Richard Dawkins: "Evolution is a fact!" (Barnes and Noble, NYC, 2009-10-21)

See also: http://notjustatheory.com

Richard Dawkins at Barnes and Noble in New York City, October 21, 2009.

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[WisenedGnome]

I love being free from Christianity.

[tonycatman]

I love this man and hope he lives forever.

[FearLess3431]

I believe in religion but I believe in evolution too.

[elatus]

@ShakinJamacian It probably wasn't chance, it might be inevitable given laws that we have yet to uncover. For all we know, big bangs could be common. But it seems like the one thing it most likely wasn't, was the intent or will of an intelligence. So far reality has given us no reason to believe that there are any intelligences that are not products of the universe. First cause was most likely a simple event and not from an unimaginably complex being that had no first cause.

[ShakinJamacian]

@elatus Perhaps I meant to imply that the idea of chance being the progenitor of all things that led to what we have now is too ridiculous for me. All of the stuff we have and understand now have rules, have reason. What I'm more puzzled at is the first pixel in the image of the universe we know. It's confusing and puzzling to ponder about, as no science or theology properly explains that. All the options are lacking finality in truth, so I sit on the view of I don't know. There may be more here

[elatus]

@ShakinJamacian Evolution isn't chance. There are selective pressures that guide a species in a particular direction. Much like the laws of physics guides stellar and galactic evolution. Look at it this way, our planet and our species evolved in the universe as it is, thats why it looks perfectly tuned for us. I'm probably not articulating this that well, but it basically boils down to the "anthropic principle", check it out on wikipedia.

[scarfunk1]

Job done, FACT :)

[jackhwo1]

Ironically I precieve Dawkins as a God...

[ToadsMGodes]

@Prophiscient Well said, sir!

[ShakinJamacian]

Is Dawkins against all religious stances? Because the more I think about the origins of the universe and life today all potentially being chance by a big bang to be a little absurd. Not nearly as absurd as a man in the clouds, though. Not that a bang didn't happen, though. I think that makes me a deist. I'd like to think the patterns in the cosmos, in much life, implies that there is a greater force at work here than mere chance lining it all up in such a way.

[7373walker]

@20123253 I never said rocks created life. The attempt at metaphor with meteorites destroying, not creating, life is useless. I'm just saying that not everything is created, which is what you claimed.

We are fairly certain that life first began somewhere in the oceans but the exact way in which it did is not known (though there is no lack of ideas, testing them may prove impossible). The Great Oxygenation Event is fairly good proof that life existed on Earth billions of years ago.

[leopoldmarsh]

@20123253

"You're" not "your".

"You're" is a contraction of "you are", whereas "your" is a possessive pronoun.