Richard Dawkins - The Magic of Reality - Newsnight BBC2 13 September 2011

Newsnight BBC2 13 September 2011

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[darnmarr]

-- their simplicity is what makes them attractive . An evolutionist of all people should accept that are brains are hard-wired in our past: where a satisfying myth has always been enough.

We are superstitious by nature because we have evolved largely in the absence of scientific method. The truth is only really satisfying to a grown mind educated in some form of logic. Kids can be far more easily persuaded that the universe has been made only for and about them because they are kids.

[IntuitiveLeap]

@darnmarr "-- their simplicity is what makes them attractive . An evolutionist of all people should accept that are brains are hard-wired in our past: where a satisfying myth has always been enough."

any person with opportunity to think this through can realize that something being 'attractive' doesn't provide any information on whether or not it is useful, important or helpful.

[superhappyjen]

I've talked with my four and a half year old about various aspects of evolution. He seems to understand it fine.

[superhappyjen]

Dawkins always has the best ties.

[TheEvilOfScientology]

@koberask Get well soon.

[leopoldmarsh]

@koberask

Nobody worships evolution, you ignoramus. 

[ChainsawVsGod]

@koberask

Wow. Seldom do I see comments so utterly devoid or facts, points or sense.

[DAVROSS44]

It is ridiculous that people for hundreds of years have been vbrainwashed into believing this garbage over the scientific truth! Get a grip on reality please, for the future of mankind!! Religion is absolute fantasy bullshit

[assassthenation]

@superhappyjen Brilliant! My mother is a biologist; evolution just seemed intuitively obvious to me, no explanation needed. I very clearly remember the first time I ever really encountered the word "evolution," I must have been 7 or 8, and it was in the context of people not believing in it. I remember being very dismayed that something I'd taken for granted as blatantly obvious was being rejected by anyone; I felt great pity for anyone who could be so confused and ignorant.

[Grendel1337]

I've read this book to my little 7 year old brother, togheter with the Quran, the Old Testament and the Bible, just to be somewhat fair, and pure from indoctrination.

After time passed he only wants me to read from this.

[zaalazar]

why is it alarming to be a spec in the large cosmos? that's a perspective... the good or bad level is put by us... unfortunately ppl are too narrow minded that they take all of reality solely based on their personal perception as if no other forms of life existed which is rather ridiculous because just in this planet we have animals, plants, bacteria... which can be subdivided by species... all living different realities... Mr. Dawkins is a bright man on a mission

[Vicenta78]

<3 dawkins