrif0rce]

@bmehoota

You rely on Fox News for scientific advice? That is just stupid. No evidence of any life on Mars has ever been found I assure you. Get your facts straight.

[MrSpawn04]

Mars is the next earth

[skywize]

@sbergman27 This should be on a plaque.

[skywize]

@MovieFusionist Please don't mention probes....lol